New York

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Minerva Tantoco, a former executive at UBS and Bank of America, as the city's chief technology officer.

First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, N.Y., has consolidated several consumer-banking business lines into one department.

Intervest Bancshares in New York has officially exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Jane Thompson, the former head of the financial services division at Wal-Mart Stores, has joined the board of OnDeck, a small business lending company in New York.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has charged Evans Bancorp in Hamburg, N.Y., with deliberately failing to provide mortgages in minority neighborhoods in Buffalo.

Financial Institutions in Warsaw, N.Y., is overhauling its risk-management structure, while also looking for a new executive to handle such duties.

Pathfinder Bancorp in Oswego, N.Y., could raise nearly $27 million through a second-step conversion.

Stephen E. Dowd, the chief financial officer of CMS Bancorp in White Plains, N.Y., has died. The $273 million-asset company announced Dowd’s “unexpected passing” in a press release on Friday.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — NCUA has received nearly $5.4 million in restitution from a fraud prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's office of the Northern District of New York.

NEW YORK — The U.S. payments system's march toward EMV is gaining steam, according to the Payments Security Task Force.

The U.S. Treasury Department said it will cut its stake in Ally Financial Inc. (ALLY) by selling stock on the open market in its first divestiture since an initial public offering in April.

Centrue Financial in Ottawa, Ill., said Monday that it has agreed to sell $75 million of its common stock to the New York private-equity group Capital Z Partners.

A payday lending executive who New York prosecutors say violated the state's usury laws is set to be arraigned Tuesday in a Manhattan court.

NEW YORK — Since his initial look at the risk-based capital proposal at the start of the year, Montauk Credit Union chief executive Louis Jimenez is breathing easier — but only a little.

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NEW YORK. — Education Affiliates FCU's members have voted to approve the proposed merger with McGraw-Hill FCU in East Windsor, N.J.

Evercore, an investment bank that often advises others on M&A deals, plans two acquisitions of its own.

Banks, especially small to midsize ones, have been rewarded with strong loan growth this year. But heavy competition and uncertain economic forecasts are forcing them to keep fine-tuning their growth strategies, asset mixes and risk tolerance.

Amalgamated Bank in New York has given its president, Keith Mestrich, the additional title of chief executive.

Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock, Ark., has agreed to buy Intervest Bancshares in New York for $228.5 million in stock.