Corrections

January 22, 2001, 2:00 a.m. EST 1 Min Read

The Jan. 17 story With Fiserv Aid, Nordstrom to Offer Banking Solutions on page 1 was mistaken in saying that Nordstrom Inc. bought the institution that is now Nordstrom FSB. Nordstrom established it as a start-up bank in 1991. An editing error was to blame.

A Jan. 18 news brief on page 5 overstated the turnover of chief financial officers at Hudson United Bancorp. William A. Houlihan is its fourth in 14 months, not 12, and one of the other three had been considered an interim CFO from the start, the company says.

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