The deal would create a $3.2 billion-asset bank with branches in four states, including an expanded presence in Texas.

The New York City firm will wrap up its relationships with four institutional crypto-asset clients this year.

Christopher Oddleifson plans to step down from the Massachusetts bank in February. The company named Jeffrey Tengel, most recently an executive at M&T Bank, as successor.

By adding the Atlanta-based Paya, the Canadian payment technology firm can expand its client base in business-to-business transactions, government agencies, utilities and health care.

Big banks are aiming to bring their existing technologists up to speed with cloud certification and other modern architecture training.

Esther George, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is retiring later this month. What's taking the bank so long to find a successor?