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The ATM and bank technology provider Diebold has named two executives to lead its international finance and data security offices.

New York Community Bancorp wants Washington to raise the asset size for systemically important financial institutions, but in the meanwhile its asset sales to stay under the threshold helped to boost profits and its CEO is pursuing possible M&A deals.

Banks with $35 billion or less in assets are slowly recovering financially, as revenue and profit improved in the fourth quarter. Here is a look at how more than 240 banks tracked by American Banker finished off 2014.

Umpqua Holdings in Portland, Ore., fell short of Wall Street expectations for the fourth quarter because of a decline in fee-based income.

Ameris Bancorp in Moultrie, Ga., has has agreed to buy Merchants and Southern Banks of Florida in Gainesville, along with a number of Bank of America branches.

Alamogordo Financial Group in New Mexico has split the roles of president and chief executive.

Banks like Cullen/Frost and BOK Financial say they have found one, in the form of higher energy-sector loan balances last quarter and the chance to finance consolidation among oil firms. But such spurts may only mask longer-term problems.

EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., reported higher quarterly results largely because of increased commercial originations.

UMB Financial in Kansas City, Mo., reported lower quarterly profits after taking a loss on certain alternative investments.

PreCash Inc., a Houston, Texas company that offers consumer and commercial payment systems, has named Blair Jeffery its new chief operating officer.

Hudson City Bancorp in Paramus, N.J., reported lower quarterly profits as its loan book keeps shrinking.

Cullen/Frost Bankers in San Antonio has a new president.

Big banks had a forgettable fourth quarter thanks to old problems like tight margins and new ones like the collapse in oil prices, but executives who could fall back on products such as credit cards, insurance and investment banking had something to brag on.

Zions Bancorp. on Monday reported improvement in its net interest margin and noninterest revenue, along with progress in regards to the Volcker Rule and its funding mix. But at Zions, as at other banks, progress was overshadowed by concerns over falling oil prices.

FirstMerit in Akron, Ohio, reported higher quarterly earnings as cost controls compensated for a decline in interest income.

South State in Columbia, S.C., reported higher quarterly profits thanks to lower costs and higher fee-based income.

RICHARDSON, Texas — Texans Credit Union, which has been under NCUA conservatorship since April 2011, on Tuesday said it had net income of $21.7 million in 2014.

Synovus Financial in Columbus, Ga., reported a sharp rise in fourth-quarter profit on loan growth, lower expenses, improved credit quality and other factors.

TYLER, Texas — For the second consecutive year, Cooperative Teachers Credit Union paid a year-end bonus dividend of $90,000 to its members.

Commerce Bancshares in Kansas City reported lower quarterly profit on higher expenses.