Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. has said that the bank has promoted Al Botta, Jr. to executive vice president and chief payments officer. Botta, who has 20 years of experience in the payments and prepaid market space, joined Patriot Bank in 2018 as SVP, director of Payments. He has been responsible for the growth of the bank's payments division.

Botta has served in various senior capacities with several institutions including BankMobile, Customers Bank and Metropolitan Commercial Bank.