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Wendy Stewart, who was picked to run commercial banking, and Holly O’Neill, who will lead retail banking, will report to Mr. Athanasia.

It also gave more responsibilities to Dean Athanasia, who runs the consumer-banking division from Boston.

Dean Athanasia, the head of Bank of America’s consumer and small business group, sent a memo to employees on Friday pledging to “enhance” the program soon “to accommodate more and more of our small-business clients.”

The bank has focused on its business customers with loans first but will be expanding access quickly, Dean Athanasia, the head of Bank of America’s consumer business, said in a note to employees.

“We will expand our process soon,” Athanasia said.