Joseph Kellard

FirstBank Holding in Lakewood, Colo., will have a sole chairman after one of its co-founders announced plans to step down.

ST. LOUIS — Vantage Credit Union has completed its conversion to the Episys core operating system from Symitar. The $801 million-asset CU said it completed the conversion in May.

The $5.3 billion-asset company said in a press release Tuesday that it will buy two branches in the California markets of Granada Hills and Burbank from the $7.3 billion-asset Boston Private Financial Holdings in Boston.

Two directors have resigned at 1st Constitution Bancorp as part of a dispute over changes to the Cranbury, N.J., company's board structure.

The National Credit Union Administration will host “Micro-Enterprise Lending: Making Loans to Small Business,” a webinar designed to help credit unions learn how to assist small-business members.

Mascoma Savings Bank in New Hampshire spent six months searching for a new president and chief executive before selecting one of its directors for the job.

FVCBankcorp in Fairfax, Va., and Independent Bank Group in McKinney, Texas, are raising capital through private and public offerings of subordinated notes.

Bank United in Miami Lakes, Fla., has appointed two former Capital One Financial executives to lead its new equipment and franchise finance subsidiary.

First Citizens BancShares in Raleigh, N.C., has terminated five of its nine loss-share agreements with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Freedom Federal Credit Union said that Michael MacPherson, who has served as the $288 million-asset credit union's interim president and chief executive since October, has been named to those jobs on a permanent basis.