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.

Golden 1 has reached a milestone that only five other credit unions nationwide have crossed.

Eastern Virginia Bankshares in Tappahannock, Va., is backing up the moving van as it prepares to relocate its headquarters to a Richmond suburb, with an eye toward efficiency and growth.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial in Bedminster, N.J., is considering additional acquisitions in wealth management after raising $50 million in subordinated debt.

The $15 billion-asset bank said in a press release Wednesday that Kevin Moffitt has been hired to succeed Brian Wildman, who was named MB Financial's executive vice president of consumer banking in March.

The $3.2 billion-asset Park Sterling announced this week that it will hire four commercial and industrial bankers from the $2.3 billion-asset CommunityOne Bancorp to help expand its commercial banking team in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

In the latest in a series of acquisitions for the $20 billion credit union in the past six months, PedFed expands into the San Antonio, Texas, marketplace.

Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock, Ark., has launched a subordinated debt offering that was well telegraphed to the market but that is smaller than some had anticipated.

First NBC Bank Holding in New Orleans, which delayed the release of its 2015 annual report earlier this year, said it has submitted a plan to Nasdaq to get back on schedule with its filing of financial statements.

According to a study released this week by the marketing analytics firm Bug Insights, the annual fee is by far the No. 1 reason why card users would change providers.

The latest shot was fired this week in the ongoing feud between an investor group and Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida in Stuart.