Career moves

Metropolitan Commercial Bank in New York has a new chief financial officer.

The board of directors at Lake Charles, La.-based Southwest Louisiana Credit Union has selected Ronaldo Hardy as the credit union’s next president and chief executive officer, effective October 3.

The $4.9 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Friday that its president and CEO, Ashton Ryan Jr., had relinquished the chairmanship to Shivan Govindan, its vice chairman since 2013.

MUFG Union Bank has named a head of private wealth management for its northern California and Pacific Northwest region.

The subprime auto lender Santander Consumer Holdings USA has made two key leadership moves as it faces ongoing accounting problems.

Charitable donations, Instagram contests and candy-filled fire hydrants are all part of the latest round of credit union community news.

A former NFL quarterback is set to become next chairman of MidSouth Bancorp in Lafayette, La.

Therapy for children, raising funds to cure cancer and anniversary celebrations are just a few of the latest ways CUs are giving back to the communities they serve.

Carolina Premier Bank in Charlotte, N.C., has hired Don Jackson from Community One Bank in Asheboro, N.C., as director of Small Business Administration lending, a new position at the bank.

Andy Cecere is widely viewed as the successor to Richard Davis as chief of the Minneapolis bank — Davis has repeatedly backed him in public forums — but Cecere may get several years to prepare for the daunting growth challenges facing banking's next generation of leaders.