Career moves

CoBiz Financial's bank chairman, Jonathan Lorenz, will retire in December.

Banc of California in Irvine, Calif., has named James McKinney principal accounting officer

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency named senior bank examiner Linda Cunningham as its first chief risk officer on Wednesday.

Cordia Bancorp in Midlothian, Va., has named O.R. "Ed" Barham president and chief executive of Bank of Virginia.

Great Western Bancorp in Sioux Falls, S.D., has named former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. vice chairman Andrew "Skip" Hove its new chairman.

TriState Capital Holdings in Pittsburgh has promoted its bank's chief risk officer to bank president.

AJS Bancorp in Midlothian, Ill., has given its chairman and chief executive the additional title of chief financial officer.

Guardian Mortgage has named a Bank of America executive to succeed Marcia Phillips as chief executive.

A quick look at who's climbing the credit union ladder.

YellowPepper, a Latin American mobile payments firm, named the former president and founder of defunct near-field communication (NFC) firm ViVOTech as its board chair.

AssetAvenue, a marketplace lender that specializes in commercial real estate finance, announced that it has hired Peter Coleman as its chief financial officer.

Max Levchin, founder and chief executive of point of sale credit startup Affirm and co-founder of PayPal, has resigned from his position as chairman of Yelp's board.

Dick Evans will retire as Cullen/Frost Bankers' chairman and chief executive in March, and the San Antonio company has chosen its president, Philip Green, to succeed him.

Student lending startup CommonBond has hired Morgan Edwards, a longtime Wall Street leveraged debt specialist, as its chief financial officer.

Bank regulators are likely to take further action to force banks to upgrade their cybersecurity processes as hackers continue to find ways to penetrate institutions’ defenses, Benjamin Lawsky, the top former New York bank supervisor, said Tuesday.

Nearly a year to the date since he left his role as CEO of NetSpend, Dan Henry may have found the new "aha moment in payments" he said he would seek as the next chapter in his career.

Two CUs tap new CEOs, ANECA CEO wins scholarship, and other CU people in the news.

MainSource Financial Group in Greensburg, Ind., has named Erin Hoeflinger, president of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in Ohio, to its board and to that of its MainSource Bank.

Sun Bancorp in Mount Laurel, N.J., has appointed wealth-management executive Grace Torres to its board and to the board of Sun National Bank. Torres will join the board's audit and risk committees.

Credit union executives and stakeholders sound off on everything from NCUA wanting oversight of third-party vendors, auto loan growth, differentiation and more.