Corporate governance

The Delaware company's pending purchase will create a bank with $43 billion of assets under management.

Citigroup’s general counsel, Rohan Weerasinghe, told the bank that he will retire by the end of the year after almost a decade in the role.

The deal to take over the firm's prearranged funeral insurance and final expense business in the U.S. and Canada is worth approximately $1.3 billion, and marks the latest in a string of acquisitions for CUNA Mutual.

The company has formed a special committee to find a successor for James Ford, who will retire as president and CEO next year.

Chris Hendry has served on the credit union's board but has spent his career in health care and philanthropy. He said many of his skills are easily transferable, including a focus on marketing and community engagement.

The unnamed investors will pay about $50 million for Northern California National Bank through a tender offer.

HoldCo Asset Management, which gains two board seats from a standstill agreement, had expressed disappointment that the Boston company hired a CEO instead of pursuing a sale.

The number of credit unions having serious conversations about diversifying their boards is on the rise, according to a new study from CUES, but those efforts are more likely to succeed if targets, education and other factors are in place.

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The largest banks have cut compensation or held it steady for their top executives. Many regionals, though not all, are expected to make similar decisions as boards balance the desire to reward strong leadership during the pandemic with lackluster financial performance and public relations concerns.

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The deal, subject to approval from regulators and members, will add to Valley Strong's existing branch network and comes after several years of losses at Solano First.

Lawrence Seidman will provide capital markets advice and financial analysis to the Pennsylvania company.

The company would gain its first branches around Annapolis after it buys Severn Bancorp in a deal valued at $146 million.

DMG Bancshares, formed by banking veteran Don Griffith, wants to buy more West Coast banks. For California First, the sale ends a four-year period in which it substantially shrank its loan book after it was ordered to shed leveraged loans.

Julie Stackhouse retired last year as an executive vice president at the St. Louis Fed, where she supervised bank holding companies and state member banks in the region.

The new directors are Ime Archibong, whose team builds and tests mobile apps at Facebook, and Craig Williams, president of the Nike product line named after former NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

The bank’s new holding company, Amalgamated Financial Group, is the first publicly traded financial services company to become a public benefit corporation. It says the legal designation will help officers and directors balance the interests of shareholders and the public.

The bank's purchase of Sodak Home Loans in Sioux Falls, S.D., adds to a string of bank deals for mortgage lenders this year.

The company has agreed to pay $43 million for a bank with assets of $354 million.