CUES has honored its North Carolina, Rocky Mountain, and Michigan Councils as 2004 Outstanding Councils. In addition, CUES' Louisiana Council received the Everett Wood Award for most improved Council. Each received a cash award to put toward future meetings. The Most Improved Council receives $750. CUES also honored its top new-member recruiters from the past year. Jeffrey H. Farver, CEO, San Antonio FCU, and Christine L. Keyser-Fanick, former senior VP with SACU, recruited eight or more new CUES members in 2004. Larry E. Duckworth, president of OmniAmerican CU, Fort Worth, and Brian McDonnell, outgoing president of Navy Federal, Merrifield, Va., recruited five to seven new CUES members over a one-year period.
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Synovus Financial demonstrated at an industry conference how it is using Microsoft's Copilot to help its staff address customers' concerns.
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The U.S. arm of Spanish banking giant Santander has hired Swati Bhatia to oversee retail banking and its digital transformation efforts. Bhatia joins at "an inflection point" for the company, which aims to be "a digital bank with branches," CEO Tim Wennes said.
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Mariya Rosberg is named Americas head of banking and financial services at Marsh McLennan's Oliver Wyman unit; startup ZayZoon raised $15 million in a new funding round; and more in the weekly banking news roundup.
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Last year, the Raleigh, N.C.-based Integrated called off a deal to sell itself to MVB Financial after bank stocks took a hit in the aftermath of the regional bank failures. Capital hopes to expand its government-guaranteed lending with the transaction.
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Once a prominent figure spurring financial institutions to engage in cryptocurrency, Bankman-Fried's downslide began with the collapse of the digital asset exchange FTX in late 2022 and hit rock bottom with his sentencing to 25 years in prison.
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But the 30-year fixed rate mortgage is still near 7%, and that remains the overhang on the housing market, Freddie Mac said.
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