New Mexico

Joe Christian, executive vice president of operations, will take the helm at Albuquerque-based Nusenda Credit Union after CEO Terry Laudick stepped down.

The Nusenda Credit Union Foundation, which is being honored with a Wegner Award, works with its partners to find creative solutions to unmet needs, including its mircolending program, Co-op Capital.

Michael Athens was the Albuquerque, N.M.-based institution's vice president of operations before serving as interim president and CEO.

When Trinity Capital in New Mexico put itself up for sale last summer, it reached out to several local banks to gauge their interest. Then came a surprise offer from a suitor based a thousand miles away.

The Missouri company will pay $213 million for the largest bank in Los Alamos, N.M.

The small New Mexico-based institution will now be able to offer services like mobile banking and online loan applications.

BayCom in Walnut Creek, Calif., would have a bigger presence in the Albuquerque area after buying Bethlehem Financial.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, while known as compassionate banker and less of a firebrand than her predecessor at the trade group, will take firm stands for small banks on reg relief, innovation and fair play, say those who know her.

Longtime CEO John Radebaugh will retire July 1, at which time EVP/COO Dan Schline will take the helm.

New clients will use vendor’s KeyStone core processing system.

The company will also gain its first branches in New Mexico after it buys Peoples Inc.

His decades-long career in credit unions spans three different state leagues and was proceeded by 21 years of military service.

J.G. Wentworth's quirky Broadway-style ads have made it familiar as a structured settlement purchase company, and as it attempts to grab share in the prepaid market it's looking to lottery agencies to make sure its strategy is no gamble.

The president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank is best known for her dissenting votes on monetary policy, but that's not the only way she stands out. Her background as a farmer and former bank examiner gives her a unique perspective among Fed officials.

The chairman of First National Bank of Santa Fe has accepted additional duties ahead of the bank's upcoming merger.

Alamogordo Financial in New Mexico has kicked into gear its plans to convert from a mutual to a fully shareholder-owned company.

Alamogordo Financial in Alamogordo, N.M., plans to convert from a mutual to a fully stock-owned bank holding company.

Trinity Capital in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and its subsidiary Los Alamos National Bank will pay a $1.5 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission following charges of accounting fraud.

The Bank of New Mexico said that its chairman and chief executive will switch roles at the beginning of next year.

Heartland Financial in Dubuque, Iowa, has agreed to buy Community Bancorp. of New Mexico in Santa Fe.