New Mexico

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.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the owner of several tax-preparation outlets that allegedly steered low-income clients into expensive loans against their anticipated refunds.

First National Bank of Santa Fe in New Mexico has a new leader.

ALBUQUERQU — New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union unveiled its new name — Nusenda Credit Union — which it said represents the organization's "diverse membership and evolved banking experience."

Alamogordo Financial Group in New Mexico has split the roles of president and chief executive.

Albuquerque, N.M. — New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union on Friday paid more than $7 million to its qualifying member-owners.

First Artesia Bancshares in Artesia, N.M., has merged two of its banks.

Trinity Capital in Los Alamos, N.M., will restate earnings for 2009 and has determined that its financial statements going back to 2006 can no longer be relied upon.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, the CEO of Centinel Bank of Taos, will use part of her speech at a Federal Reserve conference on small banks this week to discuss the need for regulatory relief and her belief that community bankers have a duty to persevere under difficult circumstances.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Just listening to Robin Brulé detail all the hats she wears on a daily and weekly basis is tiring.

LAS VEGAS — Credit Union Journal asked CU lending executives to talk about the "new normal" in auto lending, offering insight into the differences to be found in the market today compared to just a few years ago.