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In its ongoing effort to distinguish itself as a specialty lender, the Jacksonville, Fla., company announced Monday that it has established a golf lending division and that it has hired a team of lenders away from TCF Financial (TCB) to run it.
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Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK) in Newton said that Lance A. Sellers, its chief credit officer, will take over as chief executive and president later this year.
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Leslie Lunak, an M&A expert who has been at BankUnited since 2010, will be promoted to chief financial officer early next year.
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The rapidly growing EverBank Financial (EVER) has snagged a veteran credit officer from U.S. Bancorp (USB) to police its loans.
The Jacksonville, Fla.-based company said Wednesday that U.S. Bank's chief credit officer of consumer lending, Seth Waller, is now its chief credit officer and an executive vice president. The $15 billion-asset bank — now the largest bank based in Florida — did not have a separate chief credit officer.
"The creation of a new chief credit officer position is an important milestone for the company as we continue to grow and diversify," EverBank's president and chief operating officer, Blake Wilson, said in a press release. "Seth brings to EverBank a wealth of hands-on credit experience, and his insight and leadership will help us build on our strong risk-management tradition."
Waller specializes in risk management and credit analysis. His 20-year career includes stops at GE Capital — which
Waller will oversee all credit in commercial and consumer lending. He was also named chairman of EverBank's executive credit policy committee and senior credit approval committee. He will report to Wilson.
EverBank has grown substantially since 2010 largely thanks to several acquisitions; it closed its $2.4 billion deal for the GE Capital unit this week. It also recently