MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Independence Community Bank Corp. in Brooklyn has hired Alan Fishman as its president and chief executive officer.
He will assume the new roles next month and will succeed Charles J. Hamm, who will retire as president and CEO but remain the chairman.
Mr. Fishman was the president and CEO of Contifinancial Corp. in New York. Before that he had been a managing partner at Columbia Financial Partners LP.
He has 30 years of banking and financial services experience, including 19 at Chemical Bank (now part of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.), where he had been a group executive and management committee member. He had also been the president of financial services at American International Group.
Independence Community has $6.9 billion of assets.
Sterling National Bank in New York has promoted senior vice president Howard M. Applebaum, a senior lending officer, the title of executive vice president.His responsibilities, which did not change, include overseeing the bank's lending and managing its corporate banking and asset-based lending divisions. He reports to John Millman, president of the bank.
Mr. Applebaum had worked at Sterling for nine years as a senior vice president. He has 20 years of banking experience.
Sterling National is the principal subsidiary of $1.2 billion-asset Sterling Bancorp in New York.
MIDWEST
BankFinancial in Chicago has hired Donald Krueger as the president of its eastern region, which covers Olympia Fields, Calumet City, Hazel Crest, Orlando Park, and Calumet Park, Ill.
He is responsible for overseeing the development of commercial customer relationships in the region for the $1.25 billion-asset bank.
Mr. Krueger was an executive vice president at Pullman Bank and Trust in Chicago.
