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Old National Bancorp CEO Bob Jones talks about how his bank has made employee retention a priority in acquisition deals after losing a lending team to rival First Financial Bancorp.
June 12 -
First Financial Bancorp (FFBC) in Cincinnati has agreed to buy Guernsey Bancorp in Worthington, Ohio.
April 29 -
Insight, based in Ohio, wanted to raise capital to expand its operations. Instead, it ended up talking to suitors and agreeing to sell to First Financial in Cincinnati.
April 10 -
First Financial Bancorp (FFBC) in Cincinnati has promoted Brad Ringwald to president of corporate banking. Ringwald joined First Financial in 2006 and has been the president of its specialty finance group since the unit was established three years ago.
March 24
First Financial Bancorp in Cincinnati has added two directors from recent acquisitions in Columbus, Ohio.
Peter E. Geier and Jeffrey D. Meyer have joined the boards of the $6.5 billion-asset company and its banking unit, First Financial Bank, according to a press release this week.
Geier was a director of Insight Bank, and Meyer was a director of The First Bexley Bank; First Financial bought the Columbus banks in August.
"We look forward to their vision, leadership and wide range of experience as we continue to build the First brand of banking in Columbus, Ohio and across our footprint," said Murph Knapke, the chairman of First Financial Bancorp.
Geier currently serves as the chief executive of Ohio State University's health system and chief operating officer of the Wexner Medical Center. He is also a former president and vice chairman at Huntington Bank in Columbus.
Meyer is the president of the real estate firm Clean Title Agency as well as a principal at another four Columbus-based title agencies and at a Chicago firm. Meyer has previously served at Lexford Residential Trust, which later became Equity Residential; and practiced corporate and real estate law at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff.
First Financial offers commercial, consumer, wealth management and mortgage banking services through its 105 branches in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
