Succession planning

Claremont Savings Bank in New Hampshire has found a successor to Chief Executive Sherwood Moody.

MasterCard has appointed Craig Vosburg to president of North America markets.

Flushing Financial in Uniondale, N.Y., has promoted newly hired executive Susan Cullen to chief financial officer.

Wells Fargo is ready to recruit more than 200 brokers from Credit Suisse's U.S. private banking unit set to close early next year, with the Swiss bank's blessing.

Webster Financial in Waterbury, Conn., has promoted its head of commercial banking to president of Webster Bank and its holding company.

Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., has promoted Jennifer Simmons to chief operating officer and appointed her to the executive committee.

American Bank in Corpus Christi, Texas, will promote two executives next year, after longtime chairman and chief executive Al Jones retires.

One look at the industry's C-suite makes it obvious that banks need to mirror demographic shifts far better and faster.

Northrim BanCorp in Anchorage, Alaska, will give its chief executive the additional title of chairman, as its current chairman to plans to retire at year end.

First he was an heir apparent to Jamie Dimon at the biggest bank in the U.S. Then he came close to getting the top job at Barclays, a company older than the U.S. itself. Three years later, Jes Staley is the closest he's ever been to getting a big bank's chief executive officer seat.

SunTrust Banks has promoted its Atlanta market leader to a new position in wholesale banking and has named its first woman executive to lead the Atlanta market.

CIT also plans to sell peripheral businesses to simplify its structure, less than three months after the close of its $3.4 billion deal for OneWest Bank.

From interest rate risk to C-suite and boardroom diversity to succession planning, community bankers need to be acutely tuned in to a combination of global and domestic factors that are changing their world at an unprecedented pace.

The online lender Enova International has hired an ex-HSBC executive as its chief operating officer.

Dollar Bank in Pittsburgh has named James McQuade its CEO-in-waiting. McQuade will succeed Robert Oeler on Nov. 1 as president of the $7.2 billion-asset mutual thrift, and then will become CEO some time next year, when Oeler retires from that position.

Investar Holding in Baton Rouge, La., has made a series of changes to its executive ranks.

When KeyBank made history by appointing a woman as chairman and CEO, the goal it had set for itself was not to break the glass ceiling, but only to find the best person for the job, says Beth Mooney in her speech at the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance celebration. But this historic choice is a testament to how Key's diverse board of directors — its diversity ratio is more than 50% — helps ensure a truly inclusive culture throughout the organization. (For more on how the women in our rankings are pursuing diversity in the boardroom, click here.)

Atlantic Capital Bancshares in Atlanta has hired the former chief financial officer at Square 1 Financial in Durham, N.C., to fill the same post.

Middlesex Savings Bank in Natick. Mass., has promoted its chief commercial banking officer to president and named him successor to the chief executive.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has appointed a new leader of its bank supervision arm, the bank announced Thursday.