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Carolina Premier Bank in Charlotte, N.C., has hired Don Jackson from Community One Bank in Asheboro, N.C., as director of Small Business Administration lending, a new position at the bank.

The embattled bank is under pressure to claw back bonus pay from executives. Its decision figures to have ripple effects throughout the industry.

Andy Cecere is widely viewed as the successor to Richard Davis as chief of the Minneapolis bank — Davis has repeatedly backed him in public forums — but Cecere may get several years to prepare for the daunting growth challenges facing banking's next generation of leaders.

Speaking at an investor event Thursday, U.S. Bancorp Chief Executive Richard Davis said he has no plans to court Wells Fargo customers who might be put off by the recent account-related scandal at their bank.

F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh has selected more executives from Yadkin Financial in Raleigh, N.C., to take on leadership roles for its new markets in the Carolinas.

The scorcher at Wells is giving some community bankers an opening to differentiate themselves from larger institutions that seem fee-dependent or "too big to manage."

Washington Federal in Seattle has named Erin Lantz, a general manager of mortgages at Zillow Group, to its board. Lantz, 37, worked at Bank of America from April 2003 to 2010, eventually serving as senior vice president of program management.

Pilot Bank in Tampa, Fla., has recruited Rita Lowman, the chief operating officer of C1 Bank in St. Petersburg, Fla., to be its COO.

Angel Medina has been promoted to chief executive at Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust in Coral Gables, Fla.

CIT Group in Livingston, N.J., has named HSBC executive Stuart Alderoty as its new general counsel.

For First Foundation, the government-backed program should help address a recent CRA exam's criticism that it has "poor penetration among businesses of different revenue sizes."

Regions Financial in Birmingham, Ala., has lowered its forecast for annual loan growth, citing weak demand for commercial loans.

CUs announce new hires and promotions including loan operations supervisor, vice president and controller, and other credit union professionals in the news.

Banks will report quarterly results in about a month, and big-bank chiefs cautioned that lending is sluggish because businesses have little desire to take on more debt amid economic and political uncertainty.

Raul G. Valdes-Fauli, president and chief executive of Professional Bank in Coral Gables, Fla., has died.

WASHINGTON – Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, has announced his resignation, effective Feb. 28, 2017.

Camden National in Camden, Maine, is uniting its trust and bank units to form a wealth management division.

Hilltop Holdings in Dallas has promoted Alan White to share the chief executive role with Jeremy Ford.

New credit card accounts at JPMorgan Chase have grown by double digits thanks partly to its embrace of borrowers with lower FICO scores, but it sought to reassure investors that credit quality has suffered only slightly.

BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla., has named Citigroup technology veteran Julio Jogaib as its chief information officer.