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Glen Burnie Bancorp in Glen Burnie, Md., has decided it can do without a chief operating officer.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board's accounting rules for credit risk have good intentions, but a likely amplification of the ups and downs of the credit market was probably not one of them.

Orrstown Financial Services in Shippensburg, Pa., has hired three former rivals from Metro Bank in Harrisburg: Adam Metz, Andrew Johnson and Doug Hummer.

Deb Gallagher will serve a five-year term on the North Dakota State Credit Union Board

Pacific Continental in Eugene, Ore., has found a key position for an executive from a bank it recently bought.

A rising number of banks are looking to become community development financial institutions, emboldened by low-cost capital and an exemption from the ability-to-repay rule.

TIAA will promote one of its own to chair its expanded bank after it buys EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla.

Pacific Continental in Eugene, Ore., has appointed two former directors of a bank it bought to its own board.

First Financial Bancorp in Cincinnati has made Brad Ringwald its president of community banking; named Paul Silva the president of investment commercial real estate; tapped Rick Dennen to oversee the company's national lending businesses; and said Roddell McCullough, director of community development, will take on more responsibility helping determine the strategy for that area.

Credit Unions give to displaced kids, young scholars, veterans and more.

Opus Bank in Irvine, Calf., has given more responsibilities to its head of capital markets.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., has hired Kyle Gilliam as president of its equipment finance and leasing division.

Meta Financial Group in Sioux Falls, S.D., has promoted Cynthia Smith, its head of technology and operations, to chief operating officer.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s recent statements encouraging new bank applications are promising, but some barriers to new charters may remain inside the FDIC and we are still waiting for the first de novo of 2016.

Laura Oberst will take over as Wells Fargo's head of business banking at yearend.

Credit unions make their mark on the communities they serve through donations, volunteerism and more.

Rod Calvao led SDCCU from 1992 to 2007.

Donley is a 21-year veteran of the credit union movement, and serves on a number of high-profile boards, including the CFPB's Credit Union Advisory Council.

Emboldened by supportive comments from presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, community development banks are asking regulators for more leniency in areas such as disclosure fees and Bank Secrecy Act enforcement.

With even community banks getting hit by ransomware attacks, there's a long list of cybersecurity practices that bankers can expect their supervisors to scrutinize during upcoming exams.