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Founders FCU here has awarded more than $5.7 million in loyalty dividends to its members, bringing the credit union’s total loyalty dividends to $45 million paid out since 1992.

National Bank Holdings in Greenwood Village, Colo., has announced the retirement of director Lawrence Fish.

NEW YORK — Grameen America, a nonprofit microfinance organization that specializes in providing small business loans to low-income women, may seek to adopt a credit union structure.

Sheila Bair, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., has agreed to serve as a senior adviser to the law firm DLA Piper, focusing on its international practice, according to a memo obtained by American Banker.

Lateral moves can be a way for women in banking to expand their knowledge base and make themselves more appealing candidates for upper management positions, according to the head of TD Bank's consumer bank Nandita Bakhshi.

Bank of Bird-in-Hand in Pennsylvania has hired a president and chief executive.

Liberty Bell Bank in Marlton, N.J., has appointed a new chief executive as it continues to work through credit issues.

FDIC third quarter report shows pop in loan buybacks and indemnifications.

Banks and thrifts earned $38.7 billion in the third quarter, a 7.3% increase from a year earlier but slightly down from the $40.1 billion earned in the second quarter, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday.

Large foreign-owned banks continue to spread out across the U.S., as they turn over every stone looking for new revenue opportunities.

Millennial women are making great strides in the workforce, but still "channel their inner ninth grade insecure freshman when it comes to financial matters," according to Fidelity's head of personal investing.

WASHINGTON — Promontory Financial Group announced Friday that it had given financial awards to two small institutions that are expanding banking access to the underbanked.

The House Financial Services Committee has appointed five subcommittee chairs for the next Congress.

Poage Bankshares in Kentucky disclosed that its chairman has died.

WASHINGTON — The top Republican and Democratic spots on the House Financial Services Committee will remain unchanged in the new Congress.

PLANO, Texas — Despite burgeoning loan growth and other signs of a healthy CU system, optimism by credit union CEOs declined slightly in the third quarter, according to Catalyst Corporate FCU's latest Credit Union CEO Confidence Survey.

The American consumer is buying again and credit unions are taking advantage by booking solid loan growth, according to the November Trends Report by CUNA Mutual Group.

First Financial Bancorp in Cincinnati has shuffled its C-Suite and appointed a new president.

Carver Bancorp in New York said Deborah Wright will retire as chief executive at the end of the year. The company's current president will succeed her.

The co-founders of Mopay have officially joined the executive team of Boku, which acquired the German company last month.