Credit unions

The operating environment is dramatically different than it was pre-pandemic and presents all-new challenges for financial institutions. Tried-and-true strategies that led to high performance for many years are no longer going to be successful. Join Bonnie McGeer, Executive Editor of American Banker, and Claude Hanley, Partner at Capital Performance Group, as they highlight important trends and comb through data from top-performing banks across the country for insights that will help regional and community financial institutions thrive in 2021. Executives will learn what metrics will be most critical to focus on to maintain high performance going forward.

Patricia Wesenberg spent more than two decades at the Wisconsin-based institution. She retired in October to deal with health issues.

Sundie Seefried, one of the credit union industry's foremost experts on cannabis banking, will transition to a new role this summer, leading a new venture serving the legal marijuana space.

A planned combination with Premier Federal Credit Union in Greensboro, N.C., will expand the Charlotte-based credit union's reach in the Tar Heel State.

Noninterest income from Paycheck Protection loans and mortgage refinancings isn't enough to make up for shortfalls elsewhere, and growth prospects are hard to identify.

A deal to merge with First General Credit Union in Norton Shores, Mich., will extend the Detroit-area institution's reach across the state.

A plan to make expansion easier for credit unions is getting pushback not just from bankers, but also from the regulator's current chairman and a former board member.

The Jackson, Miss.-based credit union is part of an alliance that also includes the megabank, seven cities and nine historically Black colleges and universities, and aims to provide investments of up to $130 million to help stabilize businesses and communities hit hard by the pandemic.

The Philadelphia-based institution will host free coronavirus screenings for the public this month as part of a partnership with the Greater Bustleton Civic League.

The combined institution will hold assets of more than $335 million and serve over 20,000 members across eight counties in Oregon.