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A recipe of no securities, mostly adjustable-rate loans and a cheap rural deposit base made the Texas bank the top performer in the $2 billion-$10 billion asset class.

Javier Ferrer, 64, said he is stepping down to focus on his health and spend time with friends and family. He plans to hand the reins to Chief Financial Officer Jorge Garcia.

Brendan Coughlin, who is widely viewed as the heir apparent to Citizens Financial Group CEO Bruce Van Saun, will now oversee all of the regional bank's lines of businesses.

The fintech said that Senior Vice President of Group Finance Hwa Tsao would become the company's interim chief financial officer effective Sept. 1 following the departure of CFO Ethan Tandowsky at the end of August. Separately, Gayathri Rajan will assume the role of chief product officer, effective immediately.

The $44 billion fintech also appointed a new CTO and head of engineering as it foregrounds artificial intelligence in strategic decision-making.

Anthropic's head of banking told New York Banking Summit attendees that the future is agents that operate autonomously alongside employees.

Fiserv's former CEO Michael Lyons has left the technology seller to become CEO of Truist Financial 18 months after taking the job. Takis Georgakopoulos will assume the financial technology seller's top job.

The payments network made a series of six staffing shuffles targeting the upper echelons of its organization as part of an effort to simplify global management while bolstering top-tier talent.

BCB Bancorp in Bayonne, New Jersey, is turning to veteran bank executive Tom O'Brien to accelerate its turnaround after reporting significant losses in 2025.

Flagstar Bank extended Joseph Otting's employment contract by one year and granted him new stock awards. Simultaneously, the bank promoted two executives to serve as co-presidents, in a move that could be a hint at CEO succession plans.

Stephen Curley, who was the chief banking officer at Phoenix-based Western Alliance, will join Maryland-based Eagle Bancorp as president and CEO in July. Eagle's current CEO previously announced plans to retire after the bank racked up big losses in office loans.

Half of Gen Z homeowners and 44% of millennial homeowners were at risk of missing at least one mortgage payment over the last two years, ServiceLink found.

Santander U.S. and Webster Financial are doing integration work in advance of their pending merger, including naming business-line leaders, the banks said in separate notes.

B2 Bank in Minnesota, which recently exited a regulatory action in connection with its banking-as-a-service business, announced the hires of a new CEO and two other senior executives.

Billy Beale, who was hired to clean up Virginia-based Blue Ridge Bankshares after its failed foray with fintechs, has left the $2.4 billion-asset company. His successor is Harry Golliday, who was named interim CEO.

The measure, led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would require regulators to recoup compensation from bank executives during the five years prior to their bank's failure.

Midland States Bancorp had struggled in 2025 with accounting-related issues and bottom-line losses.

David Turner has overseen Regions' finance function since 2010. The Birmingham, Alabama-based company tapped Controller Anil Chadha to replace him.

Mike Dargan, former chief operations and technology officer for UBS, stepped down at the end of 2025 and will become the CEO of neobank N26 this spring.

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