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The former Obama administration official and MBA head died unexpectedly on Jan. 16.
January 17 -
The Berkshire Hathaway legacy of Warren Buffett's longtime business partner includes large checks written to national banks as well as curt remarks about the industry's shortcomings. Munger died on Tuesday, a few weeks before of his 100th birthday.
November 29 -
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's Chief Executive Officer Jun Ohta, who pursued an aggressive expansion abroad during his four years at the helm of Japan's second-largest bank, has died. He was 65.
November 27 -
Known for his personal style and his support of affordable housing, the former MBA president also earned an ignominious distinction as the face of the Financial Crisis.
July 17 -
The fintech founder was also Square's first chief technology officer and the chief product officer of blockchain-based payments company MobileCoin.
April 5 -
He was chief executive officer and chairman of the bank, then known as BankAmerica Corp., from 1990 until his retirement in 1996.
March 7 -
Pembroke, who had led the association since 2015, died Monday at age 55. Jerry Saalsaa, the organization's senior vice president and chief administrative officer, has been interim CEO since July and will continue in that role.
November 23 -
Neil Ray Sommers, who was 74, was succeeded by Bret Fisher, Achieve's director of operations the past three years.
October 18 -
Corrigan thrived on crisis situations, a colleague said. He received plenty of practice in 25 years at the Fed and another two decades at Goldman Sachs.
May 19 -
Ryan, the chief executive of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors since 2011, died unexpectedly Monday night at his home in Washington. He played a critical role in representing states’ interests in some of the most important banking policy debates of recent decades.
May 17 -
John D. "Jerry" Hawke had already established himself as a preeminent banking lawyer when he took the helm of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1998. Hawke, who died Monday, ran the agency for six years and issued a controversial regulation shielding national banks from state regulatory oversight.
January 6 -
Stopera retired in 2019 after 39 years at Capital Communications Federal Credit Union in Albany, New York. In 2003, the credit union founded the CAP COM Cares Foundation, which donated about $4 million and over 30,000 volunteer hours to families in the region.
July 12 -
Calvin Philips led the credit union – which today operates as Neighborhood CU – from 1958 until he retired in 1988, and remained active on its board long after his retirement.
April 19 -
Rex Johnson, who helped found the New Jersey credit union in 1980, was 77.
April 6 -
Patricia Wesenberg spent more than two decades at the Wisconsin-based institution. She retired in October to deal with health issues.
February 17 -
The industry legend turned around a struggling Minneapolis company and even escaped a kidnapping to build the firm that is now the nation’s fifth-largest bank.
January 28 -
Kathleen Bierlein Yancer served the Michigan-based institution for more than 30 years before retiring in 2003.
January 28 -
Brian McVeigh passed away on Dec. 31, following a 14-month battle with brain cancer, according to a release from the Michigan Credit Union League, having spent more than 35 years serving in a variety of roles at CUs across the state.
January 11 -
Irene Oberbauer spent 12 years in the credit union movement and was SDCCU's first female CEO, serving from 2007 until her retirement in 2010.
December 10 -
The Maryland Democrat served five terms in the U.S. Senate, a 30-year tenure in which he was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee when it responded to a rash of accounting scandals. He didn’t seek a sixth term and retired on Jan. 3, 2007.
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