Practice and client management

Financial institutions are on the front lines of relief efforts in Tennessee and North Carolina, while in Florida, Hurricane Milton threatens to deal a second blow.

The Miami-area bank long ago exited New York and has plans to leave Texas, as CEO Jerry Plush expands its footprint in the Sunshine State. The shift comes as the bank, which competes in Florida with many out-of-state banks, is set to cross $10 billion of assets.

Multiple lenders recruited and promoted from within to fill leadership posts. Orrstown Financial Services disclosed the retirement of its planned CEO successor.

The change, one among several at the firm's top, follows on a year that executives have deemed one of the firm's most difficult in decades.

Banks in the hurricane's path are focused on finding employees and restarting operations. Those that do business in Western North Carolina are facing an especially grueling recovery.

After the bank's 2014 spinoff from Royal Bank of Scotland, its executives worked to shore up weaknesses. Now they're concentrating on how to close the gap with regional banking peers.

Bharat Masrani, who's been at the Toronto-based bank's helm for a decade, will be succeeded by fellow TD executive Raymond Chun. One big question now is whether an insider or outsider would be better positioned to navigate the company through its AML troubles.