Practice and client management

Surety's first online bank, booyah, is aimed at college students and young grads.

The Columbus, Ohio-based institution will promote Jarod Bach to president once Christine Leslie steps down.

The Lowell, Mass.-based institution can now serve Norfolk and Suffolk counties, along with more than 150 cities across Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

A group of credit union employees and volunteers recently completed a National Credit Union Foundation training while other institutions snagged new talent.

The Montana company will pay $135 million for a bank with 10 branches in seven Arizona markets.

In a long and storied career, Barbara Desoer has helped shape two of the largest banks in the country, Bank of America and Citibank. The most striking detail? Her biggest role came after she "retired."

The transition to Stein from Hadley Robbins is the result of a multiyear succession process, the Tacoma, Wash., company said. Robbins had succeeded the late Melanie Dressel.

Fincen and others say third parties are proving to be treasure chests for crooks who create synthetic identities, but aggregators argue they help detect risk banks can’t see.

Ascentra Credit Union Foundation awarded $100,000 to Junior Achievement for financial literacy while other institutions donated money for a variety of causes.

HSBC's shortlist for its next chief executive includes Stephen Bird, Citigroup's head of global consumer banking, and RSA Insurance Group CEO Stephen Hester, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.

The institution also remained well capitalized and its membership rose in the first half of the year.

Mon. Sept. 30 marks the return of one of CU Journal's most popular annual features, and credit unions from around the globe are invited to participate.

With credit discrimination still legal in many states, the Michigan-based institution aims to help this marginalized group.

Bank of New York Mellon’s quick decision to elevate the longtime executive to succeed Charles Scharf on an interim basis was well received. Will the board keep him, or search for an outsider for the long term?

Charles Scharf’s most immediate priorities will be mending fences with regulators and getting the bank out from under a Fed-imposed asset cap. But he also must come up with strategies for spurring revenue growth and reining in expenses.

Visa is leaning more heavily on its Issuers’ Clearinghouse Service to help banks combat the rise of synthetic fraud, which it attributes in part to a security measure adopted by the Social Security Administration years ago.

NCUA Chairman Rodney Hood congratulated Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union on reaching a milestone while PSECU raised money through a volleyball tournament.

Ernest Pinner, who co-founded the Florida company in 1999, will become non-executive chairman in January.

Warsaw Federal will keep its name and charter after joining First Mutual Holding in Lakewood, Ohio.

A research paper says the president’s constant criticisms are driving Fed policy, directly or indirectly; the huge demand by banks for cash may be the result of tougher regulations.