Practice and client management

Gateway Mortgage's owners plan to merge the mortgage lender into Farmers Exchange Bank.

From participating in local events to meaningful donations, credit unions are finding a variety of ways to give back to the communities they serve.

Newell is set to focus on growing the Self-Help brand throughout Chicago and Milwaukee.

The Delaware company plans to reinvest savings from the $1.5 billion acquisition to upgrade technology and delivery channels.

JPMorgan Chase, SunTrust and PNC are pressuring outside counsel to get more women and minority lawyers to represent them in court even at the risk of alienating the big, traditional law firms that they have done business with for years.

A new feature at recent CU Leadership Convention included advice on attracting millennials, the power of stories and more.

The skeptics keep waiting for investment in financial startups to dry up, but it doubled in the first half of 2018. KPMG's Safwan Zaheer explains why.

Bank organizers are picking one another's brains about hiring decisions, applications and raising capital as part of the monthslong effort to secure charters.

Fort Bragg FCU will convert to KeyStone core processing as a hosted solution in March 2019.

Toyota Financial Services has promoted a company insider to replace Mike Groff, who is retiring at the end of this month.

The family that owns KleinBank negotiated for employee incentives for nonrelatives and retention awards as part of the Minnesota bank's proposed sale to Old National.

Clara Green will head the Diversity and Inclusion Center of Expertise at the Alabama bank.

The new name comes after a public competition to help the $8.8 million-asset credit union rebrand itself.

Tekalign Gedamu, who would chair Marathon International Bank, says that Zekarias Tamrat is bad-mouthing the de novo effort following his dismissal and a subsequent payment disagreement. Tamrat was slated to be the bank's president.

Tory Nixon, who became Umpqua's chief banking officer this spring, is trying to drive more customers to use mobile banking (only 15% do so now industrywide) without alienating them in the process.

Helping the less fortunate, providing financial education, expanding to serve more members and other ways credit unions are giving back.

Zekarias Tamrat blamed the proposed Marathon International Bank's chairman and directors for delays in getting its application approved.

Three credit unions have signed on with the Costa Mesa, Calif.-based fintech aimed at helping consumers pay down credit card debt.

Cobalt Credit Union serves 14 counties across Nebraska and Iowa, but hopes to change to a state charter to help fuel further expansion.

Mary Scheib has spent 28 years with the credit union and is credited with playing a critical role in shaping the institution's strategy, budget and more.