Practice management

Steven Pearson will suceed Cindy Bennet, who is retiring after 18 years at the credit union.

Financial Institutions in Warsaw, N.Y., has replaced earlier plans for a typical stock sale with an at-the-market program.

NAFCU recognizes top professional, plus more new hires, promotions and appointments.

The company was set to sell a 24% stake in itself to buy two Tennessee banks but has restructured the arrangement to avoid a potential conflict cited by a regulator.

Retail banking chief Mary Mack made several changes, including restructuring leadership in the Western region, where some of the worst incidents in the Wells scandal were said to have occurred.

Grow Financial alleges that a former employee stole private credit union information and passed it on to GTE prior to obtaining a job there.

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

David Rainbolt, who has been the company's CEO since the early 1990s, has handed the reins to a pair of longtime deputies. Rainbolt will stay at BancFirst as its executive chairman.

Timothy Antonition, the credit union's longtime EVP/COO, will succeed Doug Samuels, who passed away suddenly earlier this month.

CEO David Puckett will step down at the end of this year after 35 years with the $321 million credit union, with Martha Fuerstenau taking the reins Jan. 1, 2018.

His decades-long career in credit unions spans three different state leagues and was proceeded by 21 years of military service.

Bay Area CU launches Business Banking Division to increase, diversify loan portfolio.

The $3.2 billion-asset company is making a bigger push into northern Indiana with its agreement to buy Lafayette Community Bancorp.

Veridian CU announces new board, CUNA HR Council recognizes top professionals and other new hires and promotions.

Management reports assets, membership continue to grow into 2017.

A new initiative at Keesler FCU will return as much as $108,000 in givebacks to members during its first year, but do CUs get any real value from returning that much money to their membership?

The rising regional player has also appointed new chairs for four board committees as it prepares for the retirement of several long-serving directors.

Bank of the West is using alternative data and the international expertise of its parent company to tap into the lucrative but difficult to underwrite market of middle- and upper-class immigrant mortgage borrowers.

Garden Savings FCU aims to boost brand awareness by focusing on some of the things that make New Jersey unique.

Users want more control over their data and more seamless integration with their financial tools. Banks and credit unions cannot wait for a regulation like PSD2 to move forward.