Practice management

Premier Asset Management will add $550 million of assets under management to a platform that First Midwest has historically built with organic growth.

The agreement comes three months after Astoria and New York Community Bancorp called off plans to merge.

The Chicago company postponed a vote planned late last year after a surge in bank stocks changed the math behind the cash-and-stock transaction.

Cache Valley Bank in Utah agreed to buy Proficio's deposits and most of its assets.

Customer outreach is far from the actual core function of bank marketers: producing bottom-line results.

Caliber will also buy about $36 million of mortgage servicing rights in a deal that is expected to close at the end of March.

Consulting firm’s aim is to proactively connect credit unions with consumers.

NuMark staff earn top honors, four execs promoted to C-level and other CU professionals in the news.

Todd Mason, a former Michigan league VP and a leader in the indirect auto lending space, is set to take over once longtime president and CEO John Murphy retires in June.

Merger effective March 1 after 90% of Martin FCU's membership voted in favor of the move.

The San Francisco bank also disclosed Wednesday that certain foreign banks that were using its software to conduct trade-related transactions in violation of U.S. sanctions.

Iberiabank is making the biggest deal in its history in Miami, an area known for boom-bust cycles and a condo market that stung banks during the crisis.

Banks have maintained consumers' trust but must do better explaining to them what they signed up for, according to a J.D. Power survey.

Scheduling time for senior executives to visit branches and work alongside staff is a productive and motivating step for all parties involved.

The embattled bank said that the decision to withhold 2016 bonuses for CEO Tim Sloan and seven other executives was not based on any findings of improper behavior.

Oregon-based CU now can serve the licensed insurance industry nationwide.

Customers and employees of Opus Bank and Banc of California could bolt to several other Southern California banks amid downsizing, scandal and credit quality issues.

In honor of Black History Month, Credit Union Journal queried African-American leaders in the credit union movement to find out how well credit unions are serving minorities -- both as members and as employees -- and areas for improvement.

An innovator in the fields of payments and shared branching, the recently retired CEO of CO-OP Financial Services returns to CUNA’s GAC — and dons a tux — one last time.

The executive, who was also M&T's chief operating officer, died on Sunday after an extended illness.