Regional banks

The Southeastern regional bank said Thursday that it had hired Lee Byrd to a new role dedicated to protecting customers and the company itself from fraud.

The Pittsburgh bank says it is selling the assets to Federated Investors to focus its PNC Capital Advisors unit on providing outsourced services.

Concerns about job losses and political blowback still loom, but the two banks made it through a second day of public hearings hosted by the Fed relatively unscathed and with significant local support.

Synovus converted all 26 of its separately branded community banks to its own name over the past two years — a major undertaking that allowed Jennifer Upshaw, senior director of marketing, to shine.

Over the past two years, Uma Wilson's strategy took a program that had been losing customers on a year-over-year basis and transformed it into the fastest-growing issuer of Visa cards in the region.

As chief operational risk officer, Carrie Lichter played a key role in bringing to life Fifth Third's high-tech war room, also known as the cyber fusion center.

A rapidly changing workforce and the proliferation of public and shareholder activists have fundamentally reshaped the job of running a bank.

Rachel Bryant specializes in risk management, and she applies that framework not only to her job duties, but also to her career path.

Chantel Chase knows the value of efficiency, and her many ventures at Zions Bancorp. have depended on it.

The Birmingham, Ala., bank's profits fell 32% as its loan-loss provision tripled. The expense covered “isolated, one-off issues” in its commercial and consumer loan portfolios, CEO Javier Rodriguez Soler said.