Succession planning

BBVA has picked Javier Rodriguez Soler, its head of strategy and mergers, to run its U.S. bank.

David Rupp was CEO of Four Oaks Fincorp in North Carolina when it sold itself to United Community Banks last year.

Kent Greff is retiring after 39 years in the credit union industry, including leading Mill City for almost two decades.

David Araujo, who served as an executive at Digital Federal Credit Union, will join the Portsmouth, N.H.-based institution next month.

Two institutions in Virginia and one in Washington state have named new leadership amid a wave of expected CEO retirements.

David Fearing will take over at Accolade Asset/Liability Advisory Services as Joe Ghammashi retires.

The Alabama bank has named former power company executive Charles McCrary chairman instead of giving the job to new CEO John Turner.

The former head of Heritage Oaks Bancorp says she relishes a chance to reinvent Luther Burbank, a thrift that wants to make more commercial loans — a shift she has deftly orchestrated before.

James Reynolds will become the president and CEO of the New York institution after James Doig retires.

New president Lyndon Matteson is expected to also eventually take on the CEO role once Edward Lopes retires in late 2019.