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Byline: John Huetter New Ally Financial Inc. leader Michael Rhodes plans to prioritize Ally's strengths such as its auto business rather than 'emerging opportunities' available to the bank, he said [...]

Having taken office in 2015, Professor Benedict Oramah is the third President of Afreximbank. During his tenure so far, the Bank's assets have risen to well over $30bn and it [...]

MY TAKE There's never a bad time to listen to the chairman and CEO of Home BancShares. I hope you read Kyle Massey's excellent piece last week on optimism among [...]

THE BIG NUMBER $4.46M How much Eagle Suites LLC, led by Abigail Reaves and Debra Hope, paid for the 120-room Extended Stay America hotel at 600 Hardin Drive in west [...]

TOM GRUMBLES Chairman, President & CEO, First Service Bank of Greenbrier Originally published Sept. 25, 2023 Grumbles was a founding director of Arkansas Bankers Bank, which merged into First National [...]

MIKE DONNELL President of Chambers Bank in Danville Originally published Jan. 23, 2023 Donnell, who grew up in Danville, and his wife, Shauna, have three children: Ryan, Joseph and Preston. [...]

Originally published July 18, 2022 Herrero spent 17 years as an executive with Walmart Inc. of Bentonville, the last five as a director of supply chain finance, before Signature Bank [...]

Should Wall Street's most celebrated boss call it a day? WHEN JAMIE DIMON took the reins at JPMorgan Chase in 2005 he had, at the relatively tender age of 49, [...]

The tech challenge The tech challenge The tech challenge Under Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase has become the world's most admired bank. Is his work done? IT HAD BECOME a running [...]

FRANK CAPRA WOULD HAVE LOVED the ongoing demise of Wall Street as we know it. How could he not? He correctly presaged it 62 years ago in It's a Wonderful [...]

Byline: Alan Kline When Kate Quinn joined U.S. Bancorp as its chief marketing officer in 2013, her immediate impression of the country's fifth-largest bank holding company by assets was that [...]

Your CEO is involved in a very public scandal. A fire breaks out in a branch lobby. Customer account numbers are compromised by a third-party retailer. Hackers infiltrate your online [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Wells Fargo is making an exception to its retirement policy for its longtime general counsel, who plans to remain with the company indefinitely to deal with the [...]

When the gods wish to test our resolve, they take our greatest strength and make it also our greatest weakness. And so it is with David Payne, who by all [...]

You might say that director J. Roger Smith, an especially active booster for Guaranty Bank & Trust, has been selling people on the bank even longer than he's been on [...]

Byline: Paul Davis Joseph Stilwell is continuing to aggressively attack Harvard Illinois Bancorp (HARI) as part of his effort to get his nominee on the board. The activist investor is [...]

The past 12 months have produced a round of uncharacteristic change at Arkadelphia's Southern Bancorp Inc. The staff moves range from top executives to middle management. The latest change was [...]

Byline: Alan Kline When Bryan Jordan took over as chief executive of First Horizon National Corp. in 2008, he found much to appreciate about its culture. He liked that the [...]

Byline: Chris Cumming As M&T Bank's chief information officer, Michele Trolli oversees its technology and operations and is leading an overhaul of its anti-money laundering systems. She also has a [...]

Byline: Andy Peters In the banking world, Ron Hermance was known as a skillful leader who helped build Hudson City Bancorp into a $38 billion-asset company that largely avoided the [...]

Byline: Amilda Dymi Regulators have ordered Community 1st Bank Las Vegas in New Mexico to appoint a new chief executive and clean up its loan portfolio. A May 5 consent [...]

Byline: Paul Davis First Niagara Financial in Buffalo, N.Y., is shelling out another six-figure sum for severance to an ousted executive. The $38 billion-asset company disclosed in an exhibit to [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart Chief compliance officers have become banks' chief problem solvers, so hiring and retaining the best employees available has become crucial. Regulators have put more emphasis on compliance [...]

Byline: Mary Wisniewski 'Today there's very little reason for you to actually go to a bank for anything,' writes Umpqua Holdings' Chief Executive and President Raymond Davis in his newly [...]

Byline: Penny Crosman Mid-size banks need help from their vendors with a fundamental IT problem, says Inder Koul, CIO of First Niagara: They need their software to play better with [...]

Byline: Sarah Todd Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) in Cincinnati named a new chief financial officer in connection with a tentative agreement to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into [...]

Byline: Rachel Witkowski, Andy Peters, Bonnie McGeer John Corbett, CenterState Banke Solving a Florida growth puzzle By Rachel Witkowski Like a lot of Florida bankers, John Corbett remembers feeling as [...]

Byline: Maria Aspan Visa's (NYSE: V) outgoing chief executive sounds pretty happy about his retirement â as long as his successor keeps the share price up. 'I worry about competition, [...]

Byline: Rachel Witkowski Small banks are shifting more training from the field to the Web as increased regulation has forced employees to relearn banking â fast. Most now outsource their [...]

Byline: Rob Cox The battle to succeed Jamie Dimon has begun. A time-honored tradition for handling executive succession on Wall Street is the practice of putting two ferrets in a [...]

Dual passports Hard questions loom for the new bosses of Germany's national banking champion IN THE entrance to Deutsche Bank's London office is a giant silver ball with a hole [...]

Byline: Paul Davis Schaller Equity Partners has escalated its battle with a small-town Virginia bank, announcing plans to nominate a slate of directors to the board of Cardinal Bankshares Corp. [...]

Byline: Gavin Hinks You get the feeling that Bruce Van Saun works hard to avoid thinking too much about the past. His agenda as group finance director of RBS, Britain's [...]