Editor’s Note: BankBeat interviewed Dottie Schindlinger, technology evangelist at BoardEffect, to find out how putting the board in the cloud benefits businesses. BoardEffect is an online tool designed to organize, manage and run a board meeting. [Continue]
The Pacific Coast Banking School has named Gretchen Claflin chief executive officer effective April 6. Claflin has been the school’s president since 2016, and was its chief operating officer prior to that starting in 2013. Claflin began her career working as a CPA for Ernst and Young. As an auditor, she gained experience working with banks, particularly in the special credits area. [Continue]
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, is purchasing 55 percent of the Lending Solutions business of Fiserv. Fiserv will receive approximately $395 million in net after-tax proceeds and retain a 45 percent equity interest in the business. The joint venture will include all of the automotive loan origination and servicing products and related operations of Fiserv, as well as its LoanServ™ mortgage and consumer loan servicing platform. [Continue]
ChoiceOne Bank of Sparta, Mich., has purchased a building in Rockford, Mich., and will remodel it into a full service branch set to open in October. This will be ChoiceOne’s third office in Rockford. [Continue]
The Wisconsin Bankers Association announced Peter Knitt as its 2017 Community Banker of the Year. Knitt, former president and CEO of the Peoples State Bank in Wausau, Wis. Knitt retired from the bank at the beginning of 2018. The announcement was made Feb. 6 at the WBA’s Bank Executives Conference in Madison. [Continue]
Charles L. Evans, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, talked about the tax bump today at the Iowa Bankers Association Bank Management Conference: “In January we asked our Beige Book contacts about the likely impact of the tax package on their businesses. Their responses indicated that, on average, about a quarter of tax savings is expected to go toward capital spending and about 15 percent to labor. Most of the remaining 60 percent is planned to be used to pay down debt, fund mergers and acquisitions, and return funds to shareholders. [Continue]
The $852 million Honor Credit Union of Berrien Springs, Mich., announced it will no longer acquire Citizens State Bank of Ontonagon, Mich. The decision to drop the deal was arrived at mutually, according to news sources. [Continue]
Financial Services Roundtable CEO Tim Pawlenty announced Feb. 6 he will be resigning his position within the coming weeks. Pawlenty joined the FSR in September 2012. Pawlenty, a Republican, served as Governor of Minnesota from 2003 to 2011. [Continue]
The City of Kankakee, Ill., in partnership with Midland States Bank, Effingham, Ill., announced the launch of the Kankakee Homebuyer Incentive Program. The program will help make homeownership possible with assistance for down payment and/or closing costs and will be open to those individuals wishing to purchase a home within the Kankakee City limits.
“I am very excited about this partnership with Midland States Bank as the investment in this program demonstrates Midland’s commitment to community reinvestment and social responsibility,” said Mayor Chasity Wells-Armstrong. [Continue]
MB Financial Bank’s mortgage division has received its fifth Top Workplace award in recent years based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey administered by Energage, LLC (formerly WorkplaceDynamics), a research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace improvement. [Continue]