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Associated Promotes ‘Dream Team’ of Lenders
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 No commentsAssociated Bank’s “dream team” of commercial lenders is on display in this week’s Crain’s Chicago Business via a multi-page ad spread that includes pull-off business cards. Those featured include Donna Smith, EVP and commercial banking director of Associated Bank’s south region, and Robert Swanson, commercial banking regional manager for the south region. Read more in The Business Journal of Milwaukee. -
Harris Names Wis. Regional President
Posted on July 21st, 2010 No commentsDan Barron is has been named a regional president for Wisconsin at Harris Bank and will be based out of Cedarburg. He was previously regional president of Harris’ northeast Illinois operations. Read more in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. -
Third Ex-Union Bank Exec Joins Associated
Posted on July 13th, 2010 No commentsChristopher Del Moral-Niles, a former executive of Union Bank in San Francisco who most recently was a divisional president for First American Trust FSB in California, has been named executive vice president and corporate treasurer of Associated Banc-Corp, the Business Journal of Milwaukee reported. -
WBA Economic Survey Results Released
Posted on July 12th, 2010 No commentsIn a semiannual poll of bank chief executives by the Wisconsin Bankers Association, 56 percent believe that state’s economy hit bottom and will begin to improve. However, 44 percent still think the economy is weakening. The majority – 96 percent – rated the current state economic conditions as fair or poor. Read more in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Small Business Times of Milwaukee. -
Johnson Bank’s Hansen to Retire
Posted on July 7th, 2010 No commentsJohnson Financial Group announced that Richard Hansen would retire at the end of 2010 and be succeeded by Russell Weyers, the company’s chief operating officer. Hansen, 64, joined Johnson Bank in 1995, after heading the Madison operations of Firstar Bank. He was hand-picked by Sam Johnson, the patriarch of Racine’s Johnson family companies, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. -
Falbo Named CEO at Southport Bank
Posted on July 6th, 2010 No commentsMichael Falbo has been named president and CEO of the $400 million Southport Bank in Kenosha. The banking industry veteran succeeds Gerald Schwallier, who took over in June 2009 after the retirement of the bank’s founding president, Karl Ostby. Schwallier stepped aside last month to care for his wife. Read more in the Kenosha News. -
Experience Adds Up for Markesan Bank Execs
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 No commentsMarkesan State Bank President Alan Zastrow and Senior Vice President Dennis Prochnow have a combined 80 years of experience in banking and both are still going strong. “Banking has changed a lot since I started,” Prochnow said. “Although I no longer work in lending, when I began we lived by the three C’s of credit: character, capacity and collateral. Character came first. I know rules and regulations are necessary, but sometimes it seems to me the character factor is being phased out or forgotten by those same rules and regulations.” Read the story in the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen.
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Bank First National Names New Exec
Posted on June 13th, 2010 No commentsBank First National in Manitowoc, Wis., has named Mike Dempsey executive vice president and chief operating officer. He has direct responsibility for regional banking services, with an initial emphasis on establishing Bank First National’s presence in the Fox Valley area, according to the Herald Times Reporter.
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Falbo Doesn’t Regret Job with Failed Bank
Posted on June 11th, 2010 No commentsVeteran Wisconsin banker Mike Falbo said he does not regret taking a job with the now-failed TierOne Bank in Nebraska, but never wants to repeat his head-butting with regulators and watching the demise of a once-strong community bank, according to The Business Journal of Milwaukee.
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Associated Hires New Managers for Chicago
Posted on June 9th, 2010 No commentsAssociated Bank plans to build its business banking presence in the Chicago area with the addition of three senior-level managers: Donna N. Smith, a former Bank of America and La Salle Bank executive; Robert M. Swanson, who worked at Fifth Third Bank in Chicago; and Rod A. Murray, who was with The PrivateBank in Chicago. Read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story.