TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
Neil Ferguson 
Jenks, Oklahoma-based Gateway Mortgage, a division of Gateway First Bank, announced that it has opened a new mortgage center in West Texas to meet increased demand from local communities for home financing. The new mortgage center in Odessa will serve all the surrounding areas and suburbs. Gateway has more than 50 locations in Texas and … Read more
On April 5, Plano-based Alkami Technology Inc., a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for U.S.-based financial institutions, announced the launch of its initial public offering of 6 million shares of its common stock. The Alkami Platform is the digital banking platform of choice for 151 financial institutions, representing nearly 9.7 million of its clients’ … Read more
Dwight Berry, president and CEO of Wichita Falls-based American National Bank & Trust, recently announced the opening of the bank’s permanent Denton location at 120 S. Carroll Blvd. Marty Rivers serves as the Denton market president and oversees all of the bank’s lending and operations in the Denton area. The full-service branch offers commercial and personal … Read more
Tupelo, Mississippi-based BancorpSouth Bank has named Jennifer Odom community bank president in McKinney. She oversees the banking operations of the McKinney Eldorado Parkway branch, as well as the bank’s local community involvement and business development efforts. Odom joined BancorpSouth in 2019 and has more than 17 years of experience in residential and commercial lending. She most recently served … Read more
Jeff Austin III, vice chairman of the board at Jacksonville-based Austin Bank, recently announced a number of promotions. The promotions were approved at the March 2021 board of directors meeting. Natalie Henderson was promoted to vice president and assistant retail market manager for the Southwest region. She joined the bank in 2013 as a teller in … Read more
Anthony Phillips, senior vice president/institutional wealth sales manager at Tulsa, Oklahoma-based BOKF, and Mark Nurdin, CEO for Bank of Texas, Fort Worth, recently announced the appointment of David Crotty, CRPC, as vice president/business development officer. Crotty will cultivate business opportunities for the institutional wealth management (IWM) retirement plans and asset services team in the North … Read more
San Antonio-based Broadway Bank has announced the opening of a new loan production office (LPO) in Round Rock. The location will offer both business and personal loan products and services, including commercial loans, commercial real estate, business banking, private banking and mortgages. The new LPO is part of the bank’s aggressive plan for growth in … Read more
On April 12, Tupelo, Mississippi-based BancorpSouth Bank and Houston-based Cadence Bancorporation, the parent company of Cadence Bank NA, jointly announced that they have entered into a merger agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock merger with a total market value of more than $6 billion to create a leading Texas and Southeastern … Read more
For more than a year, community bankers have been hard at work saving the nation’s small businesses via the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The effort has been nothing short of heroic—and, from what I am hearing, PPP didn’t just provide short-term income for community banks in 2020; the relationships earned with new customers in the … Read more
Angie Humphries has been promoted to assistant vice president and mortgage coordinator at Longview-based Texas Bank and Trust’s Marshall location. She joined the bank in 2000 and has worked as a teller, new accounts representative and consumer loan assistant. In 2016, she assumed the role of mortgage coordinator and currently assists the branch president with … Read more