TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE and IDEAS
Neil Ferguson 
On September 9, Farmers Branch-based TIB, the nation’s largest bankers’ bank, announced 10 officer promotions. Matthew Ayers, senior vice president, has been promoted to director of compliance and risk. He joined TIB in 2017 and holds a BS degree from the University of Arizona. Paula Edwards, senior vice president, has been promoted to assistant director … Read more
Gateway Mortgage, a division of Jenks, Oklahoma-based Gateway First Bank, announced the promotion of Steve Thompson to regional vice president of the bank’s South Texas region. He has been with Gateway since 2016 as an area manager in Lake Jackson, a Houston suburb. Thompson has been Gateway Mortgage’s overall top mortgage producer for several years. … Read more
Rusty Anderson has joined Dallas-based Texas Capital Bank as Fort Worth market president. He will act as a strategic advisor to the region’s market leadership team, which is responsible for the bank’s overall growth within Fort Worth. In addition to his role as market president, Anderson will serve as executive vice president/middle-market group manager. He … Read more
Elizabeth Hutcheson has joined the staff of Longview-based Texas Bank and Trust Co. as vice president/wealth and trust officer in the bank’s wealth management division in Longview and Tyler. She most recently served as assistant vice president/wealth management and trust officer at Southside Bank in Tyler. Hutcheson studied business management at the University of Texas–Tyler … Read more
On July 26, Great Plains Bancshares Inc., along with its subsidiary, Elk City, Oklahoma-based Great Plains National Bank, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Providence Bancshares Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Southlake-based Providence Bank of Texas SSB. The acquisition expands Great Plains Bancshares’ growing footprint in the Dallas/Fort Worth … Read more
Mergers and Acquisitions The OCC reports that it has approved an application by American Bank NA, based in Corpus Christi, to acquire TexStar National Bank, based in Universal City. The OCC reports that Great Plains National Bank, based in Elk City, Oklahoma, has applied to acquire Providence Bank of Texas, based in Southlake. Conversions The … Read more
Mergers and Acquisitions The TDB reports that it has approved an application by Veritex Community Bank, based in Dallas, to acquire StoneCastle Insured Sweep LLC, based in New York, New York. Branches The OCC reports that VeraBank NA, based in Henderson, has established a branch at 200 River Point, Ste. 100, in Conroe. The agency … Read more
On July 1, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported that Fort Worth-based Pinnacle Bank, a subsidiary of Omaha, Nebraska-based Pinnacle Bancorp Inc., has agreed to acquire San Antonio-based Crockett National Bank. Completion of the transaction is expected in the second half of 2022. Following completion of the deal, Crockett National Bank’s locations will become part of Pinnacle … Read more
On August 30, Dallas-based Comerica Inc. announced that Von E. Hays, senior vice president and general counsel/human resources, litigation and corporate operations, has been named executive vice president and chief legal officer/general counsel. Hays, who had been serving as interim chief legal officer since May, will continue to report to Curt Farmer, chairman, president and … Read more
Fort Worth-based NBT Financial Bank—formerly The National Bank of Texas at Fort Worth—recently announced two new hires. Sheri Miller has joined the bank as first vice president/BSA officer. She has more than 35 years of experience in the financial service industry, with an emphasis on regulatory compliance, BSA/AML compliance and auditing. She has worked for … Read more