TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
Dallas-based Veritex Bank has hired Doug Cacurak to serve as managing director of commercial banking for the bank’s Dallas/Fort Worth market. Cacurak brings 30 years of experience to his new role. Prior to joining Veritex Bank, he was senior vice president/group sales executive at PNC Bank in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He has also held … Read more
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based InterBank’s longtime CEO Pascal Hosch retired at the end of 2023. He will continue to serve on the board of directors of both the bank and its holding company, Olney Bancshares of Texas Inc. The bank has tapped C.K. Lee to succeed Hosch. Hosch began his career at InterBank 30 years ago … Read more
On December 15, Denver, Colorado-based Sunflower Bank NA and its home loan division, Guardian Mortgage, announced the opening of a new home loan production office located at 1005 W. Jefferson Blvd./Winnetka Place in Dallas. The new location reflects the bank’s strategic focus on providing more home loan and banking services to customers in the Dallas/Fort … Read more
As part of its strategic expansion into North Texas, San Antonio-based Broadway Bank has hired Scott Cortez to serve as Dallas market president. He will oversee commercial real estate and middle-market services in the metroplex, as well as a growing team of financial experts. Cortez brings more than 30 years of banking experience managing commercial … Read more
Mike Fernandez, president and CEO of Sweetwater-based Texas National Bank, announced that Tim Miller has joined Bankers Lender, Texas National Bank’s direct digital bank offered exclusively to professionals employed in the banking industry. Miller will focus on business development. A sixth-generation Texan, Miller’s banking career has been spent primarily in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He started … 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
Houston-based Amegy Bank has opened a loan production office in south Arlington as the bank continues to expand its footprint in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The new loan production office, located at 700 Highlander Blvd., Ste. 350, in Arlington, will be led by Shirley Cox, senior vice president of commercial banking. Cox is an Arlington … Read more
Anita Lewis has been promoted to senior vice president and regional retail manager for Longview-based Texas Bank and Trust’s Dallas/Fort Worth region. The promotion was announced at the bank’s employee awards dinner on March 22. Lewis has been involved in the financial services industry since 1991, beginning as a teller while attending high school, and … Read more
Pine Bluff, Arkansas-based Simmons Bank has promoted commercial banking veteran Marty Nay to executive vice president and Texas metro division president. Having served as the bank’s Kansas City market president for the past five years, Nay will take over the responsibilities of leading Simmons Bank operations in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. He will oversee … Read more
On May 3, Lubbock-based Peoples Bancorp Inc., the parent company of Peoples Bank, announced the successful closing of the previously announced acquisition of Seymour-based Baylor Bancshares Inc., the parent company of the First Bank & Trust. The merger agreement was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both bank holding companies and their subsidiary banks … Read more