TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
Ruston, Louisiana-based Origin Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Choudrant, Louisiana-based Origin Bank, has announced the appointment of Cecil Jones to the board of directors of both the bank and its holding company. Jones is a certified public accountant with more than 30 years of experience working primarily with financial institutions. For the past 10 … Read more
Choudrant, Louisiana-based Origin Bank has promoted Ashlea Price to the role of chief human resources officer/executive vice president. She has served the organization for more than 14 years in various roles, including director of human resources operations and strategy and human resources services director. She steps into this new position following the retirement of Linda … Read more
On February 24, Ruston, Louisiana-based Origin Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Choudrant, Louisiana-based Origin Bank, and BT Holdings Inc., the holding company for Quitman-based BTH Bank NA, jointly announced the signing of an agreement and plan of merger under which Origin will acquire BTH in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $313.5 million, based … Read more
Ruston, Louisiana-based Origin Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Origin Bank, announced that Derek McGee has joined the company as senior executive officer and chief legal counsel. He is a former partner of Fenimore Kay Harrison LLP for which his primary area of focus was corporate, securities and regulatory representation of financial institutions. He has … Read more
Choudrant, Louisiana-based Origin Bank announced that NaToyia Gates has been promoted to vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion/human resources regional director. Based in the bank’s financial center on Oak Lawn in Dallas, she joined the Origin Bank team in 2013 and has more than 12 years of professional human resources experience. She will continue … Read more