May 8th, 2025028BIRMINGHAM, AL. — AmFirst and WBRC 6 proudly announced the winners of the prestigious 2024–2025 Rising Star Scholarships, a program dedicated to recognizing outstanding high school students across Central Alabama, at an awards ceremony on Friday, April 25th.
Each week during the academic year, WBRC chooses a Rising Star, a student who demonstrates academic excellence, leadership, and service. These Rising Stars are students from across Alabama currently enrolled in their senior year of high school and plan to attend a full-time college or trade school in Fall 2025. From a competitive pool of 30 remarkable Rising Stars, six students were...
May 8th, 2025017NEWPORT NEWS, Va., – BayPort Credit Union is pleased to announce that Jonathan Harrell has been appointed Chief Information Officer. In this role, Harrell will oversee BayPort’s IT strategy, ensuring its technology infrastructure supports the credit union’s goals and drives innovation.
“We are thrilled to welcome Jonathan to our team. His passion for technology and his innovative approach to problem solving and efficiency make him the perfect fit to lead us into BayPort’s next chapter of growth and success,” said Jim Mears, President/Chief Executive Officer.
Harrell’s appointment to Chief Information Officer follows the...
May 8th, 2025027PENSACOLA, FL – PenAir Credit Union (PenAir) announces six scholarships to seniors attending Northwest Florida and South Alabama schools. Scholarships are awarded to student members based on the student’s academic performance and passion for helping others.
The 2025 PenAir scholarship winners include:
Anna Rutledge – Saraland High School in Saraland, Ala.
Claudia Camacho – Foley High School in Foley, Ala.
Natalie Hendricks – Jay High School in Jay, Fla.
Seth Mannion – Navarre High School in Navarre, Fla.
Rodney Pritchett – Booker T. Washington High School in Pensacola, Fla.
Kayna Horace – Baldwin County...
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Fort Walton Beach, Fla. - Eglin Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce Indirect Lending Officer Johna Jones has been selected as the 5-Star Performer of the First Quarter of 2025. Johna has been employed with the Credit Union since August 2017 and currently resides in Gulf Breeze.
The 5-Star Performer Award is a quarterly employee recognition program. The nominator provides a written submission describing how the employee embraces EFCU’s Five-Star Values: Respectful, Trustworthy, Dedicated, Proactive and Engaged.
Johna was nominated by a teammate for consistently bringing a positive and helpful attitude to her work and...
May 8th, 2025031COLUMBUS, Ohio – Three members were re-elected to Corporate One Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors at the annual meeting on April 24: Bill Allender, CEO/President of BMI Federal Credit Union in Dublin, Ohio; Tasha Kostick, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at 1st Northern California Credit Union in Martinez, California; and John J. Shirilla, CEO/President of Best Reward Federal Credit Union in Walton Hills, Ohio.
Each re-elected board member will serve a three-year term.
Allender has been serving as the President and CEO of BMI Federal Credit Union in Dublin, Ohio, since June 2012. He is a Certified Public...
May 8th, 2025023Baton Rouge, LA – Essential Credit Union has been honored as the 2025 MLP Lender of the Year by the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation (LEDC). This prestigious recognition highlights Essential Credit Union’s outstanding commitment to supporting small businesses, start-ups, and Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals (SEDI)-owned businesses throughout Louisiana.
Each year, LEDC selects a financial institution that has demonstrated exceptional performance in utilizing its loan programs to provide crucial funding to small businesses. Essential Credit Union was chosen for its dedication to fostering economic growth by...
May 2nd, 2025224Milledgeville, Ga. – Robins Financial Credit Union recently made a generous donation of $24,000 to seven local nonprofit organizations throughout Baldwin and Putnam County during its Grand Opening celebration on Wednesday, April 30.
These charitable contributions were made in celebration of the opening of their 24th branch location – Sinclair – demonstrating the credit union’s ongoing commitment to making a positive impact in the communities it serves.
Five Putnam County nonprofit organizations received $2,400 each to assist with initiatives that will help strengthen the community and surrounding areas. The recipients...
May 1st, 2025031Irvine, CA, May 1, 2025 – Origence, a leading provider of lending technology solutions, announced founder and creator of Shazam, Chris Barton, as a keynote speaker for its Lending Tech Live ’25 conference, scheduled for June 16-18, 2025, at the Omni Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.
Barton is an innovative tech entrepreneur best known for inventing Shazam, an app with more than two billion downloads that revolutionized how people discover music and shaped the consumer AI industry. Despite early skepticism from experts, he defied the odds to create groundbreaking technology, build a music database, and deliver a seamless user...
May 1st, 2025039PENSACOLA, FL – May 1, 2025 – PenAir Credit Union (PenAir) has launched its Third Annual Snack Stock drive, collecting individually wrapped snacks for local cancer patients throughout May. At a joint press conference on April 28 at its Nine Mile Branch, PenAir announced partnerships with Quint Studer, Bubba Watson, and the Pensacola Blue Wahoos to expand support for patients undergoing treatment at Ascension Sacred Heart in Pensacola.
“At PenAir, Communerosity® is at the heart of everything we do, where community and generosity blend into something enduring,” said Lee Morgan, President & CEO of PenAir. “We’re...
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