Who will replace Esther George at the Kansas City Fed? Plus tech upskilling

The clock is ticking on the Kansas City Fed's presidential search: Esther George, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , is retiring later this month. What's taking the bank so long to find a successor?

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'Mom and pop' credit unions are losing the tech race — and members: Smaller credit unions' focus on interest rates and service may not be enough to overcome a lack of tech resources. All categories below $1 billion of assets lost members in the third quarter compared to a year earlier, despite a 4.4% rise in membership industrywide.

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Wells Fargo, Truist turn to upskilling to gain cloud, programming expertise: Big banks like 富国银行 and Truist are aiming to bring their existing technologists up to speed with cloud certification and other modern architecture training.

CEO of Independent Bank Corp. to retire after 20-year term: Christopher Oddleifson plans to step down from Rockland Trust in February. The company named Jeffrey Tengel , most recently an executive at M&T Bank , as successor.