ROME — The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) has honored AmeriCU for organizing the 2019 Salute to the Troops Tribute Concert at Mountainfest. 

Held annually as part of the Fort Drum Family and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation’s Mountainfest, AmeriCU presents this concert to thank the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division and their families for their service to the country. 

Last year’s concert featured country music duo LOCASH with opening act Parmalee. 

“AmeriCU is honored to present this event each year,” Julie Tramacera-Miri, marketing and events coordinator at AmeriCU, said in a statement. “This concert is just one small way we can thank these brave men and women and their families for all the sacrifices they have made for our community and our country.”

AmeriCU won in the ongoing-event category during the CUNA Marketing & Business Development Council’s annual Diamond Awards ceremony. American Heritage Credit Union of Philadelphia; America’s First Federal Credit Union of Birmingham, Alabama; and Georgia United Credit Union of Duluth, Georgia also won in the category, per the website of CUNA Councils.

The Diamond Awards event recognizes “outstanding achievements” in the credit union industry, AmeriCU said. 

The Salute to the Troops Tribute Concert is organized in cooperation with co-sponsors Carthage Area Hospital, Fort Drum Mountain Community Homes, Kinney Drugs, Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), Martin’s Point, the USO, Waite Toyota, Wahl Media, Community Broadcasters, Lamar Advertising, and NBC Watertown.

Rome–based AmeriCU is a nonprofit credit union that is owned by its members and serves nine counties in Central and Northern New York. AmeriCU has more than 138,000 members, 19 branches, and $1.9 billion in assets.

The Madison, Wisconsin–based Credit Union National Association (CUNA) is a national association that advocates on behalf of all of America’s credit unions, which are owned by 115 million consumer members. 

BUFFALO —Tracy Woodrow is the new chief human resources officer (CHRO) at M&T Bank and a member of the banking company’s management committee, following the retirement of Janet Coletti after a 35-year career.

Woodrow joined Buffalo–based M&T Bank in 2013, and served as Bank Secrecy Act Officer, responsible for overseeing the enterprise-wide anti-money-laundering program, according to a June 19 news release from the banking company. Before M&T, she worked as in-house counsel and a senior compliance leader with HSBC Bank USA, NA, focusing on commercial, anti-money-laundering and employment-law matters.

Woodrow is a member of M&T Bank’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, which works to ensure diversity within the workplace.

“In her time at M&T, Tracy has been a vocal champion for diversity, inclusion and belonging. Her passion for employee development and her focus on preparing her colleagues to take the next step in their careers makes her ideally suited to advocate for the more than 18,000 colleagues across the M&T community,” René F. Jones, chairman and CEO of M&T Bank, said in the release.

Coletti joined M&T Bank in 1985 as part of the bank’s management development program and held numerous leadership positions within retail and business banking until February 2015, when she was named M&T’s CHRO and appointed to its management committee.

“[Coletti] has been especially instrumental in the bank’s successful mergers and conversions during her career. She also drove significant transformational change to enhance the employee experience,” said Jones.

M&T Bank operates banking offices in New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

M&T Bank employs nearly 500 people in its Central New York region, which includes Onondaga, Cayuga, Oswego, Madison, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, and Seneca Counties. It holds the No. 1 share of deposits in the Syracuse metro area and the broader 16-county Central New York region that CNYBJ covers.

OSWEGO — Pathfinder Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBHC), holding company for Pathfinder Bank, recently declared a quarterly cash dividend of 6 cents per share on its common stock for the fiscal quarter ending June 30. 

The dividend will be payable to all Pathfinder shareholders of record on July 17 and will be paid on Aug. 14, the banking company announced.

At Pathfinder’s current stock price, the dividend payment yields about 2.5 percent on an annual basis.

Pathfinder Bank is a New York State chartered commercial bank headquartered in Oswego that has six branches in Oswego County and three branches in Onondaga County. The bank is ranked first in market share in Oswego County with a 46 percent share of total market deposits, according to FDIC statistics.

Thomas W. Schneider is president and CEO of Pathfinder Bancorp.     

ITHACA, N.Y. — Linda Lacewell, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), has appointed Lisa Whitaker, president and CEO of Ithaca–based CFCU Community Credit Union, to serve a three-year term on the department’s New York State Charter Advisory Board. 

The board seeks to foster economic development in New York through “prudent” regulations and supervision, consumer protection against fraud or unethical conduct, and consumer education.

“I’m honored to serve on the advisory board and look forward to assisting with the continued strengthening of our local economy and protection of consumers,” Whitaker said in a news release from the New York Credit Union Association (NYCUA).

Board members consider and make recommendations to the DFS superintendent on the following matters:

• Preserving the New York State Charter for depository financial-services institutions as a viable and attractive option to current and potential state-chartered financial institutions;

• Promoting state-charter retention and new charters;

• Encouraging the offerings of diverse financial products and services throughout the state;

• New laws, rules, or regulations; and,

• Amendments or repeals of current laws, rules, or regulations.

CFCU Community Credit Union serves residents in Tompkins, Cortland, Seneca, Cayuga, and Ontario counties. Whitaker also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Depository Institutions Advisory Committee. NYCUA named her the 2013 Outstanding Professional for credit unions with more than $250 million in assets. 

Whitaker has a lot of board member and committee experience. She served nine years on the United Way of Tompkins County board of directors and is currently serving on the Tompkins Cortland Foundation board and the Investment Committee at the Sciencenter in Ithaca.