First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNFG) has a new chief credit officer.
The Buffalo–based banking company named Liam Brickley to the position today. He will be responsible for all aspects of First Niagara’s credit administration function and policies.
Brickley worked previously for Citizens Financial Group for 20 years and also worked at Wells Fargo.
First Niagara Bank has 430 branches, $36 billion in assets, and 6,000 employees in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
First Niagara Bank is number four in the Syracuse metro area deposit market with 21 branches, more than $808 million in deposits, and a deposit market share of more than 7.5 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. First Niagara is also number four in the Utica–Rome market with nine branches, $405.9 million in deposits, and a market share of about 11 percent.
The bank is number two in the Binghamton market with 10 branches, $342.5 million in deposits, and a market share of 12.8 percent.
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