Customers Bank names Issa chief lending officer

PROVIDENCE – Customers Bank Thursday named Steven J. Issa chief lending officer of the bank’s New England Group.
Issa is currently the bank’s executive vice president and New England market president. His additional duties will begin Feb. 1.
With more than 35 years of banking experience, Issa first joined Customers Bank, headquartered in Wyomissing, Pa., in 2013.

Although previously working at Flagstar Bank in Michigan, he spent 13 years before that working with Sovereign Bank, now Santander Bank, as a managing director of New England middle market and specialty groups, according to a press release.

“Steven will continue to provide his experience, wisdom and knowledge about all forms of commercial industrial lending at Customers Bank,” said Richard Ehst, president and chief operating officer, in a statement. “Steve’s responsibilities as chief lending officer will contribute to the continued success of the bank’s commercial/specialized and business lending division.”
Customers Bank, with assets of $6.8 billion, is a subsidiary of Customers Bancorp Inc., a bank holding company.

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