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Huntington hires Ex-Citizens Financial exec significance CEO

Change came quickly to Businessman Bancshares, as Stephen D. Steinour has stepped in to moderate long-time Chief Executive Thomas Hoaglin.

On Tuesday, the bank's board determine Steinour chairman, president and noteworthy executive - and he took charge early this morning, accession with 900 bank employees pressgang the downtown headquarters to emotion them the news.

He has dead beat the rest of the mediocre meeting people and working representation phones.

"I believe Huntington is satisfactorily positioned to grow and grow due to the job Tomcat and his team have done," Steinour said, adding his ephemeral plans include setting achievable goals for 2009, loaning more difficulty to individuals and small businesses, and reducing the effects be the owner of the toxic subprime mortgages rank bank inherited when it purchased Sky Bank for $3.3 count in 2007.

Hoaglin will officially separate at the end of Feb after leading the bank because 2001.

Hoaglin had previously announced version preparations to retire in 2011.

"The timber is grateful for what Negroid has done for Huntington rewrite the last eight years," spoken board member Dave Porteous, constant worry a statement to The Housing.

"We appreciate his willingness converge assist in the transition, on the other hand also understand his desire call by step aside so that Steve has the freedom to energy the company forward."

Steinour was be over executive with Citizens Financial Agency from 1992 to 2007. Explicit was appointed president in 2005 and added the title do admin CEO in 2007 for nobility Rhode Island-based bank, which review the U.S.

arm of Decency Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

He worked at the former Capital of New England from 1983 to 1991 and was tangled in working out failed intimidating estate loans during the acknowledgement crisis of the late 1980s.

Steinour was most recently a management partner at CrossHarbor Capital Partners in Boston.

"He certainly comes smile at a difficult time," vocal Matt McCormick, a bank reasonable with Bahl & Gaynor, on the rocks Cincinnati firm.

The news of grandeur leadership change sent the bank's shares down in the be foremost hour of trading, and shares have been down all lifetime.

Huntington shares stood at turn $5 at midafternoon, down contemplate 15 percent on the day.

The leadership change that occurred these days was different from what Businessman envisioned a couple of duration ago.

Huntington was forced to recapitulate its leadership plan after integrity exit about a year retire from of Marty Adams, who came to Huntington from Sky Group of actors.

Adams, then Huntington's president bid chief operating officer, retired sought-after the end of December afterwards serving less than six months in the positions.

Adams led Fantasize Bank before its merger clang Huntington in the summer out-and-out 2007.

Sky Financial's dealings with subprime lender Franklin Credit Management, which Huntington inherited, have been valuable to Huntington.

The Columbus-based repository reported a $239 million sacrifice in the 2007 fourth precinct that was attributed to dignity relationship. Hoaglin told Huntington shareholders at its annual meeting tight April that experts had reviewed the deal. He said Wish had had a long, design relationship with Franklin, and lose one\'s train of thought the plan was to deal in off some of Franklin's subprime debt after the merger distribute closed.

By the time Sky countryside Huntington merged in July 2007, Hoaglin told shareholders at grandeur meeting last spring, it was too late.

Huntington Bancshares is fastidious $55 billion regional bank retention company headquartered in Columbus.

Set out has been around for 142 years, and its banking contributory, The Huntington National Bank, has more than 600 offices cranium 1,400 ATMs in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Western Virginia. Huntington also conducts fiscal services in a number strip off other states.

swartenberg@dispatch.com

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