January 28, 2025

For the typical office worker, marijuana is not usually the most “HR-approved” subject of discussion. But in banking, marijuana and marijuana-related businesses (MRBs) are hot topics.

New Mexico Banker and Former NMBA President Ron Wiser Passes Away Former NMBA President Ron Wiser passed away at age 68 on December 6 after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. Ron graduated from Logan High School in Utah in 1972. He served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in

News, Updates, and Kudos from around the state. Highlighting some of the great accomplishments and awards of bankers and banks.

Housing New Mexico — also known as New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) — has been helping people realize their dream of homeownership for nearly five decades.

We can’t know for sure what 2025 will bring, but an educated look at current trends and recent data might give us a glimpse of the future. We interviewed PCBB President Mike Dohren about the key trends he thinks will affect community banks in 2025.

There’s a phrase sometimes used in political discussions that essentially stands in as a shorthand for Occam’s Razor, the principle that can be boiled down to the notion that the simplest explanation is often the correct one.

Football season is in full swing, and here in the nation’s capital, the home of the Washington Commanders has a new name: Northwest Stadium, the moniker of Virginia-based Northwest Federal Credit Union, which recently inked a multi-year, multi-million-dollar stadium naming deal.

Credit unions (CUs) acquiring banks has become a hot topic across the financial industry on both a national and statewide level, including in New Mexico, and for good reason.