TUPELO, Miss., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BancorpSouth Bank,
subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc. (NYSE: BXS), has opened a loan and
deposit production office at 14841 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 135,
in Dallas, Texas, providing a
broad range of financial services to the Dallas metropolitan area.
BancorpSouth's Dallas team
consists of a group of financial services veterans, including
Thomas Wilds, Market President,
Joseph Massey, Senior Vice President
and Commercial Lender, and Kathy
Loredo, Senior Loan Administrative Assistant.
The BancorpSouth team is focusing on providing clients a broad
range of commercial and consumer banking services, including
commercial real estate, construction, residential and consumer
lending.
Thomas Wilds, BancorpSouth
Market President, is a 37-year veteran of the financial services
industry with proven leadership and administrative skills in large
banks, smaller independent banks and the private sector. Wilds has
a strong record in both business lending and deposit generation.
Prior to joining BancorpSouth, he was involved in organizing the
startup of a new Highland Village,
Texas bank, was co-founder and partner of an Addison Texas capital resource group, and
served a large national bank as its East Dallas District
Manager.
Over the past eight years, Wilds served with a publicly traded
regional financial services company as President of its Abrams
Centre bank in Dallas. He is a
graduate of Washburn University with a
BBA in business administration and marketing. He is also a graduate
of the American Bankers Association School of Banking at
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Joseph Massey, Senior
Vice President and Commercial Lender, has over 18 years of
financial services experience in consumer and commercial lending,
relationship management, business development, sales and
operations. Prior to joining BancorpSouth, he served with large
national banks in Plano and
Dallas handling a range of banking
center responsibilities. During the past eight years, he served as
Banking Center President of a publicly traded regional financial
services company in McKinney,
Texas. Massey is a graduate of The University of Texas at Dallas with a BA in
interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in Japanese
business.
Kathy Loredo, Senior
Loan Administrative Assistant, has 32 years of financial services
experience with publicly traded regional and national banking
systems in Texas.
Dallas is a leading business
and meeting city and the home to numerous Fortune 500 companies.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex
consistently ranks at or near the top of numerous statistical
publications regarding economic drivers and quality of life
opportunities. "The DFW business climate, together with our
experienced team, provides BancorpSouth with tremendous growth
opportunities as we continue to broaden our footprint in major
Texas markets," said BancorpSouth
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan
Rollins.
BancorpSouth President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Bagley added, "Tom
Wilds and his team are proven leaders. Their experience and
familiarity with the DFW area will be instrumental in helping us
achieve our growth goals."
BancorpSouth Bank currently operates 24 banking offices in
Texas, including loan and deposit
production offices in Austin,
Houston, Sugar Land and Dallas.
BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered
in Tupelo, Mississippi, with
approximately $13.3 billion in
assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
BancorpSouth, Inc., operates approximately 300 commercial banking,
mortgage, and insurance locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in
Illinois.
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SOURCE BancorpSouth, Inc.