NBH Holdings, a community bank holding company, has appointment veteran banking executive, Richard Newfield, to the newly created role of chief risk officer.

In his new role at NBH, Newfield will be responsible for risk management operations, including compliance, operational, credit and market risk as well as business services credit, credit operations, problem asset management, risk analytics and regulatory affairs. In his earlier role as the business services credit executive at Regions Bank, Newfield was responsible for oversight of business lending approvals and loan portfolio quality across all business client segments.  

During his 23 year tenure at Bank of America, he held various senior roles in risk management, credit, commercial banking, global bank debt and corporate marketing. Newfield brings significant experience to NBH in the areas of development and implementation of business models and integration of businesses during mergers. In addition, he has led credit process reengineering initiatives, including risk and credit policy design, and corporate governance.