G. Kennedy Thompson Securities and Exchange Commission, he will get a severance of $1.45 million and accelerated vesting of $7.25 million in restricted stock. Thompson had served the company for 32 years. Lanty Smith replaced Thompson as interim CEO. On July 10, 2008 Robert K. Steel, the former Treasury Undersecretary and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive, took over as CEO of Wachovia Corp. However, Wachovia only survived for two more months before it was forced to merge with Wells Fargo. While CEO of Wachovia in 2007, G. Kennedy Thompson received a total compensation of $15,653,559, which included a base salary of $1,090,000, a
Credit unions in the United States in the U.S. reached $1 trillion as of March 2012. Approximately 236,056 people were directly employed by credit unions per data derived from the 2012 NCUA Credit Union Directory. Due to their small size and limited exposure to mortgage securitizations, credit unions have weathered the financial meltdown of 2008 reasonably well. However, two of the biggest corporate credit unions in the United States (U.S. Central Credit Union and WesCorp) with combined assets of more than $57 billion were taken over by the federal government National Credit Union Administration on March 20, 2009. St. Mary's Bank of Manchester, New Hampshire holds