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Fed Board bans former Wyoming bankers

The Federal Reserve Board has announced it has executed Orders of Prohibition against Frank E. Smith and Mark A. Kiolbasa, former institution-affiliated parties of Farmers State Bank, Pine Bluff, Wyoming, for breach of fiduciary duties and engaging in unsafe or unsound practices.

Smith and Kiolbasa were both formerly employed by Central Bank & Trust, a Wyoming state nonmember bank. Kiolbasa had served as a loan officer and president of Central's Cheyenne, Wyoming, branch, with a loan portfolio of about $17.5 million. Smith was Central's chief financial officer, and acted as Central's customer information security officer from about December 2013 until his departure in 2015.

Smith and Kiolbasa used confidential Central Bank & Trust borrower information to relocate to Farmers State Bank, a member bank, by opening a Farmers loan production office in Cheyenne in direct competition with Central, and convincing Kiolbasa's lending clients to move their business via the LPO to Farmers. After Kiolbasa left for his new job at Farmers, leaving Smith at Central, Smith assisted the movement of loans from Central to Farmers by giving Kiolbasa exact payoff figures so that Central had little, if any, warning of impending payoffs and no opportunity to contact their borrowers to convince them to stay. Smith and Kiolbasa even pirated loan-related forms from Central to create similar documents at Farmers.

Smith's and Kiolbasa's actions are detailed in this BankersOnline Penalty Page.

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