BankFirst recently hired Walter W. Dyminski to lead the bank’s Small Business Administration (SBA) lending group. As Vice President, SBA Manager, Dyminski will work with BankFirst’s relationship managers to incorporate SBA lending products into the Bank’s offerings. BankFirst has expanded its business banking solutions to offer SBA 7a, and 504 loans to small business owners in Mississippi and Alabama. Dyminski, ...

BankFirst announced that it has expanded its business banking solutions to offer SBA 7a, and 504 loans to small business owners throughout Mississippi and Alabama. With a retail branch network in central Mississippi and Alabama, BankFirst’s entrance into SBA lending allows the Company to better serve its existing communities as well as develop a southeastern footprint to offer loan products ...

COLUMBUS – BankFirst has named Douglas S. Whittle as community president for the newly acquired Mississippi markets of Newton, Scott and Jasper counties. Whittle replaces the retiring William Freeman, who will continue to serve BankFirst as a member of the Board of Directors. Whittle is currently the executive vice president of the former Newton County Bank which BankFirst acquired earlier ...

Camille Young has joined the Board of Directors of BankFirst Financial Services, based in Columbus. A native of Shannon, Young is Vice President at Cornerstone Government Affairs. She has been with the firm for four years and has almost two decades of background in the practice of state and federal government affairs to Cornerstone’s Jackson office. Prior to joining Cornerstone, ...

Jean Hancock Johnson has joined BankFirst’s Hattiesburg Branch Office as Assistant Vice President and Consumer Banker. She will be responsible for deposit accounts, consumer loans, business development and branch management. She has worked in banking for over 12 years.

By LISA MONTI  Nine Jackson area financial institutions will join together for the first time as a team to build a Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area home in a south Jackson neighborhood. The banks all have supported Habitat by building houses, sponsoring events and serving on boards and committees, but this year’s build will be the first time employees ...

By TED CARTER Halley’s Comet occurs more frequently than do mergers at Columbus-based BankFirst. It took the lure of a 5-Star Bauer rated bank for BankFirst Capital Corp. to do its first merger since 1904, announcing last week that it had struck a deal to acquire Newton County Bancorp, a $162 million bank headquartered in the city of Newton. Neither ...

NEWTON — BankFirst Capital Corporation has merged with Newton County Bancorporation Inc. The transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015, was unanimously approved by the boards of both companies but remains subject to approval by NCB’s shareholders and regulators. Terms were not disclosed. Moak Griffin, BankFirst president & CEO, says in a news release that ...

Austin F. Shafer has joined BankFirst Financial Services Starkville office as the assistant vice president.  Shafer is a Starkville native and graduate of Mississippi State University.  He and his wife Blair are the proud parents of two future Mississippi State Bulldogs, Sydney and Sam.