Lead Bank Taps LendingClub VP for Director of Banking as a Service (BaaS)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Oct. 26, 2021 - PRLog -- Lead Bank, Kansas City's locally owned, award-winning community bank, has expanded its financial technology team by hiring Huma Usmani as Banking as a Service (BaaS) director, further bolstering its innovative services, talents, and client offerings. Huma will focus on expanding Lead Bank's network of revenue-creating fintech partnerships and work to identify and successfully partner with intellectual and innovative financial technology channel partners.

As the need for more imaginative banking solutions continues to rise, the BaaS Director will oversee product development and managing API-driven financial solutions specifically related to banking and payment solutions.

"Huma's experience and successful track record in the financial services industry, specifically with fintech, allows Lead Bank to further expand our growth with channel partners and to stay abreast of market and industry trends," said Josh Rowland vice-chair and CEO of Lead Bank. "Her deep knowledge of Banking as a Service (BaaS) and banking know-how makes her a perfect fit for our team of leaders," Josh added.

As a seasoned professional, Huma has nearly twenty years of experience in financial innovation, from Vice President of Citicards to Vice President of Emerging Technologies, then Strategic Partnerships & Technology at Radius Bank. Most recently, Huma was the VP of Strategic Partnerships & Technology at LendingClub and served on the advisory board of Money 2020 USA. Huma holds a Masters of Business in Finance/Strategy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School. She says, "I am excited to join a tech-forward bank, like Lead Bank, to power BaaS, to build, brand, and innovate for the bank."

About Lead Bank
Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank recognized for its innovative approach to community banking and unique banking solutions that allow real people, businesses, and communities to thrive—serving communities with treasury management and lending services, consumer client products, digital consumer banking, and innovative financial technology services. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, yet serving clients digitally throughout the United States, Lead Bank is known for being a small business advocate, having outstanding client service, and creating financial pathways for those, who in the past, have been financially unhealthy. 2020 member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), an international network of banking leaders worldwide committed to advancing positive change in the banking sector. For more information, call (816) 220.8600 or visit http://www.lead.bank/.