Margaret Lanning currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Executive of Amalgamated Bank. In this role, she is responsible for the Bank’s Risk Management Group, including Credit Risk, providing oversight of policies, procedures, organizational structure, staffing, and reporting lines. She is also focused on enhancing the Bank’s Second Line of Defense to support an expanding and more complex institution.
Ms. Lanning previously served as Amalgamated Bank’s Chief Credit Risk Officer from July 2022 to February 2026 when she assumed her current role. She has brought to the Bank more than 40 years of expansive leadership experience in commercial lending, credit risk management, credit administration and governance. This experience brings an in-depth understanding of the forces that influence risk conditions across sectors and asset classes. From 2017 to 2022, Ms. Lanning served as Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer at Investors Bank, where she developed and strengthened the bank's credit culture and led the credit risk management for all aspects of the bank's lending activities and oversight of its various loan portfolios. From 2015 to 2017, Margaret served as Chief Credit Officer at OceanFirst Bank, and prior to that, she spent more than two decades at Wells Fargo in both Commercial Lending and Credit Risk Management positions.
