UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 30, 2019

 

 

VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

New Jersey		1-11277		22-2477875
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

 

1455 Valley Road, Wayne, New Jersey		07470
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

 

(973) 305-8800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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Item 5.02(d)

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

On January 30, 2019, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Melissa (“Lisa”) J. Schultz as a director of the Company, effective immediately. No decision has been made regarding which Board committees she may be appointed to. Mrs. Schultz retired as co-head of US Capital Markets at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, a Stifel Company, at the end of 2018.

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated:  January 30, 2019			VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP
	By:		/s/ Ronald H. Janis
			Ronald H. Janis
			Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel