First Financial names NKY market president


First Financial Bank has brought in a local banker as its market president for Northern Kentucky as part of a plan to expand its presence there.

Jacob Holbrook, who had been a vice president and commercial banking lender at U.S. Bank, takes on the newly created role at downtown Cincinnati-based First Financial (Nasdaq: FFBC).

Holbrook will lead the commercial banking team in Northern Kentucky. He’ll also work with the bank’s stakeholders in that region, he told me. First Financial’s target…

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