---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000714310-25-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VLY"
cik: "0000714310"
company_name: "VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP"
filed_at: "2025-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T21:44:56.796027+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Valley National Bancorp appoints Eyal Efrat as director, replacing Bank Leumi designee

## Summary
- Eyal Efrat appointed to board effective March 12, 2025, replacing Avner Mendelson as Bank Leumi's designee.
- Efrat determined independent; serves on Risk Committee and Cyber and Technology Sub-Committee.
- Efrat is Chief Information Officer at Bank Leumi since Jan 2024; over 25 years in Israeli financial tech.
- Appointment made under Investor Rights Agreement dated April 1, 2022 between Valley and Bank Leumi.
- No material transactions or arrangements beyond standard non-employee director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000714310-25-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VLY
- cik: 0000714310
- company_name: VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP
- filed_at: 2025-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000071/0000714310-25-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000071/vly-20250312.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000714310-25-000071.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eyal Efrat was appointed as Director at VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 12, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Valley National Bancorp (the “Company”) appointed Eyal Efrat as a director of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000071/0000714310-25-000071-index.htm
- Executive change
  Avner Mendelson resigned as Director at VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Avner Mendelson, a prior designee of Bank Leumi under the Investor Rights Agreement, tendered his resignation to the Board on January 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000071/0000714310-25-000071-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.