secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC (FISI)
CIK:        0000862831
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-03-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-24-037157
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Financial Institutions appoints Sandra Byers as Principal Accounting Officer
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- Sandra L. Byers, age 56, appointed SVP Controller and PAO upon retirement of Sonia Dumbleton.
- Byers served as Deputy Controller since October 2023; joined company as Assistant Controller in May 2021.
- Prior experience includes consulting, 12 years in banking (First Niagara, HSBC, M&T), and finance at Hardinge Inc.
- No family relationships with directors or execs; no material interest in reportable transactions.
- No additional compensation or equity grant tied to appointment; succession planned and previously announced.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017024037157/0000950170-24-037157-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017024037157/fisi-20240327.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-037157

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