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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-069902"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBU"
cik: "0000723188"
company_name: "COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC."
filed_at: "2025-07-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T03:50:59.030479+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Financial System's Chief Banking Officer to retire Dec 31, 2025; Matthew Durkee named successor

## Summary
- Jeffrey M. Levy notified retirement as SVP and Chief Banking Officer of Community Bank, N.A., effective Dec 31, 2025.
- Matthew Durkee, currently President of Commercial Banking, will succeed Levy as Chief Banking Officer on Jan 1, 2026.
- Levy served as Chief Banking Officer since Jan 1, 2024, and held other leadership roles over seven years.
- Durkee joined Community Bank in Jan 2022 as President of New England Region, became President of Commercial Banking in Jan 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-069902
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBU
- cik: 0000723188
- company_name: COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-07-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925069902/0001104659-25-069902-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925069902/tm2521534d1_8k.htm

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