Finance Board Confirmation

The Senate has confirmed Geoffrey S. Bacino as a member of the Federal Housing Finance Board.

He succeeds Franz Leichter, a former New York State legislator, who has been a director at the agency since 2000. The confirmation came Wednesday.

Mr. Bacino, a former National Credit Union Administration board member, was approved for a term that lasts until 2013. He was a co-founder of the National Association of State Chartered Credit Unions, and was the executive director of the National Association of Share Insurance Corporations.

Most recently he was the senior vice president of legislative and regulatory affairs at Centrix Financial, which serves credit unions and specializes in the subprime auto loan market.