MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Sam Oriel has joined Kinecta Federal Credit Union as director, Nix Check Cashing. He will be responsible for the organization's day-to-day business activities and long-term strategic planning for the company's 53 stores in the greater Los Angeles area. He will also be responsible for administration and fiscal management.

“As a consultant, Sam has been instrumental in guiding the integration of Nix with Kinecta,” said Nix Check Cashing President Tom Nix. “He has also done an outstanding job of bringing Kinecta products, services and systems to our Nix stores seamlessly. I am excited that Sam has joined our team, and I look forward to his continued leadership to bring the best financial services and products to Nix customers.”

Oriel previously was regional vice president and director of sales at Wells Fargo. Prior to that, he held positions at CitiGroup as senior vice president of the national off-premise ATM program, vice president of Latin American business partnerships providing banking technology to consumer branches throughout Latin America, and he helped to build EBS, one of the leading Foreign Exchange currency trading platforms worldwide. He holds a degree in computer information systems from Bernard Baruch College, City University of New York.

Kinecta Federal Credit Union is one of the nation’s largest credit unions, with more than $4.4 billion in assets, 25 branches and more than 220,000 members nationwide. Headquartered in Manhattan Beach, Calif., Kinecta offers its members a full range of financial products through the Credit Union and its subsidiaries, Kinecta Financial & Insurance Services, Apollo Agencies, and Kinecta Alternative Financial Solutions, dba Nix Check Cashing. Kinecta Federal Credit Union is a not-for-profit, financial cooperative that is owned by its members, and exists to provide a safe and convenient place for member/owners to conduct their financial business. Our earnings are returned to our members in the form of lower loan rates, higher interest on deposits and lower fees. For more information about Kinecta, visit www.kinecta.org. For more information about Nix Check Cashing, visit www.nixcheckcashing.com.