Former Breuners Executive Scott Weiss Joins SCA

Furniture World News

Scott M. Weiss has joined Shoppers Charge Accounts (SCA) as vice president-risk management/compliance. In his new position, he will be responsible for establishing and monitoring approval criteria for SCA’s merchant credit cards. Mr. Weiss comes to SCA from United Retail Group, Inc. parent company of the Avenue chain, where he served since 1999 as credit operations manager. From 1992 to 1999, he was corporate credit manager for Breuners Home Furnishings Corporation, Lancaster, Pa. Prior to that, he was treasury supervisor for Columbus Line, Inc. in Jersey City, N.J. Earlier in his career, he served as a credit and collections coordinator for H&M International Transportation, Inc., Secaucus, N.J. A resident of New Windsor, N.Y., Weiss graduated from William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. in 1988 with a B.A. in communications/public relations. Ranked among the nation’s largest private label credit card companies, SCA is a division of Hudson United Bank, a subsidiary of Hudson United Bancorp (NYSE: HU). Hudson United Bancorp is a $7.8 billion asset company with over 200 branch offices in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania. Hudson United Bancorp’s subsidiaries offer a full array of innovative products and services to commercial and retail accounts, including imaged checking accounts, 24-hour telephone and Internet banking, loans by phone, alternative investment products, insurance products, private label credit cards programs and a wide variety of commercial loans and services including asset based loans, SBA loans, international services and cash management services. Wealth management services are also provided to individuals and businesses. Public sector products and services are provided to local and state governments, municipalities, educational institutions, civic and not-for-profit organizations.