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Project Pan, No Buy 2025, and deinfluencing: The money trends you need to know about this year

The biggest 2025 money trends: Now that we’re in the new year and resolution-setters have made their goals known, you’ve maybe heard some terms floating around like “Project Pan” and “no-buy challenge.” After we all were constantly tightening our wallets...
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Bank Holiday Calendar

We want to make sure your banking needs are always taken care of. You can find our upcoming closures and hours in our bank holiday calendar below. For information on specific branch locations, visit here.
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Can you spot a phishing scam?

Every day, thousands of people fall victim to fraudulent emails, texts, and calls from scammers pretending to be their bank. And in this time of expanded use of online and mobile banking, the problem is only growing worse. In fact,...
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Ways to make a cash or check deposit

As part of our commitment to serving your financial needs with innovative technology and convenient locations, we offer multiple ways to make a deposit. Whether you’re out running errands and want to stop by the bank, you need to drop...
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Protecting your finances after the Social Security data breach

According to a report from USA Today, a national data breach has led to hackers obtaining and subsequently releasing 2.9 billion records containing people’s sensitive personal information. The compromised information includes Social Security numbers, names, current and past addresses, names...
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Travel Checklist: Keep your money safe while you're away

Before you board that plane, hit the beach, or check in to your hotel, it’s important to make sure you keep your money safe while you’re away. Our travel checklist includes a few tips to ensure worrying about finances doesn’t...
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Becoming FIRST: The Advantage Chapter

Innovation is the bedrock of positive evolution. Everything we do is engineered to improve our customer experience. So, a touchstone question we ask of every new program is, “Does this idea have a clear opportunity to grow?” That is, does...
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‘Ins’ and ‘outs’ for your money in 2024 and beyond

With inflation hitting us all hard these days, it kind of feels like New Year’s resolutions just aren’t cutting it anymore — and lately, a lot of people have been sharing their “ins” and “outs” for 2024 (things you should...
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Giving back in 2023: Community Card program recap

With your help, we donate thousands of dollars to local schools through our Community Card program each year. In fact, we gave a total of $33,811.67 back through the program in 2023, which even included a milestone distribution to one...
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5 tips to keep your shopping merry and safe this holiday season

Between spending quality time with loved ones and taking part in the many festivities of the season, the holidays are already such a busy time — so the last thing you’d want is having to deal with fraud or identity...
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