Catherine Craig
Savings Bank of Danbury recently named Catherine Craig as a loan servicing officer.
Craig joined Savings Bank of Danbury in 2001 as its loan servicing manager. With more than 20 years of professional banking experience, Craig, through the management of her staff, provides customer service to residential, consumer and commercial loan customers.
She and her husband, George, make their home in Danbury with their two sons.
The Savings Bank of Danbury, established in 1849, is a full-service community bank that maintains its headquarters at 220 Main St. in Danbury. It operates branch offices in seven communities: Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown and Waterbury.
In addition to the products it offers, the bank participates annually in charitable events such as March of Dimes WalkAmerica, the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, the Junior Achievement Bowl-A- Thon and the United Way Day of Caring.
CATIC Appoints Mandell
Rocky Hill-based CATIC, New England’s largest domestic title insurance underwriter, recently appointed attorney Joel Mandell as special counsel for commercial services. “Attorney Mandell’s many years of experience in commercial real estate transactions will be of enormous benefit as he works to enhance the company’s commercial real estate services program,” said Richard J. Patterson, president of CATIC.
Before joining CATIC, Mandell was a principal in the Farmington law firm of Levy & Droney. He concentrated his law practice on the representation of developers, lending institutions and title insurance companies in the financing, acquisition and development of commercial real estate properties.
Mandell is currently a director of the New England Land Title Association. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, the Hartford County Bar Association, the Real Estate Exchange and the Real Estate Finance Association.
He is a past chairman of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and was elected to emeritus status in 2000. He has also served as a member of the House of Delegates of the Connecticut Bar Association. In addition, at the request of the state’s insurance commissioner, Mandell served on the task force that drafted the Connecticut Title Insurance Act in 1990.
Mandell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut in 1961 and his juris doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1966. A resident of Simsbury, he is the town’s deputy first selectman and is serving his sixth term as a member of the Simsbury Board of Selectmen.
Open Solutions Teams With Elan
Glastonbury-based Open Solutions, a provider of integrated enabling technologies for community financial institutions across the United States and Canada, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Elan Financial Services through which Elan will supply ATM and debit processing solutions to Open Solutions’ clients. As part of the partnership, Open Solutions will also be able to refer clients to Elan for credit card programs and merchant services.
“Having the opportunity to partner with and provide Open Solutions’ clients a wide array of payment processing solutions is a mission that Elan is looking forward to fulfilling,” said Jan Estep, executive vice president and business manager of Elan Financial Services. “Open Solutions’ focus on service and helping its clients function more competitively closely aligns with Elan’s client support strategy. By offering innovative transaction processing solutions, along with access to the nation’s fastest-growing surcharge-free ATM network, Open Solutions and Elan can better meet the needs of financial institutions and help them garner and serve a greater share of the financial services market.”
Open Solutions provides software and services that perform data processing and information management functions for more than 3,600 financial institutions in North America. Its complementary products can be sold individually or as part of a fully integrated suite.
