
Officials from The Simsbury Bank & Trust Co., the town of Bloomfield and the project’s development team were among those on hand to cut the ribbon at the bank’s new Bloomfield branch at 864 Cottage Grove Road.
The Simsbury Bank & Trust Co., a subsidiary of SBT Bancorp, recently opened its new Bloomfield office at 864 Cottage Grove Road. The grand-opening celebration was held on June 19.
The full-service branch is in a newly constructed shopping plaza located at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Cottage Grove Road. The branch features state-of-the-art facilities for the bank’s consumer and business customers and includes a two-bay drive-up plus two ATMs – one at the drive-up and one for walk-up use.
President and Chief Executive Officer Martin J. Geitz said, “Our mission is to help our customers achieve their life’s goals by helping them find the right financial solutions to meet their unique needs. Though we offer the breadth of banking and investment products and technology tools available at big banks, we are most proud of the personal attention we offer to each individual, family, business and organization we serve. We are delighted to bring our approach to banking to Bloomfield. We will work hard to become involved members of the community and contribute to the town’s vibrancy.”
Bloomfield Deputy Mayor Jonathan C. Colman said, “We are pleased to welcome The Simsbury Bank to Bloomfield. This new branch is another sign of the town’s continuing success to be an attractive place to live and work, where growth and quality of life are well balanced.”
Beyond the local convenience and personal service offered through its branches, customers of The Simsbury Bank enjoy the full range of Internet, ATM and telephone banking services. Those technological services provide The Simsbury Bank’s customers with the technological edge they may expect only from much larger financial institutions. And with the bank’s participation in the SUM Program offering customers access to no-charge transactions at thousands of ATMs throughout the Northeast and beyond, customers have convenient access to cash and account information well beyond their communities.
The Simsbury Bank & Trust Co. is a locally controlled commercial bank for businesses and consumers with approximately $210 million in assets.
DCU Selects VantisLife
Marlborough, Mass.-based Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU), the 15th-largest credit union in the United States in terms of assets, has selected Windsor-based VantisLife Insurance Co. to offer life insurance products to its members.
VantisLife’s protection solutions will be advertised to DCU members via the credit union’s Web site, throughout its branch network and through a comprehensive direct response initiative. Products will be submitted through Financial Network Investment Corp., DCU’s broker-dealer.
“DCU is one of the fastest-growing credit unions in the country,” noted Craig Simms, senior vice president of VantisLife. “We are thrilled to be associated with such a prestigious institution and plan to make buying protection products easy and convenient for DCU’s members. Decision-making tools and life insurance quotes will eventually be available to members directly from the DCU Web site. Since our only focus is financial institutions, we believe this partnership is a natural fit for DCU, and DCU’s members will be pleased with the additional products and benefits available to them.”
“We are very happy to be able to offer VantisLife’s easy-to-buy insurance products to our members,” said Edward Crisci, vice president at DCU Financial, the investment and insurance division of DCU. “Through this relationship, our members will be able to more easily obtain the life insurance protection they need at competitive prices.”
DCU has more than $3 billion in assets.