Putnam Savings Bank recently opened a branch office at Putnam’s Price Chopper Supermarket in the Riverfront Commons Plaza on Kennedy Drive. Seated from left are Barbara Goloski, branch manager, and Denise Recko, teller. Standing are Rachel Eddy and Sarah Therrien, tellers; Kimberly Bettencourt, head teller and customer service representative; and Sharon McLaughlin, teller.
Putnam Savings Bank has opened a new branch office at the Price Chopper Supermarket located in the Riverfront Commons Plaza on Kennedy Drive in Putnam.
The new office offers Putnam Savings Bank customers the convenience of full-service banking, seven days a week, combined with one-stop shopping. The hours of the new office are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A 24-hour ATM also is located at the branch.
“We are so excited to be able to provide our customers with the ability to bank seven days a week,” said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Borner. “While convenience is of utmost importance, we made every attempt to ensure that the supermarket branch is as comfortable as our other offices and that it provides a similar level of privacy in which to transact business.”
The new office will be overseen by Branch Manager Barbara Goloski. Goloski is a seasoned banking veteran with over 16 years of experience with Putnam Savings. She will be assisted by Kimberly Bettencourt, head teller and customer service representative, and tellers Sarah Therrien, Denise Recko, Sharon McLaughlin and Rachel Eddy.
This office represents the bank’s first supermarket branch and brings the total number of branches to seven. In addition to its headquarters on Main Street in Putnam, other branches are located in Pomfret Center, Danielson, Plainfield, Griswold and Gales Ferry.
Putnam Savings Bank, originally chartered in 1862, is a $474 million federally chartered and insured stock savings bank. The institution also operates a full service loan center in Putnam.
Celero Purchases Suite
Glastonbury-based Open Solutions Inc., a provider of integrated enabling technologies for financial service providers across the United States and Canada and around the world, recently announced that its Canadian subsidiary, Open Solutions Canada, and Celero Solutions have reached an agreement on a comprehensive suite of Open Solutions’ strategic products to the Calgary, Alberta-based organization.
The total value of the strategic products contract is $21.7 million (U.S. currency). The new agreement complements an existing relationship finalized in December 2005 granting Celero licensing rights, reseller and maintenance agreement with Open Solutions for the Canadian version of Open Solutions’ relational core data platform, The Complete Credit Union Solution.
The transaction includes software licenses, hardware and a professional services agreement with multiple licenses for several of Open Solutions’ complementary strategic solutions, which Celero will resell and distribute to its credit union clients in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Celero’s multi-license purchases include Open Solutions’ ProfitVision, an enterprise solution for analyzing profitability, and cView, Open Solutions’ customer relationship management/business intelligence tool for credit unions. In addition, Celero has purchased a service bureau license for report viewing, archival and retrieval software for its data center and several interfaces to enhance service delivery to its clients. Hardware purchased includes ID scanners and signature capture devices provided by VerantID to support member identification on the banking system.
The agreement also includes the purchase of professional services to be provided by Open Solutions Canada to Celero.
