Robert P. Beeckman
Robert P. Beeckman, a commercial loan officer at Putnam Savings Bank, has added Credit Risk Certified Professional to his title.
The certification, offered through the Risk Management Association, includes a series of courses and an examination. Keeping the designation requires additional continuing-education requirements over a three-year period.
The association, formerly known as the Robert Morris Association, is a nonprofit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. Based in Philadelphia, RMA has 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes.
Beeckman joined Putnam Savings in 2003 and has spent his entire banking career in Connecticut, starting with Connecticut Bank & Trust in 1980. Throughout his career, he has been involved with various areas of banking, including cash-management sales, trust and financial services, community and private banking, and commercial lending.
Putnam Savings Bank, originally chartered in 1862, is a $474 million federally chartered and insured stock savings bank. Putnam Savings Bank has branch offices in Putnam, Pomfret Center, Danielson, Plainfield, Griswold and Gales Ferry. It also operates a full-service loan center in Putnam.
Bank Cancels Acquisition
Willimantic-based SI Financial Group, holding company for Savings Institute Bank & Trust Co., announced that the Savings Institute Bank has terminated its agreement to acquire Fairfield Financial Mortgage Group because the acquisition was not completed by March 31.
The bank had announced its plans to buy the Danbury-based mortgage company on Sept. 5, 2006, when the two companies had signed a definitive agreement.
Established in 1842, Savings Institute Bank & Trust Co. is a community-oriented financial institution with 19 offices. The bank offers financial services to individuals, businesses and municipalities within its market area.
TSB Transferring Staff
Thomaston Savings Bank’s main office will be transferring two of its employees to the bank’s Middlebury office. Manager Vania Guerrera and Assistant Branch Manager Jennifer Pawloski will be making the move.
Guerrera has more than eight years of banking experience, the last five years of which were spent as a branch manager and loan originator. Pawloski also has more than eight years of experience in banking, having held various branch positions.
CMBA to Sponsor Seminar
The Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association’s Underwriting Committee will sponsor a day-long seminar called “Making Your Way Through the Process” on Tuesday, April 24.
The seminar will be held at The McCue Mortgage Co. at One Liberty Square in New Britain. The featured speaker will be Genworth Mortgage Insurance’s MaryKay Scully.
The program is geared for those responsible for processing, approving and closing a saleable loan, including originators, processors, underwriters and closers.
The cost of the seminar will be $65 for CMBA members and $95 for nonmembers. The cost of five attendees will be $200.
The program, including lunch, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information or to register, the CMBA office can be reached at (860) 232-9141 or info@cmba.org.
Porter Joins HDF
The Stamford-based Housing Development Fund has named Kevin M. Porter assistant director of lending.
In his new position, Porter will supervise all lending staff, oversee homebuyer assistance programs, coordinate loan closings, approve loan disbursements and manage the HDF loan portfolio. Before joining HDF, he served as a mortgage representative for Massachusetts State Employees Credit Union in Boston, where he originated, underwrote and closed mortgage loans.
Founded in 1989, HDF serves southwestern Connecticut through its headquarters in Stamford and branch office in Danbury. The fund offers a variety of homebuyer programs, and is a certified U.S. Housing and Urban Development lender and housing counseling agency.
