Northeast Indiana Bancorp (NASDAQ:NEIB)
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Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. Announces Acquisition of
Brokerage Firm Through Bank Subsidiary
HUNTINGTON, Ind., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northeast Indiana Bancorp,
Inc. (the "Company") announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, First
Federal Savings Bank (the "Bank") has acquired the brokerage firm Innovative
Financial Services ("Innovative") through the Bank's subsidiary, Northeast
Indiana Financial, Inc. ("Northeast Indiana"). The staff of Innovative
Financial Services, including one broker and three support staff, will become
employees of the Bank through Northeast Indiana. Innovative will be offering
non-FDIC insured products such as mutual funds, annuities, stocks, bonds, life
insurance, estate planning, retirement plans to small businesses, and brokerage
accounts to its existing customer base and to customers of the Bank and
Northeast Indiana.
The broker for Innovative was named the national leading investment
representative five of the last six years out of approximately 550 national
representatives from Innovative's broker/dealer relationship. Innovative will
continue to operate from its current location for a brief period of time, but
will eventually move its operations into Northeast Indiana's location at 100
Frontage Road, Huntington, IN.
Stephen E. Zahn, President of the Company, stated that "this acquisition will
partner the leading retail bank in our market with one of the leading brokerage
firms in our market, which should make a more powerful financial services
company to serve our customer base."
Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. is headquartered at 648 North Jefferson Street,
Huntington, Indiana. The Company offers a full array of banking, trust and
financial brokerage services to its customers through three full service
branches located in Huntington, Indiana. The Company is traded on The NASDAQ
Stock Market under the symbol "NEIB".
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, which are based on
management's current expectations regarding economic, legislative and
regulatory issues. Factors which may cause future results to vary materially
include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions, changes in
interest rates, loan demand, and competition. Additional factors include
changes in accounting principles, policies or guidelines; changes in
legislation or regulation; and other economic, competitive, regulatory and
technological factors affecting each company's operations, pricing, products
and services.
DATASOURCE: Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc.
CONTACT: Randy J Sizemore, Senior Vice President/CFO of Northeast
Indiana Bancorp, Inc., +1-260-358-4680
Web site: http://www.firstfedhuntington.com/