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Huntington National Bank To Expand Banking Franchise in South Carolina, North Carolina

Huntington National Bank announced its franchise expansion into South Carolina and North Carolina, furthering its presence and investment in the region and supporting the bank's strategic plan and long-term growth strategy.

Huntington will significantly invest in the Carolinas, adding over 350 colleagues across multiple business lines and approximately 55 retail branches over the next five years.

Initial branches will be placed in Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville in South Carolina, and Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem in North Carolina.

Officials said the bank's investment builds upon its 2023 commercial banking expansion into North Carolina and South Carolina, its existing Carolinas customer base, and the opening of its regional headquarters in Charlotte.

The expansion will bring Huntington's expertise and extensive suite of products and capabilities across personal, wealth, business, and commercial banking to customers throughout the region, the officials said.

"The Carolinas is a fast-growing, highly dynamic region and we are proud to deepen our presence and bring our expertise and capabilities to even more customers in this market," said Brant Standridge, Huntington's Consumer and Regional Banking president. "We are very excited to expand our franchise and bolster our retail presence in the Carolinas."

The full-scale retail expansion into the Carolinas builds on Huntington's existing multi-million dollar and multi-year plan to expand its branch presence in several other strategic markets including Denver, Minneapolis, and Chicago.

"We are a national bank that believes in investing locally. We are thrilled to build on our Commercial Banking investment in the region and strengthen our dedication to serving the local customers and communities that are at the heart of our mission," said Heath Campbell, executive managing director and regional president, Carolinas.

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $196 billion asset regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Founded in 1866, The Huntington National Bank and its affiliates provide consumers, small and middle-market businesses, corporations, municipalities, and other organizations with banking, payments, wealth management, and risk management products and services.

Huntington operates approximately 970 branches in 11 states, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies.

Synovus Promotes Chad Parramore to Head of Product Commercialization

Synovus Bank has promoted Chad Parramore to executive director and head of product commercialization for the bank’s treasury and payment solutions team.

In this newly created role, Parramore will develop a comprehensive product strategy and lead product commercialization initiatives for treasury and payment solutions.

He will work closely with cross-functional teams on product launch strategies that meet business objectives and market demands.

Additionally, Parramore will manage data analytics, reporting, training and marketing activities.

Parramore joined Synovus in 2019 as senior director of treasury management sales, providing strategic guidance to team members and clients on treasury solutions, risk and optimal business process workflows.

Prior to joining Synovus, Parramore worked in treasury sales and treasury management for JPMorganChase, Wells Fargo and Wachovia.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Coker University.

Synovus Bank, a Georgia-chartered, FDIC-insured bank, provides commercial and consumer banking in addition to a full suite of specialized products and services, including private banking, treasury management, wealth management, mortgage services, premium finance, asset-based lending, structured lending, capital markets and international banking.

Synovus has branches in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.

Three Ways to Protect Personal Info On Your Phone

Imagine carrying a written copy of all your conversations with you everywhere you went. Or copies of your account numbers, usernames, and passwords. Or all the photos and videos you’ve ever taken.

You’d do just about everything in your power to protect all that valuable information.

Well, your mobile phone holds all that stuff — and maybe more. The Federal Trade Commission asks if you are doing everything in your power to keep it from ending up in the wrong hands?

Here are three things you can do today to protect the personal information on your phone, according to FTC officials:

Lock it. Keep prying eyes out of your phone by setting it to automatically lock when you’re not using it and create a PIN or passcode to unlock it. Longer passcodes are better, so use at least six digits. After you’ve set it up, you might be able to unlock your phone with your fingerprint, your face, or your iris.

Here's how to set it up >

Update it. Your operating system has security features built into it. And phone manufacturers regularly push out free updates to protect you against security threats. Set your phone to automatically update the operating system to stay up with the latest protections.

Here’s how to update your phone >

Bonus: Update your apps, too. And delete any apps you don’t use.

Back it up. The convenience and portability of our phone puts it in peril. We might break or lose it. Or an opportunistic criminal might steal it. Back up your phone to the cloud or an external drive. That way you can recover your information if something goes wrong. And turn on the feature that helps you track a lost or stolen phone – it also lets you remotely lock or erase your phone if someone steals it, or you can’t find it.

Here’s how to back up your phone >

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