Financial institutions in Valley placing higher premium on private banking
By JAMISON COCKLIN
jcocklin@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
Local banks, large and small, increasingly are turning their attention toward competing for the business of the Valley’s high net-worth clients as the economy improves and the prospects for wealth grow.
Private banking is proving a boon for the Youngstown area’s banks, as they seek to bring a full range of products and services under one wing to vie for the investments, mortgages, deposits and a bevy of other demands that help reap profit margins and establish steady lines of business among executives, physicians and lawyers.
“I don’t think it’s any more driven in areas like Cleveland and Columbus,” said Tammy Jorgensen, regional market manager for Huntington Wealth Advisors in the Mahoning Valley. “The Mahoning Valley is one of [Huntington Bank’s] largest groups in terms of wealth numbers throughout Northeast Ohio.”
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"...turning their attention toward competing for the business of the Valley’s high net-worth clients as the economy improves and the prospects for wealth grow."
Valley's high net-worth clients? Are you sure?
...economy improves and prospects for wealth grow? Are you sure?
The evil high net-worth people of the valley should be arrested and their wealth distributed, by the bus nuns, to the VICTIMS of the valley.
I didn't realize that the Valley had high-worth clients...oh yes, some old money around...but that many?