Business View Magazine | July 2022

124 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 Andrew explains. “This allows us to still remain personalized and customer-focused.” Throughout the bank’s 157-year history, they have maintained their community-focused mission, making sure that everything they do will benefit the customers and their communities. “We’ve been around since the Civil War and we’ve been very involved in the community since then,” Stephen says. “We are involved in a lot of community and non-profit organizations and we continue to try to be involved in any fundraisers that go on in the schools and our communities.” In addition to school fundraisers, the First National Bank of Groton also helps students in local schools with financial literacy and encourages students to get involved in banking as a career. “It’s kind of slowed down with COVID a bit, but we’ve attended many of the schools to give instruction and we used to have a program with the economics class where the students The expertise to provide you with the right cash automation systems and the service to keep it all running! 5885 E. Circle Dr. STE 130 Cicero, NY 13039 1-800-875-6565 www.srssystem.com They recently partnered with a company called Kasasa to offer free rewards checking accounts. They also work with Kasasa to offer Kasasa Care, a service that works with community banks to offer products like identity protection and prescription savings. “It’s had good growth over the past year, since we started,” says the bank’s CFO and Senior Vice President Andrew Gobel. “It also helps provide us with a nationwide ATM network because it includes an ATM fee refund. So while we only have two ATMs ourselves, essentially to our customers it seems like we have them everywhere.” The bank also partners with technology firm, Jack Henry & Associates for their payment processing services. “Jack Henry is our core provider and they provide a lot of services that basically can make us operate like a large bank, without actually being a large bank,”