PNC to rebrand local National City branches

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By Jessica Heffner, Staff Writer Updated 5:37 PM Monday, November 16, 2009

PNC Financial Services Group announced it will convert the acquired local National City branches in to its brand in February.

The banking company acquired the struggling National City brand in December 2008 after it reported a second-quarter 2008 loss of $5.1 billion.

There are nine local branches in the Butler/Warren county area.

The rebranding of the local banks — as well as any National City locations in the Dayton and Columbus markets, Kentucky and southeastern Indiana — will be part of the second phase of conversions by the company. The move should take place over one weekend in February, with branches closing early on Friday and reopening under the PNC name the following Monday, said Brian Goerke, spokesman for PNC.

Other than the name change, customers should not notice any other significant differences in service. Letters will be sent to clients prior to the rebranding with information about the switch, Goerke said.

“We are trying to make it easier for customers and we did have a pretty successful first wave conversion. We will be learning from that and moving forward,” he said.

PNC is not releasing the locations of any branches it plans to close in the process. Customers will receive letters within the next few weeks about any branch closings, said Fred Sullivan, spokesman for PNC.

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., National City has 65 locations and PNC has 51 in Greater Cincinnati.

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2843 or jheffner@coxohio.com.

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Well, since the switch my accounts are all messed up. Money coming in and money going out, went negative then back to positive and then negative again. The system is a MESS. Had to screen capture the messes and keep all atm slips and purchase slips cause the constant NSF fee's being taken out and then given back is considerably obnoxious to say the least. Thank god I have another bank account elsewhere.

Boardman
3:33 PM, 11/18/2009

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Well, sounds like we are facing new changes. At first it will be hard but hopefully everything will be ok.

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Business Loans
7:47 PM, 11/16/2009

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When National City bought out Harbor Federal I stayed with them and haven't had any problems. Didn't have to change anything. Now that PNC has takin over I have to change everything with all the people I do business with. Its a royal pain

Dawg
7:46 PM, 11/16/2009

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I wonder what will happen to the Nat City location at Liberty Commons in Liberty Township. There's a National City and PNC within a stones throw of each other. Can't keep both open. Bye bye to a more jobs.

Trevor
6:55 PM, 11/16/2009

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More then likely what happened on your Dir Dep is the routing number or account number change causing the direct deposit to reject. Your employer would have been notified of the changes that needed to be made. As long as the employer has the correct info now it will not happen again. Usually the bank sends a letter to the employer to make sure this does not happen again.

Banker
2:23 PM, 11/16/2009

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