Crain's Detroit has realeased their annual List of the Largest and Thrifts ranked by 2009 assets.  Bank of Ann Arbor made the list at #12 in the 5-county southeastern Michigan market area.

You spoke, we listened.  After we launched the fresh new look to our web site earlier this year, you asked if we could make the text larger so it could be read more easily, especially on monitors set to a high resolution. Our team worked on the issue and developed a solution that provides a choice.  In the top right corner of each page are three sizes of the letter A.  As you click on an A, the size of the type of the whole web site changes.  Pick the size that is best for you to read and you're set.  The site will remember your selection (a cookie is placed on your computer indicating your choice) and serve up the pages with your larger (or smaller) type size.

One note: online banking and bill pay pages are not affected by the type size options and do not change.

Another way Bank of Ann Arbor helps you get the information you need.

Bank of Ann Arbor is the major season sponsor for the Plymouth Canton Symphony Orchestra.  The Orchestra will celebrate its 65th anniversary this year, reports the Plymouth Observer.

Looks like our office at Ellsworth Rd. and Airport Blvd. on the southern end of Ann Arbor could have Costco as a new neighbor, perhaps sometime in 2011. According to the latest from AnnArbor.com, Pittsfield Township officials expect to complete their master plan revisions by January, 2011, which would then allow Costco to resubmit plans for permission to build.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has received numerous reports of suspicious telephone calls where the caller claims to represent the FDIC and is calling regarding the collection of an outstanding debt.

To date, the callers have alleged that the call recipient is delinquent in payment of a loan that was applied for over the Internet or made through a payday lender. The loan may or may not actually exist. The caller attempts to authenticate the claim by providing sensitive personal information, such as name, Social Security number, and date of birth, supposedly taken from the loan application. The recipient is then strongly urged to make a payment over the phone to “avoid a lawsuit and possible arrest.” In some instances, the caller is said to sound aggressive and threatening.

These suspicious telephone calls are fraudulent. Recipients should consider them as an attempt to steal money or collect personal identifying information. The FDIC generally does not initiate unsolicited telephone calls to consumers and is not involved with the collection of debts on behalf of operating lenders and financial institutions.

If a caller demonstrates that he or she has the recipient’s sensitive personal information, such as Social Security number, date of birth, and bank account numbers, the recipient may be the victim of identity theft and should review his or her credit reports for signs of possible fraud. The individual should also consider placing a “fraud alert” on his or her credit reports. This can be done by contacting one of the three consumer reporting companies listed below. Only one of the three companies needs to be contacted. That company is required to contact the other two, which will place an alert on their versions of the report.
TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289; www.transunion.com; Fraud Victim Assistance Division, P.O. Box 6790, Fullerton, California 92834-6790
Equifax: 1-800-525-6285; www.equifax.com; P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, Georgia 30374-0241
Experian: 1-888-EXPERIAN (397-3742); www.experian.com; P.O. Box 9554, Allen, Texas 75013

Information about counterfeit items, cyber-fraud incidents and other fraudulent activity may be forwarded to the FDIC’s Cyber-Fraud and Financial Crimes Section, 550 17th Street, N.W., Room F-3054, Washington, D.C. 20429, or transmitted electronically to alert@fdic.gov. Questions related to federal deposit insurance or consumer issues should be submitted to the FDIC using an online form that can be accessed at http://www2.fdic.gov/starsmail/index.asp.

Our president & CEO, Tim Marshall, is featured in an ad in the print edition of AnnArbor.com this week in support of the 2011 United Way of Washtenaw County campaign. Bank of Ann Arbor was a Pacesetter company, running an early campaign to set the bar for others to match during the full fall campaign.  As last year's campaign chair, Tim was pleased to show once again how Bank of Ann Arbor helps Live United.

UW TimMarshall 9-9.pdf (1.10 mb)