Milford-based CenterBank says Peoples Community Bank employees will keep their jobs and Peoples' customers won't be affected by its acquisition of most of the troubled West Chester savings and loan.
Peoples Community Bank, which has struggled for months under the weight of millions of dollars in loan losses, said it is selling itself to another southwest Ohio bank.
Troubled West Chester-based bank Peoples Community Bancorp Inc. has agreed to sell certain assets and all of its deposits and other liabilities to Milford-based CenterBank. (PCBI)
CINCINNATI----Peoples Community Bancorp, Inc. a Maryland corporation doing business primarily through its wholly-owned banking subsidiary, Peoples Community Bank , announced today that the Company and the Bank had entered into a Purchase and Assumption Agreement with CenterBank and The Community Bank Strategic Equity Fund, LLC .