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Bank on Indy will formally launch on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, from 10 a.m. – noon with a rally at Riverside Park (2420 E. Riverside Drive, Indianapolis). At the rally, people can open a checking or savings account with any of the participating financial institutions.  Attendees will also have the chance to meet a surprise guest.                                                                               

After the rally, all Marion County branches of participating financial institutions will open new accounts for people interested in the Bank on Indy program.

For more information about Bank on Indy or for branches near you, call 2-1-1 or visit www.bankonindy.org. The Mayor’s Action Center will field all phone calls made to 2-1-1.

Working hard and getting results for our clients is a nice feeling. I know, I know. It sounds corny, but it’s true. Even better is when that hard work can potentially help everybody in the community.

That’s why, as a member of the Coles team, I’m more than excited and proud to be a part of Bank on Indy, a new public-private partnership aimed at educating the area’s unbanked population and bringing them into the financial mainstream.

By providing easy access to low-cost and no-cost banking and credit union services, including checking accounts, savings accounts and free financial consulting services, Bank on Indy will encourage people to:

* Write checks instead of buying money orders
* Avoid check-cashing fees
* Build savings
* Establish or rebuild credit
* Protect their money from theft/natural disasters
* Monitor their spending

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and First Lady Winnie Ballard will have more to say about Bank on Indy this  Thursday morning at 10 a.m. at City Market, directly across from the City-County Building in Downtown Indianapolis.

Click here for more information. We hope you can make it, and stay tuned over the next few weeks for a lot more!

P.S. Kudos to Tim Coulon for designing a great logo!