Keeping Your Money Safe While on Vacation
Planning a vacation requires careful preparation, including managing your money safely. While traveling is an exciting and rewarding experience, it is also a time when theft or fraud can derail your plans. Ensuring you have enough money for your hotel, transportation, food, and leisure activities can make or break your trip.These 7 travel tips will […]
Surviving High Cost of Living
Inflation. The rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. We’ve all dealt with it throughout our lives, but over the last few years the increase has been drastic. The high cost of goods we are all experiencing is now the number one stressor for adults across the country. It’s true that […]
Staying Ahead of The Scammers
Criminals are constantly trying to steal consumers’ personal data through fictitious emails, websites, phone calls, and even text messages. These attempts by fraudsters are called phishing attacks. Phishing is a type of scam that targets consumers primarily by sending emails or text messages that appear to be from reputable sources such as your financial institution, […]
Strong Roots Ensure Steady Future
Germantown Trust & Savings Bank (GTSB) is a business name that has long been synonymous with Clinton County. The bank, a fixture in the community for 117 years, weathered the Great Depression and every recession of the 20th and 21st centuries. It has overcome multiple changes in ownership and conquered any fiscal, operational or human […]
FDIC Insurance Information
The standard insurance amount currently is $250,000 per depositor.If you are not sure as to whether or not all of your deposits at GTSB are fully covered, click on the FDIC link below or visit any of our 4 GTSB locations, and we will gladly assist you in calculating your coverage amount. FDIC Deposit Insurance […]
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