Floridian Community Bank, which operates in the southeast of the sunny state, now offers comprehensive private client services through an affiliation with wealth managers Willow Street Advisors which is headquartered in Naples, southwest Florida.

Lee Frankhouser, the bank’s new director of wealth management and a former executive at the private client group of Florida’s National City Corporation, will oversee the development of the new service. “Our clients trust our integrity and professionalism and many of them have left well known national banks and brokerages because they’ve gotten into so much financial trouble,” Mr Frankhouser said in a joint statement.

“We wanted to be able to help them with wealth management services with the same degree of excellence and care we exercise in helping them with banking and lending services,” he added. “We wanted to make sure we aligned with a firm that shared our same commitment to superior service and integrity - Willow Street Advisors was our logical choice.” 

Floridian Community Bank serves clients through its offices in Broward and Palm Beach counties in southeast Florida. Willow Street Advisors operates in Florida and Ohio, providing family offices, trust companies, accounting firms, investment firms and banks with solutions for investment, tax, financial, and estate planning issues.