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planning . Century National Bank is also ISO9000 certified .
Embracing Economic Potential As a member of the Ohio Oil and Gas Foundation , Century National Bank has been slowly observing and exposing themselves to the Oil and Gas industry over the past few years and has been learning how they can become involved . Recently , the company created its own energy banking team .
One of the reasons Century decided to become involved in the Oil and Gas industry is because the company saw the potential to advance the economy in eastern Ohio . “ The reason we took a good hard look at the industry is we believe that the Utica Shell play in eastern Ohio has the greatest opportunity on our local economy than anything else in the past ,” explains Spencer .
He continues , “ We ’ re business people and we want to do well management business and commercial banking business and we do . We lend more to small companies that are buying trucks and equipment and we ’ re picking up investment customers as well , but the bottom line is the potential
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