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What happened to Financial Trust Company?
Financial Trust Company in Carlisle, PA (earlier called Farmers Trust Company) merged into Chambersburg Trust Company of Carlisle, PA on Sep 26, 1997. After 2 more changes of hands, what was Financial Trust Company is today part of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (Buffalo, NY).
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1902Farmers Trust Company opens in Carlisle, PA
- Jun 19, 1995renamed Financial Trust Company
- Sep 26, 1997MERGEDFinancial Trust Company merged into Chambersburg Trust Company of Carlisle, PA.FDIC certificate 2350 ends; its business continues under certificate 8417.
- Dec 31, 1998MERGEDChambersburg Trust Company (by then renamed Financial Trust Company) of Carlisle, PA merged into Keystone Financial Bank, National Association of Harrisburg, PA.FDIC certificate 8417 ends; its business continues under certificate 7712.
- Oct 7, 2000MERGEDKeystone Financial Bank, National Association of Harrisburg, PA merged into Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company of Buffalo, NY.FDIC certificate 7712 ends; its business continues under certificate 588.
- TodayOPEN
Manufacturers and Traders Trust CompanyMain office Buffalo, NY · FDIC certificate 588 · 957 offices in 14 states on June 30, 2026Every Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.mtb.com
If you still have something from Financial Trust Company
A lien that was never released
If a paid-off mortgage, home-equity line or car loan still shows Financial Trust Company as lienholder, start with Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company. In a merger the surviving bank takes over the other bank's loans, so it is the bank to ask for a recordable lien release; if the loan was sold along the way, it can tell you to whom.
The FDIC says it cannot process lien releases for banks that merged or were acquired without government assistance, which is what the record shows here.
Record the release with the same county office that recorded the original mortgage or deed of trust.
An old account, passbook or CD
Ask Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to search for the account under the name Financial Trust Company. A passbook or certificate shows an account existed. It doesn't show the money is still there, and the OCC notes that federal rules require banks to keep most account records for five years.
Accounts nobody touches are eventually turned over to a state. The OCC puts the usual wait at three to five years with no activity, set by each state's law. Search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and any other state they lived in. It is free to search and to claim through a state's own site, and MissingMoney.com, an official site of the state administrators' association, searches most states at once.
A safe deposit box
Ask Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company which branch now holds boxes from the Financial Trust Company office you used. The OCC says a box with no activity for three to five years (the period is set by state statute) is likely treated as dormant, and its contents may be turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain. The office list below shows which bank each office reports under now.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Its offices in the FDIC deposit reports
28 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 6 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 100 S Spring Garden StCarlisle, PA | OpenManufacturers and Traders Trust Company |
| 960 Walnut Bottom RdCarlisle, PA | OpenManufacturers and Traders Trust Company |
| 6560 Carlisle Pike, Ste 500Mechanicsburg, PA | OpenManufacturers and Traders Trust Company |
| 104 S Market StElizabethtown, PA | OpenManufacturers and Traders Trust Company |
| 120 S Union StMiddletown, PA | OpenManufacturers and Traders Trust Company |
| 4 North U.S. Highway 15Dillsburg, PA | OpenManufacturers and Traders Trust Company |
| 1 W High StCarlisle, PA | No longer reported |
| 631 Holly PikeMount Holly Springs, PA | No longer reported |
| One Forge RoadBoiling Springs, PA | No longer reported |
| 3805 Trindle RoadCamp Hill, PA | No longer reported |
| 1958 Spring RoadCarlisle, PA | No longer reported |
| 433 South 18th StreetCamp Hill, PA | No longer reported |
| 401 East King StreetShippensburg, PA | No longer reported |
| 105 Noble BoulevardCarlisle, PA | No longer reported |
| 5303 East Simpson Ferry RoadMechanicsburg, PA | No longer reported |
| U.S. Route 11New Kingstown, PA | No longer reported |
| East High Street and York RoadCarlisle, PA | No longer reported |
| 805 Lisburn RoadMechanicsburg, PA | No longer reported |
| 216 South Carlisle StreetNew Bloomfield, PA | No longer reported |
| 5201 Spring Road Suite 7Shermans Dale, PA | No longer reported |
| 14 West Hanover StreetGettysburg, PA | No longer reported |
| 105 Chambersburg StreetGettysburg, PA | No longer reported |
| 1601 West Harrisburg PikeMiddletown, PA | No longer reported |
| 14 North Main StreetChambersburg, PA | No longer reported |
| 100 Frederick StreetHanover, PA | No longer reported |
| 1055 Baltimore StreetHanover, PA | No longer reported |
| 361 Eisenhower DriveHanover, PA | No longer reported |
| 7 Center SquareNew Bloomfield, PA | No longer reported |
Banks folded into Financial Trust Company
2 banks merged directly into this charter; counting the banks those had absorbed earlier, 4 charters end up inside it.
| Bank | Ended |
|---|---|
| First Bank of Hanover, PennsylvaniaHanover, PA | Oct 30, 1995 |
| Homestead Federal Savings AssociationMiddletown, PA | Apr 8, 1994 |
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 2350 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.