The leadership team at the Manhattan location will include Michael Fahrenholt, a business banker with over 10 years of commercial banking experience and branch manager Sheila Celino, who brings over 10 years of banking experience to Guaranty.

Stephen Wessel, president and CEO added: In addition to this strategic Westbank location, we also have re-opened our Canal Street branch in Mid-city New Orleans, and we can now reach business customers who may not be as close to a branch location through our remote deposit product. We continue to add locations, products and bankers and are seeing substantial benefits in growth in customer relationships and loans and deposits, and are beginning to see contributions to profitability from our growth initiatives.