Gene Leary Joins TD Bank as Senior Business Development Officer in Asset Based Lending, Based in Bridgeport, Conn.

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, provides customers with a full range of financial products and services at 1,300 convenient locations from Maine to Florida

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (January 18, 2012) – TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, has named Eugene (Gene) A. Leary as Senior Business Development Officer in Asset Based Lending. Based in Bridgeport, Conn., he is responsible for developing new and expanding existing ABL relationships in the New England and Upstate New York market.

Leary has more than 20 years of experience in asset based and leveraged lending. Prior to joining TD Bank, he worked at GE Capital in Norwalk, Conn., Citibank in New York, N.Y., and Royal Bank of Scotland in Stamford, Conn.

A resident of Trumbull, Conn., Leary received an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York City, studied honors economics at McGill University in Montreal and received an undergraduate degree at State University of New York in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, is one of the 10 largest banks in the U.S., providing more than 7.8 million customers with a full range of retail, small business and commercial banking products and services at more than 1,280 convenient locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Metro D.C., the Carolinas and Florida. In addition, TD Bank and its subsidiaries offer customized wealth management services through TD Wealth, and insurance products and services through TD Insurance, Inc. TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine. To learn more, find TD Bank on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TDMoneyLoungeUS, on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TDBank_US or visit www.tdbank.com.

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