Rick Zimmerman Named Senior Commercial Loan Officer at TD Bank in New York City

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

NEW YORK CITY (January 19, 2011) – TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, has named Rick Zimmerman a Senior Loan Officer-Vice President in Commercial Lending in New York City. He will deliver TD Bank’s full array of customized lending solutions as part of the commercial lending team serving a wide range of middle market companies and institutions throughout the New York City region and Long Island.

Zimmerman has 20 years of experience in banking and lending. Prior to joining TD Bank, he worked as a Middle Market Team Leader at Sterling National Bank and before that, as Business Banking Director at Wachovia, both in New York City. Zimmerman is a member of a variety of banking and networking groups.

A resident of Plainview, N.Y., Zimmerman volunteers as Head Coach of a Girls Under-10 Travel Soccer team. He is a 1990 graduate of Northeastern University in Boston.

TD Bank’s lending professionals are local bankers making local loans, and they establish customer relationships focusing on service and the delivery of individualized financing solutions. Business owners and employees can bank during extended hours, seven days a week, in retail locations or via the Internet or phone 24 hours a day.

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, is one of the 10 largest banks in the United States, providing customers with a full range of financial products and services at more than 1,250 convenient locations from Maine to Florida. On September 30, 2010, The South Financial Group, Inc. was acquired by TD Bank Group, and its subsidiary Carolina First Bank merged with TD Bank. Carolina First Bank will continue to operate under the trade names Carolina First Bank in North and South Carolina and Mercantile Bank in Florida until conversion and rebranding in 2011. TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine. Carolina First Bank and Mercantile Bank are trade names of TD Bank, N.A. For more information, visit www.tdbank.com.

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, is a member of TD Bank Group and a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank of Toronto, Canada, a top 10 financial services company in North America and one of the few banks in the world rated Aaa by Moody's. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the ticker symbol "TD." To learn more, visit www.td.com.

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