TD Bank Names Eustachio Bruno Vice President - Relationship Manager in Asset Based Lending 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 (March 31, 2011) – TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, has named Eustachio Bruno as Vice President - Relationship Manager in Asset Based Lending in New York, N.Y. He is responsible for client relationship management, and analysis and evaluation of the client borrower’s financial and collateral performance for a multi-million dollar asset-based lending portfolio.
Mr. Bruno has more than 17 years of experience in factoring, asset-based and cash-flow lending. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served as a Vice President in the Problem Loan Management Group at The CIT Group in New York City, where he managed a diverse and high-risk portfolio of non-performing leveraged cash flow/asset based syndicated transactions in various stages of workout.

A resident and native of Staten Island, N.Y., Mr. Bruno is a 1995 graduate of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University in New York City, and Tottenville High School in Staten Island.

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 June 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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