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Dauphin Deposit Bank and Trust Co.'s small international banking team may grow in leaps and bounds because of the bank's merger into the financial institution now known as Allfirst Bank.
That's because the larger bank has opened a new foreign trade office in Camp Hill, according to Peter Senica, a German-born vice president in Allfirst's trade finance division who is newly arrived in Central Pennsylvania.
Effective June 28, all local banks owned by First Maryland Bancorp, including Dauphin Deposit, the First National Bank of Maryland and York Bank and Trust Co., are legally named Allfirst Bank.
The bank has charged Senica with the task of opening a new trade office in Camp Hill with the help of Dauphin
Deposit Trade Officer and Vice President Gerald Miller and assistant Rebecca Firestone.
Senica, who began his banking career in Germany in 1979, moved to Baltimore in 1981 to take his first job in the United States with Maryland National Bank, now NationsBank. More recently, Senica was an international banker for First Union in Baltimore and Tennessee before joining the seven-member staff of First National Bank of Maryland's Baltimore-based trade division just one year ago.
In January, Senica opened the Camp Hill trade division office and has since worked with his staff to develop clients among mid-sized companies throughout Pennsylvania. He credits Miller and Firestone with "really knowing the local marketplace," which will help...