FirstMerit Bank Launches Popmoney®, a Safe and Secure Person-to-Person Payment Feature

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Dec 04, 2014, 01:30 ET

AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstMerit Corp. (Nasdaq: FMER) announced today that it has launched a new online banking feature called Popmoney, a simple and secure service that allows customers to send and request funds electronically. Sending and receiving funds through Popmoney reduces the hassle of writing checks and eliminates the need to handle cash. Payments securely move from account to account and can be set up as a one-time transfer or on a repeated basis. All it takes is an email address or mobile phone number of the person receiving funds to initiate a payment.

"FirstMerit is excited to give customers one more convenient way to pay the people in your life," said Julie Tutkovics, chief marketing officer at FirstMerit. "Whether sending funds to family, co-workers, your babysitter, or reimbursing friends for your share of last night's dinner tab, making payments via Popmoney is safe and easy."

For more information on Popmoney at FirstMerit, please visit firstmerit.com/popmoney.

About FirstMerit
FirstMerit Corporation is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Akron, Ohio, with assets of approximately $24.6 billion as of September 30, 2014, and 381 banking offices and 411 ATM locations in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania. FirstMerit provides a complete range of banking and other financial services to consumers and businesses through its core operations. Principal affiliates include: FirstMerit Bank, N.A. and FirstMerit Mortgage Corporation. For more information, visit us at firstmerit.com.

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