News and Events
Attention Mobile Banking Users
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March 22, 2023 On March 30th, Pickens Savings & Loan’s mobile app will be upgraded from the Touchbanking App to the PS&L Mobile App. Existing mobile banking customers will be prompted to download the new app in their phone’s app store. You will be able to login using your existing online banking username and password. If you have any questions, please contact a member of our Customer Service Team by calling (864) 878-2444 or emailing us at customerservice@pickens.bank, and they will be happy to assist you! |
Executive VP, Lauren Murphy Retiring
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September 17, 2021
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Reopening Our Lobbies
Reopening ProceduresOn Tuesday September 8th we will reopen our lobbies. We ask that customers please be patient and continue to practice social distancing when you visit us. Below are a few suggested guidelines to follow as we continue to protect both our customers and our employees from COVID-19. Reopening Guidelines:
If you have any questions please contact us via email at customerservice@pickens.bank or call us at 864-878-2444. |
Pickens Office Hours Update
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April 2, 2020 In a continued effort to meet the needs of our customers and employees during these challenging times, we will close the Pickens Office at 1:30 every Wednesday until further notice. If you have any questions or concerns, please call us at 864-878-2444. |
CORONAVIRUS
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March 23, 2020 During the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak, we have made changes to our everyday banking procedures to protect the health and safety of our staff and customers. Please click the link below to learn more about the preventative measures we are taking. |
Grand Opening of our Six Mile Branch
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November 26, 2019 On Friday, November 22 2019, Pickens Savings and Loan celebrated the Grand Opening of our new Six Mile Branch. Attendees included customers, employees, Board of Directors, Six Mile Chamber of Commerce and Six Mile City Council Members. Thank you to all who supported us on this special day. Click here to see more pictures from our Grand Opening.
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Six Mile Branch Update
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October 29, 2019 As of November 18, 2019, Pickens Savings & Loan will officially open their first branch office in Six Mile, SC. We are very excited to have the opportunity to serve the Six Mile Community, and we are looking forward to getting to know our new customers! On behalf of everyone at Pickens Savings & Loan, we would like to welcome the staff and customers of Select Bank & Trust in Six Mile to our Pickens Savings & Loan family! Please click here for more information on the Six Mile Branch conversion from Select Bank & Trust to Pickens Savings & Loan. |
New Branch Opening in Six Mile, South Carolina
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June 13, 2019 We are excited to announce that Pickens Savings and Loan will be expanding by opening a branch office in Six Mile. After months of planning, the current Select Bank and Trust branch office located at 115 North Main Street in Six Mile, will become the home of Pickens Savings and Loan’s 2nd location. Our plans are to have the new branch opened by the end of this year. We are looking forward to this opportunity to better serve our friends and neighbors in the Six Mile area.
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Welcome, Harold Alexander, New Senior Vice President
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June 13, 2019 It is our pleasure to announce that Harold Alexander has joined the Pickens Savings & Loan family as our new Senior Vice President. Harold has over 19 years of experience in the banking industry. His knowledge and passion for helping others will make him a great asset to our lending team. Join us in welcoming Harold to Pickens Savings & Loan.
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Readers Choice Award Winner for Best Bank
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May 30, 2019 Thank you to the reader's of the Pickens County Courier for voting Pickens Savings and Loan the Best Bank in Pickens County. We are so grateful that we have been able to serve such a great community for 99 years! We will continue to help improve our community by providing reliable, customer-focused banking and loan services in the years to come.
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2019 Fitness Challenge is Under Way
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March 13, 2019 Pickens Savings and Loan’s participating employees are kicking off National Nutrition Month with our Annual Fitness Challenge. We first implemented a Fitness Challenge in 2017, and it has been a huge hit with the employees. Physical activity and good nutrition can impact your daily life in a positive way. At Pickens Savings and Loan we want to promote overall health because of the significant benefits it has in the work place. By encouraging and promoting a healthy workforce, we can help improve productivity, performance, staff morale and employee engagement. For this year’s Fitness Challenge, we will give our employees a monthly calendar that list daily fitness challenges. Each challenge completed is worth points. There will also be surprise team challenges (Survivor style), where teams will go head to head in competitions. We have divided the employees into teams this year to help with accountability and to make the challenges more exciting. Each month the challenges will include the categories of physical activity, eating healthy, and emotional health. We recognize emotional health is just as important as physical and nutritional health for productivity in the workplace. The way employees think, feel, and behave can impact everything. We are so excited to start focusing on eating healthier, being more physically active and taking care of our emotional health. Stay tuned on our Facebook page for announcements and updates throughout the Challenge. |
New President and CEO Rod Gettys
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January 15, 2019 We are excited to announce that our Board of Directors has promoted Rod Gettys to be the new President and CEO of Pickens Savings and Loan! Rod has served as a Senior Vice President and as an Executive Vice President since joining our PS&L family in 2012. His appointment to President and CEO following Alex Gettys retirement came as no surprise to anyone as Rod’s knowledge of the banking industry and strong interpersonal skills make him a natural leader. He is a valuable source of information and is always willing to go to great lengths to help anyone in any way that he can. We are very thankful to have Rod as our new President and CEO. We know he will do great things for the future of PS&L!
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Alex Gettys Retiring as President and CEO
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January 10, 2019 It is with mixed emotions that we announce the retirement of Alex Gettys, President and CEO of Pickens Savings and Loan. Alex has provided us with 25 years of outstanding leadership and devoted service. Thankfully for us, Alex will remain involved with the bank in a part-time capacity. He will also serve as the Vice Chairman of our Board of Directors.
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South Carolina Bankers Association Scholarship
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May 23, 2018 The South Carolina Bankers Association held their annual scholarship award event on May 22, 2018. We would like to congratulate Tessa Dunaway, daughter of Susan Barkley, for receiving the SCBA scholarship for the second time. The SCBA offers scholarships to eligible children of bank employees to demonstrate both its appreciation to member banks and their employees. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been awarded over the years to deserving students. We are so proud of Tessa, keep up the good work!
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98th Anniversary Special Offer
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May 14, 2018
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2018 Fitness Challenge
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March 8, 2018 March is National Nutrition Month. National Nutrition Month is an educational campaign that is focused on the significance of eating nutritional meals and being physically active. Taking charge of your health contributes to overall well-being! Maintaining a healthy weight reduces risks of chronic illness such as heart disease and diabetes. At Pickens Savings and Loan, we realize the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and therefore wanted to challenge our employees to get active and eat healthy. This is the 2nd year we have challenged our employees. In 2017, our employees were encouraged to participate in a fitness challenge that focused on miles and minutes walked in a day. The challenge lasted for 4 months and was such a success that we have decided to challenge our employees again this year. In support of National Nutrition Month, this year’s challenge began on March 1, 2018. Our 2018 Fitness Challenge is a 3-month challenge that focuses on eating healthier and being more physically active. Participating employees will receive a fitness calendar for the months of March, April and May. Each calendar list a daily challenge with points that can be earned for completing the challenge. Some of the fitness challenges include walking a certain number of miles, drinking 64 oz. of water, eating low carb for the day, etc. At the end of each month a winner will be named and at the end of the Fitness Challenge in May we will name an overall Fitness Challenge Champion! |
National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 2017
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December 15, 2017
National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day is a day to dress in your most festive sweater and have some light hearted fun. If you were wondering how National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day came about, you are not the only ones, we had some questions about it as well. According to The Fact Site, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day is a holiday started by a group of “ugly Christmas sweater fanatics” in 2011. Ugly Christmas sweaters started way earlier than 2011 because they can be seen in classic Christmas movies such as National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. National Ugly Christmas Day is simply just a fun way to get in the holiday spirit and that is certainly what we did today at Pickens Savings and Loan. If you would like to participate National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day is always celebrated on the third Friday of December each year. So, if you still have that embarrassing Christmas sweater that your family member gave to you 10 years ago, get it out of your closet, throw it on and get in the Christmas spirit! |
Beware of Scams
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November 27, 2017 Phishing or Smishing scams are sent to you via either email or text message. The message will appear to be from your bank and claims your account is locked or compromised. In order to unlock or freeze the account, the unsuspecting victim is instructed to follow a link that asks for their personal information. Please note that Pickens Savings and Loan will never contact you by text message, Facebook message, or email asking you to disclose your personal information. Some security best practices to follow are:
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An Emoji Halloween
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October 31, 2017 The employees at Pickens Savings and Loan had a blast celebrating this Halloween! For our theme this year the employees decided to dress up as their favorite emoji. Halloween was packed full of fun activities. The day started out with trick-or-treaters coming by to see us and the employees made sure they could catch a glance at all of the creative and adorable costumes. Throughout the day there was a lot of candy being consumed and not just from the trick-or-treaters. The PS&L emojis ended the day by participating in the Trick-or-Treat on Main Street event. The turnout for the event was amazing and it brought out the Halloween spirit in all of us. It was so exciting to see all of the trick-or-treaters dressed up in their costumes and their happy faces from receiving candy. Thank you to all who celebrated Halloween with us! |
Attention Mobile Banking Users
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June 13, 2017 On June 25, 2017 a major security upgrade to our Mobile banking experience will require a phone that is capable of providing a secure connection. On this date, only phones with either Android Kitkat (Level 20) and above or iPhones with iOS 8 and above will be compatible with mobile banking. Support for older phones that do not meet these minimum requirements will be discontinued due to security issues. This change ensures that the platform is secure, encrypted, and safe from malicious attacks. |
SCBA Awards Scholarship
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May 24, 2017
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Pickens Chamber of Commerce Member of the Month
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May 19, 2017 Pickens Savings and Loan would like to thank the Greater Pickens Chamber of Commerce for selecting us as the Chamber Member of the Month!
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New Look to Online Banking
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March 8, 2017 On March 27, 2017, Online Banking will be upgraded to a newly redesigned version. The new Online Banking upgrade is an innovative solution that will enhance every aspect of our customers’ online banking experience. From its intuitive user interface to its simplified navigation, improved information display and streamlined user workflow, the latest version of Online Banking delivers anytime, anywhere capability. Through a responsive design, Online Banking will provide a consistent user experience through all devices regardless of screen size, resolution, and orientation. Please click here to see a list of internet browsers that are compatible with the new Online Banking upgrade. |
Update Your Internet Browser
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March 8, 2017 On March 27, 2017 a major upgrade to our online banking experience will require an updated internet browser. On this date, only the following internet browsers will be compatible with online banking:
This requirement is necessary to provide a more safe and secure online banking experience for our customers. |
National Wear Red Day
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February 3, 2017 Some of the employees at Pickens Savings and Loan are wearing their red colors today to raise awareness for National Wear Red Day. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sought to fight against one of the number one deadly diseases of women, heart disease. They came up with National Wear Red Day to raise awareness of this fatal disease. |
The Move to .bank
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November 7, 2016
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