Financial Institutions in New York to Buy Insurance Agency

Financial Institutions (FISI) in Warsaw, N.Y. has agreed to buy Scott Danahy Naylon, an insurance agency in Amherst, N.Y.

Scott Danahy provides a personal and business insurance services to more than 6,000 clients in 44 states. Under the terms of the agreement, the agency will operate as a subsidiary of Financial Institutions.

The acquisition "is a strategically important first step to diversify our revenue base by increasing noninterest income" while providing a scalable platform that will support "our future growth in insurance sales," Martin Birmingham, Financial Institutions’ president and chief executive, said in a press release Wednesday. Birmingham became CEO last year.

The $2.7 billion-asset Financial Institutions said it expects to complete the acquisition early in the third quarter.

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