Kearny Bank, founded in 1884, continues to make significant progress on a number of strategic fronts as its business model and culture continue to evolve. These initiatives included converting to a new primary core-processing platform along with other customer-facing systems. The Bank established a commercial and industrial business banking group to further expand the company's growing middle market and small business banking customer base. In the merger and acquisition front, the Atlas Bank transaction closed on June 30, 2014, extending Kearny's franchise footprint into both Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York: two high growth markets. In addition, Kearny Bank completed its rebranding process and refreshed the company brand with a new logo, tag-line, and creative expression. While the company's former brand has certainly served us well for many decades, the new identity has a more modern look and feel to it, representing the evolutionary process within Kearny Bank.