- Business
- FFD Financial Corporation (FFDF) serves as the bank holding company for First Federal Community Bank, National Association, a national bank providing retail and commercial banking products and services to customers in Ohio. The bank offers deposit products including checking accounts, savings accounts, NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts and certificates of deposit; loan products comprising residential real estate mortgages, non-residential real estate and land loans, commercial secured and unsecured loans, consumer loans such as auto, boat and personal loans, home equity lines of credit and business lines of credit; and additional services encompassing debit and credit cards, property and casualty insurance products, cash management, overdraft protection, e-statements, direct deposit, bill pay, wire transfers, safe deposit boxes, night depository, teller services, online banking, telephone banking and mobile banking. First Federal Community Bank operates eight branches in Dover, New Philadelphia, Uhrichsville, Berlin, Mt. Hope, Sugarcreek and Canton, Ohio, targeting individual consumers, small businesses and local commercial entities primarily in Tuscarawas, Holmes and Stark counties. Founded in 1898 as Dover Building & Loan Company and headquartered at 141 West Ohio Avenue in Dover, Ohio, FFD Financial Corporation was formed in 1996 to hold the bank's stock following its mutual-to-stock conversion, with the bank later converting to a national charter in 2012. Recent developments include the opening of a new Mt. Hope Banking Center and completion of the Canton/Stark County office in June 2025, transition of the downtown Dover office ownership to the City of Dover, asset growth to $849 million as of June 30, 2025, 15 consecutive years of improved diluted earnings per share, and recognition by American Banker as the 18th top-performing community bank nationally and second in Ohio for three-year return on equity.