First Community Bank

🎉Celebrating 30 Years of Community Banking Excellence! 🎉 We’re proud to mark our 30th anniversary with a special moment — our logo featured on the iconic NASDAQ Tower in New York City! This milestone is a testament to the trust, loyalty, and support we've received from our incredible customers and communities over the years. We wouldn’t be here without you! Thank you for being part of our journey. Here’s to many more years of growth, service, and shared success.

Happy Friday Everyone! Each year we have our annual United Way campaign in August. For this campaign, we all come together as a company to raise funds for the United Way. We had a very successful campaign this year, and we would like to thank our partners for their contributions.

Happy Friday Everyone! Today, we hosted our Financial Crimes seminar for local Law Enforcement agencies and others to come and enjoy. Our Physical Security & Safety Officer, Matt Owens, organized this event along with a few others from our Fraud Departments. It was a great opportunity to teach the various agencies about the many financial crimes that happen on a day-to-day basis. We also enjoyed learning about what they are currently seeing crime wise while they are out and about serving our communities. We are grateful for all of the wonderful agencies that attended today, and the partnerships formed through this event. We look forward to hosting seminars like this again in the future. We'd like to thank each agency that attended today: Richland County Sheriff’s Department West Columbia Police Department Forest Acres Police Department Lexington Police Department Lexington County Sheriff's Department Newberry County Sheriff's Office South Carolina Office of the Attorney General Chapin Police Department Camden SC Police Department United States Postal Inspection Services

We would like to congratulate Kyle Roberts and Steven DeAngelis on successfully finishing and graduating from the South Carolina Bankers School at the South Carolina Bankers Association! Graduating from SC Bankers School takes 3 years of a rigorous course load while also maintaining your day-to-day job at your perspective financial institution. We are very proud of Kyle and Steven for all of their hard work. Well done gentlemen! Left to right first photo: Vaughan Dozier, David Ramseur, Ted Nissen, Steven DeAngelis, Kyle Roberts, MBA, Brooke Kuchenbrod, Elizabeth Middleton, Drew Painter, Jordan Pierce, and Trey Werner

This week, our Physical Security and Safety Officer, Matt Owens, was able to be a part of a panel of speakers at a conference in Florida hosted by Verint Fraud and Security Solutions about rising ATM crime and the trends, technologies, and tactics to fight back. Here, Matt was able to share the wealth of knowledge he has on the subject and show real case examples to the audience. We are proud of Matt and all that he has done to continue to make our customers and our bank safe!

What a great turnout we had at our Advancing the Dream event put on by WFMV Gospel 95.3 FM! At Advancing the Dream, we present on all of the available options and opportunities for individuals to get into their own home and stop renting. We had a lot of enthusiastic participants this year with all sorts of really great questions for us. Thank you to everyone who came out, and we look forward to working with you all in the near future! Member FDIC Equal Housing Lender

Last week, we had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Columbia International University Leadership Summit. At the summit, we were able to listen to Jon Gordon speak about the different intricacies of leadership and have him give us insightful information on how to become better leaders ourselves. Jon Gordon is one of the top 3 leadership best-selling authors and speakers in the world. We found him quite inspirational, and we are grateful for the wealth of knowledge he was able to give us.

It was a great opportunity for us to attend the Carolinas Bank Directors and Executives Summit that the South Carolina Bankers Association hosted this year. This was a joint conference with the NC Bankers Association and was the first time it has ever been a joint meeting. At the event, we were able to hear from many great speakers within our industry. Some of the topics that were discussed were those such as new and exciting banking industry info around AI, leadership transitions, how board members and c suite executives can work together collaboratively to achieve bank goals, and much more. We even got to hear from examiners and a Federal Reserve Bank economist. With so much newfound knowledge from this conference, we are really looking forward to the next one! Featured left to right: Vaughan Dozier, Chief Commercial and Retail Banking Officer; Jan Hollar, Former Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce CEO and current FCB Board of Directors Member; Drew Painter, Chief Commercial and Retail Banking Officer

We would like to formally congratulate our Mortgage team on their recent accomplished feats. This year, Rus Horton, Daniel Amick, and Charlie Branham all received awards at the annual Building Industry Association of Central South Carolina's Regal Awards Ceremony. Daniel received an award for closing over $6MM in construction loans for 2024 and another award for a loan average of $500,000 per loan. Rus and Charlie both received an award for closing over $5MM in construction loans for 2024. Please join us in congratulating them on their great achievements! Left to right 1st photo: Alex Huggins, Charlie Branham, Danyelle Hall, Daniel Amick, and Rus Horton

We are proud to recognize Kristopher Whitley of our Lexington Office on receiving the Rotarian of the Year Award from the Lexington Rotary Club. The Rotarian of the Year Award is given to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their professional endeavors and have made significant contributions to their community. Kris is an exemplary individual, and we are glad to have him on our team.