As part of our community-focused high school debit card program, Astra Bank recently (and proudly) added two new schools to the mix. Prior to adding the Palco Roosters and Sacred Heart Grade School cards, the program featured eight schools in the communities we serve. We are very excited to be able to add these schools and continue to provide an easy way for anyone who wants to give back to those schools.

BestColleges.com, an independent organization focusing on college planning resources and rankings, recently released their annual rankings of the top online colleges and college programs in the nation for 2017.  Non-profit schools & school programs are ranked using information derived from the National Center for Education Statistics.

In this day and age there is an app for just about anything. What if you had the ability to turn your card “off” when you weren’t using it? Well, there’s an app for that now, too. Astra Bank is pleased to introduce CardValet^®, a mobile card management application that helps reduce account fraud by allowing cardholders to monitor accounts with their smartphone and control how, when and where their debit card is used.

Astra Bank is excited to kick off a new recurring series called Astra VMP, which stands for Video Marketing Presentations. With the growing popularity of video on sites like YouTube, Facebook and others, we figured it would be a great idea to hop on the “video bandwagon” and use it for sharing many of the great things going on here at the bank.

Account numbers.  Social Security numbers.  Identity thieves can’t wait to steal valuable information from your personal documents.  In fact, identity thieves had a banner year in 2016.  These fraudsters successfully hit a record 15.4 million Americans – up 16 percent from 2015, according to the new 2017 Identity Fraud Study from Javelin Strategy & Research.  Don’t fall victim to fraud or identity theft.    Let Astra Bank help keep your information secure by visiting one of our locations for SHRED FEST 2017!