A Fort Wayne finance company has been sold. Indiana-based MutualBank has reached an agreement to acquire Summit Mortage. The transaction should be finalized in August.



In statement, “The team at Summit Mortgage, led by Shawn McArdle and Vicki Reed, has built an incredible business over the last twenty years,” says Pat Botts, President and COO of MutualBank. “By welcoming Summit's staff to the MutualBank team, we hope to expand the offerings to Summit's customers. Being backed by a financial institution gives Summit's customers alternatives and possibilities beyond the current solutions.” McArdle and Reed will continue to manage Summit Mortgage as President and Vice President, respectively.



Summit has been lending in northeast Indiana for more than 20 years. MutualBank is an Indiana-based company.





MutualFirst Financial, Inc. is the parent company of MutualBank, an Indiana-based financial institution. The company has thirty full-service retail financial centers in Delaware, Elkhart, Grant, Kosciusko, Randolph, St. Joseph and Wabash Counties in Indiana. MutualBank also has two offices located in Carmel and Crawfordsville, Indiana specializing in wealth management and trust services and a loan origination office in New Buffalo, Michigan.