American Banker

JUNE 18, 2024

During nine years Kevin Riley led the Billings, Montana-based institution, it quadrupled its size, largely through deals. New leadership could mean that the company focuses less on M&A and more on integration.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“A lot of people have this notion that it will never happen to my business or my bank, because it’s too small,” says Linda Comerford, assistant vice president of incident response and cyber services at AmTrust Financial Services Inc. The bank was only able to get fully up and running after it paid a negotiated ransom.”.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2019

When I think about how the lending market has changed over the past decade, there is one consistent theme—community banks have been, and continue to be, the backbone of our nation’s financing. Despite regulatory hurdles and increased competition from nonbank providers, community banks thrive in both consumer and commercial lending.

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American Banker

MARCH 28, 2016

Freedom Bank in Columbia Falls, Mont., has been released from a consent order that the FDIC and the Montana Division of Banking and Financial Institutions had implemented in December 2009.

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American Banker

APRIL 19, 2016

Community Bank in Pasadena, Calif., said Tuesday that it has named Lyle Knight, a former CEO of First Interstate BancSystem in Billings, Mont., to its board.

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Independent Banker

JULY 1, 2015

Teton Banks, a $200 million-asset community bank, is located in central Montana. Although the bank provides other commercial and business loans, about two-thirds of the bank’s loan portfolio centers on agricultural-related lending.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We let our actions speak for the bank.” Mark Zaback, Jonah Bank of Wyoming. Under the big Montana sky, Mark Zaback helps lead a community bank with a cowboy code. Mark Zaback , Jonah Bank of Wyoming. Bank assets: $280 million. Jonah Bank is so much more than Mark Zaback,” he says. Casper, Wyo.

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American Banker

APRIL 6, 2016

First Interstate BancSystem in Billings, Mont., announced its third deal in two years as it inched closer to $10 billion of assets.

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American Banker

APRIL 21, 2016

has agreed to buy Treasure State Bank in Missoula, Mont., Glacier Bancorp in Kalispell, Mont., million in cash and stock.

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American Banker

MARCH 11, 2016

First Interstate BancSystem in Billings, Mont., has tapped a KeyCorp executive as its new chief credit officer.

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Montana Community Bank Community 28

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. It has also earned the reputation for helping to growing its local economy.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Early Air Force service prepared the way for community banking in California. My initial assignment was as a flight security controller, which involved overseeing a wide range of security protocols in support of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles located in hardened underground silos across northern Montana.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Montana's biggest bank will have to compete in cities such as Seattle and Portland, Ore., after buying Cascade Bancorp. But the company is arguably more excited about its chances to grow in central Oregon and Idaho, which are more like its existing markets.

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