Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Bank of Montana. In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. Tom Swenson, CEO and chairman of the board, Bank of Montana. Bank of Montana. First Security Bank of Deer Lodge. Deer Lodge. Rapid City.

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Community Bank Community Montana Taxes 172

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana. When a community bank’s employees refer to it as “a second family,” it speaks volumes, and that’s exactly what we heard from the team at Bank of Montana in Missoula, Mont. Missoula, Mont.

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Community Bank Community Montana Leadership 169

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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National blockchain Montana Lending 215

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. Inevitably, there will be bad weather, bad markets or family problems for customers.

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Montana Minnesota Lending Community 70

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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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. I just felt we needed to continue to grow,” Gowen explains. “If

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St. Louis Community Bank Community Leadership 105