The Stanley office of American Bank Center, Dickinson, N.D., celebrated its 100th birthday last year. About that same time, the bank rang in the next century with something the bank had never seen before: a female president and someone who was not part of the founding family. Cleo Bykonen, one of NorthWestern Financial Review’s 2011 … Read more
Perhaps it’s a little odd when your boss has known you since you were a pre-teen thanks to those 4-H projects, but it also means you know the community that much better because you’ve grown up there. Vicki Monsen began her banking career in high school. Her school had a work exploration program that placed … Read more
Despite regulations, smaller banks find ways to offer student loans. [Continue]
Jackie Herman launched a campaign earlier this year by contacting 15 friends, co-workers, vendors and former bosses, asking them to endorse her. Her campaign, however, wasn’t for political office. It was about raising support for her selection as a Northwestern Financial Review Rising Star for 2011. Most nominees receive one or two nominations, so the … Read more
Eide Bailly’s Bob Etter is retiring – older, wiser, but still not mechanically inclined. [Continue]
Banking the Bertrand Way [Continue]
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Does the bell toll for free checking? [Continue]
Hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of farmland were inundated by record-breaking rains and sewage backup during the week of Sept. 22. [Continue]
At least nine bankers from the Upper Midwest are running for state legislative seats in the November 2 election. Five are incumbents, while three are seeking their first seat in office, and one is seeking to return to office after two decades in the private sector. [Continue]