First Interstate BancSystem

Infobox_Company
company_name = First Interstate BancSystem, Inc.
company_
company_type = Privately held company
slogan = "Across Montana and Wyoming. It's our home too."
foundation = Sheridan, Wyoming, USA (1968)
location = 401 North 31st St, Billings, Montana, USA
key_people = Thomas W. Scott,
Chairman

Lyle R. Knight,
President and CEO

industry = Financial Services
products = Checking accounts
Savings accounts
Insurance
Investments
Mortgages
Consumer finance
revenue = profitUS $293.4 million (2006) [cite web |title="2006 Annual Report" | url=http://www.firstinterstatebank.com/investor_relations/2006AnnualReport.pdf |publisher= First Interstate BankSystem, Inc. |format=PDF |accessdate= 2007-08-09] cite web |title="Form 10-K -- Annual Report" |date=2007-03-14 |url=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860413/000095013707003774/0000950137-07-003774-index.htm |publisher=U.S. SEC |accessdate=2007-08-09]
operating_income = profitUS $187.46 million (2006)
net_income = profitUS $75.6 million USD (2006)
num_employees = 1,600 (2006) | homepage = [http://www.firstinterstatebank.com/ www.firstinterstatebank.com]

First Interstate BancSystem, Inc., a financial holding company, and its primary banking subsidiary First Interstate Bank are based in Billings, Montana, USA.

The bank originated in 1968 as a single bank in Sheridan, Wyoming, and incorporated in Montana in 1971. As of 2006, the bank had expanded to 49 branches with 130 ATMs in Montana and Wyoming.

In 1984, the company entered into a franchise agreement with First Interstate Bancorp, a multi-state bank holding company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, to use the First Interstate Bank name and logo. In 1996, when First Interstate Bancorp was split up, selling its Midwestern USA branches to St. Louis based Boatmen's Bancshares, which set the stage for it remaining west coast operations to be purchased by and merged into Wells Fargo. The Montana organization successfully negotiated to retain the well known First Interstate name and logo. [cite web |title="Who We Are" | url=http://www.firstinterstatebank.com/who_we_are.html |publisher= First Interstate BankSystem, Inc. |accessdate= 2007-08-09]

One of the banks that is now part of the system was the First National Bank of Casper which traces its roots to the C.H. King and Company Bankers founded in 1889 by Charles Henry King, grandfather of President Gerald Ford. [ [http://www.casperjournal.com/articles/2007/11/19/vets_hotline/vets99.prt Remembering Gerald Ford - Casper Journal - April 27, 2007] ]

Properties

First Interstate Bank is a fifty-percent owner and primary tenant of the First Interstate Center, a 20-story building in Billings, Montana.. Completed in 1985 the 272 feet (83 m) tall building is the tallest building in state [cite web |title="First Interstate Center, Billings" | url= http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=1interstatecenter-billings-mt-usa |publisher= Emporis GmbH |accessdate= 2007-08-10]

Notes and References

External links

* [http://www.firstinterstatebank.com First Interstate Bank home page]