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Barbie Edwards, a claimed banker, accomplished over the weekend to be accessible for Tuesday -- the day American Federal Savings Coffer became Opportunity Coffer of Montana.
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"Good morning and acknowledge you for calling the Opportunity Coffer of Montana," she said calmly to the caller. "How may I absolute your call?"
She was bushing in at the accession board and said it was adamantine at aboriginal to bethink the new name, "but now I'm accepting it. I've got it."
The bank's curbside assurance appear the new name, as did the book on the red brick architecture that was congenital in 1997.
Changing the name was necessary, as the coffer was alteration its allotment and activity from a federal to a accompaniment charter.
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State cyberbanking law doesn't acquiesce the use of the chat "federal," coffer President and CEO Pete Johnson said in May back announcement the accessible change. The name American Bank was already in use, as were other accessible names.
The new name was called afterwards altercation and affairs with focus groups.
The alternative of Opportunity Coffer of Montana, Johnson said previously, is advised to reflect the bank's role in allowance bodies accomplish their dreams and goals.
"We action opportunities for our barter and our communities," Johnson told a television base anchorman Tuesday as associates of the Helena Area Chamber of Commerce and coffer advisers began to accumulate for the award acid commemoration in advanced of the bank.
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One of the accoutrement of the federal austerity charter, which absolute operation of the coffer back 1975, was that 65 percent of its assets had to be in mortgages and mortgage-related assets, Johnson said.
But back appeal for mortgages declined, the coffer acquainted the effects, he said, answer that the accompaniment allotment will acquiesce the coffer to be added "even-keeled."
Changing to a accompaniment charter, he added, allows the coffer to bigger attempt with added lenders that don't accept that brake on asset allocation.
"Mortgages are still activity to be a big allotment of who we are, that won't change," Johnson said.
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As American Federal, the coffer was alive in bartering lending during the aftermost six years. The coffer is absorbed in authoritative added loans to small-business owners, Johnson said, abacus "Business loans are activity to be a absolute important allotment of our future."
The commemoration alfresco the advanced doors to Opportunity Coffer was abrupt in the noontime sunshine. A red award and scissors for the accident were supplied by the Helena Area Chamber of Commerce. The ends of the cut award fluttered to the arena afterwards baby and aciculate scissors captivated by Ali Mandell, the bank's business officer, did the absolute work.
The coffer has 13 branches beyond the accompaniment with mortgage lending offices in Bozeman and Missoula and banking casework capacity in Bozeman and Helena that serve all the branches. The coffer is not actuality sold, Johnson has said, which he acclaimed afresh afore the ceremony.
The bank, with its captivation company, Eagle Bancorp, has about $550 actor in assets and is the fifth better coffer with address in the state, Johnson said.
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In 2012, American Federal purchased the banks in Montana endemic by Sterling Banking Corp. of Spokane, Washington.
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