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• people on the move

  - 2009-03-01

  * Michael Solberg has been named president of State Bank & Trust of Fargo, N.D. The position was previously held by his father, Richard Solberg. Michael Solberg also continues as the bank's chief operating officer, while Richard Solberg remains involved with the company as chief executive officer and chairman of...

• N.D. seeks law permitting ATM fees on foreigners

  - 2009-02-01

  The North Dakota legislature, which meets during odd-numbered years, will consider legislation to give ATM owners the opportunity to charge a fee for transactions conducted by people who hold accounts in foreign countries. A similar law was passed in Wisconsin last year. Currently 22 states, including Colorado, Minnesota, Montana...

• Bank of North Dakota keeps student loan funds flowing

  - 2008-09-15

  While disruptions in the capital markets have hampered most student loan operations recently, the state-owned Bank of North Dakota continues to operate a robust student loan business. In 1967, BND made the first federally-insured student loan in the nation. "By state statute, we not only originate loans but we...

• North Dakota bankers focus on future at convention

  - 2008-07-01

  Leaders of the North Dakota Bankers Association are set to implement a new, three-year strategic plan, as they come out of their annual convention, conducted June 8-10 in Bismarck. The plan was created during a two-day session in April in Grand Forks. "We did that about three, maybe four...

• Economist: new products will improve business, personal lives

  - 2007-09-15

  New technology that creak's smaller. faster operating products that consumers like is the engine driving the national economy, an economist told bankers at the recent Independent Community Banks of North Dakota convention in Bismarck. Brian Westbury of First Trust Advisors L.P. in Lisle, Ill., said he believes the U.S....

• Gatlin offers inspirational message

  - 2007-09-15

  ICBND CONVENTION NOTES LaDonna Gatlin. youngest sibling in the famous musical Gatlin family, offered bankers a message of God, country and a commitment to serving others at the Independent Community Banks of North Dakota convention. Gatlin said she and her brothers, Larry, Steve and Rudy, better...

• people on the move

  - 2007-09-15

  * Beacon Bank of Shorewood, Minn., has promoted Pat Neisen to vice president of credit analysis and hired Colette Ingle as vice president of business banking. Neisen has been with the bank since 2004 and has a degree in finance and economics. Ingle has more than 25 years banking experience...

• A new beginning

  - 2007-06-11

  A Hannaford, N.D., bank is celebrating its 80th birthday this year with a new name and a move into its biggest market. On Jan. 1, State Security Bank of North Dakota changed its name to Bank Forward. A few months later, the bank announced plans to move into Grand Forks...

• Show us the money

  - 2007-06-06

  More than 10 years after the Flood of 1997, UND still is waiting for about $1.5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursemenfs for flood-related construction projects the school believes the agency should cover. UND plans to ask the State Board of Higher Education's Budget and Finance Committee at its...

• Conrad, interest groups debate agriculture legislation

  - 2007-05-15

  Those who have a stake in the farm bill are as diverse as the legislation itself Members from various interest groups debated the reauthorization of the farm bill Monday morning at a Grand Forks forum hosted by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. The forum was part of a series of farm...