About US
The Montana Independent Bankers Association has faithfully
served Montana’s community banks for over 55 years.
The MIB Association
About Montana Independent Bankers.
The Montana Independent Bankers Association has faithfully served Montana’s community banks for over 55 years. As the financial cornerstone of their communities, independent banks are a powerful force in shaping our state’s economy. Locally founded and owned, often by multiple generations of Montanans, these banks are characterized by their adherence to the small-town values of business integrity, financial responsibility, and personal service for their customers. MIB provides these banks with the multi-level support they need to function at their optimum. After all, healthy banks mean prosperous communities.
Advocacy
A key component of MIB is the monitoring and influencing of government on behalf of Montana’s community banks. MIB lobbies through correspondence and face-to-face interaction with state legislators and Montana’s congressional delegation in Washington D.C. to protect the interests of independent banks and their customers. We partner exclusively with the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) to influence national legislation and help ease the burden of one-size-fits-all regulation policies on Montana’s community banks.
Throughout the year, MIB also works hard to establish good relationships with regulating agencies to ensure positive governance for independent banks. MIB also has a bipartisan political action committee, MIBPAC, that is used to support Montana candidates of both parties who understand and protect community banking, and encourages them to continue doing so.
Connections
The MIB association is a platform for creating mutually-beneficial connections between banks, vendors, regulating agencies, and Montana customers. Our website advertises our members and associate members with ads, contact information, and hyperlinks to their websites. It keeps our members connected and informed through banking and association news, convention and workshop registrations, and links to resources, webinars, and our professional quarterly magazine The Community Banker. This magazine, also in print form, features exclusive articles by industry experts, association news, and stories and photos of our member banks actively serving their communities and enjoying Montana’s renowned outdoors.
Our MIB Annual Convention & Tradeshow, held in July at Montana’s finest resorts, is a place where connections are made and renewed. Members and associate members mingle and interact during seminars, outdoor activities, and evening banquets. Most of our indoor activities occur in our exhibition room, giving our vendors maximum contact with our bankers. Sponsors of the convention gain additional prominence through announcements, signs, and special mentions throughout the next year on our website and magazine. And all attendees and their spouses enjoy golfing, white water rafting, prize drawings, a PAC silent auction, and evening receptions and banquets.
Training
Community Bankers Webinar Network Webinars
MIB provides bank webinars and online training through an exclusive contract with the Community Bankers Webinar Network. Based in Helena, Montana, CBWN is a national company that partners with community bankers state associations to deliver quality webinar training in all 50 states. Webinars are curated and presented by industry experts delivering top-quality education designed to advance your career.
Get your team up-to-speed on the latest industry rulings, regulations, trends, and issues with over 150 live and on-demand webinars which cover critical topics for every level of your financial institution. This enables even the smallest and most rural banks access to affordable, professional training. Attend live webinars via internet or phone from any location. On-Demand webinars will never expire, and a digital download is provided so webinars can be viewed whenever it is most convenient.
MIB recently partnered with Young & Associates, Inc., to bring you the Community Bankers for Compliance Program. The CBC Program is the most successful regulatory compliance program in the country, providing up-to-date information on compliance issues and developments in federal banking regulations. Training on new and existing regulations is provided through live, in-state biannual seminars, quarterly webcasts, monthly e-newsletters, online forums, and a toll-free helpline to compliance experts. MIB subsidizes the CBC Program so that Montana’s community banks can receive the lowest registration rates in the nation.
MIB hosts other workshops around the state for more live training to help you meet your regulation requirements. And seminars at MIB’s annual convention keep our members on the cutting edge of banking issues, all within the enjoyable context of recreation and camaraderie.
