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How A Small Montana Bank Became A Big Payroll Protection Program Lender

by Laura Welker | May 28, 2021 | News

The economic downturn from COVID-19 has pummeled main street businesses, but the Payroll Protection Program loans of the Cares Act have saved hundreds of thousands of them. On April 3, 2020, the first day of the first round of PPP loans, the number one lender in the...

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