The Community Banking Difference

When I joined the team at FMS Bank, I didn’t have a banking background. Most of my banking experience was using my iPhone to deposit the Christmas check my grandma sent each year.

My mom tried to teach me how to balance a checkbook in high school, but that didn’t stick. I avoided going into branches because deposit and withdrawal slips confused me (they still do) and I checked my account balance at the ATM, often discovering fees at the exact same time I discovered my balance.

If I’m honest, the only exposure I had to community banking was “It’s a Wonderful Life”. What I didn’t understand at the time was what community banking really meant.

Now, 5 years later, I see the community banking difference. It’s the people.

It’s our employees who genuinely enjoy being here, have found connection, purpose and stick around for 10, 20, and sometimes even 40 years. It’s our customers who value a familiar face when they walk into one of our community bank locations and appreciate being able to talk to a real person when they need one.

It’s our Board of Directors, a group of local leaders who are personally invested in the people who call Northeastern Colorado home. And it’s the business owners who benefit from local decision making, business banking support and access to personalized resources that help them grow.

Community banking is different. The FMS Bank team is different.

In “It’s a Wonderful Life”, George Bailey talks about wanting to do something big and something important. True to that same community banking spirit, FMS Bank is doing exactly that in Fort Morgan, Greeley, and across Northern Colorado. We would love you to be part of it.