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    • Annual Shred Days Are Here.

      First Independent's annual shred days are here - and they're free for you.

      Help protect your identity by shredding up to 2 boxes of confidential papers on-site at any of our upcoming shred events:


      May 12: Hazel Dell (8015 Hwy 99)
      June 9: Orchards (10705 NE Fourth Plain)
      June 16: Fisher's Landing (1408 SE 164th)

      All events take place from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

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    • Commentary: Secretariat Rides Again

      At the 1973 Belmont Stakes, Secretariat left the other horses in the dust and won the race by a staggering 31 lengths – a Belmont record that still stands to this day.

      If you can picture that race in your mind, then you have a good idea of how the stock market performed in the first quarter relative to most other asset classes... 

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    • Here's To What's Possible.

      First Independent is proud to become Sterling Bank. What does this mean for you, our clients? Quite simply, it means more.

      More branches, more ATMs, more products and services. Without sacrificing the quality and care you enjoy from a community bank. Delivered to you from our team of personal bankers and relationship managers.

      While we transition, we may still look like two banks. As we join together, we invite our First Independent clients to use their ATM and Debit Cards at Sterling ATMs in WA, OR, ID, MT and CA without a foreign transaction fee.

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    Current Offers

    Home equity rates as low as 3.74% APR

     

    Effective February 29, 2012, Sterling Savings Bank acquired substantially all the assets of First Independent Bank. Sterling Savings Bank is a Washington state-chartered bank that operates under the following registered trade names: Sterling Bank, First Independent Bank and Sonoma Bank.  Sterling Savings Bank operates as Sonoma Bank only in the State of California.  Sterling Savings Bank, Sterling Bank, First Independent Bank and Sonoma Bank are the same FDIC-insured institution.  Deposits held under Sterling Savings Bank or any of its trade names are not separately insured by the FDIC, but are combined to determine whether a depositor has exceeded the federal deposit insurance limit.


    Member FDIC. Equal Housing LenderEqual Housing Lender

    NOTICE OF CHANGES IN TEMPORARY FDIC INSURACE COVERAGE FOR TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS

     
    All funds in a "noninterest-bearing transaction account" are insured in full by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from December 31,2010, through December 31,2012. This temporary unlimited coverage is in addition to, and separate from, the coverage of at least $250,000 available to depositors under the FDIC's general deposit insurance rules. The term "noninterest-bearing transaction account" includes a traditional checking account or demand deposit account on which the insured depository institution pays no interest. It also includes Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts ("IOLTAs"). It does not include other accounts, such as traditional checking or demand deposit accounts that may earn interest, NOW accounts, and money-market deposit accounts. For more information about temporary FDIC insurance coverage of transaction accounts, visit www.fdic.gov.