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Iowa State Bank’s Christmas tradition of the Sharing Tree returns to the lobby of Iowa State Bank in Ruthven beginning November 26. Area residents are invited to make Christmas special through this gift program for residents at the Ruthven Community Care Center, Assisted Living Center and RCCC Villa.

The Sharing Tree, located in the Ruthven office lobby, features a gift tag for each of the residents of the Ruthven Community... Read More

Thanks to Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach in Kossuth County, Iowa State Bank is proud to be one of the sponsors to host “Your Farm, Your Future”, a farm succession planning workshop, on Thursday, December 2, 2021. The workshop is being held in the Tietz Entrepreneurial Center portion of Iowa Lakes Community College in Algona. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m., with the workshop beginning at 9 a.m. A complimentary meal will be provided following... Read More

Stacy Bohl of Iowa State Bank, Ruthven, successfully completed the 2021 Iowa Bankers Association’s Commercial Lending School held October 4-8 in Ankeny, Iowa.

 The school is an intense one-week program sponsored by the Iowa Bankers Association. The purpose of the IBA Commercial Lending School is to prepare commercial lenders who have not been exposed to formal commercial lending education or lenders who want to broaden their commercial lending knowledge to serve effectively... Read More

Beginning October 25, 2021, all enrolled eCorp users will have access to the BankISB Biz app* with the same rights/privileges available with eCorp Business Banking. The new app simply delivers the eCorp information through your smartphone. 

Users will download the app, and have the option of using a physical or soft token, or to enable a finger print option. With the BankISB Biz app, enrolled users can:

Every day, thousands of people fall victim to fraudulent emails, texts and calls from scammers pretending to be their bank. And in this time of expanded use of online banking, the problem is only growing worse. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission’s report on fraud estimates that American consumers lost a staggering $3.3 billion to these phishing schemes and other fraud in 2020—that’s nearly double what was lost in 2019.

It’s time to put scammers in their place.

Online... Read More

Iowa State Bank of Algona is pleased to announce that Shannon Goche has joined the bank as Assistant Vice President, Retail Banking Officer. She will lead the bank’s customer service team and will work with both consumers and business customers. Shannon is a graduate of Waldorf College with a B.A. in business and brings over 15 years of banking experience to Iowa State Bank.

“Shannon is a familiar face to many of our customers and we are pleased to have her join Iowa State... Read More

We've added something new for our eCorp Business Online Banking users -- Bill Payment Service.

ECorp Business Online Banking users can now enjoy the same bill payment features that consumers use – with the additional security of eCorp Business Banking! 

At Iowa State Bank we take the responsibility of safe-guarding your money very seriously. That’s why we’re sharing information about how to prevent fraud and how to avoid common scams. We’re calling these Scam-O-Grams! Remember, if you have questions or concerns about fraud, call us first.

Every grandparent wants to hear from their grandchild, and scammers know this. If you get a call from someone pretending to be your grandchild, beware! Scammers trick... Read More

The board of directors of Iowa State Bank is pleased to announce two employee promotions with Sara Metzger now serving as Chief Financial Officer and Tara Brown serving as Assistant Vice President, Network Administrator and Information Systems Security Officer.

Metzger joined the bank in August 2002 and most recently was Vice President, Accounting Officer. She is an Algona native and a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa as well as Briar Cliff University. She holds the Certified... Read More

The board of directors of Iowa State Bank named Laurie Vitzthum as President & CEO of Iowa State Bank, effective August 2, 2021. Vitzthum will lead the $400 million community bank and its 51 employees in the Algona, Corwith, Ruthven and Wesley markets.

Vitzthum has served as Chief Financial Officer since 2002 and has been with the bank since 1990. While serving as CFO, Vitzthum has also served as Executive Vice President of the bank,... Read More