Alerus (Nasdaq: ALRS) is a commercial wealth bank and national retirement services provider. We deliver diversified financial services including commercial and business banking, consumer banking, mortgage, wealth, and retirement and benefits. With thousands of commercial and consumer clients across our footprint, our experienced team serves a wide range of needs and industries. Our banking and wealth offices are in Grand Forks and Fargo, North Dakota, the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area, and Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. Our retirement and benefits team serves advisors, brokers, employers, and plan participants across the United States. Our purpose to help our clients achieve theirs. Our core values — Passion for Excellence, Success is Never Final, Do the Right Thing, One Alerus — guide our mission to deliver holistic advice and exceptional service to our clients to help them achieve their financial goals. Through our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), our team members are also company owners and have a vested interest in our clients’ success. With roots tracing back to 1879, we are a highly diversified company with a long-tenured history and commitment to serving our communities. We consistently receive recognition as a great place to work and do business, and we continuously strive to be a preferred employer and business partner. Preferred SBA Lender Member FDIC Equal Housing Lender Equal Opportunity Employer Investment products are not FDIC insured, not guaranteed, and may lose value.
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Commercial banking executive and Arizona market leader Steve Haggard recently shared his perspective on banking trends in Arizona and across the industry. 👂: https://bit.ly/3SnbaQy Thanks to AZ Big Media for welcoming Steve as a guest on the podcast!
The results are in! Alerus Retirement and Benefits ranks among the Top 25 recordkeepers in the U.S., according to the latest comprehensive survey of U.S. defined contribution recordkeepers. It is our privilege to aid employers and plan participants across the country in achieving their retirement plan objectives. ➡️📖: https://bit.ly/3SeuhfD
Our President and CEO Katie Lorenson recently shared her perspective on the connection between team sports and corporate leadership. She discussed the tenacity built through playing on losing teams, the leadership and communication skills learned through being part of a team, and the mental toughness created through competition. "A big part of it, for women especially, is confidence, self-esteem and having successes, but also having failures and building that resilience," she said. 📖 : https://lnkd.in/gutpBntH
Congratulations to Alerus mortgage banker Bob Austin and the Gleason Austin Group for being named a 2023 top loan producer by Minnesota Housing! Minnesota Housing's participating lenders provided nearly 4,900 home loans in 2023, with 40% of first-time homebuyer mortgages going to Black homeowners, Indigenous homeowners and homeowners of color. Thanks to Bob and his partner Pat Gleason for their expertise in helping clients make their dream of home ownership a reality!
We're thrilled to welcome our newest team on board and provide this additional offering to our clients!
Looking to grow its commercial and industrial banking segment, leaders of Alerus Financial launched an equipment finance vertical in June 2024, representing the first, full-service equipment finance division in the bank’s history. Brian Scott, who is leading the vertical, has short- and long-term goals in place to establish its value proposition both within the bank and the broader equipment finance sector. Alerus Financial has embarked on an expansion with the recent launch of its new equipment finance vertical in June 2024. The addition of the full-service equipment finance division is aimed at bolstering its commercial and industrial banking segment. Read more: https://lnkd.in/egsA-Ubi #monitor #web #exclusive #equipment #finance #addition #news #team