The group's principal activities are to provide commercial banking services to individual and corporate customers. The group operates a wholly-owned bank subsidiary, first interstate bank with 59 banking offices in 31 Montana and Wyoming communities. The services of the group include personal and business checking and savings accounts, time deposits, individual retirement accounts, cash management, trust and brokerage services and commercial, consumer, real estate, agricultural and other loans. The group conducts various other financial-related business activities such as data processing services and technology services through wholly owned non-bank subsidiaries. On 01-Jan-2003, the group acquired silver run bancorporation inc.