April 6, 2012

Patty Gates: On the front lines in Weld County’s bank wars

When Patty Gates thinks back over the crisis that befell her industry in recent years, what bothers her most is the thought of those banks that didn’t survive and friends who lost their jobs as the institutions they loved crumbled.

A 28-year veteran of the banking industry, Gates is market manager at FMS Bank, which opened as a loan production office in Greeley last spring and then expanded into a full-service branch of FMS Bank, formerly Fort Morgan State Bank, headquartered in Morgan County.

Gates has seen a lot in her years in the business including the loss of 20,000 jobs in…

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