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What happened to Alliance Bank?
Alliance Bank in New Ulm, MN (earlier called Farmers and Merchants State Bank of New Ulm and 1 other name) merged into Alliance Bank of Lake City, MN on Feb 21, 2007. Alliance Bank is open today.
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1914Farmers and Merchants State Bank of New Ulm opens in New Ulm, MN
- Jul 15, 1996renamed F&M Alliance Bank
- Jul 13, 1998renamed Alliance Bank
- Feb 21, 2007MERGEDAlliance Bank merged into Alliance Bank of Lake City, MN.FDIC certificate 1932 ends; its business continues under certificate 10973.
- TodayOPEN
Alliance BankMain office Lake City, MN · FDIC certificate 10973 · 6 offices in 1 state on June 30, 2026Every Alliance Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.alliancebanks.com
If you still have something from Alliance Bank
A lien that was never released
If a paid-off mortgage, home-equity line or car loan still shows Alliance Bank as lienholder, start with Alliance Bank. In a merger the surviving bank takes over the other bank's loans, so it is the bank to ask for a recordable lien release; if the loan was sold along the way, it can tell you to whom.
The FDIC says it cannot process lien releases for banks that merged or were acquired without government assistance, which is what the record shows here.
Record the release with the same county office that recorded the original mortgage or deed of trust.
An old account, passbook or CD
Ask Alliance Bank to search for the account under the name Alliance Bank. A passbook or certificate shows an account existed. It doesn't show the money is still there, and the OCC notes that federal rules require banks to keep most account records for five years.
Accounts nobody touches are eventually turned over to a state. The OCC puts the usual wait at three to five years with no activity, set by each state's law. Search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and any other state they lived in. It is free to search and to claim through a state's own site, and MissingMoney.com, an official site of the state administrators' association, searches most states at once.
A safe deposit box
Ask Alliance Bank which branch now holds boxes from the Alliance Bank office you used. The OCC says a box with no activity for three to five years (the period is set by state statute) is likely treated as dormant, and its contents may be turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain. The office list below shows which bank each office reports under now.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Its offices in the FDIC deposit reports
13 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 4 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 30 East Seventh StreetSaint Paul, MN | OpenAlliance Bank |
| 322 N Minnesota StNew Ulm, MN | OpenAlliance Bank |
| 112 BroadwayHanska, MN | OpenAlliance Bank |
| 20 W Main StMadelia, MN | OpenAlliance Bank |
| 1901 Madison Ave E Suite 410Mankato, MN | No longer reported |
| 329 Main StreetCourtland, MN | No longer reported |
| 31668 170th StreetHuntley, MN | No longer reported |
| 715 South German StreetNew Ulm, MN | No longer reported |
| 1224 5th NorthNew Ulm, MN | No longer reported |
| 720 23rd NorthNew Ulm, MN | No longer reported |
| 3600 Minnesota Drive, Suite 50Edina, MN | No longer reported |
| 1901 Ids Center, 80 South 8th StreetMinneapolis, MN | No longer reported |
| 1901 Ids Center, 80 South 8th StreetMinneapolis, MN | No longer reported |
Banks folded into Alliance Bank
3 banks merged directly into this charter.
| Bank | Ended |
|---|---|
| Courtland State BankCourtland, MN | Oct 28, 2000 |
| Farmers State Bank of Huntley, IncorporatedHuntley, MN | Jul 13, 1998 |
| State Bank of HanskaHanska, MN | Jul 13, 1998 |
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 1932 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.