Banner Corporation Common Stock

Banner Corp. focuses on delivering financial services and community banking. The company is headquartered in Walla Walla, Washington and currently employs 1,930 full-time employees. The Bank is a chartered commercial bank in the State of Washington. The Bank is a regional bank that offers a variety of commercial banking services and financial products to individuals, businesses and public sector entities in its primary market areas. Its primary business is that of traditional banking institutions, accepting deposits and originating loans in locations surrounding its offices in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah and Nevada. The company is also a participant in the secondary loan markets, engaging in mortgage banking operations, through the origination and sale of one- to-four-family and multifamily residential loans. Its lending activities include commercial business and commercial real estate loans, agricultural business loans, construction and land development loans, one- to-four-family and multifamily residential loans, United States small business administration (SBA) loans and others.