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Harris Bank was founded by Norman Wait Harris. The mid-western bank is based in Chicago, Illinois, and is owned by the Canadian based Bank of Montreal. Today its is known as Harris Financial Services Corporation.

Contents 1 History 2 Operations 3 Organization 4 Services 5 External links

Norman Wait Harris arrived in Chicago and established N.W. Harris and Company in the late 1800s and founded Harris Bank in 1882. Other key events for Harris Bank include:

• Harris Trust and Savings Bank was created in 1994
• Merger with Chicago National Bank 1960
• Harris Bankcorp, Incorporation formed 1972
• Bank of Montreal (later as BMO Financial Group) acquires Harris 1984
• First National Bank of Barrington acquired 1985
• Libertyville Federal Savings Bank and Loan and Frankfort Bancshares 1990
• Harris Bankcorp and Suburban Bancorp combined under the Harris name 1994
• Household Bank acquired 1996
• direct brokerage firm Burke, Christensen & Lewis merged with Harris Investors Direct to form Harris InvestorLine 1999
• Chicagoland acquired 1999-2000
• Freeman Welwood acquired 2000
• Village Bank of Naples (Florida) and Century Bank in Arizona acquired 2001
• First National Bank of Joliet acquired 2001
• Northwestern Trust and Investors Advisory Company in Seattle, Washington acquired 2002
• Harris InvestorLine is combined with CSFBdirect to form Harrisdirect 2002
• online client accounts of Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group acquired 2002
• Sullivan, Bruyette Speros & Blayney Incorporated acquired 2003
• Lakeland Community Bank in Round Lake and New Lenox State Bank in Will County acquired 2004
• Mercantile Bancorp. Inc. based in Hammond, Indiana acquired 2004
• Intent to acquire Villa Park Trust and Savings Bank 2005
• First National Bank & Trust, based in Kokomo, Indiana acquired 2007

Harris Bank is a member of the Federal Reserves system.

Harris Bank originally was a Mid-West based bank, but it has expanded to several other states including, Arizona, Florida and Indiana.

Harris Bank serves over 1.5 million customers with 197 full service branches and over 500 ATMS.

The executive management team of Harris includes:

• Bill Downe, Deputy Chairman, BMO Financial Group, Head of U.S. Businesses
• Ellen Costello, Chief Executive Officer, Harris N.A.
• Peter McNitt, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Private Banking
• Yvan Bourdeau, President and Chief Operating Officer, Investment Banking Group
• Timothy Crane, President of Community Banking, Harris N.A.

A list of services provided at Harris Bank:

• personal financial services
• wealth management
• small business banking
• middle market banking
• investment and corporate banking

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Bank of Montreal
Chief Executive Officer: Bill Downe | FY 2005 Statistics: Net income: $2.4 billion CAD (4%) | Market capitalization: $28.9 billion CAD | Assets: $297.5 billion CAD | Employees: 33,785 | Stock symbols: TSX: BMO NYSE: BMO | Website: www.bmo.com
Major brands by financial service
Master: BMO | Financial group: BMO Financial Group | Canadian banking: BMO Bank of Montreal | U.S. banking: Harris | Canadian mutual funds: BMO Mutual Funds and Guardian Group of Funds| Canadian brokerage: BMO InvestorLine and BMO Nesbitt Burns | U.S. brokerage: BMO Harris Investor Services | Canadian insurance: BMO Life | Capital markets: BMO Capital Markets