Banner Bank Releases New Corporate Responsibility Report

WALLA WALLA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Banner Bank released its 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report identifies ongoing practices and recent accomplishments that contribute to creating long-term value and driving progress while staying connected to the needs of the company’s stakeholders. It specifically focuses on the areas of community, governance, talent and environment. Highlights from the 2025 report include:

• Earning an Outstanding CRA performance evaluation from the FDIC for the second consecutive exam cycle, reflecting our sustained commitment to serving the credit needs of every community across our footprint. ‘Outstanding’ is the highest rating and fewer than five percent of banks examined within our 4-state footprint achieved it in back-to-back examinations under Large Bank evaluation methods.
• Implementing a new enterprise loan origination system—a meaningful cross-functional investment that strengthens our ability to serve clients with speed, consistency and care.
• Ranking highest in the Northwest region for customer satisfaction in the J.D. Power U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study—earning the highest score in four of the seven study dimensions: Level of Trust, People, Account Offerings, and Resolving Problems and Complaints.
• Earning the Great Place to Work® certification with an 86 percent overall employee engagement score— nearly 20 points above the U.S. average. This outside recognition further affirms the culture our teams build every day through continued transparency, inclusion and accountability.
• Continuing to advance our climate risk program, responding to real-world events that impact our communities and strengthening the tools and frameworks we use to understand and manage climate-related risks across our portfolio.

Additionally, the 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report is supported by a comprehensive reporting package that includes our Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report as well as disclosures prepared using the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards that we determined to be most relevant to our business.

“Throughout 2025, we continued to invest, innovate and grow,” said Mark Grescovich, President and CEO of Banner Corporation and Banner Bank. “We advanced our operating capabilities, particularly within our new loan and deposit origination system, and strengthened our community impact, all while maintaining the financial discipline and moderate risk profile that have made Banner a trusted institution through every economic cycle. We believe our achievements outlined in this report reaffirm the value of our super community bank strategy—evidence that doing the right thing is also good business and creates long-term value for all our stakeholders.

To view the full report, please visit https://www.bannerbank.com/impact.

About the Company

Banner Corporation is a $16.34 billion bank holding company operating one commercial bank—Banner Bank—in four Western states through a network of branches offering a full range of deposit services and business, commercial real estate, construction, residential, agricultural and consumer loans. Visit Banner Bank at www.bannerbank.com.