The American (Trust &) Savings Bank

What do Dubuque, Dyersville, Farley, and Wes Des Moines have in common? They’re all in Iowa? Yes. And they all have the American Trust & Savings Bank, decades since 1911.

The American Trust & Savings Bank, or simply ‘American Trust’, is trusted for years for giving “simply better banking”. In the safe hands of the Schrup’s family throughout the stretch of its success from trials history, the trusted bank has been serving with an unyielding support for its local community. It simply has been there for them. The American Trust & Savings Bank has all been through World War I, the Great Depression, and the 21st Century economic growth explosion, and still serving, and expanding.

Throughout the decades, the American Trust & Savings Bank has been decidedly defined by more up to date changes and add-ons throughout the Iowa state beginning in the 60’s with the development of a modern motor bank, a supermarket office, and all other extensions from its base in Dubuque. Yet one thing is most notable, the growth of the American Trust has been nothing but under the supervision of the Schrup descendants beginning from its founding father Nicholas Schrup, the first Schrup in place. This only means that the American Trust& Savings Bank operates under a rooted tradition of family oriented trust service – from dad’s money market investment accounts to gramps' individual retirement account (IRA), from the family income statement savings account to student banking for the kids (for young adults aged 13 to 25), and mom’s Christmas Club account to the kiddies’ Junior Bankers account (for kids under 12).

The bank’s dedication to family and community service even extends beyond its facility walls. Apart from the actual bank finances management are the American Trust’s outreach educational programs. Coinciding with the ‘National Teach Children to Save Day’ of the American Bankers Association Education Foundation (Washington, D. C.), the American Trust & Savings Bank conducted a voluntary elementary student interactive seminar to help the young learn their ‘financial ABCs’ and become smart savers at such an early awareness age. This kid-friendly money management ‘life skills’ civic program is all hopes to mold the future’s smart investors and money managers by diffusing financial literacy among the American youth now.   This only shows that the American Trust Tower is not just a bank / weather beacon – it also is a financial educator soaring eagle symbol for all families in the Iowa state.