Banks & Credit Unions
Interior Savings
About Interior Savings
Credit unions have long been part of how money moves in the Okanagan, lending to growers, small contractors and households that wanted a decision made closer to home than the coast. Interior Savings keeps a Penticton address at 251 Green Avenue West, off the busiest downtown blocks, which tends to make an appointment easier to park for than a trip into the middle of Main Street on a summer afternoon.
Day to day work at a branch covers chequing and savings accounts, term deposits, registered plans, mortgages and lines of credit, along with the counter errands that still bring people through a door rather than onto an app: drafts, transfers, replacing a card, sorting out a joint account after a change in the family. Small business banking usually sits alongside the personal side, which matters in a city where a great deal of the economy is one or two people with a truck and a trade. Anything involving lending or estate paperwork generally moves faster with an appointment, so a phone call first is time well spent.
The building at that address is shared with another business, so it is worth watching for the right door on a first visit. Penticton acts as the service centre for the whole South Okanagan, and people drive in from Oliver, Osoyoos, Keremeos and the smaller communities to handle in person what cannot be done from a kitchen table, which makes mid morning and the end of the month the busiest stretches. The branch page at interiorsavings.com is the sensible thing to check before setting out.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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