For 125 years, Davis Trust has made a business of knowing one corner of West Virginia unusually well. Its edge is not scale - it is the judgment that comes from staying close.
Two bankers with 38 years between them walked out of a big bank in 2001, opened Venture Bank in a Bloomington office park, and spent the next 17 years signing up more than 5,000 Twin Cities companies - until Choice Financial bought the whole thing.