First Interstate Bancorp

First Interstate Bancorp
Trade name	First Interstate Bank
Formerly	Firstamerica Corporation (1958–1961); Western Bancorporation (1961–1981);
Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: I
Predecessor	Spun off from Transamerica Corporation in 1958
Founded	July 1, 1958 in Los Angeles, California
Defunct	April 1, 1996
Fate	Acquired by Wells Fargo
Successor	Wells Fargo; First Interstate BancSystem
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California

First Interstate Bancorp was a bank holding company based in the United States that was taken over in 1996 by Wells Fargo. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it was the nation's eighth largest banking company.

The name (along with the company logo) has continued to be used in the banking world after the merger by First Interstate BancSystem who had been using the name under a franchise agreement since 1984.

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