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; 66 years ago (1958-07-01) in Los Angeles, California
Defunct	April 1, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-04-01)
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.^[1]

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.