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First Bank
First Bank is the name used by various financial institutions worldwide. The term, either as whole or as part of a combination of names, may refer to: International * First Bank of Nigeria, a Nigerian bank with branches in Ghana, South Africa, Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone, DRC, UAE, United States, UK, France, China, etc. * First National Bank (other), a name used by various banks worldwide * First Interstate Bank (other), a name used by various banks worldwide * First Commercial Bank (other), used by a bank in Taipei, Taiwan, as well as several in the United States Africa * First Bank of Nigeria, with branches across Nigeria * Afriland First Bank, in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo (Brazzaville) and Sao Tome e Principe Asia * First Gulf Bank, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates * First Microfinance Bank, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * First Microfinance Bank, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan * First Women Bank Limited, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Institution
Financial institutions, sometimes called banking institutions, are business entities that provide services as intermediaries for different types of financial monetary transactions. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial institutions: # Depository institutions – deposit-taking institutions that accept and manage deposits and make loans, including banks, building societies, credit unions, trust companies, and mortgage loan companies; # Contractual institutions – insurance companies and pension funds # Investment institutions – investment banks, underwriters, and other different types of financial entities managing investments. Financial institutions can be distinguished broadly into two categories according to ownership structure: * Commercial banks * Cooperative banks Some experts see a trend toward homogenisation of financial institutions, meaning a tendency to invest in similar areas and have similar business strategies. A consequence of this might ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Bank & Trust
First Bank & Trust (FB&T) was a community and commercial bank founded in Evanston, Illinois Evanston ( ) is a city, suburb of Chicago. Located in Cook County, Illinois, United States, it is situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan. Evanston is north of Downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wil ... that was legally acquired by Chicago's Byline Bank in 2018. FB&T was originally founded in 1995 by Robert Yohanan, Howard Kain and James Lytle. References Banks based in Illinois Banks established in 1995 1995 establishments in Illinois Companies based in Evanston, Illinois Defunct banks of the United States {{bank-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Security Bank
First Security Bank is a privately held company based in Searcy, Arkansas. It currently operates 78 locations across the state of Arkansas and is a division of Arkansas’ fifth largest bank holding company, First Security Bancorp. First Security owns the recognizable First Security Center in Downtown Little Rock ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_party = D , leader_title2 = Council , leader_name2 ..., located in the historic River Market District. Company history First Security Bank was chartered in 1932 in Searcy, Arkansas, under the name of Security Bank. In 1966, the name was officially changed to First Security Bank. The bank was originally located at the corner of Arch Street and Spring Street but in 1971 moved to its current location at 314 N. Spring Street, on the corner of Spring Street and Race Street. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Pennsylvania Bank
First Pennsylvania Bank was a bank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1782, it was for centuries the oldest bank in the United States until it was acquired by CoreStates Financial Corporation in 1989. In the 1970s, First Pennsylvania officials attempted to turn their firm, then a "sedate regional bank", into a major national concern. Aggressive and risky lending and investments turned the bank into Philadelphia's largest, but in 1980, led to huge losses and panicked depositors. The federal government gave the bank a $500 million bailout, the first major federal bailout of a national bank. See also * List of bank mergers in the United States References {{Wells Fargo Banks based in Pennsylvania Defunct banks of the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Commonwealth Bank
First Commonwealth Financial Corporation is a financial services company based in Indiana, Pennsylvania, primarily serving the Western and Central Pennsylvania as well as Canton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio. First Commonwealth has long served the Central Pennsylvania region, but began aggressively expanding into the Western part of the state in the early 2000s (decade), particularly Pittsburgh. In 2016, the bank purchased several Ohio-based banks growing its footprint. It is currently the fifth-largest bank in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area behind PNC Financial Services, Citizens Financial Group, First Niagara Bank, and privately held Dollar Bank Dollar Bank is a full-service regional savings bank serving both individuals and business customers, operating more than 70 offices throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia. The bank's Pennsylvania headquarters is located in downtown Pittsbu .... First Commonwealth is one of the few stronger banks that did not accept TARP funds i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First American Bank (other)
First American Bank may refer to several independent banks in the United States: * First American Bank (Alabama) of Decatur, Alabama, now part of RBC Bank * First American Bank (Illinois) * First American Bank (Indiana) * First American Bank (Louisiana) * First American Bank (Oklahoma) * First American Bank (Texas), now Citibank Texas N.A. * First American Bankshares, Washington, D.C., the American unit of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade after opening, BCC ... * First American National Bank, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, (defunct, now part of Regions Financial via its merger with AmSouth Bancorporation) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FirstBank Building
FirstBank Building, part of the Palmer Center Complex, is a class A high-rise office building in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is the second tallest building in Colorado Springs, and the second tallest building outside of the Denver metropolitan area. The building was known as the Holly Sugar Building when Holly Sugar Corporation ''Ilex'' (), or holly, is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. ''Ilex'' has the most species of any woody dioecious angiosperm genus. The species are evergreen o ... was headquartered there. References {{reflist Buildings and structures in Colorado Springs, Colorado Bank buildings in Colorado Skyscrapers in Colorado Skyscraper office buildings in Colorado Office buildings completed in 1967 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FirstBank (Puerto Rico)
FirstBank (stylized as 1 FirstBank), is a banking institution in Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in San Juan, with branches there and in twenty-two other Puerto Rican cities. "1FirstBank Florida" includes branches in Miami, Boca Raton and Ft Lauderdale. As of 2020, FirstBank had 8 branches in Florida. Aurelio Alemán-Bermudez has served as president of 1 FirstBank since 2009. In 2020, 1 FirstBank bought Banco Santander Puerto Rico to expand its operations in Puerto Rico. In 2020, 1 FirstBank received an award from the USDA Rural Development USDA Rural Development (RD) is a mission area within the United States Department of Agriculture which runs programs intended to improve the economy and quality of life in rural parts of the United States. Rural Development has a loan portfolio o ... program for being a top mortgage lender for people purchasing single family homes in Puerto Rico. History First Bank was known until the 1990s as First Federal. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FirstCaribbean International Bank
CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB) is a financial services company based in Barbados and the Caribbean subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The bank was founded in 2002 as FirstCaribbean International Bank through the merger of the Caribbean operations of Barclays Bank and CIBC, and in March 2006 both CIBC and Barclays announced that Barclays wished to exercise their option to exit the Caribbean venture completely resulting in CIBC gaining majority-control of the bank. In June 2011, it was announced the bank would be renamed CIBC FirstCaribbean Bank "to be more closely aligned to the CIBC brand, while still maintaining the FirstCaribbean name and local identity." The majority of the bank's revenues are generated by its operations in Barbados, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. History Prior to 2002, the operations of what is now FirstCaribbean were run as the separate businesses of Barclays Bank and CIBC West Indies, part of CIBC's group of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Security First Network Bank
Security First Network Bank (SFNB) was the first pure Internet bank in the United States. It had no physical branch bank offices and could only be accessed online. It was founded in Pineville, Kentucky, in October 1995 by James (Chip) S. Mahan III. Several months later, the bank relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. It was initially established as a savings bank along with a wholly owned software company (Security First Technologies). Eventually teller services were added in Atlanta. On September 30, 1998, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) acquired the banking portion of the Security First Network Bank, while the software development company was spun off as S1 Corporation S1 Corporation was an American software development company based in Norcross, Georgia which specialized in payment processing and financial services software for automated teller machines and retail point of sale applications, primarily for b .... RBC subsequently acquired Centura Bank of North Carolina, rebrande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seafirst Bank
Seafirst Corporation was an American bank holding company based in Seattle, Washington. Its banking subsidiary, Seafirst Bank, was the largest bank in Washington, with 235 branches and 497 ATMs across the state. Formed in 1929 via the merger of Seattle's three largest banks, Seafirst was acquired in 1983 by BankAmerica after posting huge losses from loans it purchased from the failed Penn Square Bank; the Seafirst brand was retired in 1999 after NationsBank acquired BankAmerica the previous year and subsequently implemented the Bank of America brand nationwide. History Seafirst Corporation was formed on November 11, 1929, from the merger of Seattle's three largest banks, the First National Bank Group (founded 1882), the Dexter Horton National Bank (founded 1870 by Dexter Horton), and Seattle National Bank (founded 1889), the bank was originally named First Seattle Dexter Horton National Bank. In 1931, the bank changed its name to First National Bank of Seattle, and again in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
