The Central Bank and Trust Corp. was a bank founded in 1906 by

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co-founder

Asa Griggs Candler Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola formula, Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta Georgia, Atlanta, G ...

. It had its headquarters in the Candler Building in

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. In 1922 it was merged into

Citizens & Southern National Bank Citizens and Southern National Bank (C&S) began as a Georgia institution that expanded into South Carolina, Florida and into other states via mergers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia; it was the largest bank in the Southeast for much of the 20th c ...

,"CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN BANK HEADS ANNOUNCE MERGER OF CENTRAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY" '' Atlanta Constitution'', September 7, 1922
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