Frost Bank
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Frost Bank is an American bank based in San Antonio that is chartered in Texas, with 155 branches and 1,700 automated teller machines in the state. It is the primary subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., a bank holding company. It is one of the 60 largest banks of the country by total assets.
HistoryEdit
Early yearsEdit
Frost Bank was founded in 1868 as a mercantile partnership in San Antonio by Thomas Claiborne Frost, who had served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate States Army.<ref name=10K/><ref name=150years>Template:Cite book</ref> In February 1899, it was chartered as a national banking association.<ref name=10K/> That year, the bank also reached $1 million in deposits<ref name=150years/> (worth about $35 million in 2022 dollars).<ref> The average inflation rate from 1899 to 2022 is about 2.94% per year.</ref> The bank survived the Panic of 1907 with the aid of an association of local banks and by 1921, sold shares to outside investors for the first time. Frost continued to grow with the construction of a 12-story building in 1921, which was one of the tallest buildings in Texas at the time. By 1926, Joseph Hardin Frost, brother of T.C. Frost Jr., took over as president of the company.<ref name=150years/>
GrowthEdit
Over the years, Frost has grown both organically and through the acquisition of other banks, beginning in 1928 with the purchase of Lockwood National Bank.<ref name=150years/> In 1977, the company merged with Cullen Bankers, Inc. of Houston forming Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. and its stock began trading on the NASDAQ.<ref name=150years/>
In 1982, Cullen/Frost Bankers and United States National Bancshares, Inc. (USNB) of Galveston, Texas merged, but Frost operated USNB separately for nearly two decades.<ref name="allbusiness.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=USNBBldgSale/> As new financial services legislation allowed banks to broaden the services they offered customers, Cullen/Frost folded the USNB charter into Frost's in 2000.<ref name="Isle Bank Joins Frost">Template:Cite news</ref> With this action, the last bank using the federally forbidden United States National Bank title ceased to exist.<ref name=USNBBldgSale>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1983, the bank announced it intended to merge with First City Bancorp of Houston, Texas,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> however the merger was never completed. First City was subsequently rescued by the FDIC in 1988 and ultimately bankrupted in 1992 and was absorbed by other banks, primarily Texas Commerce Bank (now Chase).
In 1999, Frost Bank acquired Commerce Financial Corp.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Frost Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of the bank acquired Professional Insurance Agents Inc.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2005-2006, the company acquired Alamo Bank of Texas, Horizon Capital Bank, Summit Bancshares Inc., and Texas Community Bank.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2014, it acquired Western National Bank.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Industry changesEdit
During the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the bank did not accept government assistance via the Troubled Asset Relief Program,<ref name=150years/> but faced with changes in the financial services industry, the bank converted its 113-year-old federal charter into a state charter in June 2012.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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