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Truist Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. [7] The company was formed in December 2019 as the result of the merger of BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company) and SunTrust Banks .
In 2020, Truist Financial acknowledged and apologized for the company's historic connections to slavery. Kelly King, chairman and chief executive of Truist, issued an employee memo addressing BB&T's slavery ties, but did not mention BB&T's founders Alpheus Branch and Thomas Hadley by name.
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In December 2019, Charlotte-based Truist was created through a merger of equals between SunTrust and Winston-Salem-based BB&T. Truist is currently the sixth largest U.S. bank, and the merger was the biggest bank deal since the 2007–2008 financial crisis. Rogers became president and chief operating officer of Truist after the merger, and he ...
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Truist Financial Regional banks have largely struggled with higher interest rates. The crisis that sank Silicon Valley Bank and others in March 2023 cast a long shadow in the industry.
In February 2019, SunTrust Banks announced its pending purchase by BB&T for $28 billion in an all-stock deal, creating the sixth largest U.S. lender, being the biggest bank deal since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. [6] On December 6, 2019, the merger between BB&T and SunTrust closed, forming Truist Financial Corporation. [7]