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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.
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On that day, SunTrust Bank merged into BB&T's banking unit, Branch Banking and Trust Company, forming Truist Bank as the merged company's legal banking entity. However, the merged bank will continue to operate under the BB&T and SunTrust names until the two banks' systems are combined, a process that could take up to two years.
As of January, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Truist was the sixth largest bank in the U.S., with $488 billion in assets. It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks.
Truist is the nation's sixth-largest bank by assets, according to Federal Reserve data, but is still much smaller than coast-to-coast industry giants such as JPMorgan Chase or Bank of America .
The list excludes the following three banks listed amongst the 100 largest by the Federal Reserve but not the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council because they are not holding companies: Zions Bancorporation ($87 billion in assets), Cadence Bank ($48 billion in assets) and Bank OZK ($36 billion in assets).
In March 2022, the bank closed five Charlotte-area branches because of overlap following the BB&T and SunTrust merger that formed Truist in 2019. In total, Truist planned to close 800 branches .
Truist moved its corporate headquarters to Hearst Tower, which was renamed Truist Center. [20] Truist had taken over 550,000 square feet (51,000 m 2) of 965,000 square feet (89,700 m 2) total. [21] The bank announced the deal was completed March 31, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, further actions would be delayed. [22]