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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.
SunTrust had been the last major bank headquartered in Atlanta, which had been the South's financial capital for much of the 20th century. The merger closed on December 6, 2019. 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.
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Truist was formed in December 2019, as the result of a “merger of equals" between SunTrust Bank (of which LightStream was a division) and BB&T. [ 2 ] Debuting in March 2013, LightStream is a financial services technology company that provides unsecured , personal loans to people with good credit rating , through a digital process.
However, on the day the merger closed, SunTrust Bank merged into Branch Banking & Trust Company, forming Truist Bank as the merged company's legal banking entity. On December 11, 2019, Truist officially exercised its option to purchase Hearst Tower in downtown Charlotte from Cousins Properties. Truist moved its corporate headquarters to Hearst ...
He was previously chairman and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks. 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 ...
The new Truist bank brand, the name taken by the recently merged BB&T Corp. and SunTrust Banks Inc., went up Friday on a downtown Baltimore office tower and will spread in coming months to ...
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 .