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The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791. It followed the Bank of North America, the nation's first de facto national bank.
Across the next three decades, the bank continued to grow, and in 1974, FNB Corporation was established as a financial services holding company for a growing family of business entities which included the bank, under the name The First National Bank of Mercer County and with an asset size of $120 million, and Regency Finance Company.
1 1781–1836: Bank of North America and First and Second Bank of the United States. ... In 1870, 1,638 national banks stood against only 325 state banks.
In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States.The bank, which was jointly owned by the federal government and private stockholders, was a nationwide commercial bank which served as the bank for the federal government and operated as a regular commercial bank acting in competition with state banks.
Direct successor of the Bank of North America, the first bank in the United States CoreStates Financial Corp. Wells Fargo: 1990 First Union Corporation: Florida National Bank First Union Corporation: Wells Fargo: 1990 Citizens & Southern National Bank: Sovran Financial Corp. C&S/Sovran Corp. Bank of America: 1991 Fleet/Norstar Financial Group, Inc.
The term national bank in the U.S. context originally referred to the Revolutionary War–era Bank of North America, its successor, the First Bank of the United States, or that institution's successor, the Second Bank of the United States. The first survives as an acquisition of Wells Fargo, while the others are defunct.
In addition to being the second bank to fail in 2024, the failure of The First National Bank of Lindsay marks the seventh time a federally-insured bank has failed going back to 2021.
First National Bank of Boston, acquired by Fleet Bank and merged into Bank of America; First National Bank of Brooklyn, ... First Bank of the United States, ...