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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 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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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]
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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King remains CEO and chairman of Truist. [7] In October 2019, the Triad Business Journal named him one of the year's "Power Players" in business. [8] He retired as the CEO in 2021 and Executive Chairman of Truist in 2022. [9] He is currently a senior advisor to KSK Investors, an investment firm focused on the financial sector. [10]
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.