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About BB&T:
BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust)
(NYSE: BBT) is an American bankwith assets of $165.3 billion
(June 2009), offering full-service commercial and retail banking services along with other financial services
like insurance, investments, retail
brokerage, mortgage, corporate finance, consumer
finance, payment services, international banking, leasingand trust. Based
in Winston-Salem,
North
Carolina, BB&T operates more than 1,850
financial centers in the United
Statesof North
Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Texas, and in Washington, D.C..
It is also notable for certain ideological stances taken by its
management, and for its financial support of academic programs concerning the "moral foundations of
capitalism."[1]
In June 2009, its chairman, John A.
Allison IVdelivered a keynote address to a
meeting of the center-right Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he said government regulation caused the 2007-2009 financial collapse.[2] The bank had recently
been forced to accept $3.1 billion in bailout money through the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program.[3]
Earlier, in 2006, BB&T said it wouldn't lend money for
commercial projects on property acquired through eminent
domain. This was a reaction to
the United States Supreme Court's
decision in Kelo v.
New London in 2005 that such transfers
are permissible.
BB&T's beginnings date back to 1872,
when Alpheus Branchand
Thomas Jefferson Hadleyfounded the "Branch and Hadley" merchant bank in their small hometown of Wilson, North Carolina. After many
transactions, mostly with local farmers, Branch bought out Hadley's shares in 1887 and renamed the company to
"Branch and Company, Bankers". Two years later, Branch, his father father-in-law Gen. Joshua Barnes, Hadley, and
three other men, secured a charter from the North Carolina General Assemblyto
operate the "Wilson Banking and Trust Company". After numerous additional name changes, the company finally
settled on the name "Branch Banking and Company". Branch remained an active member in the company until his
death in 1893.
In 1900, all of Branch's banking companies consolidated as
Branch Banking and Company, allowing the institution to expand its services. In 1902 a savingsdepartment was created and in
1907 a trustdepartment was authorized; this
made Branch's company the first in the state to engage in trust activities. The bank made its final name change
in 1913 to "Branch Banking and Trust", or BB&T, to reflect its new activities.
BB&T sold Liberty
Bondsduring World War
Iand grew to have more than $4 million
in assetsby 1923.
An insurance divisionwas added in 1922,
followed by a mortgage division in 1923. As banks across the nation failed as a result of
the 1929 Stock Market Crash, BB&T
survived; it was the only one to do so in the town of Wilson.
World War
IIrevived BB&T. BB&T's prosperity
continued into the 1960s, as mergersand acquisitionsgrew to company to $343
million in assets with new branches in 35 cities. By 1994, BB&T had become North
Carolina's largest bank with $10.5 billion in
assets and 263 offices in 138 cities in the
Carolinas.
In 1995, BB&T and Southern National Bank, another bank with
roots in the eastern part of the state, completed a "merger of equals." In an unusual arrangement, the holding
company retained the Southern National name for a few years, but all of its banks took the BB&T name. This gave
the new BB&T 437 branches in 220 cities in the Carolinas and Virginia. The bank continued to
expand nationwide through the 1990s, purchasing Fidelity Federal Bankshares, First Financial of Petersburg,
Maryland Federal Bancorp and Franklin Bancorporation in the Virginia/Marylandarea. In 1999, BB&T
acquired MainStreet Financial Corp. of Martinsville, and Mason-Dixon Bancshares of Westminster, and further
expanded into Georgiaand West
Virginiaafter purchasing First Liberty of
Macon and Matewan Bancshares.
From 2000 to 2005, BB&T acquired numerous smaller banks,
expanding into Tennessee, Kentucky, and
even Florida. By Dec. 31, 2005, BB&T
Corporation had secured $109.2 billion in assets; operated more than 1,500 banking offices in 11 states and
the District of Columbia; and had more
than 28,000 employees.
In early 2007 BB&T acquired Coastal Federal Bank which is
primarily located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It has been one of the Carolina's fastest growing banks. After
BB&T's announcement of an opportunity for a "merger of equals" it's often been speculated for a merger with
either Regions
Financialof Birminghamor Fifth
Thirdof Cincinnati.
In late 2008 the bank was forced to accept $3.1 billion in
bailout money through the sale of its preferred shares to the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program. The
bank said in June 2009 that it had received approval to repurchase the shares.[4] Also in June 2009,
its chairman, John A.
Allison IVdelivered a keynote address to a
meeting of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he claimed to show how government regulation caused
the 2007-2009 financial collapse.[2]
On August 15, 2009, it was announced that the deposits and loan
accounts of the Colonial
Bank were being transferred to BB&T
as part of Colonial Bank's receivership by the FDIC.[5] This acquisition
added over 340 branches in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Nevadaand Texasalong with approximately $26
billion in assets. This moved BB&T Corporation to the 8th largest commercial bank in the United States based
on deposits. BB&T quickly flipped the Nevada branch to U.S.
Bancorp(dropping it to 10th overall), but
hung on to its Texas branches, despite the Texas branches being outside of its historical
footprint.
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