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Financial-company and bank profiles, covering customer relationships, business models and operating economics.
Compare banks →Schwab Premier Bank receives brokerage cash and holds a securities-heavy balance sheet. Its new crypto-custody role is a separate business, with different responsibilities and protections from insured deposits.
Amerant has narrowed its operating footprint to Florida while retaining international customer relationships. Its smaller loan book, larger securities portfolio and mixed credit comparisons show what changed by June 2026.
Associated’s April acquisition of American National expanded its Midwest franchise. The next test is bringing customer services together, alongside specialty lending, treasury tools and wealth relationships.
Revolut has expanded a payments app into a group of financial businesses and licensed banks. Its UK launch, European structure and conditional U.S. charter process show why customer protections and financial results must be read by legal entity and country.
Fortiva offers retail credit after a prime lender declines an applicant, alongside a separate general-purpose card. Its story runs through Atlanticus’s servicing business, bank-issued accounts and the cost of borrowing.
Kalshi built an exchange around contracts tied to real-world events. Private funding and new products have expanded the business as federal courts disagree over sports contracts and state gambling authority.
loanDepot is shifting more production toward home-equity loans while working to narrow losses and address debt maturities. Its history illustrates both the promise of a technology-enabled mortgage business and the operational risks that remain behind the application screen.
From Don Valentine’s first fund to a permanent capital structure, a global separation and the AI boom, Sequoia’s history shows how long-term investing depends on repeatedly changing the institution behind it.
Synctera connects banks and fintech programs through account records, payment tools and operations support. Regent Bank illustrates the model; Bolt’s launch and the Cable acquisition show how the business developed beyond its early partnerships.
How Coinbase grew from a bitcoin wallet into trading, custody, stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure, including its October 2026 Deribit integration milestone, planned product rollouts and the legal and operational risks behind the expansion.
Crypto.com’s evolution from Monaco to a multi-asset platform, including its 2026 funding, tokenized stocks, product economics, distinct operating entities and the limits of reserve and licensing claims.
Plaid’s founders set out to build a personal-finance app, then built the connections it needed instead. That network now supports bank payments, credit reports and AI interfaces, with a new generation of lending scores announced in October 2026.
The New York bank built a national niche around unions and mission-driven organizations. Stronger 2026 earnings coexist with a concentrated multifamily credit problem and deposit-cycle risks.
CMG grew from a California mortgage office into a three-channel lender. Its Homebridge retail acquisition, cash-flow-linked home loan and founder’s bank investment reveal different ways of reaching borrowers, with distinct legal and financial boundaries.
Clearfield’s CNB Bank combines a long institutional history with a multibrand strategy. The ESSA acquisition and a 2026 regulator change make the legal-bank boundary especially important.
Olympia’s Heritage Bank expanded through the completed Kitsap acquisition. Its customer transition, deposit franchise and disclosed cybersecurity incident show the different challenges of combining banks.
LCNB National Bank combines southwest Ohio banking roots with business lending and wealth services. A completed Cincinnati acquisition and recent credit losses show why its development cannot be reduced to an earnings headline.
Liberty’s Connecticut roots now support a regional household and business bank. Mutual ownership, expanding lending and an earlier fair-housing settlement help explain both its ambitions and its responsibilities.
The former Holladay Bank & Trust became Redemption Bank after a 2025 acquisition led by Redemption Holding Company. The new owners’ inclusion ambitions sit alongside an existing local deposit franchise and a modest, property-heavy loan book.
BMO Bank, N.A. combines a large U.S. commercial franchise with household and small-business banking. Its September 2026 branch sale and proposed equipment-finance divestiture make legal-entity boundaries and transaction dates particularly important.
The economics of custody, asset servicing and institutional cash, including why client-asset growth, fee yield and completed settlement must be assessed separately.
Evolve combines a regional banking franchise with national payment and account infrastructure. Its public record shows ongoing service offerings, bank-level financial results and important boundaries between marketing, supervisory approvals and customer-fund disputes.
Thought Machine supplies Vault Core and Vault Payments to financial institutions. Bpifrance’s live deployment shows how those products fit together, while the company’s revenue, recurring-revenue and signed-bank figures measure different stages of the business.
Treasury Prime connects financial apps to a network of banks, with account records, payment tools and shared program oversight. Its customer-account and payment-volume figures describe activity across the network, not deposits or revenue belonging to the software company.
The bank supports a broader card and payments business. Spending, lending, deposits and merchant economics are different measures with different drivers.
B2 kept its Iron Range branches while moving its headquarters to Holladay in July 2026. New leadership and a connection to M1 Finance frame its attempt to combine community banking with a wider digital reach.
How Giannini’s Bank of Italy, NationsBank and later acquisitions built a group spanning deposits, lending, treasury services and Merrill investing.
Ally connects savers, vehicle buyers and dealers. Its results depend on distribution costs and deposit funding as well as specialized auto-credit exposure.
Andover Bank serves northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania while developing commercial lending through loan-production offices.
Belmont Savings Bank remains mutually owned, with a compact Ohio Valley network and a lending business centered on housing and small businesses.
Brighton Bank combines a five-office Salt Lake County network with commercial and property lending. A February 2026 examination found strong geographic reach but weaker lending across business revenue sizes.
Cache Valley Bank grew from a 1975 community bank into a Utah-and-southern-Idaho network. Its rescue acquisition of Proficio deposits, pandemic lending and property-backed balance sheet explain that expansion.
Central Bank traces its history to Springville in 1891 and a 1966 merger with the State Bank of Provo. Its local lending, retirement-custody services and staged Springville rebuilding project carry that history into the present.
CFBank traces its roots to an 1892 savings institution. A capital raise after regulatory intervention helped finance a commercial-banking transition that still shapes its loan mix and deposit strategy.
Bluffton-based Citizens National Bank serves households, businesses and farms through nine Ohio offices, with $1.103 billion in assets and a substantial real-estate-secured loan book at June 2026.
Civista connects a banking history dating to 1884 with commercial-property lending, regional branches and nationwide equipment finance. A completed acquisition and 2026 leadership transition mark its latest chapter.
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