Commerce Bank

Commerce Bank is the name of several unrelated banks and bank holding companies in the United States, including:

• Commerce Bancshares, based in Kansas City, Missouri, which does business as Commerce Bank in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Colorado and Oklahoma.
• Commerce Bank & Trust Company, based in Worcester, Massachusetts, which conducts business in central Massachusetts.
• Commerce Bank & Trust Holding Company, a bank holding company based in Topeka, Kansas, which changed the name of the bank it owns from Commerce Bank & Trust to CoreFirst Bank & Trust on September 4, 2007, to reduce confusion between it and the bank held by Commerce Bancshares (Missouri).
• Commerce National Bank, a Columbus, Ohio–based business bank
• Michigan Commerce Bank, a community bank based in Ann Arbor, Michigan

See also

• Commerzbank, a major German bank based in Frankfurt.
• Commerce Bancorp, a defunct bank, formerly based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which operated in the Mid-Atlantic, Connecticut, and Florida prior to its 2008 acquisition by Toronto-Dominion Bank and subsequent renaming as TD Bank, N.A..
• Metro Bancorp Inc., formerly Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp, Inc., based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in operation since 1985. It changed the name of its bank to Metro Bank from Commerce Bank/Harrisburg, due to the expiration of a franchise agreement with the former Commerce Bancorp (Cherry Hill, New Jersey). It has 33 stores (branches), located in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. Although independent, it shared a customer call center with New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp.

Notes

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), there were 47 financial institutions in the U.S. (as of 2007) whose name includes the words "Commerce Bank".^[1]

References

1. Kerber, Ross (April 1, 2008). "Commerce Bank & Trust sues to guard Mass. identity". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2010-08-30.