First General Bank
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| Private | |
| Industry | Finance and Insurance |
| Founded | Rowland Heights, California (2005) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles County, California |
Key people | Mr. Cliff Hsu, CEO |
| Products | Banking |
| Revenue | N/A (Asset = $ 510 million, 12/31/2012) |
| Slogan | N/A |
| Website | www.fgbusa.com |
First General Bank (大通銀行) is a California chartered, FDIC insured bank organized by immigrants in the United States. Headquartered in Rowland Heights, California, with branch offices in Arcadia, Irvine, and San Gabriel, California, this privately held bank was established on October 13, 2005.
First General Bank is a full-service commercial bank, with an emphasis on developing a business and professional clientele within the Southern California area. First General Bank focuses on personalized service, combined with a full range of traditional and online core consumer and commercial banking products and cash management services for small to medium sized businesses and individuals residing or doing business in Southern California.
In 2011, First General Bank completed the merger and acquisition of American Premier Bank (Jan., 2011) and Golden Security Bank (Aug., 2011).
In 2012, SNL Financial acquired SwiftKnowledge, a leading web-based bank reporting and analysis application. The SwiftKnowledge toolset will be integrated with SNL’s existing product offering to create the new SNLBanker solution. SwiftKnowledge company was created in 1999, by Allie Gentry from Minnesota.
First General Bank was ranked No. 1 among 765 community banks with assets between $500M and $5 B by SNL Financial (http://www.snl.com) in March 2013. SNL ranked the best-performing community banks using six core financial performance metrics that focus on profitability, asset quality and growth for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, 2012.