Guaranty Bank (Texas)

Guaranty Financial Group Inc.
PredecessorTemple-Inland
Founded1938/1988[1]
Defunct2009
FateAcquired by BBVA Compass in 2009
HeadquartersAustin, Texas, U.S.
Area served
Texas and California
Key people
Kenneth R. Dubuque (1998โ€“2008)
(chairman and CEO)
John T. Stuart III (2008โ€“2009)
(interim chairman and interim CEO)
Kevin J. Hanigan (2008โ€“2009)
(president and COO)

Guaranty Bank was a major bank based in Austin, which collapsed in 2009.[2] It was formed in 1988[3] as part of Temple-Inland and in 2007 became a standalone company. At the time of its collapse, Guaranty was the second largest bank in Texas, with 162 branches across Texas and California,[4] and had $13 billion in assets and held $12 billion in deposits.[2] Major shareholders included billionaire investor Carl Icahn and hotel tycoon Robert Rowling, who jointly invested $600 million in the bank in 2008.[3][5]

  1. ^ "Community Reinvestment Act Performance Evaluation". Office of the Comptroller of Currency; U.S. Department of Treasury. Office of Thrift Supervision. 2007-12-28. Archived from the original on 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  2. ^ a b "BBVA Compass, Birmingham, Alabama, Assumes All of the Deposits of Guaranty Bank, Austin, Texas" (Press release). FDIC. August 21, 2009. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference cnn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Gordon, Marcy (August 21, 2009). "Regulators Shut Guaranty Bank, 2nd Largest Failure". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  5. ^ "Guaranty Bank warns that it's on the verge of failure". Los Angeles Times. July 25, 2009. Retrieved 2015-01-07.

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