Sunwest Bank
Sunwest Bank Headquarters Address
2050 Main Street, Suite 300
Irvine, CA 92614
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About Sunwest Bank
Sunwest Bank, founded in 1969, is a privately held commercial bank with over $1.1 Billion in assets and headquartered in Irvine, CA, with operations in California, Arizona, Idaho and Utah. We are an entrepreneurial business bank with a long tradition of providing excellent service to entrepreneurs,
privately held corporations, family offices, small-medium size business and real estate developers throughout the Western United States.
More information about Sunwest Bank and its full line of products and services is available at SunwestBank.com.
Who We Areprivately held corporations, family offices, small-medium size business and real estate developers throughout the Western United States.
More information about Sunwest Bank and its full line of products and services is available at SunwestBank.com.
In 1969 our founder and first CEO James Engbarth, a longtime banking veteran, gathered a small group of trusted partners and opened Santiago Commercial Bank at 1st and El Camino in Tustin, CA. The new commercial bank promised to help the business and community development of the growing Orange County area. To this day, we are the oldest bank headquartered in Orange County. By 1980, after a decade of steady growth, Santiago Bank officially changed its name to Sunwest Bank, a name that emphasized its growing horizons as an institution.
The most pivotal moment in Sunwest’s history came during the financial crisis. Due to our strong balance sheet and history of conservative underwriting, we were able to purchase five failed banks from the FDIC. From June of 2009 to January of 2014, we acquired Metro Pacific Bank and Pacific Coast National Bank in California, First State Bank in Arizona, Westside Community Bank in Washington, and Syringa Bank in Idaho.
Sunwest had officially grown from a small local real estate bank into a regional bank serving the entire West Coast in just five short years. Today, we are headquartered in Irvine, CA, and continue to have a branch in our hometown of Tustin.
From our founding all the way up until now, we have always been a bank that focuses on two things: helping entrepreneurs achieve their American dream, and giving back to our community. Sunwest specializes in working with small-medium businesses, privately held corporations, family offices, and real estate developers and investors.
We are the bank built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.
The most pivotal moment in Sunwest’s history came during the financial crisis. Due to our strong balance sheet and history of conservative underwriting, we were able to purchase five failed banks from the FDIC. From June of 2009 to January of 2014, we acquired Metro Pacific Bank and Pacific Coast National Bank in California, First State Bank in Arizona, Westside Community Bank in Washington, and Syringa Bank in Idaho.
Sunwest had officially grown from a small local real estate bank into a regional bank serving the entire West Coast in just five short years. Today, we are headquartered in Irvine, CA, and continue to have a branch in our hometown of Tustin.
From our founding all the way up until now, we have always been a bank that focuses on two things: helping entrepreneurs achieve their American dream, and giving back to our community. Sunwest specializes in working with small-medium businesses, privately held corporations, family offices, and real estate developers and investors.
We are the bank built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.
Number of Employees in Sunwest Bank
201 to 500
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