BancWest Corporation

BancWest Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $36.4 billion. BancWest is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, with an administrative headquarters in San Francisco, California. Its principal subsidiaries are Bank of the West (296 branches in California, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington state and Idaho)

Our centuries-old financial management success draws on heritage derived from Swiss banking families. BancWest Corporation emerged from their desire for a private bank; many successful wealthy people still require very personal banking service, which is rare in today’s marketplace.

BancWest Corporation continues the tradition of personalized private banking, retaining our ancestors’ principles: excellence, privacy, and courtesy. Innovative problem-solving comes from experience, research, and analysis, to deliver best-in-class wealth management solutions. We deliver solutions to help you manage, grow, and protect your wealth, now and for future generations.

THE TEAM
BancWest Corporation´s primary strength is the excellence and commitment of our professionals, which include multilingual private bankers, lawyers, traders, and senior professionals with different experiences, who work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment; responding to our global business needs by interacting with clients and colleagues in various settings around the world.

Our culture is inclusive and collegial – we foster a sense of teamwork and respect. Clients benefit from the systems of an independent institution, while enjoying the personalized attention that only a “boutique” organization can provide.

Our institutional client service provides financial institutions, investors and issuers with institutional cash management, trust and agency solutions as well as securities services.

In United States, our Business Banking segment supports small businesses and self-employed business owners with payment and credit solutions as well as other banking services across the globe.

In recent years, BancWest Corporation has "commercial banks + investment banks" as its starting point to improve its development ability in "settlement, investment, and transaction" and deepen its business transformation with the direction of "light capital, light assets, and high efficiency”. It has achieved stable and promising progress and the high-quality development trend continues to emerge. As of the end of 2018, BancWest Corporation’s total assets were 6.71 trillion yuan, up by 4.59% from the beginning of the year; its operating income was 158.287 billion yuan, up 13.08% year-on-year, and is rising quarter by quarter; its net profit was 60.620 billion yuan, up 5.98% year-on-year; non-performing loan ratio was 1.57%, decreased by 0.02% compared with the beginning of the year, and the proportion of special-mention loans accounted for 2.05%, which was 0.26% lower than that at the beginning of the year. Therefore,BancWest Corporation achieved coordinated development of scale, quality and efficiency.

In the future, BancWest Corporation will continue to consolidate and forge differentiated business characteristics and core competitiveness with the guide of the “6567” strategic system, open a new journey of transformation and development, and continue to move forward toward the lofty goal of “First-Class Bank and Century-Old Bank”

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