MUFG Union Bank

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UnionBank
Industry Banking
Founded1864;160 years ago (1864) (as The Bank of California)
1996 (as Union Bank of California)
2008;16 years ago (2008) (as UnionBank)
FounderKaspare Cohn  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
DefunctDecember 1, 2022;15 months ago (2022-12-01)
FateAcquired by U.S. Bancorp
Headquarters 1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York City
United States
Key people
  • Kevin Cronin (CEO)
  • Masatoshi Komoriya (Executive Chairman)
  • Greg Seibly (President and Head of Regional Banking)
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The former Union Bank logo used from 1996 prior to the 2008 rebranding. UnionBank of California.jpg
The former Union Bank logo used from 1996 prior to the 2008 rebranding.
Former Union Bank logo from December 2008 to November 2017. UnionBank logo.svg
Former Union Bank logo from December 2008 to November 2017.
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A branch in Los Angeles, California

Union Bank was an American national bank with 398 branches in California, Washington and Oregon. It was owned by MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation and was acquired by U.S. Bancorp in December 2022. It was headquartered in New York City and had commercial branches in Dallas, Houston, New York and Chicago, in addition to two international offices.

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History

Union Bank

In 1914, Kaspare Cohn founded Kaspare Cohn Commercial & Savings Bank in Los Angeles. It was renamed Union Bank & Trust Company of Los Angeles in 1918. Harry Volk was recruited from Prudential Insurance Company as the bank's new CEO in 1957 and pioneered the use of the one-bank holding company, [1] among other banking innovations. [2] Volk retired in 1980 after the purchase of the bank by London-based Standard Chartered Bank in 1979.

MUFG Bank, Ltd.

The Bank of Tokyo established the Bank of Tokyo California in 1953 in San Francisco. In 1975, Bank of Tokyo California purchased San Diego's Southern California First National Bank, shortening its name to California First. Four years later Bank of Tokyo California, via California First, took over Union Bank and adopted its name.

In May 1996, Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo merged. [3] In San Francisco, the Bank of California merged into Union Bank, N.A., and the merged entity, Union Bank of California, N.A. became a direct subsidiary of the bank holding company, UnionBanCal Corporation.

In 1999, UnionBanCal Corporation became a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

In August 2008, Mitsubishi UFJ offered to buy the 35% of Union Bank it did not already own, which Union Bank accepted. [4] [5]

On November 4, 2008, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), announced that BTMU had successfully acquired all of the outstanding shares of UnionBanCal Corporation. [6]

In 2014, MUFG integrated the U.S. operations of its subsidiary The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) with those of San Francisco–based Union Bank, N.A. [7]

In April 2018, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) was renamed to MUFG Bank, Ltd. [8]

When it was called MUFG UnionBank, it was a subsidiary of intermediate holding company, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation, and a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. [9]

In December 2022, the bank was acquired by U.S. Bancorp for $8 billion. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Acquisitions

DateAcquiredSource
1864Bank of California
1883First National Bank
1905The London and San Francisco Bank
1918The Bank of Personal Service
1952The Bank of Tokyo of California
1957Occidental Savings & Commercial Bank (North Hollywood) [16]
1958Union Bank
1967Southern California First National Bank
1972Mitsubishi Bank of California
1975California First Bank
1972Mitsubishi Bank of California
1984Bancal Tri-State Corporation – bank holding company for The Bank of California
2002First Western Bank [17]
2004Business Bank of California [18]
2010Frontier Bank [19]
2010Tamalpais Bank [20]
2012 Pacific Capital Bancorp – bank holding company for Santa Barbara Bank & Trust [21]
2013First Bank Association Bank Services [22]

Controversies

On October 19, 2004, the Federal Reserve Board announced that Union Bank had entered into a written agreement to avoid criminal prosecution for money laundering. [23] Three years later, Union Bank was again accused of money-laundering and in September 2007, the bank agreed to pay $31.6 million in penalties and forfeitures to settle government claims that it had been implicated in an elaborate drug money laundering scheme involving Mexican exchange houses known as casas de cambio. [24]

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