Los Angeles Participating Exhibitors

About The Company:

What is now Bank of the West has expanded over 130 years from the California frontier to its current position. The bank now serves nearly 4 million households and businesses in hundreds of communities in 19 Western and Midwestern states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Today, Bank of the West is a high-performance, full service regional financial services company with over $61 billion in assets, more than 700 commercial and retail banking locations and approximately 10,700 employees. The bank's development has been sustained through a strong focus on a superior level of customer service, promoted with Bank of the West's bear brand. Bank of the West employs a business model that lets the bank make service-focused decisions -- about credit, products and other aspects of its operations -- as quickly, consistently and as close to the customer as possible. The bank operates distinct units to provide a range of superior deposit, credit, insurance and investment products and services — Commercial Banking and Regional Banking, which includes National Finance.

The Commercial Banking Group provides business credit, deposit and cash management services for large corporate customers, including specialties in:

Agribusiness
Cash management
Commercial real estate and construction
Small Business Administration Credit
Religious institution banking
Health care institutions
Correspondent Banking for financial institutions
Government agencies and municipalities
Equipment financing, through the bank's branches and brokers across the U.S., including vendor finance programs
Loan syndication
Trade finance
Capital markets

The Regional Banking Group serves individuals, small businesses and middle-market commercial customers through:

More than 700 retail and commercial banking locations
Private Banking offices
Construction Loan offices
Internet and Telephone Banking centers
769 ATMs throughout 19 states
A full array of deposit, loan, insurance and investment products and banking services through the office network, via Internet, and by telephone
Mortgage and home equity credit
A specialized group of bilingual "Pacific Rim Banking" branches serves predominantly Asian-American clients in California
Trust and wealth management services
Auto loans and leases plus loans for marine pleasure craft and recreational vehicles nationwide, directly to consumers and through 5,600 dealers.
A subsidiary, Essex Credit Corporation, focuses on brokerage and refinancing of larger marine and RV credits nationwide.