SunTrust Bank, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the largest banks in the United States. As of this writing, the bank has over $170 billion in assets, making it of the nation's 17th largest financial services holding company. Suntrust provides retail banking services such as savings accounts, checking accounts and CDs, and the bank is also a large mortgage lender. Today, SunTrust Bank has over 1,500 retail branches and 2,800 ATMs.
SunTrust's history dates all the way bank to 1811, when Farmers Bank of Alexandria, VA, the bank's earliest predecessor, was founded. SunTrust Bank was formed in 1985 as the result of a merger between the Trust Company of Georgia and SunBanks, Inc. The bank did not take on the name SunTrust, however, until 1995. SunTrust Bank is also well known for its longstanding relationship with Coca-Cola. In 1919, the Trust Company of Georiga underwrote Coca-Cola's initial public offering (IPO), and SunTrust held a large stake in The Coca-Cola Company until 2008.
Today, SunTrust operates primarily out of the following states: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. SunTrust Mortgage is a subsidiary of SunTrust and lends in Suntrust's core states as well as in neighboring states outside of its footprint. SunTrust Mortgage services loans in all 50 states.
In addition to its full suite of financial products, SunTrust also offers its customers access to a well designed online banking platform and mobile applications for every device. You can find many of SunTrust Bank's interest rates on this page, and then you can compare them to our network of top lenders.
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