I had an account at this bank for a few years, and didn’t know about the collapse until reading this in Hacker News. I did receive a weird email from the bank today that my account was being migrated to a different bank.
Republic First was kind of a crappy bank. The website was bad, the customer service was bad, and most of their marketing prominently featured their CEO with his dog sitting on his lap in front of a new branch they’d just opened up.
A few years ago the bank started making it difficult to withdraw money from your accounts. They had ridiculously low limits for free transfers, and I ended up having to pay wire transfer fees to get my money out of the bank.
It was a weird place. Always got the vibe that some old money family ran it poorly.
>REPUBLIC BANK & TRUST
COMPANY - HEADQUARTERED IN
LOUISVILLE, KY - IS NOT RELATED
TO REPUBLIC FIRST BANK.
We are not affiliated in any way with Philadelphia-based
Republic First Bank, which does business as Republic
Bank.
Oh, it gets worse. There are multiple distinct City National Bank(s), but in different service areas (except Florida where there is overlap and one operates as CN Bank, despite City National Bank of Florida being 1-state and not national).
Not to be confused with the defunct National City Bank.
I feel like there are a lot of churches with similar names. Is this just an older institution thing ? Before the internet, was it best to have similar names ?
I had an account at this bank for a few years, and didn’t know about the collapse until reading this in Hacker News. I did receive a weird email from the bank today that my account was being migrated to a different bank.
Republic First was kind of a crappy bank. The website was bad, the customer service was bad, and most of their marketing prominently featured their CEO with his dog sitting on his lap in front of a new branch they’d just opened up.
A few years ago the bank started making it difficult to withdraw money from your accounts. They had ridiculously low limits for free transfers, and I ended up having to pay wire transfer fees to get my money out of the bank.
It was a weird place. Always got the vibe that some old money family ran it poorly.
How funny that First Republic bank failed last year, and Republic First fails this year.
Maybe customers mistook the latter for the former and started pulling their deposits..
There's also a First Citizens and Citizens First bank. And Citizens bank.
Also two First Banks.
https://localfirstbank.com/about-us/
https://www.firstbankonline.com/about-2/
I like the giant yellow header on this bank's website:
https://www.republicbank.com
>REPUBLIC BANK & TRUST COMPANY - HEADQUARTERED IN LOUISVILLE, KY - IS NOT RELATED TO REPUBLIC FIRST BANK. We are not affiliated in any way with Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank, which does business as Republic Bank.
Oh, it gets worse. There are multiple distinct City National Bank(s), but in different service areas (except Florida where there is overlap and one operates as CN Bank, despite City National Bank of Florida being 1-state and not national).
Not to be confused with the defunct National City Bank.
https://www.bankatcity.com/
https://www.cnb.com/
https://www.citynational.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Corp.
I feel like there are a lot of churches with similar names. Is this just an older institution thing ? Before the internet, was it best to have similar names ?
> Not to be confused with the defunct National City Bank.
Or with Citi Bank.
Thanks for the clear up I was confused myself.
This will continue as long s interest rates stay high.