About Us

BancWest Corporation is a financial services holding company which was formed in 1998 as a result of a merger between holding companies for Bank of the West, San Francisco and First Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu. In 2001, the public entity became a wholly-owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com).

As of June 30, 2007, BancWest Corporation had total assets in excess of $70 billion, more than 4 million customer accounts, 747 retail branch banking locations and dozens of commercial banking office locations in 20 states and overseas, an offshore branch in Grand Cayman, British West Indies as well as representative offices in Tokyo, Japan and Taipei, Taiwan.

Credit Rating
Standard & Poor’s: Long-term AA-, short termA-1+ (as of July, 2007)