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Cadence Bank is a regional bank that takes deposits and makes loans to people, small businesses, and larger companies.
Cadence Bank is a regional bank: a place where people and businesses park their money, and a lender that hands out loans for homes, cars, equipment, and growth. It runs a network of branches across the South and Texas, but a growing chunk of its business happens online and through mobile banking.
Like most banks, it makes money on the spread. It pays depositors a little interest, lends that money out at a higher rate, and keeps the difference. It also earns fees from things like mortgage lending, wealth management, and treasury services for businesses. Its customers choose it partly because a regional bank can offer the personal service of a small bank while still handling the needs of a mid-sized company. The bank as it exists today is the product of a big merger. In 2021, Cadence Bancorporation combined with BancorpSouth, and the combined company took the Cadence Bank name and moved its headquarters to Tupelo, Mississippi, with major operations in Houston. That deal roughly doubled its size and expanded its footprint across the Southeast and Texas.
Cadence is not one of the giant national banks like JPMorgan Chase or Bank of America. It competes with other regional lenders and community banks for local customers. The business is sensitive to interest rates: when rates rise fast, the bank can earn more on loans, but it also pays more for deposits and may see the value of its bond holdings fall. Like all banks, it lives or dies on trust and on keeping enough capital on hand to absorb losses when borrowers struggle.
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