City National Bank of Florida


City National Bank of Florida, based in Miami, Florida, is the third-largest financial institution in the state with nearly $14 billion in assets. CNB has 29 branches, from Miami-Dade County to the greater Orlando area, and nearly 800 employees. Since 2013, CNB has been owned by Chilean bank Banco de Crédito e Inversiones.

History

City National Bank of Florida was established in 1946 when Leonard L. Abess, Sr., Max Orovitz, and Baron de Hirsch Meyer founded the North Shore Bank on 71st Street in Miami Beach. In the 1950s, Industrial National Bank at 46 West Flagler Street was added and the bank moved into new headquarters at 25 West Flagler Street. City National Bank’s corporate offices are located in Miami's financial district at 1450 Brickell Avenue. City National Bank has branches in Broward and Palm Beach counties as well as the Orlando and Winter Park, Florida communities.
Caja Madrid, based in Spain, approached CNB in early 2008 and purchased the bank. In 2009, Jorge Gonzalez, a 20-year veteran banker with Wachovia, became the president and CEO of City National Bank. In May 2013, Bankia, formerly Caja Madrid, announced that it had signed an agreement to sell City National Bank to Banco de Credito e Inversiones, based in Chile.
In December 2017, CNB acquired TotalBank from Banco Santander for $528 million. TotalBank had been a subsidiary of Banco Popular Español, which Santander absorbed in 2017. In July 2018, the branches of TotalBank were converted to CNB locations.

Awards and recognitions

The company features four lines of business – Personal and Business Banking, Corporate Banking, Real Estate Banking and Private Client Banking. It was the first community bank in Florida to offer an iPad banking app for its clients.
CNB was the only retail bank in Florida that had no customer complaints filed against it with state regulators in 2011. The bank posted record earnings in 2012. These benchmarks have earned City National Bank recognition by the community, media and analysts:
City National Bank’s six Board of Directors are Chairman Luis Gabarda Duran, Neisen Kasdin, Daniel Garcia-Pita, Jorge Gonzalez, Rafael Miyar and Mark B. Rosenberg. City National Bank has been recognized for its community involvement and has held an “Outstanding” community reinvestment rating from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for the past 12 years.