United States · Financial institution
Banc of California
Banc of California is a California state-chartered bank and a member of the Federal Reserve System, with its head office in Los Angeles. It is wholly owned by Banc of California, Inc., a bank holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The bank provides banking and treasury management services to small, middle-market and venture-backed businesses, as well as personal and private banking. The legal entity was formerly Pacific Western Bank, which absorbed Banc of California, N.A. on 1 December 2023 and took the Banc of California name.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- SQARUS33XXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under SQARUS33 directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 2006-06-03
- Last updated
- 2023-12-29
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
100% Banc of California, Inc.
Institution type
Commercial bank
- Standing
- The legal entity was formerly Pacific Western Bank. Banc of California, N.A. merged into it on 1 December 2023, and the combined bank continued under the Banc of California name.
- Ownership
- Banc of California, Inc., a bank holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, holds 100% of the bank.
- Direct parent
- Banc of California, Inc. ↗, United States 100%
- Head office
- 11611 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 500, 90049 Los Angeles, United States
- Company register
- FDIC cert 24045
- Former names
- Pacific Western Bank · First Professional Bank, National Association
Business lines
The bank focuses on business banking, including commercial real estate, asset-based and venture lending, treasury management, merchant payment processing (BancEdge) and banking for community associations (SmartStreet). It operates branches in California, Denver and Durham.
Online
- Websites & references
- bancofcal.com ↗
investors.bancofcal.com ↗ investor relations site of the parent, Banc of California, Inc.
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗
Sources · 11 pages consulted
- bancofcal.com/
- bancofcal.com/about-us-profile/company-profile/meet-executive-team/
- investors.bancofcal.com/corporate-governance/executive-officers
- investors.bancofcal.com/news-releases/news-release-details/banc-california-inc-reports-second-quarter-2026-financ
- dam.bancofcal.com/m/24e2a5fdb699888c/original/CORP29-Banc-of-California-Corporate-Fact-Sheet.pdf?_ga=2.1447
- dam.bancofcal.com/m/5db06d352b146e0b/original/AS-MI1-Routing-Instructions-and-Cutoff-Times.pdf
- investors.bancofcal.com/static-files/68174e3e-40c7-4079-afbe-d8e84497dc20
- investors.bancofcal.com/static-files/576eee64-45ba-4b4c-b254-1a30c66e4b28
- investors.bancofcal.com/static-files/7072a5ee-1a9d-4835-b077-c3edd102d43e
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102112/000114036123049098/ny20010147x1_defm14a.htm
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banc_of_California
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chair & chief executive
- Jared M. Wolff Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
- Chief financial officer
- Joseph Kauder Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
- Hamid Hussain President of the Bank
- Executive
- Olivia Lindsay Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- United States
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Prudential supervisorCentral bankAML supervisor
- United States
- California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation Prudential supervisor
- United States
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Resolution
- United States
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Conduct
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Other
The parent reported a second-quarter net loss of USD 251.3 million after selling USD 2.3 billion of securities and moving USD 827.0 million of loans to held for sale.
investors.bancofcal.com ↗ -
Leadership
The bank appointed Karen Hon, its Chief Accounting Officer, as Deputy Chief Financial Officer.
investors.bancofcal.com ↗ -
Leadership
The holding company elected Jared Wolff as Chairman of its Board. He had chaired the bank's board since 2019.
investors.bancofcal.com ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
Banc of California, N.A. merged into Pacific Western Bank, which continued under the Banc of California name. The merger followed the PacWest Bancorp holding-company merger completed on 30 November 2023.
investors.bancofcal.com ↗ -
Licence
The Federal Reserve and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation approved the merger and Pacific Western Bank's membership of the Federal Reserve System.
investors.bancofcal.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- SQARUS33XXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- SQARBank
- USCountry · United States
- 33Location
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300A7DTSCJLJ33451
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- United States · North America
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Banc of California, Inc. · United States549300ZKWUJDP6LJ1X87 ↗
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- STE 500 11611 SAN VINCENTE BLVD LOS ANGELES 90049 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Operational address
- 555 S. MANGUM STREET SUITE 1000 DURHAM,NC DURHAM,NC 27701 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>SQARUS33XXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300A7DTSCJLJ33451</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>SQARUS33XXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300A7DTSCJLJ33451</LEI>
<Nm>BANC OF CALIFORNIA</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<Ctry>US</Ctry>
<AdrLine>STE 500 11611 SAN VINCENTE BLVD LOS ANGELES 90049</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>Swift’s two address fields do not agree on a town, so the full record gives the address as address lines only.
The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
Every value comes from a public source, such as Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, GLEIF or the OFAC and EU sanctions lists. Most sources are matched on a BIC or an LEI, not on a name.
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- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, leadership, regulators and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the institution's own website and reports, regulators, company registers and news. Figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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