United States · Financial institution
Western Alliance Bank
Western Alliance Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank in Arizona with its head office in Phoenix. It is a member of the Federal Reserve System. It is wholly owned by Western Alliance Bancorporation, a bank holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The bank provides commercial lending, deposit and treasury management services to businesses in more than 30 sectors, plus consumer deposit products. In October 2025 it brought its former divisional bank brands under the single Western Alliance Bank 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
- BBFXUS6SXXX 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 BBFXUS6S directly.
- Swift GPI
- Live member
- 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
- 2006-03-04
- Last updated
- 2023-11-15
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Ownership
Group subsidiary
100% Western Alliance Bancorporation
Institution type
Commercial bank
- Ownership
- Western Alliance Bancorporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, holds 100% of the bank.
- Direct parent
- Western Alliance Bancorporation ↗, United States 100%
- Head office
- 1 East Washington Street, 85004 Phoenix, United States
- Company register
- FDIC cert 57512
- Former name
- Alliance Bank of Arizona
Business lines
The bank serves businesses through national specialist units, including homeowners' association banking, business escrow, legal settlement services, digital assets and mortgage warehouse lending. It also runs full-service business banking in Arizona, California and Nevada.
Online
- Websites & references
- westernalliancebancorporation.com ↗
investors.westernalliancebancorporation.com ↗ investor relations (parent Western Alliance Bancorporation)
amerihome.com ↗ AmeriHome Mortgage brand site, linked from the bank's header
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗
Sources · 13 pages consulted
- westernalliancebancorporation.com/about-us/our-leadership
- westernalliancebancorporation.com/contact-us
- businesswire.com/news/home/20260720876976/en/Western-Alliance-Bancorporation-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-F
- banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-suite/bankfind/details/57512
- investors.westernalliancebancorporation.com/News-and-Presentations/news/news-details/2026/Western-Alliance-Bancorporation-Takes-Decis
- westernalliancebancorporation.com/news/western-alliance-bancorporation-names-vishal-idnani-as-next-chief-financial-officer
- westernalliancebancorporation.com/find-a-banker/vishal-idnani
- abfjournal.com/western-alliance-appoints-ceo-vecchione-as-chairman/
- westernalliancebancorporation.com/commercial/global-markets-services
- cnbc.com/2025/10/22/western-alliance-ceo-alleged-loan-fraud-isolated.html
- stocktitan.net/sec-filings/WAL/10-k-western-alliance-bancorporation-files-annual-report-726c04490f20.htm
- tradingview.com/news/tradingview:de0491ab931c7:0-western-alliance-bancorporation-sec-10-k-report/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Alliance_Bancorporation
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chair & chief executive
-
Kenneth A. Vecchione
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Chief financial officer
-
Vishal Idnani
Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
-
Dale M. Gibbons
Vice Chairman and Chief Banking Officer, Deposits & Innovation
- Executive
-
Emily Nachlas
Chief Risk Officer
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- United States
- Federal Reserve Board Prudential supervisorCentral bankAML supervisor
- United States
- Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions Prudential supervisor
- United States
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Conduct
- United States
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Resolution
Recent events 2 enforcement or investigation items
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Leadership
The board of Western Alliance Bancorporation appointed Kenneth A. Vecchione as chairman from 10 June 2026. He succeeded Bruce Beach.
abfjournal.com ↗ -
Incident
The bank charged off a USD 126.4 million trade finance loan. It sued Jefferies and Leucadia Asset Management, alleging breach of contract and fraud.
investors.westernalliancebancorporation.com ↗ -
Leadership
Vishal Idnani became chief financial officer on 2 January 2026. He succeeded Dale Gibbons, who had held the post since 2003.
westernalliancebancorporation.com ↗ -
Incident
The bank disclosed an August 2025 lawsuit against borrower Cantor Group V, LLC, alleging fraud over the collateral for a credit facility.
cnbc.com ↗ -
Other
The bank completed a brand unification, bringing its legacy divisional brands under the Western Alliance Bank name.
tradingview.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
- BBFXUS6SXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- BBFXBank
- USCountry · United States
- 6SLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- SI7YQSVPFZBSQ878IC17
- 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
- Western Alliance Bancorporation · United States5493003VJXZ5JXT9S762 ↗
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- ONE EAST WASHINGTON SUITE 2500 PHOENIX,AZ 85004 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Operational address
- ONE EAST WASHINGTON STREET SUITE 2500 PHOENIX,AZ PHOENIX,AZ 85004 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>BBFXUS6SXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>SI7YQSVPFZBSQ878IC17</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>BBFXUS6SXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>SI7YQSVPFZBSQ878IC17</LEI>
<Nm>WESTERN ALLIANCE BANK</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>PHOENIX</TwnNm>
<Ctry>US</Ctry>
<AdrLine>ONE EAST WASHINGTON SUITE 2500 PHOENIX, AZ 85004</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>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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The sanctions facts on this page cover the BIC and its LEI only.
An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.
Read the methodology →Credits for this page
- 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.
- Images—logos and photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited with their author and licence) or from the institution's own website, where Wikimedia has none. Elucidate keeps a copy of each; the links lead to the source and the original image. Logo: westernalliancebancorporation.com (official website) · original; Kenneth A. Vecchione: westernalliancebancorporation.com (official website) · original; Vishal Idnani: westernalliancebancorporation.com (official website) · original; Dale M. Gibbons: westernalliancebancorporation.com (official website) · original; Emily Nachlas: westernalliancebancorporation.com (official website) · original.
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