November 13, 2024 12:00 PM
Small banks once again dominated American Banker’s Best Banks to Work For annual ranking. Of this year’s 90 honorees, 59 had less than $3 billion of assets.
Note: Asset sizes are from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as of June 30. Employee headcounts were provided by the banks.
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13 Vista Bank
Dallas, Texas
Assets: $2.2 billion
President and CEO: John Steinmetz
No. of U.S. employees: 228
For Vista Bank, 2023 was a difficult year. The company’s metro market president, Tony Stephenson, died suddenly and unexpectedly in March. The same week, the failure of Silicon Valley Bank kicked off weeks of deposit-run fears across the industry. Vista employees responded by calling clients and communicating the safety and soundness of the bank.
“I could not have been prouder of our team for the true professionalism they showed despite the shock and grief of just having lost Tony,” President and CEO John Steinmetz said.
Vista also had several significant projects, such as closing an acquisition;expanding into Palm Beach County, Florida; converting its core banking platform and launching a banking and financial literacy center in South Dallas.
“While we may have looked like ducks paddling madly under the water, each milestone was executed seamlessly,” Steinmetz said. “This team is literally the best in the business.”
