amarillo national bank plaza one building in downtown amarillo type private industry finance founded amarillo texas 1892 headquarters amarillo texas products financial services number of employees 550 slogan absolutely everywhere website www.anb.com amarillo national bank anb is the largest 100 percent family owned bank in the united states 1 providing commercial banking and personal banking in amarillo texas and the texas panhandle . anb operates 19 branch locations in and around the cities of amarillo borger and lubbock as well as 94 local branded automatic teller machines atms . 2 as of the end of the second quarter of 2014 it claimed to have more than 3.8 billion in assets . 3 anb employed 550 people as of october 2013 . 4 the bank is headquartered in two high rise buildings in downtown amarillo the 16 story amarillo national bank plaza one and the 12 story amarillo national bank plaza two . anb is known for opening texas first drive up bank window 1950 and the first automatic teller machine in texas 1978 5 which was located in the bank s downtown lobby . also in 1978 the bank began construction on what was then the largest drive up banking facility in the united states at 10th avenue and taylor street in amarillo . 6 as of the first quarter of 2014 amarillo national bank ranked as the 16th largest farm lender in the nation with 25 percent of its loans concentrated on agriculture . 7 it is the largest mortgage lender in the texas panhandle and the largest independent cattle lender in texas . 8 during the christmas season anb allows each of its employees to designate a 100 check to any charity of the employee s choice . the bank claims to have given 1.5 million to more than 216 local charities in 2013 . 9 in addition the bank invests heavily in the financial education of texas residents with its anb smart program and participates in the national teach children to save campaign and the get smart about credit program from the american bankers association . 10 in 2010 amarillo national bank opened a real estate title firm called circle a title . 11 the bank opened its first lubbock branch called american national bank in december 2012 . 12 amarillo national bank owns the naming rights to amarillo national bank sox stadium . contents 1 history 2 owners 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the bank was formed in 1892 as first national bank of amarillo located at 4th avenue and polk street . local cattleman benjamin taliaferro b.t. ware one of the earliest settlers in the area became vice president of first national bank in 1895 until moving to fort worth texas in 1899 . ware returned in 1900 and bought the bank . he operated it until 1906 when he sold his stock and organized the western bank and trust company . in 1909 ware repurchased the amarillo bank and merged it with western bank and trust forming amarillo national bank . members of the ware family have owned and operated the bank ever since . 13 owners edit the current owners of amarillo national bank represent the fourth and fifth generations of the ware family . richard ware ii has been president since 1982 . his sons pat and william ware were elected to director positions on amarillo national bank s board in 2008 . 14 see also edit list of tallest buildings in amarillo references edit http www.texasmonthly.com story best texas century % e2 % 80 % 94business page 0 2 https www.anb.com about us.aspx http www.ibanknet.com scripts callreports getbank.aspx ibnid usa 353555 http www.amarillo chamber.org employment business industry directory.aspx http www.texasmonthly.com story best texas century % e2 % 80 % 94business page 0 2 http amarillo.com news local news 2014 05 12 0 https www.aba.com tools research documents top100agbanksbydollarvolume.pdf http amarillo.com stories 031807 bus 7082956 . shtml https www.anb.com anb gives back.aspx https www.anb.com anb smart.aspx http amarillo.com stories 2010 03 25 bus biz2.shtml http amarillo.com news local news 2013 02 16 amarillo firms bank lubbock http www.tshaonline.org handbook online articles fwaak https www.anb.com history.aspx external links edit amarillo national bank circle a title student spending accounts american national bank anb smart program get smart about credit program teach children to save campaign retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amarillo national bank & oldid 714479357 categories banks based in texascompanies based in amarillo texas navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages 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