financial services headquarters tupelo mississippi united states key people james d. rollins iii chairman & ceo christopher a. bagley president & coo william l. prater treasurer & cfo products wealth management commercial banking online banking retail banking revenue us 891m fy 2009 1 net income us 82.7 m fy 2009 1 total assets us 13.9 b fy 2009 2 total equity us 1.28 b fy 2009 2 number of employees 3 600 3 website www.bancorpsouth.com bancorpsouth inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in tupelo mississippi . as of april 2016 it has approximately 13.9 billion in assets . 3 the company has over 3 500 employees . contents 1 history 2 subsidiaries 3 references 4 external links history edit the bank was founded in 1876 when raymond trice and company received a charter to create a bank in mississippi . in 1886 the banking operation was moved to nearby tupelo ms and renamed the bank of lee county . soon after it was renamed to the bank of tupelo . in 1966 it was renamed the bank of mississippi . finally in 1997 the bank of mississippi officially changed its name to bancorpsouth . subsidiaries edit bancorpsouth inc. operates its wholly owned subsidiaries bancorpsouth bank and its wholly owned subsidiaries gumtree wholesale insurance brokers inc. the bancorpsouth bank headquarters is located in tupelo ms and has 13.9 billion in assets . 3 references edit a b bancorpsouth bxs annual sec income statement filing via wikinvest . a b bancorpsouth bxs annual sec balance sheet filing via wikinvest . a b c bancorpsouth bank . holding companies . ibanknet.com . 2009 09 30 . retrieved 2009 12 29 . external links edit bancorpsouth branch footprint . official site this mississippi related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this united states bank related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a financial services corporation of the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bancorpsouth & oldid 719416370 categories tupelo mississippibanks based in mississippieconomy of the southeastern united statescompanies listed on the new york stock exchangemississippi stubsunited states bank stubsunited states financial services company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 add links this page was last modified on 9 may 2016 at 15 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view