Merger Momentum

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Business. Whitney Bank, Tampa Bay, Sarasota-Bradenton
Industry. Banking
Key. Bank hopes to capitalize on its size to grow market share.

Eric Obeck is one of the few bank executives on the Gulf Coast who can call a $20 billion asset institution home.

The president of the Tampa Bay region for Whitney Bank, soon to officially be Hancock Bank, Obeck is indeed in some rare space. Way above Whitney/Hancock are behemoths like Bank of America and Wells Fargo or SunTrust and BB&T. Those banks have hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars in assets.