“Despite being the US’s 17th largest city, Charlotte is the country’s second-largest banking center by assets held, trailing only New York, and with San Francisco hot on its heels. Along with the new, yet-to-be-named bank, the former gold rush town is also home to Bank of America—the nation’s second biggest bank—as well as NewDominion Bank and Carolina Premier Bank.  (BB&T, founded in 1872, was headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. SunTrust is based in Atlanta).”