Commerce National Bank

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Commerce National Bank
Type Public (NASDAQFRME)
Founded 1991 (CNBC Bancorp.)
Headquarters Columbus, Ohio USA
Key people Thomas McAuliffe,
Chairman & CEO
Products Business Banking,
Heathcare Financing
Employees 105 (2006)
Parent First Merchants Corporation
Website CommerceNationalBank.com

Commerce National Bank, (NASDAQFRME) is a commercial bank founded in 1991 with $600 million in assets. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and has a regional office in Cincinnati, Ohio. Commerce provides a variety of banking services to small and mid-sized businesses.

Within its business-only niche, Commerce National Bank is known for its specialty in health care finance. This specialty has garnered it the reputation as the bank for dentists, physicians, veterinarians, and other health care practitioners throughout the Midwest and beyond.

Dr. James Newton, a professor at the Ohio State University, serves as the bank's Chief Economic Adviser. In 2003, First Merchants Corporation acquired Commerce National Bank and joined CNB with the other First Merchants affiliate banks.

Commerce National Bank is the third largest bank in the United States bearing the name Commerce behind Commerce Bancorp NYSECBH, a retail bank headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Commerce Bancshares, also a retail bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

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