Best Banks to Work For 2025: More than $10B of assets

Out of the 90 banks on American Banker’s 2025 Best Banks to Work For ranking, 11 have assets mor than $10 billion of assets. Repeat honoree Pinnacle Financial Partners in Nashville, Tennessee, is the largest bank on the list with assets topping $54 billion.

Pinnacle also happens to be among the Best Banks above the $10 billion-asset threshold that’s in the midst of a merger. The company has agreed to combine operations with Synovus Financial in Columbus, Georgia, in one of the largest bank M&A deals announced this year.

The new entity would operate under the Pinnacle name and brand, and Synovus CEO Kevin Blair would be the CEO of both a newly formed holding company and the bank.

Another 2025 Best Banks to Work For winner, the Tupelo, Mississippi-based Cadence Bank, expects to be acquired by Columbus, Ohio-based Huntington Bancshares in a $7.4 billion all-stock deal announced last month. Meanwhile, First Merchants Bank in Muncie, Indiana, has agreed to buy First Savings Financial Group in Jeffersonville, Indiana, for $241 million in stock.

See below for the complete list, in descending order, of 2025 Best Banks honorees with assets topping $10 billion. For additional Best Banks coverage, visit Best Banks to Work For 2025.

Note: With one exception, which is noted below, total assets for each bank are from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as of June 30, 2025. Employee headcounts were provided by individual banks when they applied to the program.

11: Zions Bank *
Salt Lake City, Utah
Assets: $22.4 billion
President and CEO: Paul Burdiss
No. of U.S. employees: 1,311 

* Zions Bank is one of several banking divisions operated by Salt Lake City-based Zions Bancorp. Zions provided the division’s asset size to American Banker.

10: Busey Bank
Champaign, Illinois
Assets: $18.9 billion
Chair and CEO: Van Dukeman
No. of U.S. employees: 1,432

9: First Merchants Bank
Muncie, Indiana
Assets: $18.6 billion
CEO: Mark Hardwick
No. of U.S. employees: 2,024

8: Cadence Bank 
Tupelo, Mississippi
Assets: $50.4 billion
Chair and CEO: James “Dan” Rollins III
No. of U.S. employees: 5,430

7:  TowneBank
Suffolk, Virginia 
Assets: $18.3 billion
President and CEO: William “Bill” Foster
No. of U.S. employees: 1,543

6: Enterprise Bank & Trust
Clayton, Missouri
Assets: $16 billion
President and CEO: Jim Lally
No. of U.S. employees: 1,302

5: United Community
Greenville, South Carolina
Assets: $28 billion
Chair and CEO: Lynn Harton
No. of U.S. employees: 3,062

4: SouthState Bank
Winter Haven, Florida
Assets: $65.9 billion
CEO: John Corbett
No. of U.S. employees: 6,484

3: Bell Bank
Fargo, North Dakota
Assets: $14.1 billion
CEO: Michael Solberg
No. of U.S. employees: 1,929

2: Seacoast Bank
Stuart, Florida
Assets: $15.9 billion
Chair and CEO: Charles Schaffer
No. of U.S. employees: 1,541

1: Pinnacle Financial Partners
Nashville, Tennessee
Assets: $54.7 billion
President and CEO: Terry Turner
No. of U.S. employees: 3,459