BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) (NYSE: BKU) is a full-service commercial bank headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida, offering a diversified range of banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, and commercial clients. Focused on relationship banking, the company provides deposit solutions, lending programs, treasury management services, and wealth management through a network of branches and a robust digital platform.
The bank’s core business lines include commercial real estate lending, residential mortgage financing, SBA lending, and consumer banking. Its commercial real estate portfolio spans construction, land acquisition, office, retail and multifamily properties. In consumer banking, BankUnited delivers checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and home equity loans. Treasury and payment solutions support corporate clients with cash-flow optimization, merchant services and online cash management tools.
BankUnited primarily serves markets in Florida and the New York metropolitan area, maintaining a branch network in major population centers such as Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, as well as strategic locations in New York City and Westchester County. The bank’s digital offering includes mobile and online banking channels designed to streamline account access, deposit capture and loan origination for both retail and commercial customers.
Founded in 1984, the institution emerged from a restructuring of a prior Florida bank in 2009 and has since grown through organic expansion and selective acquisitions. Leadership is headed by Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John A. Kanas, under whom the bank emphasizes credit quality, operational efficiency and customer service. BankUnited’s management team combines deep industry experience with a commitment to innovation in community banking.
