With consistent growth comes the persistent challenge to be even better. It’s a challenge we’ve grown to embrace in eleven years on the ascending curve. And we wouldn’t have it any other way.

At Southwest Bank of Texas, being better is actually a prerequisite for growing bigger. In fact, we attribute our eleventh consecutive year of double-digit growth to our primary focus on being better.

Better for our customers. Better for our employees. Better for our community. And better for our shareholders.

By listening better, we’re providing meaningful answers to a broader spectrum of customer needs.

By eagerly investing time with our commercial customers—at their places of business—we’re delivering ever-increasing value to higher and higher levels of their organizations.

Through expanded services. Innovative technology. And an ever-deepening pool of competitively priced banking products.

Pair this with our reputation for flexibility, customer-responsiveness and creative problem solving … and the word gets out. To a lot of people.

And we grow.

Year 2000 concludes with Southwest Bank of Texas reporting assets in excess of $3.94 billion, the largest independent bank serving the eight-county Houston area, now with 32 full-service banking centers and one community lending office.

Southwest Bank of Texas. Growing bigger. Growing better.

One Bank, Banking Ahead.

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