Financial Services in Tampa: Banks, Deposits and Finance Jobs

Truist Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America hold the most deposits in Tampa offices, each with roughly $4.9 billion to $5.6 billion in the FDIC 2025 Summary of Deposits (FDIC).

Across all banks, the FDIC survey counts 170 offices with a Tampa address holding about $35.1 billion in deposits in 2025 (FDIC Summary of Deposits). Truist's Tampa total, for example, is listed as 5,594,580 in the FDIC data, about $5.59 billion.

Branch count and deposit size do not line up neatly in Tampa. Bank of America runs the most Tampa offices, 20, yet ranks third by deposits, while Valley National Bank books $2.20 billion through just 5 Tampa offices and Synovus Bank $1.43 billion through 4 (FDIC). In Tampa, the number of branches is a poor guide to how much money a bank holds in the city.

The ten banks in the table account for about $29.1 billion of the Tampa total, so more than thirty smaller banks share the remaining $6.0 billion or so, from Cadence Bank and ServisFirst Bank to Seacoast National Bank and BayFirst National Bank (FDIC Summary of Deposits).

Deposits in Tampa bank offices rose from about $32.3 billion in the FDIC 2024 Summary of Deposits to about $35.1 billion in 2025, a gain of roughly 8.8 percent, while the office count rose from 168 to 170 (FDIC 2024; FDIC 2025).

The Tampa gains were uneven. Wells Fargo added about $1.15 billion in Tampa deposits with the same 14 offices, Regions about $0.70 billion and Synovus about $0.58 billion, while Truist, still the leader, lost about $0.58 billion and Bank of America slipped slightly even after going from 19 to 20 Tampa offices (FDIC).

The Bank of Tampa grew its in-city deposits modestly, from $1.82 billion to $1.88 billion, and in 2025 it dropped from fifth to seventh place in Tampa as Regions and Valley National Bank moved ahead (FDIC Summary of Deposits). Two survey years are a short window, so these Tampa figures show direction rather than a long-run trend.

Five active FDIC-insured institutions list a Tampa headquarters, and The Bank of Tampa on Bayshore Boulevard is by far the largest, with about $3.02 billion in total assets at the June 30, 2026 report date (FDIC BankFind).

The Bank of Tampa was established on 03/30/1973 and reports 13 domestic offices, the most of any institution headquartered in Tampa (FDIC). In the 2025 deposit survey it held $1.88 billion in its 6 offices inside the city, the seventh-largest total among all banks in Tampa (FDIC Summary of Deposits).

The other four Tampa-based institutions are small. Central Bank sits on Bruce B Downs Blvd, Century Bank of Florida on W Fletcher Ave and TCM Bank on E Frontage Rd, each with less than $400 million in assets (FDIC BankFind). Members Trust Company on Riveredge Dr holds only $500 thousand in Tampa deposits, consistent with its name as a trust company rather than a retail bank (FDIC).

The City of Tampa's TPA-WRX career page tags seventeen employers as Financial Services and Insurance, from Raymond James Financial, USAA, MetLife and Progressive Insurance to Suncoast Credit Union and Achieva Credit Union (City of Tampa TPA-WRX).

The banks on the Tampa list are Capital One and Fifth Third Bank. Credit unions on it include Grow Financial Federal Credit Union, Suncoast Credit Union and Achieva Credit Union, and GTE Financial is listed in the same sector. Other finance names include American Integrity Insurance Group, EVO Payments Inc. and Healthesystems, alongside service firms such as CBIZ MHM LLC of Tampa Bay, Financial Information Technologies LLC, Hunter Warfield and SouthEast Personnel Leasing Inc.

Three cautions apply to this Tampa list. It links to each company's job openings rather than ranking employers by headcount, it was last updated on 08/04/2025, and it reaches beyond city limits, listing entries such as the Pasco County Tax Collector's Office and Ruth Eckerd Hall in other sectors (City of Tampa). It shows who recruits Tampa workers, not who has the largest office inside Tampa.

The Tampa career list also fills a gap in the bank data: Suncoast Credit Union, Grow Financial Federal Credit Union and Achieva Credit Union appear on it (TPA-WRX), while no credit union appears in the FDIC deposit survey of Tampa offices (FDIC).

Raymond James Bank is recorded by the FDIC in Saint Petersburg at 710 Carillon Pkwy, not in the City of Tampa (FDIC BankFind).

That Saint Petersburg bank reported about $45.6 billion in total assets at the June 30, 2026 report date, roughly fifteen times the size of The Bank of Tampa (FDIC). The City of Tampa still lists Raymond James Financial among the finance employers on its TPA-WRX page, so the firm recruits Tampa workers even though its bank is based across the bay (City of Tampa).

The same caution applies to the BLS job figures below: they describe the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro, so Raymond James jobs in Saint Petersburg count toward the Tampa metro total even though the firm's bank is not in the City of Tampa (BLS).

The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro had 142.4 thousand financial activities jobs in August 2026, a preliminary figure, down 0.4 percent from a year earlier (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS series SMU12453005500000001).

Financial activities is a little over 9 percent of the 1,559.6 thousand nonfarm jobs in the Tampa metro (BLS). Its 12-month change was negative in four of the five months from April to August 2026, ranging from -0.9 to +0.3 percent, while professional and business services grew 2.1 percent.

These Tampa metro counts are in thousands of jobs, not seasonally adjusted, and the August 2026 figures are marked preliminary, so the next release can revise them (BLS Economy at a Glance). The Tampa metro unemployment rate stood at 4.7 percent in August 2026, also preliminary.

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the FDIC BankFind, City of Tampa TPA-WRX and BLS Economy at a Glance pages.