About First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.
First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. functions as the parent company for First Guaranty Bank, providing comprehensive commercial banking services throughout Louisiana and Texas. The institution offers a wide array of deposit accounts, including checking, savings, money market, and demand options, along with time deposits, serving individuals, small enterprises, and municipal clients. Its lending activities encompass a diverse portfolio, featuring real estate loans (covering non-farm, residential, multifamily, construction, and agricultural land), commercial and industrial financing, and various consumer and other loans. These credit products are made available to small to medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individual borrowers. Additionally, the bank delivers numerous consumer conveniences like credit cards, digital banking tools (online and mobile banking, bill pay, mobile deposit capture), ATMs, and secure deposit boxes. Business customers benefit from specialized offerings such as merchant services, remote deposit capture, and lockbox facilities. A portion of its assets is allocated to investments in securities issued by the U.S. Government and its agencies, state and municipal obligations, corporate debt, mutual funds, equities, and mortgage-backed securities, often backed by government entities. Established in 1934 and headquartered in Hammond, Louisiana, First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. operates through 36 banking locations primarily situated in key service areas across Hammond, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport-Bossier City, Lake Charles, Alexandria, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Waco, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Financial Services / Banks - Regional - Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Regional
- CEO
- Michael Ray Mineer
