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First Niagara Bank is a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured regional banking corporation headquartered in the Larkin Terminal Warehouse in Buffalo, New York. Its parent company, First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. is the 44th largest bank in the United States with assets of over $37.1 Billion as of June 30, 2013.〔 ==History== It was founded in 1870 as ''Farmers and Mechanics' Savings Bank'' and was then re-branded as ''Lockport Savings Bank'' in 1967. The bank was based in its former home county, Niagara until the 1990s when it spread to nearby Buffalo, New York and its surrounding Erie County. Part of this growth could be attributed to the collapse of the Buffalo-centric banks Goldome and Empire of America. Most of this growth was from the recruitment of new customers, as opposed to the purchase of other firms' assets. Although, in 1998 the bank did purchase the regional insurance brokerage firm ''Warren-Hoffman & Associates Inc.'' as a means of entering the insurance business. In September, 2007 it was announced that First Niagara was to purchase Great Lakes Bancorp, parent company of Greater Buffalo Savings Bank. The price to purchase the 16 branch bank was $153 million. With the nearly $900 million of assets of the Great Lakes Bancorp, First Niagara became the fourth largest bank in the Buffalo-Niagara region () (). In April 2009 First Niagara acquired 57 of the 61 of National City branches in Erie and Pittsburgh, PA. They were rebranded on Labor Day weekend in 2009. In conjunction with the expansion into Pittsburgh, First Niagara bought the naming rights for a concert venue, First Niagara Pavilion. In April 2010, First Niagara Financial Group acquired Pennsylvania-based Harleysville National. This created a bank with $19.7bn in assets, 254 branches and approximately $13.7bn in deposits. In August 2010, First Niagara announced its acquisition of NewAlliance Bank of Connecticut.〔http://www.marketwatch.com/story/first-niagara-to-buy-newalliance-in-15-bln-deal-2010-08-19?reflink=MW_news_stmp〕 The stock holders approved the merger in December 2010 and the transaction closed on April 15, 2011. This provided First Niagara with over 340 branches and 500 ATMs. On July 31, 2011, First Niagara announced that it had bought all of HSBC's upstate New York branches for $1 billion. This included the bulk of what had been First Niagara's longtime rival in Western New York, Marine Midland Bank. On August 25, 2011, First Niagara bought the naming rights for ''HSBC Arena'' in Buffalo, renaming it the First Niagara Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wben.com/HSBC-Arena-Becomes-First-Niagara-Center/10730994 )〕 On October 30, 2015 First Niagara Bank agreed to be acquired by KeyCorp. 〔https://www.key.com/about/articles/keybank-first-niagara-agreement-103015.jsp?ppc=Q4_prFN_tw〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Niagara Bank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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