Outlet profile

First Hawaiian Bank newsroom

U.S. corporate/institutional — not a journalistic outlet

Owned byFirst Hawaiian, Inc. (NASDAQ: FHB), a publicly traded bank holding company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii

FundingCorporate communications budget funded by First Hawaiian Bank's commercial banking operations (interest income, loan fees, and financial services revenue)

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

First Hawaiian Bank traces its origins to 1858, when businessmen Charles Reed Bishop and William A. Aldrich opened Bishop & Co. in Honolulu, the first banking partnership under the laws of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. The institution grew through the early 20th century, incorporating as the Bank of Bishop & Co. in 1919 and acquiring several smaller banks during the 1920s. It was eventually renamed First Hawaiian Bank. In 1998, First Hawaiian merged with San Francisco-based Bank of the West to form BancWest Corporation, which was subsequently acquired outright by French banking giant BNP Paribas in 2001. The bank returned to public markets in August 2016 via an IPO on NASDAQ under the ticker FHB, and BNP Paribas fully divested its remaining stake by February 2019, making First Hawaiian once again an independent, publicly traded company. The bank's newsroom functions as a standard corporate communications platform — publishing press releases on quarterly earnings, dividend declarations, executive appointments, community philanthropic contributions, and major transactions such as its announced July 2026 all-stock acquisition of California-based TriCo Bancshares. It does not produce independent journalism, carry opinion content, or take positions on political figures or government policy.

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Profile compiled 2026-07-14; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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