FDIC Cert #57176 · Irvine, California · Est. 2001

Commerce West Bank - FDIC Bank Health Profile

A community-scale look at Commerce West Bank's own numbers, pulled straight from its quarterly FDIC Call Report.

$1.5B
Total assets
A
Health grade · Excellent
1.10%
Return on assets
17.6%
Tier 1 capital

Data updated July 2026

The verdict

Commerce West Bank earns a PlainBankData health grade of A (88/100), with well-capitalized at 17.61% Tier 1, profitable at 1.10% ROA, efficient (52% cost ratio).

#754
largest of 4,313 FDIC banks by assets
83rd
percentile by asset size, nationally
17.61%
Tier 1 ratio - above the 10% well-capitalized line
50th
percentile for profitability (ROA), nationally

This grade is PlainBankData's own interpretation of the bank's Call Report, not an FDIC rating, deposits here stay federally insured to $250,000 per depositor, per category, regardless of grade.

FDIC Call Report plate

Cert 57176 · CA A · 88/100

GRADE-A · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · TIER1-WELL · TEXAS-CLEAN · ROA-PAR · SIZE-REGIONAL · BOOK-FULL

  • GRADE-A A (88/100)
  • UPPER-Q #884/4307
  • PHOTO-FINISH First Community Bank… · AL
  • TIER1-WELL 17.6% Tier 1
  • TEXAS-CLEAN 5.5% Texas
  • ROA-PAR 1.10% ROA
  • SIZE-REGIONAL $1–10B
  • BOOK-FULL 9/9 fields

Nearest health peer outside California: First Community Bank of Central Alabama, AL (±0 health pts)

Instrument codes from this bank’s FDIC Call Report sheet: grade band, health peer rank, photo-finish gap, Tier 1, Texas Ratio, ROA, size band, and book completeness. Not an official FDIC rating.

Health-score neighbourhood around Commerce West Bank

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest scored peers outside California, not a full FDIC corpus board reprint.

Morgan Stanley Bank,… · UT ·…100/100Commerce West Bank · CA · th…88/100First Commerce Bank · TN · n…88/100First Community Bank… · AL ·…88/100Nicolet National Bank · WI ·…88/100United Bank & Trust… · IA · …88/100Tioga-Franklin Savin… · PA ·…0/100
PlainBankData health composite · neighbourhood around Commerce West Bank · July 2026

Call Report read for Commerce West Bank in a high-failure state

Commerce West Bank (FDIC Cert #57176) carries a PlainBankData health grade of A at 88/100, built only from this bank's own Call Report Tier 1 capital, ROA, Texas Ratio, and efficiency inputs. On the scored corpus it sits at health rank #884 of 4,307. Tier 1 capital prints at 17.61%, clearing the 10% well-capitalized line. The Texas Ratio is 5.48%, inside the sub-50% band analysts treat as healthy. Return on assets is 1.10%. Balance-sheet scale is $1.5B, 754th of 4,313 FDIC-insured banks by assets. The nearest cross-state health peer is First Community Bank of Central Alabama (AL), tied on the composite. These are instrument codes from the Call Report sheet, not an official FDIC CAMELS rating, and insured deposits stay protected to $250,000 per depositor per ownership category regardless of grade. Compare the plate stamps against the score breakdown and the health-score neighbourhood before treating any single ratio as decisive.

State failure history around Commerce West Bank

44 FAILURE resolutions in California since 2000, heavy vs the state corpus

Commerce West Bank sits in one of the heavier post-2000 FAILURE states (44 resolutions; latest year 2023). The list below is state history from the Failed Bank List, not a claim about Commerce West Bank's current Call Report.

  • FIRST REPUBLIC BANK SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2023 → JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
  • SILICON VALLEY BANK SANTA CLARA, CA 2023 → FIRST-CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY
  • FRONTIER BANK, FSB PALM DESERT, CA 2014 → BANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, N.A.

Source: FDIC Failed Bank List (resolution_type=FAILURE only; ASSISTANCE excluded). See the depositor failures guide and California banks.

How Commerce West Bank's 88/100 score adds up

Each factor is scored from this bank's own FDIC Call Report figures, then summed to the composite health score.

0/100100/100National avg77/10088/100
Commerce West Bank's composite health score
Tier 1 Capital Ratio (17.61%) 40/40
Return on Assets (ROA) (1.10%) 20/25
Texas Ratio (5.48%) 16/20
Efficiency Ratio (51.88%) 12/15

88 of 100 points earned across four weighted factors. See our methodology for the full scoring formula.

Balance sheet at a glance

Total Assets

$1.5B

Total balance-sheet footings

Total Deposits

$1.3B

Customer-funded liabilities

Net Loans

$785M

Outstanding loan book

Net Income

$14M

Bottom-line earnings

Capital adequacy vs federal thresholds

0% 3% 6% 9% 12% 15% 18% 21% CET1 (≥6.5% req.) Tier 1 (≥8.0% req.) Total (≥10.0% req.) 16.21% 17.61% 19.01%
Basel III capital ratios - Commerce West Bank

Where Commerce West Bank ranks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with a computed health score, bucketed by score. Commerce West Bank's score of 88/100 falls in the highlighted band.

Commerce West Bank: health score vs. every FDIC-insured bank

0-100 composite health score, FDIC Call Reports

88 Top 21% higher than 79% of 4,307 FDIC-insured banks

0–10: 3 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 10–20: 6 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 20–30: 26 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 30–40: 36 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 40–50: 98 FDIC-insured banks (2%). Below this entry. 50–60: 279 FDIC-insured banks (6%). Below this entry. 60–70: 777 FDIC-insured banks (18%). Below this entry. 70–80: 1,030 FDIC-insured banks (24%). Below this entry. 80–90: 1,237 FDIC-insured banks (29%). This entry sits in this band. 90–100: 815 FDIC-insured banks (19%). Above this entry. Commerce West Bank 0 100 every FDIC-insured bank with a health score, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more FDIC-insured banks. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FDIC Call Reports · July 2026

Commerce West Bank's size among FDIC-insured banks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with reported assets, bucketed by total-asset scale (note the buckets are powers of 10, most banks cluster in the $100M-$1B range). Commerce West Bank's $1.5B falls in the highlighted band.

Capital & credit buffers at Commerce West Bank

Tier 1 capital ratio
Well-capitalized 10%

17.61% of risk-weighted assets - above the federal "well-capitalized" threshold of 10%.

Tier 1 Capital Ratio
17.61%
Texas Ratio
5.48%
Equity Capital
$140M

What these ratios mean →

Earnings posture at Commerce West Bank

Return on Assets (ROA)
50th percentile nationally
1.10%
Return on Equity (ROE)
10.56%
Efficiency Ratio
51.88%

What these mean →

Income & expense at Commerce West Bank

$55M
Interest Income
$5M
Non-Interest Income
$21M
Non-Interest Expense

Asset quality, Texas Ratio detail

The Texas Ratio compares troubled assets to the capital available to absorb losses. Commerce West Bank reports a Texas Ratio of 5.48% - comfortably in the healthy band; non-performing loans are a small fraction of the bank’s loss-absorbing capital.

Texas Ratio
Caution 50%

5.48% - lower is safer; 100% is the level at which troubled assets equal loss-absorbing capital.

FDIC Failed Bank List → View Commerce West Bank on FDIC BankFind →

Top banks in California by total assets

Largest banks headquartered in California
  1. 1

    Los Angeles, CA · Grade A

  2. 2

    Pasadena, CA · Grade A

  3. 3

    Los Angeles, CA · Grade B

  4. 4
    Axos Bank $27.2B

    San Diego, CA · Grade A

  5. 5
    Cathay Bank $24.2B

    Los Angeles, CA · Grade A

Top 5 banks in California ranked by total assets · FDIC Call Report Q4 2025.

Nationwide banks with similar total assets

Nearest other-state banks with ≥$10M assets ($1.5B here), outside California so the neighborhood is not state containment.

Source: FDIC BankFind Suite, Call Report (FFIEC 031/041) Commerce West Bank (FDIC Cert #57176) - Tier 1 capital ratio, total assets, deposits, ROA/ROE · 2025 FDIC Call Reports filed quarterly; latest publicly-available vintage shown. Health grades are PlainBankData's interpretation of regulatory filings and are not official FDIC ratings.

Commerce West Bank Call Report profile · FDIC Failed Bank List · California FAILURE history · Informational only, not financial advice; consult a licensed professional before acting. See the disclaimer and methodology.

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