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Zions Bancorporation N.A. serves mainly small and medium-sized businesses in the western United States, providing loans, deposit accounts and services that help them manage cash and payments. It operates through locally managed banking brands, including Zions Bank, California Bank & Trust and Amegy Bank. It also finances commercial properties and provides consumers with mortgages and other banking services.
Customer deposits are its main funding source. Borrowers pay interest on loans, and the bank also earns interest on investment securities. The difference between that income and the interest it pays on deposits and other funding supplies most of its revenue. Customers also pay fees for account, card and other banking services, which contribute a smaller share.
The business depends on retaining deposits, the cost of those deposits relative to lending rates, and borrowers’ ability to repay. Much of its lending is concentrated in Utah, Idaho, Texas and California, tying performance closely to those states’ economies. Zions is a standalone bank without a bank holding company, which limits expansion into some financial activities; for example, it generally cannot underwrite insurance.
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Columbia Banking Systems Inc competes with Zions for business loans, business deposits and retail customers across much of the same Western footprint. Watch its commercial lending and deposit growth for signs of competition for those customers.
Banc of California competes with Zions’ California Bank & Trust for small and middle-market businesses needing loans, deposit accounts and help managing cash and payments. Its business deposits and relationship lending are the areas to watch for competitive pressure on Zions in California.
UMB Financial Corp’s expanded banking business competes with Zions for depositors and borrowers in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. After buying HTLF in January 2025, UMB ranked among the top ten by deposit market share in each of those states, making its local deposit position worth watching.
KeyCorp, through KeyBank, competes with Zions for business loans and banking relationships in Western markets including Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
U.S. Bancorp, through U.S. Bank, competes with Zions across Western markets for business deposits, commercial loans and consumer banking customers.
NATIONAL BANK HOLDINGS CORP. competes with Zions for commercial loans and deposits in Colorado, Texas, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and New Mexico. Watch its Community Banks of Colorado, Hillcrest Bank and Bank of Jackson Hole businesses, which serve those overlapping markets.
First Horizon and Zions have similarly sized banking businesses weighted toward lending to companies, so business borrowers’ health and the gap between loan interest earned and deposit interest paid matter to both. Watch First Horizon’s commercial loans, which represented 77% of its loans, including certain leases and before loss allowances, at December 31, 2025.
Wintrust Financial Corp and Zions run similarly sized, locally managed banks that take deposits and lend to small and midsized businesses. Wintrust’s business loan demand and deposit funding costs offer a comparison for Zions’ core customers, though Wintrust serves mainly Midwestern markets.
SouthState Bank Corporation competes with Zions for loans and deposits in Texas and Colorado through a similarly sized regional banking business. Watch its customer deposits and the interest it pays on them, since deposits are a principal source of funding for its loans.
Regions Financial and Zions both use deposits to fund loans to businesses and consumers, with overlapping banking markets in Texas. Regions’ business loan demand, deposit costs and borrower credit quality are useful comparisons for the same pressures on Zions.
FirstSun Capital Bancorp, through Sunflower Bank, competes with Zions for small-business commercial loans and deposits in overlapping markets including Texas, Colorado and Arizona.
Valley National Bancorp and Zions both use customer deposits to finance commercial properties and small businesses. Watch Valley’s commercial property borrowers’ credit quality and deposit funding costs for a comparison with those exposures at Zions.
Citizens Financial Group and Zions both serve businesses and individuals, exposing their earnings to similar loan demand, borrower credit quality and deposit costs. Citizens’ business and retail banking results offer a comparison for both sides of Zions’ lending business.
Huntington Bancshares and Zions both take deposits and lend to businesses and consumers, making deposit costs and borrowers’ ability to repay important to both. Watch Huntington’s Commercial Banking and Consumer & Regional Banking results for business lending and credit-loss trends relevant to Zions.
SouthState Bank Corporation earningsSSB
SouthState Bank’s report will show how its deposits and the interest it pays to fund loans are changing in Texas and Colorado, where it competes with Zions for funding.
Read deposit growth alongside interest expense on deposits. More deposits but rising interest costs show that attracting funding is getting more expensive, a pricing pressure worth watching for Zions too; stable deposits with easing costs point to less pressure.
Columbia Banking Systems Inc earningsCOLB
Columbia Banking Systems’ report will show whether its commercial loans and business deposits are growing across the West, a read on how fiercely it competes with Zions for business customers.
Read commercial loan growth alongside business deposit growth. Strength in both points to active competition for Western businesses’ borrowing and banking relationships; weakness in both points more to softer demand, not proof that Zions is winning customers.
Valley National Bancorp earningsVLY
Valley National Bancorp’s report will show how its commercial-property borrowers are faring, offering a comparison for the credit risk Zions faces in its own commercial-property lending.
Watch delinquencies, charge-offs or credit-loss measures on commercial-property loans; a charge-off is debt the bank recognizes it cannot collect. Deterioration would signal mounting strain among commercial-property borrowers and put Zions’ own exposure in focus; stable or improving measures would be reassuring, but would not replace Zions’ own loan data.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For Zions, the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision matters because it can change what the bank earns on loans and securities versus what it pays depositors and other funders, shifting net interest income, its largest revenue source.
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If it comes in above expectations
If rates rise more than expected, interest income on loans and securities that reprice, and on new lending, may increase; if deposit and other funding costs rise less or more slowly, Zions’ net interest income and margin may improve.
If it comes in below expectations
If rates rise less than expected or fall, yields on repricing assets and new loans may be lower; funding costs may also ease, but if they do not fall as much or as quickly, Zions’ net interest income and margin may come under pressure.
