Banco de Ponce

This article is about the defunct bank in Ponce, Puerto Rico. For the historic building home to the same bank, see Banco de Ponce (building).

Banco de Ponce
Company typePrivate
IndustryBanking
Founded20 August 1917
Defunct1990 (via merge)
FateMerged with Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
HeadquartersPonce, Puerto Rico
(1917-1970)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
(1970-1990)
Key people
Products
Banco de Ponce's main office, in downtown Ponce (above), was built in 1924, seven years after the bank was founded.

Banco de Ponce was the Puerto Rican bank with the largest number of branches in the United States and second largest bank in deposits and number of branches in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century. Founded in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the early part of the century, it headquartered in San Juan in 1970 and, 20 years later, merged with Banco Popular forming BancPonce Corporation.