First Republic Bank

Pros: Personal attention; no ATM fees
Cons: None

First Republic Bank provides personal banking services. We have been very happy with them and recommend them to our friends. They provide personal service with your own personal banker. That person provides our main interface with the bank. For ...

Pros: Stellar customer service and your own "personal banker"
Cons: Fewer locations

After a nightmarish year with WellsFargo (see my epinion about it), I started asking friends and acquaintances for suggestions on where I should do my banking.

One suggested First Republic, and I'm so glad he did.

FR has the two...

Pros: Great Service...they are helpful with Everything!!!
Cons: Not enough branches...but the ones they have are great!!

This place delivers a superior product for all my banking needs. They are always friendly and promptly handle each transaction. There is never a problem in dealing with their exceptional staff of dedicated bankers. You never have to wait and when you...

Pros: Very friendly customer focused service
Cons: Narrow customer vision by upper management

While it is true that FR has great personal customer service, they are not too open minded to venture to foreign lands outside of California. So, if you do business with them, it's best to be in a state 'they' do business in. Conservative is great, fine and all that but narrow vision is not. Service for me at FR has always been exceptional and their website is very good.

I suppose there would be the same bad taste with any bank that closed out customers just because they did not fit the 'norm'. But, hey, I thought that's what boutique banks were all about? Maybe FR forgot that!