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- BankGuam Holding Company (BKGM) operates as the holding company for Bank of Guam, a regional bank providing commercial and consumer banking products and services to individuals, businesses, and government entities across the Pacific islands. The Bank offers deposit products including demand deposits, savings accounts, time certificates of deposit, checking accounts, interest-bearing transaction accounts, and time deposits; lending products such as commercial loans, letters of credit, personal loans, auto loans, and home loans; and additional services encompassing electronic banking, merchant services, EMV card technology, insurance, trust services, investment advisory, and cannabis banking. It maintains a network of full-service branches in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and San Francisco, California, complemented by multiple ATMs.
Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Hagåtña, Guam, the company conducts substantially all operations through its primary subsidiary, the Bank of Guam, which was incorporated as a Guam-chartered bank and opened in December 1972. BankGuam Holding Company itself was organized on October 29, 2010, as a Guam corporation to serve as the Bank's holding entity.
Recent developments include the April 1, 2024, reorganization and sale of its formerly wholly-owned subsidiary, BG Investment Services, to ASC Trust, streamlining investment advisory operations while retaining strategic ties through planned additional share purchases in ASC Trust to achieve majority ownership. In February 2025, the Board approved a share repurchase program authorizing up to $500,000 in common stock buybacks through open market, block, or private transactions, funded by available corporate resources and without a fixed expiration. The company also increased its ownership in ASC Trust to 70% via additional investments.