What is headquartered here now

1999 – 2024

STAR: The largest bank that still calls Fort Wayne home arrived from outside. STAR Financial Bank — founded in Upland in 1943 and profiled in the Businesses section — moved its headquarters and service centre to Fort Wayne in 2000 by the bank's own account; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's record for its surviving charter shows the main office's move to Fort Wayne recorded 13 August 2003. In 2024 it opened a new $45 million headquarters downtown at 215 West Main Street.

Tower and Old National: The one attempt to rebuild a hometown bank in the old tower came from local money: in 1999 John Tippmann Sr., who had acquired and refurbished the Lincoln Bank Tower, formed Tower Bank there with a group of Fort Wayne investors. It lasted fifteen years. The Comptroller of the Currency approved the merger of the Tower Bank & Trust Company into the Old National Bank of Evansville on 11 April 2014, and the merger closed 25 April 2014 — Tower holding about $691 million in consolidated assets and seven banking centres, six in Fort Wayne and one in Warsaw, all converted to Old National over the closing weekend. Old National made the Lincoln Tower its Fort Wayne market headquarters; its headquarters, and the decisions, are in Evansville.

The rest of the home layer: Below those stand the two factory-born credit unions of the 1935–36 charters — 3Rivers and MidWest America, the largest member-owned institutions in the region — and a fringe of outside banks' branches, among them South Bend's 1st Source, which rebuilt eight Fort Wayne locations in 2014. One naming caution belongs to the record: the First Federal Savings Bank whose branches stand in Fort Wayne today is a mutual savings bank headquartered at Huntington, a different institution from Fort Wayne's own First Federal Savings and Loan Association, which was merged away in 1983. And the failure roll of the modern era is empty: no Fort Wayne bank appears on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's failed-bank list.

Sources:

1. STAR Financial Bank, published history and 2024 headquarters announcements — the 2000 headquarters move and the $45 million downtown headquarters; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation charter record — the 13 August 2003 main-office move.
2. Comptroller of the Currency, CRA Decision #157, 11 April 2014 — approval of the Tower Bank merger; Old National Bancorp, 2014 annual report and closing release — the 25 April 2014 closing, assets and banking centres.
3. ACGSI, "Lincoln Tower, Fort Wayne" — the 1998 tower purchase and Tower Bank's 1999 formation by Tippmann and local investors.
4. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, failed-bank list — no Fort Wayne institution listed.