CPF

Central Pacific Financial Corp

A bank holding company that owns Central Pacific Bank, one of Hawaii's largest locally-headquartered banks, offering personal and business checking, savings, loans, and digital banking across the islands. It was founded in Honolulu in 1954 by Japanese American World War II veterans of the storied 442nd Regimental Combat Team, who returned home to find they were denied financial services and so built their own bank to lend to immigrant families and small businesses. Its name was chosen to reflect a financial home for all of Hawaii's people, since the islands sit at the center of the Pacific.