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AmTrust Bank

bank based in Cleveland, Ohio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ4738903 ↗
Source-derived summary

AmTrust Bank was a bank based in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was founded in 1889 and was closed in December 2009.

History

The bank was founded in 1889 as Ohio Savings, Loan & Building Co.

In 1963, Leo Goldberg acquired control of the company.

In 1975, the bank acquired Citizens Federal Savings & Loan of Akron. In 1978, the bank acquired Shaker Savings. In 1989, the bank acquired Palm Plaza Savings Association, based in Boca Raton, Florida.

In 2000, the bank opened its first branches in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2007, the bank changed its name to Amtrust Bank. In January 2009, the bank sold its 5 branches in Columbus, Ohio, to WesBanco.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “AmTrust Bank” as bank based in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 2009, 1963, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where AmTrust, Bank and bank can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as bank based in Cleveland, Ohio. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4738903. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1889, 2009, 1963 and 1975.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “AmTrust Bank”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow AmTrust Bank primary sources, AmTrust Bank archive and AmTrust research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “AmTrust Bank” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.