About Commerce Bank

With over 50 years of banking experience, including 37 years as President of Laredo's Commerce Bank, Ignacio Urrabazo has established himself as one of the leading small business banking experts in the United States.

Mr. Urrabazo has been the chairman of the National Bankers Association and the Texas Bankers Association. The TBA is the country's largest and most powerful state banking organization. He has also been involved in U.S.-Mexico border financial services and relationships since taking a leadership role in creating the Commerce Bank in 1983. Under his direction, Commerce Bank, part of International Bancshares Corporation, a $14.9 billion financial holding company, and the country's most prominent Hispanic minority-owned bank, has grown from a start-up bank to more than $550 million. Commerce Bank has always been considered and is consistently recognized as a "High-Performance Bank."  Mr. Urrabazo is currently involved in the Compliance Review Committee and is heading the CRA Committee and the Small Business Committee, including the PPP Program for the holding company.