Frost Earns National Greenwich Excellence Awards

SAN ANTONIO, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Frost, one of the largest banks headquartered in Texas, received 17 Excellence Awards for small business and middle market banking from Greenwich Associates,  the leading global financial services research and consulting firm.

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This is the fourth year Frost has received these prestigious awards, which reflect distinguished service and performance in serving small businesses and middle market firms.

In both middle market and small business banking, Frost was recognized as a national winner for:

• Overall Satisfaction
• Financial Stability
• Treasury Management Overall Satisfaction
• Accuracy of Operations
• Customer Service
• Product Capabilities

In addition, Frost was named a regional winner for the west in Overall Satisfaction and Treasury Management Overall Satisfaction for both middle-market and small business banking.  The bank also won a national excellence award for small business relationship manager performance.

Greenwich Associates bases the awards on interviews with more than 13,000 business banking executives and more than 17,000 middle market executives. Only a handful of more than 750 eligible providers stand out as differentiated across a series of qualitative metrics.

Frost is the banking, investments and insurance subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR), a financial holding company headquartered in San Antonio, with assets of $16.3 billion and trust assets of $22.7 billion as of December 31, 2009.  The corporation provides a full range of business and consumer banking products, investment and brokerage services, insurance products and investment banking services.  Frost operates more than 110 financial centers across Texas in the Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio regions.  Founded in 1868, Frost is one of the largest banking organizations headquartered in Texas, with a legacy of helping Texans with their financial needs during three centuries.  For more information, visit http://www.frostbank.com.

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