Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A.

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Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. is a Texas community bank chartered in 1913, headquartered in Mount Pleasant, Texas. It is the principal banking subsidiary of Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (formerly NYSE: GNTY), a bank holding company organized in 1990 and based in Addison, Texas. The bank reported roughly 485 employees, 33 full-service branches across 26 Texas communities (East Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Bryan/College Station and Austin), and about $3.1 billion in assets, $2.1 billion in loans and $2.7 billion in deposits as of June 30, 2025. On October 1, 2025, Glacier Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: GBCI) completed its all-stock acquisition of Guaranty Bancshares (announced at ~$476 million); the bank now operates as "Guaranty Bank & Trust, a Division of Glacier Bank," with Glacier as parent.

Products / services. An operating community bank serving small- and medium-sized businesses, professionals and individuals. Offerings include commercial lines of credit, working-capital and equipment loans, commercial real estate, acquisition/expansion/development, construction and asset-based lending, plus consumer residential real estate, home-equity, installment and personal credit products, letters of credit, deposit and treasury-management services, SBA-guaranteed lending, and trust and wealth management.

Patent-litigation posture. Guaranty is an operating company, not an NPE. It shows zero plaintiff cases and one defendant case: Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC v. Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A., No. 2:15-cv-01480, filed September 3, 2015 in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (Judge Rodney Gilstrap) — a plaintiff-friendly venue typical of mass NPE filings.

Case context. Plaintiff Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC is a patent-assertion entity organized in Texas and wholly owned by Koba Holdings, LLC; per USPTO petitions, it asserted acquired patents (e.g., U.S. 5,974,550 and 6,993,399) covering secure communications, SSL/TLS handshakes and "tamper resistant" key modules used in mobile-banking applications. PET filed parallel suits against numerous banks and their mobile-banking software vendors (e.g., Jack Henry, FIS, Q2 Holdings). Guaranty's case was consolidated for pretrial purposes into lead case 2:15-cv-1273 and terminated September 23, 2016.