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A N N U A L  R E P O R T  2 0 2 5
R E A C H I N G

A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
$15.0B average loans	
$21.2B average deposits
$928M total net revenue
Salt Lake City, UT
San Diego, CA
$15.1B average loans	
$15.3B average deposits
$773M total net revenue
Houston, TX
$14.2B average loans	
$14.8B average deposits
$754M total net revenue
$5.6B average loans	
$6.9B average deposits
$306M total net revenue	
Phoenix, AZ

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Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
GREAT BANKS
A  C O L L E C T I O N  O F
Zions Bancorporation is comprised of a collection of 
extraordinary, locally led and community-focused banks 
serving businesses, households and local governments 
in some of the best growth markets in the nation. We’re 
determined to help build strong, successful communities, 
create economic opportunity and help our clients achieve 
greater financial strength through the relationships 
we develop and the services we provide.
Our goal is to create value. Value for our customers. Value 
for the communities we serve. Value for our employees. 
And, most importantly, value for our shareholders.
$3.7B average loans	
$7.1B average deposits
$265M total net revenue
Las Vegas, NV
$3.8B average loans	
$3.4B average deposits
$179M total net revenue
Denver, CO
$2.0B average loans	
$1.2B average deposits
$79M total net revenue
Seattle, WA

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A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
PERFORMANCE 
AT A GLANCE
EARNINGS PER SHARE
Annual earnings per share over the past five years
5.79
6.79
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
6.01
4.35
$3.00
$2.00
$1.00
$0.00
$4.00
$5.00
$6.00
$7.00
4.95
EARNINGS PER SHARE
Growth in earnings per share indexed to 2020
50
0
100
150
200
250
ZION
Peer Top Quartile
Peer Bottom Quartile
Indexed: 2020 = 100
2021
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025

Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
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“Banks capable of enduring and surviving periods of great 
stress are not built overnight; they’re built over a period of 
many years on a foundation of strong relationships.”
CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
T O  O U R  S TA K E H O L D E R S
HARRIS SIMMONS  |  CHAIRMAN & CEO
immigration policies might prove 
inflationary. In the end, the U.S. 
economy slowed only modestly to a 
2.3% growth rate from 2.8% in 2024, 
with lower interest rates tempering a 
rise in unemployment that grew only 
slightly from 4.1% at the end of 2024 
to 4.4% at the end of 2025. Though 
loan and deposit growth was modest 
for both us and the industry, it was 
otherwise a reasonably good year to 
be in the banking business.
We’re pleased with the continued 
improvement in our financial results 
this past year and the many ways in 
which we strengthened and grew 
our business. 
We started the year with a new 
administration in Washington, D.C. 
and optimism about a less intrusive 
regulatory environment, tempered by 
concerns that the impact of new and 
higher tariffs and more restrictive 

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continued to strengthen, improving 
to 3.21% from 3.00% in the prior year 
due to disciplined deposit pricing and 
somewhat stronger loan spreads. 
Noninterest income grew 8.3% to $758 
million, including strong growth in 
capital markets revenue which, net 
of credit valuation adjustments, rose 
13.6% to $125 million. We’ve added 
Both net income available to common 
shareholders and earnings per share 
experienced strong growth in 2025, 
increasing 21% to $895 million and 
$6.01, respectively. Adjusted taxable- 
equivalent revenue grew 7.4% to 
$3.4 billion, while adjusted operating 
expense rose 4.8% to $2.1 billion, 
reflecting strong operating leverage 
during the year, and producing a 15% 
increase in preprovision net revenue 
which grew to $1.3 billion for the year. 
Average loans and leases increased 
3.2% to $60.4 billion, while average 
deposits were essentially flat, growing 
0.2% to $74.9 billion. Despite the 
slower growth, taxable-equivalent net 
interest income grew 8.0% to $2.7 
billion as our net interest margin 
FINANCIAL RESULTS
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Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
some great talent in this business, 
which expanded its offerings to include 
commodities hedging and investment 
banking services for middle market 
clients. We also had strong growth in 
retail and business banking fees, which 
increased 11.9%. 
Noninterest operating expense of $2.1 
billion increased 4.5%. Notable items 
included a $13 million increase in 
severance costs, an $11 million partial 
rebate of the FDIC’s 2023 special 
assessment arising from the bank 
failures that year, and a $15 million 
donation to our charitable foundation to 
accelerate charitable giving ahead of a 
change in tax law taking effect in 2026. 
Although the ratio of nonperform-
ing assets and accruing loans past 
due 90 days or more as a percentage 
of total loans and other real estate 
owned remained flat at 0.53%, and 
the provision for credit losses was 
likewise flat at $72 million, net loan 
charge-offs increased to $89 million 
from $60 million a year ago. Even with 
these elevated net charge-offs, our 
performance continued to compare 
very favorably to peers. The increased 
realized credit losses reflect significant 
charge-offs totaling $50 million on two 
related loans to “nondepository finan-
cial institutions” engaged in financing 
real estate receivables. We’re working 
diligently to recover these losses to the 
extent possible.
More 
encouragingly, 
widespread 
concerns about the health of banks’ 
commercial 
real 
estate 
portfolios 
in recent years have proven to be 
unjustified. In our own case, annual 
net charge-offs in our $13.4 billion 
portfolio have been remarkably low, 
averaging less than one basis point 
— 1/100th of a percentage point — of 
commercial real estate loans over the 
past five years, despite challenges in 
the office market due to more remote 
work, and some degree of overbuild-
ing in the multifamily and industrial 
segments of the market, which have 
led to slower lease-up of new proper-
ties. We’ve been quite conservative 
in growing this portfolio in recent 
years, and our approach has produced 
exceptional credit results. 
Stronger operating earnings and an 
18% improvement in accumulated 
other comprehensive loss resulted in 
20% growth in our tangible common 
equity, substantially outpacing balance 
sheet growth and significantly strength-
ening our capital ratios, with our 
regulatory common equity tier 1 ratio 
improving to 11.5% from 10.9% a year 
ago, and our tangible common equity 
ratio reaching 6.9%, up from 5.7% last 
year and 4.9% at year-end 2023.
ADJUSTED RETURN ON TANGIBLE COMMON EQUITY
Adjusted for securities gains (losses) and substitutes net charge-offs for provision
20%
15%
0%
10%
5%
25%
ZION
Peer Top Quartile
Peer Bottom Quartile
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
COMMON EQUITY TIER 1 RATIO
At year end
2%
0%
4%
6%
10%
8%
12%
14%
11.5%
2023
2024
2025
10.9%
10.3%

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A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
BRANCHES ACQUIRED
C O A C H E L L A  VA L L E Y 
In March 2025, we completed the acquisition 
of four branches of Denver-based FirstBank 
located in the Coachella Valley, expanding our 
existing presence in the Southern California 
desert. The acquisition brought with it 
approximately $630 million in 12,000 deposit 
accounts and $420 million in loans. The 
new offices are now operated under the 
California Bank & Trust brand, increasing 
our market share in the Greater Palm Springs 
area to 7.4%.
TOM SNYDER  |  CEO
ANIMAL SAMARITANS
“Our entire community,  
especially our nonprofit community,  
benefits from [California Bank & Trust's]  
caring culture of giving back.”

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Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
The challenges in the regional banking 
sector following the 2023 bank failures 
are a reminder that banks capable of 
enduring and surviving periods of great 
stress are not built overnight; they’re 
built over a period of many years on a 
foundation of strong relationships. The 
importance of a diverse and largely 
insured deposit franchise is especially 
important. Only with such a deposit 
base can regional banks sustainably 
and reliably serve larger commercial 
and corporate customers.
We’ve long had one of the most desir-
able deposit franchises in the industry, 
with a disproportionately large share 
of operational demand deposits, many 
of which come from the over 200,000 
small businesses we bank; and overall 
funding costs that tend to be lower 
than our peer averages. Maintaining 
that strong deposit base will always 
be a major objective, as a great deal of 
the value in most banks is found in the 
quality of their deposits.
This past year we continued to enrich 
the features in our digital banking 
platform, adding customer fraud alerts, 
credit scores, “Tap to Pay” — enabling 
business clients to use their iPhone as 
a terminal, allowing customers to tap 
their cards or devices directly on the 
merchant's phone — and more.  
We also launched a refreshed version 
of a deposit product that served us 
well years ago. The Gold Account has 
become the central focus of our deter-
mination to win a greater share of the 
mass affluent consumer segment in 
the markets we serve. With a $2,500 
minimum balance, we offer customers 
discounts on loans, premium pricing 
on money market accounts, wealth 
management incentives, free ATM 
access nationwide, a free safe deposit 
box, and a variety of other free or 
discounted services. 
The early results of this campaign 
are highly encouraging, with new 
account openings that are nearly 
double what we’d seen with the Gold 
Account’s predecessor product, and 
with total relationship balances that are 
surpassing our expectations. The incre-
mental economics of these accounts 
are exceptional. 
We will be introducing a companion 
product, “Business Beyond Account™,” 
this summer. Business Beyond will be 
a tiered offering for small businesses, 
beginning with a very affordable 
A  F O C U S  O N
GRANULAR GROWTH

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ramping up our marketing spend, 
which increased 42% over the prior 
year. We’ve further increased our 
marketing budget this coming year 
as we focus on the kind of growth that 
creates sustainable value.
We were pleased to be recognized 
once again by Coalition Greenwich 
as one of the nation’s top banks for 
small- and middle-market businesses, 
based on surveys of thousands of busi-
nesses across the country. Coalition 
Greenwich awarded us with 15 Best 
Bank awards, placing us 7th nationally 
among the roughly 500 banks named in 
the surveys in terms of the excellence 
with which we serve our customers and 
the trusted relationships we build with 
them. Zions is one of only four banks 
in the country to have averaged 15 or 
more such awards per year since these 
surveys began in 2009 — a huge tribute 
to our exceptional bankers and their 
commitment to serving our business 
clients, large and small.
“starter” account for newly estab-
lished businesses and progressing to 
an offering that provides a variety of 
conveniences including the ability to 
initiate ACH and wire transactions, 
premium rewards on business credit 
cards, and more. 
Our focus on small businesses is also 
reflected in the results of our campaign 
to become one of the nation’s foremost 
leaders in providing small business 
credit, including through the U.S. 
Small Business Administration’s 7(a) 
loan program. During the SBA’s 2025 
fiscal year ending last September 
30, we booked 1,116 loans, an 86% 
increase over the prior year, ranking 
us 14th in the nation in number of SBA 
7(a) loans approved, up from 20th place 
the prior year. 
These loans are not only instrumental 
in helping small businesses get off 
the ground; they also provide strong 
returns to the bank and create the 
foundation for building long-term rela-
tionships, with average deposits of over 
$100,000 per customer. Our bankers 
work hard to build relationships with 
these small businesses, making over 
162,000 calls last year alone to thank 
clients for banking with us, and while 
doing so discovering a great many ways 
to help them with their financial needs. 
Historically, our marketing teams have 
been decentralized, supporting the 
needs of our local brands, or “affili-
ates.” To better support our marketing 
of impactful products and our analyt-
ics and management of the channels 
through which they’re promoted, we 
established a centralized marketing 
team to complement and support the 
local teams responsible for promoting 
our brands and our reputation, while 
SBA loans 
1,000+ 
Client appreciation calls 
162,000

Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
— 09 —
TAMARA GREVE  |  OWNER
LOOP JEAN COMPANY
“We’re lucky to have NBAZ  
because for small companies  
like me they really have taken that 
extra step to look for solutions.”
SATYA KRAUS  |  OWNER
KRAUS MOTO
“Zions Bank sees my business through my eyes — 
and my business is stronger because of it.”

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A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
rethink asset size thresholds that trigger 
more intensive regulation, streamline 
resolution planning, embrace new 
technologies such as artificial intelli-
gence and digital assets, and introduce 
much-needed 
transparency 
and 
fairness into regulatory stress tests, 
among other reforms. 
Perhaps most importantly, their expec-
tation is that banks should be primarily 
responsible to maintain strong risk 
management cultures and governance 
frameworks that fit the complexity, 
size and scope of the bank, rather 
than adhere to a “one-size-fits-all” 
structure that has characterized so 
much of bank regulation over the past 
decade and a half.
Whatever one’s opinion about our 
nation’s current president and his 
administration, 
few 
would 
deny 
that he quickly introduced a cast of 
players who have swiftly implemented 
sweeping 
changes 
throughout 
the 
federal government.
The blizzard of new rules and regula-
tions that arrived in the aftermath of the 
passage of the Dodd-Frank Act 15 years 
ago has consumed enormous amounts 
of time and resources in the banking 
industry. And while some of the 
reforms brought sensible and useful 
improvements to larger banks’ risk 
management practices, there has also 
been an overabundance of prescrip-
tive regulatory micromanagement. The 
pendulum had swung way beyond a 
sensible center point. 
For me, a new frontier in absurdity was 
reached during a meeting I participated 
in between the then-Director of the 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 
(“CFPB”) and a small group of bankers 
and members of their boards of direc-
tors about three years ago. The CFPB 
Director alluded to the ellipsis — the 
“…” — often found in the chatbots used 
on many companies’ websites to facili-
tate chats with customers. Like “music 
on hold,” those bouncing dots are 
intended to let the customer know that 
the question is being worked on and 
an answer is forthcoming. The CFPB 
head opined that an ellipsis suggests 
the presence of a human on the other 
end of the conversation, and that its use 
was thus “unfair and deceptive,” and 
presumably worthy of stringent new 
rules to protect consumers from such a 
perilous deception. 
If this was what kept the nation’s 
watchdog of financial skullduggery 
up at night, the effective recent 
dismantling of the CFPB is a welcome 
development for taxpayers. 
The new team of federal banking regu-
lators who’ve arrived over the past year 
has generally brought with them a 
refreshing determination to focus on 
the types of risk that can do material 
harm, particularly to larger banks and 
the financial system at large. They’ve 
demonstrated a determination to speed 
up their processes for licensing and 
ruling on mergers and acquisitions, 
THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT

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Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
KELLY MILAN  |  OWNER AND GENERAL MANAGER
SUNSHINE RIDES
“I would definitely recommend Vectra Bank 
to other businesses that are looking to grow 
and want that local service and a large bank 
backing them. So it’s the best of both worlds.”

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A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
The growth in private credit is creating 
increasing concern about the risk 
it poses to the financial system in 
the event of a major crisis. Unlike 
banks, private credit providers have 
no “lender of last resort,” as banks 
do with the Federal Reserve System. 
And while they are generally struc-
tured with reasonably long investment 
periods, refinancing during periods 
of stress may be challenging. In such 
a scenario banks, which have increas-
ingly supplied leverage to private 
credit funds, will be under pressure to 
withdraw liquidity lines, and the result-
ing forced asset sales could exert strong 
downward pressure on asset values, as 
was the case during the financial crisis. 
 
Even as I complete this letter, a major 
U.S. asset management company has 
announced restrictions on investor 
redemptions in one of its private credit 
funds, rattling the private credit market. 
To help meet withdrawal demands, 
In our experience, both historically 
and more recently, we can compete 
effectively with both the largest and 
the smallest well-managed banks in 
most lines of business. The United 
States has a diverse financial system 
that has served it exceedingly well, 
and we believe regional banks can and 
should continue to play an important 
role in serving their communities with 
a broader product set than is typically 
found in smaller banks, and with a more 
personal relationship-based approach 
than can be readily achieved by the 
largest institutions. That said, two sets 
of non-bank competitors have evolved 
that currently seem deserving of partic-
ular attention: private credit funds and 
credit unions.
PRIVATE CREDIT
In recent years, there has been an 
increasing focus on the private credit 
sector, its risks and its impact on banks’ 
growth and profitability. The total 
volume of private credit is currently 
estimated at between $1.7 trillion and 
$2.0 trillion, and Moody’s1 projects that 
global private credit will likely reach 
$3 trillion by 2028. Credit supplied by 
nondepository financial institutions, or 
NDFIs, has been a part of the financial 
services landscape for a very long time, 
from commercial finance companies 
to large players such as GE Capital, 
which at its peak before the financial 
crisis in 2008 was about $637 billion in 
size — the equivalent of approximately 
$960 billion in today’s dollars. The 
accelerated growth in private credit in 
recent years has been spurred in no 
small measure by the more stringent 
regulatory environment that followed 
the Great Financial Crisis. Ironically, 
even as GE Capital’s business model 
resulted in its largely being dismantled, 
dissolved or sold off during this period, 
aspiring new entrants have emerged. 
For the most part, competition from 
private credit providers has heretofore 
not been particularly problematic for 
us, and at times has even been useful in 
providing an avenue to offload margin-
ally performing loans. Private credit 
is enticing to some borrowers owing 
to structures that are often attractive, 
including fewer restrictive covenants, 
a willingness to often forego personal 
guaranties, and the like. Private credit 
providers are also sometimes faster 
to approve a deal — something that 
we and other banks are working to 
improve on. In turn, pricing is often 
200 basis points, or more, greater for 
a middle market commercial loan than 
is typical for loans made by banks. 
TOTAL COST OF DEPOSITS
At December 31, 2025
2.00%
2.50%
1.50%
0.00%
1.00%
0.50%
3.00%
ZION
Peer Top Quartile
Peer Bottom Quartile
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
OUR COMPETITION
3 Moody’s Ratings, “2025 Outlook – Primed for growth as LBOs revive, 
ABF opportunities accelerate,” January 21, 2025

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the asset manager announced that it 
was selling $1.4 billion in assets at 
slightly below par to a group of pension 
funds and an insurance company in 
which the asset manager has an equity 
interest, raising questions about asset 
valuations and regulation of conflicts.
Lending to the NDFI sector has been 
a major growth driver for many larger 
banks, with Federal Reserve data 
showing total loans in this category 
growing over 25% year over year 
through the second quarter of 20252, 
though some of this may have been 
the result of reclassifications as more 
attention has been focused on this 
segment of the market. While the larger 
loss we experienced in the third quarter 
of 2025 was in our NDFI portfolio, 
which totals about $2.0 billion, we’ve 
deliberately constrained growth to this 
borrower category in recent years. 
CREDIT UNIONS
Another growing source of compe-
tition, particularly in the consumer 
and small business arena, comes from 
credit unions. Originally established to 
promote thrift and “make [credit] more 
available to people of small means”3 
through 
cooperative 
associations 
serving members sharing a “common 
bond,” 
many 
credit 
unions 
have 
evolved into sizable financial institu-
tions with extensive branch networks 
serving both the general population 
and many businesses. 
Federally chartered credit unions were 
granted an income tax exemption in 
1937, owing to their stated mission 
to serve individuals with modest 
resources. Similar tax exemptions for 
the savings & loan and mutual savings 
bank industries were repealed in 1951. 
In succeeding years, the credit union 
industry 
successfully 
eliminated 
many of the constraints on their fields 
of membership and has used its tax 
exemption to expand aggressively, 
serving a customer base that a 2006 
General 
Accounting 
Office 
study 
found to have a lower proportion of 
low- and moderate-income customers 
than banks do. 
The credit union industry has used 
its substantial tax subsidy to market 
aggressively, including spending astro-
nomical sums for the naming rights 
to a variety of sports stadiums across 
the country (your tax dollars at work). 
Their tax exemption has also been used 
to expand into commercial lending, to 
finance large commercial real estate 
projects, and even to acquire commu-
nity banks, taking dozens of tax-paying 
banks off the tax rolls over the past two 
years. In some markets such as Utah, 
which is home to two of the ten largest 
credit unions in the country with over 
$25 billion each in total assets, credit 
unions have garnered the largest share 
of the consumer banking market. While 
the nation’s total population has grown 
by 16% over the past two decades, 
credit union membership has grown 
by 61%, and credit union industry 
deposits are now double the consumer 
deposits of Bank of America. 
Of the many idiocies that create a 
$1.8 trillion federal budget deficit and 
a federal debt as large as our gross 
domestic product, count the continued 
tax exemption of multi-billion-dollar 
credit unions that advertise during the 
Superbowl and the Olympics as among 
the most ridiculous.
NONDEPOSITORY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (NDFI) GROWTH
Indexed: 2020Q1 = 100
1,000
1,200
800
0
200
600
400
1,400
ZION
Peer Top Quartile
Peer Median
Peer Bottom Quartile
2020
2022
2021
2023
2024
2025
2 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
	 Supervision and Regulation Report – December 2025, Figure 6
3 Federal Credit Union Act; 12 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.

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A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
LANCE CROSBY  |  PRESIDENT
NORTHERN SALES COMPANY, INC.
“In 2025, we chose to switch banks to 
The Commerce Bank of Washington...
We are now over a quarter billion dollar 
company with an outstanding new home 
with The Commerce Bank!”  

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Z I O N S  B A N C O R P O R A T I O N
OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
I M P R OV I N G  O U R
improving the experience our custom-
ers have with us. For example:
•	 We implemented an AI-driven 
knowledge base, “Zia,” allowing 
the 170,000 monthly searches 
performed by our employees to 
be completed by simply typing 
their question.
•	 We use AI to accelerate our 
understanding of documents, 
such as appraisal reviews and  
legal 
contracts, 
dramatically 
 
reducing the time spent combing  
through these documents to find 
and analyze relevant details.
•	 We’ve begun using AI to assist 
in preparing more readable 
credit presentations, allowing 
our relationship managers and 
underwriters to more quickly 
get deals completed.
We expect the use of AI to accelerate 
over the course of the coming year 
and beyond. Several months ago, we 
established an Innovation Lab in our 
Enterprise Technology and Operations 
division to ramp up our ability to more 
quickly test and deploy AI and other 
solutions that will provide benefits for 
our customers and bankers.
We believe we are extremely well 
positioned to take advantage of new 
technologies, new products, and market 
opportunities to grow in the years ahead 
— the result of substantial investments 
we’ve made in recent years. In every 
case, our objective is to strengthen our 
bankers’ ability to engage and provide 
value to customers.
We made great strides in improving our 
operational effectiveness in 2025 with 
gains from streamlining processes, 
additional outsourcing, the imple-
mentation of lean methodologies and 
the use of AI (artificial intelligence) 
tools while at the same time reducing 
operational risk.
We established Commercial Lending 
Services, or CLS, teams to more expe-
ditiously process commercial loan 
requests between $1 million to $5 
million, which constitutes a significant 
portion of our business lending deals. 
With small teams in each major geogra-
phy dedicated to this activity, and with 
streamlined processes, we’re freeing 
up time for our front-line bankers to 
spend with clients while accelerating 
the loan approval process.
We launched a customer 360-degree 
view in beta mode, which will signifi-
cantly improve the ability of our 
bankers to quickly understand the full 
extent of clients’ relationships when 
making pricing and other decisions. 
This past year we also achieved faster 
customer onboarding and more self- 
service options with our BaNCS core 
system, saving customers an estimated 
three million hours in wait time. 
Our new BaNCS core loan and deposit 
platform will also allow us to integrate 
TCS’s Quartz™ blockchain-based digital 
assets platform in 2026, facilitating the 
capability to issue and manage digital 
wallets, and provide programmable 
payments using tokenized deposits 
or stablecoins as the payment system 
evolves. Our core platform also makes 
us one of the only banks in the nation 
able to post and settle transactions 
in real time directly into our deposit 
system, a real advantage as deposit 
tokenization and instantaneous digital 
settlement moves into the mainstream 
over the next few years.  
Our ability to employ AI is greatly 
enhanced by the investments we’ve 
made in our core systems in recent 
years. 
Our 
FutureCore 
project, 
completed in 2024, provided the 
impetus for cleaning up, organizing 
and creating uniformity in the way 
we collect and use data. While never 
perfect, we believe the work we did over 
the past decade places us ahead of most 
in the industry with respect to data 
management and governance, which 
is particularly important in availing 
ourselves of the capabilities of AI. 
We have a variety of projects either 
in place or under way to use AI in 
making our people more effective and 

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A N N U A L  R E P O R T   |   2 0 2 5
Over the course of a year, I receive 
many messages from customers. Some 
with complaints and problems that need 
addressing, but at least as many that 
remind me of the outstanding people 
I’m fortunate to work with everyday. 
In closing, I’d like to share one such 
story from Heidi Miller, the execu-
tive director of the Cedar City (Utah) 
Housing Authority, who took the time 
to recognize Josh Hunt, the manager of 
our branch there. She wrote:
“One of my elderly clients, who is 74 
and has a heart condition, walked from 
his low-income apartment in Fiddlers 
Canyon to the bank — over three miles 
— to get a money order for his rent. 
While at the bank, someone noticed 
how exhausted he was and realized 
This past year we asked most all our 
employees — with only a relatively 
small number of role-based exceptions 
— to be in the office five days a week. 
In the overwhelming majority of cases 
the restoration of this long-established 
norm has been well-received and 
has contributed to a greater sense of 
employee well-being 
and 
stronger 
collaboration and productivity. It really 
is good to have most all our colleagues 
back in the office again full time.
In recent weeks I’ve spent a lot of time 
on the road, meeting with our people 
across the western United States in town 
hall meetings, in branches and in their 
offices. Their energy is incredible, and 
I’m always revitalized when I’m around 
these tremendous team members. 
PEOPLE 
MEAN  
EVERYTHING
O U R
JUANNY ROMERO  |  CEO AND FOUNDER
MOTHERSHIP COFFEE ROASTERS
“Nevada State Bank has been 
the perfect fuel to help us 
grow because it’s a bank that 
is full of humans who care.”

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he needed help. That person kindly 
offered to give him a ride to our office.
As we were speaking with this gentle-
man about his paperwork and rent, 
a professionally dressed young man 
walked in. When I approached to ask if 
I could help him, I realized it was Josh 
— whom I had recently been introduced 
to. Josh explained that he was simply 
waiting for my client to finish so he 
could drive him safely home.
It wasn’t until that moment that I 
realized Zions is ‘the bank’ and Josh 
is ‘the guy’! Josh has been the one 
quietly helping this man all along. I 
had always assumed it was his pastor 
or his case worker assisting him, but it 
turns out it is Josh — from Zions Bank. 
Josh has worked tirelessly behind the 
scenes, helping get my client’s retire-
ment sorted out and tracking down 
copies of his Social Security letters so 
we could continue providing rental 
assistance. In fact, when we gave the 
client a list of missing items that day, 
it was Josh who later called our office 
to explain what he would be sending 
and how he planned to help with 
other matters.
Josh’s kindness and integrity truly 
stand out. I felt compelled to share this 
story so that Zions Bank knows what an 
exceptional representative you have on 
your team. Josh went far beyond what 
most people would do, simply to help 
someone in need.
Zions Bank is incredibly fortunate to 
have him. Employees like Josh are the 
reason people trust and feel loyal to an 
organization. 
Thank you for employing people who 
make our community better, one quiet 
act of kindness at a time.”
We have many bankers like Josh Hunt 
on our team; people who care about 
one another and who care deeply about 
our customers. They take seriously 
our ambition to make our customers 
stronger financially and in every other 
way possible as a result of working with 
us. I deeply appreciate their hard work 
and dedication.
On behalf of the nearly ten thousand 
talented people with whom I have the 
privilege of working every day, I want to 
thank you for your support and for your 
investment. As one who has the great 
majority of my own net worth invested 
in 
Zions 
Bancorporation’s 
future, 
I appreciate that support, and along 
with our team I’m committed to doing 
everything I can to continue building a 
great business. With strong fundamen-
tals, exceptional people, and a clear 
sense of purpose, we will continue 
reaching higher to create enduring 
value for our customers, communities, 
and shareholders.
Respectfully,
Harris Simmons
Chairman and CEO
February 20, 2026
JESSICA BURDEN  |  GENERAL MANAGER
MILTON FRANK PLUMBING & COOLING
“[Amegy Bank] is helping us 
get to tomorrow and next week,
next year and the next generation.”

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 1
(Figures in millions, except per share amounts)
2025/2024
Change
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
For the Year
%
Net interest income
+8
$    2,627
$    2,430
$    2,438
$    2,520
$    2,208
Noninterest income
+8
758
700
677
632
703
Total net revenue
+8
3,385
3,130
3,115
3,152
2,911
Provision for credit losses
-
72
72
132
122
(276)
Noninterest expense
+4
2,138
2,046
2,097
1,878
1,741
Adjusted pre-provision net revenue1
+12
 1,266 
 1,131 
 1,170 
 1,312 
 1,121 
Net income
+15
899
784
680
907
1,129
Net earnings applicable to common shareholders
+21
895
737
648
878
1,100
Per Common Share
Net earnings - diluted
+21
6.01
4.95
4.35
5.79
6.79
Tangible book value at year-end
+21
40.79
33.85
28.30
22.79
39.62
Market price - end
+8
58.54
54.25
43.87
49.16
63.16
Market price - high
-4
60.77
63.22
55.20
75.44
68.25
Market price - low
+4
39.32
37.76
18.26
45.21
42.12
At Year End
Assets
-
88,990
88,775
87,203
89,545
93,200
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and fees
+3
60,917
59,410
57,779
55,653
50,851
Deposits
-1
75,644
76,223
74,961
71,652
82,789
Common equity
+17
7,114
6,058
5,251
4,453
7,023
Performance Ratios
%
%
%
%
%
Return on average assets
1.00
0.88
0.77
1.01
1.29
Return on average common equity
13.7
13.1
13.4
16.0
14.9
Return on average tangible common equity1
16.6
16.2
17.3
19.8
17.3
Net interest margin
3.21
3.00
3.02
3.06
2.72
Net charge-offs to average loans and leases
0.15
0.10
0.06
0.07
0.01
Total allowance for credit losses to loans and leases outstanding
1.19
1.25
1.26
1.14
1.09
Capital Ratios at Year End
%
%
%
%
%
Common equity tier 1 capital
11.5
10.9
10.3
9.8
10.2
Tier 1 leverage
9.0
8.3
8.3
7.7
7.2
Tangible common equity to tangible assets
6.9
5.7
4.9
3.8
6.5
Other Selected Information
Weighted average diluted common shares outstanding
-
147.2
147.2
147.8
150.3
160.2
Dividends declared, per share
+6
1.76
1.66
1.64
1.58
1.44
Common dividend payout ratio2
29.4%
33.6%
37.8%
27.3%
21.1%
Capital distributed as a percentage of net earnings applicable to 
common shareholders3
34%
38%
46%
50%
94%
Efficiency ratio1
62.6%
64.2%
62.9%
58.8%
60.8%
1This table includes certain non-GAAP measures. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” on page 23 for more information.
²The common dividend payout ratio is equal to common dividends paid divided by net earnings applicable to common shareholders.
3This ratio is the sum of the dollars of common dividends paid and dollars used for share repurchases for the year, divided by net earnings applicable to common shareholders.
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NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(Figures in millions, except per share amounts)
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
Pre-Provision Net Revenue (PPNR)
(a)
Total noninterest expense (GAAP)
$    2,138
$    2,046
$    2,097
$    1,878
$    1,741
LESS adjustments:
Severance costs
16
3
14
1
1
Other real estate expense, net
(2)
(1)
-
1
-
Amortization of core deposit and other tangibles
8
7
6
1
1
Restructuring costs
-
-
1
-
-
Pension termination-related expense (income)
-
-
-
-
(5)
SBIC investment success fee accrual
5
1
-
(1)
7
FDIC special assessment
(11)
11
90
-
-
(b)
Total adjustments
16
21
111
2
4
(a-b)=(c)
Adjusted noninterest expense (non-GAAP)
2,122
2,025
1,986
1,876
1,737
(d)
Net interest income (GAAP)
2,627
2,430
2,438
2,520
2,208
(e)
Fully taxable-equivalent adjustments
46
45
41
37
32
(d+e)=(f)
Taxable-equivalent net interest income (non-GAAP)
2,673
2,475
2,479
2,557
2,240
(g)
Customer-related noninterest income
662
639
616
630
589
(h)
Fair value and nonhedge derivative income (loss)
(9)
-
(4)
16
14
(i) = (g-h)
Adjusted Customer-related noninterest income
671
639
620
614
575
(j)
Noncustomer-related noninterest income
96
61
61
2
114
(k)
Securities gains (losses), net
52
19
4
(15)
71
(l) = (j-k)
Adjusted Noncustomer-related noninterest income
44
42
57
17
43
(m) = (f+g+j)
Combined Income (non-GAAP)
3,431
3,175
3,156
3,189
2,943
(n)=(f+i+l)
Adjusted taxable-equivalent revenue (non-GAAP)
3,388
3,156
3,156
3,188
2,858
(m)-(a)
Adjusted pre-provision net revenue (PPNR)
1,293
1,129
1,059
1,311
1,202
(n)-(c)
Adjusted PPNR (non-GAAP)
1,266
1,131
1,170
1,312
1,121
(c/n)
Efficiency Ratio (non-GAAP)
62.6%
64.2%
62.9%
58.8%
60.8%
Return on Average Tangible Common Equity
Net earnings applicable to common shareholders (GAAP)
$       895
$       737
$       648
$       878
$    1,097
Adjustments, net of tax:
Amortization of core deposit and other intangibles
7
5
5
1
1
(a)
Net earnings applicable to common shareholders, excluding 
the effects of the adjustments, net of tax (non-GAAP)
$       902
$       742
$       653
$       879
$    1,098
Average common equity (GAAP)
6,530
5,630
4,839
5,472
7,371
Average goodwill and intangibles
(1,084)
(1,055)
(1,062)
(1,022)
(1,015)
(b)
Average tangible common equity (non-GAAP)
$    5,446
$    4,575
$    3,777
$    4,450
$    6,356
(a/b)
Return on average tangible common equity (non-GAAP)
16.6%
16.1%
17.3%
19.8%
17.3%
Adjusted Return on Average Tangible Common Equity
(a)
Net earnings applicable to common shareholders, excluding 
the effects of the adjustments, net of tax (non-GAAP)
$       902
$       742
$       653
$       879
$    1,098
Adjustments:
Provision for credit losses
72
72
132
122
(276)
Net Charge-offs
(89)
(60)
(36)
(39)
(6)
Securities Gains/Losses
(52)
(19)
(4)
15
(71)
Tax impact of adjustments
14
1
(19)
(21)
74
(c)
Total Adjustments
(55)
(6)
73
77
(279)
(a+c)=(d)
Adjusted net earnings to common shareholders
$       847
$       736
$       726
$       956
$       819
(d/b)
Adjusted Return on average tangible common equity (non-GAAP)
15.6%
16.2%
19.2%
21.5%
12.9%
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ZIONS BANCORPORATION, N.A.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ZIONS’ PEER GROUP
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS
BOKF	
BOK Financial Corp
CFG	
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
CFR	
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
COLB	
Columbia Banking System
EWBC	
East West Bancorp, Inc
FHN	
First Horizon National Corporation
FITB	
Fifth Third Bancorp
HBAN	
Huntington Bancshares 	
	
	
  Incorporated
KEY	
KeyCorp
MTB	
M&T Bank Corporation
PNFP	
Pinnacle Financial Partners
RF	
Regions Financial Corporation
WAL	
Western Alliance 	
	
	
	
  Bancorporation
WBS	
Webster Bank
WTFC	
Wintrust Financial Corp.
Nathan Callister 
CEO, Zions Bank
Kenneth J. Collins 
Chief Transformation and Operations Officer
Eric Ellingsen 
CEO, California Bank & Trust
Alan M. Forney 
CEO, The Commerce Bank of Washington 
Olga T. Hoff 
Retail Banking
Dominic Karaba 
CEO, Vectra Bank Colorado
Christopher Kyriakakis 
Chief Risk Officer
Scott A. Law 
Chief Human Resources Officer
Eric Lucero 
Chief Marketing Officer
Michael MacDonald 
Capital Markets
Margaret K. Mayer 
Chief Information Officer
Rena Miller 
General Counsel
R. Ryan Richards 
Chief Financial Officer
Terry A. Shirey 
CEO, Nevada State Bank
Mark Stebbings 
CEO, National Bank of Arizona
Steven D. Stephens 
CEO, Amegy Bank
Harris H. Simmons 
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 
Zions Bancorporation
Maria Contreras-Sweet 
Managing Member 
Contreras Sweet Companies 
Rockway Equity Partners
Gary L. Crittenden 
Private Investor
Suren K. Gupta 
Former President 
Allstate Protection Products  
and Enterprise Services
Claire A. Huang 
Former Chief Marketing Officer 
J.P. Morgan Chase and Company
Vivian S. Lee 
Executive Fellow 
Harvard Business School
Scott J. McLean 
President and Chief Operating Officer 
Zions Bancorporation
Edward F. Murphy 
Former Chief Financial Officer 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Stephen D. Quinn 
Former Managing Director and General Partner 
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Aaron B. Skonnard 
Former Chief Executive Officer 
Pluralsight, Inc.
Barbara A. Yastine 
Former Chair, President and 
Chief Executive Officer 
Ally Bank
CORPORATE OFFICERS
Harris H. Simmons 
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Scott J. McLean 
President and Chief Operating Officer
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS
(CONTINUED)
Derek Steward 
Chief Credit Officer
Randy R. Stewart 
Mortgage Lending 
Lincoln Taylor 
Chief Audit Executive
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ZIONS BANCORPORATION
NEWS RELEASES
EXECUTIVE OFFICES
One South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84133-1109
801-844-7637
Our news releases are available on our 
website at zionsbancorporation.com. To be 
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“Email Notifications.”
CORPORATE INFORMATION
DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN
Shareholders can reinvest their cash divi-
dends in additional shares of our common 
stock at the market price on the dividend 
payment date. Shareholders, as well as brokers 
and custodians who hold our common stock 
for clients, can obtain a prospectus of the 
plan on the Zions Bancorporation website at 
zionsbancorporation.com or by writing to:
Zions Bancorporation
Dividend Reinvestment Plan
P.O. Box 30880
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130-0880
ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS’  
MEETING
May 1, 2026, 1 p.m. MDT
Zions Bancorporation 
Founders Room, 18th Floor
One South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84133
TRANSFER AGENT
Zions Bank
Corporate Trust Department
One South Main Street, 12th Floor
Salt Lake City, Utah 84133-1109
801-844-7545 or 888-416-5176
CREDIT RATINGS
Credit ratings are updated regularly and may be 
found on the Zions Bancorporation website at 
zionsbancorporation.com.
REGISTRAR
Zions Bank
One South Main Street, 12th Floor
Salt Lake City, Utah 84133-1109
AUDITORS
Ernst & Young LLP
15 W. South Temple
Suite 1800
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
OTHER LISTED SECURITIES
Series A Preferred Stock – NASDAQ: ZIONP
NASDAQ GLOBAL SELECT
MARKET SYMBOL
ZION
In addition to this report, please see 
our website zionsbancorporation.com 
for our Form 10-K, proxy, and corporate 
responsibility report.
INTERNET SITES
Zions Bancorporation
zionsbancorporation.com
Zions Bank
zionsbank.com
California Bank & Trust
calbanktrust.com
Amegy Bank
amegybank.com
National Bank of Arizona
nbarizona.com
Nevada State Bank
nsbank.com
Vectra Bank Colorado
vectrabank.com
The Commerce Bank of Washington
tcbwa.com
The Commerce Bank of Oregon
tcboregon.com
This document may contain statements that could be considered “forward looking.” Readers should review the forward-looking statement disclaimer of 
Zions’ Annual Report on Form 10-K, which can be found on the website at zionsbancorporation.com and applies equally to this document. Certain financial 
measures containing descriptive words such as “core” or “adjusted” are subject to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures table, which can be found on page 19. 
SELECTED INDEX MEMBERSHIPS
S&P Midcap 400
Russell 1000
KBW Bank
NASDAQ Financial 100
INVESTOR RELATIONS
For financial information about the bank,
analysts, investors and news media
representatives should contact:
Andrea Christoffersen
801-844-7637
investor@zionsbancorp.com
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