IBC Bank named No.1 on Forbes' best banks in Texas July 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Exterior view of IBC Bank's McPherson location as seen, Tuesday, April, 20, 2021.Danny Zaragoza/Laredo Morning Times IBC Bank received top marks in Texas and an additional high grade in Oklahoma recently as Forbes announced its fourth-annual Best-In-State Banks and Credit Unions list. IBC and its 3,000 employees took home first place in the evaluation in Texas while also finishing third in Oklahoma. The Laredo-based company was founded in 1966. Forbes featured 135 companies which qualified to be their Best Bank list out of the 4,978 FDIC-insured banks in the US that were considered. Each state had between one and five banks that were listed, giving them a Best-In-State award regardless of their overall placement in that actual state.