Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer, First Hawaiian
Search every verified Robert Harrison interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On July 13, 2026, Robert Harrison participated in a conference call announcing First Hawaiian’s acquisition of TriCo Bancshares in an all-stock transaction. During the call, Harrison described the partnership as a “great deal” and noted that he and TriCo CEO Rick Smith had developed a strong rapport, citing similarities in their banking experiences and approaches to customers, relationships, employees, and community support. He expressed excitement about the opportunity and emphasized a focus on executing a successful integration process.
“I think there's some smaller banks that will feel they don't need it. Some of the banks that currently have coverage for free will likely push back — generally the larger banks.”
“My bigger concern is the aggregation of deposits.”
“I led a committee that included banks of all sizes, and one of the things I learned is there is a lot of complexity associated with the regulatory aspects of those larger institutions — their liquidity requirements are very different than mine at $700 million a year.”
“We're not going to solve this problem by pondering our navls. We're going to have to come up with a number and index it to inflation. Taxpayers won't pay — the banks will pay — and then find out who's going to push back and why.”
“First Hawaiian has been a sponsor of the tournament since it started 45 years ago, so we're just so proud to be part of it.”
“We're proud to be part of the experience here with Sony for the last 23 years — they've been such a contributor to the community.”
“Together we're helping Friends of Hawaii Charities do so much in a time of huge need; we raise a lot of money for the community.”
“It's one of the very few pro sports that are in Hawaii, and we've been lucky to keep it all these years.”
“This year more than any other the community needs everything we can help them with, and I know that this will go to good causes and people that really need it this year.”
“Consumer credit is doing quite well. I think the support payments from the federal government were crucial and that's really made a difference in people's lives to be able to get through day-to-day life and get by.”
“We've got a lot of criticism by the investment community about that we have close to 30 percent of our loans were deferred second quarter last year but the vast majority have all come back to payment now. People needed a bridge we want to make sure they had a bridge and they dealt with it.”
“The PPP payment protection program loans through the SBA were phenomenally successful. It just made a huge difference. We did 6,000 loans the first round which was just under a billion dollars and just finished doing this second round almost 460 million dollars.”
“We've been under supplying housing for kind of 15 or 20 years now and now we're seeing everything come together. The median single-family price of a home on Oahu this last month was $950,000. That's out of reach for most of the people working in Hawaii.”
“People have been really doing a great job with those stimulus payments and all that money coming in and they're putting it in their bank accounts across the entire country, certainly in Hawaii ourselves and the other local banks. Deposit balances have gone up dramatically.”
“We've had some positions that are very hard to fill. It's just a lot of customer frontline things that people are a little worried about still whether that's not vaccinated yet, they don't like the hours or the unemployment insurance and government support payments. It's probably a combination of many of those.”
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