The story
The bank was founded in DeKalb County in 1973 with the Fidelity Southern Corporation and Fidelity National Mortgage Corporation, formed in 1979.
Fidelity founded a brokerage firm in 1992.
On October 31, 1994, Fidelity Southern Corporation began trading on NASDAQ under the symbol "LION."
Fidelity Bank acquired Decatur First Bank in 2011, the Security Exchange Bank in 2012, The Bank of Georgia in 2015, and American Enterprise Bank in 2017.
In July 2019, Ameris Bancorp merged with Fidelity Bank.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fidelity Southern Corporation, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6