| BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. is a Florida-based bank holding company and owns BankAtlantic and its subsidiaries. BankAtlantic provides a line of products and services encompassing retail and business banking. The Company reports its operations through two business segments consisting of BankAtlantic and BankAtlantic Bancorp, the Parent Company. BankAtlantic is a federally-chartered, federally-insured savings bank. It provides traditional retail banking services and a range of business banking products and related financial services through a network of more than 100 branches or stores in southeast and central Florida and the Tampa Bay area, primarily in the metropolitan areas surrounding the cities of Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Tampa, which are located in the heavily-populated Florida counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough and Pinellas. |