Community West Bancshares operates as a bank holding company for Community West Bank, National Association that provides commercial and retail financial services to professionals, small to mid-sized businesses, and individual households in California. The company's commercial and retail financial services include the acceptance of demand, savings, and time deposits; and the origination of commercial, commercial real estate, small business administration, manufactured housing, single family real estate, home equity lines of credit, consumer, and term loans, as well as agricultural loans for real estate and operating lines; and installment loans consisting of automobile and general-purpose loans. It also offers cash management, merchant credit card processing, courier, and online banking services; and remote deposit capture, automated clearing house origination, electronic data interchange, and check imaging services. As of May 14, 2013, the company operated 5 full-service branch banking offices in Goleta, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Ventura, and Westlake Village, California. Community West Bancshares was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.