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Description of Business
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Description of Business

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

United Security Bancshares, Inc. (“USBI”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, First US Bank (the “Bank” or “FUSB”), provide commercial banking services to customers through twenty banking offices located in Brent, Bucksville, Butler, Calera, Centreville, Coffeeville, Columbiana, Fulton, Gilbertown, Grove Hill, Harpersville, Jackson, Thomasville, Tuscaloosa and Woodstock, Alabama.  The Bank was formerly known as First United Security Bank and changed its name to First US Bank on December 15, 2014.

The Bank owns all of the stock of Acceptance Loan Company, Inc. (“ALC”), an Alabama corporation. ALC is a finance company organized for the purpose of making consumer loans and purchasing consumer loans from vendors. ALC has offices located within the communities served by the Bank, as well as offices outside of the Bank’s market area in Alabama and southeast Mississippi. The Bank also owns all of the stock of FUSB Reinsurance, Inc. (“FUSB Reinsurance”), an Arizona corporation. FUSB Reinsurance is an insurance company that underwrites credit life and accidental death insurance related to loans written by the Bank and ALC.