SUBSIDIARIES OF SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CORP.
                                                                       03/06/01

Name                                                        Ownership Percentage
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Georgia Corporations
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Columbus Bank and Trust Company (1)                                         100%

Commercial Bank                                                             100%

Commercial Bank and Trust Company of Troup County                           100%

Security Bank and Trust Company of Albany                                   100%

Sumter Bank and Trust Company                                               100%

The Coastal Bank of Georgia                                                 100%

First State Bank and Trust Company of Valdosta                              100%

Bank of Hazlehurst                                                          100%

The Cohutta Banking Company                                                 100%

Bank of Coweta                                                              100%

Citizens Bank and Trust of West Georgia                                     100%

First Community Bank of Tifton                                              100%

CB&T Bank of Middle Georgia                                                 100%

Sea Island Bank                                                             100%

Citizens First Bank                                                         100%


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    (1)   Columbus  Bank and Trust  Company has one majority  owned  subsidiary,
          Total System Services,  Inc., a Georgia corporation,  and three wholly
          owned subsidiaries,  Synovus Trust Company,  Synovus Securities,  Inc.
          and Synovus  Insurance  Services of  Georgia,  Inc.,  all of which are
          Georgia  corporations.  Synovus Securities,  Inc. has one wholly owned
          subsidiary,  Robert Andrew  Securities,  Inc., a Georgia  corporation.
          Total  System  Services,  Inc.  has five  wholly  owned  subsidiaries,
          Columbus Depot Equipment  Company,  TSYS Total  Solutions,  Inc., TSYS
          Canada, Inc., Columbus Productions, Inc. and DotsConnect, Inc., all of
          which are  Georgia  corporations.  TSYS also holds a 50%  interest  in
          Vital Processing Services,  LLC, a Delaware company, a 53% interest in
          GP Network Corporation, a Japanese corporation,  and a 49% interest in
          Total System Services de Mexico, a Mexican corporation.  Synovus Trust
          Company has one wholly owned  subsidiary,  Synovus  Trust  Company,  a
          Florida corporation.





The Citizens Bank                                                           100%

The Citizens Bank of Cochran                                                100%

Athens First Bank & Trust Company (2)                                       100%

Citizens & Merchants State Bank                                             100%

Bank of North Georgia                                                       100%

Georgia Bank and Trust                                                      100%

Charter Bank & Trust Co.                                                    100%

TSYS Total Debt Management, Inc.                                            100%

Total Technology Ventures, LLC                                               60%

Creative Financial Group, LTD                                               100%


Alabama Corporations
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Synovus Financial Corp. of Alabama                                          100%

Community Bank and Trust of Southeast Alabama                               100%

First Commercial Bank of Huntsville                                         100%

The Bank of Tuscaloosa                                                      100%

Sterling Bank                                                               100%

First Commercial Bank of Birmingham (3)                                     100%

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    (2)   Athens  First Bank & Trust  Company has one wholly  owned  subsidiary,
          Athena Service Corporation, a Georgia corporation.

    (3)   First   Commercial   Bank  of   Birmingham   has  three  wholly  owned
          subsidiaries,  First Commercial Mortgage Corporation, First Commercial
          Credit  Corporation  and  Synovus  Mortgage  Corp.,  all of which  are
          Alabama corporations.

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CB&T Bank of Russell County                                                 100%

Synovus Trust Corp.                                                         100%


Florida Corporations
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Quincy State Bank                                                           100%

The Tallahassee State Bank (4)                                              100%

Bank of Pensacola                                                           100%

Vanguard Bank and Trust Company                                             100%

First Coast Community Bank                                                  100%


National Banking Associations
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The National Bank of Walton County (GA)                                     100%

Peachtree National Bank (GA)                                                100%

First National Bank of Jasper (AL) (5)                                      100%

National Bank of South Carolina (SC) (6)                                    100%


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     (4)  Tallahassee  State  Bank  has one  wholly  owned  subsidiary,  Synovus
          Insurance Services of Florida, Inc. a Florida corporation.

     (5)  First National Bank of Jasper has one wholly owned subsidiary, Synovus
          Insurance Services of Alabama, Inc., an Alabama corporation.

     (6)  National  Bank of South  Carolina  has one  wholly  owned  subsidiary,
          Synovus Insurance  Services of South Carolina,  Inc., a South Carolina
          corporation.

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Mountain National Bank (GA) (7)                                             100%

pointpathbank, N.A. (GA)                                                    100%


Delaware Corporations
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ProCard, Inc.                                                               100%

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    (7)   Mountain National Bank has one wholly owned subsidiary,  Merit Leasing
          Corporation, a Georgia corporation.

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