Exhibit 99.1

FCB Financial Holdings, Inc. Reports Record Fourth Quarter Net Income of $13.1 Million, or $0.31 Per Diluted Share, Up 121% Year-Over-Year

Weston, Fla. – FCB Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:FCB) (the “Company”) today reported fourth quarter 2014 net income of $13.1 million, or $0.31 per diluted share, and core net income of $12.6 million, or $0.30 per diluted share. Net income rose 121% year-over-year and net income per diluted share rose 93%. Core net income rose 203% year-over-year and core net income per diluted share rose 164%. This resulted in a ROA of 87 basis points and a core ROA of 84 basis points, both of which reflect continued improvements on a sequential and year-over-year basis.

Core adjustments for the fourth quarter of 2014 included $2.4 million of gain on investment securities. The company views certain non-recurring items, including but not limited to merger related and restructuring charges, gain/(loss) on investment securities and their corresponding tax effect, as core adjustments to net income. The reconciliation of non-GAAP measures (including core net income, core efficiency ratio, core ROA, tangible book value and tangible book value per share), which the Company believes facilitate the assessment of its banking operations and peer comparability, are included in tabular form at the end of this release.

Kent Ellert, Chief Executive Officer and President of FCB Financial Holdings, Inc., commented, “We are pleased by our record fourth quarter operating results providing a strong finish to a successful 2014. 2014 was a year filled with Company milestones, these include: improving and record core net income every quarter, originating $1.3 billion in new loans, progress in transforming our deposit base from 10% to 18% demand deposits, closing and integrating a $1 billion acquisition and successfully completing our IPO. We are excited about the Company’s outlook as we look to continue that momentum into 2015.”

Loan Portfolio and Composition

During the quarter the total loan portfolio, gross of the allowance for loan losses, grew by $369.8 million to $3.9 billion at December 31, 2014, an increase of 10% from $3.6 billion as of September 30, 2014 and 74% from $2.3 billion as of December 31, 2013.

Our new loan portfolio totaled $3.1 billion as of December 31, 2014, an increase of 16% from $2.7 billion as of September 30, 2014 and 75% from $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2013. Our loan growth during the quarter was a result of $477 million of new loan fundings, consisting of $339 million of organic production and $138 million of purchased residential mortgages. As of December 31, 2014 new loans made up 79% of our total loan portfolio as compared to 75% and 78% as of September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.

Our acquired loan portfolio totaled $826.2 million as of December 31, 2014, a decrease of 5% from $873.8 million as of September 30, 2014 and an increase of 69% from $488.1 million as of December 31, 2013. The decrease in the current quarter was driven by resolutions totaling $39.0 million as well as scheduled loan amortization while the increase from December 31, 2013 was primarily due to the acquisition of Great Florida Bank (“GFB”) on January 31, 2014. As of December 31, 2014, acquired loans made up 21% of our total loan portfolio as compared to 25% and 22% as of September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.

Asset Quality

The provision for loan losses of $3.1 million recorded for the fourth quarter of 2014 includes a $1.9 million provision for new loans and a $1.2 million provision for the acquired loan portfolio. There were no new loan portfolio charge-offs in the fourth quarter of 2014. The provision for new loans served to increase the related allowance to $16.0 million, or 0.52% of the $3.1 billion in new loans outstanding. New loan portfolio nonperforming loans were 0.0% of total new loans as of December 31, 2014.

Deposits and Borrowings

Deposits totaled $3.98 billion as of December 31, 2014, in line with deposits of $3.99 billion as of September 30, 2014 and an increase of 42% from $2.79 billion as of December 31, 2013. During the fourth quarter of 2014, noninterest-bearing deposits increased by $67.9 million, or 13%, and overall transaction accounts increased by $155.3 million, or 6%. This increase was offset by a $168.1 million reduction in higher priced time deposits. Transaction accounts represent 73% of total deposits as of December 31, 2014 as compared to 69% and 58% as of September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. The cost of deposits improved to 56 basis points for the quarter, representing a 6 basis point decline from the third quarter of 2014 and a 16 basis point decline from the fourth quarter of 2013. Continued growth in demand deposits drove the improvements sequentially and year-over-year. Contractual cost of deposits, excluding time deposit premium amortization in conjunction with the GFB acquisition, declined to 56 basis points in the fourth quarter of 2014 from 62 basis points and 69 basis points in the third quarter of 2014 and the fourth quarter of 2013, respectively.

Net Interest Margin and Net Interest Income

The net interest margin for the fourth quarter of 2014 was 3.62%, an increase of 13 basis points sequentially and a decline of 14 basis points year-over-year. The increase over the third quarter is due to a 3 basis point increase to yield on earning assets and an 11 basis point reduction in cost of funds.

Net interest income totaled $49.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of 8% from $45.9 million in the third quarter of 2014 and 50% from $33.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. Interest income increased to $56.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of 5% from $53.7 million in the third quarter of 2014 and 44% from $39.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. Interest income from new loans increased by $2.8 million, or 13%, from the third quarter of 2014 due to continued growth in the new loan portfolio. Additionally, interest income on investment securities totaled $12.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of $0.9 million from the third quarter of 2014, due to a 42 basis point increase in yield partially offset by a reduction in average investments of $138.8 million. Lower yielding investments were sold during the fourth quarter to redeploy the funds in higher yielding new loans. Interest expense decreased to $6.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2014 from $7.8 million for the third quarter of 2014 and increased from $6.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2013. The decrease in interest expense was driven by the lower cost of deposits and borrowings.

Noninterest Income and Noninterest Expense

Noninterest income totaled $5.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of $3.1 million from the third quarter of 2014 and an increase of $1.8 million from the fourth quarter of 2013. The increase from the third quarter of 2014 is primarily driven by an increase in loan and other fee income, income from acquired loans and OREO and insurance settlements. Noninterest income during the fourth quarter of 2014 includes gain on investment securities, loan and other fees and indemnification asset amortization of $2.4 million, $2.3 million and ($7.3) million, respectively.

Noninterest expense totaled $31.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2014, a decrease of $17.5 million from the third quarter of 2014 and an increase of $5.4 million from the fourth quarter of 2013. The decrease from prior quarter was primarily driven by non-core IPO related expenses of $19.3 million in the third quarter of 2014.

Financial Position

Capital ratios continue to be strong and well in excess of regulatory requirements. Our tangible common equity, Tier 1 leverage, and total risk-based capital ratios were 13.0%, 12.8% and 18.3% for the fourth quarter of 2014 respectively, compared to 12.5%, 13.1% and 17.7% for the third quarter of 2014, respectively. Stockholders’ equity totaled $851.7 million as of December 31, 2014, an increase of 2% from $835.7 million as of September 30, 2014 primarily driven by net income of $13.1 million. Tangible book value per common share is $18.43 as of December 31, 2014.

Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call today, Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Presentation materials related to the conference call are available on the Company’s website, www.floridacommunitybank.com, by navigating to Investor Relations.

The number to call for this interactive teleconference is (855) 238-8125, and please ask to join the FCB Financial Holdings, Inc. or FCB teleconference. Please dial in 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the call.

A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through March 1, 2015, by dialing (877) 344-7529 and entering pass code 10059016.

The live broadcast of the conference call will also be available online at the Company’s website by following the link to Investor Relations. An on-line replay of the call will be available at the Company’s website for 90 days.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements about our expectations, beliefs, plans, strategies, predictions, forecasts, objectives or assumptions of future events or performance are not historical facts and may be forward-looking. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “can,” “could,” “may,” “predicts,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “should,” “will,” “estimate,” “plans,” “projects,” “continuing,” “ongoing,” “expects,” “seeks,” “intends” and similar words or phrases. Accordingly, these statements involve estimates, known and unknown risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual strategies, actions or results to differ materially from those expressed in them, and are not guarantees of timing, future results or other events or performance. Because forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of future strategies, actions or results, based on management’s current expectations, assumptions and estimates on the date hereof, and there can be no assurance that actual strategies, actions or results will not differ materially from expectations, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Additional information regarding certain risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual strategies, actions and results to differ materially from those contemplated in forward-looking statements is included from time to time in our filings with the SEC, including under the heading “Risk Factors” in our recent Registration Statement on Form S-1. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and FCB Financial Holdings, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made, to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Core net income, core efficiency ratio, core return-on-assets (“core ROA”), tangible book value and tangible book value per share are each non-GAAP financial measures used in this release. A reconciliation to what we believe to be the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures - net income in the case of core net income and core ROA, total net interest income, total noninterest income and total noninterest expense in the case of core

efficiency ratio, and total shareholders’ equity in the case of tangible book value and tangible book value per share - appears in tabular form at the end of this release. The Company believes each of core net income, core efficiency ratio, and core ROA is useful for both investors and management to understand the effects of certain noninterest items and provides additional perspective on the Company’s performance over time and in comparison to the Company’s competitors. Neither core net income nor core ROA should be viewed as a substitute for net income, nor should core efficiency ratio be viewed as a substitute for total net interest income, total noninterest income and total noninterest expense. The Company believes that tangible book value and tangible book value per share are useful for both investors and management, among other things, as these are measures commonly used by financial institutions, regulators and investors to measure the capital adequacy of financial institutions. The Company believes these measures facilitate comparison of the quality and composition of the Company’s capital over time and in comparison to its competitors. These measures should not be viewed as a substitute for total shareholders’ equity.

These non-GAAP measures have inherent limitations, are not required to be uniformly applied and are not audited. They should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial results and analyses of results reported under GAAP, and should be read in conjunction with the Company’s financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

About FCB Financial Holdings, Inc.

FCB Financial Holdings, Inc. is a bank holding company with one wholly-owned national bank subsidiary, Florida Community Bank, National Association, headquartered in Weston, Florida, which operates 52 branches in Florida. Florida Community Bank offers a comprehensive range of traditional banking products and services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, some large businesses, and other local organizations and entities in its market areas. The Bank targets commercial customers engaged in a wide variety of industries including healthcare and professional services, retail and wholesale trade, tourism, agricultural services, manufacturing, distribution and distribution-related industries, technology, automotive, aviation, food products, building materials, residential housing and commercial real estate.

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