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                              December 8, 2023

       Benjamin Clouse
       Chief Financial Officer
       CrossFirst Bankshares, Inc.
       11440 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
       Leawood, KS 66211

                                                        Re: CrossFirst
Bankshares, Inc.
                                                            Form 10-Q for
Fiscal Quarter Ended September 30, 2023
                                                            File No. 001-39028

       Dear Benjamin Clouse:

              We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
       disclosures and have the following comments.

              Please respond to this letter within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe a
       comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to this letter, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-Q for Fiscal Quarter Ended September 30, 2023

       Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations
       Loan Portfolio, page 65

   1.                                                   We note the tabular
disclosure on page 65 detailing the composition of your gross loan
                                                        portfolio, which
includes commercial real estate (   CRE   ). Given the significance of CRE
                                                        in your total loan
portfolio, please revise your disclosures, in future filings, to further
                                                        disaggregate the
composition of your CRE loan portfolio by borrower type (e.g., by office,
                                                        hotel, multifamily,
etc.), geographic concentrations and other characteristics (e.g., current
                                                        weighted average and/or
range of loan-to-value ratios, occupancy rates, etc.) material to
                                                        an investor's
understanding of your CRE loan portfolio. In addition, revise to describe the
                                                        specific details of any
risk management policies, procedures or other actions undertaken
                                                        by management in
response to the current environment.
       Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk, page
72

   2.                                                   We refer you to the
discussion regarding internal policies for interest rate risk on page 52
                                                        of the Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. You disclose what appear
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CrossFirst Bankshares, Inc.
December 8, 2023
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         to be established limits for net interest income at risk for the
subsequent one-year period
         of, for example, 10% for a 200 basis point shift and 15% for a 300
basis point shift under
         an instantaneous parallel shift of the yield curve. Based on the
disclosure on page 72 of
         the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, it appears
that the company was
         outside established policy limits. We also note the statement on page
72 that you are
         monitoring interest rate sensitivity closely due to a significant
amount of loans repricing
         within the twelve-month period following September 2023, and $5.3
billion of interest-
         bearing liabilities that mature or reprice over the same twelve-month
period. You also
         state in recent quarterly reports that you are reviewing additional
options to manage the
         statement of financial condition sensitivity based on the interest
rate environment and
         anticipated composition of assets and liabilities. Please revise
future filings to provide a
         materially complete description of how you seek to manage risks due to
changes in
         interest rates and other material impacts on your operational facts
and circumstances,
         including any management or corporate governance controls or
procedures for identifying
         and responding to rapid increases and decreases in interest rates due
to or as a result of
         exogenous or unknown factors. For example, please clarify the
Board-approved limits
         and, with a view to disclosure, advise us of the extent to which the
ALCO has approved
         risk profiles that do not conform to management and Board risk
policies. Clarify the
         extent to which such limits and other policies and controls have been
changed due to the
         economic and other developments referenced elsewhere.
       In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.

       Please contact Shannon Davis at 202-551-6687 or Amit Pande at
202-551-3423 with any
questions.



FirstName LastNameBenjamin Clouse                              Sincerely,
Comapany NameCrossFirst Bankshares, Inc.
                                                               Division of
Corporation Finance
December 8, 2023 Page 2                                        Office of
Finance
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