Approach

Our approach to structuring a lasting partnership between our Group and your bank incorporates the following values:


We are only looking to partner with one, well managed bank for a long term relationship to create sustainable franchise value.  Please visit our Contact Us page to begin the dialogue and see if our Group and your bank are the right strategic fit.


Every Bank is Unique

The VC Mortgage Banking Equity Group (“VCMB”) management team recognizes that each bank’s path to success is unique.  We have experience building, owning and operating industry leading mortgage banking models.  There are an endless number of ways in which to design a residential mortgage banking platform, particularly as it relates to strategies surrounding individual or multiple channels of loan production, deployment of technology, back office operations management structure and techniques, and capital markets execution tactics.  Structuring a unique mortgage banking platform that is in full alignment with an individual bank’s overall strategic vision and individual circumstances is therefore critical in our focus.

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Experience, Resources & Focus on Risk Management

With the benefit of our 25 years of combined owner/operator management experience, long standing industry relationships, vast network of industry professionals and trusted staff we have worked with in the past, we bring the requisite professional expertise in residential mortgage banking to the table.  The Group is unwaveringly focused on minimizing or eliminating the bank’s operational risk, interest rate risk and asset risk in order to achieve its objectives from an optimal risk-adjusted rate of return standpoint.  Succinctly, it’s what we do.
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Maximizing Shareholder Value with Flexible Structure

VCMB is able to invest equity capital to build the bank’s residential mortgage banking division, if necessary.  While we are looking for only one well managed bank, the Group is agnostic on deal structure.  We are open-minded to exploring the formation of a jointly funded operating subsidiary of the right bank, a simple “division” of the bank, a contract relationship with the bank, or direct employment by the bank.  The primary tenet of our thought process is that we tie ourselves to the bottom line and long term performance for true goal alignment in the relationship.  Whether a bank needs help with its deposit gathering strategy, diversification of the assets on its balance sheet, diversification of its sources of income, new products and services to offer existing customers, or a method by which to put excess liquidity on the bank’s balance sheet to good use, we can prioritize these objectives to maximize bank shareholder value.
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Is Your Bank the Ideal Candidate?

The ideal bank candidate for a partnership with VCMB is looking either to enter into the residential mortgage banking business from a de novo standpoint, or to take its existing mortgage banking platform to the next level.  If you are looking to incorporate the expertise of proven industry veterans in residential mortgage banking into your organization, or just looking to learn more about residential mortgage banking, please Contact Us now to begin the dialogue.  We are happy to meet one-on-one with management, conduct a confidential feasibility study, and present a series of pro-forma plans for alternative mortgage banking division structures that fit your individual bank’s strategic goals and objectives, free of charge.
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Areas of Focus

In developing a customized strategic plan for a residential mortgage banking platform that is congruent with your bank's unique situation and strategic objectives, our areas of focus include:

  • Mortgage banking operations management philosophy
  • Matching proper workflow design to the operations management philosophy employed for maximum efficiency
  • Process automation through more effective use of technology
  • Technology systems integration analysis
  • Industry compliance and quality control throughout the loan manufacturing process
  • Expansion into multiple loan origination channels or consolidation of existing channels of production, such as:
    • “Direct to Consumer Lending” call centers
    • “Boutique Retail” loan origination branches
    • Retail bank branch originators
    • Wholesale relationships with other banks
  • Increasing the sophistication of a bank’s secondary mortgage market delivery methods to include the following:
    • Pipeline hedging
    • Single loan mandatory delivery and bulk mandatory delivery to secondary market investors for better price execution
    • AOT (Assignment of Trade) using Wall Street securities dealers for better price execution
    • Exploring securitization of the bank’s mortgage loan assets for better price execution and increased liquidity
  • Implementing best execution models for front-end customer rate sheet generation as well as for back-end pooling and trading decisions with investors
  • Examining the economics of either selling the bank’s MSRs (Mortgage Servicing Rights) into the secondary market or retaining MSRs on the bank’s balance sheet
  • Strategies for flow or bulk MSR sales to secondary market investors
  • MSR valuation and servicing portfolio hedging
  • Having the right relationships and managing the counterparty risk of those relationships
  • Growth through merger or acquisition
  • Defining and executing an effective exit strategy to maximize shareholder value
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