Primary Asset-Generating Strategies:
Business Line Overview
As with funding, The Bancorp employs a multi-channel growth strategy for asset origination.
• Investment Securities
– High credit quality tax exempt municipal obligations
– U.S. Government agency securities primarily 2-4 year average lives and other
highly rated mortgage-backed securities
– Corporate securities which, like other purchases, are validated and monitored
by independent credit advisory specialists
• Institutional Banking
– 15 affinity groups, managing & administering $2.7 trillion in assets
• SEI Investments, Legg Mason, AssetMark Trust Company, Franklin
Templeton
– Generates securities backed and other loans
• Automobile Fleet Leasing
– Well-collateralized automobile fleet leasing
• Average transaction: 8-15 automobiles, $350,000
• 30.7% of portfolio leased by local, state, and federal government agencies
• Government Guaranteed Lending
– Loans from $150,000 to $5.0 million including loans to franchisees such as
UPS Stores, Massage Envy, FASTSIGNS and Save a Lot, many of which have a
75% guaranty by the U.S. Small Business Administration
– Approved Franchise and Medical Guidance lines of over $360 million
• Community Bank
– Offers traditional community banking products and services targeting the
highly fragmented Philadelphia/Wilmington banking market
• CMBS
– Loans which are generated for sale into CMBS securities markets that are held
until their quarterly sale
Category | Q4 2013 Balance | Q4 2012 Balance | Q4 2013 Avg. Yield |
| (in thousands) | |
Investment Securities | $1,350,322 | $763,244 | 2.41% |
Institutional Banking | 306,710 | 252,475 | 2.67% |
Automobile Fleet Leasing | 175,611 | 156,097 | 6.85% |
Government Guaranteed Lending | 148,257 | 90,795 | 4.58% |
Community Bank | 1,342,575 | 1,403,487 | 4.01% |
CMBS | 53,485 | 11,341 | 5.95% |
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