The net proceeds, after underwriting discounts and estimated expenses, to us
from the sale of the common stock offered hereby will be approximately $41.6
million. If the underwriter exercises its over-allotment option in full, we
estimate that our net proceeds will be approximately $47.8 million. We
intend to use the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate
purposes, including the support of our ongoing and future anticipated growth.
We face substantial competition in all phases of our operations from a variety
of different competitors, including commercial banks and their holding
companies, savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, credit unions,
consumer finance companies, factoring companies, insurance companies and money
market mutual funds. Competition for financial services in the
Philadelphia-Wilmington metropolitan area, which is our principal service
area, is very strong. This geographic area includes offices of many of the
largest financial institutions in the nation. Most of those competing
institutions have much greater financial and marketing resources than we have
and far greater name recognition. Due to their size, many of our competitors
can achieve economies of scale and, as a result, may offer a broader range of
products and services as well as better pricing structures for those products
and services. Moreover, because we are smaller and less well-established, we
may have to pay higher rates on our deposits or offer more free or
reduced-cost services in order to attract and retain customers. Some of the
financial services organizations with which we compete are not subject to the s
ame degree of regulation as federally-insured and regulated financial
institutions such as ours. As a result, those competitors may be able to
access funding and provide various services more easily or at less cost than
we can.
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Several online banking operations as well as the online banking programs of
conventional banks have instituted affinity group marketing strategies similar
to ours. As a consequence, we have encountered competition in this area and
anticipate that we will continue to do so in the future. This competition may
increase our costs, reduce our revenues or revenue growth or, because we are
a relatively new banking operation without the name recognition of other,
more established banking operations, make it difficult for us to compete
effectively in obtaining affinity group relationships.
Company Description
We are a Delaware financial holding company with a wholly owned subsidiary, The
Bancorp Bank, through which all of our revenue and income is currently
generated. Interest earning assets consist primarily of commercial loans in the
Philadelphia metropolitan area. Additionally, loans
collateralized by securities
are generated through wealth management affinity groups and are typically
offered in conjunction with brokerage accounts. Automobile fleet leases are
generated in a number of Atlantic Coast and other states. Deposits are generated
primarily through accounts generated through affinity groups. Through the Bank,
we provide a wide range of commercial and retail and related banking services,
which include private label banking, healthcare accounts, prepaid and debit
cards and merchant card processing to both regional and national markets.
Regionally, we focus on providing our banking services directly to retail and
commercial customers in the Philadelphia-Wilmington metropolitan area,
consisting of the 12 counties surrounding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and
Wilmington, Delaware including Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery,
Bucks and Lehigh Counties in Pennsylvania, New Castle County in Delaware and
Mercer, Burlington, Camden, Ocean and Cape May Counties in New Jersey. We
believe that changes in recent years in this market have created an underserved
base of small and middle-market businesses and high net worth individuals that
are interested in banking with a company headquartered in and with
decision-making authority based in, the Philadelphia-Wilmington area. We believe
that our presence in the area provides us with insights as to the local market
and, as a result, with the ability to tailor our products and services, and
particularly the structure of our loans, more closely to the needs of our
targeted customers. We seek to develop overall banking relationships with our
targeted customers so that our lending operations serve as a generator of
deposits and our deposit relationships serve as a source of loans. We believe
that our regional presence also allows us to oversee and further develop our
existing customer relationships.
Nationally, we focus on providing our services to organizations with a
pre-existing customer base who can use one or more selected banking services
tailored to support or complement the services provided by these organizations
to their customers. These services include private label banking; credit and
debit card processing for merchants affiliated with independent service
organizations; healthcare savings accounts for healthcare providers and
third-party plan administrators; and prepaid cards, also known as stored value
cards, for insurers, incentive plans, large retail chains and consumer service
organizations. We typically provide these services under the name and through
the facilities of each organization with whom we develop a relationship. We
refer to this, generally, as affinity group banking. Our private label banking,
merchant processing, healthcare accounts and prepaid card programs are a source
of fee income and low-cost deposits.
Our customers access our banking services through our website, or the website of
their affinity group, from any personal computer with a web browser, and obtain
cash withdrawals from automated teller machines. As a result, we do not maintain
a branch bank system.
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Our offices are located at 409 Silverside Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19809
and our telephone number is (302) 385-5000. We also maintain executive
offices at 1818 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Our web
address is www.thebancorp.com.