C&F Financial Corporation is a bank holding company that was incorporated
in March 1994 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Corporation
owns all of the stock of Citizens and Farmers Bank (the Bank or C&F Bank),
which is an independent commercial bank chartered under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Virginia. C&F Bank originally opened for business under the name Farmers
and Mechanics Bank on January 22, 1927. C&F Bank has the following five
wholly-owned subsidiaries, all incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Virginia:
C&F Mortgage Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries Certified Appraisals
LLC and Lender Solutions LLC
C&F Finance Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary C&F Remarketing
LLC
C&F Wealth Management Corporation (formerly C&F Investment Services,
Inc.)
C&F Insurance Services, Inc.
CVB Title Services, Inc.
The Corporation operates in a decentralized manner in three principal business
activities: (1) retail banking through C&F Bank, (2) mortgage banking through
C&F Mortgage Corporation (C&F Mortgage) and (3) consumer finance through
C&F Finance Company (C&F Finance).
In addition, the Corporation conducts brokerage activities through C&F
Wealth Management Corporation, insurance activities through C&F Insurance
Services, Inc. and title insurance services through CVB Title Services, Inc.
The financial position and operating results of any one of these subsidiaries
are not significant to the Corporation as a whole and are not considered principal
activities of the Corporation at this time.
The Corporation also owns three non-operating subsidiaries, C&F Financial
Statutory Trust II (Trust II) formed in December 2007, C&F Financial Statutory
Trust I (Trust I) formed in July 2005, and Central Virginia Bankshares Statutory
Trust I (CVBK Trust I) formed in December 2003. These trusts were formed for
the purpose of issuing $10.0 million each for Trust II and Trust I of the Corporation’s
junior subordinated debt securities and $5.0 million for CVBK Trust I of junior
subordinated debt securities originally issued by CVBK, and assumed by the Corporation
when CVBK was merged into the Corporation on March 22, 2014, with all such issuances
occurring in private placements to institutional investors. All three trusts
are unconsolidated subsidiaries of the Corporation. The principal assets of
these trusts are $10.3 million each for Trust II and Trust I and $5.2 million
for CVBK Trust I of the Corporation’s junior subordinated debt securities
(such securities of the Corporation referred to herein as “trust preferred
capital notes”) that are reported as liabilities of the consolidated Corporation.
We provide retail banking services through C&F Bank. C&F Bank provides
retail banking services at its main office in West Point, Virginia, and 24 Virginia
branches located one each in Cartersville, Chester, Cumberland, Hampton, Mechanicsville,
Newport News, Norge, Powhatan, Providence Forge, Quinton, Saluda, Sandston,
West Point and Yorktown, two in Williamsburg, four in Richmond and four in Midlothian.
These branches provide a wide range of banking services to individuals and businesses.
These services include various types of checking and savings deposit accounts,
as well as business, real estate, development, mortgage, home equity and installment
loans.
We conduct mortgage banking activities through C&F Mortgage, which was
organized in September 1995. C&F Mortgage provides mortgage loan origination
services through 10 locations in Virginia, two in Maryland and one in North
Carolina. The Virginia offices are located one each in Charlottesville, Fishersville,
Fredericksburg, Glen Allen, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, Newport News and Williamsburg,
and two in Midlothian. The Maryland offices are located in Annapolis and Waldorf.
The North Carolina office is located in Gastonia. C&F Mortgage offers a
wide variety of residential mortgage loans, which are originated for sale generally
to the following investors: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage; Franklin American Mortgage
Company; Penny Mac Corporation; and the Virginia Housing Development Authority
(VHDA). C&F Mortgage does not securitize loans. C&F Bank may also purchase
mortgage loans from C&F Mortgage. C&F Mortgage originates conventional
mortgage loans, mortgage loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration
(the FHA), and mortgage loans guaranteed by the United States Department of
Agriculture (the USDA) and the Veterans Administration (the VA).
We conduct consumer finance activities through C&F Finance. C&F Finance
is a regional finance company providing automobile loans throughout Virginia
and in portions of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,
Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and
West Virginia through its offices in Richmond and Hampton, Virginia, in Nashville,
Tennessee and in Hunt Valley, Maryland. C&F Finance is an indirect lender
that provides automobile financing through lending programs that are designed
to serve customers in the “non-prime” market who have limited access
to traditional automobile financing. C&F Finance generally purchases automobile
retail installment sales contracts from manufacturer-franchised dealerships
with used-car operations and through selected independent dealerships. C&F
Finance selects these dealers based on the types of vehicles sold. Specifically,
C&F Finance prefers to finance later model, low mileage used vehicles because
the initial depreciation on new vehicles is extremely high.