MBI Financial Retains Cameron Associates as Investor Relations Advisor.With Completion of Initial Acquisitions, Company Begins Process of Engaging the Investment Community DALLAS -- MBI MBI Management Buy-In MBI Moody Bible Institute MBI Mathematical Biosciences Institute MBI Modular Building Institute MBI Mechanical Breakdown Insurance MBI Molecular Biology Institute MBI Maslach Burnout Inventory (psychometrics) Financial, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : MBIF), a national financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. holding company that is consolidating regional mortgage brokerage companies into MBI Mortgage, Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. and mortgage banking operation, announced today that it has retained Cameron Associates, Inc., a full-service investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. firm, as its investor relations advisor. Cameron has been retained to assist MBI Financial in broadening its financial market presence and in establishing new relationships with the investment community and the financial media. "MBI Financial entered the mortgage lending and financial services business in May of 2005 and is not well known to Wall Street," stated Patrick A. McGeeney, President and Chief Executive Officer of MBI Financial, Inc. "Over the course of the last year and a half we have made significant strides in organizing our capital structure, changing our name and ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors , raising working capital through the issuance of debt and equity, and have begun executing on our business strategy to grow through acquisition in the mortgage brokerage industry. In a relatively short period of time we have created a company that has gone from zero in revenues, to an annual run rate of approximately $22 million having completed our first six acquisitions. We anticipate that during the next twelve months our revenues will continue to increase as we continue to evolve, bring on a full time CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , negotiate terms on warehousing lines of credit for loan fundings, and undertake additional financing as our needs dictate. We expect to be able to announce eight or nine new acquisitions during the next year which would further our goals of driving top line growth and becoming cash flow positive with sufficient critical mass to be self sustaining. We believe that the mortgage origination industry is prime for consolidation and recent acquisitions reported last summer by large institutions such as Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank , Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. , and more recently the Barclay's acquisition of EquiFirst Financial, appear to be validating this strategy." Initial Acquisition Timeline: * May 24, 2005: MBI Financial, Inc. acquires MBI Mortgage, Inc. as well as MBI Mortgage Management Corporation, a residential mortgage broker and loan originator in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the . MBI Mortgage Inc. becomes the wholly owned subsidiary through which future acquisitions will occur. * September 30, 2005: MBI Mortgage, Inc. acquires the assets of Lakeview Mortgage, a residential mortgage broker in Conroe, Texas
* September 30, 2005: MBI Mortgage, Inc. acquires the assets of Northland north·land also North·land n. A region in the north of a country or an area. north land Funding, a residential mortgage and loan originator in Austin, Texas. * March 23, 2006: MBI Mortgage, Inc. acquires the assets of L&M Mortgage Investors, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. . * June 30, 2006: MBI Mortgage, Inc. acquires the assets of New Horizons Financial, Inc., a residential mortgage broker in Anaheim, California “Anaheim” redirects here. For Annaheim, see Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. . * October 31, 2006: MBI Mortgage, Inc. acquires the assets of Merchants Home Loan, Inc, a residential mortgage broker and loan originator in Dallas, TX. McGeeney also stated, "Our acquisition and consolidation strategy is well underway with our three most recent transactions being of particular interest. Our acquisition of L&M Mortgage in San Antonio, Texas has already provided us access to a burgeoning and thriving Hispanic community in the area and, the acquisition of the Anaheim, California mortgage brokerage firm is expected to provide us with the multi-state licensing we can use to grow our business on a national scale. Additionally, our acquisition of Merchants Home Loan in Dallas has provided us with a group of seasoned loan officers who we believe will have a positive impact on our growth. With acquisitions such as these, we feel that we are now more prepared to take a proactive stance in how we communicate with the investment community and we are looking to our relationship with Cameron to support this endeavor." About MBI Financial, Inc. MBI Financial, Inc. is a national financial services holding company that is in the process of consolidating regional mortgage brokerage companies into its wholly owned subsidiary and mortgage banking operation, MBI Mortgage, Inc. The company's strategy is to expand the acquired mortgage brokerage firms by setting up and receiving mortgage brokers' loans Brokers' loans Money borrowed by brokers from banks for uses such as financing specialists's inventories of stock, financing the underwriting of new issues of corporate and municipal securities, and financing customer margin accounts. into its mortgage banking operation and to also grow these businesses with proven marketing programs, better and faster loan approvals, and the introduction of new and expanded loan programs. The company also believes that it can access untapped revenue potential within the mortgage origination process by creating significant cross selling opportunities and introducing a variety of financial services products at different levels of the mortgage origination and funding chain. Through initial acquisitions, MBI Mortgage, Inc. currently owns thirteen locations with offices in Dallas TX, Austin TX, Houston TX, Conroe TX, San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. TX, El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. TX, Flower Mound, TX, Bedford TX, Laredo TX, Palantine IL, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. CA, Anaheim CA, Miami, FL and is expected to be licensed to operate in twenty four additional states by June 30 2007. For additional information, please visit the company's website at www.mbifinancial.com About Cameron Associates, Inc. Founded in 1976, Cameron Associates, Inc. is a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based, full-service investor relations firm providing strategic counsel to a select group of public companies. The firm is particularly focused on assisting emerging companies in the U.S. who need guidance in achieving key business goals, such as improved visibility and reputation in the equity markets, proper positioning of complex financial transactions, and communicating critical corporate issues. Additional information about Cameron Associates can be found on the company's web site at www.cameronassoc.com. This press release may contain statements deemed to be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act or Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Any statements that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not meant to predict or guarantee actual results, performance, events, or circumstances and may not be realized because they are based upon our current projections, plans, objectives, beliefs, expectations, estimates, and assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual results and the timing of certain events and circumstances may differ materially from those described by the forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties. 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