- Business
- Merchants Bancorp (Nasdaq: MBIN) operates as a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, and founded in 1990, primarily conducting business through subsidiaries including Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Merchants Capital Investments LLC, Merchants Capital Servicing LLC, Merchants Asset Management LLC, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana. The company engages in multiple segments encompassing multi-family mortgage banking, which offers financing and servicing for multi-family housing and healthcare facilities as well as syndication of low-income housing tax credits and debt funds; mortgage warehousing, which provides mortgage warehouse financing, commercial loans, and deposit services; and banking, which includes retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending, and traditional community banking products and services such as checking and savings accounts, loans, and deposit operations. It serves customers across the United States with a focus on affordable housing developers, institutional investors, mortgage lenders, businesses, and retail clients, maintaining total assets of $18.8 billion and deposits of $12.4 billion as of March 31, 2025. Recent developments include Merchants Capital surpassing $1.08 billion in tax credit equity investments closed for 2024 across multi-investor funds, proprietary offerings, and state credit syndications, highlighted by the January 2025 closing of the $131.2 million Merchants Capital Tax Credit Equity Fund 21 LLC with eight bank investors and the September 2024 closing of the record $293 million Merchants Capital Tax Credit Equity Fund 19 L.P.; the announcement in November 2024 of the redemption of all outstanding 6.00% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Series B Preferred Stock (Nasdaq: MBINO) effective January 2, 2025, at $25.00 per share alongside declaration of dividends on newly issued Series E preferred stock; and reporting third quarter 2025 results with core deposits reaching $12.8 billion, reflecting a 36% year-over-year increase.