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Hilltop Holdings company history timeline

1998

1998 Hilltop Holdings is founded under the name Affordable Residential Communities Inc. (ARC) as a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in manufactured home communities.

2002

2002 – Southwest Securities adds 48 correspondent firms with prompt merger of MJK Clearing.

2004

2004 – Hilltop Holdings Inc. completes IPO on the NYSE. FirstSouthwest advises the Central Florida Expressway Authority on est. $500 million floating rate debt swap.

2005

2005 Gerald J. Ford invested in ARC and joined the board of directors.

2006

2006 ARC revoked its election as an REIT for United States federal income tax purposes and announced the acquisition of National Lloyds Corporation (formerly NLASCO), a property and casualty insurance underwriter for low value dwellings.

2007

2007 ARC sold all of the assets used in its manufactured home communities business for $1.8 billion and changed its name to Hilltop Holdings Inc.

2008

2008 – PlainsCapital Corporation acquires FirstSouthwest.

2010

In 2010, after spending time on Wall Street and in private equity, Jeremy Ford joined the helm of Hilltop.

2011

2011 Hilltop made a $50 million loan to SWS Group, Inc., a Dallas-based financial services company offering retail brokerage, institutional brokerage, clearing services, and banking.

2012

2012 – Hilltop Holdings Inc. acquires PlainsCapital Corporation.

2013

Hilltop Holdings Inc. announced September 13, 2013 that its subsidiary, PlainsCapital Bank, entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with the FDIC to assume substantially all of the liabilities and purchase substantially all of the assets of First National Bank, based in Edinburg, Texas.

2016

By 2016, Hilltop had set the groundwork for future growth.

2016 – HilltopSecurities forms from merger of FirstSouthwest and Southwest Securities.

2018

2018 Hilltop Holdings Inc. completed its acquisition of privately held, Houston-based The Bank of River Oaks on August 1, 2018.

2020

2020 Hilltop Holdings completed the sale of Hilltop’s wholly owned subsidiary, National Lloyds Corporation, to Align Financial Holdings on June 30, 2020.

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