Monarch Financial Holdings (Monarch Financial Holdings) Other Noninterest Expense : $22.7 Mil (As of Mar. 2016)

Monarch Financial Holdings Inc was created on June 1, 2006 through a reorganization plan, under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in which Monarch Bank became its wholly-owned subsidiary. Monarch Bank was incorporated on May 1, 1998 and opened for business on April 14, 1999 as a Virginia-chartered bank and a member of the Federal Reserve banking system. The Company is engaged in business and consumer banking, investment and insurance sales, and mortgage origination and brokerage. It conducts its operations through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Monarch Bank, and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Monarch Investment, LLC and Monarch Capital, LLC. It also does business in some markets as OBX Bank, Monarch Bank Private Wealth, Monarch Mortgage and under various names via joint ventures with other partners. The Company operates through two segments that offer different products and services; community banking ("banking") and retail mortgage banking services ("mortgage banking"). Banking involves making loans to and generating deposits from individuals and businesses. Mortgage banking originates residential mortgage loans and subsequently sells them to investors. It serves the needs of local businesses, professionals, corporate executives and individuals in the Hampton Roads South Hampton Roads area of Southeastern Virginia and the Outer Banks region of Northeastern North Carolina. It operate ten banking offices, four commercial lending office and eleven residential mortgage offices in the cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, Virginia. It has two full-service banking offices operating under the name 'OBX Bank' and a residential mortgage office operating under the name of 'OBX Bank Mortgage' in the Outer Banks region of Northeastern North Carolina in the towns of Kitty Hawk and Nags Head. It also operates twenty-nine additional residential mortgage offices outside of its main market areas. The Company's business banking group supports its business and commercial clients and offers both secured and unsecured commercial loans for working capital (including inventory and receivables), business expansion (including acquisition of real estate and improvements) and the purchase of equipment and machinery, as well as loans secured by commercial real estate. This Company also originates business deposits and related services. The Company's Real Estate Finance Group supports the delivery of residential and commercial real estate construction, acquisition and development loans, with the majority of its focus in the 1-4 family residential development markets of Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina. This group supports this type of banking in all of its markets. The Commercial Real Estate Finance Group specializing in underwriting commercial real estate loans, which are either financed for its balance sheet or brokered to other investors. Non-owner occupied income producing real est