VBA Signature Sponsors
VBA Signature Sponsors
VBA Signature Sponsor Packages are a unique offering for companies who are interested in providing higher levels of sponsorship support at VBA events. Signature Sponsors have the opportunity to build their own individual bundled package by determining the sponsorships and/or advertisement options that align best with their strategic plan for the year. Simply find the event sponsorships that you would like to secure and add those sponsor dollars up to get you to the package level that most suits your plans for the year – then enjoy the many benefits that come with being a Signature Sponsorship! AND your membership dues are also part of what can be rolled up into these packages! Our 2024 Sponsor Brochure is now available! Check out the vast number of engagement opportunities!
Contact Amy Binns with additional questions or help with developing your 2024 engagement plan!
Thank you to our current Signature Sponsors listed below!
Brown, Edwards & Company, L.L.P.
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
Brown Edwards’ financial institution professional services help management improve procedures, manage risk exposure, and enhance earnings. As a top 100 firm with over 40 years of banking experience, their team will design a specific program for your organization’s needs while providing best practices and cost-effective outsourced services. They provide a full range of services including internal audits, compliance and regulatory audits, SOX/FDICIA assessments, information technology audits, loan reviews, financial statement audits, and model validations. For more information, visit their website or contact Alan Landes.
College Ave Student Loans
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
College Ave Student Loans is a private student loan provider that offers undergraduate, graduate, and parent loans, as well as refinance options. They offer multiple loan options with flexible repayment terms, including competitive interest rates, and features like instant credit decision, a simple, 3-minute application process, no application or origination fee, autopay discount, and best-in-class customer service. In addition to, College Ave offers a fantastic referral program. By partnering with College Ave, your bank can earn non-interest income through referral fees paid by College Ave while helping customers address their higher education funding needs. As a true referral program, banks avoid all loan administration, while College Ave handles all origination, disbursement, and servicing. Lastly, this referral program helps to ensure that your customers continue banking with you by reducing the risk of them turning to big bank competitors for their private student loan needs. For more information, visit their website or contact Brian Reed.
Community Bankers’ Bank
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Community Bankers’ Bank is a State-Chartered Fed Member bankers’ bank owned and directed by independent community banks in the Fifth Federal Reserve District and contiguous states. It gives community banks unique and outstanding value through the economies of scale it creates as a bank partner, never a competitor. It provides the products and services that banks need to operate and excel. CBB’s competitive pricing and superior service make it a vital resource for community banks. Visit their website or LinkedIn page to learn more or contact Jay McNamara.
CRS Data
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
For over 30 years, CRS Data has been dedicated to delivering powerful, accurate property data backed by superior customer service. Their Financial Suite product is tailored made for financial institutions. Offering public tax records, sales and mortgage histories, property comparables, warranty deeds, interactive GIS plat maps, area demographics. CRS helps banks manage their commercial loan portfolio and generate non-interest income. They offer the power of clear and current property information to help you make sound decisions. For more information, visit their website or contact Alwyn Staley.
Elliott Davis
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
Elliott Davis is a business solutions firm providing services to over 500 financial institutions across the United States, including 350 regional and community banks and credit unions. Their team of over 100 professionals dedicated to the financial services industry serves banks and credit unions with audit, tax, advisory, and consulting services. These consulting and advisory services include internal audit, compliance reviews and monitoring, BSA/AML, information technology/cyber security, SOX/FDICIA assistance, credit services, data analytics, model validations, due diligence, process improvement assessments and plans, organizational consulting, and SOC reporting, among others. For more information, visit their website or contact Josh White.
[Equifax] RA Business Solutions, an Equifax Sales Agent
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
RA Business Solutions (RABS) is the exclusive Equifax Sales Agent for the Mid-Atlantic region. Their client portfolio includes auto dealers, banks, credit unions, finance companies, and real estate companies. The RABS team, working with Equifax, provides these industries leading edge consumer insights and analytics, as well as complete consumer and commercial credit files. For more information, visit their website or contact Amy Cardona.
FHLBank Atlanta
Platinum Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
FHLBank Atlanta offers competitively-priced financing, community development grants, and other banking services to help member financial institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic development credit to neighborhoods and communities. The Bank’s members are located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit their website or contact Dan Brenton or Sam Mahler.
Investors Title Insurance Company
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Investors Title specializes in residential and commercial title insurance, §1031 exchanges, settlement, escrow, and trust account reconciliation services, and wealth management. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker symbol “ITIC”), Investors Title has partnered with 500+ banks to establish lender owned title insurance agencies. With a focus on compliance, operational efficiency, and superior service as the staples of success, these agencies generate significant non-interest fee income for owners. For more information, visit their website or contact Norma Carroll.
KeyState Companies (The)
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Founded in 1991, KeyState specializes in providing community banks with innovative investment structures that enhance a community bank’s annual earnings. KeyState Renewables has raised and deployed $225 million in SOLCAP solar tax funds since 2020, financing 53 projects in 7 states. In May 2023, the VBA and KeyState jointly launched the VBA|SOLCAP 2024 LMI Solar Tax Credit Fund, which will raise up to $150 million in solar tax equity capital from its member banks. The capital will be deployed by KeyState in collaboration with a Virginia-based solar development partner to build 15-20 community solar projects throughout Virginia in 2024. These projects will exclusively benefit low-to-moderate income (LMI) households in Virginia, reducing their annual electric bills by approximately 20-30%. For more information, visit their website or contact Josh Miller.
Ncontracts
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Ncontracts offers powerful compliance, risk, and vendor management solutions for financial institutions. Founded in 2009 by regulatory attorneys with years of experience in the banking industry, they work with 4,000 financial institutions in all 50 states. The Ncontracts suite of solutions covers every aspect of compliance and risk management, from strategic to tactical. Choose modules for your specific needs — or build an integrated, comprehensive system that creates efficiencies across your organization. Click here to get started! Visit their website to learn more or contact Rashida Holmes.
Piper Sandler
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR) is a leading investment bank driven to help clients Realize the Power of Partnership®. In the financial services space, Piper Sandler Companies (formerly Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P.) is a full-service investment banking firm dedicated to providing comprehensive, innovative advisory and transaction execution services. The firm specializes in strategic business planning, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, mutual to stock conversions, investment portfolio and interest rate risk management, fixed income securities transactions, and mortgage finance restructurings. Piper Sandler Companies is also a market maker in hundreds of financial stocks and publishes equity research focused on selected banks and thrifts, insurance companies, investment banks, asset managers, specialty finance companies, e-finance companies, real estate investment trusts, and financial technology companies. For more information, visit their website or contact Avi Barak.
PWCampbell
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
PWCampbell, widely known and respected in the financial services industry, is a fourth generation, family-owned retail services and design/build firm. Founded over 100 years ago, they offer a full range of quality facility planning, demographic research, creative retail branding, digital signage, interior design, furniture coordination, architectural and construction services. PWCampbell’s turnkey management process provides the expertise to develop and implement engaging and impactful solutions for every sized project, on time and within budget. For more information, visit their website or contact Marshall Jett.
QSI Banking
Silver Level VBA Signature Sponsor
QSI is NCR’s largest financial partner. They offer turnkey ATM and ITM solutions, including outsourcing and in-house financing. Other solutions include TCRs, video, alarm, security and branch equipment. Availability and security are assured with QSI maintenance, cybersecurity and managed services. For more information, visit their website or contact Kris Keefauver.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, they know that not all information is important—some of it’s vital. They integrate financial and industry data, research and news into analytical tools that help banks track performance, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation, assess credit risk and prospect for new customer relationships. For more information, visit their website or contact Ryan Chakalos or Maureen McKenna.
The Travelers Company
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Throughout their more than 165-year history, they’ve earned a reputation as an insurance company that cares. With Travelers, you have the worry-free coverage to protect what matters most to you: your home, your car, your business, the important things in life. Because protecting your valuables is key to your peace of mind. Their innovation and expertise have made them an industry leader in personal, business and specialty insurance. They’re also the only property casualty company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Their more than 30,000 employees and more than 15,000 independent agents and brokers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland help bring peace of mind to their customers. For more information, visit their website or contact Greg Jabs.
VCDC
Silver Level VBA Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
As the only Virginia-based tax credit equity fund, VCDC has invested more than $702 million to help finance more than 10,503 affordable housing units in over 260 different communities in Virginia and its adjoining states. Their impact-making investments have had exceptional performance, with every managed tax credit fund exceeding the targeted rate of return. They are intimately familiar with the localities and strive for their funds to have a real, positive impact for both their investors and the residents of the communities in which they invest. They consider every investment from all angles so that they can be confident that their funds will do the most good for everyone involved. They are always planning for new fund offerings that involve LIHTCs, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits, New Markets Tax Credits and even Proprietary Funds for those looking for a custom investment solution. For more information, visit their website or contact Bernard Rogers.
Vericast
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Vericast, formerly Harland Clarke Holdings, is a leading marketing solutions company that helps businesses across many industry verticals connect with consumers through data, analytics, and a broad portfolio of digital and print solutions. They help businesses understand, engage, grow and retain customers. Every day, they influence the consumer purchasing and transaction behavior of more than 120 million households – impacting where people eat, shop, buy, save, and borrow. It’s crucial to maximize every engagement tool at your disposal to drive brand awareness and revenue. With a full suite of services designed to engage customers including, Check Solutions, Card Solutions, Contact Center Solutions, Customer & Employee Insight, Customer Change Management and Acquisition and Retention, Vericast solutions combine superior service and deep experience to build a program tailored to your goals and brand strategy. For more information, visit their website or contact Carroll Lynn Downs.
YHB
CPAs & Consultants
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
When your Community Bank needs audit, tax or advisory services, you want an accounting firm that’s thoroughly familiar with the banking industry and can deliver everything you need efficiently, expertly and in a way that advances your success. You also want a firm that audits both public and private companies. In other words, you want to call on YHB. Their large Community Bank Team, which includes dozens of dedicated professionals, focuses exclusively on serving financial institutions of all sizes. In addition to more than 75 years of experience in serving banks throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, they have an exceptionally deep knowledge of industry regulations and issues acquired through continuing professional education and active involvement in organizations like the VBA. For more information, visit their website.