Axos Financial

Axos Financial is a bank holding company based in San Diego, California and is the parent of Axos Bank, a direct bank.

Axos Financial, Inc.

Type	Public company
Traded as	NYSE: AX S&P 600 component Russell 2000 component
Industry	Financial Services
Founded	July 6, 1999 (1999-07-06)
Headquarters	San Diego, California
Key people	Gregory Garrabrants, President & CEO Andrew J. Micheletti, CFO
Products	Online banking
Total assets	$11.220 billion (2019)
Total equity	$1.073 billion (2019)
Number of employees	1007 (2019)
Website	investors.axosfinancial.com/CorporateProfile
Footnotes / references [1][2]

Approximately 72.2% of the company's loans are secured by properties in California, 9.47% are secured by properties in New York, and 5.11% are secured by properties in Florida.[3]

Axos Bank has deposit and loan customers nationwide including consumer and business checking, savings and time deposit accounts and financing for single family and multifamily residential properties, small-to-medium size businesses in target sectors, and selected specialty finance receivables.[3] The bank has made larger loans to wealthy individuals that other banks have turned down, albeit at higher interest rates.[4]

History

The company was founded by Jerry Englert and Gary Evans Lewis with $14 million of startup capital.[5] It was incorporated in Delaware in 1999 as BofI Holding, Inc and began operations as Bank of Internet on July 4, 2000.[3] The start date of July 4 was purposely chosen because it showed that the bank would be open on a day that other banks were closed due to Independence Day.[6]

On March 15, 2005, the company became a public company via an initial public offering[3]. It offered 3,052,745 shares of common stock at a price of $11.50 per share.[7]

In October 2007, the company named Gregory Garrabrants as CEO, who was head of corporate development at IndyMac Bancorp at the time. [8] IndyMac failed the next year as the "fourth largest bank failure in the United States."

In September 2013, the company acquired $173 million in deposits from Principal Bank.[9]

In September 2015, the company acquired H&R Block Bank became the issuing bank for H&R Block-branded credit cards and lines of credit.[10]

In January 2016, the company launched a co-branded Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) program with H&R Block.[11]

In March 2016, the company acquired $140 million of equipment leases from Pacific Western Equipment Finance.[12]

On October 1, 2018, BofI Holding re-branded as Axos Financial, and switched its stock exchange from NASDAQ to the NYSE.[13]

In November 2018, the bank acquired $3 billion in assets and liabilities of Nationwide Bank, a subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.[14]

In January 2019, Axos Financial acquired COR Clearing LLC.[15] The unit has since been renamed Axos Clearing.[3]

In March 2019, Axos Financial acquired the robo-advisory platform WiseBanyan. [3] The unit has since been renamed Axos Invest and as of early 2020 is keeping the "free" business model originally designed by the start-up's founders. According to the investor presentation, Axos plans to use WiseBanyan to mine more personal data about its client base. [16]

In March 2019, Axos Financial acquired approximately $173 million in deposits from MWABank.[3]

In April 2019, it was reported that the Axos CEO, Greg Garrabrants, earned $34.5 million, making him the highest paid bank CEO of 2018, despite Axos being 250x smaller than banks such as JPMorgan. [17]

In March 2020, the Axos CEO, Greg Garrabrants, emailed employees to let them know he had instructed his IT team to install spying software on everyone's computer (excluding his own) to make sure they were indeed working from home during the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. [18]

References

1. Naake, Spencer (July 22, 2014). "How BofI Holding, Inc. Revolutionized the Banking Industry Almost 20 Years Ago". The Motley Fool.
2. "BofI Holding, Inc. 2018 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
3. "Axos Financial, Inc., 2019 Form 10-K Annual Report".
4. Eavis, Peter (August 22, 2015). "An Internet Mortgage Provider Reaps the Rewards of Lending Boldly". The New York Times.(subscription required)
5. Huard, Christine (March 14, 2005). "Jerry Englert, 73, cofounded Internet-only bank". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
6. Naake, Spencer (2014-07-22). "How BofI Holding, Inc. Revolutionized the Banking Industry Almost 20 Years Ago". The Motley Fool. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
7. "B of I Holding, Inc. Prospectus". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 14, 2005.
8. "BofI Holding names new CEO". Reuters. 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
9. "BofI Federal Bank Completes $173 Million Deposit Acquisition From Principal Bank" (Press release). Marketwired. September 9, 2013.
10. "BofI Federal Bank Completes Deposit Transaction With H&R Block" (Press release). Marketwired. September 1, 2015.
11. "Bank of Internet USA Launches Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) Through H&R Block Partnership" (Press release). Marketwired. January 13, 2016.
12. "BofI Holding, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Equipment Leases and Operations of Pacific Western Equipment Finance" (Press release). Business Wire. April 4, 2016.
13. "BofI Holding, Inc. is Now Axos Financial, Inc" (Press release). Business Wire. September 12, 2018.
14. "Axos Bank Closes Nationwide Bank Deposit Acquisition" (Press release). Business Wire. November 19, 2018.
15. "Press Release | Axos Financial". investors.axosfinancial.com. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
16. Lai, Johnny (October 2018). "Axos To Acquire WiseBanyan" (PDF).
17. "CEO of Tiny California Bank Makes Twice as Much as Jamie Dimon". Bloomberg.com. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
18. "Bloomberg - Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-03-30.

External links

• Axos Bank Home Page

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