FTN Financial

FTN Financial Group offers financial services for the depository community. Its business lines include capital markets, equity research, investment banking, correspondent services, and strategic alliances. FTN offers fixed income sales, trading, and strategies for institutional clients in the United States. The company also specializes in mortgage and consumer-loan trading, and risk analysis. FTN acts as an underwriter in the new issue market for U.S. agencies and collateralized securities, such as CMOs and pooled trust preferreds, as well as allows traders make secondary markets in agencies, money markets, municipal bonds, mortgages, and U.S. treasuries. It also provides investment research on companies in sectors, such as consumer, financial institutions, health care, technology, manufacturing and industrial, and business services technology. FTN offers market making, stock repurchase, and analyst coverage services. The company offers a range of corporate finance and advisory services for depository and nondepository institutions. It helps clients develop and execute value-creation strategies, including raising capital, company sales, divestitures, acquisitions, equity and debt offerings, recapitalizations, and other strategic transactions, as well as provides advice and services for structured finance, such as the issuance of pooled trusted preferred securities. The company provides a range of correspondent banking services to depository clients along with fee-based independent advisors to manage the bond portfolio or to assist with managing interest rate risk. Its correspondent services include credit and cash services, portfolio advisory, asset liability management, and portfolio accounting services. In addition, the company offers relationship services and executive compensation packages. FTN Financial is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. FTN Financial Group operates as a subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank National Association.