(Incorporated in Delaware)

We are a digital bank and commercial lender with a specialty in sustainable finance. Through our financial services platform, we offer middle-market lending, digital consumer banking, strategic advisory services and asset management services to a nationwide clientele.

Forbright operates at the intersection of two powerful structural forces reshaping the U.S. banking sector: the rapidly evolving needs of the $10 trillion national middle market and the broadly accelerating shift toward digital-first banking. Together, these trends have created a distinctive opportunity for the establishment and growth of a category-defining bank of the future, combining modern technology, differentiated lending and deposit products, and scaled fee-based businesses to serve dynamic middle-market companies and consumers.

Forbright offers a modern financial services platform spanning nationwide middle-market lending, digital consumer banking, strategic advisory and asset management services. We trace our history back to Congressional Bank, established in 2003, but our period of growth and modernization began in 2020 when John Delaney returned from public service to the private sector to lead a $369 million capital infusion in 2021 as well as the reimagining and rebranding of the Company to support our new growth strategy. A key to our success in building Forbright has been management’s differentiated ability to leverage its experience and relationships to attract and retain world-class talent aligned with our mission.

We believe our business model represents a significant evolution of the traditional commercial banking paradigm, which is often largely limited by geographic footprint and relies on non-interest-bearing deposit funding that has come under structural pressure as depositors have increasingly sought yield-bearing alternatives in the recent high interest-rate environment. We function as a precision-guided platform that is designed to deliver substantial value to customers across both the asset and liability sides of our balance sheet, while maximizing returns for our stockholders. From December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2025, consolidated assets have grown from $1.9 billion to $7.9 billion and net income has grown from $12.2 million to $87.9 million. As of March 31, 2026, consolidated assets were $8.2 billion and for the first quarter 2026 net income was $11.6 million. 

We believe the industry backdrop and trends impacting banking are favorable for our purpose-built business model.

The middle market represents approximately one-third of private sector GDP and employs approximately 48 million people, according to NCMM. Despite its scale, the sector is inherently fragmented within an increasingly nationalized economy. It encompasses nearly 200,000 companies, approximately 99.9% of which employ fewer than 500 employees, according to NCMM and research from the SBA as of 2025. In 2025, 85% of middle-market companies reported year-over-year growth, according to NCMM. Across the country, no single industry represents more than 20% of the total middle market, further highlighting both the national and fragmented nature of this sector of the U.S. economy, according to NCMM. Consequently, traditional community and regional banks, long anchored to their home geographies and relationship-driven lending models, are increasingly unable to match the scale, speed and sector specialization demanded by middle-market borrowers. 

Concurrently, digital banking has profoundly reshaped the U.S. banking landscape by shifting consumer behavior, enhancing technological integration and reducing friction in moving deposits between banks. Deposits held by direct banks increased from less than 1% in 2000 to approximately 10% as of December 31, 2025, according to the FFIEC and the Federal Reserve. Despite this, as of October 2025, approximately 76% of American consumers prefer managing their bank accounts digitally and 54% opt for mobile banking as their primary choice, according to the ABA.

Consequently, traditional banks have been compelled to adopt deposit strategies that can affect their overall cost of deposits and competitive positioning. We expect the increasing impact of new technologies will reduce the friction of money movement, allowing consumers to seek higher deposit yields. This dynamic could exert pressure on non-interest bearing and other low-cost deposits, and threaten legacy bank models historically reliant upon this form of funding.

Note: Net income and revenue are for the 12 months that ended March 31, 2026.

(Note: Forbright filed its S-1 on May 15, 2026, for its IPO without disclosing the terms. Estimated proceeds are $100 million, a placeholder figure.)

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