Delta Financial Corporation (Amex:DFC), a consumer finance company specializing in fixed-rate nonconforming mortgages, in a historic move, will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Market on Thursday, March 22, 2007 while keeping its three-letter ticker symbol DFC – the first company to do so on the NASDAQ market. Delta previously traded on the American Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DFC since 2003.
Delta Financial’s President and CEO Hugh Miller will ring the bell at market open on Thursday, March 22, 2007, 9:30 a.m. EDT, NASDAQ MarketSite Broadcast Studio, 4 Times Square -- 43rd St. and Broadway – New York City. A live web cast of the NASDAQ opening bell with Delta Financial will be available in the Corporate Highlights portion of the Investor Relations section of Delta’s website at: http://www.deltafinancial.com at 9:20 a.m. EDT.
Mr. Miller will be available for select interviews. To coordinate, please contact Drew Biondo at 516-812-8208 or 516-359-9015.
About the Company
Founded in 1982, Delta Financial Corporation is a Woodbury, New York-based specialty consumer finance company that originates, securitizes and sells non-conforming mortgage loans. The Company’s loans are primarily fixed rate and secured by first mortgages on one- to four-family residential properties. The Company originates non-conforming loans through a network of approximately 3,200 independent brokers and the Company’s retail offices. Since 1991, Delta has completed 50 asset-backed securitizations, collateralized by approximately $18.0 billion in mortgage loans.
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