Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for the Blue Ridge Bank, National Association that provides commercial and consumer banking, and financial services. It operates through: Commercial Banking and Mortgage Banking segments. The company accepts checking, savings, money market, cash management, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also offers commercial and industrial, residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, home equity, consumer installment, and guaranteed government loans; and residential mortgage loans and mortgages loans on real estate. In addition, it provides wire, direct deposit payroll, remote deposit, electronic statement, and other services; and property and casualty insurance products to individuals and businesses, as well as online, mobile, and telephone banking services. Further, the company offers employee benefit plans and administration services; management services for personal and corporate trusts, including estate planning and settlement, and trust administration, investment and wealth management services. It operates in Callao, Charlottesville, Chester, Colonial Heights, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Gordonsville, Harrisonburg, Hartfield, Henrico, Kilmarnock, Louisa, Luray, Martinsville, Midlothian, Mineral, Montross, Orange, Petersburg, Richmond, Shenandoah, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Warsaw, and White Stone, Virginia; and Greensboro, North Carolina. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc.

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Shares of Philip Morris have outperformed the Zacks Tobacco industry over the past six months (+47.9% vs. +41.8%). The company’s strong pricing power and an expanding smoke-free product portfolio have been driving the company. For the first quarter of 2025, Philip Morris' net revenues increased 5.8% year over year, driven by higher combustible tobacco pricing and increased smoke-free product volumes.
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Blue Ridge Bankshare's shares have outperformed the Zacks Banks - Northeast industry over the past six months (+19.3% vs. +1.3%). This microcap company with a market capitalization of $358.33 million is fortifying its financial foundation via strengthened capital ratios, with tangible common equity rising to 12.5% and risk-based capital to 20.83%, exceeding regulatory thresholds. Operational streamlining, including workforce reduction, has lowered expenses, improving operating leverage.
BRBS is exiting non-core businesses, refocusing on lower-risk community banking. While core deposits and net interest margin are improving, recurring losses and ongoing Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) oversight temper the recovery narrative. A smaller loan book and declining fee income limit near-term upside.
Liquidity coverage is robust, but uninsured deposit levels remain high. The valuation suggests investors are cautiously optimistic, reflecting improved fundamentals but ongoing profitability and regulatory challenges.
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Feb 5 (Reuters) - Blue Ridge Bankshares BRBS.A has become the first U.S. lender to quit the United Nations-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), citing a need to focus on its financial health after it got swept up in the U.S. regional bank crisis.
The Virginia community bank joined NZBA, a global coalition of banks that have pledged to bring down carbon emissions from their lending and investment portfolios to zero on a net basis by 2050, in December 2021.
Since then, Blue Ridge's shares have lost 85% of their value following a spike in non-performing loans, its restating of earnings reports, and a U.S. bank regulator cracking down on its partnerships with financial technology startups because it found it to be "in troubled condition".
A Blue Ridge spokesperson told Reuters the bank decided against renewing its NZBA membership following a strategic review that focused on it overcoming its financial woes.
"Based on our growth and need to focus on deposits and community banking, we had to focus on our core business. We want to be cognizant on carbon emissions, and we did not feel we had the staffing resources to allocate to this," the spokesperson said.
While NZBA disclosed Blue Ridge's withdrawal last month, the reasons behind the exit had not been previously reported.
Probes into banks' membership of NZBA and other climate groups by Republican politicians opposed to limiting the financing of fossil fuels, including Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, did not factor into Blue Ridge's decision, the spokesperson said, adding Blue Ridge may rejoin NBZA in the future.
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the organization under which NZBA sits and which is co-chaired by Mark Carney, a former central banker, and Mike Bloomberg, the founder of the eponymous financial information provider, did not respond to a request for comment.
Only nine of NZBA's 142 members hail from the United States, with the vast majority based in Europe. The eight other U.S. members are Amalgamated Bank AMAL.O, Areti Bank, Bank of America BAC.N, Citi C.N, JPMorgan Chase JPM.N, Morgan Stanley MS.N, Goldman Sachs GS.N and Wells Fargo WFC.N.
Signatories to the NZBA agree to set emission-reduction targets within 18 months of joining and publish their progress.
An NZBA report in December 2013 showed it had tripled the number of members since launch in April 2021, and that over two-thirds of members had set targets consistent with capping global warming to 1.5° Celsius by mid-century.
Last year, Germany's GLS Bank quit NBZA because some members of the coalition continued to finance new fossil-fuel infrastructure projects in Africa. Two other banks, Triodos from the Netherlands and Britain's Ecology Building Society, threatened to quit last year over what they argued were lax emission reduction targets, but did not follow through.
Other coalitions under GFANZ have had defections too. Most have been at the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, where last year more than half its members quit citing fears they could be sued for colluding. This prompted the group to ease its membership rules.
Vanguard, the world's second biggest fund manager, left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative in December 2022 citing the need to speak "independently" on issues of importance to its investors.
CONSENT ORDER
Many U.S. regional banks are on edge after New York Community Bancorp NYCB.Nposted a surprise loss last week because of its exposure to parts of the office property and multifamily housing sectors, reviving investor fears about a potential repeat of last year's crisis that led to the demise of lenders such as Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic.
Last month, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a U.S. bank regulator, issued a so-called consent order instructing Blue Ridge to improve its capital buffers and restrict its partnership with financial technology startups, citing lax financial controls.
Blue Ridge has said it will reduce its number of financial technology partners, to which it provides infrastructure so they can offer banking to consumers, from 50 to a "limited number". In December, it also raised $150 million by selling stock in a private placement to improve its financial health.
Blue Ridge is the seventh-largest bank in Virginia by deposit market share and has 27 bank branches. Its subsidiary Monarch Mortgage has 16 offices, from Maryland to South Carolina.
Blue Ridge posted a net loss of $51.8 million in 2023, compared to net income of $17 million in 2022.
(Reporting by Simon Jessop in London Editing by Greg Roumeliotis and Christina Fincher)
((simon.jessop@thomsonreuters.com; +44 (0) 207 542 5052; Reuters Messaging: Reuters Messaging: simon.jessop.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
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