Hilltop Holdings Inc.
A Dallas-based financial holding company, Hilltop Holdings owns PlainsCapital Bank for commercial and personal banking, PrimeLending for home mortgages, and HilltopSecurities, a broker-dealer and municipal investment bank. It started in 1998 owning manufactured-home communities before Gerald J. Ford steered it into finance, and it took the "Hilltop" name when it rebranded in 2007.