PrimeLending, A PlainsCapital Company, is a Dallas-based national residential mortgage originator founded in 1986. A wholly owned subsidiary of PlainsCapital Bank (part of Hilltop Holdings), PrimeLending offers a broad menu of home financing options - conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, jumbo, construction and renovation loans, plus refinancing - through a network of loan officers, retail branches and builder joint ventures across all 50 states. The company has ranked as a Top 10 purchase lender every year since 2012 and pairs a bank-affiliated balance sheet with digital origination tools to serve homebuyers and builder partners nationwide.
Steve Thompson is President and CEO of PrimeLending, the Dallas-based national mortgage lender that operates as a subsidiary of PlainsCapital Bank under Hilltop Holdings. He oversees roughly 1,300 loan originators nationwide along with the company's National Operations, Capital Markets, Joint Ventures and Marketing organizations. A UCLA economics graduate with an MBA from UC Irvine's Merage School, Thompson climbed from a regional sales manager who joined PrimeLending in 2011 to president in 2017 and to president and CEO in 2020, and he was named a 2023 HousingWire Vanguard for his leadership of the mortgage company.