1st City Financial, Harbor Financial Planning to Merge

First City Financial Corp. and Harbor Financial Group are planning to merge, the companies announced last week.

First City is issuing 1.6 million shares of common stock in exchange for 100% of the outstanding Harbor Financial capital stock.

Harbor Financial is the parent of two mortgage banking companies: Harbor Financial Mortgage Corp., Houston, and New America Financial Inc., Dallas. It also owns Hamilton, Carter, Smith & Co., a consulting firm in Beverly Hills.

Harbor Financial has assets of more than $200 million, the company said.

First City is a financial services company with investments in various industries.

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