Our goal is to provide a remarkable experience, so that your legacy can reach its full potential.

Lanark Financial is a full-service independent broker-dealer and registered investment adviser headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama serving advisors and clients across the Southeast and throughout the U.S. Lanark Financial, Inc. was founded in 1995 as NBC Securities, Inc. by Frank Falkenburg — a financial services professional whose career now spans six decades, beginning at Andresen & Co. in Birmingham before rising through A.G. Edwards & Sons and Sterne Agee. When a close friend and Birmingham business leader offered Frank the opportunity to build something of his own, the founding ownership group made a deliberate choice to invest in its people and infrastructure instead of chasing a quick return. Today, the goal remains the same: to provide a remarkable experience for every client they served.

The Lanark name carries personal meaning for the firm’s founder— Frank Falkenburg. It comes from a road in Birmingham, Alabama, where Frank’s father lived and where he and Frank once built a small record company called Lanark Records — a story of family, trust, and creating something lasting with the people closest to you. Lanark also traces to a Celtic word meaning a glade, an open clearing where light comes through—where true growth can happen. For the firm, that meaning reflects the clarity, continuity, and room to grow that advisors and clients have looked to NBC Securities to provide for three decades.

That founding conviction shaped everything Lanark Financial stands for today: a team of seasoned professionals averaging more than 25 years of industry experience; a comprehensive platform spanning equities, fixed income, mutual funds, separately managed accounts, annuities, insurance, financial plans, and 401(k) programs, with a focus on long term relationships, advisory support, and independent financial guidance. A firm that serves individuals, families, companies, W2 advisors, independent 1099 advisors, and community banks with the same unwavering standard — the client’s best interests, always.

We are independently owned. We answer to our advisors and their clients — not to private equity, not to quarterly targets. That alignment is structural. It is what makes us different. And it is what has kept this firm independent for thirty years while others have been absorbed.