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Interest rate changes affect capital by changing the net present value of a financial institution’s future cash flows, and the cash flows themselves, as rates change.
−Removed: Accepting this risk is a normal part of banking and can be an important source of
−Removed: CARTER BANKSHARES, INC.
−Removed: profitability and enhancement of shareholder value.
+Added: Accepting this risk is a normal part of banking and can be an important source of profitability and enhancement of shareholder value.
However, excessive interest rate risk can threaten a financial institution’s earnings, capital, liquidity, and solvency.
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The Company’s Investment / Interest Rate Risk Committee, a committee of the Board of Directors, reviews and approves the policies established by ALCO.
+Added: CARTER BANKSHARES, INC.
Earnings Simulation Modeling
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We have temporarily suspended the + 300 and + 400 basis point rate shock analyses.
−Removed: Due to FOMC’s current pause in overnight rate increase projections coupled with current rate forecasts that imply that the FOMC will likely begin reducing the Fed Funds Target Rate before the end of the year, we believe the impact to net interest income when evaluating the + 300 and +400 basis point rate shock scenarios do not provide meaningful insight into our interest rate risk position nor does it project a probable interest rate environment for the foreseeable future.
+Added: Due to the FOMC’s recent action to reduce the Fed Funds Target Rate range by 50 bps from 5.25% - 5.50% to 4.75% - 5.00% effective September 18, 2024 coupled with current rate forecasts that imply that the FOMC will continue reducing the Fed Funds Target Rate during the fourth quarter of 2024 and well into 2025, we believe the impact to net interest income when evaluating the + 300 and +400 basis point rate shock scenarios do not provide meaningful insight into our interest rate risk position nor does it project a probable interest rate environment for the foreseeable future.
The following tables reflect the earnings simulation results for the periods presented utilizing a forecasted static balance sheet over the next twelve months.
All percentage changes presented are within prescribed ranges set by ALCO.
−Removed: June 30, 2024 December 31, 2023
+Added: September 30, 2024 December 31, 2023
Change in Interest Rate (basis points) % Change in Pretax Net Interest Income % Change in Pretax Net Interest Income
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−Removed: The results from the earnings simulation imply that the Company’s balance sheet is slightly liability sensitive balance sheet at June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
−Removed: The above table indicates that, in a rising interest rate environment, the Company is positioned to have a small decrease in net interest income for the same asset and liability mix due to the balance sheet composition, related maturity structures, and repricing correlations to market interest rates for assets and liabilities.
−Removed: However, in a declining interest rate environment, we are positioned to have a slightly more advantageous increase in net interest income for the same reasons discussed above.
−Removed: The liability sensitivity is due to a variety of factors which include 1) lower yielding, floating rate excess cash positions held in federal reserve bank and interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions, that are more sensitive to future market interest rate changes which were deployed into higher yielding, fixed and variable rate securities and portfolio loans that are less sensitive to future market interest rate changes, 2) shortening maturities of the time deposit portfolio due to shorter term time deposit promotional campaigns related to the inverted yield curve, and 3) the recent shifts in the shape of the yield curve between the two periods presented above.
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−Removed: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK (continued)
+Added: The results from the earnings simulation imply that the Company’s assets and liabilities are relatively evenly matched to allow for net interest income margin expansion in rising and falling interest rate environments at September 30, 2024 versus being liability sensitive at December 31, 2023.
+Added: The above table indicates that as of September 30, 2024 the Company’s balance sheet is positioned to produce a modest increase in pre-tax net interest income in both a rising and falling interest rate environment principally due to the current balance sheet composition, related maturity structures, interest rate hedges entered into during the third quarter and dynamic repricing correlations to market interest rates for both assets and liabilities.
Economic Value of Equity Modeling
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For economic value of equity simulation, our policy guidelines limit the change in economic value of equity given changes in rates of +/- 100, 200, 300, 400 basis points and for non-parallel yield curve shift scenarios.
−Removed: We have temporarily suspended the + 300 and + 400 basis point rate shock analyses.
−Removed: Due to FOMC’s current pause in overnight rate increase projections coupled with current rate forecasts that imply that the FOMC will likely begin reducing the Fed Funds Target Rate before the end of the year, we believe the impact to net interest income when evaluating the + 300 and +400 basis point rate shock scenarios do not provide meaningful insight into our interest rate risk position nor does it project a probable interest rate environment for the foreseeable future.
+Added: We have temporarily suspended the + 300 and + 400 basis
+Added: CARTER BANKSHARES, INC.
+Added: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK (continued)
+Added: point rate shock analyses.
+Added: Due to the FOMC’s recent action to reduce the Fed Funds Target Rate range by 50 bps from 5.25% - 5.50% to 4.75% - 5.00% effective September 18, 2024 coupled with current rate forecasts that imply that the FOMC will continue reducing the Fed Funds Target Rate during the fourth quarter of 2024 and well into 2025, we believe the impact to net interest income when evaluating the + 300 and +400 basis point rate shock scenarios do not provide meaningful insight into our interest rate risk position nor does it project a probable interest rate environment for the foreseeable future.
Results for the economic value of equity modeling are driven primarily by the shape of the underlying yield curves and option-adjusted spreads used to discount the projected cash flows of assets and liabilities, and the assumed life span of the assets and liabilities being discounted.
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All percentage changes presented are within prescribed ranges set by management.
−Removed: June 30, 2024 December 31, 2023
+Added: September 30, 2024 December 31, 2023
Change in Interest Rate (basis points) % Change in Economic Value of Equity % Change in Economic Value of Equity
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.