QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
+Added: Like other financial institutions, the Company is subject to direct and indirect market risk.
Market risk represents the risk of loss due to changes in market values of assets and liabilities.
−Removed: We incur market risk in the normal course of business through our exposure to market interest rates, equity prices and credit spreads.
+Added: We incur direct market risk in the normal course of business through our exposure to market interest rates, equity prices and credit spreads.
Our primary market risk is interest rate risk, which is the risk of loss of net interest income or net interest margin resulting from changes in market interest rates.
Interest rate risk results primarily from the traditional banking activities in which the Company engages, such as gathering deposits and extending loans.
−Removed: Many factors, including economic and financial conditions, movements in
−Removed: interest rates and consumer preferences, affect the difference between the interest earned on our assets and the interest paid on our liabilities.
−Removed: Our Asset/Liability Management Committee is responsible for developing, monitoring and reviewing asset/liability processes, interest rate risk exposures, strategies and tactics and reporting to the Board of Directors' Risk and Technology Committee.
−Removed: It is the responsibility of the Board of Directors to establish policies and interest rate limits and approve these policies and interest rate limits annually.
−Removed: It is the responsibility of management to execute the approved policies, develop and implement risk management strategies and to report to the Board of Directors on a regular basis.
+Added: Many factors, including economic and financial conditions, movements in interest rates and consumer preferences, affect the difference between the interest earned on our assets and the interest paid on our liabilities.
+Added: Our Asset/Liability Management Committee is responsible for developing, monitoring and reviewing asset/liability processes, interest rate risk exposures, strategies and tactics and reporting to the Risk and Technology Committee of the Board.
+Added: It is the responsibility of the Board to establish policies and interest rate limits and to approve these policies and interest rate limits annually.
+Added: It is the responsibility of management to execute the approved policies, develop and implement risk management strategies and to report to the Board on a regular basis.
We maintain an asset/liability management policy that provides guidelines for controlling exposure to interest rate risk.
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Key assumptions in the model include prepayment speeds on loans and investment securities, repricing betas on non-maturity deposits, and repricing on investment securities, loans, and borrowings.
−Removed: In order to measure the interest rate risk sensitivity as of December 31, 2023, this simulation model uses a “static balance sheet” assumption, meaning the size and mix of the balance sheet remains the same as maturing cash flows from assets and liabilities are reinvested into the same categories at the current level of interest rates.
+Added: In order to measure the interest rate risk sensitivity as of December 31, 2024, this simulation model uses a “static balance sheet” assumption, meaning the size and mix of the balance sheet remains the same as maturing cash flows from assets and liabilities
+Added: are reinvested into the same categories at the current level of interest rates.
The simulation also assumes an instantaneous and sustained uniform change in market interest rates at all maturities.
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(Dollars in thousands)
+Added: +300(shock) $ (8,112) (3.5) % $ (6,343) (2.8) %
(218) (0.1) 1,438 0.6
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(2,624) (1.1) 1,549 0.7
−Removed: The Company’s balance sheet sensitivity to changes in market rates is somewhat neutral, meaning results are similar in the rates up and down scenarios over a twelve month time horizon.
−Removed: The Company is less asset sensitive than in the prior year due primarily to a decrease in interest earning deposits that reprice daily.
+Added: -300(shock) (8,195) (3.6) (1,233) (0.6)
+Added: The Company’s balance sheet sensitivity to changes in market rates remains somewhat neutral, meaning results are similar in the rates up and down scenarios over a twelve month time horizon.
+Added: Current results are similar to prior year results when the Company's modeled balance sheet results first shifted from an asset sensitive position to more of a neutral position.
+Added: The simulation results are within the Board-established policy limits for all listed scenarios.
+Added: Additionally, for all of the various interest rate scenarios modeled and measured by management as presented in the preceding table, the results at December 31, 2024 were well within established risk tolerances as established by policy.
The simulation results noted above do not incorporate any management actions that might moderate the negative consequences of interest rate deviations.
In addition, the simulation results noted above contain various assumptions such as a static balance sheet, and the rate that deposit interest rates change as market interest rates change.
−Removed: Therefore, they do not reflect likely actual results, but serve as estimates of interest rate risk.
+Added: Therefore, these simulation results do not likely reflect actual results, but continue to serve as estimates of interest rate risk.
As with any method of measuring interest rate risk, certain shortcomings are inherent in the method of analysis presented in the preceding table.
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In addition, the interest rates on certain of the Company’s asset and liability categories may precede, or lag behind, changes in market interest rates.
−Removed: Also, the actual rates of prepayments on loans and investments could vary significantly from the assumptions utilized in deriving the results as presented in the preceding tables.
−Removed: Further, a change in U.S.
−Removed: Treasury rates accompanied by a change in the shape of the treasury yield curve could result in different estimations from those presented herein.
+Added: Also, the actual rates of prepayments on loans and investments could vary significantly from the assumptions utilized in deriving the results as presented in the preceding table.
+Added: Further, a change in Treasury rates accompanied by a change in the shape of the treasury yield curve could result in different estimations from those presented herein.
Accordingly, the results in the preceding table should not be relied upon as indicative of actual results in the event of changing market interest rates.
+Added: Liquidity risk
+Added: Economic conditions have made liquidity risk, primarily funding liquidity risk, a more prevalent concern among financial institutions in recent years.
+Added: In general, liquidity risk is the risk of being unable to fund obligations to creditors, including, in the case of financial institutions, obligations to depositors, as such obligations become due and/or fund the acquisition of assets.
+Added: Liquidity refers to our ability to fund operations, meet depositor withdrawals, provide for our customers’ credit needs and meet maturing obligations and existing commitments as they come due.
+Added: Our liquidity principally depends on cash flows from the Bank’s operating activities, investment in and maturity of assets, changes in balances of deposits and borrowings and our ability to borrow funds.
+Added: To manage liquidity risk, the Bank has several sources of liquidity in place to maximize funding availability and increase the diversification of funding sources, including credit facilities with the FHLB, access to the FRB Discount Window and uncommitted federal funds line of credit agreements with other financial institutions.
+Added: These sources of liquidity are described in more detail in Item 7.
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and in Note (10) Other Borrowings of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8.
+Added: Financial Statements And Supplementary Data of this Form 10-K.
+Added: The criteria for evaluating the use of these sources include volume concentration (percentage of liabilities), cost, volatility and the fit with the current asset/liability management plan.
+Added: Other market risks
+Added: In addition to the foregoing, the Company is also subject to operational risks, such as the risk of loss due to human behavior, inadequate or failed internal systems and controls or external influences such as market conditions, fraudulent activities, disasters and other security risks.
+Added: The Company’s management engages in ongoing monitoring of and efforts to strengthen its system of internal controls, enterprise risk management, operating processes and employee awareness to improve oversight of the Company’s operational risk.
+Added: The Company is also subject to compliance risks, including the risk of regulatory sanctions, reputational impact or financial loss resulting from failure to comply with rules and regulations issued by the various banking agencies and standards of good banking practice, and to strategic/operation risks, including the risk of loss due to impairment of reputation, failure to fully develop and execute business plans, failure to assess current and new opportunities in business and other events not identified in the risk types mentioned previously.
+Added: Mitigation of the various risk elements that represent
+Added: compliance, strategic and/or reputation risk is achieved through initiatives to help management better understand and report on various indicators and causes of these risks, including those related to the development of new products and business initiatives.
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