−Removed: statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K which are not statements of historical fact constitute
−Removed: forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
−Removed: See “Cautionary
−Removed: Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information”
+Added: Certain statements contained in this Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K which are not statements of historical fact constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
+Added: Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
+Added: See “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information”
under Item 1A.
−Removed: Risk Factors on page 18 of this Annual Report on
−Removed: Financial Group, Inc., an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), is a financial holding company subject to regulation under
−Removed: the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and to inspection, examination and supervision by the Board of Governors of
−Removed: the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve Board”).
+Added: Risk Factors on page 17 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: SB Financial Group, Inc., an Ohio corporation
+Added: (the “Company”), is a financial holding company subject to regulation under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956,
+Added: as amended, and to inspection, examination and supervision by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal
+Added: Reserve Board”).
The Company was organized in 1983.
−Removed: The executive offices
−Removed: of the Company are located at 401 Clinton Street, Defiance, Ohio 43512.
−Removed: its direct and indirect subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in a variety of financial activities, including commercial banking,
−Removed: and wealth management services, as explained in more detail below.
−Removed: Bank and Trust Company
−Removed: State Bank and Trust Company (“State Bank”) is an Ohio state-chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
−Removed: State Bank offers a full range of commercial banking services, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts
−Removed: and time certificates of deposit;
−Removed: automatic teller machines;
+Added: The executive offices of the Company are located at 401 Clinton Street,
+Added: Defiance, Ohio 43512.
+Added: Through its direct and indirect subsidiaries,
+Added: the Company is engaged in a variety of financial activities, including commercial banking, and wealth management services, as
+Added: explained in more detail below.
+Added: State Bank and Trust Company
+Added: The State Bank and Trust Company (“State
+Added: Bank”) is an Ohio state-chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
+Added: State Bank offers a full range of commercial
+Added: banking services, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and time certificates of deposit;
+Added: teller machines;
commercial, consumer, agricultural and residential mortgage loans;
personal and corporate trust services;
−Removed: commercial leasing;
bank credit card services;
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private client group services;
−Removed: and other personalized banking services.
−Removed: The trust and financial services division of State Bank
−Removed: offers various trust and financial services, including asset management services for individuals and corporate employee benefit
−Removed: plans, as well as brokerage services through Cetera Investment Services, an unaffiliated company.
−Removed: State Bank presently operates
−Removed: 19 banking centers, located within the Ohio counties of Allen, Defiance, Franklin, Fulton, Hancock, Lucas, Paulding, Wood and
−Removed: Williams, and one banking center located in Allen County, Indiana.
−Removed: State Bank also presently operates seven loan production offices,
−Removed: located in Cuyahoga, Franklin, Lucas and Seneca Counties, Ohio, Hamilton and Steuben County, Indiana and Monroe County, Michigan.
+Added: and other personalized
+Added: banking services.
+Added: The trust and financial services division of State Bank offers various trust and financial services, including
+Added: asset management services for individuals and corporate employee benefit plans, as well as brokerage services through Cetera Investment
+Added: Services, an unaffiliated company.
+Added: State Bank presently operates 21 banking centers, located within the Ohio counties of Allen,
+Added: Defiance, Franklin, Fulton, Hancock, Lucas, Paulding, Wood and Williams, and one banking center located in Allen County, Indiana.
+Added: State Bank also presently operates five loan production offices, located in Franklin, Lucas and Seneca Counties, Ohio, Hamilton
+Added: County, Indiana and Monroe County, Michigan.
At December 31, 2020, State Bank had 238 full-time equivalent employees.
−Removed: Title, LLC dba Peak Title Agency (“SBFG Title”) was formed as an Ohio limited liability company in March 2019 and
−Removed: purchased all of the assets and real estate of an Ohio-based title agency effective March 15, 2019.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019 SBFG
−Removed: Title, LLC had five full-time equivalent employees.
−Removed: (“RFCBC”) is an Ohio corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company that was incorporated in August 2004.
−Removed: RFCBC operates as a loan subsidiary in servicing and working out problem loans and is presently inactive.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019,
−Removed: RFCBC had no employees.
−Removed: Data Services
−Removed: Data Services, Inc.
−Removed: dba RDSI Banking Systems (“RDSI”) was formed in 1964 and became an Ohio corporation in June 1976.
−Removed: In September 2006, RDSI acquired Diverse Computer Marketers, Inc.
+Added: SBFG Title, LLC
+Added: SBFG Title, LLC dba Peak Title Agency
+Added: (“SBFG Title”) was formed as an Ohio limited liability company in March 2019 and purchased all of the assets and real
+Added: estate of an Ohio-based title agency effective March 15, 2019.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, SBFG Title, LLC had six full-time equivalent
+Added: (“RFCBC”) is an
+Added: Ohio corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company that was incorporated in August 2004.
+Added: RFCBC operates as a loan subsidiary
+Added: in servicing and working out problem loans and is presently inactive.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, RFCBC had no employees.
+Added: Rurbanc Data Services
+Added: Rurbanc Data Services, Inc.
+Added: dba RDSI Banking
+Added: Systems (“RDSI”) was formed in 1964 and became an Ohio corporation in June 1976.
+Added: In September 2006, RDSI acquired
+Added: Diverse Computer Marketers, Inc.
(“DCM”), which was merged into RDSI effective December 31, 2007.
−Removed: Effective January 1, 2018, the Company completed the sale of the customer contracts and certain other assets of RDSI’s
−Removed: remaining check and statement processing business operated through the DCM division.
−Removed: As a result of the sale, RDSI is presently
−Removed: inactive and had no material operations or employees at December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Mortgage Company
−Removed: Mortgage Company (“RMC”) is an Ohio corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of State Bank.
−Removed: RMC is a mortgage company
−Removed: and is presently inactive.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, RMC had no employees.
−Removed: Insurance, LLC (“SBI”) is an Ohio corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of State Bank.
−Removed: SBI is an insurance company
−Removed: that engages in the sale of insurance products to retail and commercial customers of State Bank.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, SBI had
−Removed: no employees.
−Removed: Captive, Inc.
−Removed: (“SB Captive”) is a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of SB Financial Group, Inc.
−Removed: is a self-insurance company that provides coverage to State Bank and SB Financial Group.
−Removed: The purpose of the Captive is to mitigate
−Removed: insurance risk by participating in a pool with other banks.
+Added: Effective January
+Added: 1, 2018, the Company completed the sale of the customer contracts and certain other assets of RDSI’s remaining check and
+Added: statement processing business operated through the DCM division.
+Added: As a result of the sale, RDSI is presently inactive and had no
+Added: material operations or employees at December 31, 2020.
+Added: Rurban Mortgage Company
+Added: Rurban Mortgage Company (“RMC”)
+Added: is an Ohio corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of State Bank.
+Added: RMC is a mortgage company and is presently inactive.
+Added: 31, 2020, RMC had no employees.
+Added: SBT Insurance
+Added: SBT Insurance, LLC (“SBI”) is an Ohio corporation
+Added: and wholly owned subsidiary of State Bank.
+Added: SBI is an insurance company that engages in the sale of insurance products to retail
+Added: and commercial customers of State Bank.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, SBI had no employees.
+Added: SB Captive, Inc.
+Added: (“SB Captive”)
+Added: is a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of SB Financial Group, Inc.
+Added: SB Captive is a self-insurance company that provides
+Added: coverage to State Bank and SB Financial Group.
+Added: The purpose of the Captive is to mitigate insurance risk by participating in a
+Added: pool with other banks.
At December 31, 2020, SB Captive, Inc.
had no employees.
−Removed: Statutory Trust II
−Removed: Statutory Trust II (“RST II”) is a trust that was organized in August 2005.
−Removed: In September 2005, RST II closed a pooled
−Removed: private offering of 10,000 Capital Securities with a liquidation amount of $1,000 per security.
−Removed: The proceeds of the offering were
−Removed: loaned to the Company in exchange for junior subordinated debentures with terms similar to the Capital Securities.
−Removed: The sole assets
−Removed: of RST II are the junior subordinated debentures and the back-up obligations, which in the aggregate, constitute a full and unconditional
−Removed: guarantee by the Company of the obligations of RST II under the Capital Securities.
−Removed: Company experiences significant competition in attracting depositors and borrowers.
−Removed: Competition in lending activities comes principally
−Removed: from other commercial banks in the lending areas of State Bank, and to a lesser extent, from savings associations, insurance companies,
−Removed: governmental agencies, credit unions, securities brokerage firms and pension funds.
−Removed: The primary factors in competing for loans
−Removed: are interest rates and overall banking services.
−Removed: Bank’s competition for deposits comes from other commercial banks, savings associations, money market funds and credit unions
−Removed: as well as from insurance companies and securities brokerage firms.
−Removed: The primary factors in competing for deposits are interest
−Removed: rates paid on deposits and convenience of office location.
−Removed: State Bank operates in the highly competitive wealth management services
−Removed: field and its competition consists primarily of other bank wealth management departments.
−Removed: and Regulation
−Removed: following is a description of the significant statutes and regulations applicable to the Company and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: The description
−Removed: is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the statutes, regulations and policies that are described.
−Removed: such statutes, regulations and policies are continually under review by the U.S.
−Removed: Congress and state legislatures and federal and
−Removed: state regulatory agencies.
−Removed: A change in statutes, regulations or regulatory policies applicable to the Company or its subsidiaries
−Removed: could have a material effect on our business.
−Removed: of Bank Holding Companies and Their Subsidiaries in General
−Removed: Company is a financial holding company and, as such, is subject to regulation under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended
−Removed: (the “Bank Holding Company Act”).
−Removed: The Bank Holding Company Act requires the prior approval of the Federal Reserve
−Removed: Board (“FRB”) before a financial or bank holding company may acquire direct or indirect ownership or control of more
−Removed: than 5 percent of the voting shares of any bank (unless the bank is already majority owned by the bank holding company), acquire
−Removed: all or substantially all of the assets of another bank or another financial or bank holding company, or merge or consolidate with
−Removed: any other bank holding company.
−Removed: Subject to certain exceptions, the Bank Holding Company Act also prohibits a financial or bank
−Removed: holding company from acquiring 5 percent or more of the voting shares of any company that is not a bank and from engaging in any
−Removed: business other than banking or managing or controlling banks.
−Removed: The primary exception to this prohibition allows a bank holding
−Removed: company to own shares in any company the activities of which the FRB had determined, as of November 19, 1999, to be so closely
−Removed: related to banking as to be a proper incident thereto.
−Removed: a result of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, which amended
−Removed: the Bank Holding Company Act, bank holding companies that are financial holding companies may engage in any activity, or acquire
−Removed: and retain the shares of a company engaged in any activity, that is either (1) financial in nature or incidental to such financial
−Removed: activity (as determined by the FRB in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury), or (2) complementary to a financial activity,
−Removed: and that does not pose a substantial risk to the safety and soundness of depository institutions or the financial system generally.
−Removed: Activities that are financial in nature include securities underwriting and dealing, insurance underwriting and making merchant
−Removed: banking investments.
−Removed: On January 2, 2019, the Company elected, and received approval from the FRB, to become a financial holding
−Removed: Company is subject to the reporting requirements of, and examination and regulation by, the FRB.
−Removed: The FRB has extensive enforcement
−Removed: authority over bank holding companies, including, without limitation, the ability to assess civil money penalties, issue cease
−Removed: and desist or removal orders, and require that a bank holding company divest subsidiaries, including its subsidiary banks.
−Removed: general, the FRB may initiate enforcement actions for violations of laws and regulations and for unsafe or unsound practices.
−Removed: A bank holding company and its subsidiaries are prohibited from engaging in certain tying arrangements in connection with extensions
−Removed: of credit and/or the provision of other property or services to a customer by the bank holding company or its subsidiaries.
−Removed: requirements and restrictions under the laws of the United States and the State of Ohio affect the operations of State Bank, including
−Removed: requirements to maintain reserves against deposits, restrictions on the nature and amount of loans that may be made and the interest
−Removed: that may be charged thereon, restrictions relating to investments and other activities, limitations on credit exposure to correspondent
−Removed: banks, limitations on activities based on capital and surplus, limitations on payment of dividends, and limitations on branching.
−Removed: consumer laws and regulations also affect the operations of State Bank.
−Removed: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
−Removed: Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”),
−Removed: which regulates consumer financial products and services and certain financial services providers.
−Removed: The CFPB is authorized to prevent
−Removed: unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices and ensures consistent enforcement of laws so that consumers have access to fair,
−Removed: transparent and competitive markets for consumer financial products and services.
−Removed: Since it was established, the CFPB has exercised
−Removed: extensively its rulemaking and interpretative authority.
−Removed: Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) provide credit to their members in the form of advances.
−Removed: As a member of the FHLB of
−Removed: Cincinnati, State Bank must maintain certain minimum investments in the capital stock of the FHLB of Cincinnati.
−Removed: State Bank was
−Removed: in compliance with these requirements at December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act
−Removed: Regulatory Relief Act repealed or modified certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and eased restrictions on all but the largest
−Removed: banks (those with consolidated assets in excess of $250 billion).
−Removed: Bank holding companies with consolidated assets of less than
−Removed: $100 billion, including the Company, are no longer subject to enhanced prudential standards.
−Removed: The Regulatory Relief Act also relieves
−Removed: bank holding companies and banks with consolidated assets of less than $100 billion, including the Company, from certain record-keeping,
−Removed: reporting and disclosure requirements.
−Removed: Certain other regulatory requirements applied only to banks with consolidated assets in
−Removed: excess of $50 billion and so did not apply to the Company even before the enactment of the Regulatory Relief Act.
−Removed: can be no assurance as to the amount of dividends which may be declared in future periods with respect to the common shares of
−Removed: the Company, since such dividends are subject to the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors, cash needs, general
−Removed: business conditions, dividends from the Company’s subsidiaries and applicable governmental regulations and policies.
−Removed: ability of the Company to obtain funds for the payment of dividends and for other cash requirements is largely dependent on the
−Removed: amount of dividends that may be declared by State Bank and the Company’s other subsidiaries.
−Removed: State Bank may not pay dividends
−Removed: to the Company if, after paying such dividends, it would fail to meet the required minimum levels under the risk-based capital
−Removed: guidelines and the minimum leverage ratio requirements.
−Removed: In addition, State Bank must obtain the approval of the FRB and the Ohio
−Removed: Division of Financial Institutions (“ODFI”) if a dividend in any year would cause the total dividends for that year
−Removed: to exceed the sum of the current year’s net profits and the retained net profits for the preceding two years, less required
−Removed: transfers to surplus.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, State Bank had $29.8 million of excess earnings over the preceding three years.
−Removed: of dividends by State Bank may be restricted at any time at the discretion of the regulatory authorities, if they deem such dividends
−Removed: to constitute an unsafe and/or unsound banking practice.
−Removed: Moreover, the FRB expects the Company to serve as a source of strength
−Removed: to its subsidiary banks, which may require it to retain capital for further investment in the subsidiary, rather than for dividends
−Removed: to shareholders of the Company.
−Removed: Company and State Bank are separate and distinct legal entities.
−Removed: The Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation W and various other
−Removed: legal limitations restrict State Bank from lending funds to, or engaging in other “covered transactions”
−Removed: Company (or any other affiliate), generally limiting such covered transactions with any one affiliate to 10 percent of State Bank’s
−Removed: capital and surplus and limiting all such covered transactions with all affiliates to 20 percent of State Bank’s capital
−Removed: Covered transactions, including extensions of credit, sales of securities or assets and provision of services, also
−Removed: must be on terms and conditions consistent with safe and sound banking practices, including credit standards, that are substantially
−Removed: the same or at least as favorable to State Bank as those prevailing at the time for transactions with unaffiliated companies.
−Removed: bank’s authority to extend credit to executive officers, directors and greater than 10 percent shareholders, as well as
−Removed: entities such persons control, is subject to Sections 22(g) and 22(h) of the Federal Reserve Act and Regulation O promulgated
−Removed: thereunder by the Federal Reserve Board.
−Removed: Among other things, these loans must be made on terms (including interest rates charged
−Removed: and collateral required) that are substantially the same as those offered to unaffiliated individuals or be made as part of a
−Removed: benefit or compensation program and on terms widely available to employees, and must not involve a greater than normal risk of
−Removed: In addition, the amount of loans a bank may make to these persons is based, in part, on the bank’s capital position,
−Removed: and certain approval procedures must be followed in making loans which exceed specified amounts.
−Removed: insured banks are subject, with certain exceptions, to certain additional restrictions (including collateralization) on extensions
−Removed: of credit to their parent holding companies or other affiliates, on investments in the stock or other securities of affiliates
−Removed: and on the taking of such stock or securities as collateral from any borrower.
−Removed: In addition, such banks are prohibited from engaging
−Removed: in certain tying arrangements in connection with any extension of credit or the providing of any property or service.
−Removed: risk-based capital guidelines adopted by the federal banking agencies are based on the “International Convergence of Capital
−Removed: Measurement and Capital Standard”
+Added: Rurban Statutory Trust II
+Added: Rurban Statutory Trust II (“RST
+Added: II”) is a trust that was organized in August 2005.
+Added: In September 2005, RST II closed a pooled private offering of 10,000
+Added: Capital Securities with a liquidation amount of $1,000 per security.
+Added: The proceeds of the offering were loaned to the Company in
+Added: exchange for junior subordinated debentures with terms similar to the Capital Securities.
+Added: The sole assets of RST II are the junior
+Added: subordinated debentures and the back-up obligations, which in the aggregate, constitute a full and unconditional guarantee by
+Added: the Company of the obligations of RST II under the Capital Securities.
+Added: The Company experiences significant competition
+Added: in attracting depositors and borrowers.
+Added: Competition in lending activities comes principally from other commercial banks in the
+Added: lending areas of State Bank, and to a lesser extent, from savings associations, insurance companies, governmental agencies, credit
+Added: unions, securities brokerage firms and pension funds.
+Added: The primary factors in competing for loans are interest rates and overall
+Added: banking services.
+Added: State Bank’s competition for deposits
+Added: comes from other commercial banks, savings associations, money market funds and credit unions as well as from insurance companies
+Added: and securities brokerage firms.
+Added: The primary factors in competing for deposits are interest rates paid on deposits and convenience
+Added: of office location.
+Added: State Bank operates in the highly competitive wealth management services field and its competition consists
+Added: primarily of other bank wealth management departments.
+Added: Supervision and Regulation
+Added: The following is a description of the
+Added: significant statutes and regulations applicable to the Company and its subsidiaries.
+Added: The description is qualified in its entirety
+Added: by reference to the full text of the statutes, regulations and policies that are described.
+Added: Also, such statutes, regulations and
+Added: policies are continually under review by the U.S.
+Added: Congress and state legislatures and federal and state regulatory agencies.
+Added: change in statutes, regulations or regulatory policies applicable to the Company or its subsidiaries could have a material effect
+Added: on our business.
+Added: Regulation of Bank Holding Companies and Their Subsidiaries
+Added: The Company is a financial holding company
+Added: and, as such, is subject to regulation under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “Bank Holding Company
+Added: The Bank Holding Company Act requires the prior approval of the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) before
+Added: a financial or bank holding company may acquire direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 5 percent of the voting shares
+Added: of any bank (unless the bank is already majority owned by the bank holding company), acquire all or substantially all of the assets
+Added: of another bank or another financial or bank holding company, or merge or consolidate with any other bank holding company.
+Added: to certain exceptions, the Bank Holding Company Act also prohibits a financial or bank holding company from acquiring 5 percent
+Added: or more of the voting shares of any company that is not a bank and from engaging in any business other than banking or managing
+Added: or controlling banks.
+Added: The primary exception to this prohibition allows a bank holding company to own shares in any company the
+Added: activities of which the FRB had determined, as of November 19, 1999, to be so closely related to banking as to be a proper incident
+Added: As a result of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
+Added: Act of 1999, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, which amended the Bank Holding Company Act, bank
+Added: holding companies that are financial holding companies may engage in any activity, or acquire and retain the shares of a company
+Added: engaged in any activity, that is either (1) financial in nature or incidental to such financial activity (as determined by the
+Added: FRB in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury), or (2) complementary to a financial activity, and that does not pose
+Added: a substantial risk to the safety and soundness of depository institutions or the financial system generally.
+Added: Activities that are
+Added: financial in nature include securities underwriting and dealing, insurance underwriting and making merchant banking investments.
+Added: On January 2, 2019, the Company elected, and received approval from the FRB, to become a financial holding company.
+Added: The Company is subject to the reporting
+Added: requirements of, and examination and regulation by, the FRB.
+Added: The FRB has extensive enforcement authority over bank holding companies,
+Added: including, without limitation, the ability to assess civil money penalties, issue cease and desist or removal orders, and require
+Added: that a bank holding company divest subsidiaries, including its subsidiary banks.
+Added: In general, the FRB may initiate enforcement
+Added: actions for violations of laws and regulations and for unsafe or unsound practices.
+Added: A bank holding company and its subsidiaries
+Added: are prohibited from engaging in certain tying arrangements in connection with extensions of credit and/or the provision of other
+Added: property or services to a customer by the bank holding company or its subsidiaries.
+Added: Various requirements and restrictions
+Added: under the laws of the United States and the State of Ohio affect the operations of State Bank, including requirements to maintain
+Added: reserves against deposits, restrictions on the nature and amount of loans that may be made and the interest that may be charged
+Added: thereon, restrictions relating to investments and other activities, limitations on credit exposure to correspondent banks, limitations
+Added: on activities based on capital and surplus, limitations on payment of dividends, and limitations on branching.
+Added: Various consumer laws and regulations
+Added: also affect the operations of State Bank.
+Added: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank
+Added: Act”) established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”), which regulates consumer financial
+Added: products and services and certain financial services providers.
+Added: The CFPB is authorized to prevent unfair, deceptive or abusive
+Added: acts or practices and ensures consistent enforcement of laws so that consumers have access to fair, transparent and competitive
+Added: markets for consumer financial products and services.
+Added: Since it was established, the CFPB has exercised extensively its rulemaking
+Added: and interpretative authority.
+Added: The Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”)
+Added: provide credit to their members in the form of advances.
+Added: As a member of the FHLB of Cincinnati, State Bank must maintain certain
+Added: minimum investments in the capital stock of the FHLB of Cincinnati.
+Added: State Bank was in compliance with these requirements at December
+Added: Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection
+Added: On May 25, 2018, the Economic Growth,
+Added: Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (the “Regulatory Relief Act”) was enacted, which repealed or modified
+Added: certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and eased restrictions on all but the largest banks (those with consolidated assets in
+Added: excess of $250 billion).
+Added: Bank holding companies with consolidated assets of less than $100 billion, including the Company, are
+Added: no longer subject to enhanced prudential standards.
+Added: The Regulatory Relief Act also relieves bank holding companies and banks with
+Added: consolidated assets of less than $100 billion, including the Company, from certain record-keeping, reporting and disclosure requirements.
+Added: Certain other regulatory requirements applied only to banks with consolidated assets in excess of $50 billion and so did not apply
+Added: to the Company even before the enactment of the Regulatory Relief Act.
+Added: Restrictions on Dividends
+Added: There can be no assurance as to the amount
+Added: of dividends which may be declared in future periods with respect to the common shares of the Company, since such dividends are
+Added: subject to the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors, cash needs, and general business conditions, dividends from
+Added: the Company’s subsidiaries and applicable governmental regulations and policies.
+Added: The ability of the Company to obtain funds
+Added: for the payment of dividends and for other cash requirements is largely dependent on the amount of dividends that may be declared
+Added: by State Bank and the Company’s other subsidiaries.
+Added: State Bank may not pay dividends to the Company if, after paying such
+Added: dividends, it would fail to meet the required minimum levels under the risk-based capital guidelines and the minimum leverage
+Added: ratio requirements.
+Added: In addition, State Bank must obtain the approval of the FRB and the Ohio Division of Financial Institutions
+Added: (“ODFI”) if a dividend in any year would cause the total dividends for that year to exceed the sum of the current
+Added: year’s net profits and the retained net profits for the preceding two years, less required transfers to surplus.
+Added: 31, 2020, State Bank had $26.9 million of excess earnings over the preceding three years.
+Added: Payment of dividends by State Bank may
+Added: be restricted at any time at the discretion of the regulatory authorities, if they deem such dividends to constitute an unsafe
+Added: and/or unsound banking practice.
+Added: Moreover, the FRB expects the Company to serve as a source of strength to its subsidiary banks,
+Added: which may require it to retain capital for further investment in the subsidiary, rather than for dividends to shareholders of
+Added: Affiliate Transactions
+Added: The Company and State Bank are separate
+Added: and distinct legal entities.
+Added: The FRB’s Regulation W and various other legal limitations restrict State Bank from lending
+Added: funds to, or engaging in other “covered transactions”
+Added: with, the Company (or any other affiliate), generally limiting
+Added: such covered transactions with any one affiliate to 10 percent of State Bank’s capital and surplus and limiting all such
+Added: covered transactions with all affiliates to 20 percent of State Bank’s capital and surplus.
+Added: Covered transactions, including
+Added: extensions of credit, sales of securities or assets and provision of services, also must be on terms and conditions consistent
+Added: with safe and sound banking practices, including credit standards, that are substantially the same or at least as favorable to
+Added: State Bank as those prevailing at the time for transactions with unaffiliated companies.
+Added: A bank’s authority to extend credit
+Added: to executive officers, directors and greater than 10 percent shareholders, as well as entities such persons control, is subject
+Added: to Sections 22(g) and 22(h) of the Federal Reserve Act and Regulation O promulgated thereunder by the FRB.
+Added: Among other things,
+Added: these loans must be made on terms (including interest rates charged and collateral required) that are substantially the same as
+Added: those offered to unaffiliated individuals or be made as part of a benefit or compensation program and on terms widely available
+Added: to employees, and must not involve a greater than normal risk of repayment.
+Added: In addition, the amount of loans a bank may make to
+Added: these persons is based, in part, on the bank’s capital position, and certain approval procedures must be followed in making
+Added: loans which exceed specified amounts.
+Added: Federally insured banks are subject, with
+Added: certain exceptions, to certain additional restrictions (including collateralization) on extensions of credit to their parent holding
+Added: companies or other affiliates, on investments in the stock or other securities of affiliates and on the taking of such stock or
+Added: securities as collateral from any borrower.
+Added: In addition, such banks are prohibited from engaging in certain tying arrangements
+Added: in connection with any extension of credit or the providing of any property or service.
+Added: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
+Added: Security Act of 2020
+Added: In response to the novel COVID-19 pandemic
+Added: (“COVID-19”), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020, as amended (the “CARES Act”),
+Added: was signed into law on March 27, 2020, to provide national emergency economic relief measures.
+Added: Many of the CARES Act’s programs
+Added: are dependent upon the direct involvement of U.S.
+Added: financial institutions, such as the Company and State Bank, and have been implemented
+Added: through rules and guidance adopted by federal departments and agencies, including the U.S.
+Added: Department of Treasury, the FRB and
+Added: other federal banking agencies, including those with direct supervisory jurisdiction over the Company and State Bank.
+Added: as COVID-19 evolves, federal regulatory authorities continue to issue additional guidance with respect to the implementation,
+Added: lifecycle, and eligibility requirements for the various CARES Act programs as well as industry-specific recovery procedures for
+Added: In addition, it is possible that Congress will enact supplementary COVID-19 response legislation, including amendments
+Added: to the CARES Act or new bills comparable in scope to the CARES Act.
+Added: For example, on December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations
+Added: Act, 2021 (the “CAA”) was signed into law, which, among other things, allowed certain banks to temporarily postpone
+Added: implementation of the current expected credit loss model (accounting standard), which is described below.
+Added: The Company is continuing
+Added: to assess the impact of the CARES Act and other statues, regulations and supervisory guidance related to COVID-19.
+Added: The CARES Act amended the loan program
+Added: of the Small Business Administration (the “SBA”), in which State Bank participates, to create a guaranteed, unsecured
+Added: loan program, the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”), to fund operational costs of eligible businesses, organizations
+Added: and self-employed persons during COVID-19.
+Added: In June 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act was enacted, which, among
+Added: other things, gave borrowers additional time and flexibility to use PPP loan proceeds.
+Added: Shortly thereafter, and due to the evolving
+Added: impact of COVID-19, additional legislation was enacted authorizing the SBA to resume accepting PPP applications on July 6, 2020,
+Added: and extending the PPP application deadline to August 8, 2020.
+Added: As a participating lender in the PPP, State Bank continues to monitor
+Added: legislative, regulatory, and supervisory developments related thereto.
+Added: On September 29, 2020, the federal bank regulatory agencies
+Added: issued a final rule that neutralizes the regulatory capital and liquidity coverage ratio effects of participating in certain COVID-19
+Added: liquidity facilities due to the fact there is no credit or market risk in association with exposures pledged to such facilities.
+Added: As a result, the final rule supports the flow of credit to households and businesses affected by COVID-19.
+Added: The CARES Act encouraged the FRB, in coordination
+Added: with the Secretary of the Treasury, to establish or implement various programs to help mitigate the adverse effects of COVID-19
+Added: on midsize businesses, nonprofits, and municipalities.
+Added: In April 2020, the Federal Reserve established the Main Street Lending
+Added: Program (“MSLP”) to implement certain of these recommendations.
+Added: The MSLP supported lending to small and medium-sized
+Added: businesses that were in sound financial condition before the onset of COVID-19.
+Added: On November 19, 2020, Treasury Secretary Steven
+Added: Mnuchin indicated that he would not reauthorize extending the MSLP past December 31, 2020.
+Added: However, the FRB extended the program
+Added: to January 8, 2021, in order to process loans that were submitted on or before December 14, 2020.
+Added: The program ended on January
+Added: Regulatory Capital
+Added: The risk-based capital guidelines adopted
+Added: by the federal banking agencies are based on the “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standard”
(Basel I), published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Basel Committee”).
−Removed: In July 2013, the United States banking regulators issued new capital rules applicable to smaller banking organizations which
−Removed: also implement certain of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act (the “Basel III Capital Rules”).
−Removed: Community banking
−Removed: organizations, including the Company and State Bank, began transitioning to the new rules on January 1, 2015.
−Removed: The new minimum
−Removed: capital requirements became effective on January 1, 2015, whereas a new capital conservation buffer and deductions from common
−Removed: equity capital phased in from January 1, 2016 through January 1, 2019, and most deductions from common equity tier 1
−Removed: capital phased in from January 1, 2015 through January 1, 2019.
−Removed: Basel III Capital Rules include (a) a minimum common equity tier 1 capital ratio of 4.5%, (b) a minimum Tier 1 capital
−Removed: ratio of 6.0%, (c) a minimum total capital ratio of 8.0%, and (d) a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%.
−Removed: equity for the common equity tier 1 capital ratio includes common stock (plus related surplus) and retained earnings, plus limited
−Removed: amounts of minority interests in the form of common stock, less the majority of certain regulatory deductions.
−Removed: 1 capital includes common equity as defined for the common equity tier 1 capital ratio, plus certain non-cumulative preferred
−Removed: stock and related surplus, cumulative preferred stock and related surplus, trust preferred securities that have been grandfathered
−Removed: (but which are not permitted going forward), and limited amounts of minority interests in the form of additional Tier 1 capital
−Removed: instruments, less certain deductions.
−Removed: 2 capital, which can be included in the total capital ratio, includes certain capital instruments (such as subordinated debt)
−Removed: and limited amounts of the allowance for loan and lease losses, subject to new eligibility criteria, less applicable deductions.
−Removed: deductions from common equity tier 1 capital include goodwill and other intangibles, certain deferred tax assets, mortgage-servicing
−Removed: assets above certain levels, gains on sale in connection with a securitization, investments in a banking organization’s
−Removed: own capital instruments and investments in the capital of unconsolidated financial institutions (above certain levels).
−Removed: The deductions
−Removed: phased in beginning in 2015 and were fully phased in as of January 1, 2019.
−Removed: the guidelines, capital is compared to the relative risk related to the balance sheet.
−Removed: To derive the risk included in the balance
−Removed: sheet, one of several risk weights is applied to different balance sheet and off-balance sheet assets, primarily based on the
−Removed: relative credit risk of the counterparty.
−Removed: The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by
−Removed: the regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors.
−Removed: new rules also place restrictions on the payment of capital distributions, including dividends, and certain discretionary bonus
−Removed: payments to executive officers if the banking organization does not hold a capital conservation buffer of greater than 2.5 percent
−Removed: composed of common equity tier 1 capital above its minimum risk-based capital requirements, or if its eligible retained income
−Removed: is negative in that quarter and its capital conservation buffer ratio was less than 2.5 percent at the beginning of the quarter.
−Removed: The capital conservation buffer began to phase in starting on January 1, 2016, at 0.625% of risk-weighted assets, and was
−Removed: increased by that amount each year until fully phased in effective January 1, 2019, at 2.5%.
−Removed: September 2019, the FRB, along with other federal bank regulatory agencies, issued a final rule, effective January 1, 2020, that
−Removed: gives community banks, including the Company, the option to calculate a simple leverage ratio to measure capital adequacy if the
−Removed: community banks meet certain requirements.
−Removed: Under the rule, a community bank is eligible to elect the Community Bank Leverage Ratio
−Removed: (“CBLR”) framework if it has less than $10 billion in total consolidated assets, limited amounts of certain assets and
−Removed: off-balance sheet exposures, and a leverage ratio greater than 9.0%.
−Removed: Qualifying institutions that elect to use the CBLR framework
−Removed: and that maintain a leverage ratio of greater than 9.0% will be considered to have satisfied the risk-based and leverage capital
−Removed: requirements in the regulatory agencies’
−Removed: generally applicable capital rules and to have met the well-capitalized ratio requirements.
−Removed: It is the Company’s intent to opt out of the simplified framework and continue to follow existing capital rules.
−Removed: December 2018, the federal banking agencies issued a final rule to address regulatory capital treatment of credit loss allowances
−Removed: under the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) model (accounting standard).
−Removed: The rule revises the federal banking
−Removed: agencies’
−Removed: regulatory capital rules to identify which credit loss allowances under the CECL model are eligible for inclusion
−Removed: in regulatory capital and to provide banking organizations the option to phase in over three years the day-one adverse effects
−Removed: on regulatory capital that may result from the adoption of the CECL model.
−Removed: The Company currently anticipates recording a one-time
−Removed: cumulative effect adjustment upon adoption, and does not anticipate utilizing the three year phase in.
−Removed: The Company expects to
−Removed: maintain risk-based capital ratios in excess of “well-capitalized”
−Removed: after the impact of the one-time cumulative effect
−Removed: December 31, 2019, State Bank was in compliance with all of the regulatory capital requirements to which it was subject.
−Removed: For State Bank’s capital ratios, see Note 15 to the Consolidated Financial Statements under Item of 8 of this report (the
−Removed: “Consolidated Financial Statements”).
−Removed: FRB has adopted regulations governing prompt corrective action to resolve the problems of capital deficient and otherwise troubled
−Removed: state-chartered member banks.
−Removed: At each successively lower defined capital category, a bank is subject to more restrictive and numerous
−Removed: mandatory or discretionary regulatory actions or limits, and the FRB has less flexibility in determining how to resolve the problems
−Removed: of the institution.
−Removed: In addition, the FRB generally can downgrade a bank’s capital category, notwithstanding its capital
−Removed: level, if, after notice and opportunity for hearings, the bank is deemed to be engaged in an unsafe or unsound practice, because
−Removed: it has not corrected deficiencies that resulted in it receiving a less than satisfactory examination rating on matters other than
−Removed: capital or it is deemed to be in an unsafe or unsound condition.
−Removed: State Bank’s capital at December 31, 2019, met the
−Removed: standards for the highest capital category, a “well-capitalized”
−Removed: April 2015, the FRB issued a final rule which increased the size limitation for qualifying bank holding companies under the FRB’s
−Removed: Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement from $500 million to $1 billion of total consolidated assets.
−Removed: In August 2018, the
−Removed: FRB issued an interim final rule, as required by the Economic Growth Regulatory Relief, and consumer Protection Act of 2018, to
−Removed: further increase size limitations under the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement to $3 billion of total consolidated assets.
−Removed: The Company continues to qualify under the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement for exemption from the Federal Reserve
−Removed: Board’s consolidated risk-based capital and leverage rules at the holding company level.
−Removed: Deposit Insurance Corporation
−Removed: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) is an independent federal agency, which insures the deposits of federally
−Removed: insured banks and savings associations up to certain prescribed limits and safeguards the safety and soundness of financial institutions.
−Removed: The general insurance limit is $250,000 per separately insured depositor.
−Removed: This insurance is backed by the full faith and credit
−Removed: of the United States Government.
−Removed: insurer, the FDIC is authorized to conduct examinations of and to require reporting by insured institutions, including State Bank,
−Removed: to prohibit any insured institution from engaging in any activity the FDIC determines to pose a threat to the Deposit Insurance
−Removed: Fund (“DIF”), and to take enforcement actions against insured institutions.
−Removed: The FDIC may terminate insurance of deposits
−Removed: of any institution if the FDIC finds that the institution has engaged in unsafe and unsound practices, is in an unsafe or unsound
−Removed: condition or has violated any applicable law, regulation, rule, order or condition imposed by the FDIC or other regulatory agency.
−Removed: FDIC assesses a quarterly deposit insurance premium on each insured institution based on risk characteristics of the institution
−Removed: and may also impose special assessments in emergency situations, which fund the DIF.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC
−Removed: has established 2 percent as the Designated Reserve Ratio (“DRR”), which is the amount in the DIF as a percentage
−Removed: of all DIF insured deposits.
−Removed: In March 2016, the FDIC adopted final rules designed to meet the statutory minimum DRR of 1.35 percent
−Removed: by September 30, 2020, the deadline imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2018, the DRR met the statutory minimum
−Removed: As a result, the previous surcharge imposed on banks with assets of $10 billion or more was lifted.
−Removed: In addition, preliminary
−Removed: assessment credits have been determined by the FDIC for banks with assets of less than $10 billion, which had previously contributed
−Removed: to the increase of the DRR to 1.35%.
−Removed: These credits may be redeemed beginning in the quarterly assessment period in which the DRR
−Removed: reaches a minimum of 1.38%, and is not to exceed the total quarterly assessment due.
−Removed: addition, all FDIC-insured institutions are required to pay assessments to fund interest payments on bonds issued by the Financing
−Removed: Corporation, which was established by the government to recapitalize a predecessor to the DIF.
−Removed: These assessments continued until
−Removed: the Financing Corporation bonds matured in September 2019.
−Removed: The final assessment was collected on the March 2019 FDIC invoice.
−Removed: FDIC is authorized to prohibit any insured institution from engaging in any activity that poses a serious threat to the insurance
−Removed: fund and may initiate enforcement actions against a bank, after first giving the institution’s primary regulatory authority
−Removed: an opportunity to take such action.
−Removed: The FDIC may also terminate the deposit insurance of any institution that has engaged in or
−Removed: is engaging in unsafe or unsound practices, is in an unsafe or unsound condition to continue operations or has violated any applicable
−Removed: law, order or condition imposed by the FDIC.
−Removed: Reinvestment Act
−Removed: Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) requires State Bank’s primary federal regulatory agency, the FRB, to assess
−Removed: State Bank’s record in meeting the credit needs of the communities served by State Bank.
+Added: In July 2013, the United
+Added: States banking regulators issued new capital rules applicable to smaller banking organizations which also implement certain of
+Added: the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act (the “Basel III Capital Rules”).
+Added: Community banking organizations, including the
+Added: Company and State Bank, began transitioning to the new rules on January 1, 2015.
+Added: The new minimum capital requirements became effective
+Added: on January 1, 2015, whereas a new capital conservation buffer and deductions from common equity capital phased in from January
+Added: 1, 2016 through January 1, 2019, and most deductions from common equity tier 1 capital phased in from January 1, 2015 through
+Added: January 1, 2019.
+Added: The Basel III Capital Rules include (a)
+Added: a minimum common equity tier 1 capital ratio of 4.5%, (b) a minimum Tier 1 capital ratio of 6.0%, (c) a minimum total capital
+Added: ratio of 8.0%, and (d) a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%.
+Added: Common equity for the common equity tier
+Added: 1 capital ratio generally includes common stock (plus related surplus), retained earnings, accumulated other comprehensive income
+Added: (unless an institution elects to exclude such income from regulatory capital), and limited amounts of minority interests in the
+Added: form of common stock, subject to applicable regulatory adjustments and deductions.
+Added: Tier 1 capital generally includes common
+Added: equity as defined for the common equity tier 1 capital ratio, plus certain non-cumulative preferred stock and related surplus,
+Added: cumulative preferred stock and related surplus, trust preferred securities that have been grandfathered (but which are not permitted
+Added: going forward), and limited amounts of minority interests in the form of additional Tier 1 capital instruments, less certain deductions.
+Added: Tier 2 capital, which can be included
+Added: in the total capital ratio, generally consists of other preferred stock and subordinated debt meeting certain conditions plus
+Added: limited amounts of the allowance for loan and lease losses, subject to specified eligibility criteria, less applicable deductions.
+Added: The deductions from common equity tier
+Added: 1 capital include goodwill and other intangibles, certain deferred tax assets, mortgage-servicing assets above certain levels,
+Added: gains on sale in connection with a securitization, investments in a banking organization’s own capital instruments and investments
+Added: in the capital of unconsolidated financial institutions (above certain levels).
+Added: Under the guidelines, capital is compared
+Added: to the relative risk related to the balance sheet.
+Added: To derive the risk included in the balance sheet, one of several risk weights
+Added: is applied to different balance sheet and off-balance sheet assets, primarily based on the relative credit risk of the counterparty.
+Added: The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings
+Added: and other factors.
+Added: The Basel III Capital Rules also place
+Added: restrictions on the payment of capital distributions, including dividends, and certain discretionary bonus payments to executive
+Added: officers if the banking organization does not hold a capital conservation buffer of greater than 2.5 percent composed of common
+Added: equity tier 1 capital above its minimum risk-based capital requirements, or if its eligible retained income is negative in that
+Added: quarter and its capital conservation buffer ratio was less than 2.5 percent at the beginning of the quarter.
+Added: In September 2019, the FRB, along with
+Added: other federal bank regulatory agencies, issued a final rule, effective January 1, 2020, that gave community banks, including the
+Added: Company, the option to calculate a simple leverage ratio to measure capital adequacy if the community banks met certain requirements.
+Added: Under the rule, a community bank was eligible to elect the Community Bank Leverage Ratio (“CBLR”) framework if it had
+Added: less than $10 billion in total consolidated assets, limited amounts of certain assets and off-balance sheet exposures, and a leverage
+Added: ratio greater than 9.0%.
+Added: Under the rule, a community bank is eligible to elect the Community Bank Leverage Ratio (“CBLR”)
+Added: framework if it had less than $10 billion in total consolidated assets, limited amounts of certain assets and off-balance sheet
+Added: exposures, and a leverage ratio greater than 9.0%.
+Added: Qualifying institutions that elected to use the CBLR framework (each, a CBLR
+Added: Bank”) and that maintain a leverage ratio of greater than 9.0% will be considered to have satisfied the risk-based and leverage
+Added: capital requirements in the regulatory agencies’
+Added: generally applicable capital rules and to have met the well-capitalized ratio
+Added: requirements.
+Added: No CBLR Bank was required to calculate or report risk-based capital, and each CBLR Bank could opt out of the framework
+Added: at any time, without restriction, by reverting to the generally applicable risk-based capital rule.
+Added: Pursuant to the CARES Act,
+Added: on August 26, 2020, the federal banking agencies adopted a final rule that temporarily lowered the CBLR threshold and provides
+Added: a gradual transition back to the prior level.
+Added: Specifically, the CBLR threshold was reduced to 8.0% for the remainder of 2020,
+Added: increased to 8.5% for 2021, and will return to 9.0% beginning January 1, 2022.
+Added: This final rule became effective on October 1,
+Added: The Company does not intend to elect utilization of the CBLR in assessing capital adequacy and intends to continue to follow
+Added: existing capital rules.
+Added: In December 2018, the federal banking
+Added: agencies issued a final rule to address regulatory capital treatment of credit loss allowances under the current expected credit
+Added: loss (“CECL”) model (accounting standard).
+Added: The rule revises the federal banking agencies’
+Added: regulatory capital
+Added: rules to identify which credit loss allowances under the CECL model are eligible for inclusion in regulatory capital and to provide
+Added: banking organizations the option to phase in over three years the day-one adverse effects on regulatory capital that may result
+Added: from the adoption of the CECL model.
+Added: The Company currently anticipates recording a one-time cumulative effect adjustment upon
+Added: adoption, and does not anticipate utilizing the three year phase in.
+Added: The Company expects to maintain risk-based capital ratios
+Added: in excess of “well-capitalized”
+Added: after the impact of the one-time cumulative effect adjustment.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, State Bank was in
+Added: compliance with all of the regulatory capital requirements to which it was subject.
+Added: For State Bank’s capital ratios, see
+Added: Note 17 to the Consolidated Financial Statements under Item of 8 of this report (the “Consolidated Financial Statements”).
+Added: The FRB has adopted regulations governing
+Added: prompt corrective action to resolve the problems of capital deficient and otherwise troubled state-chartered member banks.
+Added: each successively lower defined capital category, a bank is subject to more restrictive and numerous mandatory or discretionary
+Added: regulatory actions or limits, and the FRB has less flexibility in determining how to resolve the problems of the institution.
+Added: In addition, the FRB generally can downgrade a bank’s capital category, notwithstanding its capital level, if, after notice
+Added: and opportunity for hearings, the bank is deemed to be engaged in an unsafe or unsound practice, because it has not corrected
+Added: deficiencies that resulted in it receiving a less than satisfactory examination rating on matters other than capital or it is
+Added: deemed to be in an unsafe or unsound condition.
+Added: State Bank’s capital at December 31, 2020, met the standards for the highest
+Added: capital category, a “well-capitalized”
+Added: In April 2015, the FRB issued a final
+Added: rule which increased the size limitation for qualifying bank holding companies under the FRB’s Small Bank Holding Company
+Added: Policy Statement from $500 million to $1 billion of total consolidated assets.
+Added: In August 2018, the FRB issued an interim final
+Added: rule, as required by the Economic Growth Regulatory Relief, and consumer Protection Act of 2018, to further increase size limitations
+Added: under the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement to $3 billion of total consolidated assets.
+Added: The Company continues to qualify
+Added: under the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement for exemption from the FRB’s consolidated risk-based capital and leverage
+Added: rules at the holding company level.
+Added: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
+Added: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
+Added: (“FDIC”) is an independent federal agency, which insures the deposits of federally insured banks and savings associations
+Added: up to certain prescribed limits and safeguards the safety and soundness of financial institutions.
+Added: The general insurance limit
+Added: is $250,000 per separately insured depositor.
+Added: This insurance is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
+Added: As insurer, the FDIC is authorized to
+Added: conduct examinations of and to require reporting by insured institutions, including State Bank, to prohibit any insured institution
+Added: from engaging in any activity the FDIC determines to pose a threat to the Deposit Insurance Fund (“DIF”), and to take
+Added: enforcement actions against insured institutions.
+Added: The FDIC may terminate insurance of deposits of any institution if the FDIC
+Added: finds that the institution has engaged in unsafe and unsound practices, is in an unsafe or unsound condition or has violated any
+Added: applicable law, regulation, rule, order or condition imposed by the FDIC or other regulatory agency.
+Added: The FDIC assesses a quarterly deposit
+Added: insurance premium on each insured institution based on risk characteristics of the institution and may also impose special assessments
+Added: in emergency situations, which fund the DIF.
+Added: Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC has established 2 percent as the Designated
+Added: Reserve Ratio (“DRR”), which is the amount in the DIF as a percentage of all DIF insured deposits.
+Added: In March 2016,
+Added: the FDIC adopted final rules designed to meet the statutory minimum DRR of 1.35 percent by September 30, 2020, the deadline imposed
+Added: by the Dodd-Frank Act.
+Added: The Dodd-Frank Act requires the FDIC to offset the effect on insured institutions with assets of less than
+Added: $10 billion of the increase in the statutory minimum DRR to 1.35% from the former statutory minimum of 1.15%.
+Added: Although the FDIC’s
+Added: rules reduced assessment rates on all banks, they imposed a surcharge on banks with assets of $10 billion or more to be paid until
+Added: the DRR reached 1.35%.The DRR met the statutory minimum of 1.35% on September 30, 2018.
+Added: As a result, the previous surcharge imposed
+Added: on banks with assets of $10 billion or more was lifted.
+Added: In addition, preliminary assessment credits have been determined by the
+Added: FDIC for banks with assets of less than $10 billion, which had previously contributed to the increase of the DRR to 1.35%.
+Added: June 30, 2019, the DRR reached 1.40%, and the FDIC applied credits for banks with assets of less than $10 billion (“small
+Added: bank credits”) beginning September 30, 2019.
+Added: The FDIC will continue to apply small bank credits so long as the DRR is at
+Added: State Bank utilized its $0.2 million assessment credit during the [third and fourth quarters of 2019].
+Added: The FDIC rules
+Added: further changed the method of determining risk-based assessment rates for established banks with less than $10 billion in assets
+Added: to better ensure that banks taking on greater risks pay more for deposit insurance than banks that take on less risk.
+Added: The FDIC is authorized to prohibit any
+Added: insured institution from engaging in any activity that poses a serious threat to the insurance fund and may initiate enforcement
+Added: actions against a bank, after first giving the institution’s primary regulatory authority an opportunity to take such action.
+Added: The FDIC may also terminate the deposit insurance of any institution that has engaged in or is engaging in unsafe or unsound practices,
+Added: is in an unsafe or unsound condition to continue operations or has violated any applicable law, order or condition imposed by
+Added: Community Reinvestment Act
+Added: The Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”)
+Added: requires State Bank’s primary federal regulatory agency, the FRB, to assess State Bank’s record in meeting the credit
+Added: needs of the communities served by State Bank.
The FRB assigns one of four ratings:
outstanding, satisfactory;
−Removed: needs to improve or substantial noncompliance.
−Removed: The rating assigned to a financial institution is considered
−Removed: in connection with various applications submitted by the financial institution or its holding company to its banking regulators,
−Removed: including applications to acquire another financial institution or to open or close a branch office.
−Removed: In addition, all subsidiary
−Removed: banks of a financial holding company must maintain a satisfactory or outstanding rating in order for the financial holding company
−Removed: to avoid limitations on its activities.
+Added: needs to improve
+Added: or substantial noncompliance.
+Added: The rating assigned to a financial institution is considered in connection with various applications
+Added: submitted by the financial institution or its holding company to its banking regulators, including applications to acquire another
+Added: financial institution or to open or close a branch office.
+Added: In addition, all subsidiary banks of a financial holding company must
+Added: maintain a satisfactory or outstanding rating in order for the financial holding company to avoid limitations on its activities.
State Bank currently maintains a satisfactory CRA rating.
−Removed: and NASDAQ Regulation
−Removed: Company is subject to the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and certain state securities
−Removed: authorities relating to the offering and sale of its securities.
−Removed: The Company is subject to the registration, reporting and other
−Removed: regulatory requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
−Removed: Act”), and the rules adopted by the SEC under those acts.
−Removed: The Company’s common shares are listed on The NASDAQ Capital
−Removed: Market (“NASDAQ”) under the symbol “SBFG”.
−Removed: As a result, the Company is subject to NASDAQ rules and regulations
−Removed: applicable to listed companies.
−Removed: SEC has adopted rules and regulations governing, among other matters, corporate governance, auditing and accounting, executive
−Removed: compensation, and enhanced and timely disclosure of corporate information.
−Removed: The SEC has also approved corporate governance rules
−Removed: promulgated by NASDAQ.
−Removed: The Company has adopted and implemented a Code of Conduct and Ethics and a copy of that policy can be found
−Removed: on the Company’s website at www.YourSBFinancial.com by first clicking “Corporate Governance”
−Removed: and then “Code
−Removed: of Conduct”.
−Removed: The Company has also adopted charters of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Governance
−Removed: and Nominating Committee, which charters are available on the Company’s website at www.YourSBFinancial.com by first clicking
−Removed: “Corporate Governance”
+Added: SEC and NASDAQ Regulation
+Added: The Company is subject to the jurisdiction
+Added: of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and certain state securities authorities relating to the offering
+Added: and sale of its securities.
+Added: The Company is subject to the registration, reporting and other regulatory requirements of the Securities
+Added: Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules adopted
+Added: by the SEC under those acts.
+Added: The Company’s common shares are listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market (“NASDAQ”)
+Added: under the symbol “SBFG”.
+Added: As a result, the Company is subject to NASDAQ rules and regulations applicable to listed
+Added: The SEC has adopted rules and regulations
+Added: governing, among other matters, corporate governance, auditing and accounting, executive compensation, and enhanced and timely
+Added: disclosure of corporate information.
+Added: The SEC has also approved corporate governance rules promulgated by NASDAQ.
+Added: The Company has
+Added: adopted and implemented a Code of Conduct and Ethics and a copy of that policy can be found on the Company’s website at
+Added: www.YourSBFinancial.com by first clicking “Corporate Governance”
+Added: and then “Code of Conduct”.
+Added: has also adopted charters of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Governance and Nominating Committee, which
+Added: charters are available on the Company’s website at www.YourSBFinancial.com by first clicking “Corporate Governance”
and then “Supplementary Info”.
−Removed: Uniting and Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (the
−Removed: “Patriot Act”) gives the United States Government greater powers over financial institutions to combat money laundering
−Removed: and terrorist access to the financial system in our country.
−Removed: The Patriot Act requires regulated financial institutions to establish
−Removed: programs for obtaining identifying information from customers seeking to open new accounts and establish enhanced due diligence
−Removed: policies, procedures and controls designed to detect and report suspicious activity.
−Removed: of Foreign Assets Control Regulation
−Removed: Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) administers and enforces economic and trade
−Removed: sanctions against targeted foreign countries and regimes, under authority of various laws, including designated foreign countries,
−Removed: nationals and others.
−Removed: OFAC publishes lists of specially designated targets and countries.
−Removed: State Bank is responsible for, among
−Removed: other things, blocking accounts of, and transactions with, such targets and countries, prohibiting unlicensed trade and financial
−Removed: transactions with them and reporting blocked transactions after their occurrence.
−Removed: Failure to comply with these sanctions could
−Removed: have serious financial, legal and reputational consequences, including causing applicable bank regulatory authorities not to approve
−Removed: merger or acquisition transactions when regulatory approval is required or to prohibit such transactions even if approval is not
−Removed: Regulatory authorities have imposed cease and desist orders and civil money penalties against institutions found to
−Removed: be violating these obligations.
−Removed: and Incentive Compensation
−Removed: June 2010, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Controller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the FDIC issued joint
−Removed: interagency guidance on incentive compensation policies (the “Joint Guidance”) intended to ensure that the incentive
−Removed: compensation policies of banking organizations do not undermine the safety and soundness of such organizations by encouraging
−Removed: excessive risk-taking.
−Removed: This principles-based guidance, which covers all employees that have the ability to materially affect the
−Removed: risk profile of an organization, either individually or as part of a group, is based upon the key principles that a banking organization’s
−Removed: incentive compensation arrangements should (a) provide incentives that do not encourage risk-taking beyond the organization’s
−Removed: ability to effectively identify and manage risks, (b) be compatible with effective internal controls and risk management and (c)
−Removed: be supported by strong corporate governance, including active and effective oversight by the organization’s board of directors.
−Removed: 2011, federal banking regulatory agencies jointly issued proposed rules on incentive-based compensation arrangements under applicable
−Removed: provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act (the “First Proposed Rules”).
−Removed: The First Proposed Rules generally would have applied
−Removed: to financial institutions with $1 billion or more in assets that maintain incentive-based compensation arrangements for certain
−Removed: covered employees.
−Removed: In May 2016, the federal bank regulatory agencies approved a second joint notice of proposed rules (the “Second
−Removed: Proposed Joint Rules”) designed to prohibit incentive-based compensation arrangements that encourage inappropriate risks
−Removed: at financial institutions.
−Removed: The Second Proposed Joint Rules would apply to covered financial institutions with total assets of
−Removed: $1 billion or more, and are still in proposed rule status.
−Removed: The requirements of the Second Proposed Joint Rules would differ for
−Removed: each of three categories of financial institutions:
−Removed: 1 consists of institutions with assets of $250 billion or more;
−Removed: 2 consists of institutions with assets of at least $50 billion and less than $250 billion;
−Removed: 3 consists of institutions with assets of at least $1 billion and less than $50 billion.
−Removed: of the requirements would apply only to Level 1 and Level 2 institutions.
−Removed: For all covered institutions, including Level 3 institutions
−Removed: like us, the Second Proposed Rules would:
−Removed: incentive-based compensation arrangements that are “excessive”
−Removed: or “could
−Removed: lead to material financial loss”;
−Removed: incentive-based compensation that is consistent with a balance of risk and reward, effective
−Removed: management and control of risk, and effective governance;
−Removed: board oversight, recordkeeping and disclosure to the appropriate regulatory agency.
−Removed: 1 and Level 2 institutions would have additional requirements, including deferrals of awards to certain covered persons;
−Removed: downward adjustments, forfeitures or clawbacks;
−Removed: and additional risk-management and control standards, policies and procedures.
−Removed: In addition, certain practices and types of incentive compensation would be prohibited.
−Removed: company compensation committee members must meet heightened independence requirements and consider the independence of compensation
−Removed: consultants, legal counsel and other advisors to the compensation committee.
−Removed: A compensation committee must have the authority
−Removed: to hire advisors and to have the public company fund reasonable compensation of such advisors.
−Removed: regulations require public companies to provide various disclosures about executive compensation in annual reports and proxy statements
−Removed: and to present to their shareholders a non-binding vote on the approval of executive compensation.
−Removed: companies will be required, once stock exchanges impose additional listing requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act, to implement
−Removed: “clawback”
−Removed: procedures for incentive compensation payments and to disclose the details of the procedures which allow
−Removed: recovery of incentive compensation that was paid on the basis of erroneous financial information necessitating a restatement due
−Removed: to material noncompliance with financial reporting requirements.
−Removed: This clawback policy is intended to apply to compensation paid
−Removed: within a three-year look-back window of the restatement and would cover all executives who received incentive awards.
−Removed: Protection Laws and Regulations
−Removed: are subject to regular examination to ensure compliance with federal consumer protection statutes and regulations, including,
−Removed: but not limited to, the following:
−Removed: Equal Credit Opportunity Act (prohibiting discrimination in any credit transaction on
−Removed: the basis of any of various criteria);
−Removed: Truth in Lending Act (requiring that credit terms are disclosed in a manner that permits
−Removed: a consumer to understand and compare credit terms more readily and knowledgeably);
−Removed: Fair Housing Act (making it unlawful for a lender to discriminate in housing-related
−Removed: lending activities against any person on the basis of certain criteria);
−Removed: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (requiring financial institutions to collect data that enables
−Removed: regulatory agencies to determine whether financial institutions are serving the housing
−Removed: credit needs of the communities in which they are located);
−Removed: Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (requiring that lenders provide borrowers with
−Removed: disclosures regarding the nature and cost of real estate settlements and prohibits abusive
−Removed: practices that increase borrowers’
−Removed: provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (requiring financial institutions to establish
−Removed: policies and procedures to restrict the sharing of non-public customer data with non-affiliated
−Removed: parties and to protect customer information from unauthorized access).
−Removed: banking regulators also use their authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act to take supervisory or enforcement action with
−Removed: respect to unfair or deceptive acts or practices by banks that may not necessarily fall within the scope of a specific banking
−Removed: or consumer finance law.
−Removed: October 2017, the CFPB issued a final rule (the “Payday Rule”) to establish regulations for payday loans, vehicle
−Removed: title loans, and certain high-cost installment loans.
−Removed: The Payday Rule addressed two discrete topics.
−Removed: First, it contained a set
−Removed: of provisions with respect to the underwriting of certain covered loans and related reporting and recordkeeping requirements (the
−Removed: “Mandatory Underwriting Provisions”).
−Removed: Second, it contained a set of provisions establishing certain requirements and
−Removed: limitations with respect to attempts to withdraw payments from consumers’
−Removed: checking or other accounts and related recordkeeping
−Removed: requirements (the “Payment Provisions”).
−Removed: The Payday Rule became effective on January 16, 2018.
−Removed: However, most provisions
−Removed: had a compliance date of August 19, 2019.
−Removed: February 6, 2019, the CFPB proposed delaying the August 19, 2019, compliance date for the Mandatory Underwriting Provisions to
−Removed: November 19, 2020.
−Removed: The CFPB proposed in a separate notice to rescind the Mandatory Underwriting Provisions.
−Removed: June 6, 2019, the CFPB issued a final rule delaying the compliance date for most Mandatory Underwriting Provisions until November
−Removed: However, the final rule did not delay the compliance date for the Payment Provisions.
−Removed: Company does not currently expect the Payday Rule to have a material effect on the Company’s financial condition or results
−Removed: of operations on a consolidated basis.
+Added: USA Patriot Act
+Added: The Uniting and Strengthening of America
+Added: by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (the “Patriot Act”) gives
+Added: the United States government powers to address terrorist threats through enhanced domestic security measures, expanded surveillance
+Added: powers, increased information sharing and broadened anti-money laundering requirements.
+Added: Title III of the Patriot Act encourages
+Added: information sharing among bank regulatory agencies and law enforcement bodies.
+Added: Further, certain provisions of Title III impose
+Added: affirmative obligations on a broad range of financial institutions.
+Added: Among other requirements, Title III and related regulations
+Added: require regulated financial institutions to establish a program specifying procedures for obtaining identifying information from
+Added: customers seeking to open new accounts and establish enhanced due diligence policies, procedures and controls designed to detect
+Added: and report suspicious activity.
+Added: State Bank has established policies and procedures that State Bank believes comply with the requirements
+Added: of the Patriot Act.
+Added: Office of Foreign Assets Control Regulation
+Added: Treasury Department’s Office
+Added: of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against targeted foreign
+Added: countries and regimes, under authority of various laws, including designated foreign countries, nationals and others.
+Added: OFAC publishes
+Added: lists of specially designated targets and countries.
+Added: State Bank is responsible for, among other things, blocking accounts of,
+Added: and transactions with, such targets and countries, prohibiting unlicensed trade and financial transactions with them and reporting
+Added: blocked transactions after their occurrence.
+Added: Failure to comply with these sanctions could have serious financial, legal and reputational
+Added: consequences, including causing applicable bank regulatory authorities not to approve merger or acquisition transactions when
+Added: regulatory approval is required or to prohibit such transactions even if approval is not required.
+Added: Regulatory authorities have
+Added: imposed cease and desist orders and civil money penalties against institutions found to be violating these obligations.
+Added: Executive and Incentive Compensation
+Added: The Dodd-Frank Act requires that the federal
+Added: banking agencies, including the FRB and the FDIC, issue a rule related to incentive-based compensation.
+Added: No final rule implementing
+Added: this provision of the Dodd-Frank Act has, as of the date of the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, been adopted, but a
+Added: proposed rule was published in 2016 that expanded upon a prior proposed rule published in 2011.
+Added: The proposed rule is intended
+Added: (i) prohibit incentive-based payment arrangements that the banking agencies determine could encourage certain financial institutions
+Added: to take inappropriate risks by providing excessive compensation or that could lead to material financial loss;
+Added: (ii) require the
+Added: board of directors of those financial institutions to take certain oversight actions related to incentive-based compensation;
+Added: and (iii) require those financial institutions to disclose information concerning incentive-based compensation arrangements to
+Added: the appropriate federal regulator.
+Added: Although a final rule has not been issued, the Company has undertaken efforts to ensure that
+Added: the Company’s incentive compensation plans do not encourage inappropriate risks, consistent with the principles identified
+Added: above.Public company compensation committee members must meet heightened independence requirements and consider the independence
+Added: of compensation consultants, legal counsel and other advisors to the compensation committee.
+Added: A compensation committee must have
+Added: the authority to hire advisors and to have the public company fund reasonable compensation of such advisors.
+Added: SEC regulations require public companies
+Added: to provide various disclosures about executive compensation in annual reports and proxy statements and to present to their shareholders
+Added: a non-binding vote on the approval of executive compensation.
+Added: Public companies will be required, once
+Added: stock exchanges impose additional listing requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act, to implement “clawback”
+Added: for incentive compensation payments and to disclose the details of the procedures which allow recovery of incentive compensation
+Added: that was paid on the basis of erroneous financial information necessitating a restatement due to material noncompliance with financial
+Added: reporting requirements.
+Added: This clawback policy is intended to apply to compensation paid within a three-year look-back window of
+Added: the restatement and would cover all executives who received incentive awards.
+Added: Consumer Protection Laws and Regulations
+Added: Banks are subject to regular examination
+Added: to ensure compliance with federal consumer protection statutes and regulations, including, but not limited to, the following:
+Added: ● The Equal Credit Opportunity
+Added: Act (prohibiting discrimination in any credit transaction on the basis of any of various
+Added: ● The Truth in Lending Act
+Added: (requiring that credit terms are disclosed in a manner that permits a consumer to understand
+Added: and compare credit terms more readily and knowledgeably);
+Added: ● The Fair Housing Act (making
+Added: it unlawful for a lender to discriminate in housing-related lending activities against
+Added: any person on the basis of certain criteria);
+Added: ● The Home Mortgage Disclosure
+Added: Act (requiring financial institutions to collect data that enables regulatory agencies
+Added: to determine whether financial institutions are serving the housing credit needs of the
+Added: communities in which they are located);
+Added: ● The Real Estate Settlement
+Added: Procedures Act (requiring that lenders provide borrowers with disclosures regarding the
+Added: nature and cost of real estate settlements and prohibits abusive practices that increase
+Added: borrowers’
+Added: ● Privacy provisions of the
+Added: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (requiring financial institutions to establish policies and procedures
+Added: to restrict the sharing of non-public customer data with non-affiliated parties and to
+Added: protect customer information from unauthorized access).
+Added: The banking regulators also use their
+Added: authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act to take supervisory or enforcement action with respect to unfair or deceptive
+Added: acts or practices by banks that may not necessarily fall within the scope of a specific banking or consumer finance law.
Cybersecurity
−Removed: March 2015, federal regulators issued two related statements regarding cybersecurity.
−Removed: One statement indicates that financial institutions
−Removed: should design multiple layers of security controls to establish several lines of defense and to ensure that their risk management
−Removed: processes also address the risk posed by compromised customer credentials, including security measures to reliably authenticate
−Removed: customers accessing Internet-based services of the financial institution.
−Removed: The other statement indicates that a financial institution’s
−Removed: management is expected to maintain sufficient business continuity planning processes to ensure the rapid recovery, resumption
−Removed: and maintenance of the financial institution’s operations after a cyber attack involving destructive malware.
−Removed: institution is also expected to develop appropriate processes to enable recovery of data and business operations and address rebuilding
−Removed: network capabilities and restoring data if the financial institution or its critical service providers fall victim to this type
−Removed: of cyber-attack.
−Removed: If State Bank fails to observe the regulatory guidance, it could be subject to various regulatory sanctions,
−Removed: including financial penalties.
−Removed: February 2018, the SEC published interpretive guidance to assist public companies in preparing disclosures about cybersecurity
−Removed: risks and incidents.
−Removed: These SEC guidelines, and any other regulatory guidance, are in addition to notification and disclosure requirements
−Removed: under state and federal banking law and regulations.
−Removed: regulators have also been increasingly active in implementing privacy and cybersecurity standards and regulations.
−Removed: Recently, several
−Removed: states have adopted regulations requiring certain financial institutions to implement cybersecurity programs and providing detailed
−Removed: requirements with respect to these programs, including data encryption requirements.
−Removed: Many states have also recently implemented
−Removed: or modified their data breach notification and data privacy requirements.
−Removed: The Company expects this trend of state-level activity
−Removed: in those areas to continue, and is continually monitoring developments in the states in which our customers are located.
−Removed: the ordinary course of business, the Company relies on electronic communications and information systems to conduct its operations
−Removed: and to store sensitive data.
−Removed: The Company employs an in-depth, layered, defensive approach that leverages people, processes and
−Removed: technology to manage and maintain cybersecurity controls.
−Removed: The Company employs a variety of preventative and detective tools to
−Removed: monitor, block, and provide alerts regarding suspicious activity, as well as to report on any suspected advanced persistent threats.
−Removed: The Company has also invested over the last eighteen months to further enhance these tools and mechanisms.
−Removed: Notwithstanding the
−Removed: strength of the Company’s defensive measures, the threat from cyber-attacks is severe, attacks are sophisticated and increasing
−Removed: in volume, and attackers respond rapidly to changes in defensive measures.
−Removed: While to date, the Company has not detected a significant
−Removed: compromise, significant data loss or any material financial losses related to cybersecurity attacks, Company’s systems and
−Removed: those of its customers and third-party service providers are under constant threat and it is possible that the Company could experience
−Removed: a significant event in the future.
−Removed: Risks and exposures related to cybersecurity attacks are expected to remain high for the foreseeable
−Removed: future due to the rapidly evolving nature and sophistication of these threats, as well as due to the expanding use of Internet
−Removed: banking, mobile banking and other technology-based products and services by us and our customers.
−Removed: of Environmental Regulation
−Removed: with federal, state and local provisions regulating the discharge of materials into the environment, or otherwise relating to
−Removed: the protection of the environment, has not had a material effect upon the capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position
−Removed: of the Company and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: The Company believes that the nature of the operations of its subsidiaries has little, if
−Removed: any, environmental impact.
−Removed: The Company, therefore, anticipates no material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities
−Removed: for its current fiscal year or for the near future.
−Removed: The Company’s subsidiaries may be required to make capital expenditures
−Removed: for environmental control facilities related to properties which they may acquire through foreclosure proceedings in the future;
−Removed: however, the amount of such capital expenditures, if any, is not currently determinable.
−Removed: OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’
−Removed: RATES AND INTEREST DIFFERENTIAL
−Removed: following are the condensed average balance sheets of the Company for the years ending December 31 and includes the interest earned
−Removed: or paid, and the average interest rate, on each asset and liability:
+Added: In March 2015, federal regulators issued
+Added: two related statements regarding cybersecurity.
+Added: One statement indicates that financial institutions should design multiple layers
+Added: of security controls to establish several lines of defense and to ensure that their risk management processes also address the
+Added: risk posed by compromised customer credentials, including security measures to reliably authenticate customers accessing Internet-based
+Added: services of the financial institution.
+Added: The other statement indicates that a financial institution’s management is expected
+Added: to maintain sufficient business continuity planning processes to ensure the rapid recovery, resumption and maintenance of the
+Added: financial institution’s operations after a cyber-attack involving destructive malware.
+Added: A financial institution is also expected
+Added: to develop appropriate processes to enable recovery of data and business operations and address rebuilding network capabilities
+Added: and restoring data if the financial institution or its critical service providers fall victim to this type of cyber-attack.
+Added: State Bank fails to observe the regulatory guidance, it could be subject to various regulatory sanctions, including financial
+Added: In February 2018, the SEC published interpretive
+Added: guidance to assist public companies in preparing disclosures about cybersecurity risks and incidents.
+Added: These SEC guidelines, and
+Added: any other regulatory guidance, are in addition to notification and disclosure requirements under state and federal banking law
+Added: and regulations.
+Added: State regulators have also been increasingly
+Added: active in implementing privacy and cybersecurity standards and regulations.
+Added: Recently, several states have adopted regulations
+Added: requiring certain financial institutions to implement cybersecurity programs and providing detailed requirements with respect
+Added: to these programs, including data encryption requirements.
+Added: Many states have also recently implemented or modified their data breach
+Added: notification and data privacy requirements.
+Added: The Company expects this trend of state-level activity in those areas to continue,
+Added: and is continually monitoring developments in the states in which our customers are located.
+Added: In the ordinary course of business, the
+Added: Company relies on electronic communications and information systems to conduct its operations and to store sensitive data.
+Added: Company employs an in-depth, layered, defensive approach that leverages people, processes and technology to manage and maintain
+Added: cybersecurity controls.
+Added: The Company employs a variety of preventative and detective tools to monitor, block, and provide alerts
+Added: regarding suspicious activity, as well as to report on any suspected advanced persistent threats.
+Added: The Company has also invested
+Added: over the last eighteen months to further enhance these tools and mechanisms.
+Added: Notwithstanding the strength of the Company’s
+Added: defensive measures, the threat from cyber-attacks is severe, attacks are sophisticated and increasing in volume, and attackers
+Added: respond rapidly to changes in defensive measures.
+Added: While to date, the Company has not detected a significant compromise, significant
+Added: data loss or any material financial losses related to cybersecurity attacks, Company’s systems and those of its customers
+Added: and third-party service providers are under constant threat and it is possible that the Company could experience a significant
+Added: event in the future.
+Added: Risks and exposures related to cybersecurity attacks are expected to remain high for the foreseeable future
+Added: due to the rapidly evolving nature and sophistication of these threats, as well as due to the expanding use of Internet banking,
+Added: mobile banking and other technology-based products and services by us and our customers.
+Added: Effect of Environmental Regulation
+Added: Compliance with federal, state and local
+Added: provisions regulating the discharge of materials into the environment, or otherwise relating to the protection of the environment,
+Added: has not had a material effect upon the capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position of the Company and its subsidiaries.
+Added: The Company believes that the nature of the operations of its subsidiaries has little, if any, environmental impact.
+Added: therefore, anticipates no material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities for its current fiscal year or for
+Added: the near future.
+Added: The Company’s subsidiaries may be required to make capital expenditures for environmental control facilities
+Added: related to properties which they may acquire through foreclosure proceedings in the future;
+Added: however, the amount of such capital
+Added: expenditures, if any, is not currently determinable.
+Added: Human Capital Resources
+Added: At December 31, 2020, we employed 244
+Added: full time equivalent employees.
+Added: Approximately 69% of our team are female with an average tenure for our entire team of 8.80 years.
+Added: The success of our business is highly dependent on our team members, who provide value to our customers and communities through
+Added: their dedication to our Value Proposition –
+Added: “Your lifetime provider of convenient and innovative financial services,
+Added: delivered by a passionate and caring staff”.
+Added: We seek to hire a well-qualified team who are a good fit for our organization,
+Added: and our selection and promotion processes are without bias and include the active recruitment of minorities and women.
+Added: DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’
+Added: INTEREST RATES AND INTEREST DIFFERENTIAL
+Added: The following are the condensed
+Added: average balance sheets of the Company for the years ending December 31 and includes the interest earned or paid, and the average
+Added: interest rate, on each asset and liability:
($ in thousands)
−Removed: Taxable securities
+Added: securities/cash
Non-taxable securities
1 unchanged sentence
Cash and due from banks
−Removed: Allowance for loan losses
+Added: Allowance for loan
Premises and equipment
−Removed: Savings and interest-bearing demand deposits
+Added: Savings and interest-bearing
+Added: demand deposits
Time deposits
−Removed: Repurchase agreements & other
+Added: Repurchase agreements
Advances from FHLB
−Removed: Trust preferred securities
−Removed: Total interest-bearing liabilities
+Added: preferred securities
+Added: Total interest-bearing
Demand deposits
−Removed: Other liabilities
Total liabilities
Shareholders’
−Removed: Total liabilities and shareholders’
−Removed: Net interest income (tax equivalent
−Removed: Net interest income as a percent of average interest-earning
+Added: Total liabilities
+Added: and shareholders’
+Added: interest income (tax equivalent basis)
+Added: Net interest income
+Added: as a percent of average interest-earning
assets - GAAP measure
1 unchanged sentence
Computed on a fully tax equivalent basis (FTE)
−Removed: 1 Nonaccruing loans and loans held for sale are
−Removed: included in the average balances.
−Removed: 2 Interest on tax exempt securities is computed
−Removed: on a tax equivalent basis using a 21 (2019/2018) and 34 percent (2017) statutory tax
−Removed: rate, and added to the net interest income.
−Removed: The tax equivalent adjustment was $0.07,
−Removed: $0.17 and $0.27 million in 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
−Removed: 3 Interest on tax exempt loans is computed on a
−Removed: tax equivalent basis using a 21 (2019/2018) and 34 percent (2017) statutory tax rate,
−Removed: and added to the net interest income.
−Removed: The tax equivalent adjustment was $0.06, $0.03
−Removed: and $0.04 million in 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
−Removed: following tables set forth the effect of volume and rate changes on interest income and expense for the periods indicated.
−Removed: purposes of these tables, changes in interest due to volume and rate were determined as follows:
+Added: 1 Nonaccruing loans and loans held for sale are included
+Added: in the average balances.
+Added: 2 Interest on tax exempt securities and loans is computed
+Added: on a tax equivalent basis using a 21 percent statutory tax rate, and added to the net interest income.
+Added: The tax equivalent adjustment
+Added: was $0.15, $0.17 and $0.14 million in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: The following tables set forth
+Added: the effect of volume and rate changes on interest income and expense for the periods indicated.
+Added: For purposes of these tables, changes
+Added: in interest due to volume and rate were determined as follows:
variance - change in volume multiplied by the previous year’s rate.
20 unchanged sentences
Net interest income
−Removed: on non-taxable securities and loans has been adjusted to fully tax equivalent
−Removed: fair value of securities available-for-sale as of December 31 in each of the following
−Removed: years are summarized as follows:
+Added: 1 Interest on non-taxable securities and loans has been
+Added: adjusted to fully tax equivalent
+Added: INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
+Added: The fair value of securities available-for-sale as of December 31 in each of the following years
+Added: are summarized as follows:
($ in thousands)
2 unchanged sentences
State and political subdivisions
−Removed: Equity securities
−Removed: maturity distribution and weighted-average interest rates of securities available-for-sale
+Added: Other corporate securities
+Added: The maturity distribution and weighted-average interest rates of securities available-for-sale
at December 31, 2020, are set forth in the table below.
−Removed: The weighted-average interest
−Removed: rates are based on coupon rates for securities purchased at par value and on effective
−Removed: interest rates considering amortization or accretion if the securities were purchased
−Removed: at a premium or discount:
+Added: The weighted-average interest rates are based on coupon rates for securities
+Added: purchased at par value and on effective interest rates considering amortization or accretion if the securities were purchased at
+Added: a premium or discount:
($ in thousands)
−Removed: After One Year but within Five Years
−Removed: After Five Years but within Ten Years
Treasury and government agencies
1 unchanged sentence
State and political subdivisions
+Added: Other corporate securities
Total securities by maturity
Weighted-average yield by maturity 1
−Removed: are presented on a tax-equivalent basis.
−Removed: those holdings of the investment portfolio in U.S.
+Added: 1 Yields are presented on a tax-equivalent basis.
+Added: Excluding those holdings of the investment portfolio in U.S.
Treasury securities and other agencies
−Removed: Government, there were no other securities of any one issuer, which exceeded
−Removed: 10 percent of the shareholders’
−Removed: equity of the Company at December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Total loans on the balance sheet were comprised of the following classifications
−Removed: at December 31 for the years indicated:
+Added: Government, there were no other securities of any one issuer, which exceeded 10 percent of the shareholders’
+Added: of the Company at December 31, 2020.
+Added: LOAN PORTFOLIO
+Added: Types of Loans :
+Added: Total loans on the balance sheet
+Added: were comprised of the following classifications at December 31 for the years indicated:
($ in thousands)
Loans held for investment (HFI)
−Removed: Commercial Business & Agricultural
−Removed: Commercial RE & Construction
+Added: Commercial business and agricultural
+Added: Commercial real estate
Residential real estate
−Removed: Consumer & Other
+Added: Consumer & other loans
Unearned income
Total loans, net of unearned income
−Removed: Concentrations
−Removed: of Credit Risk :
−Removed: The Company makes commercial, real estate and installment loans to customers located mainly in the Tri-State
−Removed: region of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
−Removed: Commercial loans include loans collateralized by commercial real estate, business assets
−Removed: and, in the case of agricultural loans, crops and farm equipment and the loans are expected to be repaid from cash flow from operations
−Removed: of businesses.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, commercial business and agricultural loans made up approximately 24.5 percent of the loans
−Removed: held for investment (“HFI”) loan portfolio while commercial real estate loans accounted for approximately 44.5 percent
−Removed: of the HFI loan portfolio.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, residential first mortgage loans made up approximately 23.4 percent of the
−Removed: HFI loan portfolio and are secured by first mortgages on residential real estate, while consumer loans to individuals made up
−Removed: approximately 7.6 percent of the HFI loan portfolio and are primarily secured by consumer assets.
−Removed: and Sensitivities of Loans to Changes in Interest Rates:
−Removed: The following tables shows
−Removed: the amounts of commercial, business and agricultural loans and commercial real estate
−Removed: loans outstanding as of December 31, 2019, which, based on remaining scheduled repayments
−Removed: of principal, are due in the periods indicated.
−Removed: Also, the amounts have been classified
−Removed: according to sensitivity to changes in interest rates for loans due after one year (variable-rate
−Removed: loans are those loans with floating or adjustable interest rates).
+Added: Concentrations of Credit Risk :
+Added: The Company makes commercial, real estate and installment loans to customers located mainly in the Tri-State region of Ohio, Indiana
+Added: and Michigan.
+Added: Commercial loans include loans collateralized by commercial real estate, business assets and, in the case of agricultural
+Added: loans, crops and farm equipment and the loans are expected to be repaid from cash flow from operations of businesses.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2020, commercial business and agricultural loans made up approximately 29.6 percent of the loans held for investment (“HFI”)
+Added: loan portfolio while commercial real estate loans accounted for approximately 42.5 percent of the HFI loan portfolio.
+Added: first mortgage loans made up approximately 20.9 percent of the HFI loan portfolio and are secured by first mortgages on residential
+Added: real estate, while consumer loans to individuals made up approximately 7.0 percent of the HFI loan portfolio and are primarily
+Added: secured by consumer assets.
+Added: Maturities and Sensitivities of Loans to Changes in Interest Rates:
+Added: The following tables
+Added: show the amounts of commercial, business and agricultural loans and commercial real estate loans outstanding as of December 31,
+Added: 2020, which, based on remaining scheduled repayments of principal, are due in the periods indicated.
+Added: Also, the amounts have been
+Added: classified according to sensitivity to changes in interest rates for loans due after one year (variable-rate loans are those loans
+Added: with floating or adjustable interest rates).
($ in thousands)
Business & Ag.
−Removed: Within one year
−Removed: After one year but within five years
−Removed: After five years
+Added: After one year but
+Added: within five years
Interest Sensitivity
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Due after five years
−Removed: accrual of interest income is discontinued when the collection of a loan or interest,
−Removed: in whole or in part, is doubtful.
−Removed: When interest accruals are discontinued, interest income
−Removed: accrued in the current period is reversed.
−Removed: Loans that are past due 90 days or more as
−Removed: to interest or principal payments are considered for nonaccrual status.
−Removed: The following
−Removed: schedule summarizes nonaccrual, past due, and troubled debt restructured (TDR) loans
−Removed: at December 31 for the years indicated:
+Added: Risk Elements:
+Added: The accrual of interest income is discontinued when the
+Added: collection of a loan or interest, in whole or in part, is doubtful.
+Added: When interest accruals are discontinued, interest income accrued
+Added: in the current period is reversed.
+Added: Loans that are past due 90 days or more as to interest or principal payments are considered
+Added: for nonaccrual status.
+Added: The following schedule summarizes nonaccrual, past due, and troubled debt restructured (TDR) loans at December
+Added: 31 for the years indicated:
($ in thousands)
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Total nonperforming loans and TDRs
−Removed: below is the interest income on impaired and nonaccrual loans greater than $100,000 at December 31 for the years indicated:
+Added: Listed below is the interest
+Added: income on impaired and nonaccrual loans greater than $100,000 at December 31 for the years indicated:
($ in thousands)
2 unchanged sentences
Unrecorded interest income on nonaccrual loans
−Removed: of December 31, 2019, in addition to the $6.4 million of nonperforming loans reported
−Removed: under Item III.C above (whose amount includes all loans classified by management as doubtful
−Removed: or loss), there were approximately $3.7 million in other outstanding loans where known
−Removed: information about possible credit problems of the borrowers caused management to have
−Removed: concerns as to the ability of such borrowers to comply with the present loan repayment
−Removed: terms (loans classified as substandard by management) and which may result in disclosure
−Removed: of such loans pursuant to Item III.C.1.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, in addition to the $7.2 million of nonperforming loans reported under
+Added: Item III.C above (which amount includes all loans classified by management as doubtful or loss), there were approximately $12.0
+Added: million in other outstanding loans where known information about possible credit problems of the borrowers caused management to
+Added: have concerns as to the ability of such borrowers to comply with the present loan repayment terms (loans classified as substandard
+Added: by management) and which may result in disclosure of such loans pursuant to Item III.C.1.
at some future date.
−Removed: In regard to loans classified
−Removed: as substandard, management believes that such potential problem loans have been adequately
−Removed: evaluated in the allowance for loan losses.
−Removed: Loans Outstanding
−Removed: Concentrations
−Removed: December 31, 2019, loans outstanding related to agricultural operations or collateralized by agricultural real estate and equipment
−Removed: aggregated approximately $51.0 million, or 6.2 percent of total HFI loans.
−Removed: Interest-Bearing Assets
−Removed: were no other interest-bearing assets as of December 31, 2019, which would be required to be disclosed under Item III.C.1 or Item
−Removed: if such assets were loans.
−Removed: believes the allowance for loan losses at December 31, 2019 was adequate to absorb any losses on nonperforming loans, as the allowance
−Removed: balance is maintained by management at a level considered adequate to cover losses that are probable based on past loss experience,
−Removed: general economic conditions, information about specific borrower situations, including their financial position and collateral
−Removed: values, and other factors and estimates which are subject to change over time.
−Removed: OF LOAN LOSS EXPERIENCE
−Removed: following schedule presents an analysis of the allowance for loan losses, average loan
−Removed: data and related ratios at December 31 for the years indicated:
+Added: In regard to loans
+Added: classified as substandard, management believes that such potential problem loans have been adequately evaluated in the allowance
+Added: for loan losses.
+Added: Foreign Loans Outstanding
+Added: Loan Concentrations
+Added: At December 31, 2020, loans
+Added: outstanding related to agricultural operations or collateralized by agricultural real estate and equipment aggregated approximately
+Added: $55.2 million, or 6.3 percent of total HFI loans.
+Added: Other Interest Bearing Assets
+Added: There were no other interest
+Added: bearing assets as of December 31, 2020, which would be required to be disclosed under Item III.C.1 or Item III.C.2.
+Added: if such assets
+Added: Management believes the allowance
+Added: for loan losses at December 31, 2020 was adequate to absorb any losses on nonperforming loans, as the allowance balance is maintained
+Added: by management at a level considered adequate to cover losses that are probable based on past loss experience, general economic
+Added: conditions, information about specific borrower situations, including their financial position and collateral values, and other
+Added: factors and estimates which are subject to change over time.
+Added: SUMMARY OF LOAN LOSS EXPERIENCE
+Added: The following schedule presents an analysis of the allowance
+Added: for loan losses, average loan data and related ratios at December 31 for the years indicated:
($ in thousands)
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Ratio of net charge offs to average loans
−Removed: allowance for loan losses balance and the provision for loan losses are determined by management based upon periodic reviews of
−Removed: the loan portfolio.
−Removed: In addition, management considers the level of charge offs on loans, as well as the fluctuations of charge
−Removed: offs and recoveries on loans, in the factors which caused these changes.
−Removed: Estimating the risk of loss and the amount of loss is
−Removed: necessarily subjective.
−Removed: Accordingly, the allowance is maintained by management at a level considered adequate to cover losses
−Removed: that are currently anticipated based on past loss experience, economic conditions, information about specific borrower situations,
−Removed: including their financial position and collateral values, and other factors and estimates which are subject to change over time.
−Removed: following schedule provides a breakdown of the allowance for loan losses allocated by
−Removed: type of loan and related ratios at December 31 for the years indicated:
−Removed: Allowance Amount
−Removed: Percentage of Loans In Each Category to Total
−Removed: Allowance Amount
−Removed: Percentage of Loans In Each Category to Total
−Removed: Allowance Amount
−Removed: Percentage of Loans In Each Category to Total
−Removed: Allowance Amount
−Removed: Percentage of Loans In Each Category to Total
−Removed: Allowance Amount
−Removed: Percentage of Loans In Each Category to Total
+Added: The allowance for loan losses
+Added: balance and the provision for loan losses are determined by management based upon periodic reviews of the loan portfolio.
+Added: management considers the level of charge offs on loans, as well as the fluctuations of charge offs and recoveries on loans, in
+Added: the factors which caused these changes.
+Added: Estimating the risk of loss and the amount of loss is necessarily subjective.
+Added: the allowance is maintained by management at a level considered adequate to cover losses that are currently anticipated based on
+Added: past loss experience, economic conditions, information about specific borrower situations, including their financial position and
+Added: collateral values, and other factors and estimates which are subject to change over time.
+Added: The following schedule provides a breakdown of the allowance
+Added: for loan losses allocated by type of loan and related ratios at December 31 for the years indicated:
+Added: Percentage of Loans In Each Category
+Added: to Total Loans
+Added: Percentage of Loans In Each Category to Total Loans
+Added: Percentage of Loans In Each Category
+Added: to Total Loans
+Added: Percentage of Loans In Each Category
+Added: to Total Loans
+Added: Percentage of Loans In Each Category
+Added: to Total Loans
($ in thousands)
−Removed: Commercial and agricultural
+Added: Commercial business and agricultural
Commercial real estate
1 unchanged sentence
Consumer & other loans
−Removed: management’s periodic analysis of the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses may allocate portions of the allowance for specific
−Removed: problem loan situations, the entire allowance is available for any loan charge offs that occur.
−Removed: average amount of deposits and average rates paid are summarized as follows for the years ended December 31:
+Added: While management’s periodic analysis
+Added: of the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses may allocate portions of the allowance for specific problem loan situations, the
+Added: entire allowance is available for any loan charge offs that occur.
+Added: The average amount of deposits and average
+Added: rates paid are summarized as follows for the years ended December 31:
($ in thousands)
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Demand deposits (non interest bearing)
−Removed: of time certificates of deposit and other time deposits of $100,000 or more outstanding at December 31, 2019, are summarized as
+Added: Maturities of time certificates
+Added: of deposit and other time deposits of $100,000 or more outstanding at December 31, 2020, are summarized as follows:
($ in thousands)
3 unchanged sentences
Over twelve months
−Removed: ON EQUITY AND ASSETS
−Removed: ratio of net income to average shareholders’
−Removed: equity and average total assets and certain other ratios are as follows for the periods
−Removed: ended December 31:
+Added: RETURN ON EQUITY AND ASSETS
+Added: The ratio of net income to average shareholders’
+Added: equity and average total assets and certain other ratios are as follows for the periods ended December 31:
($ in thousands)
8 unchanged sentences
equity to average assets
−Removed: dividends declared on common shares divided by net income available to common.
−Removed: following information is reported for short-term borrowings, which are comprised of retail repurchase agreements for the periods
+Added: 1 Cash dividends declared on common shares divided by net
+Added: income available to common.
+Added: SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS
+Added: The following information is reported for short-term borrowings,
+Added: which are comprised of retail repurchase agreements for the periods noted:
($ in thousands)
5 unchanged sentences
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.