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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
☒ Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2022
or
◻ Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Commission File Number: 0-24649
REPUBLIC BANCORP, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Kentucky
61-0862051
(State of other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
601 West Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky
40202
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (502) 584-3600
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol
Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common
RBCAA
The Nasdaq Stock Market
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ⌧ Yes ◻ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ⌧ Yes ◻ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer ◻
Accelerated filer ⌧
Non-accelerated filer ◻
Smaller reporting company ◻
Emerging growth company ◻
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ◻ Yes ☒ No
The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, as of October 31, 2022 was 17,587,340 and 2,159,495.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.
Financial Statements.
4
Item 2.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
69
Item 3.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.
124
Item 4.
Controls and Procedures.
PART II — OTHER INFORMATION
Legal Proceedings.
Item 1A.
Risk Factors.
125
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
Item 6.
Exhibits.
126
SIGNATURES
127
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
The terms identified in alphabetical order below are used throughout this Form 10-Q. You may find it helpful to refer to this page as you read this report.
Term
Definition
ACH
Automated Clearing House
ACL
Allowance for Credit Losses
ACLC
Allowance for Credit Losses on Off-Balance Sheet Credit Exposures
ACLL
Allowance for Credit Losses on Loans
ACLS
Allowance for Credit Losses on Securities
AFS
Available for Sale
AOCI
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
ASC
Accounting Standards Codification
ASU
Accounting Standards Update
Basic EPS
Basic earnings per Class A Common Share
BOLI
Bank Owned Life Insurance
BPO
Brokered Price Opinion
C&D
Construction and Development
C&I
Commercial and Industrial
CARES Act
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
CBank Agreement
Agreement and Plan of Merger between Republic Bancorp, Inc., CBank, and RB&T
CECL
Current Expected Credit Losses
CMO
Collateralized Mortgage Obligation
Core Bank
The Traditional Banking, Warehouse Lending, and Mortgage Banking reportable segments of the Company
COVID
Coronavirus Disease of 2019
CRE
Commercial Real Estate
DDA
Demand Deposit Account
Diluted EPS
Diluted earnings per Class A Common Share
EA
Easy Advance
Economic Aid Act
Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act
ESPP
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
EVP
Executive Vice President
FASB
Financial Accounting Standards Board
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FFTR
Federal Funds Target Rate
FHLB
Federal Home Loan Bank
FHLMC
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
FICO
Fair Isaac Corporation
FNMA
Federal National Mortgage Association
FOMC
Federal Open Market Committee
FRB
Federal Reserve Bank
FTE
Full Time Equivalent
FTP
Funds Transfer Pricing
GAAP
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States
Green Dot
Green Dot Corporation
HEAL
Home Equity Amortizing Loan
HELOC
Home Equity Line of Credit
HTM
Held to Maturity
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
ITM
Interactive Teller Machine
Lawsuit
The lawsuit the Bank filed against Green Dot in the Delaware Court of Chancery on October 5, 2021
LGD
Loss Given Default
LIBOR
London Interbank Offered Rate
LOC
Line of Credit
LOC I
RCS product introduced in 2014 for which the Bank participates out a 90% interest and holds a 10% interest
LOC II
RCS product introduced in 2021 for which the Bank participates out a 95% interest and holds a 5% interest
LTV
Loan to Value
MBS
Mortgage Backed Securities
MSRs
Mortgage Servicing Rights
NA
Not Applicable
NIM
Net Interest Margin
NM
Not Meaningful
OBS
Off-Balance Sheet
OCI
Other Comprehensive Income
OREO
Other Real Estate Owned
OTTI
Other than Temporary Impairment
PCD
Purchased with Credit Deterioration
PD
Probability of Default
PPP
SBA's Paycheck Protection Program
Prime
The Wall Street Journal Prime Interest Rate
Provision
Provision for Expected Credit Loss Expense
PSU
Performance Stock Unit
RB&T / the Bank
Republic Bank & Trust Company
RCS
Republic Credit Solutions segment
Republic / the Company
Republic Bancorp, Inc.
RPG
Republic Processing Group
RPS
Republic Payment Solutions
RT
Refund Transfer
Sale Transaction
Sale contemplated in the May 13, 2021 Asset Purchase Agreement between the Bank and Green Dot
SBA
U.S. Small Business Administration
Settlement Agreement
The agreement between the Bank and Green Dot that settled the Lawsuit filed by the Bank against Green Dot
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission
SSUAR
Securities Sold Under Agreements to Repurchase
TDR
Troubled Debt Restructuring
The Captive
Republic Insurance Services, Inc.
TRS
Tax Refund Solutions segment
TRS Purchase Agreement
May 13, 2021 Asset Purchase Agreement for the sale of substantially all of the Bank's TRS assets and operations to Green Dot
TRUP
Trust Preferred Security Investment
Warehouse
Warehouse Lending segment
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Item 1. Financial Statements.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED) (in thousands)
September 30,
December 31,
2022
2021
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
$
754,393
756,971
Available-for-sale debt securities, at fair value (amortized cost of $674,329 in 2022 and $492,626 in 2021, allowance for credit losses of $0 in 2022 and 2021)
629,947
495,126
Held-to-maturity debt securities (fair value of $32,621 in 2022 and $44,764 in 2021, allowance for credit losses of $10 in 2022 and $47 in 2021)
32,628
44,299
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value
175
2,620
Mortgage loans held for sale, at fair value
2,912
29,393
Consumer loans held for sale, at fair value
8,796
19,747
Consumer loans held for sale, at the lower of cost or fair value
12,679
2,937
Loans (loans carried at fair value of $11 in 2022 and $170 in 2021)
4,289,450
4,496,562
Allowance for credit losses
(64,919)
(64,577)
Loans, net
4,224,531
4,431,985
Federal Home Loan Bank stock, at cost
8,568
10,311
Premises and equipment, net
32,813
36,073
Right-of-use assets
41,303
38,825
Goodwill
16,300
Other real estate owned
1,634
1,792
Bank owned life insurance
101,013
99,161
Other assets and accrued interest receivable
131,971
108,092
TOTAL ASSETS
5,999,663
6,093,632
LIABILITIES
Deposits:
Noninterest-bearing
2,014,123
1,990,781
Interest-bearing
2,786,385
2,849,637
Total deposits
4,800,508
4,840,418
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings
209,376
290,967
Operating lease liabilities
42,109
39,672
Federal Home Loan Bank advances
20,000
25,000
Other liabilities and accrued interest payable
86,712
63,343
Total liabilities
5,158,705
5,259,400
Commitments and contingent liabilities (Footnote 9)
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STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Preferred stock, no par value
Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, no par value
4,649
4,702
Additional paid in capital
140,958
139,956
Retained earnings
728,639
687,700
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income
(33,288)
1,874
Total stockholders’ equity
840,958
834,232
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
See accompanying footnotes to consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (UNAUDITED)
(in thousands, except per share data)
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
INTEREST INCOME:
Loans, including fees
52,606
52,182
161,537
169,294
Taxable investment securities
3,159
1,845
7,906
5,655
Federal Home Loan Bank stock and other
4,291
442
6,488
978
Total interest income
60,056
54,469
175,931
175,927
INTEREST EXPENSE:
Deposits
1,830
1,148
3,654
4,037
94
20
171
37
96
6
226
47
Subordinated note
166
507
Total interest expense
2,020
1,340
4,051
4,628
NET INTEREST INCOME
58,036
53,129
171,880
171,299
Provision for expected credit loss expense for on-balance sheet exposures (loans and investment securities)
1,573
1,292
14,504
12,231
NET INTEREST INCOME AFTER PROVISION
56,463
51,837
157,376
159,068
NONINTEREST INCOME:
Service charges on deposit accounts
3,409
3,277
9,998
9,221
Net refund transfer fees
593
1,280
16,594
19,924
Mortgage banking income
1,154
5,280
5,574
16,655
Interchange fee income
3,322
3,263
9,853
9,771
Program fees
4,932
4,018
12,671
9,569
Increase in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance
617
626
1,852
1,616
Net losses on other real estate owned
(53)
(52)
(158)
(107)
Contract termination fee
5,000
Legal settlement
13,000
Other
1,073
1,133
2,230
2,845
Total noninterest income
15,047
18,825
76,614
69,494
NONINTEREST EXPENSE:
Salaries and employee benefits
27,269
26,991
85,477
83,738
Technology, equipment, and communication
7,235
7,498
21,678
22,009
Occupancy
3,211
3,195
9,875
10,005
Marketing and development
1,951
1,233
5,019
3,099
FDIC insurance expense
423
325
1,241
1,189
Interchange related expense
1,221
1,275
3,602
3,707
Legal and professional fees
904
884
3,073
3,564
3,891
3,034
12,366
10,719
Total noninterest expense
46,105
44,435
142,331
138,030
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX EXPENSE
25,405
26,227
91,659
90,532
INCOME TAX EXPENSE
5,922
6,218
20,349
20,548
NET INCOME
19,483
20,009
71,310
69,984
BASIC EARNINGS PER SHARE:
Class A Common Stock
0.99
3.60
3.40
Class B Common Stock
0.90
3.27
3.10
DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE:
3.58
3.39
3.26
3.09
5
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (UNAUDITED)
(in thousands)
Net income
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
Unrealized losses on AFS debt securities
(15,510)
(1,899)
(46,892)
(4,542)
Unrealized gain on AFS debt security for which a portion of OTTI has been recognized in earnings
1
13
10
62
Total other comprehensive loss before income tax
(15,509)
(1,886)
(46,882)
(4,480)
Tax effect
3,875
471
11,720
1,119
Total other comprehensive loss, net of tax
(11,634)
(1,415)
(35,162)
(3,361)
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
7,849
18,594
36,148
66,623
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)
Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
Common Stock
Accumulated
Class A
Class B
Additional
Total
Shares
Paid In
Retained
Comprehensive
Stockholders’
Outstanding
Amount
Capital
Earnings
Income (Loss)
Equity
Balance, July 1, 2022
17,629
2,161
4,663
140,516
718,649
(21,654)
842,174
Net change in AOCI
Dividends declared on Common Stock:
Class A Shares ($0.341 per share)
(5,995)
Class B Shares ($0.310 per share)
(669)
Stock options exercised, net of shares withheld
(2)
Conversion of Class B to Class A Common Shares
(1)
Repurchase of Class A Common Stock
(48)
(15)
(484)
(2,829)
(3,328)
Net change in notes receivable on Class A Common Stock
43
Deferred compensation - Class A Common Stock:
Directors
192
Designated key employees
184
Employee stock purchase plan - Class A Common Stock
181
182
Stock-based awards - Class A Common Stock:
Performance stock units
38
Restricted stock
161
Stock options
129
Balance, September 30, 2022
17,587
2,160
Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
Balance, July 1, 2021
18,421
2,166
4,841
142,884
690,802
6,563
845,090
Class A Shares ($0.308 per share)
(5,557)
Class B Shares ($0.280 per share)
(606)
(387)
(90)
(2,855)
(16,733)
(19,678)
100
121
191
32
64
130
Balance, September 30, 2021
18,040
2,165
4,752
140,842
687,915
5,148
838,657
7
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
Balance, January 1, 2022
17,816
Class A Shares ($1.023 per share)
(18,123)
Class B Shares ($0.930 per share)
(2,010)
40
(5)
(263)
(58)
(1,868)
(10,238)
(12,164)
61
403
541
12
506
509
114
8
771
436
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
Balance, January 1, 2021
18,697
2,199
4,899
143,637
666,278
8,509
823,323
Class A Shares ($0.924 per share)
(16,980)
Class B Shares ($0.840 per share)
(1,830)
28
(155)
(142)
34
(34)
(749)
(165)
(5,205)
(29,537)
(34,907)
150
330
478
11
510
97
15
583
585
420
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Net amortization on investment securities and low-income housing investments
3,753
3,678
Net accretion and amortization on loans
(3,026)
(12,650)
Unrealized and realized losses on equity securities with readily determinable fair value
204
505
Depreciation of premises and equipment
5,884
6,747
Amortization of mortgage servicing rights
1,773
2,617
Recovery of mortgage servicing rights
(500)
Provision for on-balance sheet exposures
Provision for off-balance sheet exposures
128
Net gain on sale of mortgage loans held for sale
(4,704)
(16,339)
Origination of mortgage loans held for sale
(195,006)
(525,246)
Proceeds from sale of mortgage loans held for sale
226,191
562,661
Net gain on sale of consumer loans held for sale
(10,466)
(7,889)
Origination of consumer loans held for sale
(820,127)
(561,062)
Proceeds from sale of consumer loans held for sale
831,802
558,972
Net gain realized on sale of other real estate owned
(51)
Writedowns of other real estate owned
158
Deferred compensation expense - Class A Common Stock
944
808
Stock-based awards and ESPP expense - Class A Common Stock
1,397
1,178
Net gain on sale of bank premises and equipment
(399)
(1,852)
(1,616)
Net change in other assets and liabilities:
Accrued interest receivable
(1,225)
3,573
Accrued interest payable
(162)
Other assets
1,309
2,384
Other liabilities
12,117
(3,104)
Net cash provided by operating activities
135,102
96,426
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Purchases of available-for-sale debt securities
(244,820)
(141,571)
Proceeds from calls, maturities and paydowns of equity and available-for-sale debt securities
65,269
164,280
Proceeds from calls, maturities and paydowns of held-to-maturity debt securities
11,703
8,444
Net change in outstanding warehouse lines of credit
408,312
212,114
Net change in other loans
(212,312)
259,710
Proceeds from redemption of Federal Home Loan Bank stock
1,743
7,086
Proceeds from sales of other real estate owned
611
Proceeds from sale of bank premises and equipment
637
Purchase of bank owned life insurance
(30,000)
Investments in low-income housing tax partnerships
(7,258)
(8,277)
Net purchases of premises and equipment
(2,624)
(4,972)
Net cash provided by investing activities
20,013
468,062
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Net change in deposits
(39,910)
214,766
Net change in securities sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings
(81,591)
49,557
Payments of Federal Home Loan Bank advances
(25,000)
(235,000)
Proceeds from Federal Home Loan Bank advances
Payoff of subordinated note, net of common security interest
(40,000)
Net proceeds from Class A Common Stock purchased through employee stock purchase plan
433
435
Net proceeds from option exercises and equity awards vested - Class A Common Stock
Cash dividends paid
(19,501)
(18,537)
Net cash used in financing activities
(157,693)
(38,828)
NET CHANGE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
(2,578)
525,660
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD
485,587
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT END OF PERIOD
1,011,247
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASHFLOW INFORMATION:
Cash paid during the period for:
Interest
4,017
4,790
Income taxes
14,614
16,736
SUPPLEMENTAL NONCASH DISCLOSURES:
Mortgage servicing rights capitalized
1,755
3,889
Transfers from loans to real estate acquired in settlement of loans
Unfunded commitments in low-income-housing investments
16,100
24
Right-of-use assets recorded
6,360
263
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS –SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 and 2021 AND DECEMBER 31, 2021 (UNAUDITED)
1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Presentation — The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Republic Bancorp, Inc. (the “Parent Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Republic Bank & Trust Company and Republic Insurance Services, Inc. As used in this filing, the terms “Republic,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to Republic Bancorp, Inc., and, where the context requires, Republic Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiaries. The term “Bank” refers to the Company’s subsidiary bank: Republic Bank & Trust Company. The term “Captive” refers to the Company’s insurance subsidiary: Republic Insurance Services, Inc. All significant intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
Republic is a financial holding company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The Bank is a Kentucky-based, state-chartered non-member financial institution that provides both traditional and non-traditional banking products through five reportable segments using a multitude of delivery channels. While the Bank operates primarily in its market footprint, its non-brick-and-mortar delivery channels allow it to reach clients across the U.S. The Captive is a Nevada-based, wholly-owned insurance subsidiary of the Company. The Captive provides property and casualty insurance coverage to the Company and the Bank, as well as a group of third-party insurance captives for which insurance may not be available or economically feasible.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, the financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2022. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in Republic’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
As of September 30, 2022, the Company was divided into five reportable segments: Traditional Banking, Warehouse, Mortgage Banking, TRS, and RCS. Management considers the first three segments to collectively constitute “Core Bank” or “Core Banking” operations, while the last two segments collectively constitute RPG operations.
Traditional Banking segment — The Traditional Banking segment provides traditional banking products primarily to customers in the Company’s market footprint. As of September 30, 2022, Republic had 42 full-service banking centers with locations as follows:
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Kentucky — 28
Metropolitan Louisville — 18
Central Kentucky — 7
Georgetown — 1
Lexington — 5
Shelbyville — 1
Northern Kentucky — 3
Covington — 1
Crestview Hills — 1
Florence — 1
Southern Indiana — 3
Floyds Knobs — 1
Jeffersonville — 1
New Albany — 1
Metropolitan Tampa, Florida — 7
Metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio — 2
Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee — 2
Republic’s headquarters are in Louisville, which is the largest city in Kentucky based on population.
Traditional Banking results of operations are primarily dependent upon net interest income, which represents the difference between the interest income and fees on interest-earning assets and the interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities. Principal interest-earning Traditional Banking assets represent investment securities and commercial and consumer loans primarily secured by real estate and/or personal property. Interest-bearing liabilities primarily consist of interest-bearing deposit accounts, securities sold under agreements to repurchase, as well as short-term and long-term borrowing sources. FHLB advances have traditionally been a significant borrowing source for the Bank.
Other sources of Traditional Banking income include service charges on deposit accounts, debit and credit card interchange fee income, title insurance commissions, and increases in the cash surrender value of BOLI.
Traditional Banking operating expenses consist primarily of: salaries and employee benefits; technology, equipment, and communication; occupancy; interchange related expense; marketing and development; FDIC insurance expense, and various other general and administrative costs. Traditional Banking results of operations are significantly impacted by general economic and competitive conditions, particularly changes in market interest rates, government laws and policies, and actions of regulatory agencies.
Warehouse Lending segment — The Core Bank provides short-term, revolving credit facilities to mortgage bankers across the United States through mortgage warehouse lines of credit. These credit facilities are primarily secured by single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans. The credit facility enables the mortgage banking clients to close single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans in their own name and temporarily fund their inventory of these closed loans until the loans are sold to investors approved by the Bank. Individual loans are expected to remain on the warehouse line for an average of 15 to 30 days. Reverse mortgage loans typically remain on the line longer than conventional mortgage loans. Interest income and loan fees are accrued for each individual loan during the time the loan remains on the warehouse line and collected when the loan is sold. The Core Bank receives the sale proceeds of each loan directly from the investor and applies the funds to pay off the warehouse advance and related accrued interest and fees. The remaining proceeds are credited to the mortgage-banking client.
Mortgage Banking segment — Mortgage Banking activities primarily include 15-, 20- and 30-year fixed-term, single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans that are originated and sold into the secondary market, primarily to the FHLMC and the FNMA. The Bank typically retains servicing on loans sold into the secondary market for loans generated in states within its footprint and generally sells servicing for loans generated in states outside of its footprint. Administration of loans with servicing retained by the Bank includes collecting principal and interest payments, escrowing funds for property taxes and property insurance, and remitting payments to secondary market investors. The Bank receives fees for performing these standard servicing functions.
Tax Refund Solutions segment — Through the TRS segment, the Bank is one of a limited number of financial institutions that facilitates the receipt and payment of federal and state tax refund products and offers a credit product through third-party tax preparers located throughout the U.S., as well as tax-preparation software providers (collectively, the “Tax Providers”). Substantially all of the business generated by the TRS segment occurs in the first half of the year. The TRS segment traditionally operates at a loss during the second half of the year, during which time the segment incurs costs preparing for the upcoming year’s tax season.
RTs are fee-based products whereby a tax refund is issued to the taxpayer after the Bank has received the refund from the federal or state government. There is no credit risk or borrowing cost associated with these products because they are only delivered to the taxpayer upon receipt of the tax refund directly from the governmental paying authority. Fees earned by the Company on RTs, net of revenue share, are reported as noninterest income under the line item “Net refund transfer fees.”
The EA tax credit product is a loan that allows a taxpayer to borrow funds as an advance of a portion of their tax refund. The EA product had the following features during 2022 and 2021:
The Company reports fees paid for the EA product as interest income on loans. During 2021, EAs were repaid, on average, within 32 days after the taxpayer’s tax return was submitted to the applicable taxing authority. EAs do not have a contractual due date but the Company considered an EA delinquent in 2022 and 2021 if it remained unpaid 35 days after the taxpayer’s tax return was submitted to the applicable taxing authority. The number of days for delinquency eligibility is based on management’s annual analysis of tax return processing times. Provisions on EAs are estimated when advances are made. Unpaid EAs are charged-off by June 30th of each year, with EAs collected during the second half of each year recorded as recoveries of previously charged-off loans, unless such collections are subject to guarantor reimbursement under a loan-loss guaranty.
Related to the overall credit losses on EAs, the Bank’s ability to control losses is highly dependent upon its ability to predict the taxpayer’s likelihood to receive the tax refund as claimed on the taxpayer’s tax return. Each year, the Bank’s EA approval model is based primarily on the prior-year’s tax refund payment patterns. Because the substantial majority of the EA volume occurs each year before that year’s tax refund payment patterns can be analyzed and subsequent underwriting changes made, credit losses during a current year could be higher than management’s predictions if tax refund payment patterns change materially between years.
Settlement of Lawsuit Against Green Dot - On June 3, 2022, the Bank and Green Dot entered into the Settlement Agreement to fully resolve the Lawsuit that the Bank filed against Green Dot in the Delaware Court of Chancery on October 5, 2021.
As previously disclosed in the Company’s prior SEC filings, the Lawsuit arose from Green Dot’s inability to consummate the Sale
Transaction contemplated in the TRS Purchase Agreement through which Green Dot would purchase all of the assets and operations of the Bank’s Tax Refund Solutions business.
In accordance with the Settlement Agreement, on June 6, 2022, Green Dot paid $13 million to the Bank, which was in addition to a $5 million termination fee that Green Dot paid to the Bank during the first quarter of 2022 under the terms of the TRS Purchase Agreement. On June 6, 2022, the Bank and Green Dot filed a stipulation of dismissal of the Lawsuit with the Delaware Court of Chancery, which was effective to dismiss the Lawsuit when filed.
Republic Payment Solutions division — RPS is currently managed and operated within the TRS segment. The RPS division offers general-purpose reloadable prepaid cards as an issuing bank through third-party service providers. For the projected near-term, as the prepaid card program matures, the operating results of the RPS division are expected to be immaterial to the Company’s overall results of operations and will be reported as part of the TRS segment. The RPS division will not be considered a separate reportable segment until such time, if any, that it meets quantitative reporting thresholds.
The Company reports fees related to RPS programs under Program fees. Additionally, the Company’s portion of interchange revenue generated by prepaid card transactions is reported as noninterest income under “Interchange fee income.”
Republic Credit Solutions segment — Through the RCS segment, the Bank offers consumer credit products. In general, the credit products are unsecured, small dollar consumer loans that are dependent on various factors. RCS loans typically earn a higher yield but also have higher credit risk compared to loans originated through the Traditional Banking segment, with a significant portion of RCS clients considered subprime or near-prime borrowers. The Bank uses third-party service providers for certain services such as marketing and loan servicing of RCS loans. Additional information regarding consumer loan products offered through RCS follows:
The Bank sells participation interests in this product. These participation interests are a 90% interest in advances made to borrowers under the borrower’s line-of-credit account, and the participation interests are generally sold three business days following the Bank’s funding of the associated advances. Although the Bank retains a 10% participation interest in each advance, it maintains 100% ownership of the underlying LOC I account with each borrower. Loan balances held for sale through this program are carried at the lower of cost or fair value.
The Bank sells participation interests in this product. These participation interests are a 95% interest in advances made to borrowers under the borrower’s line-of-credit account, and the participation interests are generally sold three business days following the Bank’s funding of the associated advances. Although the Bank retains a 5% participation interest in each advance, it maintains 100% ownership of the underlying LOC II account with each borrower. Loan balances held for sale through this program are carried at the lower of cost or fair value.
The Company reports interest income and loan origination fees earned on RCS loans under “Loans, including fees,” while any gains or losses on sale and mark-to-market adjustments of RCS loans are reported as noninterest income under “Program fees.”
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
The following ASUs were adopted by the Company during the nine months ended September 30, 2022:
ASU. No.
Topic
Nature of Update
Date Adopted
Method of Adoption
Financial Statement Impact
2020-06
Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging— Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity
This ASU simplifies accounting for convertible instruments by removing major separation models required under current U.S. GAAP. Consequently, more convertible debt instruments will be reported as a single liability instrument and more convertible preferred stock as a single equity instrument with no separate accounting for embedded conversion features. The ASU removes certain settlement conditions that are required for equity contracts to qualify for the derivative scope exception, which will permit more equity contracts to qualify for it. The ASU also simplifies the diluted earnings per share calculation in certain areas.
January 1, 2022
Prospectively
Immaterial
2021-04
Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Debt— Modifications and Extinguishments (Subtopic 470-50), Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718), and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Issuer’s Accounting for Certain Modifications or Exchanges of Freestanding Equity-Classified Written Call Options
This ASU provides guidance for a modification or an exchange of a freestanding equity-classified written call option that is not within the scope of another Topic. It specifically addresses: (1) How an entity should treat a modification of the terms or conditions or an exchange of a freestanding equity-classified written call option that remains equity classified after modification or exchange; (2) How an entity should measure the effect of a modification or an exchange of a freestanding equity-classified written call option that remains equity classified after modification or exchange; and (3) How an entity should recognize the effect of a modification or an exchange of a freestanding equity-classified written call option that remains equity classified after modification or exchange.
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The following not-yet-effective ASUs were issued since the Company’s most recently filed Form 10-K and are considered relevant to the Company’s financial statements.
Date Adoption
Adoption
Expected
Required
Method
Financial Impact
2022-02
Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures
This ASU eliminates the TDR recognition and measurement guidance and, instead, requires the Company to evaluate (consistent with the accounting for other loan modifications) whether a modification represents a new loan or a continuation of an existing loan. This ASU also enhances existing disclosure requirements and introduces new requirements related to certain modifications of receivables made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty.This ASU requires the Company to disclose current-period gross writeoffs by year of origination for financing receivables and net investment in leases within the scope of Subtopic 326-20. Gross writeoff information must be included in the vintage disclosures required for the Company in accordance with ASC 326-20-50-6, which requires that the Company disclose the amortized cost basis of financing receivables by credit quality indicator and class of financing receivable by year of origination. (see Note 4 in this section of the filing)
January 1, 2023
The Company is currently analyzing the impact of this ASU on its financial statements.
2022-03
Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject toContractual Sale Restrictions
This ASU clarifies that a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security is not considered part of the unit of account of the equity security and, therefore, is not considered in measuring fair value.
January 1, 2024
2. INVESTMENT SECURITIES
Available-for-Sale Debt Securities
The following tables summarize the amortized cost, fair value, and ACLS of AFS debt securities and the corresponding amounts of related gross unrealized gains and losses recognized in AOCI:
Gross
Allowance
Amortized
Unrealized
for
Fair
September 30, 2022 (in thousands)
Cost
Gains
Losses
Credit Losses
Value
U.S. Treasury securities and U.S. Government agencies
436,287
(25,852)
410,435
Private label mortgage-backed security
961
1,323
2,284
Mortgage-backed securities - residential
199,692
41
(19,329)
180,404
Collateralized mortgage obligations
23,663
39
(786)
22,916
Corporate bonds
10,000
Trust preferred security
3,726
3,910
Total available-for-sale debt securities
674,329
1,587
(45,969)
December 31, 2021 (in thousands)
239,880
473
(2,894)
237,459
1,418
1,313
2,731
207,697
3,525
(473)
210,749
29,947
377
(30)
30,294
46
10,046
3,684
163
3,847
492,626
5,897
(3,397)
Held-to-Maturity Debt Securities
The following tables summarize the amortized cost, fair value, and ACLS of HTM debt securities and the corresponding amounts of related gross unrecognized gains and losses:
Unrecognized
7,514
60
(18)
7,556
24,971
24,914
(10)
Obligations of state and political subdivisions
123
Total held-to-maturity debt securities
32,638
(78)
32,621
9,080
9,238
34,975
(6)
35,232
(47)
245
248
44,346
424
44,764
Sales of Available-for-Sale Debt Securities
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, there were no material gains or losses on sales or calls of AFS debt securities.
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Debt Securities by Contractual Maturity
The amortized cost and fair value of debt securities by contractual maturity as of September 30, 2022 follow. Expected maturities may differ from contractual maturities if borrowers have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Securities not due at a single maturity date are detailed separately.
Available-for-Sale
Held-to-Maturity
Debt Securities
Due in one year or less
51,801
51,291
Due from one year to five years
394,486
369,142
24,913
Due from five years to ten years
Due beyond ten years
Total debt securities
Unrealized-Loss Analysis on Debt Securities
The following tables summarize AFS debt securities in an unrealized loss position for which an ACLS had not been recorded as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, aggregated by investment category and length of time in a continuous unrealized loss position:
Less than 12 months
12 months or more
Fair Value
Available-for-sale debt securities:
266,165
(10,276)
144,296
(15,576)
410,461
162,445
(16,808)
14,420
(2,521)
176,865
18,645
457,253
(27,872)
158,716
(18,097)
615,969
177,138
(2,622)
9,728
(272)
186,866
84,937
4,495
266,570
(3,125)
276,298
As of September 30, 2022, the Bank’s security portfolio consisted of 181 securities, 149 of which were in an unrealized loss position.
As of December 31, 2021, the Bank’s security portfolio consisted of 173 securities, 29 of which were in an unrealized loss position.
As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, there were no holdings of debt securities of any one issuer, other than the U.S. government and its agencies, in an amount greater than 10% of stockholders’ equity.
Private Label Mortgage-Backed Security
The Bank owns one private label mortgage-backed security with a total carrying value of $2.3 million as of September 30, 2022. This security is mostly backed by “Alternative A” first-lien mortgage loans, but also has an insurance “wrap” or guarantee as an added layer of protection to the security holder. This asset is illiquid, and as such, the Bank determined it to be a Level 3 security in accordance with ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement. Based on this determination, the Bank utilized an income valuation model (“present value model”) approach in determining the fair value of the security. This approach is beneficial for positions that are not traded in active markets or are subject to transfer restrictions, and/or where valuations are adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-
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transferability. Such adjustments are generally based on available market evidence. In the absence of such evidence, management’s best estimate is used. Management’s best estimate consists of both internal and external support for this investment.
See additional discussion regarding the Bank’s private label mortgage-backed security under Footnote 10 “Fair Value” in this section of the filing.
Mortgage-Backed Securities and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
As of September 30, 2022, with the exception of the $2.3 million private label mortgage-backed security, all other mortgage-backed securities and CMOs held by the Bank were issued by U.S. government-sponsored entities and agencies, primarily the FHLMC and FNMA. As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, there were gross unrealized losses of $20.1 million and $503,000 related to AFS mortgage-backed securities and CMOs. Because these unrealized losses are attributable to changes in interest rates and illiquidity, and not credit quality, and because the Bank does not have the intent to sell these securities, and it is likely that it will not be required to sell the securities before their anticipated recovery, management does not consider these securities to have OTTI.
Trust Preferred Security
During 2015, the Parent Company purchased a $3 million floating rate TRUP at a price of 68% of par. The coupon on this security is based on the 3-month LIBOR rate plus 159 basis points. The Company performed an initial analysis prior to acquisition and performs ongoing analysis of the credit risk of the underlying borrower in relation to its TRUP.
Rollforward of the Allowance for Credit Losses on Debt Securities
The table below presents a roll-forward for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 of the ACLS on AFS and HTM debt securities:
ACLS Rollforward
Three Months Ended September 30,
Beginning
Charge-
Ending
Balance
offs
Recoveries
Available-for-Sale Securities:
Corporate Bonds
30
Held-to-Maturity Securities:
50
(40)
56
54
80
(70)
Nine Months Ended September 30,
(37)
178
(124)
The Company decreased the ACLS on its AFS and HTM corporate bonds during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 based on decreased PD and LGD estimates on these bonds.
There were no HTM debt securities on nonaccrual or past due over 89 days as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021. All of the Company’s HTM corporate bonds were rated investment grade as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
There were no HTM debt securities considered collateral dependent as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
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Accrued interest on AFS debt securities is presented as a component of other assets on the Company’s balance sheet and is excluded from the ACLS. Accrued interest on AFS debt securities totaled $2 million and $1 million as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021. Accrued interest receivable on HTM debt securities totaled $187,000 and $89,000 as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
Pledged Debt Securities
Debt securities pledged to secure public deposits, securities sold under agreements to repurchase, and debt securities held for other purposes, as required or permitted by law, were as follows:
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
Carrying amount
262,392
319,650
Fair value
319,808
Equity Securities
The carrying value, gross unrealized gains and losses, and fair value of equity securities with readily determinable fair values were as follows:
Freddie Mac preferred stock
Total equity securities with readily determinable fair values
170
Community Reinvestment Act mutual fund
2,500
(50)
2,450
For equity securities with readily determinable fair values, the gross realized and unrealized gains and losses recognized in the Company’s consolidated statements of income were as follows:
Gains (Losses) Recognized on Equity Securities
Realized
(14)
(13)
(9)
Total equity securities with readily determinable fair value
(22)
(458)
(209)
(204)
(505)
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3. LOANS HELD FOR SALE
In the ordinary course of business, the Bank originates for sale mortgage loans and consumer loans. Mortgage loans originated for sale are primarily originated and sold into the secondary market through the Bank’s Mortgage Banking segment, while consumer loans originated for sale are originated and sold through the RCS segment.
Mortgage Loans Held for Sale, at Fair Value
See additional detail regarding mortgage loans originated for sale, at fair value under Footnote 11 “Mortgage Banking Activities” of this section of the filing.
Consumer Loans Held for Sale, at Fair Value
In December 2019, the Bank began offering RCS installment loans with terms ranging from 12 to 60 months to borrowers in multiple states. Balances originated under this RCS installment loan program are carried as “held for sale” on the Bank’s balance sheet, with the intent to sell generally within sixteen days following the Bank’s origination of the loans. Loans originated under this RCS installment loan program are carried at fair value under a fair-value option, with the portfolio marked to market monthly.
Activity for consumer loans held for sale and carried at fair value was as follows:
Balance, beginning of period
17,459
13,020
3,298
85,172
67,526
280,608
136,222
Proceeds from the sale of consumer loans held for sale
(96,169)
(71,427)
(297,253)
(132,330)
2,334
1,660
5,694
3,589
Balance, end of period
10,779
Consumer Loans Held for Sale, at the Lower of Cost or Fair Value
RCS originates for sale 90% to 95% of the balances from its line-of-credit products and 100% for some of its healthcare receivables products. Ordinary gains or losses on the sale of these RCS products are reported as a component of “Program fees.”
Activity for consumer loans held for sale and carried at the lower of cost or market value was as follows:
13,777
11,412
1,478
206,959
189,492
539,519
424,840
(209,924)
(199,036)
(534,549)
(426,642)
1,867
2,108
4,772
4,300
3,976
4. LOANS AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES
The composition of the loan portfolio follows:
Traditional Banking:
Residential real estate:
Owner occupied
863,899
820,731
Nonowner occupied
321,037
306,323
Commercial real estate
1,571,593
1,456,009
Construction & land development
147,418
129,337
Commercial & industrial
404,971
340,363
Paycheck Protection Program
7,855
56,014
Lease financing receivables
11,333
8,637
Aircraft
166,313
142,894
Home equity
229,038
210,578
Consumer:
Credit cards
14,897
14,510
Overdrafts
723
683
Automobile loans
7,890
14,448
Other consumer
973
1,432
Total Traditional Banking
3,747,940
3,501,959
Warehouse lines of credit*
442,238
850,550
Total Core Banking
4,190,178
4,352,509
Republic Processing Group*:
Tax Refund Solutions:
Easy Advances
Other TRS loans
295
50,987
Republic Credit Solutions
98,977
93,066
Total Republic Processing Group
99,272
144,053
Total loans**
Total loans, net
*Identifies loans to borrowers located primarily outside of the Bank’s market footprint.
**Total loans are presented inclusive of premiums, discounts, and net loan origination fees and costs. See table directly below for expanded detail.
The following table reconciles the contractually receivable and carrying amounts of loans:
Contractually receivable
4,292,481
4,498,671
Unearned income
(782)
(542)
Unamortized premiums
101
116
Unaccreted discounts
(533)
(641)
PPP net unamortized deferred origination (fees) and costs
(151)
(1,203)
Other net unamortized deferred origination (fees) and costs
(1,666)
Carrying value of loans
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The CARES Act was enacted in March 2020 and provided for the SBA’s PPP, which allowed the Bank to lend to its qualifying small business clients to assist them in their efforts to meet their cashflow needs during the COVID pandemic. The Economic Aid Act was enacted in December 2020 and provided for a second round of PPP loans. PPP loans are fully backed by the SBA and may be entirely forgiven if the loan client uses loan funds for qualifying reasons. As of September 30, 2022, net PPP loans of $8 million remained on the Traditional Bank’s balance sheet compared to $56 million as of December 31, 2021. PPP fees recognized by the Company for the first nine months of 2022 and 2021 were $1.3 million and $16.9 million.
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Credit Quality Indicators
The following tables include loans by segment, risk category, and, for non-revolving loans, origination year. Loan segments and risk categories as of September 30, 2022 remain unchanged from those defined in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Regarding origination year, loan extensions and renewals are generally considered originated in the year extended or renewed unless the loan is classified as a TDR. Loan extensions and renewals classified as TDRs generally receive no change in origination date upon extension or renewal.
Revolving Loans
Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
Converted
As of September 30, 2022
2020
2019
Prior
Cost Basis
to Term
Residential real estate owner occupied:
Risk Rating
Pass or not rated
159,832
193,689
194,203
74,702
218,545
840,971
Special Mention
288
7,481
7,769
Substandard
760
763
1,378
1,629
10,629
15,159
Doubtful
160,592
194,740
195,581
76,331
236,655
Residential real estate nonowner occupied:
65,818
95,597
56,504
34,017
63,577
5,364
320,877
92
95,631
63,703
Commercial real estate:
304,650
447,618
227,149
130,962
285,661
22,845
103,638
1,522,523
1,320
12,721
22,784
11,247
151
48,223
847
305,970
460,339
153,746
297,755
22,996
Construction and land development:
68,101
75,079
1,214
653
612
1,759
Commercial and industrial:
96,129
84,119
23,230
39,763
45,104
96,756
2,713
387,814
564
13,572
645
1,888
300
16,969
91
188
96,693
97,691
40,499
47,089
97,056
Paycheck Protection Program:
5,915
1,940
Lease financing receivables:
5,343
2,201
512
1,504
Aircraft:
46,255
57,010
36,777
18,293
7,763
166,098
215
7,978
Home equity:
227,274
365
1,399
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Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year (Continued)
218
2,961
5,194
14,995
24,414
2,980
5,244
24,483
Warehouse:
TRS:
RCS:
11,116
2,870
1,558
709
29,360
52,927
98,540
437
53,364
Grand Total:
757,749
964,639
543,305
303,833
657,320
859,089
111,715
4,197,650
1,884
26,581
23,429
20,650
816
73,360
797
1,739
11,930
1,836
18,440
Grand Total
760,393
992,017
544,683
329,001
689,900
861,741
As of December 31, 2021
2018
218,981
213,010
89,186
50,301
226,852
798,330
301
33
8,209
8,543
45
870
679
11,075
13,858
219,327
213,880
89,865
51,523
246,136
107,041
65,786
44,376
29,292
55,872
3,729
306,096
132
95
56,099
472,095
256,039
153,224
94,212
286,223
25,188
80,211
1,367,192
20,059
2,399
29,639
11,207
18,778
82,082
111
266
2,453
3,905
6,735
492,154
258,549
183,129
107,872
308,906
88,743
30,593
2,599
1,155
1,925
125,143
524
3,670
4,194
31,117
6,269
105,148
34,361
54,524
18,110
44,972
60,454
2,541
320,110
15,015
1,921
785
1,956
350
20,061
179
120,163
36,295
55,488
18,144
46,928
60,804
40,607
15,407
2,638
839
2,641
1,264
1,255
65,886
43,301
22,933
9,119
1,655
208,429
279
1,870
417
4,694
4,326
5,768
14,613
30,796
194
277
4,716
4,387
5,962
31,073
5,524
1,642
869
3,699
77,544
92,687
379
77,923
1,107,641
663,162
375,819
208,648
626,424
1,289,690
86,481
4,357,865
35,375
4,844
34,094
11,274
29,075
629
115,291
994
1,146
3,703
15,269
2,249
23,406
1,143,061
669,000
411,059
223,625
670,768
1,292,568
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The following table presents the activity in the ACLL by portfolio class:
ACLL Rollforward
8,445
(3)
8,466
8,977
(677)
329
8,629
2,733
63
2,796
2,551
2,598
24,341
(1,413)
275
23,203
23,307
286
23,596
3,591
331
3,922
3,299
376
3,675
3,768
82
3,974
4,117
(139)
(35)
3,959
119
99
400
416
303
326
4,113
4,399
4,305
(63)
4,247
(41)
(27)
959
949
951
901
57
(288)
53
717
143
(195)
88
753
122
273
(19)
200
(24)
(38)
153
467
(28)
(25)
428
49,727
(683)
(353)
540
49,231
49,362
(42)
(314)
481
49,487
Warehouse lines of credit
1,491
(386)
1,105
2,100
(223)
1,877
51,218
(1,069)
50,336
51,462
(265)
51,364
Republic Processing Group:
(1,296)
1,296
(2,242)
2,242
13,231
4,008
(2,922)
14,583
8,829
3,820
(1,064)
75
11,660
2,712
1,562
1,559
2,336
64,449
1,643
(3,275)
2,102
64,919
60,291
1,294
(1,378)
2,817
63,024
26
8,647
9,715
(1,461)
375
2,700
2,466
131
23,769
(843)
23,606
336
(428)
4,128
(206)
3,274
401
3,487
346
141
2,797
1,170
27
106
(7)
357
59
253
73
4,111
169
4,990
(789)
934
(97)
72
929
108
(130)
44
560
(696)
176
587
351
(444)
259
186
(98)
399
(178)
314
(137)
(68)
577
(56)
49,407
(250)
(861)
935
49,699
(1,112)
902
2,126
(1,021)
2,407
(530)
51,533
(1,271)
52,106
(532)
7,583
(11,505)
7,984
(10,226)
(607)
(154)
665
(134)
(21)
12,948
8,836
(8,005)
804
8,803
5,037
(2,427)
247
13,044
15,812
(19,664)
5,391
8,961
12,887
(12,674)
2,486
64,577
14,541
(20,525)
6,326
61,067
12,355
(13,786)
3,388
The cumulative loss rate used as the basis for the estimate of the Company’s ACLL as of September 30, 2022 was primarily based on a static pool analysis of each of the Company’s loan pools using the Company’s loss experience from 2013 through 2022, supplemented by qualitative factor adjustments for current and forecasted conditions. The Company employs one-year forecasts of unemployment and CRE values within its ACLL model, with reversion to long-term averages following the forecasted period. The cumulative loss rate within the Company’s ACLL also includes estimated losses based on an individual evaluation of loans which are either collateral dependent or which do not share risk characteristics with pooled loans, e.g., TDRs.
For its CRE loan pool, the Company employed a one-year forecast of CRE vacancy rates through March 31, 2021 but discontinued use of this forecast during the second quarter of 2021 in favor of a one-year forecast of general CRE values. This change in forecast method had no material impact on the Company’s ACLL.
Nonperforming Loans and Nonperforming Assets
Detail of nonperforming loans, nonperforming assets, and select credit quality ratios follows:
(dollars in thousands)
Loans on nonaccrual status*
16,322
20,504
Loans past due 90-days-or-more and still on accrual**
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Total nonperforming loans
16,359
20,552
Total nonperforming assets
17,993
22,344
Credit Quality Ratios - Total Company:
Nonperforming loans to total loans
0.38
%
0.46
Nonperforming assets to total loans (including OREO)
0.42
0.50
Nonperforming assets to total assets
0.30
0.37
Credit Quality Ratios - Core Bank:
0.39
0.47
0.43
0.51
0.33
0.40
*
Loans on nonaccrual status include collateral-dependent loans.
**
Loans past due 90-days-or-more and still accruing consist of smaller balance consumer loans.
The following tables present the recorded investment in nonaccrual loans and loans past due 90-days-or-more and still on accrual by class of loans:
Past Due 90-Days-or-More
Nonaccrual
and Still Accruing Interest*
13,604
12,039
1,051
6,557
1,291
1,700
35
216
* Loans past due 90-days-or-more and still accruing consist of smaller balance consumer loans.
Interest Income
Loans with
Loans without
Recognized
Loans
on Nonaccrual Loans*
1,738
11,866
734
680
1,325
1,283
31
185
Consumer
232
251
2,878
13,444
879
2,257
* Includes interest income for loans on nonaccrual as of the beginning of the period that were paid off during the period.
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September 30, 2021
1,944
10,095
225
672
4,105
2,452
83
6,097
14,407
933
Nonaccrual loans and loans past due 90-days-or-more and still on accrual include both smaller balance, primarily retail, homogeneous loans. Nonaccrual loans are typically returned to accrual status when all the principal and interest amounts contractually due are brought current and held current for six consecutive months and future contractual payments are reasonably assured. TDRs on nonaccrual status are reviewed for return to accrual status on an individual basis, with additional consideration given to performance under the modified terms.
Delinquent Loans
The following tables present the aging of the recorded investment in loans by class of loans:
30 - 59
60 - 89
90 or More
Days
Delinquent
Delinquent*
Delinquent**
Current
1,373
1,512
876
3,761
860,138
320,996
404,970
315
228,723
14,864
155
157
566
7,837
966
1,575
1,556
1,237
4,368
3,743,572
4,185,810
5,809
1,676
7,522
91,455
91,750
7,384
3,232
1,274
11,890
4,277,560
Delinquency ratio***
0.17
0.08
0.03
0.28
* All loans past due 90-days-or-more, excluding small balance consumer loans, were on nonaccrual status.
** Delinquent status may be determined by either the number of days past due or number of payments past due.
*** Represents total loans 30-days-or-more past due by aging category divided by total loans.
606
383
610
1,599
819,132
5,292
1,450,717
340,342
241
210,264
14,480
160
164
519
14,439
1,431
832
432
6,166
7,430
3,494,529
4,345,079
5,010
6,035
87,031
138,018
5,842
1,410
6,213
13,465
4,483,097
0.13
0.14
* All loans past due 90-days-or-more, excluding smaller balance consumer loans, were on nonaccrual status.
Collateral-Dependent Loans
The following table presents the amortized cost basis of collateral-dependent loans by class of loans:
Secured
by Real
by Personal
Estate
Property
17,702
14,798
848
6,736
1,505
1,976
258
274
20,180
446
23,605
466
Collateral-dependent loans are generally secured by real estate or personal property. If there is insufficient collateral value to secure the Company’s recorded investment in these loans, they are charged down to collateral value less estimated selling costs, when selling costs are applicable. Selling costs range from 10% to 13%, with those percentages based on annual studies performed by the Company.
Troubled Debt Restructurings
A TDR is a situation where, due to a borrower’s financial difficulties, the Bank grants a concession to the borrower that the Bank would not otherwise have considered. In order to determine whether a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty, an evaluation is performed of the probability that the borrower will be in payment default on any of their debt in the foreseeable future without the modification. This evaluation is performed in accordance with the Bank’s internal underwriting policy.
The majority of the Bank’s commercial-related and construction TDRs involve a restructuring of financing terms, such as a reduction in the payment amount to require only interest and escrow (if required) and/or extending the maturity date of the debt. The substantial majority of the Bank’s residential real estate TDR concessions involve reducing the client’s loan payment through a rate reduction for a set period based on the borrower’s ability to service the modified loan payment. Retail loans may also be classified as TDRs due to legal modifications, such as bankruptcies.
Nonaccrual loans modified as TDRs typically remain on nonaccrual status and continue to be reported as nonperforming loans for a minimum of six consecutive months. Accruing loans modified as TDRs are evaluated for nonaccrual status based on a current evaluation of the borrower’s financial condition and ability and willingness to service the modified debt. As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, $3 million and $6 million of TDRs were on nonaccrual status.
Detail of TDRs differentiated by loan type and accrual status follows:
Troubled Debt
Restructurings on
Nonaccrual Status
Accrual Status
Restructurings
Number of
Recorded
September 30, 2022 (dollars in thousands)
Investment
Residential real estate
71
3,356
77
7,058
148
10,414
865
1,887
418
Total troubled debt restructurings
3,366
1,966
8,342
2,038
11,708
December 31, 2021 (dollars in thousands)
3,179
89
7,856
152
11,035
2,575
1,239
3,814
2,269
479
2,270
491
68
5,811
2,361
9,575
2,429
15,386
The Bank considers a TDR to be performing to its modified terms if the loan is in accrual status and not past due 30-days-or-more as of the reporting date. A summary of the categories of TDR loan modifications outstanding and respective performance under modified terms as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 follows:
Performing to
Not Performing to
Modified Terms
Residential real estate loans (including home equity loans):
Rate reduction
6,632
6,751
Principal deferral
552
Legal modification
2,639
66
2,954
Total residential TDRs
136
9,823
591
Commercial related and construction/land development loans:
Total commercial TDRs
866
Consumer loans:
1,885
414
Total consumer TDRs
2,026
11,117
Interest only payments
7,461
86
7,764
729
2,542
137
10,290
745
919
477
2,464
2,941
1,396
3,860
2,266
470
2,413
12,177
3,209
As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, 95% and 79% of the Bank’s TDR balances were performing according to their modified terms. The Bank had provided $804,000 and $2 million of specific ACLL allocations to clients whose loan terms have been modified in TDRs as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021. The Bank had no commitments to lend any additional material amounts to its existing TDR relationships as of September 30, 2022 or December 31, 2021.
A summary of the categories of TDR loan modifications by respective performance as of September 30, 2022 and 2021 that were modified during the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 follows:
443
490
332
342
343
September 30, 2021 (dollars in thousands)
142
156
The tables above are inclusive of loans that were TDRs at the end of previous periods and were re-modified, e.g., a maturity date extension during the current period.
As of September 30, 2022 and 2021, 91% and 92% of the Bank’s TDR balances that occurred during the third quarters of 2022 and 2021 were performing according to their modified terms. The Bank provided approximately $30,000 and $6,000 in specific ACLL allocations to clients whose loan terms were modified in TDRs during the third quarters of 2022 and 2021.
There was no significant change between the pre and post modification loan balances for the three months ending September 30, 2022 and 2021.
A summary of the categories of TDR loan modifications by respective performance as of September 30, 2022 and 2021 that were modified during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 follows:
954
1,001
605
109
622
1,063
623
1,110
378
666
448
826
556
557
563
453
569
As of September 30, 2022 and 2021, 96% and 50% of the Bank’s TDR balances that occurred during the first nine months of 2022 and 2021 were performing according to their modified terms. The Bank provided approximately $53,000 and $38,000 in specific ACLL allocations to clients whose loan terms were modified in TDRs during the first nine months of 2022 and 2021.
There was no significant change between the pre and post modification loan balances for the nine months ending September 30, 2022 and 2021.
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The following table presents loans by class modified as troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months of September 30, 2022 and 2021 and for which there was a payment default during the three and/or nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
468
193
93
598
Foreclosures
The following table presents the carrying amount of foreclosed properties held as a result of the Bank obtaining physical possession of such properties:
Total other real estate owned
The following table presents the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans secured by residential real estate properties for which formal foreclosure proceedings were in process according to requirements of the applicable jurisdiction:
Recorded investment in consumer residential real estate mortgage loans in the process of foreclosure
762
508
The Company’s TRS segment offered its EA product during the first two months of 2022 and 2021. During the first quarter of each year, the Company bases its estimated Provision for EAs on the current year’s EA delinquency information and prior years’ tax refund payment patterns subsequent to the first quarter. Unpaid EAs are charged-off by June 30th of each year, with EAs collected during the second half of each year recorded as recoveries of previously charged-off loans, unless such collections are subject to guarantor reimbursement under a loan-loss guaranty.
Information regarding EAs follows:
Easy Advances originated
311,207
250,045
Net charge (credit) to the Provision for Easy Advances
Provision to total Easy Advances originated
2.44
3.19
Easy Advances net charge-offs (recoveries)
Easy Advances net charge-offs (recoveries) to total Easy Advances originated
5. DEPOSITS
The composition of the deposit portfolio follows:
Core Bank:
Demand
1,398,760
1,381,522
Money market accounts
764,523
789,876
Savings
331,300
311,624
Individual retirement accounts (1)
40,658
43,724
Time deposits, $250 and over (1)
61,579
81,050
Other certificates of deposit (1)
135,836
154,174
Reciprocal money market and time deposits (1)
44,534
77,950
Total Core Bank interest-bearing deposits
2,777,190
2,839,920
Total Core Bank noninterest-bearing deposits
1,581,663
1,579,173
Total Core Bank deposits
4,358,853
4,419,093
9,195
9,717
Total RPG interest-bearing deposits
Brokered prepaid card deposits
332,655
320,907
Other noninterest-bearing deposits
99,805
90,701
Total RPG noninterest-bearing deposits
432,460
411,608
Total RPG deposits
441,655
421,325
6. SECURITIES SOLD UNDER AGREEMENTS TO REPURCHASE AND OTHER SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase consist of short-term excess funds from correspondent banks, repurchase agreements, and overnight liabilities to deposit clients arising from the Bank’s treasury management program. While comparable to deposits in their transactional nature, these overnight liabilities to clients are in the form of repurchase agreements. Repurchase agreements collateralized by securities are treated as financings; accordingly, the securities involved with the agreements are recorded as assets and are held by a safekeeping agent and the obligations to repurchase the securities are reflected as liabilities. Should the fair value of currently pledged securities fall below the associated repurchase agreements, the Bank would be required to pledge additional securities. To mitigate the risk of under collateralization, the Bank typically pledges at least two percent more in securities than the associated repurchase agreements. All such securities are under the Bank’s control.
As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, all securities sold under agreements to repurchase had overnight maturities. Additional information regarding securities sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings follows:
Outstanding balance at end of period
Weighted average interest rate at end of period
0.04
Fair value of securities pledged:
230,798
108,813
Mortgage backed securities - residential
23,208
167,561
33,441
Total securities pledged
254,006
309,815
Average outstanding balance during the period
220,149
242,867
271,276
201,992
Average interest rate during the period
0.02
Maximum outstanding at any month end during the period
307,358
303,315
7. RIGHT-OF-USE ASSETS AND OPERATING LEASE LIABILITIES
The Company records as operating lease liabilities the present value of its required minimum lease payments plus any amounts probable of being owed under a residual value guarantee. Offsetting these operating lease liabilities, the Company records right-of-use assets for the underlying leased property.
As of September 30, 2022, the Company was under 45 separate and distinct operating lease contracts to lease the land and/or buildings for 37 of its offices, with 12 such operating leases contracted with a related party of the Company. As of September 30, 2022, payments on 22 of the Company’s operating leases were considered variable because such payments were adjustable based on periodic changes in the Consumer Price Index.
The Company recorded two new third-party office leases, renewed one of its existing related-party leases, and extended six of its third-party leases during the first nine months of 2022, with a related total right-of-use asset value of $6 million connected to this 2022 activity.
The following table presents information concerning the Company’s operating lease expense recorded as a noninterest expense within the “Occupancy” category for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021:
Operating lease expense:
Related Party:
Variable lease expense
1,101
1,224
3,635
3,662
Fixed lease expense
149
102
Third Party:
222
197
639
590
337
1,040
1,021
Total operating lease expense
1,726
5,463
5,375
Other information concerning operating leases:
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities
1,709
1,793
5,121
5,390
Cash paid for variable rent payments not included in measurement of operating lease liabilities
Short-term lease payments not included in the measurement of lease liabilities
The following table presents the weighted average remaining term and weighted average discount rate for the Company’s non-short-term operating leases as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021:
Weighted average remaining term in years
8.28
7.57
Weighted average discount rate
2.66
3.05
The following table presents a maturity schedule of the Company’s operating lease liabilities based on undiscounted cash flows, and a reconciliation of those undiscounted cash flows to the operating lease liabilities recognized on the Company’s balance sheet as of September 30, 2022:
Year (dollars in thousands)
Related Party
Third Party
1,062
664
2023
4,274
2,522
6,796
2024
4,189
2,143
6,332
2025
4,053
1,609
5,662
2026
4,124
1,310
5,434
Thereafter
16,375
4,593
20,968
Total undiscounted cash flows
34,077
12,841
46,918
Discount applied to cash flows
(3,216)
(1,593)
(4,809)
Total discounted cash flows reported as operating lease liabilities
30,861
11,248
8. FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK ADVANCES
FHLB advances were as follows:
Overnight advances
Fixed interest rate advances
Total FHLB advances
Each FHLB advance is payable at its maturity date, with a prepayment penalty for fixed rate advances that are paid off earlier than maturity. FHLB advances are collateralized by a blanket pledge of eligible real estate loans. As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, Republic had available borrowing capacity of $940 million and $900 million, respectively, from the FHLB. In addition to its borrowing capacity with the FHLB, Republic also had unsecured lines of credit totaling $125 million available through various other financial institutions as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
Aggregate future principal payments on FHLB advances based on contractual maturity and the weighted average cost of such advances are detailed below:
Weighted
Average
Principal
Rate
2027
1.89
Due to their nature, the Bank considers average balance information more meaningful than period-end balances for its overnight borrowings from the FHLB. Information regarding overnight FHLB advances follows:
5,641
30,037
0.10
0.15
The following table illustrates real estate loans pledged to collateralize advances and letters of credit with the FHLB:
First lien, single family residential real estate
1,070,626
1,041,461
Home equity lines of credit
207,824
186,396
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9. OFF BALANCE SHEET RISKS, COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
COVID Pandemic
COVID was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Since March 2020, jurisdictions within and outside the U.S. have imposed economic and social restrictions on the population, in general, and non-essential businesses to slow the spread of COVID. These restrictions, in combination with the public’s response to them, have disrupted supply chains and effectively suspended or curtailed economic activity for many industries across the U.S. and the world. Industries within the Company’s market footprint have been impacted by these supply chain disruptions as well as the corresponding inflationary pressures driven by them in combination with on-going governmental stimulus programs.
The future potential financial impact of the COVID pandemic is still unknown at this time. This pandemic and the public’s response to it could cause the Company to experience a material adverse impact on its business operations, asset valuations, financial condition, and results of operations. Material adverse impacts may include all or a combination of valuation impairments on the Company’s intangible assets, investments, loans, MSRs, deferred tax assets, or counterparty risk derivatives.
Commitments to Extend Credit
The Company, in the normal course of business, is party to financial instruments with off balance sheet risk. These financial instruments primarily include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The contract or notional amounts of these instruments reflect the potential future obligations of the Company pursuant to those financial instruments. Creditworthiness for all instruments is evaluated on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the Company’s credit policies. Collateral from the client may be required based on the Company’s credit evaluation of the client and may include business assets of commercial clients, as well as personal property and real estate of individual clients or guarantors.
The Company also extends binding commitments to clients and prospective clients. Such commitments assure a borrower of financing for a specified period of time at a specified rate. The risk to the Company under such loan commitments is limited by the terms of the contracts. For example, the Company may not be obligated to advance funds if the client’s financial condition deteriorates or if the client fails to meet specific covenants.
An approved but unfunded loan commitment represents a potential credit risk and a liquidity risk, since the Company’s client(s) may demand immediate cash that would require funding. In addition, unfunded loan commitments represent interest rate risk as market interest rates may rise above the rate committed to the Company’s client. Since a portion of these loan commitments normally expire unused, the total amount of outstanding commitments at any point in time may not require future funding.
The following table presents the Company’s commitments, exclusive of Mortgage Banking loan commitments, for each period ended:
Unused warehouse lines of credit
739,723
565,950
Unused home equity lines of credit
395,240
348,681
Unused loan commitments - other
857,333
828,229
Standby letters of credit
10,373
11,305
FHLB letter of credit
643
Total commitments
2,003,312
1,754,808
Standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Company to guarantee the performance of a client to a third-party. The terms and risk of loss involved in issuing standby letters of credit are similar to those involved in issuing loan commitments and extending credit. In addition to credit risk, the Company also has liquidity risk associated with standby letters of credit because funding for these obligations could be required immediately. The Company does not deem this risk to be material.
The following tables present a rollforward of the ACLC for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021:
ACLC Rollforward
Loan Commitments
162
190
140
297
213
242
661
693
581
(26)
555
1,100
1,180
937
154
79
173
651
737
(182)
1,052
989
The Company increased its ACLC during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 based primarily on an increase in total unused commitments.
10. FAIR VALUE
Fair value represents the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. There are three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair values:
Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the entity has the ability to access as of the measurement date.
Level 2: Significant other observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.
Level 3: Significant unobservable inputs that reflect a reporting entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.
The Bank used the following methods and significant assumptions to estimate the fair value of each type of financial instrument:
Available-for-sale debt securities: Except for the Bank’s U.S. Treasury securities, its private label mortgage-backed security, and its TRUP investment, the fair value of AFS debt securities is typically determined by matrix pricing, which is a mathematical technique used widely in the industry to value debt securities without relying exclusively on quoted prices for the specific securities, but rather by relying on the securities’ relationship to other benchmark quoted securities (Level 2 inputs).
The Bank’s U.S. Treasury securities are based on quoted market prices (Level 1 inputs) and considered highly liquid.
The Bank’s private label mortgage-backed security remains illiquid, and as such, the Bank classifies this security as a Level 3 security in accordance with ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement. Based on this determination, the Bank utilized an income valuation model (present value model) approach in determining the fair value of this security.
See in this section of the filing under Footnote 2 “Investment Securities” for additional discussion regarding the Bank’s private label mortgage-backed security.
For its TRUP investment, the Company considered the most recent bid price for the same instrument to approximate market value as of September 30, 2022. The Company’s TRUP investment is considered highly illiquid and also valued using Level 3 inputs, as the most recent bid price for this instrument is not always considered generally observable.
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value: Quoted market prices in an active market are available for the Bank’s Community Reinvestment Act mutual fund investment and fall within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
The fair value of the Company’s Freddie Mac preferred stock is determined by matrix pricing, as described above (Level 2 inputs).
Mortgage loans held for sale, at fair value: The fair value of mortgage loans held for sale is determined using quoted secondary market prices. Mortgage loans held for sale are classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
Consumer loans held for sale, at fair value: In December 2019, the Bank began offering RCS installment loans with terms ranging from 12 to 60 months to borrowers in multiple states. Balances originated under this RCS installment loan program are carried as “held for sale” on the Bank’s balance sheet, with the intent to sell within sixteen days following the Bank’s origination of the loans. Loans originated under this RCS installment loan program are carried at fair value under a fair-value option, with the portfolio marked to market monthly. Fair value for these loans is based on contractual sales terms, Level 3 inputs.
Consumer loans held for investment, at fair value: The Bank held an immaterial amount of consumer loans at fair value through a consumer loan program the Company is currently unwinding. The fair value of these loans was based on the discounted cash flows of the underlying loans, Level 3 inputs. Further disclosure of these loans is considered immaterial and thus omitted.
Mortgage Banking derivatives: Mortgage Banking derivatives used in the ordinary course of business primarily consist of mandatory forward sales contracts (“forward contracts”) and interest rate lock loan commitments. The fair value of the Bank’s derivative instruments is primarily measured by obtaining pricing from broker-dealers recognized to be market participants. The pricing is derived from market observable inputs that can generally be verified and do not typically involve significant judgment by the Bank. Forward contracts and rate lock loan commitments are classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
Interest rate swap agreements: Interest rate swaps are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. The Company values its interest rate swaps using a third-party valuation service and classifies such valuations as Level 2. Valuations of these interest rate swaps are also received from the relevant dealer counterparty and validated against the Company’s calculations. The Company has considered counterparty credit risk in the valuation of its interest rate swap assets and has considered its own credit risk in the valuation of its interest rate swap liabilities.
Collateral-dependent loans: Collateral-dependent loans generally reflect partial charge-downs to their respective fair value, which is commonly based on recent real estate appraisals or BPOs. These appraisals or BPOs may utilize a single valuation approach or a combination of approaches including comparable sales and the income approach. Adjustments are routinely made in the process by the independent experts to adjust for differences between the comparable sales and income data available. Such adjustments are usually significant and typically result in a Level 3 classification of the inputs for determining fair value. Non-real estate collateral may be valued using an appraisal, net book value per the borrower’s financial statements or aging reports, adjusted or discounted based on management’s historical knowledge, changes in market conditions from the time of the valuation, and management’s expertise and knowledge of the client and client’s business, resulting in a Level 3 fair value classification. Collateral-dependent loans are evaluated on a quarterly basis for additional impairment and adjusted accordingly.
Other Real Estate Owned: Assets acquired through or instead of loan foreclosure are initially recorded at fair value less costs to sell when acquired, establishing a new cost basis. These assets are subsequently accounted for at lower of cost or fair value less estimated costs to sell. Fair value is commonly based on recent real estate appraisals or BPOs. These appraisals or BPOs may utilize a single valuation approach or a combination of approaches including comparable sales and the income approach. Adjustments are routinely made in the process by the independent experts to adjust for differences between the comparable sales and income data available. Such adjustments are usually significant and typically result in a Level 3 classification of the inputs for determining fair value.
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis, including financial assets and liabilities for which the Bank has elected the fair value option, are summarized below. Information as of September 30, 2022 is presented net of any applicable ACL.
Fair Value Measurements at
September 30, 2022 Using:
Quoted Prices in
Significant
Active Markets
for Identical
Observable
Unobservable
Assets
Inputs
(Level 1)
(Level 2)
(Level 3)
Financial assets:
203,013
207,422
420,740
6,194
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value:
Mortgage loans held for sale
Consumer loans held for sale
Consumer loans held for investment
Mandatory forward contracts
Interest rate swap agreements
7,121
Financial liabilities:
Rate lock loan commitments
December 31, 2021 Using:
70,112
167,347
418,436
6,578
1,404
5,786
All transfers between levels are generally recognized at the end of each quarter. There were no transfers into or out of Level 1, 2, or 3 assets during the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
The following table presents a reconciliation of the Bank’s private label mortgage-backed security measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3):
2,478
2,824
2,957
Total gains or losses included in earnings:
Net change in unrealized gain
Principal paydowns
(57)
(457)
(239)
2,780
The fair value of the Bank’s single private label mortgage-backed security is supported by analysis prepared by an independent third party. The third party’s approach to determining fair value involved several steps: 1) detailed collateral analysis of the underlying mortgages, including consideration of geographic location, original loan-to-value, and the weighted average FICO score of the borrowers; 2) collateral performance projections for each pool of mortgages underlying the security (probability of default, severity of default, and prepayment probabilities) and 3) discounted cash flow modeling.
The significant unobservable inputs in the fair value measurement of the Bank’s single private label mortgage-backed security are prepayment rates, probability of default, and loss severity in the event of default. Significant fluctuations in any of those inputs in isolation would result in a significantly different fair value measurement.
Quantitative information about recurring Level 3 fair value measurement inputs for the Bank’s single private label mortgage-backed security follows:
Valuation
Technique
Unobservable Inputs
Range
Discounted cash flow
(1) Constant prepayment rate
4.5% - 4.7%
(2) Probability of default
1.8% - 9.3%
(3) Loss severity
25% - 35%
4.5% - 5.7%
50% - 75%
The following table presents a reconciliation of the Company’s TRUP measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3):
3,824
3,700
3,800
Discount accretion
3,850
The fair value of the Company’s TRUP investment is based on the most recent bid price for this instrument, as provided by a third-party broker.
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Mortgage Loans Held for Sale
The Bank has elected the fair value option for mortgage loans held for sale. These loans are intended for sale and the Bank believes that the fair value is the best indicator of the resolution of these loans. Interest income is recorded based on the contractual terms of the loans and in accordance with Bank policy for such instruments. None of these loans were past due 90-days-or-more or on nonaccrual as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
The aggregate fair value, contractual balance, and unrealized gain were as follows:
Aggregate fair value
Contractual balance
2,925
28,668
Unrealized (loss) gain
725
The total amount of gains and losses from changes in fair value included in earnings for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 for mortgage loans held for sale are presented in the following table:
Interest income
112
469
802
Change in fair value
(141)
(373)
(738)
(1,527)
Total included in earnings
(29)
(120)
(269)
(725)
Consumer Loans Held for Sale
RCS carries loans originated through its installment loan program at fair value. Interest income is recorded based on the contractual terms of the loan and in accordance with Bank policy for such instruments. None of these loans were past due 90-days-or-more or on nonaccrual as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
The significant unobservable inputs in the fair value measurement of the Bank’s short-term installment loans are the net contractual premiums and level of loans sold at a discount price. Significant fluctuations in any of those inputs in isolation would result in a significantly lower/higher fair value measurement.
The following table presents quantitative information about recurring Level 3 fair value measurement inputs for installment loans:
Contract Terms
(1) Net Premium
0.15%
(2) Discounted Sales
10.00%
1.4%
5.00%
The aggregate fair value, contractual balance, and unrealized gain on consumer loans held for sale, at fair value, were as follows:
8,868
19,633
(72)
The total amount of net gains from changes in fair value included in earnings for consumer loans held for sale, at fair value, are presented in the following table:
3,009
8,889
4,070
(16)
(186)
3,041
2,086
8,703
4,132
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Assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis are summarized below:
Collateral-dependent loans:
1,314
Total collateral-dependent loans*
2,258
Other real estate owned:
The difference between the carrying value and the fair value of collateral-dependent loans measured at fair value is reconciled in a subsequent table of this Footnote.
1,626
2,841
4,845
52
The following tables present quantitative information about Level 3 fair value measurements for financial instruments measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis:
(Weighted
Average)
Collateral-dependent loans - residential real estate owner occupied
Sales comparison approach
Adjustments determined for differences between comparable sales
0% - 41% (11%)
Collateral-dependent loans - commercial real estate
16% (16%)
Other real estate owned - commercial real estate
39% (39%)
0% - 51% (10%)
12% - 13% (12%)
Collateral-dependent loans - home equity
2%-4% (3%)
33% (33%)
Collateral-dependent loans are generally measured for loss using the fair value for reasonable disposition of the underlying collateral. The Bank’s practice is to obtain new or updated appraisals or BPOs on the loans subject to the initial review and then to evaluate the need for an update to this value on an as-necessary or possibly annual basis thereafter (depending on the market conditions impacting the value of the collateral). The Bank may discount the valuation amount as necessary for selling costs and past due real estate taxes. If a new or updated appraisal or BPO is not available at the time of a loan’s loss review, the Bank may apply a discount to the existing value of an old valuation to reflect the property’s current estimated value if it is believed to have deteriorated in either: (i) the physical or economic aspects of the subject property or (ii) material changes in market conditions. The review generally results in a partial charge-off of the loan if fair value, less selling costs, are below the loan’s carrying value. Collateral-dependent loans are valued within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
Collateral-dependent loans are as follows:
Carrying amount of loans measured at fair value
1,815
4,928
Estimated selling costs considered in carrying amount
842
Valuation allowance
(36)
(925)
Total fair value
Provision on collateral-dependent loans
345
(11)
393
Details of other real estate owned carrying value and write downs follows:
Other real estate owned carried at fair value
Other real estate owned carried at cost
Total carrying value of other real estate owned
Other real estate owned write-downs during the period
The carrying amounts and estimated exit price fair values of all financial instruments follow:
September 30, 2022:
Carrying
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Assets:
Available-for-sale debt securities
Held-to-maturity debt securities
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values
4,048,246
Federal Home Loan Bank stock
11,102
Mortgage servicing rights
9,177
17,592
Liabilities:
Noninterest-bearing deposits
Transaction deposits
2,540,961
Time deposits
245,424
239,058
21,671
55
December 31, 2021:
4,445,244
9,877
9,196
11,540
2,553,423
296,214
298,236
159
11. MORTGAGE BANKING ACTIVITIES
Mortgage Banking activities primarily include residential mortgage originations and servicing.
Activity for mortgage loans held for sale, at fair value, was as follows:
8,491
32,401
46,867
32,856
170,482
195,006
525,246
Proceeds from the sale of mortgage loans held for sale
(39,220)
(182,422)
(226,191)
(562,661)
5,330
4,704
16,339
25,791
The following table presents the components of Mortgage Banking income:
Net gain realized on sale of mortgage loans held for sale
1,041
5,008
6,448
18,764
Net change in fair value recognized on loans held for sale
Net change in fair value recognized on rate lock loan commitments
(395)
(258)
(1,579)
(2,596)
Net change in fair value recognized on forward contracts
280
953
573
1,698
Net gain recognized
Loan servicing income
894
2,643
2,433
(525)
(882)
(1,773)
(2,617)
Change in mortgage servicing rights valuation allowance
500
Net servicing income recognized
369
316
Total Mortgage Banking income
Activity for capitalized mortgage servicing rights was as follows:
9,407
8,335
7,095
Additions
296
1,414
Amortized to expense
Change in valuation allowance
9,178
8,867
Activity in the valuation allowance for capitalized mortgage servicing rights follows:
Beginning valuation allowance
Charge during the period
Ending valuation allowance
Other information relating to mortgage servicing rights follows:
Fair value of mortgage servicing rights portfolio
Monthly weighted average prepayment rate of unpaid principal balance*
208
Discount rate
10.21
10.15
Weighted average foreclosure rate
0.19
Weighted average life in years
7.60
5.93
Rates are applied to individual tranches with similar characteristics.
Mortgage Banking derivatives used in the ordinary course of business primarily consist of mandatory forward sales contracts and interest rate lock loan commitments. Mandatory forward contracts represent future commitments to deliver loans at a specified price and date and are used to manage interest rate risk on loan commitments and mortgage loans held for sale. Interest rate lock loan commitments represent commitments to fund loans at a specific rate. These derivatives involve underlying items, such as interest rates, and are designed to transfer risk. Substantially all of these instruments expire within 90 days from the date of issuance. Notional amounts are amounts on which calculations and payments are based, but which do not represent credit exposure, as credit exposure is limited to the amounts required to be received or paid.
Mandatory forward contracts also contain an element of risk in that the counterparties may be unable to meet the terms of such agreements. In the event the counterparties fail to deliver commitments or are unable to fulfill their obligations, the Bank could potentially incur significant additional costs by replacing the positions at then current market rates. The Bank manages its risk of exposure by limiting counterparties to those banks and institutions deemed appropriate by management and the Board of Directors. The Bank does not expect any counterparty to default on their obligations and therefore, the Bank does not expect to incur any cost related to counterparty default.
The Bank is exposed to interest rate risk on loans held for sale and rate lock loan commitments. As market interest rates fluctuate, the fair value of mortgage loans held for sale and rate lock commitments will decline or increase. To offset this interest rate risk the Bank enters into derivatives, such as mandatory forward contracts to sell loans. The fair value of these mandatory forward contracts will fluctuate as market interest rates fluctuate, and the change in the value of these instruments is expected to largely, though not entirely, offset the change in fair value of loans held for sale and rate lock commitments. The objective of this activity is to minimize the exposure to losses on rate lock loan commitments and loans held for sale due to market interest rate fluctuations. The net effect of derivatives on earnings will depend on risk management activities and a variety of other factors, including: market interest rate volatility; the amount of rate lock commitments that close; the ability to fill the forward contracts before expiration; and the time period required to close and sell loans.
The following table includes the notional amounts and fair values of mortgage loans held for sale and mortgage banking derivatives as of the period ends presented:
Notional
Included in Mortgage loans held for sale:
Included in other assets:
56,736
13,852
70,812
Included in other liabilities:
12,168
58
12. INTEREST RATE SWAPS
Non-hedge Interest Rate Swaps
The Bank enters into interest rate swaps to facilitate client transactions and meet their financing needs. Upon entering into these instruments to meet client needs, the Bank enters into offsetting positions in order to minimize the Bank’s interest rate risk. These swaps are derivatives, but are not designated as hedging instruments, and therefore changes in fair value are reported in current year earnings.
Interest rate swap contracts involve the risk of dealing with counterparties and their ability to meet contractual terms. When the fair value of a derivative instrument contract is positive, this generally indicates that the counterparty or client owes the Bank, and results in credit risk to the Bank. When the fair value of a derivative instrument contract is negative, the Bank owes the client or counterparty, and therefore, has no credit risk.
A summary of the Bank’s interest rate swaps related to clients is included in the following table:
Bank Position
Interest rate swaps with Bank clients - Assets
Pay variable/receive fixed
107,502
Interest rate swaps with Bank clients - Liabilities
92,743
(7,121)
16,423
(298)
Interest rate swaps with Bank clients - Total
123,925
5,488
Offsetting interest rate swaps with institutional swap dealer
Pay fixed/receive variable
(5,488)
185,486
247,850
The Bank is required to pledge securities as collateral when the Bank is in a net loss position for all swaps with dealer counterparties when such net loss positions exceed $250,000. The fair value of cash or investment securities pledged as collateral by the Bank to cover such net loss positions totaled $0 and $6.8 million as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
13. EARNINGS PER SHARE
The Company calculates earnings per share under the two-class method. Under the two-class method, earnings available to common shareholders for the period are allocated between Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock according to dividends declared (or accumulated) and participation rights in undistributed earnings. The difference in earnings per share between the two classes of common stock results from the 10% per share cash dividend premium paid on Class A Common Stock over that paid on Class B Common Stock.
A reconciliation of the combined Class A and Class B Common Stock numerators and denominators of the earnings per share and diluted earnings per share computations is presented below:
Class A Shares
Class B Shares
Undistributed net income for basic earnings per share
12,819
13,846
51,177
51,174
Weighted average potential dividends on Class A shares upon exercise of dilutive options
(17)
Undistributed net income for diluted earnings per share
12,798
13,829
51,107
51,134
Weighted average shares outstanding:
17,759
18,342
17,904
18,625
2,162
2,182
Effect of dilutive securities on Class A Shares outstanding
Weighted average shares outstanding including dilutive securities
19,981
20,591
20,134
20,879
Basic earnings per share:
Class A Common Stock:
Per share dividends distributed
0.34
0.31
1.02
0.92
Undistributed earnings per share*
0.65
0.68
2.58
2.48
Total basic earnings per share - Class A Common Stock
Class B Common Stock:
0.93
0.84
0.59
0.62
2.34
2.26
Total basic earnings per share - Class B Common Stock
Diluted earnings per share:
2.56
2.47
Total diluted earnings per share - Class A Common Stock
2.33
2.25
Total diluted earnings per share - Class B Common Stock
To arrive at undistributed earnings per share, undistributed net income is first prorated between Class A and Class B Common Shares, with Class A Common Shares receiving a 10% premium. The resulting pro-rated, undistributed net income for each class is then divided by the weighted average shares for each class.
Stock options excluded from the detailed earnings per share calculation because their impact was antidilutive are as follows:
Antidilutive stock options
180,000
141,000
144,000
Average antidilutive stock options
177,000
174,000
14. OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
OCI components and related tax effects were as follows:
Available-for-Sale Debt Securities:
Net losses
Net of tax
The following is a summary of the AOCI balances, net of tax:
Change
Unrealized gain (loss) on AFS debt securities
890
(35,169)
(34,279)
984
991
Total unrealized gain (loss)
December 31, 2020
7,571
(3,407)
4,164
938
15. REVENUE FROM CONTRACTS WITH CUSTOMERS
The following tables present the Company’s net revenue and net revenue concentration by reportable segment:
Core Banking
Tax
Republic
Traditional
Mortgage
Core
Refund
Credit
Banking
Lending
Solutions
Company
Net interest income (1)
46,562
3,011
49,685
6,642
8,351
Noninterest income:
3,397
3,410
Mortgage banking income (1)
3,292
Program fees (1)
724
4,208
Increase in cash surrender value of BOLI (1)
Net losses on OREO
1,007
8,260
1,187
9,460
1,379
5,587
Total net revenue
54,822
3,024
1,299
59,145
3,088
10,850
13,938
73,083
Net-revenue concentration (2)
81
40,297
6,291
46,841
294
5,994
6,288
3,262
3,198
65
3,256
1,071
8,105
5,342
13,462
2,107
5,363
48,402
6,306
5,595
60,303
2,401
9,250
11,651
71,954
67
84
121,868
133,749
18,751
19,380
38,131
9,971
10,009
9,693
2,187
10,484
113
1,980
250
23,225
5,687
28,950
37,180
47,664
145,093
11,450
6,156
162,699
55,931
29,864
85,795
248,494
119,677
19,387
139,866
15,593
15,840
31,433
9,188
9,231
19,922
9,534
237
2,373
7,196
2,628
2,768
22,861
16,795
39,699
22,599
29,795
142,538
19,430
17,597
179,565
38,192
23,036
61,228
240,793
74
The following represents information for significant revenue streams subject to ASC 606:
Service charges on deposit accounts – The Company earns revenue for account-based and event-driven services on its retail and commercial deposit accounts. Contracts for these services are generally in the form of deposit agreements, which disclose fees for deposit services. Revenue for event-driven services is recognized in close proximity or simultaneously with service performance. Revenue for certain account-based services may be recognized at a point in time or over the period the service is rendered, typically no longer than a month. Examples of account-based and event-driven service charges on deposits include per item fees, paper-statement fees, check-cashing fees, and analysis fees.
Net refund transfer fees – An RT is a fee-based product offered by the Bank through third-party tax preparers located throughout the United States, as well as tax-preparation software providers (collectively, the “Tax Providers”), with the Bank acting as an independent contractor of the Tax Providers. An RT allows a taxpayer to pay any applicable tax preparation and filing related fees directly from his federal or state government tax refund, with the remainder of the tax refund disbursed directly to the taxpayer. RT fees and all applicable tax preparation, transmitter, audit, and any other taxpayer authorized amounts are deducted from the tax refund by either the Bank or the Bank’s service provider and automatically forwarded to the appropriate party as authorized by the taxpayer. RT fees generally receive first priority when applying fees against the taxpayer’s refund, with the Bank’s share of RT fees generally
superior to the claims of other third-party service providers, including the Tax Providers. The remainder of the refund is disbursed to the taxpayer by a Bank check printed at a tax office, direct deposit to the taxpayer’s personal bank account, or loaded to a prepaid card.
The Company executes contracts with individual Tax Providers to offer RTs to their taxpayer customers. RT revenue is recognized by the Bank immediately after the taxpayer’s refund is disbursed in accordance with the RT contract with the taxpayer customer. The fee paid by the taxpayer for the RT is shared between the Bank and the Tax Providers based on contracts executed between the parties.
The Company presents RT revenue net of any amounts shared with the Tax Providers. The Bank’s share of RT revenue is generally based on the obligations undertaken by the Tax Provider for each individual RT program, with more obligations generally corresponding to higher RT revenue share. The significant majority of net RT revenue is recognized and obligations under RT contracts fulfilled by the Bank during the first half of each year. Incremental expenses associated with the fulfillment of RT contracts are generally expensed during the first half of the year.
Interchange fee income – As an “issuing bank” for card transactions, the Company earns interchange fee income on transactions executed by its cardholders with various third-party merchants. Through third-party intermediaries, merchants compensate the Company for each transaction for the ability to efficiently settle the transaction and for the Company’s willingness to accept certain risks inherent in the transaction. There is no written contract between the merchant and the Company, but a contract is implied between the two parties by customary business practices. Interchange fee income is recognized almost simultaneously by the Company upon the completion of a related card transaction.
The Company compensates its cardholders by way of cash or other “rewards” for generating card transactions. These rewards are disclosed in cardholder agreements between the Company and its cardholders. Reward costs are accrued over time based on card transactions generated by the cardholder. Interchange fee income is presented net of reward costs within noninterest income.
Net gains/(losses) on other real estate – The Company routinely sells OREO it has acquired through loan foreclosure. Net gains/(losses) on OREO reflect both 1) the gain or loss recognized upon an executed deed and 2) mark-to-market writedowns the Company takes on its OREO inventory.
The Company generally recognizes gains or losses on OREO at the time of an executed deed, although gains may be recognized over a financing period if the Company finances the sale. For financed OREO sales, the Company assesses whether the buyer is committed to perform their obligations under the contract and whether collectability of the transaction price is probable. Once these criteria are met, the OREO asset is derecognized and the gain or loss on sale is recorded upon the transfer of control of the property to the buyer. In determining the gain or loss on sale, the Company adjusts the transaction price and related gain/(loss) on sale if a significant financing component is present.
Mark-to-market writedowns taken by the Company during the property’s holding period are generally at least 10% per year, but may be higher based on updated real estate appraisals or BPOs. Incremental expenditures to bring OREO to salable condition are generally expensed as-incurred.
Contract termination fee – During the first quarter of 2022, RB&T provided Green Dot a notice of termination for the May 2021 Purchase Agreement for the sale of substantially all of RB&T’s TRS assets and operations to Green Dot. As a result of this contract termination, Green Dot paid RB&T a contract termination fee of $5.0 million during the quarter.
Legal settlement – During the second quarter of 2022, Green Dot paid Republic Bank $13 million in settlement of a lawsuit.
16. SEGMENT INFORMATION
Reportable segments are determined by the type of products and services offered and the level of information provided to the chief operating decision maker, who uses such information to review performance of various components of the business (such as banking centers and business units), which are then aggregated if operating performance, products/services, and clients are similar.
The nature of segment operations and the primary drivers of net revenue by reportable segment are provided below:
Reportable Segment:
Nature of Operations:
Primary Drivers of Net Revenue:
Core Banking:
Traditional Banking
Provides traditional banking products to clients in its market footprint primarily via its network of banking centers and to clients outside of its market footprint primarily via its digital delivery channels.
Loans, investments, and deposits
Warehouse Lending
Provides short-term, revolving credit facilities to mortgage bankers across the United States.
Mortgage warehouse lines of credit
Mortgage Banking
Primarily originates, sells, and services long-term, single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans primarily to clients in the Bank's market footprint.
Loan sales and servicing
Tax Refund Solutions
TRS offers tax-related credit products and facilitates the receipt and payment of federal and state tax refunds through Refund Transfer products. The RPS division of TRS offers general-purpose reloadable cards. TRS and RPS products are primarily provided to clients outside of the Bank’s market footprint.
Loans, refund transfers, and prepaid cards.
Offers consumer credit products. RCS products are primarily provided to clients outside of the Bank’s market footprint, with a substantial portion of RCS clients considered subprime or near-prime borrowers.
Unsecured, consumer loans
The accounting policies used for Republic’s reportable segments are generally the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies in the Company’s 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Republic evaluates segment performance using operating income. The Company allocates goodwill to the Traditional Banking segment. Republic generally allocates income taxes based on income before income tax expense unless reasonable and specific segment allocations can be made. The Company makes transactions among reportable segments at carrying value.
Segment information follows:
Net interest income
Provision for expected credit loss expense
(753)
(1,139)
Other noninterest income
8,306
8,368
37,777
851
2,005
40,633
3,248
2,224
5,472
Income (loss) before income tax expense
17,798
2,559
(706)
19,651
1,136
4,618
5,754
Income tax expense (benefit)
4,278
572
(156)
202
1,026
1,228
Net income (loss)
13,520
1,987
(550)
14,957
3,592
4,526
Period-end assets
5,036,343
441,885
16,418
5,494,646
395,873
109,144
505,017
Net interest margin
3.63
2.54
3.54
4.05
Net-revenue concentration*
(44)
(267)
(2,261)
8,182
8,247
35,924
1,056
3,257
40,237
2,966
1,232
4,198
Income before income tax expense
12,522
5,473
2,338
20,333
1,696
5,894
Income tax expense
3,038
1,258
514
4,810
371
1,037
1,408
9,484
4,215
1,824
15,523
3,161
4,486
4,907,503
750,266
41,196
5,698,965
365,552
123,117
488,669
6,187,634
3.22
3.51
3.25
3.61
* Net revenue represents net interest income plus total noninterest income. Net-revenue concentration equals segment-level net revenue divided by total Company net revenue.
(287)
(1,308)
6,976
23,376
23,775
114,310
2,838
7,527
124,675
11,926
5,730
17,656
31,070
9,633
(1,371)
39,332
37,029
15,298
52,327
6,397
2,168
(302)
8,263
8,573
3,513
12,086
24,673
7,465
31,069
28,456
11,785
40,241
3.20
2.79
3.16
3.95
(126)
(656)
7,850
22,859
23,042
304
23,346
110,191
3,150
9,384
122,725
11,965
3,340
15,305
32,473
16,810
8,213
57,496
18,377
14,659
33,036
6,718
3,919
1,807
12,444
4,467
3,637
8,104
25,755
12,891
6,406
45,052
13,910
11,022
24,932
3.21
3.47
3.24
3.86
17. SUBSEQUENT EVENT – AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
On October 26, 2022, the Company, RB&T, and CBank entered into the CBank Agreement. Upon completion of the transaction, CBank will be merged with and into RB&T, with RB&T as the survivor of the merger. CBank is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Under the terms of the CBank Agreement, the Company will acquire all of CBank’s outstanding common stock in an all-cash direct merger of CBank with RB&T, resulting in a total cash payment of approximately $51 million to CBank’s existing shareholders. Republic expects to fund the cash payment through existing resources on-hand at RB&T. The completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval and approval by CBank’s shareholders. The CBank Agreement also contains reciprocal termination provisions in the event the transaction does not receive the required regulatory approvals within six months of the effective date of the CBank Agreement or if certain minimum capital levels are not maintained by CBank as of the closing date.
The CBank Agreement was unanimously approved by the Republic, RB&T and CBank boards of directors on October 25, 2022. In connection with entering into the CBank Agreement, Republic entered into customary support agreements with the members of CBank’s board of directors and other shareholders in their capacities as shareholders of CBank (the “CBank Support Agreements”). Subject to the terms and conditions, and non-termination, of the CBank Support Agreements, each such shareholder agreed, among other things, to vote his or her respective shares of CBank Common Stock in favor of the approval of the CBank Agreement and the transaction contemplated thereby, and against alternative acquisition proposals. The CBank Support Agreements do not prevent the shareholders, in their capacity as directors, from exercising their fiduciary obligations in connection with alternative acquisition proposals. The CBank Agreement provides certain termination rights for both Republic and CBank and further provides that a termination fee of $2,040,000 will be payable by CBank to Republic upon termination of the CBank Agreement under certain circumstances, including CBank’s termination of the CBank Agreement to accept a Superior Proposal (as defined in the CBank Agreement).
As of September 30, 2022, CBank had approximately $271 million in assets, consisting of approximately $214 million in gross loans, no other real estate owned, approximately $17 million of marketable securities, approximately $35 million in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $8 million in other assets. As of September 30, 2022, CBank had approximately $242 million of liabilities, including approximately $240 million in customer deposits and $1 million in FHLB advances.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Republic Bancorp, Inc. (the “Parent Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Republic Bank & Trust Company and Republic Insurance Services, Inc. As used in this filing, the terms “Republic,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to Republic Bancorp, Inc., and, where the context requires, Republic Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiaries. The term the “Bank” refers to the Company’s subsidiary bank: Republic Bank & Trust Company. The term the “Captive” refers to the Company’s insurance subsidiary: Republic Insurance Services, Inc. All significant intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
Republic is a financial holding company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The Bank is a Kentucky-based, state-chartered non-member financial institution that provides both traditional and non-traditional banking products through five reportable segments using a multitude of delivery channels. While the Bank operates primarily in its market footprint, its non-brick-and-mortar delivery channels allow it to reach clients across the U.S. The Captive is a Nevada-based, wholly-owned insurance subsidiary of the Company. The Captive provides property and casualty insurance coverage to the Company and the Bank as well, as a group of third-party insurance captives for which insurance may not be available or economically feasible.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of Republic should be read in conjunction with Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements.”
Forward-looking statements discuss matters that are not historical facts. As forward-looking statements discuss future events or conditions, the statements often include words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “target,” “can,” “could,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “potential,” or similar expressions. Do not rely on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements detail management’s expectations regarding the future and are not guarantees. Forward-looking statements are assumptions based on information known to management only as of the date the statements are made and management undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law.
Broadly speaking, forward-looking statements include:
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to the following:
On October 26, 2022, Republic, the Bank and CBank entered into the CBank Agreement. Upon completion of the transaction, CBank will be merged with and into RB&T, with RB&T as the survivor of the merger. CBank is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. This document contains statements regarding the proposed acquisition transaction that are not statements of historical fact and are considered forward-looking statements within the criteria described above. These statements are likewise subject to various risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and outcomes of the proposed transaction to differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results or outcomes expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. In addition to factors disclosed in reports filed by Republic with the SEC, risks and uncertainties for Republic, CBank and the combined company include, but are not limited to: the ability for CBank to receive shareholder approval for the CBank Agreement, for all parties to receive regulatory approvals as provided for in the CBank Agreement, the ability to grow CBank loan and deposit balances post-acquisition, unanticipated post-acquisition loan losses for Republic on CBank-originated loans, the ability of Republic to integrate acquired operations including obtaining synergies, integration objectives and anticipated timelines, the ability of Republic to integrate, manage and keep secure our information systems, and other factors set forth as “Risk Factors” at Part II, Item 1A in the Company’s Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2021.
For disclosure regarding the impact to the Company’s financial statements of ASUs, see Footnote 1 “Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements.”
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
Republic’s consolidated financial statements and accompanying footnotes have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reported periods.
A summary of the Company's significant accounting policies is set forth in Part II “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
Management continually evaluates the Company’s accounting policies and estimates that it uses to prepare the consolidated financial statements. In general, management’s estimates and assumptions are based on historical experience, accounting and regulatory guidance, and information obtained from independent third-party professionals. Actual results may differ from those estimates made by management.
Critical accounting policies are those that management believes are the most important to the portrayal of the Company’s financial condition and operating results and require management to make estimates that are difficult, subjective, and complex. Most accounting policies are not considered by management to be critical accounting policies. Several factors are considered in determining whether or not a policy is critical in the preparation of the financial statements. These factors include, among other things, whether the estimates have a significant impact on the financial statements, the nature of the estimates, the ability to readily validate the estimates with other information including independent third parties or available pricing, sensitivity of the estimates to changes in economic conditions,
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and whether alternative methods of accounting may be utilized under GAAP. Management has discussed each critical accounting policy and the methodology for the identification and determination of critical accounting policies with the Company’s Audit Committee.
Republic believes its critical accounting policies and estimates relate to its ACLL and Provision.
ACLL and Provision — As of September 30, 2022, the Bank maintained an ACLL for expected credit losses inherent in the Bank’s loan portfolio, which includes overdrawn deposit accounts. Management evaluates the adequacy of the ACLL monthly and presents and discusses the ACLL with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors quarterly.
Management’s evaluation of the appropriateness of the ACLL is often the most critical accounting estimate for a financial institution, as the ACLL requires significant reliance on the use of estimates and significant judgment as to the reliance on historical loss rates, consideration of quantitative and qualitative economic factors, and the reliance on a reasonable and supportable forecast.
Adjustments to the historical loss rate for current conditions include differences in underwriting standards, portfolio mix or term, delinquency level, as well as for changes in environmental conditions, such as changes in property values or other relevant factors. One-year forecast adjustments to the historical loss rate are based on the U.S. national unemployment rate and CRE values. Subsequent to the one-year forecasts, loss rates are assumed to immediately revert back to long-term historical averages.
The ACLL is significantly influenced by the composition, characteristics and quality of the Company’s loan portfolio, as well as the prevailing economic conditions and forecasts utilized. Material changes to these and other relevant factors may result in greater volatility to the ACLL, and therefore, greater volatility to the Company’s reported earnings.
BUSINESS SEGMENT COMPOSITION
(I) Traditional Banking segment
The Traditional Banking segment provides traditional banking products primarily to customers in the Company’s market footprint. As of September 30, 2022, Republic had 42 full-service banking centers with locations as follows:
The Bank’s principal lending activities consist of the following:
Retail Mortgage Lending — Through its retail banking centers and its online Consumer Direct channel, the Bank originates single-family, residential real estate loans and HELOCs. In addition, the Bank originates HEALs through its retail banking centers. Such loans are generally collateralized by owner-occupied, residential real estate properties. For those loans originated through the Bank’s retail banking centers, the collateral is predominately located in the Bank’s market footprint, while loans originated through its Consumer Direct channel are generally secured by owner occupied-collateral located outside of the Bank’s market footprint.
Commercial Lending — The Bank conducts commercial lending activities primarily through Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Business Banking, and Retail Banking channels.
In general, commercial lending credit approvals and processing are prepared and underwritten through the Bank’s Commercial Credit Administration Department. Clients are generally located within the Bank’s market footprint or in areas nearby the market footprint.
Construction and Land Development Lending — The Bank originates business loans for the construction of both single-family, residential properties and commercial properties (apartment complexes, shopping centers, office buildings). While not a focus for the Bank, the Bank may originate loans for the acquisition and development of residential or commercial land into buildable lots.
Consumer Lending — Traditional Banking consumer loans made by the Bank include home improvement and home equity loans, other secured and unsecured personal loans, and credit cards. Except for home equity loans, which are actively marketed in conjunction with single family, first lien residential real estate loans, other Traditional Banking consumer loan products (not including products offered through RPG), while available, are not and have not been actively promoted in the Bank’s markets.
Aircraft Lending — In October 2017, the Bank created an Aircraft Lending division. Aircraft loans are typically made to purchase or refinance personal aircrafts, along with engine overhauls and avionic upgrades. Loans range between $55,000 and $3,000,000 in size and have terms up to 20 years. The aircraft loan program is open to all states, except for Alaska and Hawaii.
The credit characteristics of an aircraft borrower are higher than a typical consumer in that they must demonstrate and indicate a higher degree of credit worthiness for approval.
The Bank’s other Traditional Banking activities generally consist of the following:
Private Banking — The Bank provides financial products and services to high-net-worth individuals through its Private Banking department. The Bank’s Private Banking officers have extensive banking experience and are trained to meet the unique financial needs of this clientele.
Treasury Management Services — The Bank provides various deposit products designed for commercial business clients located throughout its market footprint. Lockbox processing, remote deposit capture, business on-line banking, account reconciliation, and ACH processing are additional services offered to commercial businesses through the Bank’s Treasury Management department. Treasury Management officers work closely with commercial and retail officers to support the cash management needs of Bank clients.
Digital Experience — The Bank expands its market penetration and service delivery of its RB&T brand by offering clients Internet Banking services and products through its website, www.republicbank.com. The Bank allows clients to easily and securely access and manage their accounts through its mobile banking application.
Other Banking Services — The Bank also provides title insurance and other financial institution related products and services.
Bank Acquisitions — The Bank maintains an acquisition strategy to selectively grow its franchise as a complement to its organic growth strategies.
See additional detail regarding the Traditional Banking segment under Footnote 16 “Segment Information” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements.”
(II) Warehouse Lending segment
The Core Bank provides short-term, revolving credit facilities to mortgage bankers across the United States through mortgage warehouse lines of credit. These credit facilities are primarily secured by single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans. The credit facility enables the mortgage banking clients to close single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans in their own name and temporarily fund their inventory of these closed loans until the loans are sold to investors approved by the Bank. Individual loans are expected to remain on the warehouse line for an average of 15 to 30 days. Reverse mortgage loans typically remain on the line longer than conventional mortgage loans. Interest income and loan fees are accrued for each individual loan during the time the loan remains on the warehouse line and collected when the loan is sold. The Core Bank receives the sale proceeds of each loan directly from the investor and applies the funds to pay off the warehouse advance and related accrued interest and fees. The remaining proceeds are credited to the mortgage-banking client.
See additional detail regarding the Warehouse Lending segment under Footnote 16 “Segment Information” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements.”
(III) Mortgage Banking segment
Mortgage Banking activities primarily include 15-, 20- and 30-year fixed-term single-family, first-lien residential real estate loans that are originated and sold into the secondary market, primarily to the FHLMC and the FNMA. The Bank typically retains servicing on loans sold into the secondary market for loans generated in states within its footprint and generally sells servicing for loans generated in states outside of its footprint. Administration of loans with servicing retained by the Bank includes collecting principal and interest payments, escrowing funds for property taxes and property insurance, and remitting payments to secondary market investors. The Bank receives fees for performing these standard servicing functions.
See additional detail regarding the Mortgage Banking segment under Footnote 11 “Mortgage Banking Activities” and Footnote 16 “Segment Information” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements.”
(IV) Tax Refund Solutions segment
Through the TRS segment, the Bank is one of a limited number of financial institutions that facilitates the receipt and payment of federal and state tax refund products and offers a credit product through third-party tax preparers located throughout the U.S., as well as tax-preparation software providers (collectively, the “Tax Providers”). Substantially all of the business generated by the TRS business occurs during the first half of each year. During the second half of each year, TRS generates limited revenue and incurs costs preparing for the next year’s tax season.
The Company reports fees paid for the EA product as interest income on loans. During 2021, EAs were repaid, on average, within 32 days after the taxpayer’s tax return was submitted to the applicable taxing authority. EAs do not have a contractual due date but the
Company considered an EA delinquent in 2022 and 2021 if it remained unpaid 35 days after the taxpayer’s tax return was submitted to the applicable taxing authority. The number of days for delinquency eligibility is based on management’s annual analysis of tax return processing times. Provisions on EAs are estimated when advances are made. Unpaid EAs are charged-off by June 30th of each year, with EAs collected during the second half of each year recorded as recoveries of previously charged-off loans, unless such collections are subject to guarantor reimbursement under a loan-loss guaranty.
In response to changes in the legal, regulatory, and competitive environment, management annually reviews and revises the EAs product parameters. In addition, as part of its normal annual marketing and sales process, TRS renews existing contracts and enters into new contracts to offer EA products through additional Tax Providers. Further changes in EA product parameters and/or new contracts with new Tax Providers do not ensure positive results and could have an overall material negative impact on the performance of the EA product offering and therefore on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
See additional detail regarding the EA product under Footnote 4 “Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements.”
Republic Payment Solutions division
RPS is currently managed and operated within the TRS segment. The RPS division offers general-purpose reloadable prepaid cards, payroll debit cards, and limited-purpose demand deposit accounts with linked debit cards as an issuing bank through third-party service providers. For the projected near-term, as the prepaid card program matures, the operating results of the RPS division are expected to be immaterial to the Company’s overall results of operations and will be reported as part of the TRS segment. The RPS division will not be considered a separate reportable segment until such time, if any, that it meets quantitative reporting thresholds.
(V) Republic Credit Solutions segment
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Bank Acquisition
Under the terms of the CBank Agreement, the Company will acquire all of CBank’s outstanding common stock in an all-cash direct merger of CBank with RB&T, resulting in a total cash payment of approximately $51 million to CBank’s existing shareholders. Republic expects to fund the cash payment through existing resources on-hand at RB&T. The completion of the transaction is subject
to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval and approval by CBank’s shareholders. The CBank Agreement also contains reciprocal termination provisions in the event the transaction does not receive the required regulatory approvals within six months of the effective date of the CBank Agreement or if certain minimum capital levels are not maintained by CBank as of the closing date.
As of September 30, 2022, CBank had approximately $271 million in assets, consisting of approximately $214 million in gross loans, no other real estate owned, approximately $17 million of marketable securities, approximately $35 million in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $8 million in other assets. As of September 30, 2022, CBank had approximately $242 million of liabilities, including approximately $240 million in customer deposits and $1 million in Federal Home Loan Bank advances.
On October 19, 2022, TRS entered into a new agreement with a large Tax Provider, for which TRS had previously only provided RTs. As part of the new agreement, TRS will be the exclusive provider of refund advance loans originated through this provider through October 2025. As a result of the new agreement, management expects to increase its calendar-year 2023 refund advance origination volume an additional $400 million to $600 million over the $311 million, in total EA loans, TRS originated during the 2022 calendar year.
OVERVIEW (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021)
Total Company net income for the third quarter of 2022 was $19.5 million, a decrease of $526,000 from the same period in 2021. Diluted EPS remained at $0.99 for the third quarter of 2022 compared to $0.99 for the same period in 2021. The decrease in net income primarily reflected the following:
The following are general highlights by reportable segment:
Traditional Banking segment
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Mortgage Banking segment
TRS had multiple factors during 2021 and 2022 that impacted and will continue to impact its 2022 performance and the comparability of that performance to the same periods in 2021. By year, these factors discussed below include, but may not be limited to, the following:
As it relates to factors impacting 2021, the processing season with the IRS started approximately two weeks later than normal. As a result, RT funding volume and loan repayments from the IRS lagged normal funding patterns in non-COVID-impacted years and effectively pushed RT revenue and loan recovery activity later into the 2021 calendar year. In addition, management believes government stimulus programs during 2021 negatively impacted demand for TRS EA and RT products.
In addition to the more normal timing of the tax season in 2022 as compared to 2021, the TRS business for the first nine months of 2022, in totality, was favorably impacted by a contractual change with one of the Company’s large Tax Providers. As a result of the amended contract, TRS shares certain revenues with this provider. Also, under the amended contract, this provider absorbs certain overhead costs of the program and furnishes TRS a loan loss guaranty ceiling as a percentage of EAs originated by this provider. Under the terms of the loan loss guaranty, if the losses for EAs through this provider are above the loss guaranty ceiling as of June 30th for the current year, the provider will make a payment to TRS early in the third quarter to initially settle charge-off activity through the June 30th date. Subsequent to the initial settlement, TRS will reimburse to this provider any EA recoveries of loans originated through this provider until such time that the loss rate reaches the loss guaranty ceiling, at which time TRS would retain all recoveries thereafter.
While the overall result of this loss guaranty arrangement was a net benefit to RB&T for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, TRS’s reimbursement to this provider of EA recoveries during the third quarter of 2022 above the contractual loss ceiling resulted in a negative performance comparison for the third quarter of 2022 as compared to the third quarter of 2021, when no such loss guaranty arrangement existed and TRS recorded all such recoveries as a benefit directly to income. Management believes this negative quarter-to-quarter performance comparison will exist during the fourth quarter of 2022, as well, because the EA loss rate for this provider is not expected to reach the loss guaranty ceiling during this time. Through this specific provider, TRS originated $172 million of EAs during the first quarter of 2022 as compared to $135 million originated during the first quarter of 2021.
Also negatively impacting the third quarter 2022 tax season as compared to the third quarter of 2021 was a loss of RT volume by RB&T to Green Dot from certain third-party Tax Providers following the execution of the TRS Purchase Agreement. While TRS was able to partially offset this lost volume through higher volume from other existing relationships, the lost volume to Green Dot from this one provider had a negative impact to the overall results of TRS for 2022 and may continue to have a negative impact to the overall results of TRS beyond 2022, if TRS is unable to win this business back through its normal solicitation process.
As a net result of all the factors in the preceding paragraphs, TRS experienced a significant net decrease to its third quarter 2022 tax results as compared to the third quarter of 2021. Management believes TRS’s results of operations, and more specifically RT revenue and net recoveries for previously charged-off EAs for the fourth quarter of 2022, will likely be negative as compared to fourth quarter of 2021 because of these same factors.
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021)
Net Interest Income
Banking operations are significantly dependent upon net interest income. Net interest income is the difference between interest income on interest-earning assets, such as loans and investment securities and the interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities used to fund those assets, such as interest-bearing deposits, securities sold under agreements to repurchase, and FHLB advances. Net interest income is impacted by both changes in the amount and composition of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, as well as market interest rates.
See the section titled “Asset/Liability Management and Market Risk” in this section of the filing regarding the Bank’s interest rate sensitivity.
A large amount of the Company’s financial instruments track closely with, or are primarily indexed to, either the FFTR, Prime, or LIBOR. These rates trended lower in the first quarter of 2020 with the onset of the COVID pandemic, as the FOMC reduced the FFTR to approximately 25 basis points. With the rise of inflation during the latter half of 2021 and a steep inflationary rise during the first nine months of 2022, representing inflationary levels not seen in approximately 40 years, the FOMC began executing a quantitative tightening program by reducing its balance sheet, selling certain types of bonds in the market, and repeatedly increasing the FFTR. The FOMC’s increases to the FFTR during the first nine months of 2022 included the following:
Table 1 — Increases to the Federal Funds Target Rate during 2022
Increase to
Date
the FFTR
after Increase
March 17, 2022
0.25
May 5, 2022
1.00
June 16, 2022
0.75
1.75
July 27, 2022
2.50
September 21, 2022
Along with the above increases, the FOMC continued to signal that additional FFTR increases are likely based on the current level of inflation. The FOMC’s actions and signals continued to place upward pressure on long-term market interest rates for bonds and loans during the third quarter of 2022. Further monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve in the future will likely cause both short-term and long-term market interest rates to increase during the remainder of 2022 and potentially into 2023. Increases in market interest rates are expected to impact the various business segments of the Company differently and will be discussed in further detail in the sections below.
Total Company net interest income was $58.0 million during the third quarter of 2022 and represented an increase of $4.9 million, or 9%, from the third quarter of 2021. Total Company net interest margin increased to 4.05% during the third quarter of 2022 compared to 3.61% for the same period in 2021.
The following were the most significant components affecting the Company’s net interest income by reportable segment:
The Traditional Banking’s net interest income increased $6.3 million, or 16%, for the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Traditional Banking’s net interest margin was 3.63% for the third quarter of 2022, an increase of 41 basis points from the same period in 2021.
The increase in the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin during the third quarter of 2022 was primarily attributable to the following factors:
Table 2 — Traditional Bank Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin Excluding PPP (Non-GAAP)
The Company earns fees and a coupon interest rate of 1.0% on its PPP portfolio. Due to the short-term nature of the PPP, management believes Traditional Bank net interest income excluding PPP fees and coupon interest is a more appropriate measure to analyze the performance of the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin. The following table reconciles Traditional Bank net interest income and net interest margin to Traditional Bank net interest income and net interest margin excluding PPP fees and interest, a non-GAAP measure.
Interest-Earning Assets
Three Months Ended Sep. 30,
$ Change
% Change
Traditional Banking - GAAP
6,265
5,136,395
5,006,198
130,197
0.41
Less: Impact of PPP fees and interest
5,668
(5,484)
12,462
185,931
(173,469)
(93)
0.01
0.35
(0.34)
Traditional Banking ex PPP fees and interest - non-GAAP
46,378
34,629
11,749
5,123,933
4,820,267
303,666
3.62
2.87
As previously disclosed, both short-term and long-term market interest rates are expected to continue increasing during the remainder of 2022 and potentially into 2023 because of expected monetary tightening by the FOMC. Additional increases in short-term interest rates and overall market rates are generally believed by management to be favorable to the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin in the near term, while decreases in short-term interest rates and overall market rates are generally believed by management to be unfavorable to the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin in the near term.
Increases in market interest rates, however, could have a negative impact on net interest income and net interest margin if the Traditional Bank is unable to maintain its deposit balances and the cost of those deposits at the levels assumed in its interest-rate-risk model. In addition, a flattening or inversion of the yield curve, causing the spread between long-term interest rates and short-term interest rates to decrease, could negatively impact the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin. Variables which may impact the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin in the future include, but are not limited to, the actual steepness of the yield curve, future demand for the Traditional Bank’s financial products and the Traditional Bank’s overall future liquidity needs.
Net interest income within the Warehouse segment decreased $3.3 million, or 52%, from the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022, driven by decreases in both average outstanding balances and net interest margin. Overall average outstanding Warehouse balances declined from $717 million during the third quarter of 2021 to $474 million for the third quarter of 2022, driven largely by a sharp rise in long-term interest rates during 2022, which depressed mortgage-refinancing demand and resulted in a sharp drop in Warehouse line usage.
In addition, the Warehouse net interest margin decreased 97 basis points from 3.51% during the third quarter of 2021 to 2.54% during the third quarter of 2022. The decline in the Warehouse net interest margin occurred as its funding costs, as charged through the Company’s funds-transfer-pricing methodology, generally rose in tandem with the increase in short-term interest rates during the year, while its yield increases were delayed until the adjustable rates on its clients’ lines of credit surpassed their contractual interest rate floors. These interest rate floors benefited Warehouse’s net interest margin substantially during 2020 and 2021 when market rates declined to historical lows but have produced margin compression since the onset of the FFTR increases during 2022.
Committed Warehouse lines-of-credit decreased from $1.4 billion as of September 30, 2021 to $1.2 billion as of September 30, 2022, while average usage rates for Warehouse lines were 40% and 52%, respectively, during the first nine months of 2022 and 2021.
Average Committed Warehouse lines-of-credit decreased to $1.3 billion from $1.4 billion for the quarter-ended September 30, 2022, while average usage rates for Warehouse lines were 38% and 51%, respectively, during the third quarters of 2022 and 2021.
Additional increases in short-term interest rates and overall market rates are generally believed by management to be favorable to Warehouse’s net interest income and net interest margin in the near term, however, the benefit of an increase in rates could be partially or entirely offset by a reduction in average outstanding balances driven by a decline in demand from Warehouse clients, as higher long-term interest rates generally drive lower demand for Warehouse borrowings. In addition, a lower demand for Warehouse borrowings could cause additional competitive pricing pressures for the industry, driving down the yield Warehouse earns on its lines of credits.
TRS’s net interest income increased $1.4 million for the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, driven primarily by an increase interest income on TRS’s prepaid card balances as a function of the Company’s FTP methodology and a rise in interest rates. For factors affecting the comparison of the TRS results of operations for the third quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2021, see section titled “OVERVIEW (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021) - Tax Refund Solutions.”
RCS’s net interest income increased $648,000, or 11%, from the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022. The increase was driven primarily by an increase in fee income from RCS’s LOC products partially offset by a decrease in interest income from RCS’s hospital receivables.
RCS’s LOC loan fees, which are recorded as interest income on loans, increased to $6.6 million during the third quarter of 2022 compared to $4.9 million during the same period in 2021. Interest income on RCS’s LOC I product increased $635,000, driven by a $3 million increase in average outstanding balances for this product from the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022. Interest income on RCS’s LOC II product increased $540,000, as the Company first piloted this product during the first quarter of 2021 with limited outstanding balances during the pilot phase.
Interest income from RCS’s hospital receivables decreased $545,000 from the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022 resulting from a $28 million decrease in average receivables from period to period.
Overall product demand for the RCS segment is not assumed to be interest rate sensitive and therefore management does not believe a rising interest rate environment will impact demand for its various consumer loan products. A rising interest rate environment, however, likely will impact the Company’s internal FTP cost allocated to this segment. As a result, the impact of rising interest rates to RCS during 2022 and, potentially into 2023, will be negative to the segment’s financial results, although the exact amount of the negative impact will depend on the internal FTP cost assigned, as well as, the overall volume and mix of loans it generates.
Table 3 — Total Company Average Balance Sheets and Interest Rates
Interest-earning assets:
Federal funds sold and other interest-earning deposits
727,626
4,176
2.30
924,859
359
0.16
Investment securities, including FHLB stock (1)
694,781
1.88
555,934
1,928
1.39
RCS LOC products (2)
30,919
6,635
85.84
22,804
4,863
85.30
Other RPG loans (3) (7)
77,429
1,102
5.69
105,414
1,288
4.89
Outstanding Warehouse lines of credit (4) (7)
473,923
5,491
4.63
717,036
6,698
3.74
Paycheck Protection Program loans (5) (7)
5.91
12.19
All other Core Bank loans (6) (7)
3,711,436
39,194
4.22
3,373,085
33,665
3.99
Total interest-earning assets
5,728,576
4.19
5,885,063
3.70
(65,262)
(61,562)
Noninterest-earning assets:
Noninterest-earning cash and cash equivalents
108,069
140,037
33,307
38,377
100,740
99,386
Other assets (1)
170,692
187,287
Total assets
6,076,122
6,288,588
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Transaction accounts
1,703,020
496
0.12
1,569,408
787,523
601
822,190
0.05
238,149
702
1.18
298,179
835
1.12
Reciprocal money market and time deposits
48,432
0.26
188,357
Brokered deposits
30,001
Total interest-bearing deposits
2,777,124
2,908,135
SSUARs and other short-term borrowings
1.92
40,791
1.63
Total interest-bearing liabilities
3,017,273
0.27
3,216,793
Noninterest-bearing liabilities and Stockholders’ equity:
2,096,911
2,118,200
110,190
104,660
Stockholders’ equity
851,748
848,935
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Net interest spread
3.92
3.53
Table 4 illustrates the extent to which changes in interest rates and changes in the volume of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities impacted Republic’s interest income and interest expense during the periods indicated. Information is provided in each category with respect to (i) changes attributable to changes in volume (changes in volume multiplied by prior rate), (ii) changes attributable to changes in rate (changes in rate multiplied by prior volume), and (iii) net change. The changes attributable to the combined impact of volume and rate have been allocated proportionately to the changes due to volume and the changes due to rate.
Table 4 — Total Company Volume/Rate Variance Analysis
Compared to
Total Net
Increase / (Decrease) Due to
Volume
Interest income:
3,817
Investment securities, including FHLB stock
1,346
794
RCS LOC products
1,772
1,741
Other RPG loans
(378)
Outstanding Warehouse lines of credit
(1,207)
(2,590)
1,383
Paycheck Protection Program loans
(3,532)
(1,952)
All other Core Bank loans
5,529
3,501
2,028
Net change in interest income
(799)
6,386
Interest expense:
405
397
(4)
(133)
(175)
(89)
90
(166)
Net change in interest expense
(432)
1,112
Net change in net interest income
4,907
(367)
5,274
Total Company Provision was a net charge of $1.6 million for the third quarter of 2022 compared to a net charge of $1.3 million for the same period in 2021.
The following were the most significant components comprising the Company’s Provision by reportable segment:
The Traditional Banking Provision during the third quarter of 2022 was a net credit of $753,000 compared to a net credit of $44,000 for the third quarter of 2021. An analysis of the Provision for the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 follows:
As a percentage of total Traditional Bank loans, the Traditional Banking ACLL was 1.31% as of September 30, 2022 compared to 1.41% as of December 31, 2021 and 1.42% as of September 30, 2021. The Company believes, based on information presently available, that it has adequately provided for Traditional Banking loan losses as of September 30, 2022.
See the sections titled “Allowance for Credit Losses” and “Asset Quality” in this section of the filing under “Comparison of Financial Condition” for additional discussion regarding the Provision and the Bank’s credit quality.
Warehouse recorded a net credit to the Provision of $386,000 for the third quarter of 2022 compared to a net credit of $223,000 for the same period in 2021. Provision for both periods reflected changes in general reserves consistent with changes in declining outstanding period-end balances. Outstanding Warehouse period-end balances decreased $154 million during the third quarter of 2022 compared to a decrease of $89 million during the third quarter of 2021.
As a percentage of total Warehouse outstanding balances, the Warehouse ACLL was 0.25% as of September 30, 2022, December 31, 2021, and September 30, 2021. The Company believes, based on information presently available, that it has adequately provided for Warehouse loan losses as of September 30, 2022.
TRS recorded a net credit to the Provision of $1.3 million during the third quarter of 2022, decreasing its weighted average net EA loss rate from 2.85% of total EA originations as of June 30, 2022, to 2.44% of total EA originations as of September 30, 2022. TRS’s net credit of $2.3 million to the Provision for the third quarter of 2021, decreased its weighted average net EA loss rate from 4.09% of total EA originations as of June 30, 2021, to 3.19% of total EA originations as of September 30, 2021.
Negatively impacting the comparability of the TRS Provision from the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022 was the previously discussed loan loss guaranty arrangement with one of TRS’s Tax Providers. Under this loan loss guaranty arrangement, one large Tax Provider for TRS guarantees a certain loan loss ceiling as a percentage of EA’s originated through this provider. This provider made a payment to TRS early in the third quarter of 2022 under the loss guaranty arrangement to initially settle charge-off activity through June 30, 2022. During the third quarter of 2022, TRS set aside for reimbursement to this provider all EA recoveries of loans originated through this provider. TRS will continue to reimburse this provider for recoveries of EA loans originated through this provider during 2022 until such time that the loss rate reaches the loss guaranty ceiling, at which time TRS would retain all recoveries thereafter.
85
During the third quarter of 2021, TRS recorded a net benefit of $1.0 million for recoveries of EAs through this one provider when no loss guaranty ceiling existed. During the third quarter of 2022, TRS recorded no benefit for recoveries of EAs originated through this provider as all amounts collected during the quarter were reimbursed to the provider. Management believes all EA recoveries during the fourth quarter of 2022 that are covered under this loss guaranty arrangement will also be reimbursed to this provider.
EAs are originated only during the first two months of each year, with losses on those originations initially estimated during the same origination period. All unpaid EAs are charged off by June 30th of each year, with first quarter loss estimates trued-up to actual charge-offs incurred through a second quarter Provision charge or credit. EAs collected during the second half of each year are recorded as recoveries of previously charged-off loans unless such recovery is subject to guarantor reimbursement under a loan-loss guaranty.
For the 2022 and 2021 tax seasons, the following table presents information regarding EA originations, second quarter losses recorded, and third quarter Provision true-ups/loss recoveries:
Table 5 — Easy Advance Performance
2022 Tax Season
2021 Tax Season
2022/2021 Change
EAs originated during the first two months of the year
(a)
61,162
EA net charge-offs (recoveries) recorded ($):
EA net losses recognized for the nine months ended September 30,
(b)
(401)
Provision expense recorded during the six months ended June 30,
(c)
8,879
10,226
(1,347)
Provision true-up/EA (recoveries) for the three months ended September 30,
(d)
946
EA net charge-offs (recoveries) recorded (%):
(b)/(a)
(0.75)
(c)/(a)
2.85
4.09
(1.24)
(d)/(a)
(0.41)
(0.90)
0.49
With all unpaid or unguaranteed EAs having been charged off as of June 30, 2022, any payments received during the fourth quarter of 2022 for unguaranteed EAs will continue to represent recovery credits directly to income.
For factors affecting the comparison of the TRS results of operations for the third quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2021, see section titled “OVERVIEW (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021) - Tax Refund Solutions.”
As illustrated in Table 6 below, RCS recorded a net charge to the Provision of $4.0 million during the third quarter of 2022 compared to a net charge to the Provision of $3.8 million for the same period in 2021. The increase in the Provision was driven primarily by a $1.7 million increase in net charge-offs on RCS’s line-of-credit products. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC I product increased to $1.8 million for the third quarter of 2022 from $733,000 during the third quarter of 2021, with government stimulus programs generally driving down usage of this product during the third quarter of 2021. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC II product were $809,000 for the third quarter of 2022 compared to $254,000 during the third quarter of 2021.
While RCS loans generally return higher yields, they also present a greater credit risk than Traditional Banking loan products. As a percentage of total RCS loans, the RCS ACLL was 14.73% as of September 30, 2022, 13.91% as of December 31, 2021, and 9.99% as of September 30, 2021. The Company believes, based on information presently available, that it has adequately provided for RCS loan losses as of September 30, 2022.
The following table presents net charges to the RCS Provision by product:
Table 6 — RCS Provision by Product
Product:
Lines of credit
3,996
3,830
Hospital receivables
87
Table 7 — Summary of Loan and Lease Loss Experience
ACLL at beginning of period
Charge-offs:
(279)
Total charge-offs
Recoveries:
110
Total recoveries
Net loan recoveries (charge-offs)
(1,173)
1,439
Provision - Core Banking
Provision - RPG
Total Provision
ACLL at end of period
ACLL to total loans
1.51
1.45
ACLL to nonperforming loans
Net loan charge-offs (recoveries) to average loans
0.11
(0.13)
Credit Quality Ratios - Core Banking:
1.20
1.22
308
254
(0.02)
Table 8 — Annualized Net Loan Charge-offs (Recoveries) to Average Loans by Loan Category
Net Loan Charge-Offs (Recoveries) to Average Loans
(0.01)
(0.15)
(0.07)
111.26
63.97
(0.47)
3.49
1.66
Easy Advances*
2.77
0.81
1.42
(1.05)
* All loss rates above are based on net charge-offs as a function of average outstanding portfolio balances. Easy Advances are originated during the first two months of each year, with all EAs charged-off by June 30th of each year. Due to their relatively short life, EA net charge-offs are typically analyzed by the Company as a percentage of total EA originations, not as a percentage of average outstanding balances.
The Company swung from net recoveries to total average loans of 0.13% during the third quarter of 2021 to net charge-offs to total average loans of 0.11% during the third quarter of 2022. The 24-basis-point negative swing was driven by net charge-offs within the Company’s RPG operations.
From the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022, RPG experienced a $946,000 decrease in net EA recoveries within its TRS segment. For factors affecting the comparison of the TRS results of operations for the third quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2021, see section titled “OVERVIEW (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021) - Tax Refund Solutions.”
From the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022, RPG experienced a $1.7 million increase in net charge-offs within its RCS segment. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC I product increased to $1.8 million for the third quarter of 2022 from $733,000 for the third quarter of 2021, with government stimulus programs generally driving down usage of this product during the third quarter of 2021. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC II product were $809,000 for the third quarter of 2022 compared to $254,000 of net charge-offs for the third quarter of 2021, with this product first piloted during the first quarter of 2021.
During the third quarters of 2022 and 2021, the Company’s Core Bank net charge-offs to average Core Bank loans remained near zero.
Noninterest Income
Total Company noninterest income decreased $3.8 million during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.
The following were the most significant components comprising the total Company’s noninterest income by reportable segment:
Traditional Banking’s noninterest income increased $155,000, or 2%, for the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily driven by a $94,000 increase in Interchange Fee Income and a $135,000 increase in Service Charges on Deposit Accounts.
The Bank earns a substantial majority of its fee income related to its overdraft service program from the per item fee it assesses its customers for each insufficient-funds check or electronic debit presented for payment. The total per item fees, net of refunds, included in service charges on deposits for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 were $1.8 million and $1.6 million. The total daily overdraft charges, net of refunds, included in interest income for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 were $337,000 and $304,000.
A decrease in Mortgage banking income for the quarter was caused by a large and rapid rise in long-term interest rates during the first nine months of 2022, which led to a significant slowdown in the origination of mortgage loans to be sold into the secondary market. As of September 30, 2022, the 30-year mortgage rate was hovering near levels not generally seen since 2008. As a result, the Core Bank sold only $39 million in secondary market loans and achieved an average cash-gain-as-a-percent-of-loans-sold of 2.23% during the third quarter of 2022 compared to sales of $182 million with comparable cash-gain-as-a-percent-of-loans-sold of 2.82% during the third quarter of 2021.
With the FOMC moving forward with its quantitative tightening program during 2022, management believes it is likely that the Core Bank’s mortgage origination volume will continue to be negatively impacted by rising interest rates causing additional declines in mortgage banking income throughout 2022.
TRS’s noninterest income decreased $728,000 during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily driven by a $687,000 decrease in net RT fees. The decrease in net RT fees was primarily driven by 3% overall decrease in RT volume from the 2021 to the 2022 tax season, with a significant portion of that decrease driven by the loss of one of TRS’s Tax Providers following the announcement of the now-cancelled May 2021 Asset Purchase Agreement. Also impacting the decrease in net RT fees from the third quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2022 was the previously mentioned two-week delay in the 2021 tax season, which pushed a greater percentage of RT volume into the third quarter of 2021.
RCS’s noninterest income increased $952,000, or 29%, during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, with program fees representing the entirety of RCS’s noninterest income. The increase in RCS program fees primarily reflected higher sales volume from RCS’s line of credit and installment loan products, as sales volume was negatively impacted during the third quarter of 2021 by federal government stimulus programs implemented to combat the economic impact of the COVID pandemic. Proceeds from the sale of RCS loan products totaled $306 million during the third quarter of 2022, a 13% increase from the same period in 2021.
The following table presents RCS program fees by product:
Table 9 — RCS Program Fees by Product
1,828
1,535
293
(39)
Installment loans*
2,342
1,659
952
The Company has elected the fair value option for this product, with mark-to-market adjustments recorded as a component of program fees.
Noninterest Expense
Total Company noninterest expense increased $1.7 million, or 4%, during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.
The following were the most significant components comprising the increase in noninterest expense by reportable segment:
Traditional Banking noninterest expense increased $1.9 million, or 5%, for the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. The following primarily drove the change in noninterest expense:
Noninterest expense at the Warehouse segment decreased $205,000 during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to lower incentive compensation expense recorded during 2022, generally due to lower Warehouse client loan volumes during 2022.
Noninterest expense at the Mortgage Banking segment decreased $1.3 million, or 38%, during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to a $710,000 reduction in overhead salaries allocated to the Mortgage Banking segment and a $680,000 reduction in mortgage commissions, with both reductions resulting from the previously discussed slowdown in mortgage origination volume.
Noninterest expense at the RCS segment increased $992,000, or 81%, during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to increased marketing of RCS’s LOC II product. The LOC II product was first piloted during the first quarter of 2021.
OVERVIEW (Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021)
Total Company net income for the first nine months of 2022 was $71.3 million, a $1.3 million, or 2%, increase from the same period in 2021. Diluted EPS increased to $3.58 for the first nine months of 2022 compared to $3.39 for the same period in 2021. The increase in net income primarily reflected the following:
In addition to the more normal timing of the tax season in 2022 as compared to 2021, the fiscal year 2022 tax season, in totality, was favorably impacted by a contractual amendment with one of the Company’s large Tax Providers. As a result of the amended contract, TRS shares certain revenues with this provider, while this provider absorbs certain overhead costs of the program and furnishes to TRS a loan loss guaranty ceiling as a percentage of EAs originated by this provider. Through this provider, TRS originated $172 million of EAs during the first quarter of 2022 as compared to $135 million originated during the first quarter of 2021. The net cost of the revenue share to the provider from TRS was approximately $266,000 for the $172 million of EA volume, while the benefit to TRS of the overhead costs absorbed by this provider was approximately $543,000 and the net benefit to TRS of the loan loss guaranty ceiling for the first nine months of 2022 was approximately $1.3 million.
Negatively impacting the first nine months of 2022 as compared to the first nine months of 2021 was a loss of RT volume by RB&T to Green Dot from certain third-party Tax Providers following the execution of the TRS Purchase Agreement. While TRS was able to partially offset this lost volume through higher volume from other existing relationships, the lost volume to Green Dot from this one provider had a negative impact to the overall results of TRS for the first nine months of 2022 and may continue to have a negative impact to the overall results of TRS beyond 2022, if TRS is unable to win this business back through its normal solicitation process.
As a net result of all the factors in the preceding paragraphs as well as the positive impact to non-interest income of the Green Dot settlement, TRS experienced a net positive improvement to its first nine months of 2022 operating results as compared to the first nine months of 2021.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021)
Banking operations are significantly dependent upon net interest income. Net interest income is the difference between interest income on interest-earning assets, such as loans and investment securities, and the interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities used to fund those assets, such as interest-bearing deposits, securities sold under agreements to repurchase, and FHLB advances. Net interest income is impacted by both changes in the amount and composition of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, as well as market interest rates.
A large amount of the Company’s financial instruments track closely with, or are primarily indexed to, either the FFTR, Prime, or LIBOR. These rates trended lower in the first quarter of 2020 with the onset of the COVID pandemic, as the FOMC reduced the FFTR to approximately 25 basis points. With the rise of inflation during the latter half of 2021 and a steep inflationary rise during the first half of 2022, representing inflationary levels not seen in approximately 40 years, the FOMC began executing a quantitative tightening program by reducing its balance sheet, selling certain types of bonds in the market, and repeatedly increasing the FFTR. The FOMC’s increases to the FFTR during the first nine months of 2022 included the following:
Table 10 — Increases to the Federal Funds Target Rate during 2022
The FOMC’s actions and signals continued to place upward pressure on long-term market interest rates for bonds and loans during the third quarter of 2022. Further monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve in the future will likely cause both short-term and long-term market interest rates to increase during the remainder of 2022 and, potentially, into 2023. Increases in market interest rates are expected to impact the various business segments of the Company differently and will be discussed in further detail in the sections below.
Total Company net interest income was $171.9 million during the first nine months of 2022 and represented an increase of $581,000 from the first nine months of 2021. Total Company net interest margin expanded to 3.95% during the first nine months of 2022 compared to 3.86% for the same period in 2021.
The Traditional Banking’s net interest income increased $2.2 million, or 2%, for the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Traditional Banking’s net interest margin was 3.20% for the first nine months of 2022, a decrease of one basis point from the same period in 2021.
The increase in the Traditional Bank’s net interest income during the first nine months of 2022 was primarily attributable to the following factors:
Table 11 — Traditional Bank Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin Excluding PPP (Non-GAAP)
Nine Months Ended Sep. 30,
2,191
5,081,360
4,966,562
114,798
1,307
16,949
(15,642)
(92)
19,844
299,458
(279,614)
(0.26)
120,561
102,728
17,833
5,061,516
4,667,104
394,412
3.18
2.93
As previously disclosed, both short-term and long-term market interest rates are expected to continue to increase during 2022 and, potentially, into 2023 as a result of expected monetary tightening by the FOMC. Additional increases in short-term interest rates and overall market rates are generally believed by management to be favorable to the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin in the near term, while decreases in short-term interest rates and overall market rates are generally believed by management to be unfavorable to the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin in the near term.
Increases in market interest rates, however, could have a negative impact on net interest income and net interest margin if the Traditional Bank is unable to maintain its deposit balances and the cost of those deposits at the levels assumed in its interest-rate-risk model. In addition, a flattening or inversion of the yield curve, causing the spread between long-term interest rates and short-term interest rates to decrease, could negatively impact the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin. Variables which may impact the Traditional Bank’s net interest income and net interest margin in the future include, but are not limited to, the actual steepness of the yield curve, future demand for the Traditional Bank’s financial products, and the Traditional Bank’s overall future liquidity needs.
Net interest income within the Warehouse segment decreased $8.0 million, or 41%, from the first nine months of 2021 to the first nine months of 2022, driven by decreases in both average outstanding balances and net interest margin. Overall average outstanding Warehouse balances declined from $745 million during the first nine months of 2021 to $545 million for the first nine months of 2022, driven largely by the sharp rise in long-term interest rates during 2022, which depressed mortgage-refinancing demand and resulted in a sharp drop in Warehouse line usage.
In addition, the Warehouse net interest margin decreased 68 basis points from 3.47% during the first nine months of 2021 to 2.79% during the first nine months of 2022. The decline in the Warehouse net interest margin occurred as its funding costs, as charged through the Company’s funds-transfer-pricing methodology, generally rose in tandem with the increase in short-term interest rates during the year, while its yield increases were delayed until the adjustable rates on its clients’ lines of credit surpassed their contractual interest rate floors. These interest rate floors benefited Warehouse’s net interest margin substantially during 2020 and 2021 when market rates declined to historical lows but have produced margin compression since the onset of the FFTR increases during 2022.
TRS’s net interest income increased $3.2 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, driven by an increase in EA fees, an increase in outstanding commercial loan balances, and an increase in interest income on TRS’s prepaid card balances as a function of the Company’s FTP methodology and a rise in interest rates. TRS’s EA product earned $13.6 million in interest income during the first nine months of 2022, a $447,000 increase from the first nine months of 2021 resulting primarily from a $61 million increase in EA originations from period to period. For factors affecting the comparison of the TRS results of operations for the first nine months of 2022 and the first nine months of 2021, see section titled “OVERVIEW (Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021) - Tax Refund Solutions.”
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RCS’s net interest income increased $3.5 million, or 22%, from the first nine months of 2021 to the first nine months of 2022. The increase was driven primarily by an increase in fee income from RCS’s LOC products partially offset by a decrease in interest income from RCS’s hospital receivables.
RCS’s LOC loan fees, which are recorded as interest income on loans, increased to $18.1 million during the first nine months of 2022 compared to $12.6 million during the same period in 2021.
Interest income on RCS’s LOC I product increased $2.6 million, driven by a $5 million increase in average outstanding balances for this product from the first nine months of 2021 to the first nine months of 2022. Interest income on RCS’s LOC II product increased $2.3 million, as the Company first piloted this product during the first nine months of 2021 with limited outstanding balances during the pilot phase.
Interest income from RCS’s hospital receivables decreased $1.4 million from the first nine months 2021 to the same period in 2022 resulting from a $33 million decrease in average receivables from period to period.
Overall product demand for the RCS segment is not assumed to be interest rate sensitive and therefore management does not believe a rising interest rate environment will impact demand for its various consumer loan products. A rising interest rate environment, however, likely will impact the Company’s internal FTP cost allocated to this segment. As a result, the impact of rising interest rates to RCS during 2022 will be negative to the segment’s financial results, although the exact amount of the negative impact will depend on the internal FTP cost assigned, as well as the overall volume and mix of loans it generates.
Table 12 — Total Company Average Balance Sheets and Interest Rates
800,643
6,243
1.04
792,858
776
664,455
8,151
1.64
560,780
5,857
TRS Easy Advance loans (2)
31,946
13,606
56.79
35,203
13,159
49.84
28,123
18,119
85.90
18,648
12,552
89.75
96,448
4,392
6.07
116,709
5,196
5.94
545,301
15,444
3.78
744,522
20,892
8.78
7.55
3,611,777
108,669
4.01
3,349,804
100,546
4.00
5,798,537
5,917,982
3.96
Allowance for credit loss
(68,847)
(67,415)
210,637
177,667
34,355
38,891
100,146
88,414
171,819
188,250
6,246,647
6,343,789
1,698,005
0.06
1,551,690
791,625
863
776,448
292
244,412
1,916
1.05
305,456
2,871
1.25
60,627
273,312
0.29
38,864
2,794,669
2,945,770
0.18
21,099
1.43
30,989
0.20
41,089
1.65
3,087,044
3,219,840
2,201,793
2,163,334
107,814
115,730
849,996
844,885
Total liabilities and stock-holders’ equity
3.88
3.77
Table 13 illustrates the extent to which changes in interest rates and changes in the volume of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities impacted Republic’s interest income and interest expense during the periods indicated. Information is provided in each category with respect to (i) changes attributable to changes in volume (changes in volume multiplied by prior rate), (ii) changes attributable to changes in rate (changes in rate multiplied by prior volume), and (iii) net change. The changes attributable to the combined impact of volume and rate have been allocated proportionately to the changes due to volume and the changes due to rate.
Table 13 — Total Company Volume/Rate Variance Analysis
5,467
5,460
2,294
1,114
TRS Easy Advance loans*
447
2,897
(2,450)
5,567
6,126
(559)
(804)
(920)
(5,448)
(5,641)
(18,030)
2,388
8,123
7,882
(6,499)
6,503
571
565
(955)
(522)
(433)
(472)
(405)
(67)
(23)
134
118
(20)
199
(507)
(577)
(1,428)
(5,071)
5,652
* Since interest income for Easy Advances is composed entirely of loan fees and EAs are only offered during the first two months of each year, volume and rate measurements for this product are based on total EAs originated instead of average EA balances during the period. EA originations totaled $311 million and $250 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021. The unannualized EA yield as a function of total EA originations was 4.37% and 5.26% for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
Total Company Provision was a net charge of $14.5 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to a net charge of $12.2 million for the same period in 2021.
The Traditional Banking Provision during the first nine months of 2022 was a net credit of $287,000 compared to a net credit of $126,000 for the first nine months of 2021. An analysis of the Provision for the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 follows:
Warehouse recorded a net credit to the Provision of $1.0 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to a net credit of $530,000 for the same period in 2021. Provision for both periods reflected changes in general reserves consistent with changes in outstanding period-end balances. Outstanding Warehouse period-end balances decreased $408 million during the first nine months of 2022 compared to a decrease of $212 million during the first nine months of 2021.
TRS recorded a net charge to the Provision of $7.0 million during the first nine months of 2022 compared to a net charge of $7.9 million for the same period in 2021. Substantially all TRS Provision in both periods was related to its EA product.
TRS recorded a charge to the Provision for EA loans of $7.6 million, or 2.44% of its $311 million in EAs originated during the first nine months of 2022 compared to a charge to the Provision of $8.0 million, or 3.19% of its $250 million of EAs originated during the first nine months of 2021. The decrease in Provision for the first nine months of 2022 was primarily due to the following two factors:
With all unpaid or unguaranteed EAs having been charged off as of June 30, 2022, any payments received for unguaranteed EAs during the fourth quarter of 2022 will continue to represent recovery credits directly to income.
For factors affecting the comparison of the TRS results of operations for the first nine months of 2022 and the first nine months of 2021, see section titled “OVERVIEW (Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021) - Tax Refund Solutions.”
As illustrated in Table 14 below, RCS recorded a net charge to the Provision of $8.8 million during the first nine months of 2022 compared to a net charge to the Provision of $5.0 million for the same period in 2021. The increase in the Provision was driven primarily by a $7.2 million increase in net charge-offs on RCS’s line-of-credit products. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC I product increased to $5.1 million for the first nine months of 2022 from $1.9 million during the first nine months of 2021, with government stimulus programs generally driving down usage of this product during the first nine months of 2021. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC II product were $2.1 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to $254,000 of net charge-offs during the first nine months of 2021.
Table 14 — RCS Provision by Product
8,827
5,036
3,791
800
3,799
103
Table 15 — Summary of Loan and Lease Loss Experience
(649)
305
Net loan charge-offs
(14,199)
(10,398)
Net loan charge-offs to average loans
0.44
104
Table 16 — Annualized Net Loan Charge-offs (Recoveries) to Average Loans by Loan Category
(0.06)
(0.05)
(0.03)
0.21
0.74
90.38
41.32
1.19
30.29
29.13
(6.49)
10.32
2.55
13.89
8.27
The Company’s net charge-offs to average total Company loans increased from 0.30% during the first nine months of 2021 to 0.44 % during the first nine months of 2022, with net charge-offs increasing $3.8 million and average total Company loans decreasing $231 million, or 5%. The increase in net charge-offs was primarily driven by a $4.1 million increase in net charge-offs within the Company’s RPG operations, which has historically conducted higher-risk lending activities than the Company’s Core Banking operations.
From the first nine months of 2021 to the first nine months of 2022, RPG experienced a $5.0 million increase in net charge-offs within its RCS segment. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC I product increased to $5.1 million for the first nine months of 2022 from $1.9 million for the first nine months of 2021, with government stimulus programs generally driving down usage of this product during the first nine months of 2021. Net charge-offs for RCS’s LOC II product were $2.1 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to $254,000 of net charge-offs for the first nine months of 2021, with this product first piloted during the first quarter of 2021.
From the first nine months of 2021 to the first nine months of 2022, RPG experienced a $938,000 decrease in net charge-offs within its TRS segment, as TRS amended one of its existing Tax Provider contracts to place a cap on loan losses from EAs originated through this Tax Provider. For factors affecting the comparison of the TRS results of operations for the first nine months of 2022 and the first nine months of 2021, see section titled “OVERVIEW (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021) - Tax Refund Solutions.”
During the first nine months of 2022 and 2021, the Company’s Core Bank net charge-offs to average Core Bank loans remained near zero.
105
Total Company noninterest income increased $7.1 million during the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.
Traditional Banking’s noninterest income increased $364,000, or 2%, for the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, driven primarily by a $783,000 increase in Service Charges on Deposit Accounts offset by a $399,000 nonrecurring gain on sale of a former banking center recorded during the first nine months of 2021.
The Bank earns a substantial majority of its fee income related to its overdraft service program from the per item fee it assesses its customers for each insufficient-funds check or electronic debit presented for payment. The total per item fees, net of refunds, included in service charges on deposits for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 were $5.1 million and $4.0 million. The total daily overdraft charges, net of refunds, included in interest income for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 were $933,000 and $810,000.
A significant rise in long-term interest rates during the first nine months of 2022 led to a significant slowdown in the origination and subsequent sale of mortgage loans into the secondary market. As a result, Mortgage Banking income decreased from $16.7 million during the first nine months of 2021 to $5.6 million for the first nine months of 2022. For the first nine months of 2022, the Bank sold $226 million in secondary market loans and achieved an average cash-gain-as-a-percent-of-loans-sold during the quarter of 2.23%. During the first nine months of 2021, however, long-term interest rates were closer to historical lows, driving secondary market loan sales of $563 million with comparable cash-gain-as-a-percent-of-loans-sold of 3.12%.
With the FOMC moving forward with its quantitative tightening program during 2022 and, potentially, into 2023, management believes it is likely that the Core Bank’s mortgage origination volume will continue to be negatively impacted by rising interest rates causing additional declines in mortgage banking income.
TRS’s noninterest income increased $14.6 million, or 65%, during the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Green Dot paid RB&T a total of $18 million in nonrecurring payments during the first nine months of 2022 related to the now-cancelled TRS Purchase Agreement. These nonrecurring payments included the following:
Regarding TRS’s RT product, net RT revenue decreased 17% from $19.9 million during the first nine months of 2021 to $16.6 million during the same period in 2022. The decrease was primarily driven by an 3% overall decrease in RT volume from the 2021 to the 2022 tax season, with a substantial portion of that decrease driven by the loss of one of TRS’s tax providers following the announcement of the now-cancelled May 2021 Asset Purchase Agreement.
RCS’s noninterest income increased $3.3 million, or 46%, during the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, with program fees representing the entirety of RCS’s noninterest income. The increase in RCS program fees primarily reflected higher sales volume from RCS’s line of credit and installment loan products as sales volume was negatively impacted during the first nine months of 2021 by federal government stimulus programs implemented to combat the economic impact of the COVID pandemic. Proceeds from the sale of RCS loan products totaled $832 million during the first nine months of 2022, an 49% increase from the same period in 2021.
Table 17 — RCS Program Fees by Product
4,647
3,433
133
(8)
5,712
3,630
2,082
3,288
Total Company noninterest expense increased $4.3 million, or 3%, during the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.
Traditional Banking noninterest expense increased $4.1 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. The following primarily drove the change in noninterest expense:
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Noninterest expense at the Mortgage Banking segment decreased $1.9 million, or 20%, during the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to a $796,000 reduction in overhead salaries allocated to the Mortgage Banking segment and a $2.1 million reduction in mortgage commissions offset by a $1.7 million reduction in credits to deferred salary expense.
The Company records a credit offset to salary expense for each loan it originates and recognizes the cost of that credit as an adjustment to the loan’s yield over its estimated life. The amount of credit benefit to salary expense during a given quarter is determined by the overall loan origination volume during that quarter. With the dramatic decrease in mortgage origination volume during 2022, the overall credit benefit recognized by the Mortgage Banking segment during the first nine months of 2022 decreased substantially as compared to the first nine months of 2021 when mortgage origination volume was much higher.
Noninterest expense at the RCS segment increased $2.4 million, or 72%, during the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to increased marketing of RCS’s LOC II product. The LOC II product was first piloted during the first quarter of 2021.
COMPARISON OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AND DECEMBER 31, 2021
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include cash, deposits with other financial institutions with original maturities less than 90 days, and federal funds sold. Republic had $754 million in cash and cash equivalents as of September 30, 2022 compared to $757 million as of December 31, 2021. Although the Company deployed some of its excess cash through the purchase of long-term investment securities during the fourth quarter of 2021 and the first nine months of 2022 as a result of movements in the yield curve, it has maintained an overall general strategy of keeping a large amount of cash on balance sheet for interest rate risk protection. This strategy benefitted the Traditional Bank’s net interest income during the first nine months of 2022 as the FOMC began raising the FFTR.
For additional discussion regarding the Bank’s net interest income, see the sections titled “Net Interest Income” in this section of the filing under “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021) and “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021).
For cash held at the FRB, the Bank earns a yield on amounts exceeding required reserves. This cash earned a weighted-average yield of 1.04% during the first nine months of 2022 with a spot balance yield of 3.15% on September 30, 2022. For cash held within the Bank’s banking center and ATM networks, the Bank does not earn interest.
Investment Securities
Table 18 — Purchases of Investment Securities
Purchase
Yield to
Maturity
Life
Purchases by Class for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
U.S. Treasury
85,614
2.5
yrs
U.S. Government Agencies
10,028
10.0
115,776
4.4
Purchases by Class for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022
74,043
2.62
2.1
Purchases by Class for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
55,001
3.98
2.6
Total Purchases for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
244,820
2.37
3.3
During the third quarter, management generally targeted purchases of investment securities with maturities of approximately two years. While the Company will likely continue to replace some of its maturing investments with new purchases, it will likely maintain a general policy of limited growth in the total securities portfolio in the near-term as long as its yield on interest-earning cash continues to rise in proportion to future FFTR increases.
The overall timing and amount of any purchases will depend on many factors including, but not limited to, the Company’s overall current and projected liquidity positions, its customers’ demand for its loans and deposit products, the interest rate environment at the time, as well as the anticipated interest rate environment in the near and long term.
Table 19 — Loan Portfolio Composition
43,168
14,714
115,584
18,081
64,608
(48,159)
(86)
2,696
23,419
18,460
387
(6,558)
(45)
(459)
(32)
245,981
(408,312)
(162,331)
(50,692)
(99)
5,911
(44,781)
(31)
(207,112)
(342)
(207,454)
**Total loans are presented inclusive of premiums, discounts and net loan origination fees and costs.
Gross loans decreased by $207 million, or 5%, during the first nine months of 2022 to $4.3 billion as of September 30, 2022. The most significant components comprising the change in loans by reportable segment follow:
Period-end balances for Traditional Banking loans increased $246 million, or 7%, from December 31, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The following primarily drove the change in loan balances during the first nine months of 2022:
The CARES Act was enacted in March 2020 and provided for the SBA’s PPP, which allowed the Bank to lend to its qualifying small business clients to assist them in their efforts to meet their cash-flow needs during the COVID pandemic. The Economic Aid Act was enacted in December 2020 and provided for a second round of PPP loans. PPP loans are fully backed by the SBA and may be entirely forgiven if the loan client uses loan funds for qualifying reasons. As of September 30, 2022, net PPP loans of $8 million remained on the Traditional Bank’s balance sheet.
Outstanding Warehouse period-end balances decreased $408 million from December 31, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Due to the volatility and seasonality of the mortgage market, it is difficult to project future outstanding balances of Warehouse lines of credit. The growth of the Bank’s Warehouse Lending business greatly depends on the overall mortgage market and typically follows industry trends. Since its entrance into this business during 2011, the Bank has experienced volatility in the Warehouse portfolio consistent with overall demand for mortgage products. Weighted average quarterly usage rates on the Bank’s Warehouse lines have ranged from a low of 31% during the fourth quarter of 2013 to a high of 71% during the fourth quarter of 2019. On an annual basis, weighted average usage rates on the Bank’s Warehouse lines have ranged from a low of 40% during 2013 to a high of 66% during 2020.
As previously discussed, additional increases in short-term interest rates and overall market rates are generally believed by management to be unfavorable to Warehouse’s client demand, likely leading to a reduction in average outstanding balances as higher long-term interest rates generally drive lower demand for Warehouse borrowings.
Outstanding TRS loans decreased $51 million from December 31, 2021 to September 30, 2022 primarily reflecting a $51 million reduction in other TRS loans. Other TRS loans as of December 31, 2021 were primarily commercial loans to Tax Providers. These loans are typically made in the fourth quarter of each year and fully repaid by the end of the first nine months of the following year.
As of September 30, 2022, the Bank maintained an ACLL for expected credit losses inherent in the Bank’s loan portfolio, which includes overdrawn deposit accounts. The Bank also maintained an ACLS and an ACLC for expected losses in its securities portfolio and its off-balance sheet credit exposures, respectively. Management evaluates the adequacy of the ACLL monthly, and the adequacy of the ACLS and ACLC quarterly. All ACLs are presented and discussed with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors quarterly.
The Company’s ACLL remained at $65 million from December 31, 2021 to September 30, 2022. As a percent of total loans, the total Company’s ACLL increased to 1.51% as of September 30, 2022 compared to 1.44% as of December 31, 2021. An analysis of the ACL by reportable segment follows:
The Traditional Banking ACLL decreased approximately $177,000 to $49 million as of September 30, 2022 driven primarily by formula reserves tied to loan growth during the first nine months of 2022 partially offset by reserves released following the payoff or upgrade of loans graded Substandard or Special Mention.
The Warehouse ACLL decreased to approximately $1.0 million, and the Warehouse ACLL to total Warehouse loans remained at 0.25% when comparing September 30, 2022 to December 31, 2021. As of September 30, 2022, the Warehouse ACLL was entirely qualitative in nature with no adjustments to the qualitative reserve percentage required for the first nine months of 2022.
The RCS ACLL increased $1.5 million from $13 million as of December 31, 2021 to $15 million as of September 30, 2022.
RCS maintained an ACLL for two distinct credit products offered as of September 30, 2022, including its line-of-credit products and its healthcare-receivables products. As of September 30, 2022, the ACLL to total loans estimated for each RCS product ranged from as low as 0.25% for its healthcare-receivables products to as high as 56% for its LOC II product. The lower reserve percentage of 0.25% was provided for RCS’s healthcare receivables, as such receivables have recourse back to the third-party providers.
Table 17 — Management’s Allocation of the Allowance for Credit Losses on Loans
Percent of
Loans to
ACLL to
Loans*
Loan Class
Loan Class*
0.98
0.87
0.88
1.48
1.95
6.44
100.00
1.28
1.29
15.72
21.93
1.31
1.41
14.73
13.91
14.69
9.06
1.44
* Values of less than 50 basis points are rounded down to zero.
Asset Quality
Classified and Special Mention Loans
The Bank applies credit quality indicators, or ratings, to individual loans based on internal Bank policies. Such internal policies are informed by regulatory standards. Loans rated “Loss,” “Doubtful,” “Substandard,” and PCD-Substandard are considered “Classified.” Loans rated “Special Mention” or PCD-Special Mention are considered Special Mention. The Bank’s Classified and Special Mention loans decreased approximately $47 million during the first nine months of 2022, driven primarily by commercial-purpose loans repaid or upgraded to a Pass rating during the first nine months of 2022.
See Footnote 4 “Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements” for additional discussion regarding Classified and Special Mention loans.
Table 18 — Classified and Special Mention Loans
Loss
16,893
21,714
(4,821)
PCD - Substandard
1,547
1,692
(145)
Total Classified Loans
(4,966)
72,623
114,496
(41,873)
PCD - Special Mention
795
Total Special Mention Loans
(41,931)
Total Classified and Special Mention Loans
91,800
138,697
(46,897)
Nonperforming Loans
Nonperforming loans include loans on nonaccrual status and loans past due 90-days-or-more and still accruing. The nonperforming loan category includes TDRs totaling approximately $3 million and $6 million as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
Nonperforming loans to total loans decreased to 0.38% at September 30, 2022 from 0.46% at December 31, 2021, as the total balance of nonperforming loans decreased by $4 million, or 20%, while total loans decreased $207 million, or 5%, during the first nine months of 2022. As presented in Tables 25 and 26 below, the decrease in nonperforming loans during 2022, including the nonaccrual loan component, was primarily driven by the refinancing of $8 million of these loans to another financial institution.
The ACLL to total nonaccrual loans increased to 398% as of September 30, 2022 from 315% as of December 31, 2021, as the total ACLL increased $342,000 and the balance of nonaccrual loans decreased by $4 million, or 20%. The driver of the decrease in nonaccrual loans was primarily the refinancing out of the Bank of $8 million of these loans during the first nine months of 2022.
Table 19 — Nonperforming Loans and Nonperforming Assets Summary
Nonaccrual loans to total loans
ACLL to nonaccrual loans
398
Loans on nonaccrual status include collateral-dependent loans. See Footnote 4 “Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements” for additional discussion regarding collateral-dependent loans.
Table 20 — Nonperforming Loan Composition
1.57
1.47
0.07
0.45
0.00
0.56
0.67
22.20
20,505
Table 21 — Stratification of Nonperforming Loans
Number of Nonperforming Loans and Recorded Investment
> $100 &
No.
<= $100
<= $500
> $500
4,771
7,407
1,426
187
243
546
180
5,677
8,411
2,234
231
5,714
146
5,042
4,857
2,140
872
5,685
695
1,005
5,946
6,734
7,825
233
5,993
115
Table 25 — Roll-forward of Nonperforming Loans
Nonperforming loans at the beginning of the period
16,210
23,595
Loans added to nonperforming status during the period that remained nonperforming at the end of the period
3,554
1,248
5,778
Loans removed from nonperforming status during the period that were nonperforming at the beginning of the period (see table below)
(3,051)
(2,233)
(9,021)
(4,839)
Principal balance paydowns of loans nonperforming at both period ends
(349)
(384)
(940)
(1,098)
Net change in principal balance of other loans nonperforming at both period ends*
644
Nonperforming loans at the end of the period
20,943
Includes relatively small consumer portfolios, e.g. RCS loans.
Table 26 — Detail of Loans Removed from Nonperforming Status
Loans charged off
Loans transferred to OREO
Loan payoffs and paydowns
(2,431)
(2,150)
(8,125)
(4,559)
Loans returned to accrual status
(620)
(83)
(280)
Total loans removed from nonperforming status during the period that were nonperforming at the beginning of the period
(8,126)
Based on the Bank’s review as of September 30, 2022, management believes that its reserves are adequate to absorb expected losses on all nonperforming loans.
Total Company delinquent loans to total loans decreased to 0.28% as of September 30, 2022 from 0.30% as of December 31, 2021. Core Bank delinquent loans to total Core Bank loans decreased to 0.12% as of September 30, 2022 from 0.17% as of December 31, 2021. With the exception of small-dollar consumer loans, all Traditional Bank loans past due 90-days-or-more as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 were on nonaccrual status.
Table 24 — Delinquent Loan Composition*
0.36
0.22
21.72
24.01
0.72
6.48
7.58
Total delinquent loans
* Represents total loans 30-days-or-more past due. Delinquent status may be determined by either the number of days past due or number of payments past due.
117
Table 28 — Roll-forward of Delinquent Loans
Delinquent loans at the beginning of the period
11,451
18,718
19,947
Loans added to delinquency status during the period and remained in delinquency status at the end of the period
2,531
945
3,767
1,268
Loans removed from delinquency status during the period that were in delinquency status at the beginning of the period (see table below)
(3,466)
(3,109)
(6,803)
(3,179)
Principal balance paydowns of loans delinquent at both period ends
(81)
Net change in principal balance of other loans delinquent at both period ends*
1,394
873
1,485
(562)
Delinquent loans at the end of period
17,393
Includes relatively-small consumer portfolios, e.g., RCS loans.
Table 29 — Detail of Loans Removed from Delinquent Status
Easy Advances paid off or charged off
(2,620)
(1,652)
(6,186)
(1,938)
Loans paid current
(846)
(1,457)
(616)
(1,240)
Total loans removed from delinquency status during the period that were in delinquency status at the beginning of the period
Collateral-Dependent Loans and Troubled Debt Restructurings
When management determines that a loan is collateral dependent and foreclosure is probable, expected credit losses are based on the fair value of the collateral at the reporting date, adjusted for selling costs, if appropriate. The Bank’s policy is to charge-off all or that portion of its recorded investment in collateral-dependent loans upon a determination that it expects the full amount of contractual principal and interest will not be collected.
A TDR is a situation where, due to a borrower’s financial difficulties, the Bank grants a concession to the borrower that the Bank would not otherwise have considered. The majority of the Bank’s TDRs involve a restructuring of loan terms such as a temporary reduction in the payment amount to require only interest and escrow (if required), reducing the loan’s interest rate, and/or extending the maturity date of the debt. Nonaccrual loans modified as TDRs remain on nonaccrual status and continue to be reported as nonperforming loans. Accruing loans modified as TDRs are evaluated for nonaccrual status based on a current evaluation of the borrower’s financial condition and ability and willingness to service the modified debt.
Table 30 — Collateral-Dependent Loans and Troubled Debt Restructurings
Cashflow-dependent TDRs
5,430
5,960
Collateral-dependent TDRs
6,278
9,426
(3,148)
(33)
Total TDRs
(3,678)
Collateral-dependent loans (which are not TDRs)
14,348
14,645
(297)
Total recorded investment in TDRs and collateral-dependent loans
26,056
30,031
(3,975)
See Footnote 4 “Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements” for additional discussion regarding collateral-dependent loans and TDRs.
Table 28 — Deposit Composition
17,238
(25,353)
19,676
(3,066)
(19,471)
(18,338)
(12)
(33,416)
(43)
(62,730)
2,490
0
(60,240)
11,748
9,104
20,852
20,330
Total Company deposits decreased $40 million from December 31, 2021 to $4.8 billion as of September 30, 2022.
Total Core Bank deposits decreased by $60 million with a $63 million decrease interest-bearing deposits offset by a $3 million increase in noninterest-bearing deposits. The net decrease in deposit balances for the first nine months of 2022, compares unfavorably to the net growth in deposits for the previous two calendar years when deposit growth generally reached historical highs for the Company. Management believes the Company is more likely to experience slower overall growth in its deposits over the foreseeable future as the excess liquidity in the United States is expected to decline due to the tightening of monetary and fiscal policy by the Federal Government.
Federal Home Loan Bank Advances
The Bank held $20 million of long-term FHLB advances as of September 30, 2022 compared to $25 million of overnight FHLB advances as of December 31, 2021. During the first nine months of 2022, the Bank extended the term on $20 million of its FHLB advances in anticipation of increasing long-term interest rates and repaid the remaining $5 million. As of September 30, 2022, the Company’s $20 million of FHLB advances had a weighted average maturity of five years and a weighted average cost of 1.89%.
Overall use of FHLB advances during a given year is dependent upon many factors including asset growth, deposit growth, current earnings, and expectations of future interest rates, among others.
Interest Rate Swaps
The Bank enters into interest rate swaps to facilitate client transactions and meet their financing needs. Upon entering into these instruments, the Bank enters into offsetting positions in order to minimize the Bank’s interest rate risk. These swaps are derivatives, but are not designated as hedging instruments, and therefore changes in fair value are reported in current year earnings.
See Footnote 12 “Interest Rate Swaps” of Part I Item 1 “Financial Statements” for additional discussion regarding the Bank’s interest rate swaps.
Liquidity
The Bank maintains sufficient liquidity to fund routine loan demand and routine deposit withdrawal activity. Liquidity is managed by maintaining sufficient liquid assets, primarily in the form of cash, cash equivalents, and unincumbered investment securities. Funding and cash flows can also be realized through deposit product promotions, the sale of AFS debt securities, principal paydowns on loans and mortgage-backed securities, and proceeds realized from loans held for sale.
Table 29 — Liquid Assets and Borrowing Capacity
The Company’s liquid assets and borrowing capacity included the following:
Unincumbered debt securities
400,183
219,775
Total liquid assets
1,154,576
976,746
Borrowing capacity with the FHLB
940,155
900,424
Borrowing capacity through unsecured credit lines
125,000
Total borrowing capacity
1,065,155
1,025,424
Total liquid assets and borrowing capacity
2,219,731
2,002,170
The Bank had a loan to deposit ratio (excluding brokered deposits) of 96% as of September 30, 2022 and 99% as of December 31, 2021. Republic’s banking centers and its website, www.republicbank.com, provide access to retail deposit markets. These retail deposit products, if offered at attractive rates, have historically been a source of additional funding when needed. If the Bank were to lose a significant funding source, such as a few major depositors, or if any of its lines of credit were cancelled, or if the Bank cannot obtain brokered deposits, the Bank would be compelled to offer market leading deposit interest rates to meet its funding and liquidity needs.
As of September 30, 2022, the Bank had approximately $1.2 billion in deposits from 228 large non-sweep deposit relationships, including reciprocal deposits, where the individual relationship exceeded $2 million. The 20 largest non-sweep deposit relationships represented approximately $395 million, or 8%, of the Company’s total deposit balances as of September 30, 2022. These accounts do not require collateral; therefore, cash from these accounts can generally be utilized to fund the loan portfolio. If any of these balances were moved from the Bank, the Bank would likely utilize overnight borrowing lines in the short-term to replace the balances. On a longer-term basis, the Bank would likely utilize wholesale-brokered deposits to replace withdrawn balances, or alternatively, higher-cost internet-sourced deposits. Based on past experience utilizing brokered deposits and internet-sourced deposits, the Bank believes it can quickly obtain these types of deposits if needed. The overall cost of gathering these types of deposits, however, could be substantially higher than the Traditional Bank deposits they replace, potentially decreasing the Bank’s earnings.
The Bank’s liquidity is impacted by its ability to sell certain investment securities, which is limited due to the level of investment securities that are needed to secure public deposits, securities sold under agreements to repurchase, FHLB borrowings, and for other purposes, as required by law. As of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, these pledged investment securities had a fair value of $262 million and $320 million.
120
Total stockholders’ equity increased from $834 million as of December 31, 2021 to $841 million as of September 30, 2022. The increase in stockholders’ equity was primarily attributable to net income earned during 2022 reduced primarily by cash dividends declared, repurchases of Class A Common shares, and a $35 million decrease in AOCI.
Common Stock — The Class A Common shares are entitled to cash dividends equal to 110% of the cash dividend paid per share on Class B Common Stock. Class A Common shares have one vote per share and Class B Common shares have ten votes per share. Class B Common shares may be converted, at the option of the holder, to Class A Common shares on a share for share basis. The Class A Common shares are not convertible into any other class of Republic’s capital stock.
Dividend Restrictions — The Parent Company’s principal source of funds for dividend payments are dividends received from RB&T. Banking regulations limit the amount of dividends that may be paid to the Parent Company by the Bank without prior approval of the respective states’ banking regulators. Under these regulations, the amount of dividends that may be paid in any calendar year is limited to the current year’s net profits, combined with the retained net profits of the preceding two years. As of October 1, 2022, RB&T could, without prior approval, declare dividends of approximately $142 million. Any payment of dividends in the future will depend, in large part, on the Company’s earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, and other factors considered relevant by the Company’s Board of Directors.
Regulatory Capital Requirements — The Company and the Bank are subject to capital regulations in accordance with Basel III, as administered by banking regulators. Regulatory agencies measure capital adequacy within a framework that makes capital requirements, in part, dependent on the individual risk profiles of financial institutions. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possibly additional discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on Republic’s financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Parent Company and the Bank must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of the Company’s assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance sheet items, as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators regarding components, risk weightings, and other factors.
Banking regulators have categorized the Bank as well capitalized. For prompt corrective action, the regulations in accordance with Basel III define “well capitalized” as a 10.0% Total Risk-Based Capital ratio, a 6.5% Common Equity Tier 1 Risk-Based Capital ratio, an 8.0% Tier 1 Risk-Based Capital ratio, and a 5.0% Tier 1 Leverage ratio. Additionally, in order to avoid limitations on capital distributions, including dividend payments and certain discretionary bonus payments to executive officers, the Company and Bank must hold a capital conservation buffer of 2.5% composed of Common Equity Tier 1 Risk-Based Capital above their minimum risk-based capital requirements.
Republic continues to exceed the regulatory requirements for Total Risk-Based Capital, Common Equity Tier I Risk-Based Capital, Tier I Risk Based-Capital, and Tier I Leverage Capital. Republic and the Bank intend to maintain a capital position that meets or exceeds the “well-capitalized” requirements as defined by the FRB and the FDIC, in addition to the Capital Conservation Buffer. Republic’s average stockholders’ equity to average assets ratio was 13.61% as of September 30, 2022 and 13.41% as of December 31, 2021. Formal measurements of the capital ratios for Republic and the Bank are performed by the Company at each quarter end.
Table 30 — Capital Ratios (1)
Ratio
Total capital to risk-weighted assets
922,001
18.55
878,488
17.47
890,151
17.92
861,815
17.14
Common equity tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets
863,443
17.37
823,504
16.37
831,593
16.74
806,831
16.05
Tier 1 (core) capital to risk-weighted assets
Tier 1 leverage capital to average assets
14.24
13.35
13.66
13.10
Asset/Liability Management and Market Risk
Asset/liability management is designed to ensure safety and soundness, maintain liquidity, meet regulatory capital standards, and achieve acceptable net interest income based on the Bank’s risk tolerance. Interest rate risk is the exposure to adverse changes in net interest income as a result of market fluctuations in interest rates. The Bank, on an ongoing basis, monitors interest rate and liquidity risk in order to implement appropriate funding and balance sheet strategies. Management considers interest rate risk to be a significant risk to the Bank’s overall earnings and balance sheet.
The interest sensitivity profile of the Bank at any point in time will be impacted by a number of factors. These factors include the mix of interest sensitive assets and liabilities, as well as their relative pricing schedules. It is also influenced by changes in market interest rates, deposit and loan balances, and other factors.
The Bank utilizes earnings simulation models as tools to measure interest rate sensitivity, including both a static and dynamic earnings simulation model. A static simulation model is based on current exposures and assumes a constant balance sheet. In contrast, a dynamic simulation model relies on detailed assumptions regarding changes in existing business lines, new business, and changes in management and customer behavior. While the Bank runs the static simulation model as one measure of interest rate risk, historically, the Bank has utilized its dynamic earnings simulation model as its primary interest rate risk tool to measure the potential changes in market interest rates and their subsequent effects on net interest income for a one-year time period. This dynamic model projects a “Base” case net interest income over the next 12 months and the effect on net interest income of instantaneous movements in interest rates between various basis point increments equally across all points on the yield curve. Many assumptions based on growth expectations and on the historical behavior of the Bank’s deposit and loan rates and their related balances in relation to changes in interest rates are incorporated into this dynamic model. These assumptions are inherently uncertain and, as a result, the dynamic model cannot precisely measure future net interest income or precisely predict the impact of fluctuations in market interest rates on net interest income. Actual results will differ from the model’s simulated results due to the actual timing, magnitude and frequency of interest rate changes, the actual timing and magnitude of changes in loan and deposit balances, as well as the actual changes in market conditions and the application and timing of various management strategies as compared to those projected in the various simulated models. Additionally, actual results could differ materially from the model if interest rates do not move equally across all points on the yield curve.
The following table illustrates the Bank’s projected percent change from its Base net interest income over the period beginning October 1, 2022 and ending September 30, 2023 based on instantaneous movements in interest rates from Down 200 to Up 300 basis points equally across all points on the yield curve. The Bank’s dynamic earnings simulation model includes secondary market loan fees and excludes Traditional Bank loan fees.
Table 31 — Bank Interest Rate Sensitivity
Change in Rates
-200
-100
+100
+200
+300
Basis Points
% Change from base net interest income as of September 30, 2022
(8.3)
(4.2)
3.9
7.7
11.8
% Change from base net interest income as of December 31, 2021
(2.9)
1.3
(0.6)
0.7
4.7
For the Down-100 and Down-200 scenarios, the September 2022 simulation reflected a more negative outcome than the December 2021 simulation. For the Up-100, Up-200, and Up-300 scenarios, the September 30, 2022 simulation reflected a more positive outcome for the Bank’s net interest income than the comparable December 31, 2021 simulation.
The period-to-period decline in the Down-rate scenarios was generally tied to interest rate floors for the Bank’s floating rate loans. As of December 31, 2021, market interest rates were significantly lower than market interest rates as of September 30, 2022. As a result, many of the Bank’s floating rate loans were priced at their contractual interest rate floors as of December 31, 2021. The Bank’s interest rate simulation model for December 31, 2021, assumed that interest rates for most of these loans would remain at their contractual interest rate floors, even as market rates declined in the simulation. With market interest rates significantly higher as of September 30, 2022, the current rates for a substantial amount of the Bank’s floating rate loans are above their contractual interest rate floors, and therefore, now have room to reprice lower in a declining market rate environment.
As compared to the December 2021 simulation, the improvement for the September 2022 simulation outcomes for the Up-rate scenarios was generally tied to contractual interest rate floors, as well. As previously noted, market interest rates were significantly lower as of December 31, 2021 than market interest rates as of September 30, 2022, and many of the Bank’s loans were already priced at their contractual interest rate floors as of December 31, 2021. By formula, the interest rates for many of the Bank’s floating rate loans would have been much lower at December 31, 2021 had their contractual interest rate floors not existed. As a result, the formula interest rate for each floating rate loan had to increase substantially, in many cases, before the formula interest rate surpassed the contractual interest rate floor and the loan starting repricing higher. With most of the Bank’s floating rate loans now above their contractual interest rate floors as of September 30, 2022, the Bank would generally benefit, based on each loan’s floating rate formula, in a rising interest rate environment.
LIBOR Exposure
In July 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), the authority regulating LIBOR, along with various other regulatory bodies, announced that LIBOR would likely be discontinued at the end of 2021. Subsequent to that announcement, in November 2020, the FCA announced that many tenors of LIBOR would continue to be published through June 2023. In compliance with regulatory guidance, the Bank discontinued referencing LIBOR for new financial instruments during 2021 and chose SOFR to be its primary alternative reference rate for most transaction types upon the discontinuance or unavailability of LIBOR.
Regarding its legacy assets that reference LIBOR, the Bank has previously disclosed that the underlying contracts for these assets may not include adequate “fallback” language to use alternative indexes and margins when LIBOR ceases. However, on March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “LIBOR Law”), which is designed to accomplish the following:
With limited exception, the LIBOR Law generally covers legacy LIBOR contracts with no or inadequate fallback provisions. Additionally, under the LIBOR Law, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) issued regulations giving effect to the law, including the selection of a Board-Selected Benchmark Replacement that is based on SOFR and incorporates an applicable tenor spread adjustment and identification of any related conforming changes.
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had approximately $471 million of legacy assets that reference LIBOR, with short-term Warehouse loans representing $78 million of these assets and commercial and mortgage loans primarily making up the remainder. As of September 30, 2022, of the Bank’s legacy assets that reference LIBOR, approximately $364 million of those assets were scheduled to mature after September 30, 2023. These amounts exclude derivative assets and liabilities on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. As of September 30, 2022, the notional amount of the Company’s LIBOR-referenced interest rate derivative contracts was approximately $185 million, with $181 million of such notional amount scheduled to mature after June 30, 2023.
For additional discussion regarding the Bank’s net interest income, see the sections titled “Net Interest Income” in this section of the filing under “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2021) and “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021.”
Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.
Information required by this item is included under Part I, Item 2. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”
Item 4.Controls and Procedures.
As of the end of the period covered by this report, an evaluation was carried out by Republic Bancorp, Inc.’s management, with the participation of its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). Based upon that evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report. In addition, no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) occurred during the fiscal quarter covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Item 1.Legal Proceedings.
In the ordinary course of operations, Republic and the Bank are defendants in various legal proceedings. There is no proceeding, pending, or threatened litigation in which Republic and the Bank are a defendant, to the knowledge of management, in which an adverse decision could result in a material adverse change in the business or consolidated financial position of Republic or the Bank.
Item 1A.Risk Factors.
FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT FUTURE RESULTS
Except for the risk factor(s) below, there have been no material changes in the Company’s risk factors as previously disclosed in Part 1, “Item 1A. Risk Factors” of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. You should carefully consider the risk factors discussed in Republic’s 2021 Form 10-K, which could materially affect its business, financial condition, or future results.
The proposed acquisition and integration of CBank pursuant to the CBank Agreement includes certain acquisition-related risks to the Company and the Bank. These risks include:
Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
Details of Republic’s Class A Common Stock purchases during the third quarter of 2022 are included in the following table:
Total Number of
Maximum Number
Shares Purchased
of Shares that May
as Part of Publicly
Yet Be Purchased
Average Price
Announced Plans
Under the Plan
Period
Paid Per Share
or Programs
July 1 - July 31
47,983
49.15
207,194
August 1 - August 31
September 1 - September 30
The Company repurchased 47,983 shares of its Class A Common Stock during the third quarter of 2022. In addition, in connection with employee stock awards, there were 850 shares withheld upon exercise of stock options to satisfy the withholding taxes and exercise price. The Board of Directors of Republic Bancorp, Inc. (the “Board”), took the following actions as it relates to the Company’s existing stock repurchase program:
The repurchase program will remain effective until the total number of shares authorized is repurchased or until Republic’s Board of Directors terminates the program.
During the first nine months of 2022, there were approximately 1,000 shares of Class A Common Stock issued upon conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock by stockholders of Republic in accordance with the share-for-share conversion option of the Class B Common Stock. The exemption from registration of newly issued Class A Common Stock relies upon Section (3)(a)(9) of the Securities Act of 1933.
There were no equity securities of the registrant sold without registration during the quarter covered by this report.
Item 6.Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed or furnished as a part of this report:
Exhibit Number
Description of Exhibit
31.1
Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2
Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32*
Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
The following financial statements from the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q were formatted in iXBRL(Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, (ii) Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, (iii) Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, (iv) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 and (v) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Cover Page Interactive Data File formatted in iXBRL and contained in Exhibit 101.
This certification shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, nor shall it be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
(Registrant)
Principal Executive Officer:
Date: November 4, 2022
/s/ Steven E. Trager
By: Steven E. Trager
Executive Chair (Principal Executive Officer)
Principal Financial Officer:
/s/ Kevin Sipes
By: Kevin Sipes
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Financial Officer)