10-K 1 oldline10k2011.htm OLD LINE BANCSHARES, INC. FORM 10-K oldline10k2011.htm
 
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K

þ
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
 
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011
OR
o
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
 
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission File Number: 000-50345

Old Line Bancshares, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Maryland
 
20-0154352
(State or other jurisdiction
 
(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)
 
Identification No.)

 
1525 Pointer Ridge Place
20716
 
Bowie, Maryland
(Zip Code)
 
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (301) 430-2500

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share
Name of exchange on which registered
(Title of each class)
The NASDQ Stock Market LLC
                                                                                        
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:  None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
o Yes þ No

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act.
o Yes þ No

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 þ No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted 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 and post such files).         Yes  þ    No o

Indicate by checkmark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. o
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer o  
   Accelerated filer o
Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
   Smaller Reporting Company þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).
o Yes  þ No

The aggregate market value of the common equity held by non-affiliates was $46.3 million as of June 30, 2011 based on a sales price of $8.38 per share of Common Stock, which is the sales price at which the Common Stock was last traded on June 30, 2011 as reported by the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC.

The number of shares outstanding of the issuer’s Common Stock was 6,817,694 as of March 1, 2012.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Portions of the Proxy Statement for the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Old Line Bancshares, Inc., to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission no later than 120 days after the close of the fiscal year, are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
OLD LINE BANCSHARES, INC.

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011
 
PART I
Item 1.
Business
Item 1A.
Risk Factors
Item 1B.
Unresolved Staff Comments
Item 2.
Properties
Item 3.
Legal Proceedings
Item 4.
Mine Safety Disclosures
     
PART II
Item 5.
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Item 6.
Selected Financial Data
Item 7.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Item 7A.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Item 8.
Financial Statements
Item 9.
Changes In and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Item 9A.
Controls and Procedures
Item 9B.
Other Information
     
PART III
Item 10.
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Item 11.
Executive Compensation
Item 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Item 14.
Principal Accounting Fees and Services
     
PART IV
Item 15.
Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
 
 
 
 

 
 
PART I

Business
 
Business of Old Line Bancshares, Inc.

Old Line Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland on April 11, 2003 to serve as the holding company of Old Line Bank. The primary business of Old Line Bancshares, Inc. is to own all of the capital stock of Old Line Bank.

On May 22, 2003, the stockholders of Old Line Bank approved the reorganization of Old Line Bank into a holding company structure.  The reorganization became effective on September 15, 2003. In connection with the reorganization, (i) Old Line Bank became our wholly-owned subsidiary and (ii) each outstanding share (or fraction thereof) of Old Line Bank common stock was converted into one share (or fraction thereof) of Old Line Bancshares, Inc. common stock, and the former holders of Old Line Bank common stock became the holders of all our outstanding shares.

Our primary business is to own all of the capital stock of Old Line Bank.  We also have an approximately $761,000 investment in a real estate investment limited liability company named Pointer Ridge Office Investment, LLC (“Pointer Ridge”).  We own 62.50% of Pointer Ridge.

Business of Old Line Bank
 
General
 
Old Line Bank is a trust company chartered under Subtitle 2 of Title 3 of the Financial Institutions Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.  Old Line Bank was originally chartered in 1989 as a national bank under the title “Old Line National Bank.”  In June 2002, Old Line Bank converted to a Maryland chartered trust company exercising the powers of a commercial bank, and received a Certificate of Authority to do business from the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation.

Old Line Bank converted from a national bank to a Maryland chartered trust company to reduce certain federal, supervisory and application fees that were then applicable to Old Line National Bank and to have a local primary regulator.  Prior to the conversion, Old Line Bank’s primary regulator was the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.  Currently, Old Line Bank’s primary regulator is the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation.

Old Line Bank does not exercise trust powers and its regulatory structure is the same as a Maryland chartered commercial bank.  Old Line Bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures our deposits.

We are headquartered in Bowie, Maryland, approximately 10 miles east of Andrews Air Force Base and 20 miles east of Washington, D.C.  We engage in a general commercial banking business, making various types of loans and accepting deposits.  We market our financial services to small to medium sized businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals, consumers and high net worth clients.  Our current primary market area is the suburban Maryland (Washington, D.C. suburbs) counties of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and St. Mary’s.  We also target customers throughout the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.  Our branch offices generally operate six days per week from 8:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on weekdays and from 8:00 a.m. until noon on Saturday.  None of our branch offices are open on Sunday.



 
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Our principal source of revenue is interest income and fees generated by lending and investing funds on deposit.  We typically balance the loan and investment portfolio towards loans.  Generally speaking, loans earn more attractive returns than investments and are a key source of product cross sales and customer referrals.  Our loan and investment strategies balance the need to maintain adequate liquidity via excess cash or federal funds sold with opportunities to leverage our capital appropriately.

We have based our strategic plan on the premise of enhancing stockholder value and growth through branching and operating profits.  Our short term goals include maintaining credit quality, creating an attractive branch network, expanding fee income, generating extensions of core banking services and using technology to maximize stockholder value.

Recent Business Developments

Merger with Maryland Bankcorp, Inc.

On April 1, 2011, Old Line Bancshares acquired Maryland Bankcorp, Inc. (Maryland Bankcorp), the parent company of Maryland Bank & Trust Company, N.A. (MB&T). We converted each share of common stock of Maryland Bankcorp into the right to receive, at the holder’s election, $29.11 in cash or 3.4826 shares of Old Line Bancshares’ common stock. We paid cash for any fractional shares of Old Line Bancshares’ common stock and an aggregate cash consideration of $1.0 million.  The total merger consideration was $18.8 million.
 
In connection with the acquisition, MB&T was merged with and into Old Line Bank, with Old Line Bank the surviving bank.
 
The acquisition increased Old Line Bancshares, Inc.’s total assets by more than $349 million for total assets immediately after closing of approximately $750 million.  As a result of this acquisition Old Line Bank is the sixth largest independent commercial bank based in Maryland, with assets of more than $750 million and 19 full service branches serving five counties.

Branch Expansion Developments

The acquisition of MB&T added ten full service branches to Old Line Bank’s existing ten branch network, enhanced our presence in Charles County and established a branch network in St. Mary’s and Charles Counties. We subsequently closed one of the branches in Charles County.

In 2009, we substantially completed our organic branch expansion efforts with the opening of two new branch locations.  On July 1, 2009, we opened a branch at 1641 State Route 3 North, Crofton, Maryland in Anne Arundel County.

In October 2009, we opened an additional branch in the Fairwood Office Park located at 12100 Annapolis Road, Suite 1, Glen Dale, Maryland.  We hired the staff for this location during the third quarter of 2009.

In the fourth quarter of 2009, we moved our Greenbelt (Prince George’s County) Maryland branch that was opened in June 2007 on the 1st floor of an office building to a free standing building at the southwest corner of the intersection of Kenilworth Avenue and Ivy Lane, Greenbelt, Maryland.  In April 2007, we hired the Branch Manager for this location and hired the remainder of the staff in May and September of 2007.

On January 2, 2011, we executed an agreement to lease 3,682 square feet of space on the 1st floor of an office building, plus the area comprising the drive-thru banking facilities, located at 2530 Riva Road in Annapolis, Maryland.  We moved our current Annapolis branch to this new location during the second quarter of 2011.  We are currently evaluating alternative uses for the existing branch.




 
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Expansion of Commercial, Construction and Commercial Real Estate Lending

In December 2009, we added a team of four experienced, highly skilled loan officers to our staff.  These officers have a combined 50 years of commercial banking experience and were employed by a large regional bank with offices in the suburban Maryland market prior to joining us.  These individuals have worked in our market area for many years, have worked together as a team for several years and have a history of successfully generating a high volume of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans.  This team operates from our Greenbelt, Maryland branch location.

The acquisition of MB&T also significantly expanded our lending operations.  As a result of the acquisition, we added a lending production office in Lexington Park, St. Mary’s County, Maryland, a lending production office in Prince Frederick, Calvert, County, Maryland and consolidated MB&T’s Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland lending production office into our existing Waldorf lending production office.  This consolidation expanded our presence in Charles County, Maryland.

As anticipated, the acquisition, the addition of new lenders and our new branches caused an increase in non-interest expenses in 2011.  As a result of the addition of these individuals and branches, however, we also experienced an increased level of loan and deposit growth during 2011 that we expect will continue for the foreseeable future, which has provided and we expect will continue to provide increased interest income that exceeds their non-interest expenses.

Sale and Repurchase of Preferred Stock to the U.S. Treasury

On December 5, 2008, we issued $7 million of our Series A Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 141,892 shares of our common stock at $7.40 per share to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“U.S. Treasury”) pursuant to the Capital Purchase Program under the Troubled Asset Relief Program implemented pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.  Please see “-Supervision and Regulation-The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008” for additional information.

On July 15, 2009, we paid the U.S. Treasury $7,058,333 to repurchase the preferred stock outlined above.  The amount paid included the liquidation value of the preferred stock and $58,333 of accrued but unpaid dividends.  We have also repurchased at a fair market value of $225,000 the warrant to purchase 141,892 shares of our common stock that was issued to the U.S. Treasury in conjunction with the issuance of the preferred stock.

Location and Market Area

We consider our current primary market area to consist of the suburban Maryland (Washington, D.C. suburbs) counties of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and St. Mary’s.  The economy in our current primary market area has focused on real estate development, high technology, retail and the government sector.

Our headquarters and a branch are located at 1525 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Prince George’s County, Maryland.  A critical component of our strategic plan and future growth is Prince George’s County.  Prince George’s County wraps around the eastern boundary of Washington, D.C. and offers urban, suburban and rural settings for employers and residents.  There are several national and international airports less than an hour away, as is Baltimore.  We currently have seven branch locations and three loan production offices in Prince George’s County.

Five of our branch offices and a loan production office are located in Charles County, Maryland.  Just 15 miles south of the Washington Capital Beltway, Charles County is the gateway to Southern Maryland.  The northern part of Charles County is the “development district” where the commercial, residential and business growth is focused.  Waldorf, White Plains and the planned community of St. Charles are located here.


 
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Two of our branch offices are located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.  We have one in Annapolis that we opened in September 2008 that we relocated and expanded to include a loan production office in 2011.  We have another branch that we opened in Crofton in July 2009.  Anne Arundel County borders the Chesapeake Bay and is situated in the high tech corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.  With over 534 miles of shoreline, it provides waterfront living to many residential communities.  Annapolis, the State Capital and home to the United States Naval Academy, and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshal Airport (BWI) are located in Anne Arundel County.  Anne Arundel County has one of the strongest economies in the State of Maryland and its unemployment rate is consistently below the national average.

As a result of the acquisition of MB&T, in April 2011, we expanded our branch network to encompass the southern Maryland counties of Calvert and St. Mary’s.  The unemployment rates in Calvert and St. Mary’s counties are among the lowest in the state of Maryland and also consistently rank below the national average.

Calvert County is located approximately 25 miles southeast of Washington, D.C. Calvert County is one of  several Maryland counties that comprise the Washington Metropolitan Area and is adjacent to Anne Arundel, Prince George’s, St. Mary’s and Charles Counties.  Major employers in Calvert County include municipal and government agencies and Constellation Energy.  We have two branches and a loan production office in Calvert County.

In St. Mary’s County, we have three branches and a loan production office.  St. Mary’s County is located approximately 35 miles southeast of Washington, D.C. It is adjacent to Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s counties and is home to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, a major naval air testing facility on the east coast of the United States.

 
Lending Activities
 
General. Our primary market focus is on making loans to small and medium size businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals, consumers and high net worth clients in our primary market area.  Our lending activities consist generally of short to medium term commercial business loans, commercial real estate loans, real estate construction loans, home equity loans and consumer installment loans, both secured and unsecured.  As a niche lending product, prior to 2008, we provided luxury boat financing to individuals, who generally tended to be high net worth individuals.  These boats are generally Coast Guard documented and have a homeport of record in the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries.
 
Credit Policies and Administration.  We have adopted a comprehensive lending policy, which includes stringent underwriting standards for all types of loans.  Our lending staff follows pricing guidelines established periodically by our management team.  In an effort to manage risk, prior to funding, the loan committee consisting of our executive officers and eight members of the Board of Directors must approve by a majority vote all credit decisions in excess of a lending officer’s lending authority. Management believes that we employ experienced lending officers, secure appropriate collateral and carefully monitor the financial condition of our borrowers and the concentrations of loans in the portfolio.
 
In addition to the normal repayment risks, all loans in the portfolio are subject to the state of the economy and the related effects on the borrower and/or the real estate market.  With the exception of loans provided to finance luxury boats, generally longer term loans have periodic interest rate adjustments and/or call provisions.  Senior management monitors the loan portfolio closely to ensure that we minimize past due loans and that we swiftly deal with potential problem loans.
 
           Old Line Bank also retains an outside, independent firm to review the loan portfolio.  This firm performs a detailed annual review and an interim update at least once a year.  We use the results of the firm’s report to validate our internal loan ratings and we review their commentary on specific loans and on our loan administration activities in order to improve our operations.
 

 
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Commercial Business Lending.  Our commercial business lending consists of lines of credit, revolving credit facilities, accounts receivable financing, term loans, equipment loans, SBA loans, standby letters of credit and unsecured loans.  We originate commercial loans for any business purpose including the financing of leasehold improvements and equipment, the carrying of accounts receivable, general working capital and acquisition activities. We have a diverse client base and we do not have a concentration of these types of loans in any specific industry segment.  We generally secure commercial business loans with accounts receivable, equipment, deeds of trust and other collateral such as marketable securities, cash value of life insurance, and time deposits at Old Line Bank.
 
Commercial business loans have a higher degree of risk than residential mortgage loans because the availability of funds for repayment generally depends on the success of the business.  They may also involve higher average balances, increased difficulty monitoring and a higher risk of default since their repayment generally depends on the successful operation of the borrower’s business.  To help manage this risk, we typically limit these loans to proven businesses and we generally obtain appropriate collateral and personal guarantees from the borrower’s principal owners and monitor the financial condition of the business.  For loans in excess of $250,000, monitoring usually includes a review of the borrower’s annual tax returns and updated financial statements.
 
Commercial Real Estate Lending.  We finance commercial real estate for our clients, usually for owner occupied properties.  We generally will finance owner occupied commercial real estate at a maximum loan to value of 85%.  Our underwriting policies and processes focus on the clients’ ability to repay the loan as well as an assessment of the underlying real estate.  We originate commercial real estate loans on a fixed rate or adjustable rate basis.  Usually, these rates adjust during a three, five or seven year time period based on the then current treasury or prime rate index.  Repayment terms include amortization schedules from three years to a maximum of 25 years with principal and interest payments due monthly and with all remaining principal due at maturity.
 
 
Commercial real estate lending entails significant additional risks as compared with residential mortgage lending. Risks inherent in managing a commercial real estate portfolio relate to sudden or gradual drops in property values as well as changes in the economic climate that may detrimentally impact the borrower’s ability to repay.  We attempt to mitigate these risks by carefully underwriting these loans.  Our underwriting generally includes an analysis of the borrower’s capacity to repay, the current collateral value, a cash flow analysis and review of the character of the borrower and current and prospective conditions in the market.  We generally limit loans in this category to 75%-80% of the value of the property and require personal and/or corporate guarantees.  For loans of this type in excess of $250,000, we monitor the financial condition and operating performance of the borrower through a review of annual tax returns and updated financial statements.  In addition, we will meet with the borrower and/or perform site visits as required.

Real Estate Construction Lending.  This segment of our loan portfolio consists of funds advanced for construction of single family residences, multifamily housing and commercial buildings. These loans have short durations, meaning maturities typically of nine months or less. Residential houses, multifamily dwellings and commercial buildings under construction and the underlying land for which the loan was obtained secure the construction loans.  All of these loans are concentrated in our primary market area.

Construction lending entails significant risks compared with residential mortgage lending.  These risks involve larger loan balances concentrated with single borrowers with funds advanced upon the security of the land or the project under construction.  The value of the project is estimated prior to the completion of construction.  Thus, it is more difficult to evaluate accurately the total loan funds required to complete a project and related loan to value ratios.  To mitigate these risks, we generally limit loan amounts to 80% of appraised values and obtain first lien positions on the property.  We generally only offer real estate construction financing to experienced builders and commercial entities or individuals who have demonstrated the ability to obtain a permanent loan “take out”.  We also perform a complete analysis of the borrower and the project under construction.  This analysis includes a review of the cost to construct, the borrower’s ability to obtain a permanent “take out”, the cash flow available to support the debt payments and construction costs in excess of loan proceeds, and the value of the collateral.   During construction, we advance funds on these loans on a percentage of completion bases.  We inspect each project as needed prior to advancing funds during the term of the construction loan.


 
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Residential Real Estate Lending.  We offer a variety of consumer oriented residential real estate loans.  The bulk of our portfolio is made up of home equity loans to individuals with a loan to value not exceeding 85%.  We also offer fixed rate home improvement loans.  Our home equity and home improvement loan portfolio gives us a diverse client base.  Although most of these loans are in our primary market area, the diversity of the individual loans in the portfolio reduces our potential risk.  Usually, we secure our home equity loans and lines of credit with a security interest in the borrower’s primary or secondary residence.  Our initial underwriting includes an analysis of the borrower’s debt/income ratio which generally may not exceed 40%, collateral value, length of employment and prior credit history.  We do not have any subprime residential real estate loans.

Consumer Installment Lending

Luxury Boat Loans. We offer various types of secured and unsecured consumer loans.  Prior to 2008, a primary aspect of our consumer lending was financing for luxury boat purchases.  Although we continue to maintain a portfolio totaling approximately $8.9 million of these loans and would consider making such loans in the future if borrowers were to apply for them, we have not originated any substantive new marine loans since the third quarter of 2007.  These loans entail greater risks than residential mortgage lending because the boats that secure these loans are depreciable assets.  Further, payment on these loans depends on the borrower’s continuing financial stability.  Job loss, divorce, illness or personal bankruptcy may adversely impact the borrower’s ability to pay.  To mitigate these risks, we have more stringent underwriting standards for these loans than for other installment loans.  As a general guideline, the individual’s debt service should not exceed 36% of his or her gross income, the individual must own a home, have stability of employment and residency, verifiable liquidity, satisfactory prior credit repayment history and the loan to value ratio may not exceed 85%.  To ascertain value, we generally receive a survey of the boat from a qualified surveyor and/or a current purchase agreement and compare the determined value to published industry values.  The majority of these boats are United States Coast Guard documented vessels and we obtain a lien on the vessel with a first preferred ship mortgage, where applicable, or a security interest on the title.

Personal and Household Loans.  We also make consumer loans for personal, family or household purposes as a convenience to our customer base.  As a general guideline, a consumer’s total debt service should not exceed 40% of his or her gross income.  The underwriting standards for consumer loans include a determination of the applicant’s payment history on other debts and an assessment of his or her ability to meet existing obligations and payments on the proposed loan.

Consumer loans may present greater credit risk than residential mortgage loans because many consumer loans are unsecured or rapidly depreciating assets secure these loans.  Repossessed collateral for a defaulted consumer loan may not provide an adequate source of repayment of the outstanding loan balance because of the greater likelihood of damage, loss or depreciation.  Consumer loan collections depend on the borrower’s continuing financial stability.  If a borrower suffers personal financial difficulties, the loan may not be repaid.  Also, various federal and state laws, including bankruptcy and insolvency laws, may limit the amount we can recover on such loans.  However, in our opinion, many of these risks do not apply to the luxury boat loan portfolio due to the credit quality and liquidity of the borrowers.

Many of the loans that we acquired from MB&T do not adhere to the stringent underwriting standards that we maintain.  Accordingly, during our due diligence process, we evaluated these loans using our underwriting standards and discounted the book value of these loans.  This discounted book value was subsequently incorporated into our initial purchase price.

Lending Limit.  As of December 31, 2011, our legal lending limit for loans to one borrower was approximately $9.5 million.  As part of our risk management strategy, we may attempt to participate a portion of larger loans to other financial institutions.  This strategy allows Old Line Bank to maintain customer relationships yet reduce credit exposure.  However, this strategy may not always be available.

Investments and Funding

We balance our liquidity needs based on loan and deposit growth via the investment portfolio, purchased funds, and short term borrowings.  It is our goal to provide adequate liquidity to support our loan growth.  In the event we have excess liquidity, we use investments to generate positive earnings.  In the event deposit growth does not fully support our loan growth, we can use a combination of investment sales, federal funds, other purchased funds and short term borrowings to augment our funding position.


 
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We actively monitor our investment portfolio and we classify the majority of the portfolio as “available for sale.”  In general, under such a classification, we may sell investment instruments as management deems appropriate.  On a monthly basis, we “mark to market” the investment portfolio through an adjustment to stockholders’ equity net of taxes.  Additionally, we use the investment portfolio to balance our asset and liability position.  We invest in fixed rate or floating rate instruments as necessary to reduce our interest rate risk exposure.

Other Banking Products

We offer our customers safe deposit boxes, wire transfer services, debit cards, automated teller machines at all of our branch locations and credit cards through a third party processor.  Additionally, we provide Internet banking capabilities to our customers.  With our Internet banking service, our customers may view their accounts on line and electronically remit bill payments.  Our commercial account services include direct deposit of payroll for our commercial clients’ employees, an overnight sweep service and remote deposit capture service.

Deposit Activities

Deposits are the major source of our funding.  We offer a broad array of deposit products that include demand, NOW, money market and savings accounts as well as certificates of deposit.  We believe that we pay competitive rates on our interest bearing deposits.  As a relationship oriented organization, we generally seek to obtain deposit relationships with our loan clients.
 
As our overall balance sheet position dictates, we may become more or less competitive in our interest rate structure.  We do use brokered deposits as a funding mechanism.  Our primary source of brokered deposits is the  Promontory Interfinancial Network (Promontory).  Through this deposit matching network and its certificate of deposit account and money market registry services, we obtained the ability to offer our customers access to FDIC insured deposit products in aggregate amounts exceeding current insurance limits.  When we place funds through Promontory on behalf of a customer, we receive matching deposits through the network.  During 2009 and 2010, we also purchased brokered certificates of deposit from other sources.  We did not purchase brokered deposits from any other source in 2011.
 
Competition

The banking business is highly competitive.  We compete with other commercial banks, savings associations, credit unions, mortgage banking firms, consumer finance companies, securities brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market mutual funds and other financial institutions operating in our primary market area and elsewhere.

We believe that we have effectively leveraged our talents, contacts and location to achieve a strong financial position.  However, our primary market area is highly competitive and heavily branched.  Competition in our primary market area for loans to small and medium sized businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals and high net worth clients is intense, and pricing is important.  Most of our competitors have substantially greater resources and lending limits than we do and offer extensive and established branch networks and other services that we do not offer.  Moreover, larger institutions operating in our primary market area have access to borrowed funds at a lower rate than is available to us.  Deposit competition also is strong among institutions in our primary market area.  As a result, it is possible that to remain competitive we may need to pay above market rates for deposits.
 
Employees
 
As of March 1, 2012, Old Line Bank had 158 full time and 19 part time employees.  No collective bargaining unit represents any of our employees and we believe that relations with our employees are good.  Old Line Bancshares, Inc. has no employees.
 


 
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Supervision and Regulation

Old Line Bancshares, Inc. and Old Line Bank are subject to extensive regulation under state and federal banking laws and regulations. These laws impose specific requirements and restrictions on virtually all aspects of operations and generally are intended to protect depositors, not stockholders.  The following summary sets forth certain material elements of the regulatory framework applicable to Old Line Bancshares, Inc. and Old Line Bank.  It does not describe all of the provisions of the statutes, regulations and policies that are identified.  To the extent that the following information describes statutory and regulatory provisions, it is qualified in its entirety by express reference to each of the particular statutory and regulatory provisions.  A change in applicable statutes, regulations or regulatory policy may have a material effect on our business.
 
Old Line Bancshares, Inc.
 
Old Line Bancshares, Inc. is a Maryland corporation registered as a bank holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended.  We are subject to regulation and examination by the Federal Reserve Board, and are required to file periodic reports and any additional information that the Federal Reserve Board may require.  The Bank Holding Company Act generally prohibits a bank holding company from engaging in activities other than banking, managing or controlling banks or other permissible subsidiaries and acquiring or retaining direct or indirect control of any company engaged in any activities closely related to banking or managing or controlling banks.
 
In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) and Federal Reserve Board policy, a bank holding company is expected to serve as a source of financial and managerial strength to its subsidiary banks and may not conduct its operations in an unsafe or unsound manner.  In addition, in serving as a source of strength to its subsidiary banks, a bank holding company should stand ready to use available resources to provide adequate capital funds to its subsidiary banks during periods of financial stress or adversity and should maintain the financial flexibility and capital raising capacity to obtain additional resources for assisting its subsidiary banks.  A bank holding company’s failure to meet its obligations to serve as a source of strength to its subsidiary banks will generally be considered by the Federal Reserve Board to be an unsafe and unsound banking practice or a violation of the Federal Reserve Board regulations or both.  This doctrine is commonly known as the “source of strength” doctrine.  The Federal Reserve Board may require a bank holding company to terminate any activity or relinquish control of a non-bank subsidiary (other than a non-bank subsidiary of a bank) upon the Federal Reserve Board’s determination that such activity or control constitutes a serious risk to the financial soundness or stability of any subsidiary depository institution of the bank holding company.  Further, federal bank regulatory authorities have additional discretion to require a bank holding company to divest itself of any bank or non-bank subsidiary if the agency determines that divestiture may aid the depository institution’s financial condition.
 
The status of Old Line Bancshares, Inc. as a registered bank holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1856, as amended, does not exempt it from certain federal and state laws and regulations applicable to Maryland corporations generally, including, without limitation, certain provisions of the federal securities laws.
 
Old Line Bank
 
Old Line Bank is a Maryland chartered trust company (with all of the powers of a commercial bank), is a member of the Federal Reserve System, and the Deposit Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insures its deposit accounts up to the maximum legal limits.  It is subject to regulation, supervision and regular examination by the Maryland Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation (“Commissioner”) and the Federal Reserve Board.  The regulations of these various agencies govern most aspects of Old Line Bank’s business, including required reserves against deposits, loans, investments, mergers and acquisitions, borrowing, dividends and location and number of branch offices.  The Dodd-Frank Act transferred responsibility for the implementation of financial consumer protection laws to a new independent agency in the Federal Reserve Board.  The new agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will issue rules and regulations governing consumer financial protection.  However, depository institutions of less than $10 billion in assets, such as Old Line Bank, will continue to be examined for compliance with consumer protection laws by the Commissioner and Federal Reserve Board, which will also have enforcement authority.
 

 
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Capital Adequacy Guidelines
 
The Federal Reserve Board has adopted risk based capital adequacy guidelines pursuant to which it assesses the adequacy of capital in examining and supervising banks and in analyzing bank regulatory applications.  Risk based capital requirements determine the adequacy of capital based on the risk inherent in various classes of assets and off balance sheet items.
 
Old Line Bank is expected to meet a minimum ratio of total qualifying capital (the sum of core capital (Tier I) and supplementary capital (Tier II)) to risk weighted assets of 8%.  At least half of this amount (4%) must be in the form of Tier I Capital.  In general, this requirement is similar to the capital that a bank must have in order to be considered “adequately capitalized” under the prompt corrective action regulations.  See “– Prompt Corrective Action.”  Old Line Bank currently complies with this minimum requirement.
 
Tier I Capital generally consists of the sum of common stockholders’ equity, noncumulative perpetual preferred stock including any related surplus (subject in the case of the latter to limitations on the kind and amount of such stock which may be included as Tier I Capital), and minority interest in the equity accounts of consolidated subsidiaries, less goodwill and other intangible assets subject to certain exceptions.”  Tier II Capital consists of the following: hybrid capital instruments; perpetual preferred stock which is not otherwise eligible to be included as Tier I Capital; term subordinated debt and intermediate term preferred stock including related surplus, subject to certain limitations; and, subject to limitations, general allowances for loan losses.  Assets are adjusted under the risk based guidelines to take into account different risk characteristics, with the categories ranging from 0% (requiring no risk based capital) for assets such as cash, to 100% for the bulk of assets which are typically held by a commercial bank, including certain multi-family residential and commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans and consumer loans, and 200% for assets with relatively high credit risk, such as asset backed securities one category below investment grade.
 
Residential first mortgage loans on one to four family residential real estate and certain seasoned multi-family residential real estate loans, which are not 90 days or more past due or non-performing and which have been made in accordance with prudent underwriting standards are assigned a 50% level in the risk weighing system, as are certain privately-issued mortgage backed securities representing indirect ownership of such loans.  Off balance sheet items also are adjusted to take into account certain risk characteristics.
 
In addition to the risk based capital requirements, the Federal Reserve Board has established a minimum 3.0% Leverage Capital Ratio (Tier I Capital to total adjusted assets) requirement for the most highly rated banks, with an additional cushion of at least 100 to 200 basis points for all other banks, which effectively increases the minimum Leverage Capital Ratio for such other banks to 4.0% - 5.0% or more.  The highest rated banks are those that are not anticipating or experiencing significant growth and have well diversified risk, including no undue interest rate risk exposure, excellent asset quality, high liquidity, good earnings and, in general, those which are considered a strong banking organization.
 
Prompt Corrective Action
 
Under Section 38 of the FDIA, each federal banking agency is required to implement a system of prompt corrective action for institutions that it regulates.  The federal banking agencies have promulgated substantially similar regulations to implement the system of prompt corrective action established by Section 38 of the FDIA.  Under the regulations, a bank will be deemed to be: (i) “well capitalized” if it has a Total Risk Based Capital Ratio of 10.0% or more, a Tier 1 Risk Based Capital Ratio of 6.0% or more, a Leverage Capital Ratio of 5.0% or more and is not subject to any written capital order or directive; (ii) “adequately capitalized” if it has a Total Risk Based Capital Ratio of 8.0% or more, a Tier 1 Risk Based Capital Ratio of 4.0% or more and a Tier 1 Leverage Capital Ratio of 4.0% or more (3.0% under certain circumstances) and does not meet the definition of “well capitalized;” (iii) “undercapitalized” if it has a Total Risk Based Capital Ratio that is less than 8.0%, a Tier 1 Risk Based Capital Ratio that is less than 4.0% or a Leverage Capital Ratio that is less than 4.0% (3.0% under certain circumstances); (iv) “significantly undercapitalized” if it has a Total Risk Based Capital Ratio that is less than 6.0%, a Tier 1 Risk Based Capital Ratio that is less than 3.0% or a Leverage Capital Ratio that is less than 3.0%; and (v) “critically undercapitalized” if it has a ratio of tangible equity to total assets that is equal to or less than 2.0%.
 

 
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An institution generally must file a written capital restoration plan which meets specified requirements with an appropriate federal banking agency within 45 days of the date the institution receives notice or is deemed to have notice that it is undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized or critically undercapitalized.  A federal banking agency must provide the institution with written notice of approval or disapproval within 60 days after receiving a capital restoration plan, subject to extensions by the applicable agency.
 
An institution that is required to submit a capital restoration plan must concurrently submit a performance guaranty by each company that controls the institution. Such guaranty will be limited to the lesser of (i) an amount equal to 5.0% of the institution’s total assets at the time the institution was notified or deemed to have notice that it was undercapitalized or (ii) the amount necessary at such time to restore the relevant capital measures of the institution to the levels required for the institution to be classified as adequately capitalized.  Such a guaranty will expire after the federal banking agency notifies the institution that it has remained adequately capitalized for each of four consecutive calendar quarters.  An institution that fails to submit a written capital restoration plan within the requisite period, including any required performance guaranty, or fails in any material respect to implement a capital restoration plan, will be subject to the restrictions in Section 38 of the FDIA which are applicable to significantly undercapitalized institutions.
 
Immediately upon becoming undercapitalized, an institution becomes subject to the provisions of Section 38 of the FDIA, which (i) restrict payment of capital distributions and management fees; (ii) require that the appropriate federal banking agency monitor the condition of the institution and its efforts to restore its capital; (iii) require submission of a capital restoration plan; (iv) restrict the growth of the institution’s assets; and (v) require prior approval of certain expansion proposals.  The appropriate federal banking agency for an undercapitalized institution also may take any number of discretionary supervisory actions if the agency determines that any of these actions is necessary to resolve the problems of the institution at the least possible long term cost to the deposit insurance fund, subject in certain cases to specified procedures.  These discretionary supervisory actions include:  requiring the institution to raise additional capital, restricting transactions with affiliates, requiring divestiture of the institution or sale of the institution to a willing purchaser, and any other supervisory action that the agency deems appropriate.  These and additional mandatory and permissive supervisory actions may be taken with respect to significantly undercapitalized and critically undercapitalized institutions.
 
A “critically undercapitalized institution” will be placed in conservatorship or receivership within 90 days unless the FDIC formally determines that forbearance from such action would better protect the deposit insurance fund.  Unless the FDIC or other appropriate federal banking regulatory agency makes specific further findings and certifies that the institution is viable and is not expected to fail, an institution that remains critically undercapitalized on average during the fourth calendar quarter after the date it becomes critically undercapitalized must be placed in receivership.  The general rule is that the FDIC will be appointed as receiver within 90 days after a bank becomes critically undercapitalized unless extremely good cause is shown and the federal regulators agree to an extension.  In general, good cause is defined as capital that has been raised and is immediately available for infusion into the bank except for certain technical requirements that may delay the infusion for a period of time beyond the 90 day time period.
 
Additionally, under Section 11(c)(5) of the FDIA, a conservator or receiver may be appointed for an institution where: (i) an institution’s obligations exceed its assets; (ii) there is substantial dissipation of the institution’s assets or earnings as a result of any violation of law or any unsafe or unsound practice; (iii) the institution is in an unsafe or unsound condition; (iv) there is a willful violation of a cease and desist order; (v) the institution is unable to pay its obligations in the ordinary course of business; (vi) losses or threatened losses deplete all or substantially all of an institution’s capital, and there is no reasonable prospect of becoming “adequately capitalized” without assistance; (vii) there is any violation of law or unsafe or unsound practice or condition that is likely to cause insolvency or substantial dissipation of assets or earnings, weaken the institution’s condition, or otherwise seriously prejudice the interests of depositors or the insurance fund; (viii) an institution ceases to be insured; (ix) the institution is undercapitalized and has no reasonable prospect that it will become adequately capitalized, fails to become adequately capitalized when required to do so, or fails to submit or materially implement a capital restoration plan; or (x) the institution is critically undercapitalized or otherwise has substantially insufficient capital.
 
Currently, Old Line Bank is well capitalized.
 

 
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Basel III
 
In December 2010, the Basel Committee released its final framework for strengthening international capital and liquidity regulation, now officially identified by the Basel Committee as “Basel III”.  Basel III, when implemented by the U.S. banking agencies and fully phased in, will require bank holding companies and their bank subsidiaries to maintain substantially more capital, with a greater emphasis on common equity.  Basel III increases the minimum Tier 1 common equity ratio to 4.5%, net of regulatory deductions, and introduces a capital conservation buffer of an additional 2.5% of common equity to risk weighted assets, raising the target minimum common equity ratio to 7%.  This capital conservation buffer also increases the minimum Tier 1 capital ratio from 6% to 8.5% and the minimum total capital ratio from 8% to 10.5%.  In addition, Basel III introduces a countercyclical capital buffer of up to 2.5% of common equity or other fully loss absorbing capital for periods of excess credit growth.  Basel III also introduces a non-risk adjusted Tier 1 leverage ratio of 3%, based on a measure of total exposure rather than total assets, and new liquidity standards.  The requirements to maintain higher levels of capital or to maintain higher levels of liquid assets could adversely impact our financial results.
 
Deposit Insurance
 
The deposits of Old Line Bank are insured up to applicable limits per insured depositor by the FDIC.  The Dodd-Frank Act permanently increased the FDIC deposit insurance coverage per separately insured depositor for all account types to $250,000.  In November 2010, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC issued a Final Rule that provides for unlimited insurance coverage of non-interest bearing demand transaction accounts, regardless of the balance of the account, until January 1, 2013.  On January 18, 2011, the FDIC issued a Final Rule to include Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (“IOLTAs”) in the temporary unlimited insurance coverage for non-interest bearing demand transaction accounts.  This temporary unlimited insurance coverage replaces the Transaction Account Guarantee Program (TAGP), which expired on December 31, 2010.  Unlike the TAGP, there is no special assessment associated with the temporary unlimited insurance coverage, nor may institutions opt out of the unlimited coverage.
 
Under the FDIA, the FDIC may terminate insurance of deposits upon a finding that the institution has engaged in unsafe or unsound practices, is in an unsafe or unsound condition to continue operations or has violated any applicable law, regulation, rule, order or condition imposed by the FDIC.
 
Deposit Insurance Assessments
 
Under current FDIC regulations, each depository institution is assigned to a risk category based on capital and supervisory measures.  In 2009, the FDIC revised the method for calculating the assessment rate for depository institutions by introducing several adjustments to an institution’s initial base assessment rate.  A depository institution is assessed premiums by the FDIC based on its risk category and the amount of deposits held. On February 7, 2011, the FDIC approved a final rule on Assessments, Dividends, Assessment Base and Large Bank Pricing (“Rule”).  The Rule, mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, changes the deposit insurance assessment system from one that is based on domestic deposits to one that is based on average consolidated total assets minus average tangible equity.  In addition, the Rule adopts a “scorecard” assessment scheme for larger banks and suspends dividend payments if the Depository Insurance Fund (“DIF”) reserve ratio exceeds 1.5%, but provides for decreasing assessment rates when the DIF reserve ratio reaches certain thresholds.  Under the Rule, larger insured depository institutions will likely be forced to pay higher assessments to the DIF than under the old system, which should offset the cost of the assessment increases for institutions with consolidated assets of less than $10 billion, such as Old Line Bank.
 
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
 
In the third quarter of 2008, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury and the FDIC initiated measures to stabilize the financial markets and to provide liquidity for financial institutions.  The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (“EESA”) was signed into law on October 3, 2008 and authorized the U.S. Treasury to provide funds to restore liquidity and stability to the U.S. financial system.  Under the authority of EESA, the U.S. Treasury instituted a voluntary capital purchase program to encourage U.S. financial institutions to build capital to increase the flow of financing to U.S. businesses and consumers to support the U.S. economy.  Under the program, the U.S. Treasury purchased senior preferred shares of financial institutions that pay cumulative dividends at a rate of 5% per year for five years and thereafter at a rate of 9% per year.  On December 5, 2008, Old Line Bancshares issued to the U.S. Treasury $7 million of Series A Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 141,892 shares of our common stock at $7.40 per share.  We elected to participate in the capital purchase program at an amount equal to approximately 3% of our risk weighted assets at the time.
 

 
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On July 15, 2009, we repurchased from the U.S. Treasury the 7,000 shares of preferred stock that we issued to them in December 2008.  We also repurchased the warrant to purchase 141,892 shares of our common stock that was issued to the U.S. Treasury in conjunction with the issuance of preferred stock.
 
Maryland Regulatory Assessment
 
The Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation in the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation assesses state chartered banks to cover the expense of regulating banking institutions.  The Commissioner assesses each banking institution the sum of $1,000, plus $0.08 for each $1,000 of assets of the institution over $1,000,000, as disclosed on the banking institution’s most recent financial report.  In 2011, we paid $42,529 to the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation.
 
Regulatory Enforcement Authority
 
The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”) included substantial enhancement to the enforcement powers available to federal banking regulators, including the Federal Reserve Board.  This enforcement authority includes, among other things, the ability to assess civil money penalties, to issue cease and desist or removal orders and to initiate injunctive actions against banking organizations and institution affiliated parties.  In general, these enforcement actions may be initiated for violations of laws and regulations and unsafe or unsound practices.  Other actions or inactions may provide the basis for enforcement action, including misleading or untimely reports filed with regulatory authorities.  FIRREA significantly increased the amount of and grounds for civil money penalties and requires, except under certain circumstances, public disclosure of final enforcement actions by the federal banking agencies.
 
Restrictions on Transactions with Affiliates and Insiders
 
Maryland law imposes restrictions on certain transactions with affiliates of Maryland commercial banks.  Generally, under Maryland law, a director, officer or employee of a commercial bank may not borrow, directly or indirectly, any money from the bank, unless the loan has been approved by a resolution adopted by and recorded in the minutes of the board of directors of the bank, or the executive committee of the bank, if that committee is authorized to make loans.  If the executive committee approves such a loan, the loan approval must be reported to the board of directors at its next meeting.  Certain commercial loans made to directors of a bank and certain consumer loans made to non-officer employees of the bank are exempt from the law’s coverage.
 
In addition, Old Line Bank is subject to the provisions of Sections 23A and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act and Regulation W of the Federal Reserve Board (collectively, “Regulation W”), which limit the amount of loans or extensions of credit to, investments in, or certain other transactions with, affiliates, and limits the amount of advances to third parties collateralized by the securities or obligations of affiliates.  Regulation W limits the aggregate amount of transactions with any individual affiliate to 10% of the capital and surplus of Old Line Bank and also limits the aggregate amount of transactions with all affiliates to 20% of capital and surplus.  Loans and certain other extensions of credit to affiliates are required to be secured by collateral in an amount and of a type described in Regulation W, and the purchase of low quality assets from affiliates is generally prohibited.
 
Regulation W, among other things, prohibits an institution from engaging in certain transactions with certain affiliates (as defined in the Federal Reserve Act) unless the transactions are on terms substantially the same, or at least as favorable to such institution and/or its subsidiaries, as those prevailing at the time for comparable transactions with non-affiliated entities.  In the absence of comparable transactions, such transactions may only occur under terms and circumstances, including credit standards that in good faith would be offered to or would apply to non-affiliated companies.
 
 
 
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In addition, under Regulation W:
 
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a bank and its subsidiaries may not purchase a low quality asset from an affiliate;
 
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covered transactions and other specified transactions between a bank or its subsidiaries and an affiliate must be on terms and conditions that are consistent with safe and sound banking practices; and
 
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with some exceptions, each loan or extension of credit by a bank to an affiliate must be secured by collateral with a market value ranging from 100% to 130%, depending on the type of collateral, of the amount of the loan or extension of credit.
 
Regulation W generally excludes non-bank and non-savings association subsidiaries of banks from treatment as affiliates, except to the extent that the Federal Reserve Board decides to treat these subsidiaries as affiliates.
 
Old Line Bank also is subject to the restrictions contained in Sections 22(g) and 22(h) of the Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation O thereunder (collectively, “Regulation O”), which govern loans and extensions of credit to executive officers, directors and principal stockholders.  Under Regulation O, loans to a director, an executive officer or a greater than 10% stockholder of a bank as well as certain affiliated interests of any of the foregoing may not exceed, together with all other outstanding loans to such person and affiliated interests, the loans to one borrower limit applicable to national banks (generally 15% of the institution’s unimpaired capital and surplus), and all loans to all such persons in the aggregate may not exceed the institution’s unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus.  Regulation O also prohibits the making of loans in an amount greater than $25,000 or 5% of capital and surplus but in any event not over $500,000, to directors, executive officers and greater than 10% stockholders of a bank, and their respective affiliates, unless such loans are approved in advance by a majority of the Board of Directors of the bank with any interested director not participating in the voting.  Further, Regulation O requires that loans to directors, executive officers and principal stockholders be made on terms substantially the same as those that are offered in comparable transactions to unrelated third parties unless the loans are made pursuant to a benefit or compensation program that is widely available to all employees of the bank and does not give preference to insiders over other employees.  Regulation O also prohibits a depository institution from paying overdrafts over $1,000 of any of its executive officers or directors unless they are paid pursuant to written preauthorized extension of credit or transfer of funds plans.  Regulation O also has special rules for loans to executive officers, and generally prohibits the making of such loans in an amount greater than $25,000 or 2.5% of capital and surplus but in any event not over $100,000 unless such loan meets certain collateralization requirements or is made to finance the education of the executive officer's children, or to finance or refinance the executive officer’s residence.
 
All of Old Line Bank’s loans to its and Old Line Bancshares, Inc.’s executive officers, directors and greater than 10% stockholders, and affiliated interests of such persons, comply with the requirements of Regulation W and Regulation O.
 
We have entered into banking transactions with our directors and executive officers and the business and professional organizations in which they are associated in the ordinary course of business.  We make any loans and loan commitments in accordance with all applicable laws.
 
Loans to One Borrower
 
Old Line Bank is subject to the statutory and regulatory limits on the extension of credit to one borrower.  Generally, the maximum amount of total outstanding loans that a Maryland chartered trust company may have to any one borrower at any one time is 15% of Old Line Bank’s unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus. An additional amount may be lent, equal to 10% of unimpaired capital and surplus, if such loan is secured by readily marketable collateral, which is defined to include certain securities and bullion, but generally does not include real estate.
 
 
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Liquidity
 
Old Line Bank is subject to the reserve requirements imposed by the State of Maryland.  A Maryland commercial bank is required to have at all times a reserve equal  to at least 15% of its demand deposits.  Old Line Bank is also subject to the reserve requirements of Federal Reserve Board Regulation D, which applies to all depository institutions.  Specifically, as of December 31, 2011, amounts in transaction accounts above $10.7 million and up to $58.8 million must have reserves held against them in the ratio of three percent of the amount.  Amounts above $58.8 million require reserves of $1,443,000 plus 10% of the amount in excess of $58.8 million.  For 2012, amounts in transaction accounts above $11.5 million and up to $71.0 million must have reserves held against them in the ratio of three percent of the amount.  Amounts above $71.0 million require reserves of $1,785,000 plus 10 percent of the amount in excess of $71.0 million.  The Maryland reserve requirements may be used to satisfy the requirements of Federal Reserve Regulation D.  Old Line Bank is in compliance with its reserve requirements.
 
Dividends
 
Old Line Bancshares, Inc. is a legal entity separate and distinct from Old Line Bank.  Virtually all of Old Line Bancshares, Inc.’s revenue available for the payment of dividends on its common stock results from dividends paid to Old Line Bancshares, Inc. by Old Line Bank.  Under Maryland law, Old Line Bank may declare a cash dividend, after providing for due or accrued expenses, losses, interest, and taxes, from its undivided profits or, with the prior approval of the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation, from its surplus in excess of 100% of its required capital stock.  Also, if Old Line Bank’s surplus is less than 100% of its required capital stock, cash dividends may not be paid in excess of 90% of net earnings.  In addition to these specific restrictions, the bank regulatory agencies have the ability to prohibit or limit proposed dividends if such regulatory agencies determine the payment of such dividends would result in Old Line Bank being in an unsafe and unsound condition.
 
Community Reinvestment Act
 
Old Line Bank is required to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) regardless of its capital condition.  The CRA requires that, in connection with its examinations of Old Line Bank, the Federal Reserve Board evaluates the record of Old Line Bank in meeting the credit needs of its local community, including low and moderate income neighborhoods, consistent with the safe and sound operation of the institution.  The CRA does not establish specific lending requirements or programs for financial institutions nor does it limit an institution’s discretion to develop the types of products and services that it believes are best suited to its particular community, consistent with the CRA.  These factors are considered in, among other things, evaluating mergers, acquisitions and applications to open a branch or facility.  The CRA also requires all institutions to make public disclosure of their CRA ratings.  Old Line Bank received a “Satisfactory” rating in its latest CRA examination.
 
USA PATRIOT Act
 
The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”)  substantially broadened the scope of U.S. anti-money laundering laws and regulations by imposing significant new compliance and due diligence obligations, creating new crimes and penalties and expanding the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the United States.  The PATRIOT Act requires financial institutions, including banks, to establish anti-money laundering programs, including employee training and independent audit requirements, meet minimum standards specified by the Act, follow minimum standards for customer identification and maintenance of customer identification records, and regularly compare customer lists against lists of suspected terrorists, terrorist organizations and money launderers.  The U.S. Treasury has issued a number of implementing regulations that apply to various requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act to financial institutions such as Old Line Bank.  Those regulations impose obligations on financial institutions to maintain appropriate policies, procedures and controls to detect, prevent and report money laundering and terrorist financing.
 
Failure of a financial institution to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act’s requirements could have serious legal and reputational consequences for the institution.  Old Line Bank has adopted appropriate policies, procedures and controls to address compliance with the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act under the existing regulations and will continue to revise and update its policies, procedures and controls to reflect changes required by the USA PATRIOT Act and Treasury’s regulations.
 
 
 
 
 
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The costs or other effects of the compliance burdens imposed by the PATRIOT Act or future anti-terrorist, homeland security or anti-money laundering legislation or regulations cannot be predicted with certainty.
 
Consumer Protection Laws
 
Old Line Bank is subject to a number of federal and state laws designed to protect borrowers and promote lending to various sectors of the economy.  These laws include the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and various state law counterparts.
  
In addition, federal law currently contains extensive customer privacy protection provisions.  Under these provisions, a financial institution must provide to its customers, at the inception of the customer relationship and annually thereafter, the institution’s policies and procedures regarding the handling of customers’ nonpublic personal financial information.  These provisions also provide that, except for certain limited exceptions, a financial institution may not provide such personal information to unaffiliated third parties unless the institution discloses to the customer that such information may be so provided and the customer is given the opportunity to opt out of such disclosure.  Further, under the “Interagency Guidelines Establishing Information Security Standards,” banks must implement a comprehensive information security program that includes administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information.  Federal law makes it a criminal offense, except in limited circumstances, to obtain or attempt to obtain customer information of a financial nature by fraudulent or deceptive means.
 
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
 
On July 21, 2010, the previously mentioned Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law.  The Dodd-Frank Act contains a wide variety of provisions affecting the regulation of depository institutions in addition to those already mentioned.  Those include restrictions related to mortgage loan originations, risk retention requirements as to securitized loans and the noted newly created consumer protection agency.   The Dodd-Frank Act requires the Federal Reserve Board to set minimum capital levels for bank holding companies that are as stringent as those required for the insured depository subsidiaries, and the components of Tier 1 capital must be restricted to capital instruments that are currently considered to be Tier 1 capital for insured depository institutions.  The Dodd-Frank Act also addresses many investor protections, corporate governance and executive compensation matters that will affect most U.S. publicly traded companies, including Old Line Bancshares, Inc.  The Dodd-Frank Act (1) grants stockholders of U.S. publicly traded companies an advisory vote on executive compensation; (2) enhances independence requirements for compensation committee members; (3) requires companies listed on national securities exchanges to adopt incentive based compensation clawback policies for executive officers; and (4) provides the SEC with authority to adopt proxy access rules that would allow stockholders of publicly traded companies to nominate candidates for election as a director and have those nominees included in a company’s proxy materials.
 
Many of the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act will be implemented over time and most will be subject to regulations implemented over the course of several years.  Given the uncertainty associated with the manner in which the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act will be implemented by the various regulatory agencies and through regulations, the full extent of the impact such requirements will have on our operations is unclear.  The changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act may impact the profitability of our business activities, require changes to certain of our business practices, impose upon us more stringent capital, liquidity and leverage requirements or otherwise adversely affect our business.  These changes may also require us to invest significant management attention and resources to evaluate and make any changes necessary to comply with new statutory and regulatory requirements. Failure to comply with the new requirements may negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition.  While we cannot predict what effect any presently contemplated or future changes in the laws or regulations or their interpretations would have on us, these changes could be materially adverse to our investors.
 

 
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Other Legislative Initiatives
 
In addition to the Dodd-Frank Act and the regulations that will be promulgated thereunder, new proposals may be introduced in the United States Congress and in the Maryland Legislature and before various bank regulatory authorities which would alter the powers of, and restrictions on, different types of banking organizations and which would restructure part or all of the existing regulatory framework for banks, bank holding companies and other providers of financial services.  Moreover, other bills may be introduced in Congress which would further regulate, deregulate or restructure the financial services industry, including proposals to substantially reform the regulatory framework.  We cannot predict whether or in what form any proposed regulation or statute will be adopted or the extent to which any new regulation or statute may affect our business.
 
Bank Holding Company Regulation
 
As a bank holding company, Old Line Bancshares, Inc. is subject to regulation and examination by the Maryland Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation and the Federal Reserve Board.  Old Line Bancshares, Inc. is required to file with the Federal Reserve Board an annual report and such additional information as the Federal Reserve Board may require pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “BHC Act”).  Among other things, the BHC Act requires regulatory filings by a stockholder or other party that seeks to acquire direct or indirect “control” of an FDIC-insured depository institution.  The determination whether an investor “controls” a depository institution is based on all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the investment.  As a general matter, a party is deemed to control a depository institution or other company if the party owns or controls 25% or more of any class of voting stock.  Subject to rebuttal, a party may be presumed to control a depository institution or other company if the investor owns or controls 10% or more of any class of voting stock.  Ownership by affiliated parties, or parties acting in concert, is typically aggregated for these purposes.  If a party’s ownership of Old Line Bancshares, Inc. were to exceed certain thresholds, the investor could be deemed to “control” Old Line Bancshares, Inc. for regulatory purposes.  This could subject the investor to regulatory filings or other regulatory consequences.
 
Pursuant to provisions of the BHC Act and regulations promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board thereunder, Old Line Bancshares, Inc. may only engage in or own companies that engage in activities deemed by the Federal Reserve Board to be so closely related to the business of banking or managing or controlling banks as to be a proper incident thereto, and the holding company must obtain permission from the Federal Reserve Board prior to engaging in most new business activities.  In addition, bank holding companies like Old Line Bancshares, Inc. must be well capitalized and well managed in order to engage in the expanded financial activities permissible only for a financial holding company.
 
Federal banking regulators have adopted risk-based capital guidelines for bank holding companies.  Currently, the required minimum ratio of total capital to risk-weighted assets (including off-balance sheet activities, such as standby letters of credit) is 8%.  At least half of the total capital is required to be Tier 1 capital, consisting principally of common stockholders’ equity, non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, a limited amount of cumulative perpetual preferred stock and minority interests in the equity accounts of consolidated subsidiaries, less goodwill.  The remainder (Tier 2 capital) may consist of a limited amount of subordinated debt and intermediate-term preferred stock, certain hybrid capital instruments and other debt securities, perpetual preferred stock and a limited amount of the general loan loss allowance.  In addition to the risk-based capital guidelines, the federal banking regulators established minimum leverage ratio (Tier 1 capital to total assets) guidelines for bank holding companies.  These guidelines provide for a minimum leverage ratio of 3% for those bank holding companies which have the highest regulatory examination ratings and are not contemplating or experiencing significant growth or expansion.  All other bank holding companies are required to maintain a leverage ratio of at least 4%.
 
The Federal Reserve Board has issued a policy statement regarding the payment of dividends by bank holding companies.  In general, the Federal Reserve’s policies provide that dividends should be paid only out of current earnings and only if the prospective rate of earnings retention by the bank holding company appears consistent.
 

 
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Effect of Governmental Monetary Policies
 
Domestic economic conditions and the monetary and fiscal policies of the United States government and its agencies affect our earnings.  The Federal Reserve Board’s monetary policies have had, and are likely to continue to have, an important impact on the operating results of financial institutions through its power to implement national monetary policy in order, among other things, to curb inflation or combat a recession.  The monetary policies of the Federal Reserve Board affect the levels of bank loans, investments and deposits through its control over the issuance of United States government securities, its regulation of the discount rate applicable to member banks and its influence over reserve requirements to which member banks are subject.  We cannot predict the nature or impact of future changes in monetary and fiscal policies.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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Forward Looking Statements

Some of the matters discussed in this annual report including under the captions “Business of Old Line Bancshares, Inc.,” “Business of Old Line Bank,” “Risk Factors”, and “Management’s Discussion And Analysis Of Financial Condition And Results Of Operations” and elsewhere in this annual report.  These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the impact of our merger with Maryland Bankcorp going forward, changes in and future revenues, income, expenses and non-interest income, improved earnings and stockholder value, retention of existing branches, our growth and expansion strategy, liquidity, loan, deposit, asset and customer growth, maintaining the net interest margin during 2012 and beyond, borrowers continuing to stay current on their loans,  continued use of brokered deposits, losses on non-accrual loans, our expectation with respect to earnings on our bank owned life insurance policies partially offsetting certain expenses and obligations, our expectation with respect to ratification of the sale of a foreclosed property with respect to a non-accrual loan and our plan to foreclose on the property securing another non-accrual loan, that we plan to continue efforts to sell acquired and legacy real estate owned, potential regulatory changes, the impact of new accounting guidance, the allowance for loan losses, interest rate sensitivity, market risk, the status of the unrealized losses in our investment portfolio and business, financial and other goals.  Forward-looking statements often use words such as “believe,” “expect,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “project,” “contemplate,” “anticipate,” “forecast,” “intend” or other words of similar meaning.  You can also identify them by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts.  When you read a forward-looking statement, you should keep in mind the risk factors described below and any other information contained in this annual report, which identifies a risk or uncertainty.  Our actual results and the actual outcome of our expectations and strategies could be different from that described in this annual report because of these risks and uncertainties and you should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.  All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this filing, and we undertake no obligation to make any revisions to the forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this filing or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Item 1A.                      Risk Factors

You should consider carefully the following risks, along with other information contained in this Form 10-K.  The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones that may affect us.  Additional risks and uncertainties also may adversely affect our business and operations including those discussed in Item 7-Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.  Any of the following events, should they actually occur, could materially and adversely affect our business and financial results.

Risk Factors Related to the Merger with Maryland Bankcorp
 
We may fail to realize all of the anticipated benefits of the merger.  As discussed above in “Item 1-Business”, in April 2011 we acquired Maryland Bankcorp.  The ultimate success of the merger will depend, in part, on our ability to realize the anticipated benefits and cost savings from combining our businesses with Maryland Bankcorp’s.  To realize these anticipated benefits and cost savings, however, we must successfully complete the combination of these businesses.  If we are unable to achieve these objectives, we may not fully realize the anticipated benefits and cost savings of the merger or they may take longer to realize than expected.
 
It is possible that the continuing integration process could result in the loss of key employees, the loss of key depositors or other bank customers, the disruption of our ongoing businesses or inconsistencies in standards, controls, procedures and policies that adversely affect our ability to maintain our relationships with our clients, customers, depositors and employees or to achieve the anticipated benefits of the merger.  Integration efforts between the two companies may, to some extent, continue to divert management attention and resources.  These integration matters could have an adverse effect on us during the remaining transition period.
 
We may not have adequately assessed the fair value of the acquired assets and liabilities.  Current accounting guidance requires that we record assets and liabilities at their estimated fair values on the purchase date.  In accordance with accounting for business combinations, we included the credit losses evident in the fair value of loans at the date of our acquisition of MB&T and eliminated the allowance for loan losses maintained by MB&T at the acquisition date.  The determination of fair value requires that we consider a number of factors including the remaining life of the acquired loans and deposits, estimated prepayments or withdrawals, estimated loss ratios, estimated value of the underlying collateral, and the net present value of expected cash flows. Actual deviations from these predicted cash flows, maturities or repayments or the underlying value of the collateral may mean that our present value determination is inaccurate.  This may cause fluctuations in interest income, non-interest income, provision expense, interest expense and non-interest expense and negatively impact our results of operations.


 
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Risk Factors Relating to Old Line Bancshares’ Business
 
If economic conditions deteriorate further, our borrowers’ ability to repay loans declines and the value of the collateral securing our loans decreases.  These conditions could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. Changes in prevailing economic conditions, including declining real estate values, changes in interest rates which may cause a decrease in interest rate spreads, adverse employment conditions, the monetary and fiscal policies of the federal government and other significant external events may adversely affect our financial results.  While the recession has officially ended and there continues to be evidence of improvement in the economy, it remains unclear when conditions will improve to the extent that they will positively impact borrowers’ ability to repay their loans in general and demand for loans overall.  Although signs of stability have emerged, we expect that the business environment in the State of Maryland and the entire United States will continue to present challenges for the foreseeable future.  Although we have seen limited and sporadic pockets of price stability or even appreciation in our market area, there remains potential for future decline in real estate values.  Because real estate related loans comprise a significant portion of our loans, continued decreases in real estate values could adversely affect the value of property used as collateral for loans in our portfolio.  Although the adverse economic climate during the past four years has not severely impacted us due to our strict underwriting standards, further adverse changes in the economy, including increased unemployment or the economy moving back into a recession, could have a negative effect on the ability of our borrowers to make timely repayments of their loans, which would have an adverse impact on our earnings.

If U.S. markets and economic conditions do not significantly improve or further deteriorate, it could adversely affect our liquidity.  Old Line Bank must maintain sufficient liquidity to ensure cash flow is available to satisfy current and future financial obligations including demand for loans and deposit withdrawals, funding of operating costs and other corporate purposes.  We obtain funding through deposits and various short term and long term wholesale borrowings, including federal funds purchased, unsecured borrowings, brokered certificates of deposits and borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and others.  Economic uncertainty and disruptions in the financial system may adversely affect our liquidity.  Dramatic declines in the housing market during the past four years, falling real estate prices and increased foreclosures and unemployment, have resulted in significant asset value write downs by financial institutions, including government sponsored entities and investment banks.  These investment write downs have caused financial institutions to seek additional capital. Should we experience a substantial deterioration in our financial condition or should disruptions in the financial markets restrict our funding, it would negatively impact our liquidity.  To mitigate this risk, we closely monitor our liquidity and maintain a line of credit with the Federal Home Loan Bank and have received approval to borrow from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Our need to comply with extensive and complex governmental regulation could have an adverse effect on our business and our growth strategy. The banking industry is subject to extensive regulation by state and federal banking authorities.  Many of these regulations are intended to protect depositors, the public or the FDIC insurance funds, not stockholders.  Regulatory requirements affect our lending practices, capital structure, investment practices, dividend policy, ability to attract and retain personnel and many other aspects of our business.  These requirements may constrain our rate of growth and changes in regulations could adversely affect us.  The cost of compliance with regulatory requirements could adversely affect our ability to operate profitably.

In addition, because federal regulation of financial institutions changes regularly and is the subject of constant legislative debate, we cannot forecast how federal regulation of financial institutions may change in the future and impact our operations.  In light of the performance of and government intervention in the financial sector, we fully expect there will be significant changes to the banking and financial institutions’ regulatory agencies in the near future.  We further anticipate that regulatory authorities may enact additional laws and regulations in response to the ongoing financial crisis that could have an impact on our operations.  Changes in regulation and oversight, including in the form of changes to statutes, regulations or regulatory policies or changes in interpretation or implementation of statutes, regulations or policies, could affect the service and products we offer, increase our operating expenses, increase compliance challenges and otherwise adversely impact our financial performance and condition.  In addition, the burden imposed by these federal and state regulations may place banks in general, and Old Line Bank specifically, at a competitive disadvantage compared to less regulated competitors.


 
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The recently enacted Dodd-Frank Act may adversely impact our results of operations, liquidity or financial condition.  In July 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act.  The Dodd-Frank Act represents a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. financial services industry.  Among other things, the Dodd-Frank Act establishes the new federal Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (the “BCFP”), includes provisions affecting corporate governance and executive compensation disclosure at all Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) reporting companies, allows financial institutions to pay interest on business checking accounts, broadens the base for FDIC insurance assessments, and includes new restrictions on how mortgage brokers and loan originators may be compensated.  The Dodd-Frank Act requires the BCFP and other federal agencies to implement many new and significant rules and regulations to implement its various provisions.  We will not know the full impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on our business for years until regulations implementing the statute are adopted and implemented.  As a result, we cannot at this time predict the extent to which the Dodd-Frank Act will impact our business, operations or financial condition.  However, compliance with these new laws and regulations may require us to make changes to our business and operations and will likely result in additional costs and a diversion of management’s time from other business activities, any of which may adversely impact our results of operations, liquidity or financial condition.  Further, if the industry responds to provisions allowing financial institutions to pay interest on business checking accounts by competing for those deposits with interest bearing accounts, this may put some degree of downward pressure on our net interest margin during 2012 and beyond.
 
Because we serve a limited market area in Maryland, an economic downturn in our market area could more adversely affect us than it affects our larger competitors that are more geographically diverse.  Our current primary market area consists of the suburban Maryland (Washington, D.C. suburbs) counties of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and St. Mary’s.  We have expanded in the counties in which we have historically operated and into Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties, Maryland and may expand in contiguous northern and western counties, such as Montgomery County and Howard County, Maryland.  However, broad geographic diversification is not currently part of our community bank focus.  Overall, during the last four years, the business environment negatively impacted many businesses and households in the United States and worldwide.  Although the economic decline has not impacted the suburban Maryland and Washington D.C. suburbs as adversely as other areas of the United States, it has caused an increase in unemployment and business failures and a decline in property values.  As a result, if our market area continues to suffer an economic downturn, it may more severely affect our business and financial condition than it affects larger bank competitors. Our larger competitors serve more geographically diverse market areas, parts of which may not be affected by the same economic conditions that may exist in our market area.  Further, unexpected changes in the national and local economy may adversely affect our ability to attract deposits and to make loans.  Such risks are beyond our control and may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations and, in turn, the value of our securities.

We depend on the services of key personnel.  The loss of any of these personnel could disrupt our operations and our business could suffer. Our success depends substantially on the skills and abilities of our executive management team, including James W. Cornelsen, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Joseph E. Burnett, our Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer, Christine M. Rush, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Sandi F. Burnett, our Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer.  They provide valuable services to us and would be difficult to replace. Although we have entered into employment agreements with these executives, the existence of such agreements does not assure that we will retain their services.

Also, our growth and success and our anticipated future growth and success, in a large part, is due and we anticipate will be due to the relationships maintained by our banking executives with our customers.  The loss of services of one or more of these executives or other key employees could have a material adverse effect on our operations and our business could suffer.  The experienced commercial lenders that we have hired are not a party to any employment agreement with us and they could terminate their employment with us at any time and for any reason.


 
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Our growth and expansion strategy may not be successful. Our ability to grow depends upon our ability to attract new deposits, identify loan and investment opportunities and maintain adequate capital levels.  We may also grow through acquisitions of existing financial institutions or branches thereof.  There are no guarantees that our expansion strategies will be successful.  Also, in order to effectively manage our anticipated and/or actual loan growth we have and may continue to make additional investments in equipment and personnel, which also will increase our non-interest expense.  If we grow too quickly and are not able to control costs and maintain asset quality, growth could materially and adversely affect our financial performance.

Our concentrations of loans in various categories may also increase the risk of credit losses. We currently invest more than 25% of our capital in various loan types and industry segments, including commercial real estate loans and loans to the hospitality industry (hotels/motels). While recent declines in the local commercial real estate market have not caused the collateral securing our loans to exceed acceptable loan to value ratios, a further deterioration in the commercial real estate market could cause deterioration in the collateral securing these loans and/or a decline in our customers’ earning capacity.  This could negatively impact us.  Although we have made a large portion of our hospitality loans to long term, well established operators in strategic locations, a continued decline in the occupancy rate in these facilities could negatively impact their earnings.  This could adversely impact their ability to repay their loan which would adversely impact our net income.

If our allowance for loan losses is not sufficient to cover actual loan losses, our earnings will decrease. We maintain an allowance for loan losses that we believe is adequate for absorbing any potential losses in our loan portfolio.  Management, through a periodic review and consideration of the loan portfolio, determines the amount of the allowance for loan losses.  Although we believe the allowance for loan losses is adequate to absorb probable losses in our loan portfolio, even under normal economic conditions, we cannot predict such losses with certainty.  The unprecedented volatility experienced in the financial and capital markets during the last four years makes this determination even more difficult as processes we use to estimate the allowance for loan losses may no longer be dependable because they rely on complex judgments, including forecasts of economic conditions that may not be accurate.  As a result, we cannot be sure that our allowance is or will be adequate in the future.  If management’s assumptions and judgments prove to be incorrect and the allowance for loan losses is inadequate to absorb future losses, our earnings will suffer.

As of December 31, 2011, commercial and industrial, construction, and commercial real estate mortgage loans comprise approximately 79.64% of our loan portfolio.  These types of loans are generally viewed as having more risk of default than residential real estate or consumer loans and typically have larger balances than residential real estate loans and consumer loans.  A deterioration of one or a few of these loans could cause a significant increase in non-performing loans.  Such an increase could result in a net loss of earnings from these loans, an increase in the provision for loan losses and an increase in loan charge-offs, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Our profitability depends on interest rates and changes in monetary policy may impact us. Our results of operations depend to a large extent on our “net interest income,” which is the difference between the interest expense incurred in connection with our interest bearing liabilities, such as interest on deposit accounts, and the interest income received from our interest earning assets, such as loans and investment securities.  Interest rates, because they are influenced by, among other things, expectations about future events, including the level of economic activity, federal monetary and fiscal policy, and geopolitical stability, are not predictable or controllable.  Additionally, competitive factors heavily influence the interest rates we can earn on our loan and investment portfolios and the interest rates we pay on our deposits.  Community banks are often at a competitive disadvantage in managing their cost of funds compared to the large regional, super regional or national banks that have access to the national and international capital markets.  These factors influence our ability to maintain a stable net interest margin.


 
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We seek to maintain a neutral position in terms of the volume of assets and liabilities that mature or reprice during any period so that we may reasonably predict our net interest margin.  However, interest rate fluctuations, loan prepayments, loan production and deposit flows are constantly changing and influence our ability to maintain this neutral position.  Generally speaking, our earnings are more sensitive to fluctuations in interest rates the greater the variance in the volume of assets and liabilities that mature and reprice in any period.  The extent and duration of the sensitivity will depend on the cumulative variance over time, the velocity and direction of interest rates, and whether we are more asset than liability sensitive.  Accordingly, we may not be successful in maintaining this neutral position and, as a result, our net interest margin may suffer.

The market value of our investments could negatively impact stockholders’ equity.  We have designated all of our investment securities portfolio (and 19.95% of total assets) at December 31, 2011 as available for sale.  We “mark to market” temporary unrealized gains and losses in the estimated value of the available for sale portfolio and reflect this adjustment as a separate item in stockholders’ equity, net of taxes.  As of December 31, 2011, we had temporary unrealized gains in our available for sale portfolio of $2.4 million (net of taxes).  As a result of the recent economic recession and the continued economic slowdown, several municipalities continue to report budget deficits and companies continue to report lower earnings.  These budget deficits and lower earnings could cause temporary and other than temporary impairment charges in our investment securities portfolio and cause us to report lower net income and a decline in stockholders’ equity.

Any future issuances of common stock in connection with acquisitions or otherwise could dilute your ownership of Old Line Bancshares.  We may use our common stock to acquire other companies or to make investments in banks and other complementary businesses in the future.  We may also issue common stock, or securities convertible into common stock, through public or private offerings, in order to raise additional capital in connection with future acquisitions, to satisfy regulatory capital requirements or for general corporate purposes.  Any such stock issuances would dilute your ownership interest in Old Line Bancshares and may dilute the per share value of the common stock.
 
Our future acquisitions, if any, may cause us to become more susceptible to adverse economic events. While we currently have no plans to acquire additional financial institutions, we may do so in the future if an attractive acquisition opportunity arises that is consistent with our business plan.  Any future business acquisitions could be material to us, and the degree of success achieved in acquiring and integrating these businesses into Old Line Bancshares could have a material effect on the value of our common stock.  In addition, any acquisition could require us to use substantial cash or other liquid assets or to incur debt.  In those events, we could become more susceptible to future economic downturns and competitive pressures.
 
We face limits on our ability to lend.  The amount of our capital limits the amount that we can loan to a single borrower.  Generally, under current law, we may lend up to 15% of our unimpaired capital and surplus to any one borrower.  As of December 31, 2011, we were able to lend approximately $9.5 million to any one borrower.  This amount is significantly less than that of many of our competitors and may discourage potential borrowers who have credit needs in excess of our legal lending limit from doing business with us.  We generally try to accommodate larger loans by selling participations in those loans to other financial institutions, but this strategy is not always available.  We may not be able to attract or maintain customers seeking larger loans and we may not be able to sell participations in such loans on terms we consider favorable.

Additional capital may not be available when needed or required by regulatory authorities. Federal and state regulatory authorities require us to maintain adequate levels of capital to support our operations.  In addition, we may elect to raise additional capital to support our business or to finance future acquisitions, if any, or we may otherwise elect or our regulators may require that we raise additional capital.  Our ability to raise additional capital, if needed, will depend on conditions in the capital markets, economic conditions and a number of other factors, many of which are outside our control.  Current conditions in the capital markets are such that traditional sources of capital may not be available to us on reasonable terms if we needed to raise additional capital.  Accordingly, we may not be able to raise additional capital if needed or on terms that are favorable or otherwise not dilutive to existing stockholders.  If we cannot raise additional capital when needed, it may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
 

 
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We face substantial competition which could adversely affect our growth and operating results.  We operate in a competitive market for financial services and face intense competition from other financial institutions both in making loans and in attracting deposits.  Many of these financial institutions have been in business for many years, are significantly larger, have established customer bases, have greater financial resources and lending limits than we do, and are able to offer certain services that we are not able to offer.  If we cannot attract deposits and make loans at a sufficient level, our operating results will suffer, as will our opportunities for growth.
 
System failure or cybersecurity breaches of our network security could subject us to increased operating costs as well as litigation and other potential losses.  We rely heavily on communications and information systems to conduct our business. The computer systems and network infrastructure we use could be vulnerable to unforeseen hardware and cybersecurity issues. Our operations are dependent upon our ability to protect our computer equipment against damage from fire, power loss, telecommunications failure or a similar catastrophic event. Any damage or failure that causes an interruption in our operations could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, our operations are dependent upon our ability to protect the computer systems and network infrastructure we use, including our Internet banking activities, against damage from physical break-ins, cybersecurity breaches and other disruptive problems caused by the Internet or other users. Such computer break-ins and other disruptions would jeopardize the security of information stored in and transmitted through our computer systems and network infrastructure, which may result in significant liability to us, subject us to additional regulatory scrutiny, damage our reputation, result in a loss of customers, and inhibit current and potential customers from our Internet banking services, any of all of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. Each year, we add additional security measures to our computer systems and network infrastructure to mitigate the possibility of cybersecurity breaches including firewalls and penetration testing, but there can be no assurance that such security measures will be effective in preventing such breaches, damage or failures. We continue to investigate cost effective measures as well as insurance protection; there is no guarantee, however, that such insurance, if obtained, would cover all costs associated with any breach, damage or failure of our computer systems and network infrastructure.
 

Consumers may decide not to use banks to complete their financial transactions.  Technology and other changes are allowing consumers to complete financial transactions through alternative methods that historically have involved banks. For example, consumers can now maintain funds that would have historically been held as bank deposits in brokerage accounts, mutual funds or general-purpose reloadable prepaid cards. Consumers can also complete transactions such as paying bills and transferring funds directly without the assistance of banks. The process of eliminating banks as intermediaries could result in the loss of fee income, as well as the loss of customer deposits and the related income generated from those deposits. The loss of these revenue streams and the lower cost of deposits as a source of funds could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Item 1B.                Unresolved Staff Comments

Not applicable as we are not an accelerated filer or large accelerated filer.


 
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Properties

As of December 31, 2011, we operate a total of 19 branch locations and seven loan production offices.  Our headquarters is located at 1525 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Maryland in Prince George’s County.  Pointer Ridge Office Investment, LLC, an entity in which we have an approximately $761,000 investment and a 62.50% ownership interest owns this property.  Frank Lucente, a director of Old Line Bancshares, Inc. and Old Line Bank controls 12.50% of Pointer Ridge and controls the manager of Pointer Ridge.

Legacy Branches
Location
Address
Opened
Date
Square
Feet
 
Monthly
Lease
Amount
 
Term
Renewal
Option
Bowie
Suite 100
1525 Pointer Ridge Place
Bowie, Maryland
6/2006
2,557
$7,166
 
13 years
(2) 5years
               
Bowie
Suite 300
1525 Pointer Ridge Place
Bowie, Maryland
6/2006
5,449
$13,373
 
13 years
(2) 5years
               
Bowie
Suite 400
1525 Pointer Ridge Place
Bowie, Maryland
6/2006
11,053
$26,695
 
13 years
(2) 5years
               
Old Line Centre
12080 Old Line Centre
Waldorf, Maryland
11/1989
2,048
$5,142
 
10 years
(2) 5years
               
Accokeek
15808 Livingston Road
Accokeek, Maryland
12/1995
1,218
Owned
 
 
 
               
Crain Highway
2995 Crain Highway
Waldorf, Maryland
6/1999
8,044
Owned
 
 
 
               
Clinton
7801 Old Branch Avenue
Clinton, Maryland
9/2002
2,550
$2,807
 
10 years
(3) 5years
               
College Park
4th Floor
9658 Baltimore Avenue
College Park, Maryland
7/2005
1,268
$3,215
 
10 years
(2) 5 years
               
College Park
1st Floor
9658 Baltimore Avenue
College Park, Maryland
3/2008
1,916
$5,464
 
10 years
(2) 5 years
               
Greenbelt
6421 Ivy Lane
Greenbelt, Maryland
9/2009
33,000
$8,825
 
30 years
 (2) 10 years
               
Annapolis
2530 Riva Road
Annapolis, Maryland
9/2011
3,899
$9,748
 
10yrs 7mo
(2) 5 years
               
Annapolis
167-U Jennifer Road
Annapolis, Maryland
9/2008
1,620
$5,606
 
5 years
(1) 5 years
               
Crofton
1641 Maryland Route 3 North
Crofton, Maryland
7/2009
2,420
$7,161
 
10 years
(3) 5 years
 
 
 
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The following table outlines the properties we acquired on April 1, 2011

Properties Acquired April 1, 2011
Location
Address
Opened
Date
Square
Feet
Monthly
Lease
Amount
 
Term
 
Renewal
Option
                 
Bryans Road
7175 Indian Head Highway
Bryans Road, Maryland
5/1964
3,711
 $         7,939
 
20 years
 
N/A
                 
California
22741 Three Notch Road
California, Maryland
4/1985
3,366
 $         6,249
 
20 years
 
none
                 
Callaway
20990 Point Lookout Road
Callaway, Maryland
8/2005
1,795
Owned
 
 
 
 
                 
Fort Washington
12740 Old Fort Road
Fort Washington, Maryland
2/1973
2,800
 $          6,331
 
5 years
 
N/A
                 
La Plata
101 Charles Street
La Plata, Maryland
4/1974
2,910
 $         8,405
 
15 years
 
(3) 10 years
                 
Leonardtown Road
3135 Leonardtown Road
Waldorf, Maryland
6/1963
7,076
Owned
 
 
 
 
Lexington Park
46930 South Shangri La Drive
Lexington Park, Maryland
6/1959
7,763
 $        10,767
 
20 years
 
N/A
                 
Prince Frederick
691 Prince Frederick Beulvald
Prince Frederick, Maryland
8/1999
3,400
 $          9,124
 
20 years
 
N/A
                 
Solomons
80 HolidayDrive
Solomons, Maryland
2/1998
2,194
 $         4,294
 
20 years
 
N/A
                 
Waldorf Operations
3220 Old Washington Road
Waldorf, Maryland
12/1988
21,064
Owned
 
 
 
 
 
Legal Proceedings

From time to time, Old Line Bancshares, Inc. or Old Line Bank may be involved in litigation relating to claims arising out of its normal course of business.  We do not have any material pending legal matters or litigation for Old Line Bank or Old Line Bancshares, Inc.

Mine Safety Disclosures

 
Not applicable


 
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PART II

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Common Stock Prices

The table below shows the high and low sales information as reported on the Nasdaq Capital Market.  The quotations reflect interdealer prices, without retail mark up, mark down, or commission, and may not represent actual transactions.

   
Sale Price Range
 
             
    High    
Low
 
2011
           
First Quarter
  $ 10.45     $ 7.45  
Second Quarter
    9.49       8.22  
Third Quarter
    8.43       6.64  
Fourth Quarter
    8.25       6.83  
                 
2010
               
First Quarter
  $ 7.65     $ 6.20  
Second Quarter
    8.09       7.44  
Third Quarter
    8.99       7.02  
Fourth Quarter
    8.99       7.26  

As of December 31, 2011, there were 6,817,694 shares of common stock issued and outstanding held by approximately 465 stockholders of record.   There were 325,331 shares of common stock issuable on the exercise of outstanding stock options, 312,145 of which were exercisable.  The remaining are exercisable as follows:

Date Exercisable
 
# of Shares
 
May 7, 2012
    2,000  
January 27, 2012
    5,593  
January 27, 2013
    5,593  
Total
    13,186  





 
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Dividends

We have paid the following dividends on our common stock during the years indicated:

   
2011
   
2010
 
March
  $ 0.03     $ 0.03  
June
    0.03       0.03  
September
    0.03       0.03  
December
    0.04       0.03  
Total
  $ 0.13     $ 0.12  


Our ability to pay dividends in the future will depend on the ability of Old Line Bank to pay dividends to us.  Old Line Bank’s ability to continue paying dividends will depend on Old Line Bank’s compliance with certain dividend regulations imposed upon us by bank regulatory authorities.

In addition, we will consider a number of other factors, including our income and financial condition, tax considerations, and general business conditions before deciding to pay additional dividends in the future.  We can provide no assurance that we will continue to pay dividends to our stockholders.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

We did not repurchase any of our securities during the quarter ended December 31, 2011.



 
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Selected Financial Data
 
The following table summarizes Old Line Bancshares, Inc.’s selected financial information and other financial data.  The selected balance sheet and statement of income data are derived from our audited financial statements.  You should read this information together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this report.  Results for past periods are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for any future period.

December 31,
 
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
   
(Dollars in thousands except per share data)
 
Earnings and dividends:
                 
  Interest revenue
  $ 32,321     $ 18,509     $ 17,096  
  Interest expense
    5,219       4,943       5,580  
  Net interest income
    27,101       13,566       11,516  
  Provision for loan losses
    1,800       1,082       900  
  Non-interest revenue
    2,741       1,352       1,820  
  Non-interest expense
    20.884       11,409       9,257  
  Income taxes
    1,927       997       1,056  
  Net income
    5.232       1,430       2,123  
  Less:  Net income (loss) attributable to the non-controlling interest
    (148 )     (73 )     87  
  Net income attributable to Old Line Bancshares, Inc.
    5,380       1,503       2,036  
  Net income available to common stockholders
    5,380       1,503       1,550  
                         
Per common share data
                       
  Basic earnings
  $ 0.86     $ 0.39     $ 0.40  
  Diluted earnings
    0.86       0.38       0.40  
  Dividends paid
    0.13       0.12       0.12  
Common stockholders book value, period end
    9.98       9.52       9.31  
Common stockholders tangible book value, period end
    9.28       9.52       9.31  
Average common shares outstanding
                       
  Basic
    6,223,057       3,880,060       3,862,364  
  Diluted
    6,253,898       3,903,577       3,869,466  
Common shares outstanding, period end
    6,817,694       3,891,705       3,862,364  
                         
Balance Sheet Data:
                       
  Total assets
  $ 811,042     $ 401,910     $ 357,219  
  Total loans, less allowance for loan losses
    539,298       299,606       265,009  
  Total investment securities
    161,785       54,786       33,819  
  Total deposits
    690,768       340,527       286,348  
  Stockholders’ equity
    68,040       37,054       35,941  
                         
Performance Ratios:
                       
  Return on average assets
    0.79 %     0.38 %     0.60 %
  Return on average stockholders’ equity
    9.37 %     4.14 %     5.22 %
  Total ending equity to total ending assets
    8.39 %     9.22 %     10.06 %
  Net interest margin (1)
    4.61 %     3.86 %     3.77 %
  Dividend payout ratio for period
    15.3 %     31.0 %     22.7 %
                         
Asset Quality Ratios:
                       
  Allowance to period-end loans
    0.69 %     0.82 %     0.93 %
  Non-performing assets to total assets
    1.22 %     0.96 %     0.44 %
  Non-performing loans to allowance for loan losses
    155.84 %     109.81 %     63.93 %
                         
Capital Ratios:
                       
  Tier I risk-based capital
    10.6 %     11.6 %     12.8 %
  Total risk-based capital
    11.3 %     12.4 %     13.7 %
  Leverage capital ratio
    7.8 %     9.2 %     10.0 %

(1)           See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operating-Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures.”

 
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Introduction

Some of the matters discussed below include forward-looking statements.  Forward-looking statements often use words such as “believe,” “expect,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “project,” “contemplate,” “anticipate,” “forecast,” “intend” or other words of similar meaning.  You can also identify them by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts.  Our actual results and the actual outcome of our expectations and strategies could be different from those anticipated or estimated for the reasons discussed below and under the heading “Information Regarding Forward Looking Statements.”

Overview

Old Line Bancshares was incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland on April 11, 2003 to serve as the holding company of Old Line Bank.

Our primary business is to own all of the capital stock of Old Line Bank.  We also have an approximately $761,000 investment in a real estate investment limited liability company named Pointer Ridge Office Investment, LLC (Pointer Ridge).  We own 62.50% of Pointer Ridge.  Frank Lucente, one of our directors and a director of Old Line Bank, controls 12.50% of Pointer Ridge and controls the manager of Pointer Ridge.  The purpose of Pointer Ridge is to acquire, own, hold for profit, sell, assign, transfer, operate, lease, develop, mortgage, refinance, pledge and otherwise deal with real property located at the intersection of Pointer Ridge Road and Route 301 in Bowie, Maryland.  Pointer Ridge owns a commercial office building containing approximately 40,000 square feet and leases this space to tenants.  We lease approximately 50% of this building for our main office and operate a branch of Old Line Bank from this address.

Summary of Recent Performance and Other Activities

In an economic climate that continues to present challenges for our industry, we are pleased to report significant strategic accomplishments during the year and that we produced results that demonstrate the quality and potential of our franchise.  Net income available to common stockholders, after inclusion of $574,321 in merger and integration expenses, was $5.4 million or $0.86 per basic and diluted common share for the year ending December 31, 2011 which represented a 258.03% increase over the prior year’s net income available to common stockholders of $1.5 million.

On April 1, 2011, we acquired Maryland Bankcorp, the parent company of MB&T.  This acquisition created the sixth largest independent commercial bank based in Maryland, with assets of more than $750 million and with 19 full service branches serving five counties.  Teams from both institutions have worked diligently to successfully join the two organizations.

The following highlights certain financial data and events that have occurred during 2011:
 
·  
Our acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp became effective April 1, 2011.
·  
Average total loans grew approximately $174.1 million or 60.98% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 compared to the twelve months ended December 31, 2010, primarily as a result of our acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp.
·  
Average non-interest bearing deposits grew $78.0 million (143.54%) for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 relative to the same period in 2010, primarily as a result of our acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp.
·  
At December 31, 2011, we had two legacy loans (i.e. loans in our portfolio prior to the acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp) on non-accrual status in the amount of $1.2 million.
·  
At December 31, 2011, we had 17 acquired loans (loans acquired from MB&T pursuant to the merger) on non-accrual status totaling $4.6 million
 
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At year end 2011, we had four accruing legacy loans past due between 30 and 89 days in the amount of $744,610 and one accruing legacy loan past due 90 or more days in the amount of $34,370.
·  
At December 31, 2011, we had 22 accruing acquired loans totaling $839,274 past due between 30 and 89 days.
·  
At December 31, 2011, our book value was $9.98 per common share and a tangible book value was $9.28 per common share.
·  
We maintained liquidity and by all regulatory measures remained “well capitalized”.
·  
We increased the provision for loan losses by $718,000 during the year ended December 31, 2011 as compared to December 31, 2010.
·  
As a result of the provision discussed above, and net charge offs for the twelve month period of $527,205, the allowance for loan losses increased to $3.7 million at December 31, 2011 from $2.5 million at December 31, 2010.

On April 1, 2011, all MB&T branches were rebranded as Old Line Bank branches and all data processing and accounting systems were consolidated.  As discussed below, during the second quarter of 2011, we also substantially completed the assessment and recordation on our financial statements of MB&T’s assets and liabilities at fair value as required by current accounting guidance.  With the exception of the closing of one MB&T branch, which MB&T had previously designated for closure, we have also retained, and expect to continue to retain, all of MB&T’s branches, and the branch personnel with severance of employees occurring only at MB&T’s operations, accounting and executive offices.  We are pleased to have the remaining MB&T personnel as part of the Old Line Bank team and anticipate that they will contribute significantly to our success.

Pursuant to the merger agreement, the stockholders of Maryland Bankcorp received approximately 2.1 million shares of Old Line Bancshares common stock and the aggregate cash consideration paid to holders of Maryland Bankcorp stockholders was $1.0 million.  The total merger consideration was $18.8 million.  Included in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements is additional discussion about the MB&T acquisition.

In accordance with accounting for business combinations, we have recorded the acquired assets and liabilities at their estimated fair value on April 1, 2011, the acquisition date.  The determination of the fair value of the loans caused a significant write down in the value of certain loans, which we assigned to an accretable or non-accretable balance.  We will recognize the accretable balance as interest income over the remaining term of the loan.  We will recognize the non-accretable balance as the borrower repays the loan.  The accretion of the loan marks, along with other fair value adjustments to loans and to deposits, favorably impacted our net interest income by $2.2 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011.  We based the determination of fair value on cash flow expectations and/or collateral values.  These cash flow evaluations are inherently subjective as they require material estimates, all of which may be susceptible to significant change.  Change in our cash flow expectations could impact net interest income after provision for loan losses.  We will recognize any decline in expected cash flows as impairment and record a provision for loan losses during the period.  We will recognize any improvement in expected cash flows, as an adjustment to interest income.

In conjunction with the merger, we also recorded the deposits acquired at their fair value and recorded a core deposit intangible of $5.0 million.  The amortization of this intangible asset decreased net income by $584,024 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, respectively.


 
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The following summarizes the highlights of our financial performance for the twelve month period ended December 31, 2011 compared to the twelve month period ended December 31, 2010 (000’s):

Years Ended December 31,
 
2011
   
2010
   
$ Change
   
% Change
 
                         
Net income available to common stockholders
  $ 5,380     $ 1,503     $ 3,877       257.95 %
Interest revenue
    32,321       18,509       13,812       74.62  
Interest expense
    5,219       4,943       276       5.58  
Net interest income after  provision for loan losses
    25,301       12,484       12,817       102.67  
Non-interest revenue
    2,741       1,352       1,389       102.74  
Non-interest expense
    20,884       11,409       9,475       83.05  
Average total loans
    459,530       285,465       174,065       60.98  
Average interest earning assets
    599,397       355,590       243,807       68.56  
Average total interest bearing deposits
    435,796       263,007       172,789       65.70  
Average non-interest bearing deposits
    132,326       54,335       77,991       143.54  
Net interest margin (1)
    4.61 %     3.86 %                
Return on average equity
    9.37 %     4.14 %                
Basic earnings per common share
  $ 0.86     $ 0.39     $ 0.47       120.51 %
Diluted earnings per common share
    0.86       0.38       0.48       126.32 %
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(1) See “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures”

Growth Strategy

We have based our strategic plan on the premise of enhancing stockholder value and growth through branching and operating profits.  Our short term goals include collecting payment on non-accrual and past due loans, profitably disposing of other real estate owned,  enhancing and maintaining credit quality, maintaining an attractive branch network, expanding fee income, generating extensions of core banking services, and using technology to maximize stockholder value.  During the past two years, we have expanded in Prince George’s County and Anne Arundel County, Maryland and the April 2011 acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp has expanded our operations in Charles County and into St. Mary’s and Calvert Counties, Maryland.

In December 2009, we added a team of four experienced, highly skilled loan officers to our staff.  These officers have a combined 50 years of commercial banking experience and were employed by a large regional bank with offices in the suburban Maryland market prior to joining us.  These individuals have worked in our market area for many years, have worked together as a team for several years and have a history of successfully generating a high volume of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans.

On July 1, 2009, we opened a branch at 1641 State Route 3 North, Crofton, Maryland in Anne Arundel County.  During July and August of 2009, we hired the staff for this location.  In October 2009, we opened our branch in the Fairwood Office Park located at 12100 Annapolis Road, Suite 1, Glen Dale, Maryland.  We hired the staff for this location during the third quarter of 2009.


 
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Other Opportunities

We use the Internet and technology to augment our growth plans.  Currently, we offer our customers image technology, Internet banking with on-line account access and bill payer service. We provide selected commercial customers the ability to remotely capture their deposits and electronically transmit them to us.  In order to support our growth, provide improved management information capabilities and enhance the products and services we deliver to our customers, during the first quarter of 2009, we began enhancing our core data processing systems.  We completed this process in April 2009.  We will continue to evaluate cost effective ways that technology can enhance our management, products and services.

We may take advantage of strategic opportunities presented to us via mergers occurring in our marketplace.  For example, we may purchase branches that other banks close or lease branch space from other banks or hire additional loan officers.  We also continually evaluate and consider opportunities with financial service companies or institutions with which we may become a strategic partner, merge, or acquire.

Repayment of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Investment

On July 15, 2009, we repurchased from the U.S. Treasury 7,000 shares of preferred stock that we issued to them in December 2008 under the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program through the Troubled Asset Relief Program.  We paid the U.S. Treasury $7,058,333 to repurchase the preferred stock which reflects the liquidation value of the preferred stock and $58,333 of accrued but unpaid dividends.  We have also repurchased at a fair market value of $225,000 the warrant to purchase 141,892 shares of our common stock.

Although the current economic climate continues to present significant challenges for our industry, we have worked diligently towards our goal of becoming the premier community bank east of Washington D.C.  While we remain uncertain whether the economy will continue to experience anemic growth or if the high unemployment rate and soaring national debt will continue to dampen the economic climate, we remain cautiously optimistic that we have identified any problem assets and our remaining borrowers will continue to stay current on their loans.  Now that we have substantially completed our planned branch expansion, enhanced our data processing capabilities and expanded our commercial lending team, we believe that we are well positioned to capitalize on the opportunities that may become available in a healthy economy as we have with the Maryland Bankcorp acquisition.

As a result of this acquisition, we anticipate that salaries and benefits expenses and other operating expenses will continue to be higher than they were in 2011.  We have identified several areas within the former MB&T non-interest expense structure that we expect will provide expense reductions from those incurred since the acquisition date of April 1, 2011.  We began to realize some of these reductions during the fourth quarter of 2011 and anticipate that we will realize additional expense reductions during the first half of 2012.  We anticipate that, over time, income generated from the branches acquired in the merger, our new loan officers, and our expanded market area will offset any corresponding increases in expenses. We believe with our 19 branches, including the April 2011 addition of Maryland Bankcorp’s nine branches and staff, our lending staff, our corporate infrastructure and our solid balance sheet and strong capital position, we can continue to focus our efforts on improving earnings per share and enhancing stockholder value.

Results of Operations

Net Interest Income
 
Net interest income is the difference between income on interest earning assets and the cost of funds supporting those assets.  Earning assets are comprised primarily of loans, investments, and federal funds sold.  Cost of funds consists of interest bearing deposits and other borrowings.  Non-interest bearing deposits and capital are also funding sources.  Changes in the volume and mix of earning assets and funding sources along with changes in associated interest rates determine changes in net interest income.
 

 
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2011 compared to 2010
 
Net interest income after provision for loan losses for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 increased $12.8 million or 102.67% to $25.3 million from $12.5 million for the same period in 2010. As discussed below and outlined in detail in the Rate/Volume Analysis, these changes were the result of average interest earning assets growing at a faster rate than average interest bearing liabilities, an improvement in interest rates earned on interest earning assets, and a decline in interest paid on interest bearing liabilities. The accretion of the fair value adjustments positively impacted net interest income after provision for loan losses while the $718,000 increase in the provision for loan losses negatively impacted it.  The acquisition of MB&T was the most significant factor that caused these changes and the improvement in net interest margin as discussed below.
 
Although a competitive rate environment and a low prime rate have caused lower market yields that have negatively impacted net interest income in 2011, the relatively stable rate environment has allowed us to adjust the mix and volume of interest earning assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.  This also contributed to the improvement in the net interest margin.
 
We offset the effect on net income caused by the low rate environment primarily by growing total average interest earning assets $243.8 million or 68.56% to $599.4 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 from $355.6 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010.   The growth in average interest earning assets derived from a $174.0 million increase in average total loans and a $76.3 million increase in average investment securities.  The growth in net interest income that derived from the increase in total average interest earning assets was partially offset by growth in average interest bearing liabilities. The growth in average interest bearing liabilities resulted primarily from the $172.8 million increase in average interest bearing deposits which increased to $435.8 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 from $263.0 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010.
 
Our net interest margin was 4.61% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 as compared to 3.86% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010.  The yield on average interest earning assets increased 23 basis points during the period from 5.25% for the year ended December 31, 2010 to 5.48% for the year ended December 31, 2011.   This increase was primarily because we received a higher average rate on the loan portfolio and paid a 56 basis point lower rate on interest bearing liabilities.
 
During 2011, we successfully collected payments or payment in full on acquired loans that we had recorded at fair value according to ASC 310-20 and ASC 310-30.  These payments occurred subsequent to the acquisition of MB&T on April 1, 2011 and were a direct result of our efforts to negotiate payments, sell notes or foreclose on and sell collateral after the acquisition date.  The accretion of the fair value adjustments positively impacted the yield on loans and increased the net interest margin as follows:
 
   
Twelve Months Ended
December 31, 2011
       
   
Fair Value
Accretion
Dollars
   
% Impact on
Net Interest
Margin
 
Commercial loans
  $ 150,497       0.03 %
Mortgage loans
    1,725,898       0.29 %
Consumer loans
    3,624       0.00 %
Interest bearing deposits
    324,991       0.05 %
Total Fair Value Accretion
  $ 2,205,010       0.37 %
 
Non-interest bearing deposits are a primary source of funding for our investment and loan portfolios.  These deposits allow us to fund growth in interest earning assets at minimal cost.  As a result of the MB&T acquisition and growth generated from our legacy branch network, our average non-interest bearing deposits increased $78.0 million to $132.3 million during the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 compared to the twelve months ended December 31, 2010. This was also a significant contributor to the improvement in the net interest margin as it allowed us to increase our level of interest earning assets which allowed us to increase interest income without a corresponding increase in interest bearing liabilities and interest expense.


 
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With the branches acquired in the MB&T acquisition and increased recognition in St. Mary’s, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties, the high level of non-interest bearing deposits and continued growth in these and interest bearing deposits, we anticipate that we will continue to grow earning assets during 2012.  If the Federal Reserve maintains the federal funds rate at current levels and the economy remains stable, we believe that we can continue to grow total loans and deposits during 2012 and beyond.  We also believe that we will continue to maintain the net interest margin in the range of 4.50% during 2012, although we will not be able to so maintain the net interest margin if we fail to collect on a significant portion of impaired acquired loans.  As a result of this growth and maintenance of the net interest margin, we expect that net interest income will continue to increase during 2012, although there can be no guarantee that this will be the case.

One of our primary sources of funding loans, investments and interest bearing deposits is non-interest bearing demand deposits.  As of July 21, 2011, the Dodd-Frank Act permits depository institutions to pay interest on business transaction and other accounts.  Although, we have not yet experienced any impact from this legislation on our operations, it is possible that interest costs associated with deposits could increase.

 
2010 compared to 2009
 
Net interest income after provision for loan losses for the year ended December 31, 2010 amounted to $12.5 million, which was $1.9 million or 17.92% greater than the 2009 level of $10.6 million.  As discussed below and outlined in detail in the Rate/Volume Analysis, these changes were the result of interest earning assets growing at a faster rate than interest-bearing liabilities.  A decline in interest rates on these interest earning assets partially offset this growth.  The interest rate on interest bearing deposits also declined at a faster rate than the rate on interest earning assets.
 
Changes in the federal funds rate and the prime rate affect the interest rates on interest earning assets, net interest income and net interest margin.  The prime interest rate, which is the rate offered on loans to borrowers with strong credit, began 2008 at 7.25% and decreased 400 basis points during the year.  During 2009 and 2010, the prime interest rate remained unchanged at 3.25% for the entire period.  The intended federal funds rate has also moved in a similar manner to the prime interest rate.  It began 2008 at 4.25% and decreased 400 basis points during the year.  During 2009 and 2010, the intended federal funds rate remained relatively constant at zero to 0.25% for the entire period.  These declines have caused the short and long term interest yield to decline dramatically during the past two years from prior periods.  As a result, when investments and loans matured during 2009 and 2010, they were invested in lower yielding securities and loans.
 
We offset the effect on net interest income caused by these declines in interest rates primarily by growing total average interest earning assets $47.2 million to $355.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2010 from $308.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2009.  The growth in average interest earning assets derived primarily from a $30.9 million increase in average total loans, an $11.2 million growth in average investment securities and a $2.8 million increase in average interest bearing deposits in other banks.  The growth in net interest income that derived from the increase in total average interest earning assets was partially offset by growth in average interest bearing deposits which grew $41.3 million to $263.0 million from $221.7 million.
 
One of our primary sources of funding loans, investments and interest bearing deposits is non-interest bearing demand deposits.  The growth of this lower cost funding base positively impacts our net interest margin.  Average non-interest bearing deposits grew $14.9 million or 37.82% to $54.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2010 from $39.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2009.
 
Our net interest margin was 3.86% for the year ended December 31, 2010, as compared to 3.77% for the year ended December 31, 2009.  The increase in the net interest margin occurred because the cost of interest bearing deposits decreased 56 basis points from 2.05% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2009 to 1.49% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010.  A 4 basis point decline in the interest yield on borrowed funds also contributed to the improvement in the net interest margin.  The decrease in these interest yields during the comparable periods was primarily the result of decreases in interest rates offered on certain deposit products due to decreases in average market interest rates and decreases in renewal interest rates on maturing certificates of deposit.
 

 
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The following table illustrates average balances of total interest earning assets and total interest bearing liabilities for the periods indicated, showing the average distribution of assets, liabilities, stockholders’ equity and related income, expense and corresponding weighted average yields and rates.  The average balances used in this table and other statistical data were calculated using average daily balances.

   
Average Balances, Interest and Yields
 
Twelve Months Ended December 31,
 
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
   
Average
               
Average
               
Average
             
   
balance
   
Interest
   
Yield
   
balance
   
Interest
   
Yield
   
balance
   
Interest
   
Yield
 
Assets:
                                                     
Federal funds sold(1)
  $ 4,511,838     $ 6,088       0.13 %   $ 2,720,879     $ 7,258       0.27 %   $ 458,457     $ 1,149       0.25 %
Interest bearing deposits
    11,617,100       35,954       0.31       19,837,453       188,361       0.95       17,004,299       270,290       1.59  
Investment securities(1)(2)
                                                                       
U.S. Treasury
    951,656       7,665       0.81       -       -       -       187,658       7,647       4.07  
U.S. government agency
    17,015,717       351,399       2.07       5,778,185       173,228       3.00       8,411,754       313,654       3.73  
Mortgage backed securities
    85,595,192       2,635,172       3.08       39,179,963       1,399,979       3.57       24,642,044       1,059,386       4.30  
Municipal securities
    19,232,924       1,100,704       5.72       2,351,798       117,062       4.98       2,540,562       126,752       4.99  
Other
    3,443,591       128,679       3.74       2,621,530       70,976       2.71       2,886,213       72,150       2.50  
Total investment securities
    126,239,080       4,223,619       3.35       49,931,476       1,761,245       3.53       38,668,231       1,579,589       4.08  
Loans:(1)
                                                                       
Commercial
    96,395,235       5,208,608       5.40       78,586,868       4,298,503       5.47       70,966,468       4,168,203       5.87  
Mortgage
    348,392,803       21,994,769       6.31       192,748,540       11,638,569       6.04       168,196,382       10,346,433       6.15  
Consumer
    14,741,474       1,400,154       9.50       14,129,643       775,337       5.49       15,399,539       856,562       5.56  
Total loans
    459,529,512       28,603,531       6.22       285,465,051       16,712,409       5.85       254,562,389       15,371,198       6.04  
Allowance for loan losses
    2,500,720       -               2,364,613       -               2,277,747       -          
Total loans, net of allowance
    457,028,792       28,603,531       6.26       283,100,438       16,712,409       5.90       252,284,642       15,371,198       6.09  
Total interest earning assets(1)
    599,396,810       32,869,192       5.48       355,590,246       18,669,273       5.25       308,415,629       17,222,226       5.58  
Non-interest bearing cash
    24,604,437                       8,811,003                       7,104,387                  
Premises and equipment
    20,989,733                       17,151,436                       14,548,001                  
Other assets
    32,537,952                       12,470,229                       11,904,806                  
Total assets(1)
  $ 677,528,932                     $ 394,022,914                     $ 341,972,823                  
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:
                                                                       
Interest bearing deposits
                                                                       
Savings
  $ 48,051,608       154,573       0.32     $ 8,692,555       27,487       0.32     $ 6,853,343       25,602       0.37  
Money market and NOW
    106,201,797       615,337       0.58       54,820,016       480,613       0.88       33,931,390       171,476       0.51  
Other time deposits
    281,542,957       3,619,784       1.29       199,494,261       3,412,238       1.71       180,866,687       4,356,021       2.41  
Total interest bearing deposits
    435,796,362       4,389,694       1.01       263,006,832       3,920,338       1.49       221,651,420       4,553,099       2.05  
Borrowed funds
    46,130,710       829,477       1.80       38,079,368       1,022,425       2.68       37,817,464       1,026,755       2.72  
Total interest bearing liabilities
    481,927,072       5,219,171       1.08       301,086,200       4,942,763       1.64       259,468,884       5,579,854       2.15  
Non-interest bearing deposits
    132,326,211                       54,335,130                       39,410,471                  
      614,253,283       5,219,171       0.85       355,421,330       4,942,763       1.39       298,879,355       5,579,854       1.87  
Other liabilities
    5,315,810                       1,632,031                       3,390,944                  
Non-controlling interest
    517,639                       640,378                       692,144                  
Stockholders' equity
    57,442,200                       36,329,175                       39,010,380                  
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
  $ 677,528,932                     $ 394,022,914                     $ 341,972,823                  
Net interest spread(1)
                    4.40                       3.61                       3.43  
Net interest income(1)
          $ 27,650,021       4.61 %           $ 13,726,510       3.86 %           $ 11,642,372       3.77 %

1)  
Interest revenue is presented on a fully taxable equivalent (FTE) basis.  The FTE basis adjusts for the tax favored status of these types of assets.  Management believes providing this information on a FTE basis provides investors with a more accurate picture of our net interest spread and net interest income and we believe it to be the preferred industry measurement of these calculations.  See “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures.”
2)  
Available for sale investment securities are presented at amortized cost.

 
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The following table describes the impact on our interest income and expense resulting from changes in average balances and average rates for the periods indicated.  The change in interest income due to both volume and rate is reported with the rate variance.

Rate/Volume Variance Analysis

   
Twelve Months Ended December 31,
   
Twelve Months Ended December 31,
 
   
2011 compared to 2010
   
2010 compared to 2009
 
   
Variance due to:
   
Variance due to:
 
                                     
   
Total
   
Rate
   
Volume
   
Total
   
Rate
   
Volume
 
                                     
Interest earning assets:
                                   
   Federal funds sold(1)
  $ (1,170 )   $ (4,599 )   $ 3,429     $ 6,109     $ 79     $ 6,030  
   Interest bearing deposits
    (152,407 )     (94,383 )     (58,024 )     (81,929 )     (121,656 )     39,727  
 Investment Securities(1)
                                               
   U.S. Treasury
    7,665       -       7,665       (7,647 )     -       (7,647 )
   U.S. government agency
    178,171       (68,358 )     246,529       (140,426 )     (54,063 )     (86,363 )
   Mortgage backed securities
    1,235,193       (217,780 )     1,452,973       340,593       (202,358 )     542,951  
   Municipal securities
    983,642       20,104       963,538       (9,690 )     (293 )     (9,397 )
   Other
    57,703       31,622       26,081       (1,174 )     5,731       (6,905 )
Loans:
                                               
   Commercial
    910,105       (52,751 )     962,856       130,300       (298,525 )     428,825  
   Mortgage
    10,356,200       552,902       9,803,298       1,292,136       (193,487 )     1,485,623  
   Consumer
    624,817       589,871       34,946       (81,225 )     (11,408 )     (69,817 )
      Total interest revenue (1)
    14,199,919       756,628       13,443,291       1,447,047       (875,980 )     2,323,027  
                                                 
Interest bearing liabilities:
                                               
   Savings
    127,086       484       126,602       1,885       (4,315 )     6,200  
   Money market and NOW
    134,724       (203,570 )     338,294       309,137       168,213       140,924  
   Other time deposits
    207,546       (978,552 )     1,186,098       (943,783 )     (1,358,323 )     414,540  
   Borrowed funds
    (192,948 )     (381,257 )     188,309       (4,330 )     (11,410 )     7,080  
       Total interest expense
    276,408       (1,562,895 )     1,839,303       (637,091 )     (1,205,835 )     568,744  
                                                 
Net interest income(1)
  $ 13,923,511     $ 2,319,523     $ 11,603,988     $ 2,084,138     $ 329,855     $ 1,754,283  

1)  
Interest revenue is presented on a fully taxable equivalent (FTE) basis.  Management believes providing this information on a FTE basis provides investors with a more accurate picture of our net interest spread and net interest income and we believe it to be the preferred industry measurement of these calculations.  See “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures.”

Provision for Loan Losses

Originating loans involves a degree of risk that credit losses will occur in varying amounts according to, among other factors, the type of loans being made, the credit worthiness of the borrowers over the term of the loans, the quality of the collateral for the loan, if any, as well as general economic conditions.  We charge the provision for loan losses to earnings to maintain the total allowance for loan losses at a level considered by management to represent its best estimate of the losses known and inherent in the portfolio that are both probable and reasonable to estimate, based on, among other factors, prior loss experience, volume and type of lending conducted, estimated value of any underlying collateral, economic conditions (particularly as such conditions relate to Old Line Bank’s market area), regulatory guidance, peer statistics, management’s judgment, past due loans in the loan portfolio, loan charge off experience and concentrations of risk (if any).  We charge losses on loans against the allowance when we believe that collection of loan principal is unlikely.  We add back recoveries on loans previously charged to the allowance.


 
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The provision for loan losses was $1.8 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, as compared to $1.1 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010, an increase of $718,000 or 66.36%.  After completing the analysis outlined below, during the twelve month period ended December 31, 2011, we increased the provision for loan losses primarily because although our asset quality remained stable, we experienced approximately $50.0 million in organic growth in the legacy portfolio during the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and the economy remained weak.  We have allocated a specific reserve for those loans where we consider it probable that we will incur a loss.  Although there are no indicators that our legacy asset quality has deteriorated or changed in any manner, the addition of several new lenders from the acquisition, the increased size and complexity of the acquired portfolio and the anemic growth in the economy all contribute to increased uncertainty regarding the future performance of our borrowers.  As a result, our historical asset quality may not be an accurate indicator of our future performance.  Therefore, we determined that it was prudent to increase the allowance for loan losses.  Our legacy non-performing assets remain statistically low at 0.16% of total assets and we had only $744,610 of legacy loans past due between 30-89 days and $34,370 past due 90 days or more at year end.

The provision for loan losses was $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2010.  This represented a $182,000 or 20.22% increase as compared to $900,000 for the year ended December 31, 2009. After completing the analysis outlined below, we increased the provision for loan losses primarily because we had seen a modest increase in our historical losses over prior periods and some of our borrowers continued to report weaker profitability.  At year end 2010, we had three loans totaling $2.7 million past due and classified as non-accrual.  We had no other loans past due between 30-89 days.

We review the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses at least quarterly.  Our review includes evaluation of impaired loans as required by ASC Topic 310-Receivables, and ASC Topic 450-Contingencies.  Also incorporated in determining the adequacy of the allowance is guidance contained in the SEC’s SAB No. 102, Loan Loss Allowance Methodology and Documentation; the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Policy Statement on Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses Methodologies and Documentation for Banks and Savings Institutions and the Interagency Policy Statement on the Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses provided by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration and Office of Thrift Supervision.

We base the evaluation of the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses upon loan categories.  We categorize loans as installment and other consumer loans (other than boat loans), boat loans, mortgage loans (commercial real estate, residential real estate and real estate construction) and commercial loans.  We apply loss ratios to each category of loan.  We further divide commercial and commercial real estate loans by risk rating and apply loss ratios by risk rating, to determine estimated loss amounts.  We evaluate delinquent loans and loans for which management has knowledge about possible credit problems of the borrower or knowledge of problems with loan collateral separately and assign loss amounts based upon the evaluation.
 
We determine loss ratios for installment and other consumer loans (other than boat loans), boat loans and mortgage loans (commercial real estate, residential real estate and real estate construction) based upon a review of prior 18 months delinquency trends for the category, the three year loss ratio for the category, peer group loss ratios and industry standards.

With respect to commercial loans, management assigns a risk rating of one through eight to each loan at inception, with a risk rating of one having the least amount of risk and a risk rating of eight having the greatest amount of risk.  For commercial loans of less than $250,000, we may review the risk rating annually based on, among other things, the borrower’s financial condition, cash flow and ongoing financial viability; the collateral securing the loan; the borrower’s industry and payment history.  We review the risk rating for all commercial loans in excess of $250,000 at least annually.  We evaluate loans with a risk rating of five or greater separately and assign loss amounts based upon the evaluation.  For loans with risk ratings between one and four, we determine loss ratios based upon a review of prior 18 months delinquency trends, the three year loss ratio, peer group loss ratios and industry standards.


 
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We also identify and make any necessary allocation adjustments for any specific concentrations of credit in a loan category that in management’s estimation increase the risk inherent in the category.  If necessary, we will also make an adjustment within one or more loan categories for economic considerations in our market area that may impact the quality of the loans in the category.  For all periods presented, there were no specific adjustments made for concentrations of credit.  As discussed above, for all periods presented we have adjusted our provision for loan losses in all segments of our portfolio as a result of economic considerations.  We consider qualitative or environmental factors that are likely to cause estimated credit losses associated with our existing portfolio to differ from historical loss experience.  These factors include, but are not limited to, changes in lending policies and procedures, changes in the nature and volume of the loan portfolio, changes in the experience, ability and depth of lending management and the effect of other external factors such as competition and legal and regulatory requirements on the level of estimated credit losses in our existing portfolio.

In the event that our review of the adequacy of the allowance results in any unallocated amounts, we reallocate such amounts to our loan categories based on the percentage that each category represents to total gross loans.  We have risk management practices designed to ensure timely identification of changes in loan risk profiles.  However, undetected losses inherently exist within the portfolio.  We believe that the allocation of the unallocated portion of the reserve in the manner described above is appropriate.  Although we may allocate specific portions of the allowance for specific credits or other factors, the entire allowance is available for any credit that we should charge off.  We will not create a separate valuation allowance unless we consider a loan impaired.

During the year ended December 31, 2011, we charged approximately $446,000 related to a legacy real estate loan and a legacy consumer loan in the amount of $47,261 to the allowance for loan losses.  The borrower and guarantor on the real estate loan have filed bankruptcy.  During the first quarter of 2011, we charged $446,000 to the allowance for loan losses and reduced the balance on this loan from $1,616,317 to $1,169,337, which represented the fair value of the underlying collateral.  We have an additional $65,000 of the allowance for loan losses specifically allocated to this loan.  As outlined below, we anticipate ratification of the foreclosure will occur during the second quarter of 2012 and that we will receive approximately $966,000 from the sales proceeds and charge approximately $203,000 to the allowance for loan losses.  During the first quarter of 2011, we also repossessed a boat.  At the time of the repossession, in order to carry the boat at its fair value, we charged $47,261 to the allowance for loan losses.  We subsequently sold the boat and recorded an additional loss of approximately $120,000 in non-interest expense.  The remaining charges to the allowance for loan losses were primarily related to various immaterial acquired loans.  The recoveries recorded to the allowance for loan losses were all substantially recovered from acquired loans that were charged to the allowance for loan losses at MB&T prior to the acquisition date of April 1, 2011.

During the year ended December 31, 2010, we charged $1.1 million to the allowance for loan losses.  This amount derived primarily from two loans.  The first loan was an unsecured facility in the amount of $137,151.  The borrower experienced health related problems that detrimentally impacted his business.  The second loan is a residential land acquisition and development loan.  During the third quarter of 2010, we received a deed in lieu of foreclosure on this property and an appraisal of the property indicated that the value was insufficient to repay the full principal balance and cost associated with the property.  Therefore, we recognized this impairment and charged $946,739 to the allowance for losses during the third quarter of 2010.  The remaining amount charged to the allowance for loan losses during 2010 consisted of small deficiencies related to various loans.

Our policies require a review of assets on a regular basis, and we believe that we appropriately classify loans as well as other assets if warranted.  We believe that we use the best information available to make a determination with respect to the allowance for loan losses, recognizing that the determination is inherently subjective and that future adjustments may be necessary depending upon, among other factors, a change in economic conditions of specific borrowers or generally in the economy, and new information that becomes available to us.  However, there are no assurances that the allowance for loan losses is sufficient to absorb losses on non-performing assets, or that the allowance will be sufficient to cover losses on non-performing assets in the future.


 
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The allowance for loan losses represents 0.69% of total loans at December 31, 2011, 0.82% of total loans at December 31, 2010 and 0.93% at December 31, 2009.  We have no exposure to foreign countries or foreign borrowers.  Based on our analysis and the satisfactory historical performance of the loan portfolio, we believe this allowance appropriately reflects the inherent risk of loss in our portfolio.
 
 
The following table represents an analysis of the allowance for loan losses for the periods indicated:

Allowance for Loan Losses
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
Years Ended December 31,
 
Acquired
   
Legacy
   
Total
   
Legacy
   
Legacy
 
Balance, beginning of period
  $ -     $ 2,468,476     $ 2,468,476     $ 2,481,716     $ 1,983,751  
Provision for loan losses
    -       1,800,000       1,800,000       1,082,000       900,000  
                                         
Chargeoffs:
                                       
   Commercial
    (34,053 )     -       (34,053 )     (137,151 )     -  
   Mortgage
    (158,811 )     (446,980 )     (605,791 )     (958,472 )     (344,825 )
   Consumer
    (75,158 )     (47,261 )     (122,419 )     (4,194 )     (57,210 )
Total chargeoffs
    (268,022 )     (494,241 )     (762,263 )     (1,099,817 )     (402,035 )
Recoveries:
                    -                  
   Mortgage
    13,701       -       13,701       3,650       -  
   Commercial
    154,523       -       154,523       -       -  
   Consumer
    66,630       204       66,834       927       -  
Total recoveries
    234,854       204       235,058       4,577       -  
Net (chargeoffs) recoveries
    (33,168 )     (494,037 )     (527,205 )     (1,095,240 )     (402,035 )
                                         
Balance, end of period
                  $ 3,741,271     $ 2,468,476     $ 2,481,716  
                                         
Ratio of allowance for loan losses to:
                                       
     Total gross loans
                    0.69 %     0.82 %     0.93 %
     Non-accrual loans
                    64.17 %     91.07 %     156.43 %
Ratio of net-chargeoffs during period to
                                       
  average loans outstanding during period:
                    0.115 %     0.384 %     0.158 %



 
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The following table provides a breakdown of the allowance for loan losses:

Allocation of Allowance for Loan Losses
 
   
December 31,
 
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
   
Amount
   
% of Loans
in Each
Category
   
Amount
   
% of Loans
in Each
Category
   
Amount
   
% of Loans
in Each
Category
 
                                     
                                     
Consumer
  $ 130,653       0.89 %   $ 8,433       0.48 %   $ 10,319       0.57 %
Boat
    565,240       1.63       294,723       3.86       81,417       4.91  
Mortgage
    2,123,068       77.73       1,748,122       67.97       1,845,126       66.74  
Commercial
    922,310       19.75       417,198       27.69       544,854