REGULATORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Broker-Dealer, Net Capital Requirement, SEC Regulation [Abstract]

REGULATORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS

18. REGULATORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS

The Company and the Bank are subject to various capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possible additional discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Company and the Bank’s financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Bank must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of the assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The Bank’s capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgements by the regulators about components, risk weightings, and other factors.

On July 2, 2013, the Federal Reserve Board approved the final rules implementing the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (“BCBS”) capital guidelines for U.S. banks (“Basel III”). Following the actions by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC also approved regulatory capital requirements on July 9, 2013. The FDIC’s rule is identical in substance to the final rules issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.

Basel III became effective on January 1, 2015 and its purpose is to improve the quality and increase the quantity of capital for all banking organizations. The minimum requirements for the quantity and quality of capital were increased. The rule includes a new common equity Tier 1 capital (as defined in the regulation) to risk-weighted assets ratio of 4.50% and a common equity Tier 1 capital conservation buffer of 2.50% of risk-weighted assets. The rule also raises the minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets from 4.00% to 6.00% and requires a minimum leverage ratio of 4.00%. In addition, the rule also implements strict eligibility criteria for regulatory capital instruments and improves the methodology for calculating risk-weighted assets to enhance risk sensitivity. All final rule requirements will be phased in over a multi-year schedule.

On November 4, 2019, the federal banking agencies jointly issued a final rule on an optional, simplified measure of capital adequacy for qualifying community banking organizations called the community bank leverage ratio (“CBLR”) framework effective on January 1, 2020. A qualifying community banking organization is defined as having less than $10 billion in total consolidated assets, a leverage ratio greater than 9%, off-balance sheet exposures of 25% or less of total consolidated assets, and trading assets and liabilities of 5% or less of total consolidated assets. Additionally, the qualifying community banking institution must be a non-advanced approaches FDIC supervised institution. The final rule adopts Tier 1 capital and existing leverage ratio into the CBLR framework. The Bank adopted this rule as of September 30, 2020 and is no longer subject to other capital and leverage requirements. Under the CBLR framework, a qualifying community banking organization is deemed to have met the “well capitalized” ratio requirements and be in appliance with the generally applicable capital rule.

The following table presents the actual CBLR for the Bank and Company at:

	December 31, 2021		December 31, 2020
Bank		8.66%		10.19%
Company		9.30%		10.72%

We believe that the Company and the Bank meet all capital adequacy requirements to which they were subject at December 31, 2021 and 2020.