Note 18 - Regulatory Restrictions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

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Note 18. Regulatory Restrictions

Dividends

The Company, as a Virginia banking corporation, may pay dividends only out of its retained earnings. However, regulatory authorities may limit payment of dividends by any company when it is determined that such a limitation is in the public interest and is necessary to ensure financial soundness of the Company. At December 31, 2015, there were $443 thousand in retained earnings available from which to pay dividends to common stockholders.

Capital Requirements

Banks and bank holding companies are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and, additionally for banks, prompt corrective action regulations, involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgements by regulators. Failure to meet capital requirements can initiate regulatory action. The final rules implementing Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s capital guidelines for U.S. banks (Basel III rules) became effective for the Company on January 1, 2015 with full compliance with all of the requirements being phased in over a multi-year schedule, and fully phased in January 1, 2019. As part of the new requirements, the Common Equity Tier 1 Capital is calculated and utilized in the assessment of capital for all institutions. Capital amounts and ratios for December 31, 2014 were calculated using the Basel I rules, which were effective until January 1, 2015. The net unrealized gain or loss on available for sale securities is not included in computing regulatory capital.

Prompt corrective action regulations provide five classifications: well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized, and critically undercapitalized, although these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to accept brokered deposits. If undercapitalized, capital distributions are limited, as is asset growth and expansion, and capital restoration plans are required. At year end 2015 and 2014, the most recent regulatory notifications categorized the bank as well capitalized under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. There are no conditions or events since that notification that management believes have changed the institution’s category.

The Company meets eligibility criteria of a small bank holding company in accordance with the Federal Reserve Board’s Small Bank Holding Company Policy statement issued in February 2015, and is no longer obligated to report consolidated regulatory capital. In July 2013, the Federal Reserve Bank issued revised final rules that make technical changes to its market risk capital rules to align it with the Basel III regulatory capital framework and meet certain requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act. The final new capital rules require the Company to comply with the following new minimum capital ratios, effective January 1, 2015: (1) a new common equity Tier 1 capital ratio of 4.5% of risk-weighted assets; (2) a Tier 1 capital ratio of 6% of risk-weighted assets (increased from the current requirement of 4%); (3) a total capital ratio of 8% of risk-weighted assets (unchanged from current requirement); and (4) a leverage ratio of 4% of total assets.  The rule introduces the requirement of a new 2.5% capital conservation buffer, to be phased in beginning on January 1, 2016, and ending on January 1, 2019. Banking organizations without other supervisory issues that wish to distribute capital freely, such as in the payment of dividends for example, must maintain the new capital conservation buffer.

Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Bank to maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth in the table below) of total, Tier I common equity, and Tier I capital to risk-weighted assets, and of Tier I capital to average assets, as all those terms are defined in the applicable regulations. As of December 31, 2015, management believes the Bank met all capital adequacy requirements to which it was subject.

The Bank’s actual capital amounts and ratios are also presented in the following tables:

HomeTown Bank December 31, 2015	Actual					Minimum Capital Requirement					Minimum To Be Well Capitalized Under Prompt Corrective Action Provisions
(in thousands except for percentages)	Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio
Total Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets)	$	54,890		13.80	%	$	31,822		8.00	%	$	39,778		10.00	%
Tier I Common Equity (to Risk-Weighted Assets)	$	51,556		12.96	%	$	17,900		4.50	%	$	25,855		6.50	%
Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets)	$	51,592		12.97	%	$	23,867		6.00	%	$	31,822		8.00	%
Tier I Capital (to Average Assets)	$	51,592		10.83	%	$	19,053		4.00	%	$	23,816		5.00	%

HomeTown Bank December 31, 2014	Actual					Minimum Capital Requirement					Minimum To Be Well Capitalized Under Prompt Corrective Action Provisions
(in thousands except for percentages)	Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio
Total Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets)	$	45,695		13.00	%	$	28,125		8.00	%	$	35,157		10.0	%
Tier I Common Equity (to Risk-Weighted Assets)	NA		NA			NA		NA			NA		NA
Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets)	$	42,363		12.05	%	$	14,063		4.00	%	$	21,094		6.0	%
Tier I Capital (to Average Assets)	$	42,363		10.00	%	$	16,952		4.00	%	$	21,190		5.0	%