Basis of Presentation and Consolidation (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Basis of Presentation and Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Corporation and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated.

The unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Corporation presented herein have been prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and pursuant to the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X and do not include all of the information and note disclosures required by GAAP for a complete set of financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) and disclosures necessary for the fair presentation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been included. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year. The accompanying unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2015, included in the Corporation’s annual report on Form 10-K.

In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the balance sheet and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Material estimates that are particularly susceptible to significant change in the near term relate to the determination of the allowance for loan losses and the valuation of deferred tax assets.

Stock-Based Compensation

Compensation cost is recognized for stock options and restricted stock awards issued to employees based on the fair value of these awards at the grant date. A Black-Scholes model is utilized to estimate the fair value of stock options, while the market price of the Corporation’s stock at the grant date is utilized for restricted stock awards.

Compensation cost is recognized over the required service period, generally defined as the vesting period. For awards with graded vesting, compensation cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

As an “emerging growth company” as defined in Title 1 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, the Corporation has elected to use the extended transition period to delay the adoption of new or reissued accounting pronouncements applicable to public companies until such pronouncements are made applicable to private companies. As of June 30, 2016, there is no significant difference in the comparability of the financial statements as a result of this extended transition period.

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-01, Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (Subtopic 825-10), which addresses certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments. The ASU requires equity instruments (except those accounted for under the equity method of accounting or that result in consolidations of the investee) to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. However, an entity may choose to measure an equity investment that does not have a readily determinable fair value at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions. For public business entities, the standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 and interim periods within fiscal periods after December 15, 2019. We do not expect a significant impact upon adoption on January 1, 2019.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, which will require organizations that lease assets — referred to as “lessees” — to recognize on the balance sheet the assets and liabilities for the rights and obligations created by those leases. Under the new guidance, a lessee will be required to recognize assets and liabilities for leases with lease terms of more than 12 months. Consistent with current Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classification as a finance or operating lease. However, unlike current GAAP — which requires only capital leases to be recognized on the balance sheet — the new ASU will require both types of leases to be recognized on the balance sheet.

The accounting by organizations that own the assets leased by the lessee — also known as lessor accounting — will remain largely unchanged from current GAAP. However, the ASU contains some targeted improvements that are intended to align, where necessary, lessor accounting with the lessee accounting model. The ASU on leases will take effect for public companies for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018. For all other organizations, the ASU on leases will take effect for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. We are currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this standard.

On March 30, 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued ASU 2016-09, which is intended to improve the accounting for employee share-based payments. The ASU affects all organizations that issue share-based payment awards to their employees. The ASU, Compensation — Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment award transactions, including:

The income tax consequences

Classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and

Classification on the statement of cash flows.

For public companies, the amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods. For private companies, the amendments are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted for any organization in any interim or annual period. We are currently evaluating the impact adoption of this standard but do not anticipate a material impact as share-based awards were first granted during the first quarter of 2016.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments — Credit Losses, that will significantly change how banks measure and recognize credit impairment for many financial assets from an incurred loss methodology to a current expected credit loss model. The current expected credit loss model will require companies to immediately recognize an estimate of credit losses expected to occur over the remaining life of the financial assets that are in the scope of the standard. The FASB also made targeted amendments to the current impairment model for available-for-sale debt securities. The ASU is effective for public business entities that are SEC filers, for annual and interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and for other companies, for interim and annual periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. All entities may early adopt the standard for annual and interim periods in fiscal years after December 15, 2018. The standard will be effective for the Corporation on January 1, 2021. We are currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this standard.