Regulatory Capital Requirements

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Regulatory Capital Requirements [Abstract]

Regulatory Capital Requirements

(14) Regulatory Capital Requirements

Banks and bank holding companies are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies.  Capital adequacy regulations and, additionally for banks, the 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 judgments by regulators.  Failure to meet capital requirements can result in 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 by January 1, 2019.  The capital rules include a capital conservation buffer that is designed to absorb losses during periods of economic stress and to require increased capital levels before capital distributions and certain other payments can be made.  Failure to meet the full amount of the buffer will result in restrictions on the Company’s ability to make capital distributions, including dividend payments and stock repurchases, and to pay discretionary bonuses to executive officers.  Implementation of the buffer began in January 2016 at the 0.625% level, and the buffer increases 0.625% each year thereafter until it reaches 2.5% on January 1, 2019.  Management believes, as of December 31, 2018, the Company and Bank meet all capital adequacy requirements to which they are subject.

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 a bank is adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to accept brokered deposits.  If a bank is undercapitalized, capital distributions are limited, as is asset growth and expansion, and capital restoration plans are required.  The federal banking agencies are required to take certain supervisory actions (and may take additional discretionary actions) with respect to an undercapitalized institution or its holding company.  Such actions could have a direct material effect on an institution’s or its holding company’s financial statements.  As of December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, 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 Bank’s category.

The following is a summary of actual capital amounts and ratios as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, for Trustco Bank:

	As of December 31, 2018					Well			Adequately
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Ratio			Capitalized(1)			Capitalized(1)(2)
Tier 1 leverage ratio	$	484,581		9.767	%		5.000	%		4.000	%
Common equity Tier 1 capital		484,581		18.233			6.500			6.380
Tier 1 risk-based capital		484,581		18.233			8.000			7.880
Total risk-based capital		517,948		19.489			10.000			9.880

	As of December 31, 2017					Well			Adequately
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Ratio			Capitalized(1)			Capitalized(1)
Tier 1 leverage ratio	$	444,931		9.152	%		5.000	%		4.000	%
Common equity Tier 1 capital		444,931		17.460			6.500			5.750
Tier 1 risk-based capital		444,931		17.460			8.000			7.250
Total risk-based capital		476,942		18.720			10.000			9.250

The following is a summary of actual capital amounts and ratios as of December 31, 2018 and 2017 for TrustCo on a consolidated basis.

	As of December 31, 2018					Minimum for Capital Adequacy plus Capital Conservation
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Ratio			Buffer (1)(2)
Tier 1 leverage ratio	$	499,626		10.129	%		4.000	%
Common equity Tier 1 capital		499,626		18.790			6.380
Tier 1 risk-based capital		499,626		18.790			7.880
Total risk-based capital		533,009		20.046			9.880

	As of December 31, 2017					Minimum for Capital Adequacy plus Capital Conservation
(dollars in thousands)	Amount		Ratio			Buffer (1)(2)
Tier 1 leverage ratio	$	459,561		9.449	%		4.000	%
Common equity Tier 1 capital		459,561		18.020			5.750
Tier 1 risk-based capital		459,561		18.020			7.250
Total risk-based capital		491,590		19.280			9.250

(1) Federal regulatory minimum requirements to be considered to be Well Capitalized and Adequately Capitalized

(2) The December 31, 2018 and 2017 common equity tier 1, tier 1 risk-based, and total risk-based capital ratios include a transition capital conservation buffer of 1.88 percent, and 1.25 percent repectively.