BASIS OF PRESENTATION

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

NOTE 1 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Basis of Presentation

The unaudited interim Consolidated Financial Statements, including the Notes presented in this document, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP interim reporting requirements and, therefore, do not include all information and Notes included in the audited Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with GAAP. The unaudited interim Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes presented in this document should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying Notes included in the Company’s 2022 Form 10-K. The Company’s principal business activity is banking, conducted through its subsidiary CBNA.

The unaudited interim Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Citizens and subsidiaries in which Citizens has a controlling financial interest. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. The Company has evaluated its unconsolidated entities and does not believe that any entity in which it has an interest, but does not currently consolidate, meets the requirements to be consolidated as a variable interest entity. The unaudited interim Consolidated Financial Statements include all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods. The results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the 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 ACL.

Significant Accounting Policies

For further information regarding the Company’s significant accounting policies, see Note 1 in the Company’s 2022 Form 10-K.

Accounting Pronouncements Adopted in 2023


Pronouncement	Summary of Guidance	Effects on Financial Statements
Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures Issued March 2022	•Effective date: January 1, 2023. •Eliminates the separate recognition and measurement guidance for TDRs. •Requires evaluation of all modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty (or FDMs) to determine whether the modification results in a new loan or continuation of an existing loan. •Requires expected credit losses measured under a discounted cash flow method to be determined using an effective interest rate based on the modified (not original) contractual terms of the loan. •Enhances disclosures by creditors for modifications of receivables from borrowers experiencing financial difficulty in the form of principal forgiveness, an interest rate reduction, an other-than-insignificant payment delay or a term extension. •Requires disclosure of current period gross charge-offs by vintage year for loans and net investments in leases. •Transition is prospective, with an option to adopt the recognition and measurement guidance for TDRs on a modified retrospective basis, resulting in a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings in the period of adoption.	•The Company adopted the new standard on January 1, 2023, and elected to apply the new measurement and recognition guidance for TDRs under the modified retrospective transition method. •Adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. Required disclosures and discussion of significant accounting policies for modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty are included in Note 4. •Disclosure of gross charge-offs by vintage year did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
Fair Value Hedging - Portfolio Layer Method Issued March 2022	•Effective date: January 1, 2023. •Replaces the ‘last-of-layer’ method. •Allows the designation of multiple layers in a closed portfolio of financial assets. •Permits hedging of non-prepayable and prepayable assets. •Prohibits the consideration of basis adjustments when measuring expected credit losses of assets in the closed portfolio or determining whether an AFS security is impaired. •The guidance on hedging multiple layers in a closed portfolio is applied prospectively. The guidance on the accounting for fair value basis adjustments is applied on a modified retrospective basis.	•The Company adopted the new standard on January 1, 2023. •Adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
Accounting for Investments in Tax Credit Structures Using the Proportional Amortization Method Issued March 2023	•Effective date: January 1, 2024. •Permits use of the proportional amortization method of accounting for all tax equity investments provided that certain conditions are met. •Proportional amortization method is elected on a tax-credit-program-by-tax-credit-program basis. •Permits adoption under the modified retrospective method or retrospective method through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the current period or first period presented, respectively. Early adoption is permitted.	•The Company adopted the new standard on January 1, 2023 for renewable energy wind and new markets tax credit investments, under the modified retrospective approach. •Adoption resulted in a cumulative-effect reduction of $26 million, net of taxes, to retained earnings and a corresponding reduction to other assets of $101 million and other liabilities of $75 million, reflecting the elimination of deferred tax liabilities associated with renewable energy wind investments that qualify for the proportional amortization method of accounting. •Refer to Note 6 for additional information.