Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

BancShares sponsors non-contributory defined benefit pension plans for its qualifying employees. The service cost component of net periodic benefit cost is included in salaries and wages while all other non-service cost components are included in other noninterest expense.

The components of net periodic benefit cost are as follows:


dollars in millions	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2022		2021		2022		2021
Service cost	$	3	$	4	$	10	$	12
Interest cost	11		7		33		22
Expected return on assets	(22)		(20)		(65)		(59)
Amortization of prior service cost	—		—		—		—
Amortization of net actuarial loss	3		7		9		20
Net periodic benefit	$	(5)	$	(2)	$	(13)	$	(5)

No discretionary contribution was made to the pension plans during the nine months ended September 30, 2022. The funding policy of the pension plans is to contribute an amount each year to meet all Employee Retirement Income Security Act minimum requirements, including amounts to meet quarterly funding requirements, avoid “at-risk” status and avoid any benefit restrictions. BancShares may also contribute additional voluntary amounts each year (up to the maximum tax-deductible amount) in order to achieve certain target funding levels in the plans, with consideration also given to current and future cash flow and tax positions. No contributions are currently expected for the year ending December 31, 2022.

Certain retirement benefit plans and stock-based awards of CIT were acquired by BancShares upon the closing of the CIT Merger.

CIT had both funded and unfunded noncontributory defined benefit pension and postretirement plans covering certain U.S. and non-U.S. employees, each of which was designed in accordance with the practices and regulations in the related countries. CIT maintained a frozen U.S. non-contributory pension plan (the "Plan") qualified under the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”). CIT also maintained a frozen U.S. non-contributory supplemental retirement plan (the "Supplemental Plan”), and an Executive Retirement Plan, which had been closed to new members since 2006, and whose participants were all inactive. Accumulated balances under the Plan and the Supplemental Plan continue to receive periodic interest, subject to certain government limits. Fair value of the plan assets and benefit obligation at December 31, 2021 were $387 million and $409 million, respectively.

CIT provided healthcare and life insurance benefits to eligible retired employees. For most eligible retirees, healthcare was contributory and life insurance was non-contributory. All postretirement benefit plans were funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. These plans were terminated in the first quarter of 2022, effective April 1, and BancShares recognized a reduction in other noninterest expenses of approximately $27 million in the first quarter of 2022 related to amounts previously accrued.

CIT had a defined contribution retirement plan covering certain of its U.S. employees that qualifies under section 401(k) of the IRC and was assumed by BancShares. Under this plan employees may contribute a portion of their eligible compensation, as defined, subject to regulatory limits and plan provisions, and BancShares matches these contributions up to a threshold. Participants are also eligible for an additional discretionary company contribution.

In February 2016, CIT adopted the CIT Group Inc. 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the "2016 Plan"), which provided for grants of stock-based awards to employees, executive officers, and directors. The BancShares RSUs are the only outstanding awards subject to the terms of the 2016 Plan and no further awards will be made under the 2016 Plan. Compensation expense is recognized over the vesting period or the requisite service period, which is generally three years for BancShares RSUs, under the graded vesting method, whereby each vesting tranche of the award is amortized separately as if each were a separate award.

CIT had compensation awards that either converted to BancShares RSUs or immediately vested at completion of the CIT Merger as further described in the “Stock-Based Compensation” discussion in Note 1 — Accounting Policies and Basis of Presentation. The following table presents the unvested BancShares RSUs at September 30, 2022, which have vesting periods through 2024. There were no grants of stock-based compensation awards during 2022.

Stock-Settled Awards Outstanding


per share amounts in whole dollars	Stock-Settled Awards
	Number of Shares	Weighted Average Grant Date Value
Unvested BancShares at December 31, 2021	—	$	—
Unvested CIT RSUs converted to BancShares RSUs at Merger Date	116,958	859.76
Unvested CIT PSUs converted to RSUs at Merger Date	10,678	859.76
Forfeited / cancelled	(4,922)	859.76
Vested / settled awards	(74,500)	859.76

Unvested BancShares RSUs at September 30, 2022	48,214	$	859.76