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HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP - Quarter Report: 2020 March (Form 10-Q)

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

(Mark one)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2020

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from           to            

Commission file number: 001-36872

HANCOCK WHITNEY CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Mississippi

 

64-0693170

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)



 

 

Hancock Whitney Plaza, 2510 14th Street,

Gulfport, Mississippi

 

39501

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

(228) 868-4000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

Trading symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common stock, par value $3.33 per share

HWC

Nasdaq

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes    No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes    No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definition s of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:

 

Large accelerated filer

 

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

 

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

 

 

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes    No

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date. 

86,283,006 common shares were outstanding at April 30, 2020.

 

 

 


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Hancock Whitney Corporation

Index

Part I. Financial Information

Page

Number

ITEM 1.

Financial Statements

4

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited) – March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019

4

 

Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited) – Three Months Ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

5

 

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (unaudited) – Three Months Ended March 31,2020 and 2019

6

 

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (unaudited) – Three Months Ended March 31,2020 and 2019

7

 

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) – Three Months Ended March 31,2020 and 2019

8

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited) – March 31,2020 and 2019

9

ITEM 2.

Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

39

ITEM 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

62

ITEM 4.

Controls and Procedures

63

Part II.  Other Information

 

ITEM 1.

Legal Proceedings

64

ITEM 1A.

Risk Factors

64

ITEM 2.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

66

ITEM 3.

Default on Senior Securities

N/A

ITEM 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures

N/A

ITEM 5.

Other Information

N/A

ITEM 6.

Exhibits

66

Signatures

67

 

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Hancock Whitney Corporation

Glossary of Defined Terms

Entities:

Hancock Whitney Corporation – a financial holding company registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Hancock Whitney Bank – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hancock Whitney Corporation through which Hancock Whitney Corporation conducts its banking operations

Company – Hancock Whitney Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries

Parent – Hancock Whitney Corporation, exclusive of its subsidiaries

Bank – Hancock Whitney Bank

Other Terms:

ACL – allowance for credit losses

AFS – available for sale securities

AOCI – accumulated other comprehensive income or loss

ALLL – allowance for loan and lease losses

ASC – Accounting Standards Codification

ASR – accelerated share repurchase

ASU – Accounting Standards Update

ATM automated teller machine

Basel III – Basel Committee's 2010 Regulatory Capital Framework (Third Accord)

Beta – amount by which deposit or loan costs change in response to movement in short-term interest rates

Beige Book Federal Reserve’s Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions  

BOLI – bank-owned life insurance

bp(s) – basis point(s)

C&I – commercial and industrial loans

CARES Act – Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act

CD – certificate of deposit

CDE – Community Development Entity

CECL – Current Expected Credit Losses, the term commonly used to refer to the methodology of estimating credit losses required by ASC 326, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses.” ASC 326 was adopted by the Company on January 1, 2020, superseding the methodology prescribed by ASC 310.

CMO – collateralized mortgage obligation

Coronavirus – the novel coronavirus declared a pandemic during the first quarter of 2020, resulting in profound market disruptions

COVID-19 – disease caused by the novel coronavirus

FASB – Financial Accounting Standards Board

FDIC – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Reserve Board – The 7-member Board of Governors that oversees the Federal Reserve System, establishes

monetary policy (interest rates, credit, etc.), and monitors the economic health of the country. Its members are appointed

by the President subject to Senate confirmation, and serve 14-year terms.

Federal Reserve System - The 12 Federal Reserve Banks, with each one serving member banks in its own district.

This system, supervised by the Federal Reserve Board, has broad regulatory powers over the money supply and the

credit structure. They implement the policies of the Federal Reserve Board and also conduct economic research

FHLB – Federal Home Loan Bank

GAAP – Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States of America

HTM – held to maturity securities

LIBOR – London Interbank Offered Rate

LIHTC – Low Income Housing Tax Credit

MD&A – management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations

MidSouth – MidSouth Bancorp, Inc., an entity the Company acquired on September 21, 2019

NAICS – North American Industry Classification System

NII – net interest income

n/m – not meaningful

OCI – other comprehensive income or loss

ORE – other real estate defined as foreclosed and surplus real estate

PCD – purchased credit deteriorated loans, as defined by ASC 326

PCI – purchased credit impaired loans, as defined by ASC 310-30

PPP – Paycheck Protection Program, a loan program administered by the Small Business Administration designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep workers on payroll during interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

Reference rate reform – refers to the global transition away from LIBOR and other interbank offered rates toward new reference rates that are more reliable and robust

Repos – securities sold under agreements to repurchase

SEC – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities Act – Securities Act of 1933, as amended

SOFR – secured overnight financing rate

te – taxable equivalent adjustment, or the term used to indicate that a financial measure is presented on a fully taxable equivalent basis

TDR – troubled debt restructuring

TSR – total shareholder return

U.S. Treasury – The United States Department of the Treasury

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Part I. Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements

Hancock Whitney Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Unaudited)

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and due from banks

 

$

476,811

 

 

$

432,104

 

Interest-bearing bank deposits

 

 

876,058

 

 

 

109,961

 

Federal funds sold

 

 

256

 

 

 

268

 

Securities available for sale, at fair value (amortized cost of $4,709,075 and $4,637,610)

 

 

4,893,996

 

 

 

4,675,304

 

Securities held to maturity (fair value of $1,562,577 and $1,611,004)

 

 

1,480,494

 

 

 

1,568,009

 

Loans held for sale

 

 

67,587

 

 

 

55,864

 

Loans

 

 

21,515,681

 

 

 

21,212,755

 

Less: allowance for loan losses

 

 

(426,003

)

 

 

(191,251

)

Loans, net

 

 

21,089,678

 

 

 

21,021,504

 

Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $252,459 and $249,527

 

 

377,638

 

 

 

380,209

 

Right of use assets, net of accumulated amortization of $14,719 and $12,194

 

 

116,809

 

 

 

110,023

 

Prepaid expenses

 

 

43,772

 

 

 

40,178

 

Other real estate and foreclosed assets, net

 

 

18,460

 

 

 

30,405

 

Accrued interest receivable

 

 

96,167

 

 

 

92,037

 

Goodwill

 

 

855,453

 

 

 

855,453

 

Other intangible assets, net

 

 

101,463

 

 

 

106,807

 

Life insurance contracts

 

 

604,812

 

 

 

608,063

 

Funded pension assets, net

 

 

190,166

 

 

 

185,791

 

Other assets

 

 

472,073

 

 

 

328,777

 

Total assets

 

$

31,761,693

 

 

$

30,600,757

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noninterest-bearing

 

$

9,204,631

 

 

$

8,775,632

 

Interest-bearing

 

 

15,803,865

 

 

 

15,027,943

 

Total deposits

 

 

25,008,496

 

 

 

23,803,575

 

Short-term borrowings

 

 

2,673,283

 

 

 

2,714,872

 

Long-term debt

 

 

225,606

 

 

 

233,462

 

Accrued interest payable

 

 

11,513

 

 

 

10,200

 

Lease liabilities

 

 

134,908

 

 

 

127,703

 

Deferred tax liability, net

 

 

32,063

 

 

 

37,721

 

Other liabilities

 

 

254,760

 

 

 

205,539

 

Total liabilities

 

 

28,340,629

 

 

 

27,133,072

 

Stockholders' equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock

 

 

309,513

 

 

 

309,513

 

Capital surplus

 

 

1,741,156

 

 

 

1,736,664

 

Retained earnings

 

 

1,297,129

 

 

 

1,476,232

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net

 

 

73,266

 

 

 

(54,724

)

Total stockholders' equity

 

 

3,421,064

 

 

 

3,467,685

 

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity

 

$

31,761,693

 

 

$

30,600,757

 

Preferred shares authorized (par value of $20.00 per share)

 

 

50,000

 

 

 

50,000

 

Preferred shares issued and outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common shares authorized (par value of $3.33 per share)

 

 

350,000

 

 

 

350,000

 

Common shares issued

 

 

92,947

 

 

 

92,947

 

Common shares outstanding

 

 

86,275

 

 

 

87,515

 

 

See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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Hancock Whitney Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Income

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Interest income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loans, including fees

 

$

238,723

 

 

$

238,282

 

Loans held for sale

 

 

621

 

 

 

253

 

Securities-taxable

 

 

32,607

 

 

 

31,139

 

Securities-tax exempt

 

 

4,944

 

 

 

5,446

 

Short-term investments

 

 

448

 

 

 

1,163

 

Total interest income

 

 

277,343

 

 

 

276,283

 

Interest expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits

 

 

38,937

 

 

 

46,138

 

Short-term borrowings

 

 

4,462

 

 

 

8,082

 

Long-term debt

 

 

2,756

 

 

 

2,809

 

Total interest expense

 

 

46,155

 

 

 

57,029

 

Net interest income

 

 

231,188

 

 

 

219,254

 

Provision for credit losses

 

 

246,793

 

 

 

18,043

 

Net interest income (loss) after provision for credit losses

 

 

(15,605

)

 

 

201,211

 

Noninterest income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service charges on deposit accounts

 

 

22,837

 

 

 

20,367

 

Trust fees

 

 

14,806

 

 

 

15,124

 

Bank card and ATM fees

 

 

17,362

 

 

 

15,290

 

Investment and annuity fees and insurance commissions

 

 

7,150

 

 

 

6,528

 

Secondary mortgage market operations

 

 

6,053

 

 

 

3,726

 

Other income

 

 

16,179

 

 

 

9,468

 

Total noninterest income

 

 

84,387

 

 

 

70,503

 

Noninterest expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compensation expense

 

 

91,071

 

 

 

83,968

 

Employee benefits

 

 

22,478

 

 

 

19,730

 

Personnel expense

 

 

113,549

 

 

 

103,698

 

Net occupancy expense

 

 

12,522

 

 

 

11,984

 

Equipment expense

 

 

4,617

 

 

 

4,679

 

Data processing expense

 

 

22,047

 

 

 

19,331

 

Professional services expense

 

 

9,741

 

 

 

8,168

 

Amortization of intangible assets

 

 

5,345

 

 

 

5,138

 

Deposit insurance and regulatory fees

 

 

5,815

 

 

 

5,406

 

Other real estate and foreclosed assets (income) expense

 

 

10,130

 

 

 

(991

)

Other expense

 

 

19,569

 

 

 

18,287

 

Total noninterest expense

 

 

203,335

 

 

 

175,700

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

 

 

(134,553

)

 

 

96,014

 

Income taxes expense (benefit)

 

 

(23,520

)

 

 

16,850

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

(111,033

)

 

$

79,164

 

Earnings (loss) per common share-basic

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

0.91

 

Earnings (loss) per common share-diluted

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

0.91

 

Dividends paid per share

 

$

0.27

 

 

$

0.27

 

Weighted average shares outstanding-basic

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

85,688

 

Weighted average shares outstanding-diluted

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

85,800

 

 

See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements.

 

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Hancock Whitney Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

(111,033

)

 

$

79,164

 

Other comprehensive income/loss before income taxes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized gain/loss on securities available for sale and cash flow hedges

 

 

165,297

 

 

 

57,243

 

Reclassification of net losses realized and included in earnings

 

 

368

 

 

 

4,219

 

Amortization of unrealized net loss or gain on securities transferred to held to maturity

 

 

(195

)

 

 

591

 

Other comprehensive income before income taxes

 

 

165,470

 

 

 

62,053

 

Income tax expense

 

 

37,480

 

 

 

13,853

 

Other comprehensive income net of income taxes

 

 

127,990

 

 

 

48,200

 

Comprehensive income

 

$

16,957

 

 

$

127,364

 

 

See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements.

 

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Hancock Whitney Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

Shares

Issued

 

 

Amount

 

 

Capital

Surplus

 

 

Retained

Earnings

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive

Income (Loss), Net

 

 

Total

 

Balance, December 31, 2018

 

 

87,903

 

 

$

292,716

 

 

$

1,725,741

 

 

$

1,243,592

 

 

 

 

$

(180,709

)

 

$

3,081,340

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

79,164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

79,164

 

Other comprehensive loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

48,200

 

 

 

48,200

 

Comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

79,164

 

 

 

 

 

48,200

 

 

 

127,364

 

Cash dividends declared ($0.27 per common share)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(23,581

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(23,581

)

Common stock activity, long-term incentive plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,528

 

 

 

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,573

 

Issuance of stock from dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

879

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

879

 

Balance, March 31, 2019

 

 

87,903

 

 

$

292,716

 

 

$

1,731,148

 

 

$

1,299,220

 

 

 

 

$

(132,509

)

 

$

3,190,575

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2019

 

 

92,947

 

 

$

309,513

 

 

$

1,736,664

 

 

$

1,476,232

 

 

 

 

$

(54,724

)

 

$

3,467,685

 

Net income (loss)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(111,033

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(111,033

)

Other comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

127,990

 

 

 

127,990

 

Comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(111,033

)

 

 

 

 

127,990

 

 

 

16,957

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(44,087

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(44,087

)

Cash dividends declared ($0.27 per common share)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(24,028

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(24,028

)

Common stock activity, long-term incentive plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,114

 

 

 

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,159

 

Repurchase of common stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(12,716

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(12,716

)

Net settlement of accelerated share repurchase agreement (1,001,472 shares)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12,110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12,110

 

Issuance of stock from dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

984

 

Balance, March 31, 2020

 

 

92,947

 

 

$

309,513

 

 

$

1,741,156

 

 

$

1,297,129

 

 

 

 

$

73,266

 

 

$

3,421,064

 

 

See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements.

 

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Hancock Whitney Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

(111,033

)

 

$

79,164

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

7,880

 

 

 

7,516

 

Provision for credit losses

 

 

246,793

 

 

 

18,043

 

(Gain) loss on other real estate and foreclosed assets

 

 

10,550

 

 

 

(991

)

Gain on sale of securities

 

 

(112

)

 

 

 

Deferred tax expense (benefit)

 

 

(34,279

)

 

 

30,829

 

Increase in cash surrender value of life insurance contracts

 

 

(646

)

 

 

(3,772

)

Net (increase) decrease in loans held for sale

 

 

(5,709

)

 

 

5,714

 

Net amortization of securities premium/discount

 

 

9,349

 

 

 

7,009

 

Amortization of intangible assets

 

 

5,345

 

 

 

5,138

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

5,583

 

 

 

5,181

 

Net change in liability from variation margin collateral

 

 

(105,921

)

 

 

(3,820

)

Contribution to pension plan

 

 

 

 

 

(100,000

)

Decrease in interest payable and other liabilities

 

 

(18,641

)

 

 

(11,658

)

(Increase) decrease in other assets

 

 

9,887

 

 

 

(23,335

)

Other, net

 

 

(7,521

)

 

 

(1,595

)

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

 

11,525

 

 

 

13,423

 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from the sale of available for sale securities

 

 

124,122

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from maturities of securities available for sale

 

 

166,265

 

 

 

55,596

 

Purchases of securities available for sale

 

 

(367,944

)

 

 

(1,502

)

Proceeds from maturities of securities held to maturity

 

 

84,176

 

 

 

79,533

 

Net increase in short-term investments

 

 

(766,085

)

 

 

(52,668

)

Proceeds from sales of loans and leases

 

 

2,608

 

 

 

42,059

 

Net increase in loans

 

 

(339,888

)

 

 

(148,073

)

Purchases of property and equipment

 

 

(9,460

)

 

 

(12,435

)

Proceeds from sales of other real estate

 

 

3,007

 

 

 

4,613

 

Final cash settlement for acquisition of business

 

 

 

 

 

(1,112

)

Other, net

 

 

(1,731

)

 

 

(8,863

)

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(1,104,930

)

 

 

(42,852

)

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase in deposits

 

 

1,204,921

 

 

 

230,109

 

Net decrease in short-term borrowings

 

 

(41,589

)

 

 

(200,393

)

Repayments of long-term debt

 

 

(76

)

 

 

(75

)

Dividends paid

 

 

(24,028

)

 

 

(23,581

)

Payroll tax remitted on net share settlement of equity awards

 

 

(1,494

)

 

 

(688

)

Proceeds from dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plans

 

 

984

 

 

 

879

 

Settlement of forward contract portion of accelerated share repurchase

 

 

12,110

 

 

 

 

Repurchase of shares

 

 

(12,716

)

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

 

1,138,112

 

 

 

6,251

 

NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS

 

 

44,707

 

 

 

(23,178

)

CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS, BEGINNING

 

 

432,104

 

 

 

383,372

 

CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS, ENDING

 

$

476,811

 

 

$

360,194

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FOR NON-CASH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets acquired in settlement of loans

 

$

1,612

 

 

$

4,273

 

 

See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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HANCOCK WHITNEY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. Basis of Presentation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Hancock Whitney Corporation and all other entities in which it has a controlling interest (the “Company”). The financial statements include all adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary to fairly state the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the interim periods presented. The Company has also evaluated all subsequent events for potential recognition and disclosure through the date of the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Some financial information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. Financial information reported in these financial statements is not necessarily indicative of the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows for any other interim or annual period.

Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. These changes in presentation did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or operating results.

 

Use of Estimates

The accounting principles the Company follows and the methods for applying these principles conform to GAAP and general practices followed by the banking industry. These accounting principles require management to make estimates and assumptions about future events that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

On January 1, 2020, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 326, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses,” more commonly referred to as CECL, on a modified retrospective basis. The provisions of this guidance require a material change to the manner in which the Company estimates and reports losses on financial instruments, including loans and unfunded lending commitments, select securities and other assets carried at amortized cost. Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2020 are presented under ASC 326, while prior period amounts continue to be reported in accordance with previously applicable GAAP. Changes to the Company’s accounting policies related to CECL are described below. There were no other material changes or developments during the reporting period with respect to methodologies that the Company uses when applying what management believes are critical accounting policies and developing critical accounting estimates as disclosed in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. Refer to Note 15 – Recent Accounting Pronouncements for a discussion of accounting standards adopted during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and the impact to the Company’s financial statements.

Accounting Policy Updates

Allowance for Credit Losses on Loans, Leases Held for Investment and Unfunded Exposures

For reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2020, the Allowance for Credit Losses (ACL) is comprised of the Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL), a valuation account available to absorb losses on loans and leases held for investment, and the Reserve for Unfunded Lending Commitments, a liability established to absorb credit losses for the expected life of the contractual term of on and off-balance sheet exposures as of the date of the determination. Quarterly, management estimates losses in the portfolio and unfunded exposures based on a number of factors, including the Company’s past loan loss experience, known and potential risks in the portfolio, adverse situations that may affect the borrowers’ ability to repay, the estimated value of any underlying collateral, and current and forecasted economic conditions.

 

The analysis and methodology for estimating the ACL includes two primary elements: a collective approach for pools of loans that have similar risk characteristics using a loss rate analysis, and a specific reserve analysis for credits individually evaluated for credit loss. For the collective approach, the Company segments loans into commercial non-real estate, commercial real estate – owner occupied, commercial real estate – income producing, construction and land development, residential mortgage and consumer, with further segmentation by region and sub-portfolio, as deemed appropriate. Both quantitative and qualitative factors are applied at the portfolio segment levels. The Company applies the practical expedient that permits the exclusion of the accrued interest receivable balance from amortized cost basis of financing receivables.

 

For the collectively evaluated portfolios, the Company utilizes internally developed credit models and third party economic forecasts for the calculation of the reasonable and supportable forecast period for the majority of the portfolio and other methods, generally

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historical loss based, for select portfolios. The Company calculates collective allowance for a two-year reasonable and supportable forecast period utilizing the weighted average of multiple macroeconomic scenarios, and then reverts on a linear basis over four quarters to an average historical loss rate for the remaining life. The credit models consist primarily of multivariate regression and autoregressive models that correlate our historical net charge-off rates to select macroeconomic variables at a collective level. Forward-looking macroeconomic forecasts are applied as inputs to the regression equations to estimate quarterly collective net charge-off rates over the reasonable and supportable period. The net charge-off rates from the credit models for the reasonable and supportable period, the linear reversion rates, and the average loss rates for the post reasonable and supportable periods are applied to forecasted balance runoff for the estimated remaining term. The balance runoff incorporates prepayment assumptions developed from historical experience that are applied to the multiple macroeconomic forecasts. Forecasted net charge-off rates are also applied to forecasted draws and subsequent runoff of unfunded commitments in the calculation of the reserve for unfunded lending commitments. Qualitative adjustments to the output of quantitative calculations are made when management deems it necessary to reflect differences in current and forecasted conditions as compared to those during the historical loss period used in model development. Conditions to be considered include, but are not limited to, problem loan trends, current business and economic conditions, credit concentrations, lending policies and procedures, lending staff, collateral values, loan profiles and volumes, loan review quality, changes in competition and regulations, and other adjustments for model limitations or other variables not specifically captured.

 

The Company establishes specific reserves using an individually evaluated approach for nonaccrual loans, loans modified in troubled debt restructures, loans for which a troubled debt restructure is reasonably expected, and other financial instruments that are deemed to not share risk characteristics with other collectively evaluated financial assets. For loans individually evaluated, a specific allowance is recognized for any shortfall between the loan’s value and its recorded investment. The loan’s value is measured by either the loan’s observable market price, the fair value of the collateral of the loan (less liquidation costs) if it is collateral dependent, or by the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s effective interest rate. The Company applies the practical expedient and defines collateral dependent loans as those where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and on which repayment is expected to be provided substantially through the operation or sale of the collateral. Loans individually analyzed are not incorporated into the pool analysis to avoid double counting. The Company limits the individually evaluated specific reserve analysis to include commercial and residential mortgage loans with relationship balances of $1 million or greater and all loans classified as troubled debt restructurings.

Acquired Loans and Other Financial Assets

Acquired loans and other financial assets within the scope of CECL are segregated between those purchased with credit deterioration (“PCD”) and those that are not (“non PCD”). Assets considered PCD include those individual financial assets (or groups of financial assets with similar risk characteristics) that as of the date of acquisition are assessed as having experienced a more-than-insignificant deterioration in credit quality since origination. The assessment of what is more-than-insignificant credit deterioration since origination considers information including, but not limited to, financial assets that are delinquent, on nonaccrual and/or otherwise adversely risk rated as of the acquisition date, those that have been downgraded since origination, and those for which, after origination, credit spreads have widened beyond the threshold specified in policy. The Company bifurcates the fair value discount between the credit and noncredit components and records an allowance for credit losses for PCD assets by adding the credit portion of the fair value discount to the initial amortized cost basis and increasing the allowance for credit losses at the date of acquisition. Any noncredit discount or premium resulting from acquiring assets with credit deterioration is allocated to each individual asset. All non PCD financial assets acquired are recorded at the loans estimated fair value at acquisition, with the estimated allowance for credit loss recorded as a provision for credit losses through earnings in the period in which the acquisition has occurred. The noncredit discount or premium for PCD assets and full discount for non PCD assets will be accreted to interest income using the interest method based on the effective interest rate at the acquisition date.

Under the transition provisions for prospective application of CECL, the Company has classified all purchased credit impaired loans (“PCI”) previously accounted for under Financial Accounting Standard Subtopic 310-30 to be classified as PCD, without reassessing whether the financial assets meet the criteria of PCD as of the date of adoption. The prospective application resulted in an adjustment to the amortized cost basis of the financial asset to reflect the addition of the allowance for credit losses at the date of adoption. The Company elected not to maintain pools of loans accounted for under Subtopic 310-30 at adoption. The Company was also not required to reassess whether modifications to individual acquired financial assets accounted for in pools were troubled debt restructurings as of the date of adoption. The noncredit discount, after the adjustment for the allowance for credit losses, will be accreted to interest income using the interest method based on the effective interest rate determined after the adjustment for credit losses at the adoption date.

Allowance for Credit Losses on Securities

 

The CECL standard also requires an assessment of the Company’s held to maturity debt securities for expected credit losses and the available for sale debt securities for credit-related impairment. The Company applies the practical expedient to exclude the accrued interest receivable balance from amortized cost basis of financing receivables. The allowance for credit losses on held to maturity debt securities is estimated at the individual security level when there is a more than inconsequential risk of default. The assessment uses probability of default and loss given default models based on public ratings, where available, or mapped internally developed risk grades to public ratings and forecasted cash flows using the same economic forecasts and probability weighting as used for the

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Company’s evaluation of the loan portfolio. Qualitative adjustments to the output of the quantitative calculation are made when management deems it necessary to reflect differences in current and forecasted conditions as compared to those during the historical loss period used in model development. The Company evaluates credit impairment on available for sale debt securities at an individual security level. This evaluation is done for securities whose fair value is below amortized cost with a more than inconsequential risk of default and where the Company has assessed the decline in fair value is significant enough to suggest a credit event occurred. Credit events are generally assessed based on adverse conditions specifically related to the security, an industry, or geographic area, changes in the financial condition of the issuer of the security, or in the case of an asset-backed debt security, changes in the financial condition of the underlying loan obligors. The allowance for credit losses for such securities is measured using a discounted cash flow methodology, through which management compares the present value of expected cash flows with the amortized cost basis of the security. The allowance for credit loss is limited to the amount by which the fair value is less than the amortized cost basis.

 

The Company reassess the credit losses at each reporting period and records subsequent changes in the allowance for credit losses on securities with a corresponding adjustment recorded in the provision for credit loss expense. If the Company intends to sell the debt security, or more likely than not will be required to sell the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, the security is charged down to fair value against the allowance for credit losses, with any incremental impairment reported in earnings.

 

2. Business Combination

On September 21, 2019, the Company completed the acquisition of MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. (“MidSouth”) (NYSE: MSL), parent company of MidSouth Bank, N.A. The transaction provides the Company opportunity for both enhanced growth in several of its current markets, such as MidSouth’s home market of Lafayette, Louisiana, as well as opportunities for expansion into new markets in Louisiana and Texas. The transaction was accounted for as a business combination whereby the Company acquired net assets with an estimated fair value of $130.5 million and recorded goodwill of $63.4 million. In consideration for the net assets acquired, the Company issued approximately 5.0 million shares resulting in a transaction value of $193.8 million. The following table sets forth the preliminary acquisition date fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, and the resulting goodwill. The goodwill is not deductible for federal income tax purposes.

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

Cash and due from banks

 

$

28,059

Interest bearing bank deposits

 

 

276,911

Federal funds sold

 

 

3,475

Securities available for sale

 

 

272,240

Loans

 

 

787,628

Property and equipment

 

 

34,288

Other real estate

 

 

343

Identifiable intangible assets

 

 

31,500

Other assets

 

 

79,888

Total identifiable assets

 

 

1,514,332

LIABILITIES

 

 

 

Deposit liabilities

 

 

1,280,947

Short term borrowings

 

 

66,996

Long term debt

 

 

13,919

Other liabilities

 

 

21,990

Total liabilities

 

 

1,383,852

Net assets acquired

 

 

130,480

Value of stock-based consideration

 

 

193,849

Goodwill

 

$

63,369

 

The results of the acquired business were included in the Company’s consolidated results of operations from the date of acquisition. The results of the acquired business are not material to the Company’s consolidated results of operations and, as such, neither supplemental pro forma information of the combined entity nor revenue and earnings contributed by the acquired business since the date of acquisition are presented.

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Goodwill Resulting from Business Combinations

 

Goodwill represents the excess of the consideration transferred over the fair value of the net assets acquired. It is comprised of estimated future economic benefits arising from the transaction that cannot be individually identified or do not qualify for separate recognition. These benefits include expanded presence in existing markets and entry into new markets, and expected earnings streams and operational efficiencies that the Company believes will result from this business combination. The following table presents the change in the Company’s goodwill during the year ended December 31, 2019. No measurement period adjustments were recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2020.

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

Goodwill balance at December 31, 2018

 

$

790,972

 

Final settlement of cash consideration - acquisition of trust and asset management business

 

 

1,112

 

Initial goodwill recorded in the acquisition of MidSouth Bancorp, Inc.

 

 

69,207

 

Measurement period adjustments - acquisition of MidSouth Bancorp, Inc.

 

 

(5,838

)

Goodwill balance at December 31, 2019

 

$

855,453

 

Goodwill balance at March 31, 2020

 

$

855,453

 

 

 

3.  Securities

The amortized cost, gross unrealized gains and losses, and estimated fair value of securities classified as available for sale and held to maturity at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 as follow. Amortized cost of securities does not include accrued interest which is reflected in the accrued interest line item on the Consolidated Balance Sheets totaling $22.8 million and $23.9 million at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.

 

Securities Available for Sale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Amortized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

 

Cost

 

 

Gains

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Cost

 

 

Gains

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

107,750

 

 

 

1,676

 

 

 

223

 

 

$

109,203

 

 

$

98,320

 

 

$

652

 

 

$

300

 

 

$

98,672

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

241,050

 

 

 

8,643

 

 

 

 

 

 

249,693

 

 

 

242,016

 

 

 

7,789

 

 

 

 

 

 

249,805

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

2,061,777

 

 

 

62,764

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

2,124,531

 

 

 

1,910,909

 

 

 

20,268

 

 

 

7,020

 

 

 

1,924,157

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

1,648,643

 

 

 

94,268

 

 

 

105

 

 

 

1,742,806

 

 

 

1,570,765

 

 

 

19,880

 

 

 

4,178

 

 

 

1,586,467

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

641,855

 

 

 

17,712

 

 

 

 

 

 

659,567

 

 

 

807,600

 

 

 

3,757

 

 

 

3,142

 

 

 

808,215

 

Corporate debt securities

 

 

8,000

 

 

 

218

 

 

 

22

 

 

 

8,196

 

 

 

8,000

 

 

 

21

 

 

 

33

 

 

 

7,988

 



 

$

4,709,075

 

 

$

185,281

 

 

$

360

 

 

$

4,893,996

 

 

$

4,637,610

 

 

$

52,367

 

 

$

14,673

 

 

$

4,675,304

 

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Securities Held to Maturity

 

Amortized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Amortized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

(in thousands)

 

Cost

 

 

Gains

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Cost

 

 

Gains

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

50,000

 

 

$

3

 

 

$

 

 

$

50,003

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

627,185

 

 

 

29,093

 

 

 

20

 

 

 

656,258

 

 

 

641,019

 

 

 

27,146

 

 

 

69

 

 

 

668,096

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

28,236

 

 

 

1,309

 

 

 

 

 

 

29,545

 

 

 

29,687

 

 

 

883

 

 

 

 

 

 

30,570

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

538,865

 

 

 

41,782

 

 

 

 

 

 

580,647

 

 

 

539,371

 

 

 

12,474

 

 

 

581

 

 

 

551,264

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

286,208

 

 

 

9,921

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

296,127

 

 

 

307,932

 

 

 

3,597

 

 

 

458

 

 

 

311,071

 



 

$

1,480,494

 

 

$

82,105

 

 

$

22

 

 

$

1,562,577

 

 

$

1,568,009

 

 

$

44,103

 

 

$

1,108

 

 

$

1,611,004

 

 

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The following tables present the amortized cost and estimated fair value of debt securities available for sale and held to maturity at March 31, 2020 by contractual maturity.  Actual maturities will differ from contractual maturities because of rights to call or repay obligations with or without penalties and scheduled and unscheduled principal payments on mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations.

 

Debt Securities Available for Sale

 

Amortized

 

 

Fair

 

(in thousands)

 

Cost

 

 

Value

 

Due in one year or less

 

$

14,698

 

 

$

14,850

 

Due after one year through five years

 

 

135,349

 

 

 

141,030

 

Due after five years through ten years

 

 

1,765,040

 

 

 

1,865,926

 

Due after ten years

 

 

2,793,988

 

 

 

2,872,190

 

Total available for sale debt securities

 

$

4,709,075

 

 

$

4,893,996

 

 

Debt Securities Held to Maturity

 

Amortized

 

 

Fair

 

(in thousands)

 

Cost

 

 

Value

 

Due in one year or less

 

$

 

 

$

 

Due after one year through five years

 

 

136,494

 

 

 

141,840

 

Due after five years through ten years

 

 

668,437

 

 

 

718,740

 

Due after ten years

 

 

675,563

 

 

 

701,997

 

Total held to maturity securities

 

$

1,480,494

 

 

$

1,562,577

 

 

The Company held no securities classified as trading at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019.  

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, proceeds from the sales of securities totaled $124.1 million, with gross gains of $1.1 million and gross losses of $1.0 million. There were no sales of securities during the three months ended March 31, 2019.

 

Securities with carrying values totaling $4.8 billion and $3.3 billion at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, were pledged as collateral, primarily to secure public deposits or securities sold under agreements to repurchase and, at March 31, 2020, to provide enhanced liquidity through additional borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve.

Credit Quality

The Company’s policy is to invest only in securities of investment grade quality. These investments are largely limited to U.S. agency securities and municipal securities. Management has concluded, based on the long history of no credit losses, that the expectation of nonpayment of the held to maturity securities carried at amortized cost is zero for securities that are backed by the full faith and credit of and/or guaranteed by the U.S. government. As such, no allowance for credit losses has been recorded for these securities. The municipal portfolio is analyzed separately for allowance for credit loss in accordance with the applicable guidance for each portfolio as noted below.    

Effective January 1, 2020, in conjunction with the adoption of CECL, and again at March 31, 2020, the Company evaluated credit impairment for individual securities available for sale whose fair value was below amortized cost with a more than inconsequential risk of default and where the Company had assessed the decline in fair value significant enough to suggest a credit event occurred. There were no securities that met the criteria of a credit loss event and therefore, no allowance for credit loss was recorded for either period. The fair value and gross unrealized losses for securities classified as available for sale with unrealized losses for the periods indicated follow.

 

Available for Sale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

Losses < 12 months

 

 

Losses 12 months or >

 

 

Total

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair

Value

 

 

Gross

Unrealized

Losses

 

 

Fair

Value

 

 

Gross

Unrealized

Losses

 

 

Fair

Value

 

 

Gross

Unrealized

Losses

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

7,807

 

 

$

223

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

7,807

 

 

$

223

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

714

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

1,688

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

2,402

 

 

 

10

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

25,196

 

 

 

105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25,196

 

 

 

105

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate debt securities

 

 

778

 

 

 

22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

778

 

 

 

22

 



 

$

34,495

 

 

$

355

 

 

$

1,688

 

 

$

5

 

 

$

36,183

 

 

$

360

 

 

Available for Sale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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December 31, 2019

 

Losses < 12 months

 

 

Losses 12 months or >

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

(in thousands)

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

28,235

 

 

 

300

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

28,235

 

 

$

300

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

420,066

 

 

 

5,042

 

 

 

399,787

 

 

 

1,978

 

 

 

819,853

 

 

 

7,020

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

458,855

 

 

 

3,971

 

 

 

14,896

 

 

 

207

 

 

 

473,751

 

 

 

4,178

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

89,689

 

 

 

1,315

 

 

 

184,389

 

 

 

1,827

 

 

 

274,078

 

 

 

3,142

 

Corporate debt securities

 

 

1,467

 

 

 

33

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,467

 

 

 

33

 



 

$

998,312

 

 

$

10,661

 

 

$

599,072

 

 

$

4,012

 

 

$

1,597,384

 

 

$

14,673

 

 

Effective January 1, 2020 and in conjunction with the adoption of CECL, and again as of March 31, 2020, the Company evaluated its municipal obligation portfolio for credit loss using probability of default and loss given default models. The models were run using a long-term average probability of default migration and with a probability weighting of Moody’s economic forecast. The economic forecast was largely weighted to a baseline forecast with some weight given to downside scenarios for both periods. The March 31, 2020 forecast was further stressed by running a more severe probability of default migration. The resulting credit loss was negligible for both periods and no allowance for credit loss was recorded. The fair value and gross unrealized losses for securities classified as held to maturity with unrealized losses for the periods indicated follow.

 

Held to maturity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

Losses < 12 months

 

 

Losses 12 months or >

 

 

Total

 



 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 



 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

(in thousands)

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,894

 

 

 

20

 

 

 

2,894

 

 

 

20

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,287

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

1,287

 

 

 

2

 



 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

4,181

 

 

$

22

 

 

$

4,181

 

 

$

22

 

 

Held to maturity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

Losses < 12 months

 

 

Losses 12 months or >

 

 

Total

 



 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 



 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

 

Fair

 

 

Unrealized

 

(in thousands)

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

 

Value

 

 

Losses

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

4,735

 

 

 

38

 

 

 

3,143

 

 

 

31

 

 

 

7,878

 

 

 

69

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

28,426

 

 

 

581

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28,426

 

 

 

581

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

49,110

 

 

 

458

 

 

 

49,110

 

 

 

458

 



 

$

33,161

 

 

$

619

 

 

$

52,253

 

 

$

489

 

 

$

85,414

 

 

$

1,108

 

 

Unrealized losses in both portfolios relate primarily to changes in interest rates on fixed rate debt securities since the respective purchase dates. In all cases, the indicated impairment on these debt securities would be recovered no later than the security’s maturity date or possibly earlier if the market price for the security increases with a reduction in the yield required by the market. None of the unrealized losses relate to the marketability of the securities or the issuers’ abilities to meet contractual obligations. The Company had adequate liquidity as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and did not intend to nor believe that it would be required to sell these securities before recovery of the indicated impairment. The unrealized losses on these securities were determined to be non-credit related as of December 31, 2019 and as noted above, no allowance for credit losses was recorded as of January 1, 2020 or March 31, 2020.

 

4.  Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses

The Company generally makes loans in its market areas of south Mississippi; southern and central Alabama; northwest, central and south Louisiana; the northern, central, and panhandle regions of Florida; certain areas of east and northeast Texas, including Houston,

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Beaumont and Dallas; and Nashville, Tennessee. Loans, net of unearned income, by portfolio are presented at amortized cost basis in the table below. Amortized cost does not include accrued interest, which is reflected in the accrued interest line item in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, totaling $72.2 million and $67.7 million at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

9,321,340

 

 

$

9,166,947

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

2,731,320

 

 

 

2,738,460

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

12,052,660

 

 

 

11,905,407

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

3,232,783

 

 

 

2,994,448

 

Construction and land development

 

 

1,098,726

 

 

 

1,157,451

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

2,979,985

 

 

 

2,990,631

 

Consumer

 

 

2,151,527

 

 

 

2,164,818

 

Total loans

 

$

21,515,681

 

 

$

21,212,755

 

 

 

The following briefly describes the composition of each loan category.

Commercial and industrial

Commercial and industrial loans are made available to businesses for working capital (including financing of inventory and receivables), business expansion, to facilitate the acquisition of a business, and the purchase of equipment and machinery, including equipment leasing. These loans are primarily made based on the identified cash flows of the borrower and, when secured, have the added strength of the underlying collateral.

Commercial non-real estate loans may be secured by the assets being financed or other tangible or intangible business assets such as accounts receivable, inventory, ownership, enterprise value or commodity interests, and may incorporate a personal or corporate guarantee; however, some short-term loans may be made on an unsecured basis, including a small portfolio of corporate credit cards, generally issued as a part of overall customer relationships.

Commercial real estate – owner occupied loans consist of commercial mortgages on properties where repayment is generally dependent on the cash flow from the ongoing operations and activities of the borrower.  Like commercial non-real estate, these loans are primarily made based on the identified cash flows of the borrower, but also have the added strength of the value of underlying real estate collateral.  

Commercial real estate – income producing

Commercial real estate – income producing loans consist of loans secured by commercial mortgages on properties where the loan is made to real estate developers or investors and repayment is dependent on the sale, refinance, or income generated from the operation of the property.  Properties financed include retail, office, multifamily, senior housing, hotel/motel, skilled nursing facilities and other commercial properties. 

Construction and land development

Construction and land development loans are made to facilitate the acquisition, development, improvement and construction of both commercial and residential-purpose properties.  Such loans are made to builders and investors where repayment is expected to be made from the sale, refinance or operation of the property or to businesses to be used in their business operations.  This portfolio also includes a small amount of residential construction loans and loans secured by raw land not yet under development.   

Residential mortgages

Residential mortgages consist of closed-end loans secured by first liens on 1- 4 family residential properties. The portfolio includes both fixed and adjustable rate loans, although most longer term, fixed rate loans originated are sold in the secondary mortgage market.  

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Consumer

Consumer loans include second lien mortgage home loans, home equity lines of credit and nonresidential consumer purpose loans. Nonresidential consumer loans include both direct and indirect loans. Direct nonresidential consumer loans are made to finance the purchase of personal property, including automobiles, recreational vehicles and boats, and for other personal purposes (secured and unsecured), and deposit account secured loans. Indirect nonresidential consumer loans include automobile financing provided to the consumer through an agreement with automobile dealerships. Consumer loans also include a small portfolio of credit card receivables issued on the basis of applications received through referrals from the Bank’s branches, online and other marketing efforts.   

Allowance for Credit Losses

The following tables show activity in the allowance for credit losses by portfolio class for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, as well as the corresponding recorded investment in loans at the end of each period. Effective January 1, 2020, the Company adopted the provisions of ASC 326 (CECL) using a modified prospective basis. The difference between the December 31, 2019 incurred allowance and the CECL allowance is reflected as a cumulative effect of change in accounting principle in the table below. For further discussion of the day one impact of the CECL adoption, refer to Note 15 – Recent Accounting Pronouncements. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial

 

 

Total

 

 

Commercial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial

 

 

real estate-

 

 

commercial

 

 

real estate-

 

 

Construction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

non-real

 

 

owner

 

 

and

 

 

income

 

 

and land

 

 

Residential

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

estate

 

 

occupied

 

 

industrial

 

 

producing

 

 

development

 

 

mortgages

 

 

Consumer

 

 

Total

 

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2020

 

Allowance for credit losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for loan losses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance

 

$

106,432

 

 

$

10,977

 

 

$

117,409

 

 

$

20,869

 

 

$

9,350

 

 

$

20,331

 

 

$

23,292

 

 

$

191,251

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

(244

)

 

 

14,877

 

 

 

14,633

 

 

 

7,287

 

 

 

7,478

 

 

 

12,921

 

 

 

7,092

 

 

 

49,411

 

Charge-offs

 

 

(40,713

)

 

 

(514

)

 

 

(41,227

)

 

 

(830

)

 

 

 

 

 

(141

)

 

 

(5,540

)

 

 

(47,738

)

Recoveries

 

 

2,226

 

 

 

81

 

 

 

2,307

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

234

 

 

 

212

 

 

 

1,214

 

 

 

3,974

 

Net provision for loan losses

 

 

119,297

 

 

 

23,414

 

 

 

142,711

 

 

 

37,627

 

 

 

16,761

 

 

 

14,877

 

 

 

17,129

 

 

 

229,105

 

Ending balance - allowance for loan losses

 

$

186,998

 

 

$

48,835

 

 

$

235,833

 

 

$

64,960

 

 

$

33,823

 

 

$

48,200

 

 

$

43,187

 

 

$

426,003

 

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance

 

$

3,974

 

 

$

 

 

$

3,974

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

3,974

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

5,772

 

 

 

288

 

 

 

6,060

 

 

 

449

 

 

 

15,658

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

5,146

 

 

 

27,330

 

Provision for losses on unfunded commitments

 

 

5,182

 

 

 

289

 

 

 

5,471

 

 

 

280

 

 

 

13,205

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,268

)

 

 

17,688

 

Ending balance - reserve for unfunded lending commitments

 

 

14,928

 

 

 

577

 

 

 

15,505

 

 

 

729

 

 

 

28,863

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

3,878

 

 

 

48,992

 

Total allowance for credit losses

 

$

201,926

 

 

$

49,412

 

 

$

251,338

 

 

$

65,689

 

 

$

62,686

 

 

$

48,217

 

 

$

47,065

 

 

$

474,995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for loan losses:

 

 

 

Individually evaluated

 

$

67,404

 

 

$

102

 

 

$

67,506

 

 

$

458

 

 

$

23

 

 

$

312

 

 

$

195

 

 

$

68,494

 

Collectively evaluated

 

 

119,594

 

 

 

48,733

 

 

 

168,327

 

 

 

64,502

 

 

 

33,800

 

 

 

47,888

 

 

 

42,992

 

 

 

357,509

 

Allowance for loan losses

 

$

186,998

 

 

$

48,835

 

 

$

235,833

 

 

$

64,960

 

 

$

33,823

 

 

$

48,200

 

 

$

43,187

 

 

$

426,003

 

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individually evaluated

 

$

7,215

 

 

$

 

 

$

7,215

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

7,215

 

Collectively evaluated

 

 

7,713

 

 

 

577

 

 

 

8,290

 

 

 

729

 

 

 

28,863

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

3,878

 

 

 

41,777

 

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments:

 

$

14,928

 

 

$

577

 

 

$

15,505

 

 

$

729

 

 

$

28,863

 

 

$

17

 

 

$

3,878

 

 

$

48,992

 

Total allowance for credit losses

 

$

201,926

 

 

$

49,412

 

 

$

251,338

 

 

$

65,689

 

 

$

62,686

 

 

$

48,217

 

 

$

47,065

 

 

$

474,995

 

Loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individually evaluated

 

$

253,790

 

 

$

4,184

 

 

$

257,974

 

 

$

7,300

 

 

$

3,350

 

 

$

4,625

 

 

$

1,280

 

 

$

274,529

 

Collectively evaluated

 

 

9,067,550

 

 

 

2,727,136

 

 

 

11,794,686

 

 

 

3,225,483

 

 

 

1,095,376

 

 

 

2,975,360

 

 

 

2,150,247

 

 

 

21,241,152

 

Total loans

 

$

9,321,340

 

 

$

2,731,320

 

 

$

12,052,660

 

 

$

3,232,783

 

 

$

1,098,726

 

 

$

2,979,985

 

 

$

2,151,527

 

 

$

21,515,681

 

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Commercial

 

 

Total

 

 

Commercial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial

 

 

real estate-

 

 

commercial

 

 

real estate-

 

 

Construction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

non-real

 

 

owner

 

 

and

 

 

income

 

 

and land

 

 

Residential

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

estate

 

 

occupied

 

 

industrial

 

 

producing

 

 

development

 

 

mortgages

 

 

Consumer

 

 

Total

 

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2019

 

Allowance for loan losses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance

 

$

97,752

 

 

$

13,757

 

 

$

111,509

 

 

$

17,638

 

 

$

15,647

 

 

$

23,782

 

 

$

25,938

 

 

$

194,514

 

Charge-offs

 

 

(16,344

)

 

 

 

 

 

(16,344

)

 

 

(10

)

 

 

 

 

 

(406

)

 

 

(4,231

)

 

 

(20,991

)

Recoveries

 

 

1,926

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

1,943

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

11

 

 

 

162

 

 

 

1,004

 

 

 

3,122

 

Net provision for loan losses

 

 

14,186

 

 

 

33

 

 

 

14,219

 

 

 

3,173

 

 

 

(1,631

)

 

 

(3

)

 

 

2,285

 

 

 

18,043

 

Ending balance

 

$

97,520

 

 

$

13,807

 

 

$

111,327

 

 

$

20,803

 

 

$

14,027

 

 

$

23,535

 

 

$

24,996

 

 

$

194,688

 

Ending balance:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individually evaluated for impairment

 

$

1,775

 

 

$

205

 

 

$

1,980

 

 

$

143

 

 

$

1

 

 

$

219

 

 

$

347

 

 

$

2,690

 

Amounts related to purchased credit impaired loans

 

 

288

 

 

 

185

 

 

 

473

 

 

 

35

 

 

 

78

 

 

 

9,162

 

 

 

341

 

 

 

10,089

 

Collectively evaluated for impairment

 

 

95,457

 

 

 

13,417

 

 

 

108,874

 

 

 

20,625

 

 

 

13,948

 

 

 

14,154

 

 

 

24,308

 

 

 

181,909

 

Total allowance

 

$

97,520

 

 

$

13,807

 

 

$

111,327

 

 

$

20,803

 

 

$

14,027

 

 

$

23,535

 

 

$

24,996

 

 

$

194,688

 

Loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individually evaluated for impairment

 

$

231,506

 

 

$

16,974

 

 

$

248,480

 

 

$

2,668

 

 

$

19

 

 

$

5,397

 

 

$

1,508

 

 

$

258,072

 

Purchased credit impaired loans

 

 

6,445

 

 

 

5,472

 

 

 

11,917

 

 

 

4,267

 

 

 

2,897

 

 

 

102,199

 

 

 

3,615

 

 

 

124,895

 

Collectively evaluated for impairment

 

 

8,418,375

 

 

 

2,492,982

 

 

 

10,911,357

 

 

 

2,556,459

 

 

 

1,337,151

 

 

 

2,825,655

 

 

 

2,099,249

 

 

 

19,729,871

 

Total loans

 

$

8,656,326

 

 

$

2,515,428

 

 

$

11,171,754

 

 

$

2,563,394

 

 

$

1,340,067

 

 

$

2,933,251

 

 

$

2,104,372

 

 

$

20,112,838

 

The calculation of the allowance for credit losses under CECL is performed using two primary approaches: a collective approach for pools of loans that have similar risk characteristics using a loss rate analysis, and a specific reserve analysis for credits individually evaluated. The increase in the allowance for credit losses for the three months ended March 31, 2020 reflects the impact of the unprecedented economic shutdown caused by the pandemic and the significant drop in oil prices. The allowance for credit losses was developed using multiple Moody’s macroeconomic forecasts applied to internally developed credit models for a two year reasonable and supportable period. The Company weighted the baseline economic forecast 80% which includes a sharp recession in the first and second quarters of 2020, with a relatively quick recovery in the second half of 2020. The more severe downside scenarios S-3 and S-4 were weighted at 15% and 5%, respectively, to capture the risk a prolonged downturn might have on our markets, which is more heavily concentrated in tourism, oil and gas and certain areas of healthcare that are more severely impacted by the widespread shutdown and market turmoil. These downside scenarios include double-dip recessions with a more prolonged recovery, with the S-4 scenario having a more severe immediate impact and a longer, more gradual recovery compared to S-3. The degradation in economic conditions created the need for an increased allowance across all portfolios. See the detail of the individually evaluated allowance in the impaired loans section that follows.  

 

 

Impaired Loans

The following table shows the composition of nonaccrual loans by portfolio class. Prior to the adoption of CECL, purchased credit impaired loans accounted for in pools with an accretable yield were considered to be performing. Such loans totaled $17.5 million at December 31, 2019. 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

175,166

 

 

$

178,678

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

8,143

 

 

 

7,708

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

183,309

 

 

 

186,386

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

5,659

 

 

 

2,594

 

Construction and land development

 

 

4,321

 

 

 

1,217

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

42,866

 

 

 

39,262

 

Consumer

 

 

17,903

 

 

 

16,374

 

Total loans

 

$

254,058

 

 

$

245,833

 

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, the estimated amount of interest income that would have been recorded had the loans not been assigned nonaccrual status was $4.3 million and $2.9 million, respectively.

Nonaccrual loans include nonaccruing loans modified in troubled debt restructurings (“TDRs”) of $117.9 million and $132.5 million at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively. Total TDRs, both accruing and nonaccruing, were $153.1 million at March 31, 2020 and $193.7 million at December 31, 2019.  All TDRs are individually evaluated for credit loss.  At March 31, 2020 and

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December 31, 2019, the Company had unfunded commitments of $8.1 million and $2.4 million, respectively, to borrowers whose loan terms have been modified in a TDR.

The tables below detail by portfolio class TDRs that were modified during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

($ in thousands)

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

March 31, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-

Modification

 

 

Post-

Modification

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-

Modification

 

 

Post-

Modification

 

 

 

Number

 

 

Outstanding

 

 

Outstanding

 

 

Number

 

 

Outstanding

 

 

Outstanding

 

 

 

of

 

 

Recorded

 

 

Recorded

 

 

of

 

 

Recorded

 

 

Recorded

 

Troubled Debt Restructurings:

 

Contracts

 

 

Investment

 

 

Investment

 

 

Contracts

 

 

Investment

 

 

Investment

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

 

1

 

 

$

395

 

 

$

395

 

 

 

7

 

 

$

13,803

 

 

$

13,803

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

167

 

 

 

167

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

1

 

 

 

395

 

 

 

395

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

13,970

 

 

 

13,970

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction and land development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

1

 

 

 

256

 

 

 

256

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

1,264

 

 

 

1,264

 

Consumer

 

 

3

 

 

 

34

 

 

 

34

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

46

 

 

 

46

 

Total loans

 

 

5

 

 

$

685

 

 

$

685

 

 

 

15

 

 

$

15,280

 

 

$

15,280

 

 

The TDRs modified during the three months ended March 31, 2020 reflected in the table above include $0.3 million of loans with extended amortization terms or other payment concessions and $0.4 million with significant covenant waivers. The TDRs modified during the three months ended March 31, 2019 include $0.1 million of loans with extended amortization terms or other payment concessions, $8.8 million with significant covenant waivers and $6.4 million with other modifications.

 

There were no defaults on loans during the three months ended March 31, 2020 or 2019 that had been modified in a TDR during the prior twelve months.

The tables below present loans that are individually evaluated disaggregated by portfolio class at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019. Loans individually evaluated include nonaccrual loans, TDRs and other loans that do not share common characteristics with loans evaluated on a collective basis that have aggregate relationship balances of $1 million or more. 

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

(in thousands)

 

Recorded

investment

without an

allowance

 

 

Recorded

investment

with an

allowance

 

 

Unpaid

principal

balance

 

 

Related

allowance

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

34,003

 

 

$

219,787

 

 

$

316,651

 

 

$

67,404

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

1,608

 

 

 

2,576

 

 

 

6,954

 

 

 

102

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

35,611

 

 

 

222,363

 

 

 

323,605

 

 

 

67,506

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

2,407

 

 

 

4,893

 

 

 

8,136

 

 

 

458

 

Construction and land development

 

 

3,192

 

 

 

158

 

 

 

3,949

 

 

 

23

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

2,598

 

 

 

2,027

 

 

 

5,160

 

 

 

312

 

Consumer

 

 

136

 

 

 

1,144

 

 

 

1,668

 

 

 

195

 

Total loans

 

$

43,944

 

 

$

230,585

 

 

$

342,518

 

 

$

68,494

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Recorded

investment

without an

allowance

 

 

Recorded

investment

with an

allowance

 

 

Unpaid

principal

balance

 

 

Related

allowance

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

134,191

 

 

$

98,247

 

 

$

270,078

 

 

$

21,733

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

2,665

 

 

 

1,716

 

 

 

7,793

 

 

 

104

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

136,856

 

 

 

99,963

 

 

 

277,871

 

 

 

21,837

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

373

 

 

 

1,525

 

 

 

1,959

 

 

 

18

 

Construction and land development

 

 

 

 

 

277

 

 

 

322

 

 

 

21

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

3,383

 

 

 

1,791

 

 

 

5,709

 

 

 

217

 

Consumer

 

 

479

 

 

 

1,004

 

 

 

1,906

 

 

 

292

 

Total loans

 

$

141,091

 

 

$

104,560

 

 

$

287,767

 

 

$

22,385

 

 

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The tables below present the average balances and interest income for individually evaluated loans for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.  Interest income recognized represents interest on accruing loans modified in a TDR.

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

March 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Average

Recorded

Investment

 

 

Interest

Income

Recognized

 

 

Average

Recorded

Investment

 

 

Interest

Income

Recognized

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

243,114

 

 

$

522

 

 

$

235,445

 

 

$

1,696

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

4,283

 

 

 

 

 

 

19,320

 

 

 

80

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

247,397

 

 

 

522

 

 

 

254,765

 

 

 

1,776

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

4,599

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

2,685

 

 

 

7

 

Construction and land development

 

 

1,814

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

70

 

 

 

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

4,900

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

4,637

 

 

 

5

 

Consumer

 

 

1,382

 

 

 

23

 

 

 

1,258

 

 

 

16

 

Total loans

 

$

260,092

 

 

$

557

 

 

$

263,415

 

 

$

1,804

 

 

The TDR disclosure above does not include loans modified under Section 4013 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) signed into law on March 27, 2020, which allows financial institutions to exclude eligible modifications from TDR reporting. Eligible modification must be (1) related to COVID-19, (2) executed on a loan that was not more than 30 days past due as of December 31, 2019 and (3) executed between March 1, 2020 and the earlier of 60 days after the date of the termination of the national emergency or December 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2020, there were 1,618 customers with loans totaling $839.4 million with payment deferral modifications of principal, interest or both that are eligible to be excluded from TDR reporting requirements. These loans are also excluded from reporting in the aging analysis that follows as delinquency is tracked under the modified terms.

Aging Analysis

The tables below present the aging analysis of past due loans by portfolio class at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019. Prior to the adoption of CECL, purchased credit impaired loans accounted for in pools under ASC 310-30 with an accretable yield were considered to be current in the table below as of December 31, 2019. These loans totaled $6.1 million for 30-59 days past due, $2.0 million for 60-89 days past due and $8.3 million for both greater than 90 days past due and greater than 90 days past due and still accruing at December 31, 2019.  

 

March 31, 2020

 

30-59

days

past due

 

 

60-89

days

past due

 

 

Greater

than

90 days

past due

 

 

Total

past due

 

 

Current

 

 

Total

Loans

 

 

Recorded

investment

> 90 days

and still

accruing

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

23,478

 

 

$

7,629

 

 

$

116,763

 

 

$

147,870

 

 

$

9,173,470

 

 

$

9,321,340

 

 

$

6,832

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

5,294

 

 

 

803

 

 

 

11,298

 

 

 

17,395

 

 

 

2,713,925

 

 

 

2,731,320

 

 

 

4,747

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

28,772

 

 

 

8,432

 

 

 

128,061

 

 

 

165,265

 

 

 

11,887,395

 

 

 

12,052,660

 

 

 

11,579

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

8,727

 

 

 

80

 

 

 

9,430

 

 

 

18,237

 

 

 

3,214,546

 

 

 

3,232,783

 

 

 

4,221

 

Construction and land development

 

 

6,289

 

 

 

344

 

 

 

4,406

 

 

 

11,039

 

 

 

1,087,687

 

 

 

1,098,726

 

 

 

667

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

46,695

 

 

 

1,305

 

 

 

23,484

 

 

 

71,484

 

 

 

2,908,501

 

 

 

2,979,985

 

 

 

64

 

Consumer

 

 

24,002

 

 

 

7,870

 

 

 

9,451

 

 

 

41,323

 

 

 

2,110,204

 

 

 

2,151,527

 

 

 

1,259

 

Total

 

$

114,485

 

 

$

18,031

 

 

$

174,832

 

 

$

307,348

 

 

$

21,208,333

 

 

$

21,515,681

 

 

$

17,790

 

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December 31, 2019

 

30-59

days

past due

 

 

60-89

days

past due

 

 

Greater

than

90 days

past due

 

 

Total

past due

 

 

Current

 

 

Total

Loans

 

 

Recorded

investment

> 90 days

and still

accruing

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

20,893

 

 

$

13,445

 

 

$

100,806

 

 

$

135,144

 

 

$

9,031,803

 

 

 

9,166,947

 

 

$

1,537

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

4,862

 

 

 

556

 

 

 

7,268

 

 

 

12,686

 

 

 

2,725,774

 

 

 

2,738,460

 

 

 

830

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

25,755

 

 

 

14,001

 

 

 

108,074

 

 

 

147,830

 

 

 

11,757,577

 

 

 

11,905,407

 

 

 

2,367

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

738

 

 

 

703

 

 

 

2,910

 

 

 

4,351

 

 

 

2,990,097

 

 

 

2,994,448

 

 

 

450

 

Construction and land development

 

 

5,747

 

 

 

680

 

 

 

2,480

 

 

 

8,907

 

 

 

1,148,544

 

 

 

1,157,451

 

 

 

2,042

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

32,867

 

 

 

8,584

 

 

 

23,577

 

 

 

65,028

 

 

 

2,925,603

 

 

 

2,990,631

 

 

 

85

 

Consumer

 

 

18,586

 

 

 

6,215

 

 

 

9,901

 

 

 

34,702

 

 

 

2,130,116

 

 

 

2,164,818

 

 

 

1,638

 

Total

 

$

83,693

 

 

$

30,183

 

 

$

146,942

 

 

$

260,818

 

 

$

20,951,937

 

 

$

21,212,755

 

 

$

6,582

 

 

Credit Quality Indicators

The following tables present the credit quality indicators by segments and portfolio class of loans at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019. The Company routinely assesses the ratings of loans in its portfolio through an established and comprehensive portfolio management process. In addition, the Company often looks at portfolios of loans to determine if there are areas of risk not specifically identified in its loan by loan approach. As a result, several loans were downgraded to pass-watch at March 31, 2020 to reflect the potential risk from the economic downturn caused by the pandemic and other environmental factors. In alignment with regulatory guidance, the Company has been working with its customers to manage through this period of severe uncertainty and economic stress. The Company expects that further risk rating adjustments will likely be required in the future to account for stresses on individual accounts.

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

(in thousands)

 

Commercial

non-real

estate

 

 

Commercial

real estate -

owner-

occupied

 

 

Total

commercial

and industrial

 

 

Commercial

real estate -

income

producing

 

 

Construction

and land

development

 

 

Total

commercial

 

Grade:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pass

 

$

8,391,474

 

 

$

2,533,020

 

 

$

10,924,494

 

 

$

3,119,828

 

 

$

1,064,747

 

 

$

15,109,069

 

Pass-Watch

 

 

507,455

 

 

 

136,808

 

 

 

644,263

 

 

 

75,823

 

 

 

24,883

 

 

 

744,969

 

Special Mention

 

 

61,397

 

 

 

11,677

 

 

 

73,074

 

 

 

11,330

 

 

 

970

 

 

 

85,374

 

Substandard

 

 

346,065

 

 

 

49,815

 

 

 

395,880

 

 

 

25,802

 

 

 

8,126

 

 

 

429,808

 

Doubtful

 

 

14,949

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,949

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,949

 

Total

 

$

9,321,340

 

 

$

2,731,320

 

 

$

12,052,660

 

 

$

3,232,783

 

 

$

1,098,726

 

 

$

16,384,169

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Commercial

non-real

estate

 

 

Commercial

real estate -

owner-

occupied

 

 

Total

commercial

and industrial

 

 

Commercial

real estate -

income

producing

 

 

Construction

and land

development

 

 

Total

commercial

 

Grade:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pass

 

$

8,492,113

 

 

$

2,517,448

 

 

$

11,009,561

 

 

 

2,883,553

 

 

$

1,120,997

 

 

$

15,014,111

 

Pass-Watch

 

 

220,850

 

 

 

146,266

 

 

 

367,116

 

 

 

69,765

 

 

 

25,621

 

 

 

462,502

 

Special Mention

 

 

71,654

 

 

 

14,651

 

 

 

86,305

 

 

 

14,995

 

 

 

283

 

 

 

101,583

 

Substandard

 

 

382,330

 

 

 

60,095

 

 

 

442,425

 

 

 

26,135

 

 

 

10,550

 

 

 

479,110

 

Doubtful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

9,166,947

 

 

$

2,738,460

 

 

$

11,905,407

 

 

$

2,994,448

 

 

$

1,157,451

 

 

$

16,057,306

 

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Residential

mortgage

 

 

Consumer

 

 

Total

 

 

Residential

mortgage

 

 

Consumer

 

 

Total

 

Performing

 

$

2,936,218

 

 

$

2,132,482

 

 

$

5,068,700

 

 

$

2,950,854

 

 

$

2,147,312

 

 

$

5,098,166

 

Nonperforming

 

 

43,767

 

 

 

19,045

 

 

 

62,812

 

 

 

39,777

 

 

 

17,506

 

 

 

57,283

 

Total

 

$

2,979,985

 

 

$

2,151,527

 

 

$

5,131,512

 

 

$

2,990,631

 

 

$

2,164,818

 

 

$

5,155,449

 

 

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Below are the definitions of the Company’s internally assigned grades:

Commercial:

 

Pass – loans properly approved, documented, collateralized, and performing which do not reflect an abnormal credit risk.

 

Pass-Watch – credits in this category are of sufficient risk to cause concern.  This category is reserved for credits that display negative performance trends.  The “Watch” grade should be regarded as a transition category.

 

Special Mention – a criticized asset category defined as having potential weaknesses that deserve management’s close attention.  If left uncorrected, these potential weaknesses may, at some future date, result in the deterioration of the repayment prospects for the credit or the institution’s credit position.  Special mention credits are not considered part of the Classified credit categories and do not expose the institution to sufficient risk to warrant adverse classification.

 

Substandard – an asset that is inadequately protected by the current sound worth and paying capacity of the obligor or of the collateral pledged, if any.  Assets so classified must have a well-defined weakness or weaknesses that jeopardize the liquidation of the debt.  They are characterized by the distinct possibility that the institution will sustain some loss if the deficiencies are not corrected.

 

Doubtful – an asset that has all the weaknesses inherent in one classified Substandard with the added characteristic that the weaknesses make collection or liquidation in full, on the basis of currently existing facts, conditions, and values, highly questionable and improbable.

 

Loss – credits classified as Loss are considered uncollectable and are charged off promptly once so classified.

Residential and Consumer:

 

Performing – accruing loans that have not been modified in a troubled debt restructuring.

 

Nonperforming – loans for which there are good reasons to doubt that payments will be made in full. All loans with nonaccrual status and all loans that have been modified in a troubled debt restructuring are classified as nonperforming.

 

Vintage Analysis

 

The following tables further disaggregates credit quality disclosures by amortized cost by class and vintage for term loans and by revolving and revolving converted to amortizing as of March 31, 2020. We define vintage as the later of origination, renewal or restructure date.

 

 

Term Loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

Prior

 

 

Revolving Loans

 

 

Revolving Loans Converted to Term Loans

 

 

Total

 

Commercial Loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pass

 

$

1,200,289

 

 

$

3,482,650

 

 

$

2,316,675

 

 

$

1,817,884

 

 

$

1,268,500

 

 

$

1,815,527

 

 

$

3,166,739

 

 

$

40,805

 

 

$

15,109,069

 

Pass-Watch

 

 

45,483

 

 

 

89,492

 

 

 

50,169

 

 

 

73,719

 

 

 

45,264

 

 

 

45,098

 

 

 

393,676

 

 

 

2,068

 

 

 

744,969

 

Special Mention

 

 

1,106

 

 

 

2,754

 

 

 

11,838

 

 

 

26,324

 

 

 

699

 

 

 

20,130

 

 

 

21,204

 

 

 

1,319

 

 

 

85,374

 

Substandard

 

 

25,939

 

 

 

58,802

 

 

 

86,630

 

 

 

30,860

 

 

 

30,772

 

 

 

49,519

 

 

 

127,734

 

 

 

19,552

 

 

 

429,808

 

Doubtful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12,980

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,969

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,949

 

Loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Commercial Loans

 

$

1,272,817

 

 

$

3,633,698

 

 

$

2,478,292

 

 

$

1,948,787

 

 

$

1,345,235

 

 

$

1,930,274

 

 

$

3,711,322

 

 

$

63,744

 

 

$

16,384,169

 

Consumer Loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performing

 

$

172,403

 

 

$

528,274

 

 

$

577,525

 

 

$

771,724

 

 

$

622,557

 

 

$

1,096,363

 

 

$

1,295,598

 

 

$

4,256

 

 

 

5,068,700

 

Nonperforming

 

 

547

 

 

 

2,521

 

 

 

3,962

 

 

 

6,800

 

 

 

4,114

 

 

 

41,575

 

 

 

1,817

 

 

 

1,476

 

 

 

62,812

 

Total Consumer Loans

 

$

172,950

 

 

$

530,795

 

 

$

581,487

 

 

$

778,524

 

 

$

626,671

 

 

$

1,137,938

 

 

$

1,297,415

 

 

$

5,732

 

 

$

5,131,512

 

Purchased Credit Impaired Loans

Under the transition provisions for prospective application of CECL, the Company has classified all loans previously accounted for as purchased credit impaired under ASC 310-30 to be classified as purchased credit deteriorated. The prospective application resulted in

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an increase of $19.8 million to the amortized cost basis of the financial asset and the allowance for credit losses at the date of adoption, representing the remaining credit portion of the purchased discount. The Company elected not to maintain pools of loans accounted for under Subtopic 310-30 with the adoption of CECL. The remaining noncredit discount was allocated to the individual loans and will be accreted to interest income using the interest method based on the effective interest rate. Changes in the carrying amount of purchased credit impaired loans and related accretable yield are presented in the following table for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Carrying

Amount

of Loans

 

 

Accretable

Yield

 

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

129,596

 

 

$

37,294

 

Additions

 

 

120,562

 

 

 

6,246

 

Payments received, net

 

 

(48,076

)

 

 

(4,601

)

Accretion

 

 

13,163

 

 

 

(13,163

)

Decrease in expected cash flows based on actual cash flows and changes in cash flow assumptions

 

 

 

 

 

4,170

 

Balance at end of period

 

$

215,245

 

 

$

29,946

 

 

.

Residential Mortgage Loans in Process of Foreclosure

Loans in process of foreclosure include those for which formal foreclosure proceedings are in process according to local requirements of the applicable jurisdiction. Included in loans at December 31, 2019 was $8.6 million of consumer loans secured by single family residential real estate that were in process of foreclosure.  In light of the economic conditions stemming from the pandemic, the Company placed all active foreclosures on hold and suspended the filing of new foreclosures.  In addition to the single family residential real estate loans in process of foreclosure, the Company also held $5.6 million and $6.3 million of foreclosed single family residential properties in other real estate owned at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.

 

5. Securities Sold under Agreements to Repurchase

Included in short-term borrowings are customer securities sold under agreements to repurchase that mature daily and are secured by U.S. agency securities totaling $483.0  million and $484.4 million at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively. The Company borrows funds on a secured basis by selling securities under agreements to repurchase, mainly in connection with treasury management services offered to its deposit customers. As the Company maintains effective control over assets sold under agreements to repurchase, the securities continue to be carried on the consolidated statements of financial condition. Because the Company acts as borrower transferring assets to the counterparty, and the agreements mature daily, the Company’s risk is limited.

6. Derivatives

Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives

The Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage risks related to differences in the amount, timing, and duration of the Company’s known or expected cash receipts and its known or expected cash payments, currently associated with fixed rate brokered deposits, certain investment securities and select pools of variable rate loans. The Bank also enters into interest rate derivative agreements as a service to certain qualifying customers. The Bank manages a matched book with respect to these customer derivatives in order to minimize its net interest rate risk exposure resulting from such agreements. The Bank also enters into risk participation agreements under which it may either sell or buy credit risk associated with a customer’s performance under certain interest rate derivative contracts related to loans in which participation interests have been sold to or purchased from other banks.

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Fair Values of Derivative Instruments on the Balance Sheet

The table below presents the notional or contractual amounts and fair values of the Company’s derivative financial instruments as well as their classification on the consolidated balance sheets at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019. 

 

 

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative (1)

 

(in thousands)

 

Type of

Hedge

 

Notional or

Contractual

Amount

 

 

Assets

 

 

Liabilities

 

 

Notional or

Contractual

Amount

 

 

Assets

 

 

Liabilities

 

Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest rate swaps - variable rate loans

 

Cash Flow

 

$

1,175,000

 

 

$

63,742

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,175,000

 

 

$

24,172

 

 

$

337

 

Interest rate swaps - securities

 

Fair Value

 

 

479,900

 

 

 

 

 

 

23,453

 

 

 

441,400

 

 

 

1,474

 

 

 

1,759

 

Interest rate swaps - brokered deposits

 

Fair Value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

43,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,654,900

 

 

 

63,742

 

 

 

23,453

 

 

 

1,659,400

 

 

 

25,646

 

 

 

2,105

 

Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest rate swaps (2)

 

N/A

 

 

4,284,812

 

 

 

161,835

 

 

 

165,934

 

 

 

3,759,232

 

 

 

54,512

 

 

 

55,664

 

Risk participation agreements

 

N/A

 

 

248,423

 

 

 

72

 

 

 

82

 

 

 

254,825

 

 

 

21

 

 

 

45

 

Forward commitments to sell residential mortgage loans

 

N/A

 

 

278,632

 

 

 

3,224

 

 

 

404

 

 

 

145,623

 

 

 

651

 

 

 

744

 

Interest rate-lock commitments on residential mortgage loans

 

N/A

 

 

229,364

 

 

 

319

 

 

 

2,659

 

 

 

83,224

 

 

 

369

 

 

 

375

 

Foreign exchange forward contracts

 

N/A

 

 

83,094

 

 

 

1,419

 

 

 

1,367

 

 

 

64,632

 

 

 

303

 

 

 

366

 

Visa Class B derivative contract

 

N/A

 

 

43,272

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,345

 

 

 

43,753

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,704

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,167,597

 

 

 

166,869

 

 

 

175,791

 

 

 

4,351,289

 

 

 

55,856

 

 

 

62,898

 

Total derivatives

 

 

 

$

6,822,497

 

 

$

230,611

 

 

$

199,244

 

 

$

6,010,689

 

 

$

81,502

 

 

$

65,003

 

Less:  netting adjustment (3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(63,742

)

 

 

(149,835

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(27,056

)

 

 

(43,914

)

Total derivative assets/liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

166,869

 

 

$

49,409

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

54,446

 

 

$

21,089

 

 

(1)

Derivative assets and liabilities are reported at fair value in other assets or other liabilities, respectively, in the consolidated balance sheets.

(2)

The notional amount represents both the customer accommodation agreements and offsetting agreements with unrelated financial institutions.

(3)

Represents balance sheet netting of derivative assets and liabilities for variation margin collateral held or placed with the same central clearing counterparty. See offsetting assets and liabilities for further information.

Cash Flow Hedges of Interest Rate Risk

The Company is party to various interest rate swap agreements designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges of the Company’s forecasted variable cash flows for pools of variable rate loans. For each agreement, the Company receives interest at a fixed rate and pays at a variable rate. Amortization of other comprehensive loss on terminated cash flow hedges totaled $0.7 million and $1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019. The notional amounts of the swap agreements in place at March 31, 2020 expire as follows: $50 million in 2021; $475 million in 2022; $550 million in 2023; and $100 million in 2024.

Fair Value Hedges of Interest Rate Risk

Interest rate swaps on brokered deposits

Prior to January 2020, the Company was party to certain interest rate swap agreements that modified the Company’s exposure to interest rate risk by effectively converting a portion of the Company’s brokered certificates of deposit from fixed rates to variable rates. The maturities and call features of these interest rate swaps matched the features of the hedged deposits. As interest rates declined or increased, the corresponding movement in the value of the certificates of deposit were offset by the change in the value of the interest rate swaps, resulting in no impact to earnings. Interest expense was adjusted by the difference between the fixed and floating rates for the period the swaps are in effect. 

Interest rate swaps on securities available for sale

The Company is party to forward starting fixed payer swaps that convert the latter portion of pools of available for sale securities to a floating rate. These instruments were designated as last-of-layer fair value hedges against the select closed pools of prepayable

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commercial mortgage backed securities. This strategy provides the Company with a fixed rate coupon during the front end unhedged tenor of the bonds and results in a floating rate security during the back end hedged tenor, with hedged start dates between August 2023 through January 2025 and maturity dates from January 2028 through January 2029. In accordance with ASC 815, an entity may exclude prepayment risk when measuring the change in fair value of the hedged item attributable to interest rate risk under the last-of-layer approach. The fair value of the hedged item attributable to interest rate risk will be presented in interest income along with the change in the fair value of the hedging instrument.

 

At March 31, 2020, the amortized cost basis of the closed portfolio of prepayable commercial mortgage backed securities totaled $473.2 million. The amount that represents the hedged items was $479.9 million and the basis adjustment associated with the hedged items totaled $23.5 million.

Derivatives Not Designated as Hedges

Customer interest rate derivative program

The Bank enters into interest rate derivative agreements, primarily rate swaps, with commercial banking customers to facilitate their risk management strategies. The Bank enters into offsetting agreements with unrelated financial institutions, thereby mitigating its net risk exposure resulting from such transactions. Because the interest rate derivatives associated with this program do not meet hedge accounting requirements, changes in the fair value of both the customer derivatives and the offsetting derivatives are recognized directly in earnings.

Risk participation agreements

The Bank also enters into risk participation agreements under which it may either assume or sell credit risk associated with a borrower’s performance under certain interest rate derivative contracts. In those instances where the Bank has assumed credit risk, it is not a direct counterparty to the derivative contract with the borrower and has entered into the risk participation agreement because it is a party to the related loan agreement with the borrower. In those instances in which the Bank has sold credit risk, it is the sole counterparty to the derivative contract with the borrower and has entered into the risk participation agreement because other banks participate in the related loan agreement. The Bank manages its credit risk under risk participation agreements by monitoring the creditworthiness of the borrower, based on the Bank’s normal credit review process.

Mortgage banking derivatives

The Bank also enters into certain derivative agreements as part of its mortgage banking activities. These agreements include interest rate lock commitments on prospective residential mortgage loans and forward commitments to sell these loans to investors on a best efforts delivery basis.

Customer foreign exchange forward contract derivatives

The Bank enters into foreign exchange forward derivative agreements, primarily forward foreign currency contracts, with commercial banking customers to facilitate their risk management strategies. The Bank manages its risk exposure from such transactions by entering into offsetting agreements with unrelated financial institutions. Because the foreign exchange forward contract derivatives associated with this program do not meet hedge accounting requirements, changes in the fair value of both the customer derivatives and the offsetting derivatives are recognized directly in earnings.

 

Visa Class B derivative contract

 

The Company is a member of Visa USA. During the fourth quarter of 2018, the Company sold the majority of its Visa Class B holdings, at which time it entered into a derivative agreement with the purchaser whereby the Company will make or receive cash payments whenever the conversion ratio of the Visa Class B shares into Visa Class A shares is adjusted. The conversion ratio changes when Visa deposits funds to a litigation escrow account established by Visa to pay settlements for certain litigation, for which Visa is indemnified by Visa USA members. The Company is also required to make periodic financing payments to the purchaser until all of Visa’s covered litigation matters are resolved. Thus, the derivative contract extends until the end of Visa’s covered litigation matters, the timing of which is uncertain.

The contract includes a contingent accelerated termination clause based on the credit ratings of the Company. At March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 the fair value of the liability associated with this contract was $5.3 million and $5.7 million, respectively.

 

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Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Statement of Income

The effects of derivative instruments on the consolidated statements of income for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 are presented in the table below. For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, interest income or the reduction of interest income attributable to cash flow hedges, respectively, includes amortization of accumulated other comprehensive loss that resulted from termination of interest rate swap contracts.

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

 

 

March 31,

 

Derivative Instruments:

 

Location of Gain (Loss)

Recognized in the

Statement of Income:

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Cash flow hedges - variable rate loans

 

Interest income

 

$

864

 

 

$

(2,016

)

Fair value hedges – securities

 

Interest income

 

 

41

 

 

 

 

Fair value hedges - brokered deposits

 

Interest expense

 

 

46

 

 

 

(988

)

All other instruments

 

Other noninterest income

 

 

3,871

 

 

 

809

 

Total

 

 

 

$

4,822

 

 

$

(2,195

)

 

Credit Risk-Related Contingent Features

Certain of the Bank’s derivative instruments contain provisions allowing the financial institution counterparty to terminate the contracts in certain circumstances, such as a downgrade of the Bank’s credit ratings below specified levels, a default by the Bank on its indebtedness, or the failure of the Bank to maintain specified minimum regulatory capital ratios or its regulatory status as a well-capitalized institution. These derivative agreements also contain provisions regarding the posting of collateral by each party. At March 31, 2020, the Company was not in violation of any such provisions. The aggregate fair value of derivative instruments with credit risk-related contingent features that were in a net liability position at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 was $40.0 million and $12.9 million, respectively, for which the Company had posted collateral of $40.0 million and $12.4 million, respectively.

Offsetting Assets and Liabilities

The Bank’s derivative instruments with certain counterparties contain legally enforceable netting provisions that allow for net settlement of multiple transactions to a single amount, which may be positive, negative, or zero. Agreements with certain bilateral counterparties require both parties to maintain collateral in the event that the fair values of derivative instruments exceed established exposure thresholds. For centrally cleared derivatives, the Company is subject to initial margin posting and daily variation margin exchange with the central clearinghouses. Offsetting information in regards to all derivative assets and liabilities, including accrued interest, subject to these master netting agreements at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 is presented in the following tables.

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

Amounts

 

 

Net Amounts

 

 

Gross Amounts Not Offset in the

Statement of Income

 

Description

 

Gross

Amounts

Recognized

 

 

Offset in

the Statement

of Income

 

 

Presented in

the Statement

of Income

 

 

Financial

Instruments

 

 

Cash

Collateral

 

 

Net

Amount

 

As of March 31, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative Assets

 

$

64,413

 

 

$

(64,409

)

 

$

4

 

 

$

4

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Derivative Liabilities

 

$

188,984

 

 

$

(150,673

)

 

$

38,311

 

 

$

4

 

 

$

75,670

 

 

$

(37,363

)

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

Amounts

 

 

Net Amounts

 

 

Gross Amounts Not Offset in the

Statement of Income

 

Description

 

Gross

Amounts

Recognized

 

 

Offset in

the Statement

of Income

 

 

Presented in

the Statement

of Income

 

 

Financial

Instruments

 

 

Cash

Collateral

 

 

Net

Amount

 

As of December 31, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative Assets

 

$

27,938

 

 

$

(27,915

)

 

$

23

 

 

$

23

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Derivative Liabilities

 

$

56,523

 

 

$

(44,570

)

 

$

11,953

 

 

$

23

 

 

$

35,113

 

 

$

(23,183

)

The Company has excess collateral compared to total exposure due to initial margin requirements for day-to-day rate volatility. 

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7. Stockholders’ Equity

Common Shares Outstanding

Common shares outstanding excludes treasury shares totaling 5.3 million at March 31, 2020 and 4.0 million at December 31, 2019, with a first-in-first-out cost basis of $180.9 million and $135.8 million at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively. Shares outstanding also excludes unvested restricted share awards totaling 1.4 million at both March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019.

Shares Issued as Consideration in Business Combination

On September 20, 2019, the Company issued approximately 5.0 million shares of common stock at $38.42 as consideration in its acquisition of MidSouth. Refer to Note 2 – Business Combination for further information.  

Stock Buyback Program

On September 23, 2019, the Company’s board of directors approved a stock buyback program that authorized the Company to repurchase up to 5.5 million shares of its common stock through the expiration date of December 31, 2020. The program allows the Company to repurchase its common shares in the open market, by block purchase, through accelerated share repurchase programs, in privately negotiated transactions, or as otherwise determined by the Company in one or more transactions. The Company is not obligated to purchase any shares under this program, and the board of directors may terminate or amend the program at any time prior to the expiration date.

 

On October 18, 2019, the Company entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (“ASR”) with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) to repurchase $185 million of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the ASR, the Company made a $185 million payment to Morgan Stanley on October 21, 2019, and received from Morgan Stanley an initial delivery of 3,611,870 shares of the Company’s common stock, which represented 75% of the estimated total number of shares to be repurchased based on the October 18, 2019 closing price of the Company’s common stock. The value of the remaining shares to be exchanged upon final settlement was accounted for as a forward contract until settlement.

 

Final settlement of the ASR agreement was expected to occur as early as the second quarter of 2020 and no later than the third quarter of 2020. However, on March 18, 2020, pursuant to the terms of the ASR, the contract was settled; in the settlement, the Company received from Morgan Stanley on March 20, 2020 cash of approximately $12.1 million and a final delivery of 1.0 million shares.

 

In January 2020, the Company repurchased 315,851 shares of its common stock at a price of $40.26 in a privately negotiated transaction. In total, the Company repurchased 4.9 million shares of the 5.5 million authorized shares under the buyback program at an average price of $37.65 per share through the ASR and a privately negotiated transaction. Refer to Part II, Item 2 of this report for tabular presentation of share repurchase activity during the three months ended March 31, 2020.

 

The Company suspended the repurchase of shares under its stock buyback program.

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

The components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) and changes in those components are presented in the following table.

 



 

Available

for Sale

Securities

 

 

HTM Securities

Transferred

from AFS

 

 

Employee

Benefit Plans

 

 

Cash

Flow Hedges

 

 

Equity Method Investment

 

 

Total

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2018

 

$

(50,125

)

 

$

(12,044

)

 

$

(110,247

)

 

$

(8,293

)

 

$

 

 

$

(180,709

)

Net change in unrealized gain or loss

 

 

46,984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,475

 

 

 

784

 

 

 

57,243

 

Reclassification of net loss realized and included in earnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,203

 

 

 

2,016

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,219

 

Amortization of unrealized net loss on securities transferred to HTM

 

 

 

 

 

591

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

591

 

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

 

10,623

 

 

 

134

 

 

 

498

 

 

 

2,598

 

 

 

 

 

 

13,853

 

Balance, March 31, 2019

 

$

(13,764

)

 

$

(11,587

)

 

$

(108,542

)

 

$

600

 

 

$

784

 

 

$

(132,509

)

Balance, December 31, 2019

 

$

28,950

 

 

$

639

 

 

$

(101,278

)

 

$

17,399

 

 

$

(434

)

 

$

(54,724

)

Net change in unrealized gain or loss

 

 

124,018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

41,476

 

 

 

(197

)

 

 

165,297

 

Reclassification of net income or loss realized and included in earnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,232

 

 

 

(864

)

 

 

 

 

 

368

 

Amortization of unrealized net gain on securities transferred to HTM

 

 

 

 

 

(195

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(195

)

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

 

28,056

 

 

 

(44

)

 

 

279

 

 

 

9,189

 

 

 

 

 

 

37,480

 

Balance, March 31, 2020

 

$

124,912

 

 

$

488

 

 

$

(100,325

)

 

$

48,822

 

 

$

(631

)

 

$

73,266

 

 

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income or Loss (“AOCI”) is reported as a component of stockholders’ equity. AOCI can include, among other items, unrealized holding gains and losses on securities available for sale (“AFS”), including the Company’s share of unrealized gains and losses reported by a partnership accounted for under the equity method, gains and losses associated with pension or other post-retirement benefits that are not recognized immediately as a component of net periodic benefit cost, and gains and losses on derivative instruments that are designated as, and qualify as, cash flow hedges. Net unrealized gains and losses on AFS securities reclassified as securities held to maturity (“HTM”) also continue to be reported as a component of AOCI and will be amortized over the estimated remaining life of the securities as an adjustment to interest income. Subject to certain thresholds, unrealized losses on employee benefit plans will be reclassified into income as pension and post-retirement costs are recognized over the remaining service period of plan participants. Accumulated gains or losses on the cash flow hedge of the variable rate loans described in Note 7 will be reclassified into income over the life of the hedge. Accumulated other comprehensive loss resulting from the terminated interest rate swaps will be amortized over the remaining maturities of the designated instruments. Gains and losses within AOCI are net of deferred income taxes, where applicable.  

The following table shows the line items of the consolidated statements of income affected by amounts reclassified from AOCI.

 



 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

Amount reclassified from AOCI (a)

 

March 31,

 

 

Affected line item on

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

the statement of income

Amortization of unrealized net loss or gain on securities transferred to HTM

 

$

195

 

 

$

(591

)

 

Interest income

Tax effect

 

 

(44

)

 

 

134

 

 

Income taxes

Net of tax

 

 

151

 

 

 

(457

)

 

Net income

Amortization of defined benefit pension and post-retirement items

 

 

(1,232

)

 

 

(2,203

)

 

Other noninterest expense (b)

Tax effect

 

 

279

 

 

 

498

 

 

Income taxes

Net of tax

 

 

(953

)

 

 

(1,705

)

 

Net income

Reclassification of unrealized gain (loss) on cash flow hedges

 

 

1,569

 

 

 

(610

)

 

Interest income

Tax effect

 

 

(355

)

 

 

138

 

 

Income taxes

Net of tax

 

 

1,214

 

 

 

(472

)

 

Net income

Amortization of loss on terminated cash flow hedges

 

 

(705

)

 

 

(1,406

)

 

Interest income

Tax effect

 

 

159

 

 

 

318

 

 

Income taxes

Net of tax

 

 

(546

)

 

 

(1,088

)

 

Net income

Total reclassifications, net of tax

 

$

(134

)

 

$

(3,722

)

 

Net income

 

(a)

Amounts in parentheses indicate reduction in net income.

(b)

These AOCI components are included in the computation of net periodic pension and post-retirement cost that is reported with employee benefits expense (see Note 11 – Retirement Plans for additional details).

 

On March 27, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued an interim final rule that provides an option to delay the estimated impact on regulatory capital stemming from the implementation CECL for a transition period of five years. The five-year rule provides a full delay for of the estimated impact of CECL on regulatory capital transition (0%) for the first two years, followed by a three-year transition (25% of the impact included in 2022, 50% in 2023, 75% in 2024 and 100% thereafter). The two-year delay includes the full impact of day one CECL plus the estimated impact of current CECL activity calculated quarterly as 25% of the current ACL over the day one balance (“modified transition amount”). The modified transition amount will be recalculated each quarter in 2020 and 2021, with the December 31, 2021 impact carrying through the remaining three years of the transition. The Company elected the five-year transition period option upon issuance of the interim final rule.

 

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8. Other Noninterest Income

Components of other noninterest income are as follows:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Income from bank-owned life insurance

 

$

4,266

 

 

$

3,265

 

Credit related fees

 

 

3,065

 

 

 

2,595

 

Income from derivatives

 

 

3,871

 

 

 

809

 

Other miscellaneous

 

 

4,977

 

 

 

2,799

 

Total other noninterest income

 

$

16,179

 

 

$

9,468

 

 

9. Other Noninterest Expense

Components of other noninterest expense are as follows:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Advertising

 

$

4,234

 

 

$

3,080

 

Corporate value and franchise taxes

 

 

4,296

 

 

 

4,042

 

Printing and supplies

 

 

1,108

 

 

 

1,169

 

Telecommunications and postage

 

 

4,065

 

 

 

3,466

 

Travel expense

 

 

1,111

 

 

 

1,098

 

Entertainment and contributions

 

 

2,447

 

 

 

2,708

 

Tax credit investment amortization

 

 

961

 

 

 

1,138

 

Other retirement expense

 

 

(6,122

)

 

 

(4,105

)

Other miscellaneous

 

 

7,469

 

 

 

5,691

 

Total other noninterest expense

 

$

19,569

 

 

$

18,287

 

 

 

 

10. Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share

The Company calculates earnings (loss) per share using the two-class method. The two-class method allocates net income or loss to each class of common stock and participating security according to common dividends declared and participation rights in undistributed earnings. For reporting periods in which a net loss is recorded, net loss is not allocated to participating securities because the holders of such securities bear no contractual obligation to fund or otherwise share in the losses. Participating securities consist of nonvested share-based payment awards that contain nonforfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents. 

A summary of the information used in the computation of earnings (loss) per common share follows.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss) to common shareholders

 

$

(111,033

)

 

$

79,164

 

Net dividends or income allocated to participating securities - basic and diluted

 

 

427

 

 

 

1,337

 

Net income (loss) allocated to common shareholders - basic and diluted

 

$

(111,460

)

 

$

77,827

 

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average common shares - basic

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

85,688

 

Dilutive potential common shares

 

 

 

 

 

112

 

Weighted-average common shares - diluted

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

85,800

 

Earnings (loss) per common share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

0.91

 

Diluted

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

0.91

 

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Potential common shares consist of stock options, nonvested performance-based awards, and nonvested restricted share awards deferred under the Company’s nonqualified deferred compensation plan. These potential common shares do not enter into the calculation of diluted earnings per share if the impact would be antidilutive, i.e., increase earnings per share or reduce a loss per share. For reporting periods in which a net loss is recorded, no effect is given to potentially dilutive common shares in the computation of loss per common share as any impact from such shares would be antidilutive. Potentially dilutive common shares with a weighted average of 1,281 were excluded from the calculation of earnings per common share for the three months ended March 31, 2019 as the effect would have been antidilutive.

11. Retirement Plans

The Company sponsors a qualified defined benefit pension plan, the Hancock Whitney Corporation Pension Plan (“Pension Plan”), covering certain eligible associates. Those hired or rehired by the Company prior to June 30, 2017 are eligible to participate; however, the accrued benefits of each participant in the Pension Plan whose combined age plus years of service as of January 1, 2018 totaled less than 55 were frozen as of January 1, 2018 and will not thereafter increase. The Company makes contributions to the Pension Plan in amounts sufficient to meet funding requirements set forth in federal employee benefit and tax laws, plus such additional amounts as the Company may determine to be appropriate. During the first quarter of 2019, the Company made a discretionary contribution of $100 million to the Pension Plan.

The Company also offers a defined contribution retirement benefit plan, the Hancock Whitney Corporation 401(k) Savings Plan (“401(k) Plan”), that covers substantially all associates who have been employed 60 days and meet a minimum age requirement and employment classification criteria. The Company matches 100% of the first 1% of compensation saved by a participant, and 50% of the next 5% of compensation saved. Newly eligible associates are automatically enrolled at an initial 3% savings rate unless the associate actively opts out of participation in the plan. Beginning January 1, 2018, the Company makes an additional basic contribution to associates hired or rehired after June 30, 2017 in an amount equal to 2% of the associate’s eligible compensation. For Pension Plan participants whose benefits were frozen as of January 1, 2018, the 401(k) Plan provides an enhanced Company contribution in the amount of 2%, 4% or 6% of such participant’s eligible compensation, based on the participant’s age and years of service with the Company. Participants vest in basic and enhanced Company contributions upon completion of three years of service.

The Company sponsors a nonqualified defined benefit plan covering certain legacy Whitney employees that was frozen as of December 31, 2012 and no future benefits are accrued under this plan.

The Company sponsors defined benefit postretirement plans for both legacy Hancock and legacy Whitney employees that provide health care and life insurance benefits. Benefits under the Hancock plan are not available to employees hired on or after January 1, 2000. Benefits under the Whitney plan are restricted to retirees who were already receiving benefits at the time of plan amendments in 2007 or active participants who were eligible to receive benefits as of December 31, 2007.

The following tables show the components of net periodic benefits cost included in expense for the plans for the periods indicated.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Post-

 

(in thousands)

 

Pension Benefits

 

 

Retirement Benefits

 

For the Three Months Ended March 31,

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Service cost

 

$

3,275

 

 

$

2,775

 

 

$

22

 

 

$

29

 

Interest cost

 

 

3,782

 

 

 

4,863

 

 

 

164

 

 

 

128

 

Expected return on plan assets

 

 

(11,300

)

 

 

(11,300

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of net loss and prior service costs

 

 

1,461

 

 

 

2,430

 

 

 

(229

)

 

 

(227

)

Net periodic benefit cost (reduction of cost)

 

$

(2,782

)

 

$

(1,232

)

 

$

(43

)

 

$

(70

)

 

 

 

12. Share-Based Payment Arrangements

The Company maintains incentive compensation plans that provide for awards of share-based compensation to employees and directors. These plans have been approved by the Company’s shareholders. Detailed descriptions of these plans were included in Note 18 to the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.

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A summary of stock option activity for the three months ended March 31, 2020 is presented below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted

 

 

Average

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average

 

 

Remaining

 

 

Aggregate

 

 

 

Number of

 

 

Exercise

 

 

Contractual

 

 

Intrinsic

 

Options

 

Shares

 

 

Price

 

 

Term (Years)

 

 

Value ($000)

 

Outstanding at January 1, 2020

 

 

28,725

 

 

$

34.11

 

 

 

2.2

 

 

$

296

 

Exercised/Released

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancelled/Forfeited

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expired

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding at March 31, 2020

 

 

28,725

 

 

$

34.11

 

 

 

1.9

 

 

$

 

Exercisable at March 31, 2020

 

 

28,725

 

 

$

34.11

 

 

 

1.9

 

 

$

 

 

The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the three months ended March 31, 2019 was $0.5 million.

The Company’s restricted and performance-based share awards to certain employees and directors are subject to service requirements. A summary of the status of the Company’s nonvested restricted and performance-based share awards at March 31, 2020 are presented in the following table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average

 

 

 

Number of

 

 

Grant Date

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Fair Value

 

Nonvested at January 1, 2020

 

 

1,596,258

 

 

$

40.43

 

Granted

 

 

75,607

 

 

 

42.88

 

Vested

 

 

(3,839

)

 

 

42.64

 

Forfeited

 

 

(29,567

)

 

 

41.65

 

Nonvested at March 31, 2020

 

 

1,638,459

 

 

$

40.52

 

 

As of March 31, 2020, there was $55.3 million of total unrecognized compensation expense related to nonvested restricted and performance shares expected to vest in the future. This compensation is expected to be recognized in expense over a weighted average period of 3.3 years. The total fair value of shares which vested during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 was $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company granted 35,754 performance share awards subject to a total shareholder return (“TSR”) performance metric with a grant date fair value of $46.61 per share and 35,754 performance shares subject to an operating earnings per share performance metric with a grant date fair value of $39.39 per share to key members of executive management. The number of performance shares subject to TSR that ultimately vest at the end of the three-year performance period, if any, will be based on the relative rank of the Company’s three-year TSR among the TSRs of a peer group of 49 regional banks. The fair value of the performance shares subject to TSR at the grant date was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation method. The number of performance shares subject to operating earnings per share that ultimately vest will be based on the Company’s attainment of certain operating earnings per share goals over the two-year performance period. The maximum number of performance shares that could vest is 200% of the target award. Compensation expense for these performance shares is recognized on a straight line basis over the three-year service period.

13. Commitments and Contingencies

In the normal course of business, the Bank enters into financial instruments, such as commitments to extend credit and letters of credit, to meet the financing needs of its customers. Such instruments are not reflected in the accompanying consolidated financial statements until they are funded, although they expose the Bank to varying degrees of credit risk and interest rate risk in much the same way as funded loans. Under regulatory capital guidelines, the Company and Bank must include unfunded commitments meeting certain criteria in risk-weighted capital calculations.

Commitments to extend credit include revolving commercial credit lines, nonrevolving loan commitments issued mainly to finance the acquisition and development or construction of real property or equipment, and credit card and personal credit lines. The availability of funds under commercial credit lines and loan commitments generally depends on whether the borrower continues to meet credit standards established in the underlying contract and has not violated other contractual conditions. Loan commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee by the borrower. Credit card and personal credit lines are generally subject to cancellation if the borrower’s credit quality deteriorates. A number of commercial and personal credit lines are used only partially or, in some cases, not at all before they expire, and the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements of the Company.

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A substantial majority of the letters of credit are standby agreements that obligate the Bank to fulfill a customer’s financial commitments to a third party if the customer is unable to perform. The Bank issues standby letters of credit primarily to provide credit enhancement to its customers’ other commercial or public financing arrangements and to help them demonstrate financial capacity to vendors of essential goods and services. 

The contract amounts of these instruments reflect the Company’s exposure to credit risk. The Company undertakes the same credit evaluation in making loan commitments and assuming conditional obligations as it does for on-balance sheet instruments and may require collateral or other credit support. The following table presents a summary of the Company’s off-balance sheet financial instruments as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:

 



 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Commitments to extend credit

 

$

7,591,029

 

 

$

7,530,143

 

Letters of credit

 

 

366,112

 

 

 

393,284

 

 

Legal Proceedings

The Company is party to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. Management does not believe that loss contingencies, if any, arising from pending litigation and regulatory matters will have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position or liquidity of the Company.

14. Fair Value Measurements

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. The FASB’s guidance also establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to these valuation techniques used to measure fair value, giving preference to quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (“level 1”) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs such as a reporting entity’s own data (“level 3”). Level 2 inputs include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, observable inputs other than quoted prices, such as interest rates and yield curves, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

Fair Value of Assets and Liabilities Measured on a Recurring Basis

The following tables present for each of the fair value hierarchy levels the Company’s assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis in the consolidated balance sheets at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:

 



 

March 31, 2020

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available for sale debt securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

 

 

$

109,203

 

 

$

 

 

$

109,203

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

 

 

 

249,693

 

 

 

 

 

 

249,693

 

Corporate debt securities

 

 

 

 

 

8,196

 

 

 

 

 

 

8,196

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

2,124,531

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,124,531

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

1,742,806

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,742,806

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

 

 

 

659,567

 

 

 

 

 

 

659,567

 

Total available for sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

4,893,996

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,893,996

 

Derivative assets (1)

 

 

 

 

 

166,869

 

 

 

 

 

 

166,869

 

Total recurring fair value measurements - assets

 

 

 

 

$

5,060,865

 

 

 

 

 

$

5,060,865

 

Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative liabilities (1)

 

$

 

 

$

44,064

 

 

$

5,345

 

 

$

49,409

 

Total recurring fair value measurements - liabilities

 

$

 

 

$

44,064

 

 

$

5,345

 

 

$

49,409

 

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December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available for sale debt securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury and government agency securities

 

$

 

 

$

98,672

 

 

$

 

 

$

98,672

 

Municipal obligations

 

 

 

 

 

249,805

 

 

 

 

 

 

249,805

 

Corporate debt securities

 

 

 

 

 

7,988

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,988

 

Residential mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

1,924,157

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,924,157

 

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

 

 

 

 

 

1,586,467

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,586,467

 

Collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

 

 

 

808,215

 

 

 

 

 

 

808,215

 

Total available for sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

4,675,304

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,675,304

 

Derivative assets (1)

 

 

 

 

 

54,446

 

 

 

 

 

 

54,446

 

Total recurring fair value measurements - assets

 

 

 

 

$

4,729,750

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,729,750

 

Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derivative liabilities (1)

 

$

 

 

$

15,385

 

 

$

5,704

 

 

$

21,089

 

Total recurring fair value measurements - liabilities

 

$

 

 

$

15,385

 

 

$

5,704

 

 

$

21,089

 

 

(1)

For further disaggregation of derivative assets and liabilities, see Note 7 - Derivatives.

Securities classified as level 2 include obligations of U.S. Government agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored agencies, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations that are issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies, and state and municipal bonds. The level 2 fair value measurements for investment securities are obtained quarterly from a third-party pricing service that uses industry-standard pricing models. Substantially all of the model inputs are observable in the marketplace or can be supported by observable data. 

The Company invests only in securities of investment grade quality with a targeted duration, for the overall portfolio, generally between two and five and a half years. Company policies generally limit investments to U.S. agency securities and municipal securities determined to be investment grade according to an internally generated score which generally includes a rating of not less than “Baa” or its equivalent by a nationally recognized statistical rating agency.  

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For the Company’s derivative financial instruments designated as hedges and those under the customer interest rate program, the fair value is obtained from a third-party pricing service that uses an industry-standard discounted cash flow model that relies on inputs, LIBOR swap curves, Overnight Index swap rate curves, all observable in the marketplace. To comply with the accounting guidance, credit valuation adjustments are incorporated in the fair values to appropriately reflect nonperformance risk for both the Company and the counterparties. Although the Company has determined that the majority of the inputs used to value these derivative instruments fall within level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, the credit value adjustments utilize level 3 inputs, such as estimates of current credit spreads. The Company has determined that the impact of the credit valuation adjustments is not significant to the overall valuation of these derivatives. As a result, the Company has classified its derivative valuations for these instruments in level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. The Company’s policy is to measure counterparty credit risk quarterly for all derivative instruments subject to master netting arrangements consistent with how market participants would price the net risk exposure at the measurement date.

The Company also has certain derivative instruments associated with the Bank’s mortgage-banking activities. These derivative instruments include interest rate lock commitments on prospective residential mortgage loans and forward commitments to sell these loans to investors on a best efforts delivery basis. The fair value of these derivative instruments is measured using observable market prices for similar instruments and is classified as a level 2 measurement.

The Company’s Level 3 liability consists of a derivative contract with the purchaser of 192,163 shares of Visa Class B common stock. Pursuant to the agreement, the Company retains the risks associated with the ultimate conversion of the Visa Class B common shares into shares of Visa Class A common stock, such that the counterparty will be compensated for any dilutive adjustments to the conversion ratio and the Company will be compensated for any anti-dilutive adjustments to the ratio. The agreement also requires periodic payments by the Company to the counterparty calculated by reference to the market price of Visa Class A common shares at the time of sale and a fixed rate of interest that steps up once after the eighth scheduled quarterly payment. The fair value of the liability is determined using a discounted cash flow methodology. The significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement are the Company’s own assumptions about estimated changes in the conversion rate of the Visa Class B common shares into Visa Class A common shares, the date on which such conversion is expected to occur and the estimated growth rate of the Visa Class A common share price. Refer to Note 6 – Derivatives for information about the derivative contract with the counterparty.

 

The Company believes its valuation methods for its assets and liabilities carried at fair value are appropriate; however, the use of different methodologies or assumptions, particularly as applied to Level 3 assets and liabilities, could have a material effect on the computation of their estimated fair values.

 

Changes in Level 3 Fair Value Measurements and Quantitative Information about Level 3 Fair Value Measurements

The table below presents a rollforward of the amounts on the consolidated balance sheets for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and the year ended December 31, 2019 for financial instruments of a material nature that are classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy and are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2018

 

$

7,304

 

Cash settlement

 

 

(1,900

)

Losses included in earnings

 

 

300

 

Balance at December 31, 2019

 

 

5,704

 

Cash settlement

 

 

(413

)

Losses included in earnings

 

 

54

 

Balance at March 31, 2020

 

$

5,345

 

The table below provides an overview of the valuation techniques and significant unobservable inputs used in those techniques to measure the financial instrument measured on a recurring basis and classified within Level 3 of the valuation. The range of sensitivities that management utilized in its fair value calculations is deemed acceptable in the industry with respect to the identified financial instrument.

 

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($ in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Fair Value

 

Level 3 Class

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

Derivative liability

 

$

5,345

 

 

$

5,704

 

Valuation technique

 

Discounted cash flow

 

 

Discounted cash flow

 

Unobservable inputs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visa Class A appreciation – range

 

6% - 18%

 

 

6% - 18%

 

Visa Class A appreciation – weighted average

 

12%

 

 

12%

 

Conversion rate – range

 

1.63x - 1.59x

 

 

1.63x - 1.59x

 

Conversion rate – weighted average

 

1.616x

 

 

1.616x

 

Time until resolution

 

9 - 33 months

 

 

12 - 36 months

 

 

Fair Value of Assets Measured on a Nonrecurring Basis

Certain assets and liabilities are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. Collateral-dependent impaired loans are level 2 assets measured at the fair value of the underlying collateral based on independent third-party appraisals that take into consideration market-based information such as recent sales activity for similar assets in the property’s market. 

Other real estate owned and foreclosed assets, including both foreclosed property and surplus banking property, are level 3 assets that are adjusted to fair value, less estimated selling costs, upon transfer from loans or property and equipment. Subsequently, other real estate owned and foreclosed assets is carried at the lower of carrying value or fair value less estimated selling costs. Fair values are determined by sales agreement or third-party appraisals as discounted for estimated selling costs, information from comparable sales, and marketability of the assets. 

The fair value information presented below is not as of the period end, rather it was as of the date the fair value adjustment was recorded during the twelve months for each of the dates presented below, and excludes nonrecurring fair value measurements of assets no longer on the balance sheet. 

The following tables present the Company’s financial assets that are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis for each of the fair value hierarchy levels.

 



 

March 31, 2020

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Collateral-dependent impaired loans

 

$

 

 

$

281,121

 

 

$

 

 

$

281,121

 

Other real estate owned and foreclosed assets, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18,425

 

 

 

18,425

 

Total nonrecurring fair value measurements

 

$

 

 

$

281,121

 

 

$

18,425

 

 

$

299,546

 

 



 

December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Collateral-dependent impaired loans

 

$

 

 

$

182,377

 

 

$

 

 

$

182,377

 

Other real estate owned and foreclosed assets, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24,422

 

 

 

24,422

 

Total nonrecurring fair value measurements

 

$

 

 

$

182,377

 

 

$

24,422

 

 

$

206,799

 

 

Accounting guidance from the FASB requires the disclosure of estimated fair value information about certain on- and off-balance sheet financial instruments, including those financial instruments that are not measured and reported at fair value on a recurring basis. The significant methods and assumptions used by the Company to estimate the fair value of financial instruments are discussed below.

Cash, Short-Term Investments and Federal Funds Sold For these short-term instruments, the carrying amount is a reasonable estimate of fair value.

Securities – The fair value measurement for securities available for sale was discussed earlier in the note. The same measurement techniques were applied to the valuation of securities held to maturity. 

Loans, Net – The fair value measurement for certain impaired loans was discussed earlier in the note. For the remaining portfolio, fair values were generally determined by discounting scheduled cash flows using discount rates determined with reference to current market rates at which loans with similar terms would be made to borrowers of similar credit quality. 

Loans Held for Sale – These loans are recorded at fair value and carried at the lower of cost or market. The carrying amount is considered a reasonable estimate of fair value. 

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Deposits – The accounting guidance requires that the fair value of deposits with no stated maturity, such as noninterest-bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing checking and savings accounts, be assigned fair values equal to amounts payable upon demand (“carrying amounts”). The fair value of fixed maturity certificates of deposit is estimated using the rates currently offered for deposits of similar remaining maturities.

Securities Sold under Agreements to Repurchase, Federal Funds Purchased, and FHLB Borrowings – For these short-term liabilities, the carrying amount is a reasonable estimate of fair value.

Long-Term Debt – The fair value is estimated by discounting the future contractual cash flows using current market rates at which debt with similar terms could be obtained.

Derivative Financial Instruments – The fair value measurement for derivative financial instruments was discussed earlier in the note.

The following tables present the estimated fair values of the Company’s financial instruments by fair value hierarchy levels and the corresponding carrying amounts:

 



 

March 31, 2020

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Fair

 

 

Carrying

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Value

 

 

Amount

 

Financial assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash, interest-bearing bank deposits, and federal funds sold

 

$

1,353,125

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,353,125

 

 

$

1,353,125

 

Available for sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

4,893,996

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,893,996

 

 

 

4,893,996

 

Held to maturity securities

 

 

 

 

 

1,562,577

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,562,577

 

 

 

1,480,494

 

Loans, net

 

 

 

 

 

281,121

 

 

 

21,107,746

 

 

 

21,388,867

 

 

 

21,089,678

 

Loans held for sale

 

 

 

 

 

67,587

 

 

 

 

 

 

67,587

 

 

 

67,587

 

Derivative financial instruments

 

 

 

 

 

166,869

 

 

 

 

 

 

166,869

 

 

 

166,869

 

Financial liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

25,003,807

 

 

$

25,003,807

 

 

$

25,008,496

 

Federal funds purchased

 

 

330,330

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

330,330

 

 

 

330,330

 

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

 

 

482,953

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

482,953

 

 

 

482,953

 

FHLB short-term borrowings

 

 

1,860,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,860,000

 

 

 

1,860,000

 

Long-term debt

 

 

 

 

 

231,044

 

 

 

 

 

 

231,044

 

 

 

225,606

 

Derivative financial instruments

 

 

 

 

 

44,064

 

 

 

5,345

 

 

 

49,409

 

 

 

49,409

 

 



 

December 31, 2019

 

(in thousands)

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total Fair

Value

 

 

Carrying

Amount

 

Financial assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash, interest-bearing bank deposits, and federal funds sold

 

$

542,333

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

542,333

 

 

$

542,333

 

Available for sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

4,675,304

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,675,304

 

 

 

4,675,304

 

Held to maturity securities

 

 

 

 

 

1,611,004

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,611,004

 

 

 

1,568,009

 

Loans, net

 

 

 

 

 

182,377

 

 

 

20,861,702

 

 

 

21,044,079

 

 

 

21,021,504

 

Loans held for sale

 

 

 

 

 

55,864

 

 

 

 

 

 

55,864

 

 

 

55,864

 

Derivative financial instruments

 

 

 

 

 

54,446

 

 

 

 

 

 

54,446

 

 

 

54,446

 

Financial liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

23,786,775

 

 

$

23,788,775

 

 

$

23,803,575

 

Federal funds purchased

 

 

195,450

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

195,450

 

 

 

195,450

 

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

 

 

484,422

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

484,422

 

 

 

484,422

 

FHLB short-term borrowings

 

 

2,035,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,035,000

 

 

 

2,035,000

 

Long-term debt

 

 

 

 

 

226,098

 

 

 

 

 

 

226,098

 

 

 

233,462

 

Derivative financial instruments

 

 

 

 

 

15,385

 

 

 

5,704

 

 

 

21,089

 

 

 

21,089

 

 

 

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15. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standards Adopted in 2020

In June 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-13, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.” The ASU, more commonly referred to as Current Expected Credit Losses, or CECL, along with several subsequently issued related amendments, were codified as ASC 326. The provisions of ASC 326, which supersede the incurred loss methodology, require the measurement of expected credit losses over the life of financial assets based on historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts. As such, financial institutions and other organizations are required to use forward-looking information to inform their credit loss estimates. Many of the loss estimation techniques prescribed by previous guidance will still be permitted, although the inputs to those techniques will change to reflect the full amount of expected credit losses for the estimated remaining life of the instrument. An entity will continue to use judgment to determine which loss estimation methods are appropriate for its circumstances. In addition, ASC 326 amends the accounting for credit losses on both held to maturity and available for sale debt securities and purchased financial assets with credit deterioration.

 

The Company adopted the provisions of ASC 326 on January 1, 2020, with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings for non-purchased credit impaired loans. For purchased credit impaired loans (as defined by ASC 310-30), there was no impact to retained earnings upon adoption; rather, a portion of the purchase accounting fair value mark was reclassified to allowance for credit losses. A more detailed discussion of the Company’s policy for accounting for credit losses under the provisions of ASC 326 is presented in Note 1 – Basis of Presentation.

 

The following table reflects the impact of adoption reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The increase in the allowance for loan losses represents a reduction in total assets, while the reserve for unfunded lending commitments represents an increase in total liabilities.

(in thousands)

 

December 31, 2019

 

 

January 1, 2020

 

 

CECL adoption impact

 

Assets and Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for loan and lease losses

 

$

191,251

 

 

$

240,662

 

 

$

49,411

 

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments

 

 

3,974

 

 

 

31,304

 

 

 

27,330

 

Allowance for credit losses

 

$

195,225

 

 

$

271,966

 

 

$

76,741

 

Retained Earnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for credit loss increase

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

76,741

 

Balance sheet reclassification

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(19,767

)

Total pretax impact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

56,974

 

Income tax impact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(12,888

)

Decrease to retained earnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

44,086

 

 

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting.” The amendments in this Update provide optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. The amendments in this Update are elective and apply to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments in this Update provide optional expedients and exceptions for applying generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions affected by reference rate reform if certain criteria are met. The amendments in this Update apply only to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The expedients and exceptions provided by the amendments do not apply to contract modifications made and hedging relationships entered into or evaluated after December 31, 2022, except for hedging relationships existing as of December 31, 2022, that an entity has elected certain optional expedients for and that are retained through the end of the hedging relationship. The Company adopted this guidance upon its issuance; at adoption, Company elected to amend the hedge documentation, without dedesignating and redesignating, for all outstanding hedging relationships using the available expedient to assert probability of the hedged interest, regardless of any expected modification in terms related to reference rate reform.

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In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement.” The amendments in this Update modify certain disclosure requirements on fair value measurements set forth in Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements. In addition, the amendments in this Update eliminate the phrase “an entity shall disclose at a minimum” to promote the appropriate exercise of discretion by entities when considering fair value measurement disclosures to clarify that materiality is an appropriate consideration of entities and their auditors when evaluating disclosure requirements. The amendments in this Update are effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 31, 2019, and the Company adopted the guidance effective January 1, 2020. Refer to Note 14 - Fair Value Measurements for the modified disclosures. Adoption of this guidance had no impact upon the Company’s results of operations or financial condition.

Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, “Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (Topic 740).” The amendments in this Update are meant to simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to GAAP. The amendments also improve consistent application of and simplify GAAP by modifying and/or revising the accounting for certain income tax transactions and by clarifying certain existing codification. The amendments in the update are effective for public business entities for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adoption of this guidance, but does not expect the update to have a material impact upon its financial position and results of operations.

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-14, “Compensation – Retirement Benefits – Defined Benefit Plans – General (Subtopic 715-20): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans.” The amendments in this Update modify certain disclosure requirements by removing disclosures that are no longer considered cost beneficial, clarifying specific requirements of disclosures, and adding disclosure requirements identified as relevant. The amendments in this Update are effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2020 for public business entities. Adoption of this guidance will have no impact upon the Company’s results of operations or financial condition.

 

 

 

 

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning and protections of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements we make in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in other reports or documents that we file from time to time with the SEC include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

 

the negative impacts and disruptions resulting from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, on the economies and communities we serve, which has had and may continue to have an adverse impact on our business operations and performance, and could have a negative impact on our credit portfolio, stock price, borrowers and the economy as a whole both globally and domestically;

 

government or regulatory responses to the COVID-19 pandemic;

 

balance sheet and revenue growth expectations may differ from actual results;

 

the risk that our provision for loan losses may be inadequate or may be negatively affected by credit risk exposure;

 

loan growth expectations;

 

management’s predictions about charge-offs, including energy-related credits, the impact of changes in oil and gas prices on our energy portfolio, including changes in prices related to COVID-19 and the continued spread of the same, and the downstream impact on businesses that support that sector, especially in the Gulf Coast Region;

 

the risk that our enterprise risk management framework may not identify or address risks adequately, which may result in unexpected losses;

 

the impact of the transaction with MidSouth or future business combinations upon our performance and financial condition including our ability to successfully integrate the businesses;

 

deposit trends;

 

credit quality trends;

 

changes in interest rates;

 

the impact of reference rate reform;

 

net interest margin trends;

 

future expense levels;

 

improvements in expense to revenue (efficiency ratio);

 

success of revenue-generating initiatives;

 

the effectiveness of derivative financial instruments and hedging activities to manage risks;

 

risks related to our reliance on third parties to provide key components of our business infrastructure, including the risks related to disruptions in services or financial difficulties of a third-party vendor;

 

risks related to the ability of our operational framework to manage risks associated with our business such as credit risk and operation risk, including third-party vendors and other service providers, which could among other things, result in a breach of operating or security systems as a result of a cyber-attack or similar act;

 

projected tax rates;

 

future profitability;

 

purchase accounting impacts, such as accretion levels;

 

our ability to identify and address potential cybersecurity risks, including data security breaches, credential stuffing, malware, “denial-of-service” attacks, “hacking” and identity theft, a failure of which could disrupt our business and result in the disclosure of and/or misuse or misappropriation of confidential or proprietary information, disruption or damage to our systems, increased costs, losses, or adverse effects to our reputation;

 

our ability to receive dividends from Hancock Whitney Bank could affect our liquidity, including our ability to pay dividends or take other capital actions;

 

the impact on our financial results, reputation, and business if we are unable to comply with all applicable federal and state regulations or other supervisory actions or directives and any necessary capital initiatives;

 

our ability to effectively compete with other traditional and non-traditional financial services companies, some of whom possess greater financial resources than we do or are subject to different regulatory standards than we are;

 

our ability to maintain adequate internal controls over financial reporting;

 

potential claims, damages, penalties, fines and reputational damage resulting from pending or future litigation, regulatory proceedings and enforcement actions;

 

the financial impact of future tax legislation; and

 

changes in laws and regulations affecting our businesses, including legislation and regulations relating to bank products and services, as well as changes in the enforcement and interpretation of such laws and regulations by applicable governmental and self-regulatory agencies, which could require us to change certain business practices, increase compliance risk, reduce our revenue, impose additional costs on us, or otherwise negatively affect our businesses.

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Also, any statement that does not describe historical or current facts is a forward-looking statement. These statements often include the words “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “intends,” “plans,” “forecast,” “goals,” “targets,” “initiatives,” “focus,” “potentially,” “probably,” “projects,” “outlook,” or similar expressions or future conditional verbs such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “would,” and “could.” Forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of management and on information currently available to management. Our statements speak as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update these statements or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those contained in such statements in light of new information or future events.

Forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Investors are cautioned against placing undue reliance on such statements. Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, Part II, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and in other periodic reports that we file with the SEC.

You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of differences in actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting such statements, except as required by law.

OVERVIEW

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations include non-GAAP measures used to describe our performance. These non-GAAP financial measures have inherent limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered on a standalone basis or as a substitute for analyses of financial condition and results as reported under GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized and therefore, it may not be possible to compare these measures with other companies that present measures having the same or similar names. These disclosures should not be considered an alternative to GAAP.

A reconciliation of those measures to GAAP measures are provided within the Selected Financial Data section that appears later in this item. The following is a summary of these non-GAAP measures and an explanation as to why they are deemed useful. 

Consistent with Securities and Exchange Commission Industry Guide 3, we present net interest income, net interest margin and efficiency ratios on a fully taxable equivalent (“te”) basis. The te basis adjusts for the tax-favored status of net interest income from certain loans and investments using a statutory federal tax rate of 21% to increase tax-exempt interest income to a taxable equivalent basis. We believe this measure to be the preferred industry measurement of net interest income, and that it enhances comparability of net interest income arising from taxable and tax-exempt sources.

We present certain additional non-GAAP financial measures to assist the reader with a better understanding of the Company’s performance period over period, as well as to provide investors with assistance in understanding the success management has experienced in executing its strategic initiatives. These non-GAAP measures may reference the concept “operating.” We use the term “operating” to describe a financial measure that excludes income or expense considered to be nonoperating in nature. Items identified as nonoperating are those that, when excluded from a reported financial measure, provide management or the reader with a measure that may be more indicative of forward-looking trends in our business.

We define Operating Pre-Provision Net Revenue as total revenue (te) less noninterest expense, excluding nonoperating items. Management believes that operating pre-provision net revenue is a useful financial measure because it enables investors and others to assess the Company’s ability to generate capital to cover credit losses through a credit cycle.

We define Operating Earnings as reported net income excluding nonoperating items net of income tax. We define Operating Earnings per Share as operating earnings expressed as an amount available to each common shareholder on a diluted basis.

Impact of COVID-19

Economic activity in the first quarter of 2020 contracted sharply and abruptly across all regions in the United States as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (“the pandemic”) with mandated economic closures for non-essential businesses because of social distancing measures to slow the spread of the disease. The spread of COVID-19 has created a global public health crisis that has resulted in unprecedented uncertainty, volatility and disruption in financial markets and in governmental, commercial and consumer activity globally, and in the markets that we serve. A large portion of our customer base is concentrated in Louisiana, which was an early hot spot for the coronavirus, prompting business closures in mid-March and causing significant disruption to the economy and our customer base. Our geographic markets are concentrated in areas that depend on highly impacted industries such as hospitality and

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tourism, nonessential healthcare and oil and gas. Demand for COVID-19 related loan modification has been high, further indicating that our impact may be more significant than others in our industry. Conversely, success of current and future economic stimulus programs, such as enhanced unemployment benefits and the Small Business Administration guaranteed paycheck protection programs, among others, mitigates some of the risk. The impact to our business will be contingent upon the success of containment measures in our markets and across the country, success in medical advancements for treatment and/or vaccines, and restoration of consumer confidence, which will allow for profitable restart of the economy. Timing and success of these items are difficult to predict and therefore significant uncertainty exists for the near term. The realization of these economic conditions have been reflected in our first quarter results most notably through the increase to the allowance for credit losses which is discussed further below.  

The Company utilizes Moody’s macroeconomic forecasts that provide various scenarios to assist with the development of our outlook. These forecasts are anchored on a baseline forecast scenario, which by definition reflects a 50% probability distribution that the economy will perform better or worse than the baseline forecasted parameters. Several upside and downside scenarios are also provided that compare to the baseline scenario. Our March 2020 baseline scenario reflects a sharp and severe recession in the first and second quarters of 2020. The catalysts are the pandemic, turmoil in equity markets, and the steep decline in global oil prices. This scenario is based on the assumption that infections peak in May and begin to abate by July. Restrictions on travel and stay at home orders start to wind down slowly in May and will be lifted in July. Fifty percent of industries will be on lockdown in April, with restrictions gradually easing through June 2020. The unemployment rate peaks in the second quarter of 2020. Oil prices remain depressed as the oil supply significantly exceeds demand, and are not forecasted to rebound to equilibrium until 2021. As a result of these factors, real gross domestic product begins to contract in first quarter 2020 and more dramatically in second quarter. Recovery is relatively quick with economic growth resuming in third quarter 2020. Consumer housing prices are only marginally impacted, but commercial real estate price index are more heavily impacted. The real estate price indices both return to positive growth in 2021. The Federal Reserve continues to aggressively respond to the pandemic and emergency measures are expected to remain in place until the end of 2021, with unlimited quantitative easing and the zero interest rate policy in place until the economy is on track to return to full employment. The baseline forecast also assumes that lawmakers will pass additional stimulus bills in 2020 to support the economy. Downside scenarios from the baseline have varying degrees of severity of the outcome of the economic downturn as well as varying shapes and length of recovery. The downside scenarios S-3 and S-4 include double-dip recessions with a more prolonged recovery, with the S-4 scenario having a more severe immediate impact and a longer, more gradual recovery compared to S-3. We believe these scenarios are less likely to occur than baseline and have weighted them accordingly in developing our outlook. The utilization of these economic forecasts in our allowance for credit models resulted in a $247 million provision for credit losses this quarter. The extent to which observed and forecasted economic conditions deteriorate beyond that currently forecasted may result in additional material allowance for credit loss builds in the future. Changes in the depth and duration of these unprecedented economic conditions may also require revisions to the Company’s currently forecasted cash flows that could result in impairment of certain intangible or other assets in future periods.    

 

The Company’s response to the current and forecasted economic conditions described above has been proactive. Business continuity plans have been effective in maintaining operations and we continue to meet the needs of the customers we serve. Approximately 98% of our financial centers remain open and operating with full service drive up lanes and availability of in person meetings by appointment. Our online and mobile banking applications have also allowed us to continue to assist our customers. Our corporate service team members continue to support our operations with approximately 70% of our associates working remotely. We have also taken meaningful measures to enhance our liquidity and strengthen our balance sheet maintaining solid capital levels in anticipation of continued market disruption that negatively impacts the customers and markets we serve. These measures include increasing our line of credit with the Federal Reserve to $4.4 billion (up $1.8 billion from December 31, 2019) and increasing short-term investments by $766 million; providing total available net liquidity of $13.9 billion at March 31, 2020. These proactive measures have allowed the Company to effectively support and participate in the various economic relief strategies employed at the federal level and provide loan payment deferral options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At March 31, 2020, there were 1,618 customers with loans totaling $839.4 million with payment deferral modifications of principal, interest or both under this program. Demand for such modifications continues, with 7,299 customers with loans totaling $3.1 billion modified through April 22, 2020. We are also waiving fees on certain product offerings such as penalty-free CD withdrawals and various overdraft fees to provide relief to our customers. These fee waiver relief measures to help support our customer base will likely result in reduced fee income realized by the Company in the near term. Further, changes in consumer spending behavior in response to economic uncertainty may have a negative impact on other sources of noninterest income, such as bank card and ATM fees.

 

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARES") Act was signed into law. It contains substantial tax and spending provisions intended to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act includes the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"), a $349 billion program designed to aid small- and medium-sized businesses through federally guaranteed loans distributed through banks. The Company originated 4,893 loans totaling $1.7 billion to our customers under the initial phase of the PPP. On April 24, 2020, an additional $310 billion in new funds was approved for this program and we processed approximately 7,000 additional applications totaling about $800 million in loans under the second phase of this program. The fees earned by administering these loan will provide substantial income to the Company that will be accreted through margin for the remainder of year.

 

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Our customers have also taken measures to enhance their liquidity, drawing on existing credit lines and participating in the PPP, which will contribute to loan growth in the short-term. As funding from government sponsored relief programs evaporates and economic conditions continue to slow, loan demand will likely fall in the near term. The participation in these programs by our customers and draws on lines of credit have also bolstered deposits, which will likely be depleted in the short term as depositors supplement lost cash flows. We continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 closely, as well as any effects that may result from the CARES Act; however, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will impact our operations and financial results during the remainder of 2020 and beyond is highly uncertain.

 

Overview of First Quarter 2020

Net loss for the first quarter of 2020 was $111.0 million, or $(1.28) per diluted common share (EPS), driven by a reserve build in response to deterioration in the macroeconomic environment from the pandemic and lower oil prices. Fourth quarter 2019 net income was $92.1 million, or $1.03 and first quarter 2019 net income was $79.2 million, or $0.91 EPS. The first quarter of both 2020 and 2019 did not include any nonoperating items. The fourth quarter of 2019 included $3.9 million, or $0.03 per share (after-tax impact) of nonoperating expenses related to the MidSouth acquisition that closed on September 21, 2019.

First quarter 2020 results compared to fourth quarter 2019:

 

Net loss was $111.0 million, or $(1.28) per diluted share, including a provision for credit loss of $246.8 million or $(2.24) per diluted share related to the pandemic and declining oil prices and a $9.8 million, or $(0.11) per share, of write-offs of equity interests in two energy companies received in borrower bankruptcy restructurings

 

We implemented the current expected credit loss accounting standard (“CECL”) effective January 1, 2020, and further increased our allowance for credit losses to $475 million, or 2.21% of total loans, up from $195 million, or 0.92% of total loans

 

Loans were up $303 million, or 1%, noninterest-bearing deposits were up $429 million, or 5%

 

Net interest margin narrowed by 2 bps to 3.41%, with purchase accounting accretion down $2.5 million, or 4 bps

 

Capital remains solid with common equity tier 1 (CET1) ratio of 10.03% and tangible common equity (TCE) ratio of 8%; all regulatory ratios are well in excess of required levels, including capital conservation buffer

 

Liquidity solid with approximately $14 billion available in additional sources of funding

 

We ended 2019 with solid capital and liquidity and were well positioned to weather the economic turmoil that we and our customers are facing in 2020. Our first quarter 2020 increase in the allowance for credit loss is based on scenario modeling that reflects a prolonged return to normal economic activity in our market areas and considers continued concerns related to our oil and gas portfolio. Our healthy liquidity position allows us to work with our customers by offering loan modifications and participating in other stimulus lending programs designed to help our customer until our markets return to full operation. We believe our stress testing process has prepared us to deal with the challenges ahead and we are committed to executing those strategies and being a source of strength for our customers.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Net Interest Income

Net interest income (te) for the first quarter of 2020 was $234.6 million, a $2.1 million, or 1%, decrease from the fourth quarter of 2019. Compared to the first quarter of 2019, net interest income (te) increased $11.6 million, or 5%. The linked quarter decrease is primarily attributable to one less accrual day, a lower rate environment and a $2.5 million decrease in purchase accounting accretion.  The increase compared to the prior year is due largely to an increase in earning asset balances and one more accrual day, partially offset by a lower rate environment.

The net interest margin for the first quarter of 2020 was down 2 bps at 3.41% from the fourth quarter of 2019. The decrease is primarily due to the $2.5 million reduction in purchase accounting accretion, resulting in a 4 bp (basis point) decline in the margin. The net interest margin less purchase accounting accretion was up 1 bp to 3.32%. The decline in Prime and LIBOR rates also negatively impacted the yield on loans by 7 bps. However, proactive deposit pricing, and changes in wholesale funding related to a lower rate environment, positively impacted the net interest margin by 8 bps. There were no interest reversals related to nonaccrual activity in the first quarter as compared to one bp of interest reversals in the prior quarter.

Compared to the first quarter of 2019, the net interest margin decreased 5 bps, primarily due to a lower rate environment that resulted in a 27 bp drop in the earning asset yield and a 22 bp drop in the cost of funds.

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We expect margin pressure to continue into the second quarter with lower earning assets yields from the full effect of the March Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and potential lower LIBOR rates as market uncertainty abates, as 55% of our loans are variable rate, with approximately one third of those having floors. Additional pressures include a reduced level of scheduled purchase accounting accretion (down an estimated 5 bps) and a less favorable earning asset mix as the Company maintains additional liquidity with an increased level of short-term investments. Partially offsetting the lower asset yields will be a reduction in cost of funds from actions taken on deposit pricing and funding mix as well as from a significant number of higher rate certificates of deposit maturing during the quarter.

The following tables detail the components of our net interest income (te) and net interest margin.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

 

March 31, 2019

 

(dollars in millions)

 

Volume

 

 

Interest (d)

 

 

Rate

 

 

Volume

 

 

Interest (d)

 

 

Rate

 

 

Volume

 

 

Interest (d)

 

 

Rate

 

Average earning assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial & real estate loans (te) (a)

 

$

16,109.2

 

 

$

182.5

 

 

 

4.56

%

 

$

15,881.3

 

 

$

187.7

 

 

 

4.69

%

 

$

15,062.1

 

 

$

180.5

 

 

 

4.86

%

Residential mortgage loans

 

 

2,969.0

 

 

 

29.5

 

 

 

3.98

%

 

 

3,004.8

 

 

 

30.3

 

 

 

4.04

%

 

 

2,942.4

 

 

 

31.1

 

 

 

4.23

%

Consumer loans

 

 

2,155.9

 

 

 

29.4

 

 

 

5.48

%

 

 

2,151.9

 

 

 

30.9

 

 

 

5.70

%

 

 

2,122.4

 

 

 

29.9

 

 

 

5.72

%

Loan fees & late charges

 

 

 

 

 

(0.6

)

 

 

0.00

%

 

 

 

 

 

(0.3

)

 

 

0.00

%

 

 

 

 

 

(0.9

)

 

 

0.00

%

Total loans (te) (b)

 

 

21,234.1

 

 

 

240.8

 

 

 

4.56

%

 

 

21,038.0

 

 

 

248.6

 

 

 

4.69

%

 

 

20,126.9

 

 

 

240.6

 

 

 

4.84

%

Loans held for sale

 

 

40.3

 

 

 

0.6

 

 

 

6.17

%

 

 

62.3

 

 

 

0.7

 

 

 

4.41

%

 

 

20.6

 

 

 

0.3

 

 

 

4.92

%

US Treasury and government agency securities

 

 

124.7

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

2.37

%

 

 

145.0

 

 

 

0.8

 

 

 

2.30

%

 

 

123.8

 

 

 

0.7

 

 

 

2.25

%

Mortgage-backed securities and

   collateralized mortgage obligations

 

 

5,139.5

 

 

 

31.3

 

 

 

2.44

%

 

 

5,162.7

 

 

 

32.0

 

 

 

2.48

%

 

 

4,599.4

 

 

 

29.9

 

 

 

2.60

%

Municipals (te)

 

 

877.2

 

 

 

6.7

 

 

 

3.07

%

 

 

888.1

 

 

 

6.9

 

 

 

3.09

%

 

 

930.0

 

 

 

7.4

 

 

 

3.17

%

Other securities

 

 

8.0

 

 

 

0.1

 

 

 

4.29

%

 

 

5.8

 

 

0.0

 

 

 

4.61

%

 

 

3.5

 

 

0.0

 

 

 

3.09

%

Total securities (te) (c)

 

 

6,149.4

 

 

 

38.9

 

 

 

2.53

%

 

 

6,201.6

 

 

 

39.7

 

 

 

2.56

%

 

 

5,656.7

 

 

 

38.0

 

 

 

2.69

%

Total short-term investments

 

 

206.9

 

 

 

0.5

 

 

 

0.87

%

 

 

139.6

 

 

 

0.5

 

 

 

1.51

%

 

 

216.2

 

 

 

1.2

 

 

 

2.18

%

Total earning assets (te)

 

$

27,630.7

 

 

$

280.8

 

 

 

4.08

%

 

$

27,441.5

 

 

$

289.5

 

 

 

4.20

%

 

$

26,020.4

 

 

$

280.1

 

 

 

4.35

%

Average interest-bearing liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest-bearing transaction and savings deposits

 

$

8,798.5

 

 

$

12.7

 

 

 

0.58

%

 

$

8,803.7

 

 

$

14.4

 

 

 

0.65

%

 

$

8,082.6

 

 

$

14.7

 

 

 

0.74

%

Time deposits

 

 

3,513.2

 

 

 

15.4

 

 

 

1.76

%

 

 

3,364.4

 

 

 

16.4

 

 

 

1.93

%

 

 

3,743.3

 

 

 

18.0

 

 

 

1.95

%

Public funds

 

 

3,252.2

 

 

 

10.8

 

 

 

1.33

%

 

 

3,079.0

 

 

 

12.0

 

 

 

1.55

%

 

 

3,060.5

 

 

 

13.4

 

 

 

1.78

%

Total interest-bearing deposits

 

 

15,563.9

 

 

 

38.9

 

 

 

1.01

%

 

 

15,247.1

 

 

 

42.8

 

 

 

1.11

%

 

 

14,886.4

 

 

 

46.1

 

 

 

1.26

%

Short-term borrowings

 

 

2,150.2

 

 

 

4.5

 

 

 

0.83

%

 

 

2,393.4

 

 

 

7.1

 

 

 

1.19

%

 

 

1,684.9

 

 

 

8.1

 

 

 

1.92

%

Long-term debt

 

 

231.4

 

 

 

2.8

 

 

 

4.76

%

 

 

242.5

 

 

 

2.9

 

 

 

4.79

%

 

 

225.0

 

 

 

2.8

 

 

 

4.99

%

Total borrowings

 

 

2,381.6

 

 

 

7.3

 

 

 

1.22

%

 

 

2,635.9

 

 

 

10.0

 

 

 

1.51

%

 

 

1,909.9

 

 

 

10.9

 

 

 

2.30

%

Total interest-bearing liabilities

 

 

17,945.5

 

 

 

46.2

 

 

 

1.03

%

 

 

17,883.0

 

 

 

52.8

 

 

 

1.17

%

 

 

16,796.3

 

 

 

57.0

 

 

 

1.38

%

Net interest-free funding sources

 

 

9,685.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,558.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,224.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of funds

 

$

27,630.7

 

 

$

46.2

 

 

 

0.67

%

 

$

27,441.5

 

 

$

52.8

 

 

 

0.76

%

 

$

26,020.4

 

 

$

57.0

 

 

 

0.89

%

Net interest spread (te)

 

 

 

 

 

$

234.6

 

 

 

3.05

%

 

 

 

 

 

$

236.7

 

 

 

3.02

%

 

 

 

 

 

$

223.1

 

 

 

2.97

%

Net interest margin

 

$

27,630.7

 

 

$

234.6

 

 

 

3.41

%

 

$

27,441.5

 

 

$

236.7

 

 

 

3.43

%

 

$

26,020.4

 

 

$

223.1

 

 

 

3.46

%

 

(a)

Taxable equivalent (te) amounts were calculated using a federal income tax rate of 21%.

(b)

Includes nonaccrual loans.

(c)

Average securities do not include unrealized holding gains/losses on available for sale securities.

(d)

Included in interest income is net purchase accounting accretion of $6.2 million, $8.7 million and $5.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020, December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019, respectively.

 

 

Provision for Credit Losses

During the first quarter of 2020, we recorded a provision for credit losses totaling $246.8 million, up from $9.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 and $18.0 million in the first quarter of 2019. The first quarter of 2020 provision expense includes an increase to the allowance for credit losses of $203.0 million related to the update of expected lifetime credit losses as a result of the impact of the pandemic and widespread economic shutdown. The allowance increase was comprised of $185.3 million of allowance for loan losses and a $17.7 million reserve for unfunded commitments. Net charge-offs in the first quarter of 2020 were $43.8 million, or 0.83% of

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average total loans on an annualized basis, up from $9.5 million or 0.18% in the fourth quarter of 2019, and $17.9 million, or 0.36% in the first quarter of 2019. The first quarter of 2020 included $35.9 million of energy charge-offs in our reserve based lending subsector, with virtually no energy charge-offs in the fourth or first quarters of 2019. The first quarter of 2019 included a $10.1 million charge-off related to a lease financing facility fraud.

The discussion of Allowance for Credit Losses and Asset Quality later in this Item provides additional information on these changes and on general credit quality.

Noninterest Income

Noninterest income totaled $84.4 million for the first quarter of 2020, up $1.5 million, or 2%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $13.9 million, or 20%, compared to the first quarter of 2019. The increase in noninterest income linked-quarter was primarily due to a $1.5 million gain on the sale of historic tax credits and higher income on bank-owned life insurance, partially offset by lower transactional and trust fees. The increase in noninterest income compared to the prior year was due largely to higher derivative and secondary mortgage income driven by the lower interest rate environment as well as increased transaction and other fees from higher activity due to the MidSouth acquisition.

Fees were collected as usual for most of the first quarter of 2020. As noted earlier, we began waiving fees on certain products in mid-March to provide relief to our customers during the economic shutdown. Depending on the duration of the impact of the pandemic on our customers, fee waivers will impact our results in future quarters. Further, changes in consumer spending habits in response to economic uncertainty are expected to negatively impact other sources of noninterest income, such as bank card and ATM fees.

The components of noninterest income are presented in the following table for the indicated periods.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Service charges on deposit accounts

 

$

22,837

 

 

$

23,382

 

 

$

20,367

 

Trust fees

 

 

14,806

 

 

 

15,483

 

 

 

15,124

 

Bank card and ATM fees

 

 

17,362

 

 

 

17,913

 

 

 

15,290

 

Investment and annuity fees and insurance commissions

 

 

7,150

 

 

 

6,407

 

 

 

6,528

 

Secondary mortgage market operations

 

 

6,053

 

 

 

5,981

 

 

 

3,726

 

Income from bank-owned life insurance

 

 

4,266

 

 

 

3,451

 

 

 

3,265

 

Credit related fees

 

 

3,065

 

 

 

2,879

 

 

 

2,595

 

Income from derivatives

 

 

3,871

 

 

 

4,225

 

 

 

809

 

Other miscellaneous

 

 

4,977

 

 

 

3,203

 

 

 

2,799

 

Total noninterest income

 

$

84,387

 

 

$

82,924

 

 

$

70,503

 

 

Service charges on deposits totaled $22.8 million for the first quarter of 2020, down $0.5 million, or 2%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $2.5 million, or 12%, from the first quarter of 2019. The decrease from the prior quarter was due to one less processing day and lower overdraft fees, as noted above. The increase from the first quarter of 2019 was primarily attributable to the MidSouth acquisition in September 2019. 

Trust fees decreased $0.7 million, or 4%, linked quarter largely due to the downturn in the market during the quarter and strong fourth quarter results. Compared to the first quarter of 2019, trust fees decreased $0.3 million, or 2%, largely due to changes in market conditions. 

Bank card and ATM fees totaled $17.4 million for the first quarter of 2020, down $0.6 million, or 3%, from the fourth quarter of 2019, primarily due to one fewer day in the quarter. Compared to the first quarter of 2019, bank card and ATM fees were up $2.1 million, or 14%, primarily due to increased card activity and the acquisition of MidSouth.

Investment and annuity fees and insurance commissions increased $0.7 million, or 12%, compared to fourth quarter 2019 primarily due to an increase in annuity fees, corporate underwriting fees, equities and bond trading fees, partially offset by lower insurance commissions. Investment and annuity fees and insurance commissions increased $0.6 million, or 10%, compared to first quarter 2019 due to higher investment fees, insurance fees, and underwriting fees partially offset by a decrease in annuity sales. 

Income from secondary mortgage market operations was up $0.1 million, or 1%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $2.3 million, or 62%, from the first quarter of 2019. Origination volume during the first quarter of 2020, particularly when compared to the first quarter of 2019, was positively impacted by the rate environment. Secondary mortgage market operations income will vary based on origination volume and the timing of subsequent sales.

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Income from bank-owned life insurance was $4.3 million in the first quarter of 2020, up $0.8 million, or 24%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $1.0 million, or 31%, from the first quarter of 2019. The increase from the fourth quarter of 2019 was due to mortality gains and the increase from the first quarter of 2019 is attributable to both higher mortality gains and incremental earnings on the additional investment of $33 million in April 2019.

Credit related fees were $3.1 million for the first quarter of 2020, up $0.2 million, or 6%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $0.5 million, or 18%, from the first quarter of 2019. The linked quarter increase was due to both higher unused commitment fees and letter of credit fees, with the increase over the same quarter last year primarily due to higher unused commitment fees.

Income from our customer interest rate derivative program totaled $3.9 million for the first quarter of 2020 compared to $4.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 and $0.8 million for the first quarter of 2019. Increased derivative income reflects increased transaction volume due to customer demand given the lower interest rates in the first quarter of 2020. Derivative income can be volatile and is dependent upon the composition of the portfolio, customer sales activity and market value adjustments due to market interest rate movement.

Other miscellaneous income was $5.0 million in the first quarter of 2020, up $1.8 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $2.2 million compared to the first quarter of 2019. The increase compared to the prior quarter was largely due to a $1.5 million gain on the sale of historic tax credits. The increase compared to the first quarter of 2019 includes the historic tax credit sale, an increase of $0.6 million in income from investments in small business investment companies and $0.3 million in higher syndication fees.

Noninterest Expense

Noninterest expense for the first quarter of 2020 was $203.3 million, up $5.5 million, or 3%, from the fourth quarter of 2019, and up $27.6 million, or 16%, from the first quarter of 2019. There were no nonoperating expenses in the first quarters of 2020 and 2019, and there were $3.9 million of nonoperating expenses in the fourth quarter of 2019 related to the acquisition and operational integration of MidSouth. Items identified as nonoperating are those that, when excluded from a reported financial measure, provide management or the reader with a measure that may be more indicative of forward-looking trends in our business.

The components of noninterest and nonoperating expense for the periods indicated are presented in the following tables.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Operating expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compensation expense

 

$

91,071

 

 

$

96,510

 

 

$

83,968

 

Employee benefits

 

 

22,478

 

 

 

20,556

 

 

 

19,730

 

Personnel expense

 

 

113,549

 

 

 

117,066

 

 

 

103,698

 

Net occupancy expense

 

 

12,522

 

 

 

12,835

 

 

 

11,984

 

Equipment expense

 

 

4,617

 

 

 

4,687

 

 

 

4,679

 

Data processing expense

 

 

22,047

 

 

 

22,030

 

 

 

19,331

 

Professional services expense

 

 

9,741

 

 

 

9,470

 

 

 

8,168

 

Amortization of intangible assets

 

 

5,345

 

 

 

5,770

 

 

 

5,138

 

Deposit insurance and regulatory fees

 

 

5,815

 

 

 

5,356

 

 

 

5,406

 

Other real estate and foreclosed asset (income) expense

 

 

10,130

 

 

 

(788

)

 

 

(991

)

Advertising

 

 

4,234

 

 

 

3,483

 

 

 

3,080

 

Corporate value and franchise taxes

 

 

4,296

 

 

 

3,583

 

 

 

4,042

 

Telecommunications and postage

 

 

4,065

 

 

 

4,149

 

 

 

3,466

 

Entertainment and contributions

 

 

2,447

 

 

 

2,562

 

 

 

2,708

 

Travel expense

 

 

1,111

 

 

 

1,664

 

 

 

1,098

 

Printing and supplies

 

 

1,108

 

 

 

1,227

 

 

 

1,169

 

Tax credit investment amortization

 

 

961

 

 

 

1,285

 

 

 

1,138

 

Other retirement expense

 

 

(6,122

)

 

 

(4,152

)

 

 

(4,105

)

Other miscellaneous

 

 

7,469

 

 

 

7,629

 

 

 

5,691

 

Total noninterest expense

 

$

203,335

 

 

$

197,856

 

 

$

175,700

 

 

 

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Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Nonoperating expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personnel expense

 

$

 

 

$

2,504

 

 

$

 

Net occupancy expense

 

 

 

 

 

54

 

 

 

 

Equipment expense

 

 

 

 

 

487

 

 

 

 

Data processing expense

 

 

 

 

 

655

 

 

 

 

Other real estate (income) expense

 

 

 

 

 

130

 

 

 

 

Other expense

 

 

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

Total nonoperating expenses

 

$

 

 

$

3,856

 

 

$

 

Personnel expense totaled $113.5 million for the first quarter of 2020, down $3.5 million, or 3%, compared to the prior quarter, primarily related to lower bonus and incentives, including a reduction of $2.5 million of merger-related expenses from the MidSouth acquisition reflected in the fourth quarter of 2019, partially offset by seasonably higher benefits expense in first quarter 2020. Compared to the first quarter of 2019, personnel costs were up $9.9 million, or 9%, primarily related to annual merit increases, and up $3.0 million as a result of the acquisition of MidSouth.

Occupancy and equipment expenses totaled $17.1 million in the first quarter of 2020, down $ 0.4 million, or 2%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $0.5 million, or 3%, from the first quarter of 2019. The linked-quarter decrease was largely due to lower expenses related to leases that were acquired with MidSouth that were discontinued in the fourth quarter. The increase compared to the first quarter of 2019 is largely due to additional expenses related to locations acquired with the MidSouth acquisition.  

Data processing expense was $22.0 million for the first quarter of 2020, flat to the fourth quarter of 2019, and up $2.7 million, or 14%, compared to the first quarter of 2019. Merger-related expenses reflected in the fourth quarter ceased, but were offset by an increase in investments in new technology. The increase from the first quarter of 2019 was primarily due to investments in new technology, as well as expenses resulting from increased card activity.

Professional services expense for the first quarter of 2020 totaled $9.7 million, up $0.3 million, or 3%, compared to the previous quarter and $1.6 million, or 19%, from the first quarter of 2019. The increase over the fourth quarter of 2019 was due to higher consulting fees and the increase over the first quarter of 2019 was due to higher legal fees related to problem credits as well as a higher level of expense related to the investment in new technology.

Deposit insurance and regulatory fees totaled $5.8 million, up $0.5 million, or 9%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and $0.4 million, or 8%, from the first quarter of 2019. The increase from both the prior quarter and the same period in 2019 is primarily due to an increase in the risk-based assessment fees over prior periods.

Corporate value and franchise tax expense for the first quarter of 2020 totaled $4.3 million, up $0.7 million, or 20%, compared to the prior quarter and $0.3 million, or 6%, compared to the same quarter last year. The increase from both the prior quarter and the first quarter of 2019 is primarily attributable to the impact the acquisition of MidSouth had on our operations and the corresponding effect on our corporate value and franchise tax calculations.

Business development-related expenses (including advertising, travel, entertainment and contributions) were $7.8 million for the first quarter of 2020, up $0.1 million, or 1%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $0.9 million, or 13%, from the first quarter of 2019. The linked-quarter and year over year increase was largely due to an increase in advertising.

Other real estate and foreclosed asset expense was $10.1 million for the first quarter of 2020, compared to income of $0.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 and income of $1.0 million in the first quarter of 2019. First quarter of 2020 expense includes a non-cash write-down totaling $9.8 million of equity interests in two energy-related companies received in borrower bankruptcy restructurings. Gains on sales exceeded expenses in both the fourth and first quarters of 2019.

All other expenses, excluding amortization of intangibles, totaled $7.5 million for the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of $2.7 million, or 26% from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $0.1 million, or 2% from the first quarter of 2019. The linked-quarter and prior year variances both reflect lower other retirement expense due to performance of pension plan assets. The favorable impact of lower retirement expense compared to the prior year was offset by higher telecommunications and other miscellaneous expense.  

 

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Income Taxes

The effective income tax rate for the first quarter of 2020 was approximately 17.5%, compared to 15.5% in the fourth quarter of 2019 and 17.6% in the first quarter of 2018. The current quarter’s net loss resulting from economic conditions attributable to the pandemic has significantly reduced our estimated annual effective tax rate. The tax benefit recorded to date is comprised of a 10.4% estimated annual effective tax rate in addition to discrete items predominantly related to the settlement of tax matters and the anticipated impact from the net operating loss carryback provision granted under CARES Act. Refer to the table below table for details.

The CARES Act provides relief for individuals and businesses that have been negatively impacted by the pandemic.  The business-specific relief granted is broad-reaching and ranges from operational relief (e.g., liquidity through payroll tax credits or deferrals) to income tax provisions. The income tax provisions that would impact the effective tax rate include relief related to net operating loss carrybacks to a 35% statutory tax regime, interest deductibility enhancements, accelerated alternative minimum tax credit refunds, and a technical correction to the qualified improvement property classification. We are still reviewing and quantifying the extent of the impact from the CARES Act. As of first quarter 2020, the only impact from the CARES Act reflected in our effective tax rate relates to our intent to carryback the net operating loss attribute that we inherited from an acquired entity.

Our effective tax rate has historically varied from the federal statutory rate primarily because of tax-exempt income and tax credits. Interest income on bonds issued by or loans to state and municipal governments and authorities, and earnings from the life insurance contract program are the major components of tax-exempt income. The main source of tax credits has been investments in tax-advantaged securities and tax credit projects. These investments are made primarily in the markets the Company serves and are directed at tax credits issued under the Federal and State New Market Tax Credit (“NMTC”) programs, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (“LIHTC”) programs, as well as pre-2018 Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (“QZAB”) and Qualified School Construction Bonds (“QSCB”). These investments generate tax credits, which reduce current and future taxes and are recognized when earned as a benefit in the provision for income taxes.

We have invested in NMTC projects through investments in our own Community Development Entity (“CDE”), as well as other unrelated CDEs. Federal tax credits from NMTC investments are recognized over a seven-year period, while recognition of the benefits from state tax credits varies from three to five years. Our LIHTC investments to date are through variable interest entities for which the Company is not the primary beneficiary and, therefore, are not consolidated. LIHTC credits from the affordable housing projects are recognized over a ten-year period, beginning with the year the rental activity begins, as a reduction of income tax expense.

Based on tax credit investments that have been made to date in 2020, we expect to realize benefits from federal and state tax credits over the next three years totaling $7.8 million, $8.6 million and $8.5 million for 2021, 2022, and 2023, respectively. We intend to continue making investments in tax credit projects. However, our ability to access new credits will depend upon, among other factors, federal and state tax policies and the level of competition for such credits.

The following table reconciles reported income tax expense to that computed at the statutory federal tax rate for the indicated periods.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Taxes computed at statutory rate

 

$

(28,256

)

 

$

22,904

 

 

$

20,163

 

Tax credits:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QZAB/QSCB

 

 

(572

)

 

 

(710

)

 

 

(710

)

NMTC - Federal and State

 

 

(1,258

)

 

 

(1,851

)

 

 

(1,402

)

LIHTC and other tax credits

 

 

(125

)

 

 

(500

)

 

 

 

Total tax credits

 

 

(1,955

)

 

 

(3,061

)

 

 

(2,112

)

State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit

 

 

(1,972

)

 

 

2,024

 

 

 

1,905

 

Tax-exempt interest

 

 

(2,756

)

 

 

(2,863

)

 

 

(2,417

)

Life insurance contracts

 

 

(560

)

 

 

(1,030

)

 

 

(678

)

Employee share-based compensation

 

 

(43

)

 

 

(411

)

 

 

(272

)

Impact from interim estimated effective tax rate

 

 

20,390

 

 

 

1,038

 

 

 

(776

)

FDIC Assessment Disallowance

 

 

584

 

 

 

528

 

 

 

545

 

Impact from CARES Act

 

 

(7,128

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Impact from tax settlement

 

 

(3,690

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to provision adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

(1,459

)

 

 

 

Other, net

 

 

1,866

 

 

 

(734

)

 

 

492

 

Income tax expense

 

$

(23,520

)

 

$

16,936

 

 

$

16,850

 

 

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Selected Financial Data

The following tables contain selected financial data as of the dates and for the periods indicated.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Common Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

1.03

 

 

$

0.91

 

Diluted

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

1.03

 

 

$

0.91

 

Cash dividends paid

 

$

0.27

 

 

$

0.27

 

 

$

0.27

 

Book value per share (period-end)

 

$

39.65

 

 

$

39.62

 

 

$

37.23

 

Tangible book value per share (period-end)

 

$

28.56

 

 

$

28.63

 

 

$

26.92

 

Weighted average number of shares (000s):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

88,188

 

 

 

85,688

 

Diluted

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

88,315

 

 

 

85,800

 

Period-end number of shares (000s)

 

 

86,275

 

 

 

87,515

 

 

 

85,710

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Income Statement:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

$

277,343

 

 

$

285,957

 

 

$

276,283

 

Interest income (te) (a)

 

 

280,791

 

 

 

289,537

 

 

 

280,107

 

Interest expense

 

 

46,155

 

 

 

52,801

 

 

 

57,029

 

Net interest income (te)

 

 

234,636

 

 

 

236,736

 

 

 

223,078

 

Provision for credit losses

 

 

246,793

 

 

 

9,156

 

 

 

18,043

 

Noninterest income

 

 

84,387

 

 

 

82,924

 

 

 

70,503

 

Noninterest expense (excluding amortization of intangibles)

 

 

197,990

 

 

 

192,086

 

 

 

170,562

 

Amortization of intangibles

 

 

5,345

 

 

 

5,770

 

 

 

5,138

 

Income before income taxes

 

 

(134,553

)

 

 

109,068

 

 

 

96,014

 

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

 

(23,520

)

 

 

16,936

 

 

 

16,850

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

(111,033

)

 

$

92,132

 

 

$

79,164

 

For informational purposes only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonoperating items, pretax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merger-related expenses

 

$

 

 

$

3,856

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Performance Ratios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return on average assets

 

 

(1.46

)%

 

 

1.20

%

 

 

1.13

%

Return on average common equity

 

 

(12.72

)%

 

 

10.52

%

 

 

10.30

%

Return on average tangible common equity

 

 

(17.51

)%

 

 

14.62

%

 

 

14.38

%

Earning asset yield (te) (a)

 

 

4.08

%

 

 

4.20

%

 

 

4.35

%

Total cost of funds

 

 

0.67

%

 

 

0.76

%

 

 

0.89

%

Net interest margin (te)

 

 

3.41

%

 

 

3.43

%

 

 

3.46

%

Noninterest income to total revenue (te)

 

 

26.45

%

 

 

25.94

%

 

 

24.01

%

Efficiency ratio (b)

 

 

62.06

%

 

 

58.88

%

 

 

58.10

%

Average loan/deposit ratio

 

 

87.28

%

 

 

88.22

%

 

 

87.08

%

FTE employees (period-end)

 

 

4,148

 

 

 

4,136

 

 

 

3,885

 

Capital Ratios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stockholders' equity to total assets

 

 

10.77

%

 

 

11.33

%

 

 

11.20

%

Tangible common equity ratio (c)

 

 

8.00

%

 

 

8.45

%

 

 

8.36

%

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(a)

Taxable equivalent (te) amounts were calculated using a federal income tax rate of 21%.

(b)

The efficiency ratio is noninterest expense to total net interest (te) and noninterest income, excluding amortization of purchased intangibles and nonoperating items.

(c)

The tangible common equity ratio is common stockholders’ equity less intangible assets divided by total assets less intangible assets.

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

($ in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Asset Quality Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonaccrual loans (a)(b)

 

$

254,058

 

 

$

245,833

 

 

$

204,831

 

Restructured loans - still accruing

 

 

34,251

 

 

 

61,265

 

 

 

117,578

 

Total nonperforming loans

 

 

288,309

 

 

 

307,098

 

 

 

322,409

 

Other real estate (ORE) and foreclosed assets

 

 

18,460

 

 

 

30,405

 

 

 

27,148

 

Total nonperforming assets

 

$

306,769

 

 

$

337,503

 

 

$

349,557

 

Accruing loans 90 days past due (c)(d)

 

$

17,790

 

 

$

6,582

 

 

$

20,308

 

Net charge-offs

 

 

43,764

 

 

 

9,503

 

 

 

17,869

 

Allowance for loan losses

 

 

426,003

 

 

 

191,251

 

 

 

194,688

 

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments

 

 

48,992

 

 

 

3,974

 

 

 

 

Allowance for credit losses

 

 

474,995

 

 

 

195,225

 

 

 

194,688

 

Total provision for credit losses

 

 

246,793

 

 

 

9,156

 

 

 

18,043

 

Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonperforming assets to loans, ORE and foreclosed assets

 

 

1.42

%

 

 

1.59

%

 

 

1.74

%

Accruing loans 90 days past due to loans

 

 

0.08

%

 

 

0.03

%

 

 

0.10

%

Nonperforming assets + accruing loans 90 days past due to loans, ORE and foreclosed assets

 

 

1.51

%

 

 

1.62

%

 

 

1.84

%

Net charge-offs to average loans

 

 

0.83

%

 

 

0.18

%

 

 

0.36

%

Allowance for loan losses to period-end loans

 

 

1.98

%

 

 

0.90

%

 

 

0.97

%

Allowance for credit losses to period-end loans

 

 

2.21

%

 

 

0.92

%

 

 

0.97

%

Allowance for loan losses to nonperforming loans + accruing loans 90 days past due

 

 

139.17

%

 

 

60.97

%

 

 

56.81

%

(a)

Included in nonaccrual loans are nonaccruing restructured loans totaling $117.9 million, $132.5 million and $105.9 million at March 31, 2020, December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019, respectively.

(b)

Nonaccrual loans do not include purchased credit impaired loans accounted for under ASC 310-30 that would have otherwise been considered nonperforming, totaling $17.5 million and $12.2 million, at 12/31/2019 and 3/31/2019, respectively. Effective 1/1/2020, with the adoption of ASC 326, such metrics include both originated and acquired balances.

(c)

Excludes 90+ accruing troubled debt restructured loans already reflected in total nonperforming loans of $1.5 million at March 31, 2019.

(d)

Loans past due 90 days or more do not include purchased credit impaired loans accounted for under ASC 310-30 that would have otherwise been considered delinquent, totaling $8.3 million and $2.4 million, at 12/31/2019 and 3/31/2019, respectively. Effective 1/1/2020, with the adoption of ASC 326, such metrics include both originated and acquired balances.

 

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March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Period-End Balance Sheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total loans

 

$

21,515,681

 

 

$

21,212,755

 

 

$

21,035,952

 

 

$

20,175,812

 

 

$

20,112,838

 

Loans held for sale

 

 

67,587

 

 

 

55,864

 

 

 

75,789

 

 

 

36,150

 

 

 

27,437

 

Securities

 

 

6,374,490

 

 

 

6,243,313

 

 

 

6,404,719

 

 

 

5,725,735

 

 

 

5,577,522

 

Short-term investments

 

 

876,314

 

 

 

110,229

 

 

 

49,513

 

 

 

151,062

 

 

 

163,762

 

Earning assets

 

 

28,834,072

 

 

 

27,622,161

 

 

 

27,565,973

 

 

 

26,088,759

 

 

 

25,881,559

 

Allowance for loan losses

 

 

(426,003

)

 

 

(191,251

)

 

 

(195,572

)

 

 

(195,625

)

 

 

(194,688

)

Goodwill and other intangible assets

 

 

956,916

 

 

 

962,260

 

 

 

977,369

 

 

 

878,051

 

 

 

883,097

 

Other assets

 

 

2,396,708

 

 

 

2,207,587

 

 

 

2,195,779

 

 

 

1,990,678

 

 

 

1,920,263

 

Total assets

 

$

31,761,693

 

 

$

30,600,757

 

 

$

30,543,549

 

 

$

28,761,863

 

 

$

28,490,231

 

Noninterest-bearing deposits

 

$

9,204,631

 

 

$

8,775,632

 

 

$

8,686,383

 

 

$

8,114,632

 

 

$

8,158,658

 

Interest-bearing transaction and savings deposits

 

 

8,931,192

 

 

 

8,845,097

 

 

 

8,758,993

 

 

 

8,034,801

 

 

 

8,224,203

 

Interest-bearing public funds deposits

 

 

3,251,445

 

 

 

3,364,416

 

 

 

2,954,966

 

 

 

3,159,790

 

 

 

3,229,589

 

Time deposits

 

 

3,621,228

 

 

 

2,818,430

 

 

 

3,800,957

 

 

 

3,926,819

 

 

 

3,767,844

 

Total interest-bearing deposits

 

 

15,803,865

 

 

 

15,027,943

 

 

 

15,514,916

 

 

 

15,121,410

 

 

 

15,221,636

 

Total deposits

 

 

25,008,496

 

 

 

23,803,575

 

 

 

24,201,299

 

 

 

23,236,042

 

 

 

23,380,294

 

Short-term borrowings

 

 

2,673,283

 

 

 

2,714,872

 

 

 

2,108,815

 

 

 

1,641,598

 

 

 

1,388,735

 

Long-term debt

 

 

225,606

 

 

 

233,462

 

 

 

246,641

 

 

 

232,754

 

 

 

224,962

 

Other liabilities

 

 

433,244

 

 

 

381,163

 

 

 

400,414

 

 

 

332,554

 

 

 

305,665

 

Stockholders' equity

 

 

3,421,064

 

 

 

3,467,685

 

 

 

3,586,380

 

 

 

3,318,915

 

 

 

3,190,575

 

Total liabilities & stockholders' equity

 

$

31,761,693

 

 

$

30,600,757

 

 

$

30,543,549

 

 

$

28,761,863

 

 

$

28,490,231

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Average Balance Sheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total loans

 

$

21,234,016

 

 

$

21,037,942

 

 

$

20,126,948

 

Loans held for sale

 

 

40,318

 

 

 

62,272

 

 

 

20,618

 

Securities (a)

 

 

6,149,432

 

 

 

6,201,612

 

 

 

5,656,689

 

Short-term investments

 

 

206,886

 

 

 

139,633

 

 

 

216,192

 

Earning assets

 

 

27,630,652

 

 

 

27,441,459

 

 

 

26,020,447

 

Allowance for loan losses

 

 

(241,364

)

 

 

(195,616

)

 

 

(196,384

)

Goodwill and other intangible assets

 

 

959,500

 

 

 

973,601

 

 

 

885,381

 

Other assets

 

 

2,314,813

 

 

 

2,123,849

 

 

 

1,742,104

 

Total assets

 

$

30,663,601

 

 

$

30,343,293

 

 

$

28,451,548

 

Noninterest-bearing deposits

 

$

8,763,359

 

 

$

8,601,323

 

 

$

8,227,698

 

Interest-bearing transaction and savings deposits

 

 

8,798,483

 

 

 

8,803,703

 

 

 

8,082,584

 

Interest-bearing public fund deposits

 

 

3,252,233

 

 

 

3,079,001

 

 

 

3,060,565

 

Time deposits

 

 

3,513,167

 

 

 

3,364,347

 

 

 

3,743,292

 

Total interest-bearing deposits

 

 

15,563,883

 

 

 

15,247,051

 

 

 

14,886,441

 

Total deposits

 

 

24,327,242

 

 

 

23,848,374

 

 

 

23,114,139

 

Short-term borrowings

 

 

2,150,164

 

 

 

2,393,444

 

 

 

1,684,904

 

Long-term debt

 

 

231,438

 

 

 

242,473

 

 

 

224,966

 

Other liabilities

 

 

445,030

 

 

 

385,309

 

 

 

309,488

 

Stockholders' equity

 

 

3,509,727

 

 

 

3,473,693

 

 

 

3,118,051

 

Total liabilities & stockholders' equity

 

$

30,663,601

 

 

$

30,343,293

 

 

$

28,451,548

 

 

(a)

Average securities do not include unrealized holding gains/losses on available for sale securities.

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Operating revenue (te) and operating pre-provision net revenue (te)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Net interest income

 

$

231,188

 

 

$

233,156

 

 

$

222,939

 

 

$

219,868

 

 

$

219,254

 

Noninterest income

 

 

84,387

 

 

 

82,924

 

 

 

83,230

 

 

 

79,250

 

 

 

70,503

 

Total revenue

 

$

315,575

 

 

$

316,080

 

 

$

306,169

 

 

$

299,118

 

 

$

289,757

 

Tax-equivalent adjustment (a)

 

 

3,448

 

 

 

3,580

 

 

 

3,652

 

 

 

3,718

 

 

 

3,824

 

Operating revenue (te)

 

$

319,023

 

 

$

319,660

 

 

$

309,821

 

 

$

302,836

 

 

$

293,581

 

Noninterest expense

 

 

(203,335

)

 

 

(197,856

)

 

 

(213,554

)

 

 

(183,567

)

 

 

(175,700

)

Nonoperating expense

 

 

-

 

 

 

3,856

 

 

 

28,810

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Operating pre-prevision net revenue (te)

 

$

115,688

 

 

$

125,660

 

 

$

125,077

 

 

$

119,269

 

 

$

117,881

 

 

Operating earnings per share - diluted

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

(111,033

)

 

$

92,132

 

 

$

67,807

 

 

$

88,277

 

 

$

79,164

 

Net income allocated to participating securities

 

 

(427

)

 

 

(1,566

)

 

 

(1,141

)

 

 

(1,502

)

 

 

(1,337

)

Net income (loss) available to common shareholders

 

 

(111,460

)

 

 

90,566

 

 

 

66,666

 

 

 

86,775

 

 

 

77,827

 

Nonoperating items, net of applicable income tax

 

 

-

 

 

 

3,046

 

 

 

22,760

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Nonoperating items allocated to participating securities

 

 

-

 

 

 

(52

)

 

 

(383

)

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Operating earnings (loss) available to common shareholders

 

$

(111,460

)

 

$

93,560

 

 

$

89,043

 

 

$

86,775

 

 

$

77,827

 

Weighted average common shares - diluted

 

 

87,186

 

 

 

88,315

 

 

 

86,462

 

 

 

85,835

 

 

 

85,800

 

Earnings per share - diluted

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

1.03

 

 

$

0.77

 

 

$

1.01

 

 

$

0.91

 

Operating earnings per share - diluted

 

$

(1.28

)

 

$

1.06

 

 

$

1.03

 

 

$

1.01

 

 

$

0.91

 

 

(a)

Taxable equivalent adjustment (te) amounts are calculated using a federal income tax rate of 21%.

LIQUIDITY

Liquidity management is focused on ensuring that funds are available to meet the cash flow requirements of our depositors and borrowers, while also meeting the operating, capital and strategic cash flow needs of the Company, the Bank and other subsidiaries. As part of the overall asset and liability management process, liquidity management strategies and measurements have been developed to manage and monitor liquidity risk. Management has taken deliberate, proactive measures to manage liquidity during this period of unprecedented economic uncertainty. Anticipated further disruption of financial and credit markets have prompted the Company to enact strategies to strengthen liquidity through various measures to ensure we have funds available to meet the needs of our day to day operations and those of our customers. At March 31, 2020, we had nearly $14 billion in net available sources of funds, summarized as follows:

 

 

March 31, 2020

 

(in millions)

 

Total

Available

 

 

Amount

Used

 

 

Net

Availability

 

Common Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Securities

 

$

2,496

 

 

$

 

 

$

2,496

 

External Sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Home Loan Bank

 

 

6,235

 

 

 

3,350

 

 

 

2,885

 

Federal Reserve Bank

 

 

4,388

 

 

 

 

 

 

4,388

 

Brokered Deposits

 

 

3,751

 

 

 

1,079

 

 

 

2,672

 

Other

 

 

1,504

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,504

 

Total Liquidity

 

$

18,374

 

 

$

4,429

 

 

$

13,945

 

The asset portion of the balance sheet provides liquidity primarily through loan principal repayments, maturities and repayments of investment securities and occasional sales of various assets. Short-term investments such as federal funds sold, securities purchased

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under agreements to resell and interest-bearing deposits with the Federal Reserve Bank or with other commercial banks are additional sources of liquidity to meet cash flow requirements. Free securities represent unpledged securities that can be sold or used as collateral for borrowings, and include unpledged securities assigned to short-term dealer repurchase agreements or to the Federal Reserve Bank discount window. Management has established an internal target for the ratio of free securities to total securities to be 20% or more. As shown in the table below, our ratio of free securities to total securities was 25.42% at March 31, 2020, compared to 47.27% at December 31, 2019 and 33.57% at March 31, 2019. The total of pledged securities at March 31, 2020 was $4.8 billion, up $1.5 billion from December 31, 2019. The pledge of additional securities, part of our COVID-19 asset liability response strategy, provides enhanced liquidity through additional borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve. Securities and FHLB letters of credit are pledged as collateral related to public funds and repurchase agreements. Total securities and FHLB letters of credits of $6.5 billion at March 31, 2020 were up $136.3 million compared to December 31, 2019 and $834.3 million lower than March 31, 2019.

 

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

Liquidity Metrics

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Free securities / total securities

 

 

 

25.42

%

 

 

47.27

%

 

 

54.44

%

 

 

40.10

%

 

 

33.57

%

Core deposits / total deposits

 

 

 

90.48

%

 

 

93.54

%

 

 

90.31

%

 

 

89.30

%

 

 

89.98

%

Wholesale funds / core deposits

 

 

 

17.76

%

 

 

13.99

%

 

 

15.54

%

 

 

15.13

%

 

 

13.61

%

Quarter-to-date average loans /quarter-to-date average deposits

 

 

 

87.28

%

 

 

88.22

%

 

 

87.47

%

 

 

87.09

%

 

 

87.08

%

 

The liability portion of the balance sheet provides liquidity mainly through the Company’s ability to use cash sourced from various customers’ interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing deposit and sweep accounts. At March 31, 2020, deposits totaled $25.0 billion, an increase of $1.2 billion, or 5%, from December 31, 2019 and an increase of $1.6 billion, or 7%, from March 31, 2019. The increase over December 31, 2019 is due to an increase in brokered deposits and the increase compared to March 31, 2019 is due largely to the acquisition of $1.3 billion in deposits in the MidSouth transaction. Core deposits consist of total deposits excluding certificates of deposit (“CDs”) of $250,000 or more and brokered deposits. Core deposits totaled $22.6 billion at March 31, 2020, an increase of $361.1 million from December 31, 2019, and $1.6 billion from March 31, 2019. The ratio of core deposits to total deposits was 90.48% at March 31, 2020, compared to 93.54% at December 31, 2019 and 89.98% at March 31, 2019. Brokered deposits totaled $1.1 billion as of March 31, 2020, an increase of $1.0 billion compared to December 31, 2019 and a decrease of $131.2 million compared to March 31, 2019. The use of brokered deposits as a funding source is subject to certain policies regarding the amount, term and interest rate. In the second quarter of 2020, the Bank implemented a reciprocal deposit program that allows depositors to authorize and instruct the Bank to reciprocate their uninsured deposits with other FDIC insured financial institutions in order to obtain FDIC insurance on those deposits.

Purchases of federal funds, securities sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings from customers provide additional sources of liquidity to meet short-term funding requirements. Besides funding from customer sources, the Bank has a line of credit with the FHLB that is secured by blanket pledges of certain mortgage loans. At March 31, 2020, the Bank had borrowings of approximately $1.9 billion and had approximately $2.9 billion available under this line. As a part of the Company’s COVID-19 asset liability response strategy, the Bank increased its pledged securities by $1.5 billion to provide additional borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve. The unused borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve’s discount window is approximately $4.4 billion; there were no outstanding borrowings with the Federal Reserve at any date during any period covered by this report. In the second quarter of 2020, we began participation in the Federal Reserve’s Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility that extends credit to eligible financial institutions that originate PPP loans, with the loans pledged as collateral. Borrowings under this new facility will not impact existing unused borrowing capacity with the Federal Reserve.

The Company is offering loan modifications under Section 4013 of the CARES Act to offer assistance to our customers impacted by the pandemic. The Company has sufficient excess liquidity to cover cash flow reduction due the short-term loan payment deferrals.

Wholesale funds, which are comprised of short-term borrowings, long-term debt and brokered deposits were 17.76% of core deposits at March 31, 2020, compared to 13.99% at December 31, 2019 and 13.61% at March 31, 2019. The linked quarter increase in wholesale funds was primarily related to increases in brokered deposits and federal funds purchased, partially offset by a decrease in FHLB borrowing. The year over year increase in wholesale funds was primarily related to increases in FHLB borrowings and federal funds purchased, partially offset by a decrease in brokered deposits. The Company has established an internal target for wholesale funds to be less than 25% of core deposits. 

Another key measure used to monitor our liquidity position is the loan-to-deposit ratio (average loans outstanding for the reporting period divided by average deposits outstanding). The loan-to-deposit ratio measures the amount of funds the Company lends for each dollar of deposits on hand. Our average loan-to-deposit ratio for the first quarter of 2020 was 87.28%, compared to 88.22% for the fourth quarter of 2019 and 87.08% for the first quarter of 2019. Management has an established target range for the loan-to-deposit ratio of 87% to 89%, which could be exceeded under certain circumstances.

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Cash generated from operations is another important source of funds to meet liquidity needs. The consolidated statements of cash flows present operating cash flows and summarize all significant sources and uses of funds for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

Dividends received from the Bank have been the primary source of funds available to the Parent for the payment of dividends to our stockholders and for servicing its debt. The liquidity management process takes into account the various regulatory provisions that can limit the amount of dividends the Bank can distribute to the Parent. The Parent targets cash and other liquid assets to provide liquidity in an amount sufficient to fund approximately four quarters of anticipated common stockholder dividends, but will temporarily operate below that level if a return to the target can be achieved in the near-term.

, CAPITAL RESOURCES

Stockholders’ equity totaled $3.4 billion at March 31, 2020, down $46.6 million, or 1%, from December 31, 2019 and $230.5 million, or 7%, from March 31, 2019. The tangible common equity ratio was 8.00% at March 31, 2020, compared to 8.45% at December 31, 2019 and 8.36% at March 31, 2019. The decrease in the tangible common equity ratio from December 31, 2019 was primarily attributable to a decrease in net tangible retained earnings related to the pandemic, growth in tangible assets and the cumulative effect of the adoption of CECL, partially offset by net gains on fair value adjustments of securities available for sale and interest rate swaps included in other accumulated comprehensive income. The decrease from March 31, 2019 was mainly due to the Midsouth acquisition which occurred during the third quarter of 2019, dividends paid and the cumulative effect of the adoption of CECL, partially offset by net gains on fair value adjustments of securities available for sale and interest rate swaps included in other accumulated comprehensive income and net tangible retained earnings. Management has established an internal target for the tangible common equity ratio of at least 8.00%; however, management will allow the tangible common equity ratio to drop below 8.00% on a temporary basis if it believes that the shortfall can be replenished through normal operations within a short time frame.

The regulatory capital ratios of the Company and the Bank at March 31, 2020 remained well in excess of current regulatory minimum requirements. The Company and the Bank have been categorized as “well-capitalized” in the most recent notices received from our regulators. Both entities currently exceed all capital requirements of the Basel III requirements and continue to have excess capacity with the capital conservation buffer that must be met in order to engage in certain capital activities including, but not limited to paying stockholder dividends. Refer to the Supervision and Regulation section in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 for further discussion of our capital requirements.

The following table shows the regulatory capital ratios for the Company and the Bank as calculated under current rules for the indicated periods. The capital ratios as of March 31, 2020 reflect the election to use the interim final five-year transition rule issued on March 27, 2020 available for institutions required to adopt CECL as of January, 1, 2020. The new CECL transition rule allows for the option to delay for two years the estimated impact of CECL on regulatory capital (0%), followed by a three-year transition (25% in 2022, 50% in 2023, 75% in 2024, and 100% thereafter). In addition, the two-year delay also includes full impact of January 1, 2020 impact plus an estimated impact of CECL calculated quarterly as 25% of the current ACL over the January 1, balance (modified transition amount). The modified transition amount will be recalculated each quarter in 2020 and 2021, with the December 31, 2021 impact carrying through remaining three-year transition. The election to use the revised final CECL transition rules favorably impacted our leverage ratio by 19 bps and our tier 1 common, tier 1 and total capital regulatory ratios by 22 bps.

 

 

 

Well-

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

Capitalized

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Total capital (to risk weighted assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

10.00

%

 

 

11.87

%

 

 

11.90

%

 

 

12.43

%

 

 

12.43

%

 

 

12.24

%

Hancock Whitney Bank

 

 

10.00

%

 

 

11.45

%

 

 

11.53

%

 

 

11.19

%

 

 

11.81

%

 

 

11.73

%

Tier 1 common equity capital (to risk weighted assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

6.50

%

 

 

10.02

%

 

 

10.50

%

 

 

11.02

%

 

 

10.94

%

 

 

10.74

%

Hancock Whitney Bank

 

 

6.50

%

 

 

10.20

%

 

 

10.74

%

 

 

10.39

%

 

 

10.97

%

 

 

10.88

%

Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

8.00

%

 

 

10.02

%

 

 

10.50

%

 

 

11.02

%

 

 

10.94

%

 

 

10.74

%

Hancock Whitney Bank

 

 

8.00

%

 

 

10.20

%

 

 

10.74

%

 

 

10.39

%

 

 

10.97

%

 

 

10.88

%

Tier 1 leverage capital

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

5.00

%

 

 

8.40

%

 

 

8.76

%

 

 

9.49

%

 

 

9.10

%

 

 

8.85

%

Hancock Whitney Bank

 

 

5.00

%

 

 

8.55

%

 

 

8.96

%

 

 

8.95

%

 

 

9.12

%

 

 

8.97

%

On September 23, 2019, the Company’s board of directors approved a stock buyback program that authorizes the Company to repurchase up to 5.5 million shares of our common stock through the expiration date of December 31, 2020. The program allows the Company to repurchase its common shares in the open market, by block purchase, through accelerated share repurchase programs, in

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privately negotiated transactions, or as otherwise determined by the Company in one or more transactions. The Company is not obligated to purchase any shares under this program, and the board of directors may terminate or amend the program at any time prior to the expiration date.

On October 18, 2019, the company entered into an accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”) agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) to repurchase $185 million of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the ASR agreement, the Company made a $185 million payment to Morgan Stanley on October 21, 2019, and received from Morgan Stanley on the same day an initial delivery of approximately 3.6 million shares of the Company’s common stock, which represents approximately 75% of the estimated total number of shares to be repurchased under the ASR agreement based on the October 18, 2019 closing price of the Company’s common stock.  Final settlement of the ASR agreement was expected to occur as early as the second quarter of 2020 and no later than the third quarter of 2020. On March 18, 2020, pursuant to the terms of the agreement, the final settlement of the ASR commenced whereby the Company received from Morgan Stanley approximately $12.1 million and a final delivery of 1.0 million shares.

In January 2020, the Company repurchased 315,851 shares of its common stock at a price of $40.26 in a privately negotiated transaction. The Company repurchased 4.9 million shares of the 5.5 million authorized shares under the buyback program at an average price of $37.65 per share through the ASR agreement and a privately negotiated transaction. The Company has suspended the repurchase of shares under this program.  

On January 27, 2020, our board of directors declared a regular first quarter cash dividend of $0.27 per share, consistent with the prior quarter. We remain confident in our capability and capacity to maintain the common dividend at current level based on strength of capital ratios at March 31, 2020 and in consideration for forecasted stressed scenarios through year-end.

The Company expects to fund close to 12,000 loans or approximately $2.5 billion in originations through the first and second phase of the PPP. A portion of these loans that meet certain regulatory criteria are subject to forgiveness by the SBA. These loans are not expected to have any significant impact on regulatory capital as they carry a 0% risk-weighting due to the full guarantee by the SBA.

 

BALANCE SHEET ANALYSIS

Securities

Investment in securities totaled $6.4 billion at March 31, 2020, up $131 million, or 2%, from December 31, 2019 and up $797 million, or 14%, from March 31, 2019. At March 31, 2020, securities available for sale totaled $4.9 billion and securities held to maturity totaled $1.5 billion.

Our securities portfolio consists mainly of residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations that are issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies. We invest only in high quality investment grade securities with a targeted portfolio duration generally between two and five and a half years. At March 31, 2020, the average expected maturity of the portfolio was 5.76 years with an effective duration of 3.57 years and a nominal weighted-average yield of 2.51%. Management simulations indicate that the effective duration would increase to 3.90 years with a 100 bp increase in the yield curve and increase to 4.06 years with a 200 bp increase. At December 31, 2019, the average expected maturity of the portfolio was 5.47 years with an effective duration of 4.16 years and a nominal weighted-average yield of 2.49%. The average maturity of the portfolio at March 31, 2019 was 5.52 years, with an effective duration was 4.37 years and the nominal weighted-average yield was 2.75%. The changes in expected maturity, effective duration, and nominal weighted-average yield compared to prior quarter and year-over-year were primarily related to the reinvestment of the securities portfolio maturities, paydowns and sales.

Effective January 1, 2020 and in conjunction with the adoption of CECL, and again as of March 31, 2020, the Company evaluated its securities portfolio for credit loss. Based on our assessment, expected credit loss was negligible for both periods and therefore, no allowance for credit loss was recorded.

Loans

Total loans at March 31, 2020 were $21.5 billion, up $302.9 million, or 1%, from December 31, 2019, and up $1.4 billion, or 7%, from March 31, 2019. The linked-quarter growth was throughout all regions across the Bank’s footprint due to increased loan originations and the funding of existing and expanded lines of credit related to economic uncertainty. Growth compared to same quarter last year reflect the acquisition of $785 million in loans, net of purchase discount, from MidSouth during the third quarter of 2019 with the remaining growth across the company’s entire footprint.

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The following table shows the composition of our loan portfolio at each date indicated:

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Total loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

9,321,340

 

 

$

9,166,947

 

 

$

8,893,004

 

 

$

8,559,118

 

 

$

8,656,326

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

2,731,320

 

 

 

2,738,460

 

 

 

2,734,379

 

 

 

2,519,970

 

 

 

2,515,428

 

Total commercial and industrial

 

 

12,052,660

 

 

 

11,905,407

 

 

 

11,627,383

 

 

 

11,079,088

 

 

 

11,171,754

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

3,232,783

 

 

 

2,994,448

 

 

 

3,060,568

 

 

 

2,895,468

 

 

 

2,563,394

 

Construction and land development

 

 

1,098,726

 

 

 

1,157,451

 

 

 

1,190,718

 

 

 

1,144,062

 

 

 

1,340,067

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

2,979,985

 

 

 

2,990,631

 

 

 

3,004,958

 

 

 

2,968,271

 

 

 

2,933,251

 

Consumer

 

 

2,151,527

 

 

 

2,164,818

 

 

 

2,152,325

 

 

 

2,088,923

 

 

 

2,104,372

 

Total loans

 

$

21,515,681

 

 

$

21,212,755

 

 

$

21,035,952

 

 

$

20,175,812

 

 

$

20,112,838

 

 

Our commercial customer base is diversified over a range of industries, including energy, healthcare, wholesale and retail trade in various durable and nondurable products and the manufacture of such products, marine transportation and maritime construction, financial and professional services, and agricultural production.

Commercial and industrial (“C&I”) loans, including both non-real estate and owner occupied real estate secured loans, totaled approximately $12.1 billion, or 56% of the total loan portfolio at March 31, 2020, an increase of $147.3 million, or 1%, from December 31, 2019 and $880.9 million, or 8%, from March 31, 2019. The linked-quarter growth is primarily due to loan closings and increased funding of existing and expanded lines of credit. The year over year increase is related to the MidSouth acquisition, with the remaining growth across most regions and specialty lines.

 

The Bank lends mainly to middle market and smaller commercial entities, although it participates in larger shared credit loan facilities. Shared national credits funded at March 31, 2020 totaled approximately $2.3 billion, or 11% of total loans, an increase of $96.7 million from December 31, 2019. At March 31, 2020, approximately $436.2 million of our shared national credits were with energy-related customers and $410.5 million were with healthcare related customers.

Loans to borrowers in the energy sector totaled $939.5 million at March 31, 2020, down $23.7 million, or 2%, from December 31, 2019 and $123.2 million, or 12%, compared to March 31, 2019. The linked quarter decrease in energy-related loans resulted from $42 million in payoffs and paydowns and $36 million in charge-offs partially offset by $54 million in loan growth. The year-over-year decrease was largely due to net payoffs and charge-offs partially offset by acquired MidSouth loans largely in support services sector. At March 31, 2020, approximately $444 million, or 47%, of the energy portfolio was comprised of customers engaged in exploration and production, transportation, and storage activities. The remaining $495 million, or 53%, of the portfolio was comprised of customers engaged in onshore and offshore services and products to support exploration and production activities. We expect to continue to reduce our energy exposure through the next several quarters.

 

 

 

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The following table provides detail of the more significant industry concentrations for our commercial and industrial loan portfolio, which is based on NAICS codes for all industries except for energy, which is based on the borrowers’ source of revenue (i.e. manufacturer whose income is derived from energy-related business is reported as energy). There is approximately $4 million of energy-related construction loans as of March 31, 2020 that is reflected in the real estate table that follows.

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

( $ in thousands )

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

Commercial & industrial loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real estate and rental and leasing

 

$

1,420,629

 

 

 

12

%

 

$

1,432,319

 

 

 

12

%

 

$

1,454,795

 

 

 

13

%

 

$

1,341,902

 

 

 

12

%

 

$

1,432,089

 

 

 

13

%

Health care and social assistance

 

 

1,201,423

 

 

 

10

%

 

 

1,144,369

 

 

 

10

%

 

 

1,084,884

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,040,352

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,083,469

 

 

 

10

%

Retail trade

 

 

1,066,780

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,098,810

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,060,765

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,024,031

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

970,599

 

 

 

9

%

Manufacturing

 

 

959,653

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

928,467

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

957,622

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

889,539

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

868,171

 

 

 

8

%

Energy

 

 

935,076

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

958,486

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

1,026,680

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,003,492

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

1,058,000

 

 

 

9

%

Transportation and warehousing

 

 

828,215

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

768,971

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

705,536

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

681,390

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

664,563

 

 

 

6

%

Wholesale trade

 

 

784,354

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

751,794

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

691,648

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

654,293

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

654,685

 

 

 

6

%

Public administration

 

 

761,284

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

774,401

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

765,492

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

778,622

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

799,237

 

 

 

7

%

Finance and insurance

 

 

740,915

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

677,500

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

632,197

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

610,900

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

595,373

 

 

 

5

%

Construction

 

 

700,313

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

724,614

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

637,512

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

619,097

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

644,896

 

 

 

6

%

Accommodation, food services and entertainment

 

 

616,473

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

613,982

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

611,663

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

570,849

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

574,053

 

 

 

5

%

Professional, scientific, and technical services

 

 

503,325

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

515,634

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

492,424

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

454,445

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

416,219

 

 

 

4

%

Other services (except public administration)

 

 

456,084

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

451,889

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

476,731

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

452,553

 

 

 

4

%

 

 

450,005

 

 

 

4

%

Educational services

 

 

326,708

 

 

 

3

%

 

 

342,544

 

 

 

3

%

 

 

353,366

 

 

 

3

%

 

 

351,697

 

 

 

3

%

 

 

353,803

 

 

 

3

%

Other

 

 

751,428

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

721,627

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

676,068

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

605,926

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

606,592

 

 

 

5

%

Total commercial & industrial loans

 

$

12,052,660

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

11,905,407

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

11,627,383

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

11,079,088

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

11,171,754

 

 

 

100

%

Commercial real estate – income producing loans totaled approximately $3.2 billion at March 31, 2020, an increase of $238.3 million, or 8%, from December 31, 2019. Construction and land development loans, totaling approximately $1.1 billion at March 31, 2020, decreased $58.7 million, or 5%, from December 31, 2019. The following table details for the preceding five quarters the end-of-period aggregated commercial real estate – income producing and construction loan balances by property type. Loans reflected in 1-4 Family Residential Construction include both loans to construction builders as well as single family borrowers.

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pct of

 

( $ in thousands )

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

 

Balance

 

 

Total

 

Commercial real estate - income producing and construction loans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail

 

 

708,087

 

 

 

16

%

 

$

663,196

 

 

 

16

%

 

$

636,484

 

 

 

15

%

 

$

610,354

 

 

 

15

%

 

$

599,299

 

 

 

15

%

Healthcare related properties

 

 

569,166

 

 

 

13

%

 

 

517,855

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

562,726

 

 

 

13

%

 

 

548,470

 

 

 

14

%

 

 

496,715

 

 

 

13

%

Office

 

 

475,565

 

 

 

11

%

 

 

447,972

 

 

 

11

%

 

 

447,872

 

 

 

11

%

 

 

403,322

 

 

 

10

%

 

 

391,858

 

 

 

9

%

Multifamily

 

 

552,464

 

 

 

13

%

 

 

520,444

 

 

 

13

%

 

 

539,994

 

 

 

13

%

 

 

588,282

 

 

 

14

%

 

 

529,121

 

 

 

14

%

Industrial

 

 

535,070

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

498,291

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

491,984

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

471,677

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

458,601

 

 

 

12

%

Hotel, motel and restaurants

 

 

502,866

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

477,728

 

 

 

11

%

 

 

431,082

 

 

 

10

%

 

 

486,939

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

473,898

 

 

 

12

%

1-4 family residential construction

 

 

439,739

 

 

 

10

%

 

 

443,835

 

 

 

11

%

 

 

486,848

 

 

 

11

%

 

 

505,730

 

 

 

12

%

 

 

540,016

 

 

 

14

%

Other land loans

 

 

246,377

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

250,357

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

262,298

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

232,025

 

 

 

6

%

 

 

228,493

 

 

 

6

%

Other

 

 

302,175

 

 

 

7

%

 

 

332,221

 

 

 

8

%

 

 

391,998

 

 

 

9

%

 

 

192,731

 

 

 

5

%

 

 

185,460

 

 

 

5

%

Total commercial real estate - income producing and construction loans

 

 

4,331,509

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

4,151,899

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

4,251,286

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

4,039,530

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

3,903,461

 

 

 

100

%

 

Our residential mortgages loan portfolio totaled $3.0 billion at March 31, 2020, virtually unchanged compared to December 31, 2019 and up $46.7 million, or 2% compared to March 31, 2019. The consumer loan portfolio totaled $2.2 billion at March 31, 2020, down $13.3 million, or 1%, compared to December 31, 2019, but up $47.2, or 2% compared to March 31, 2019.

 

As noted previously, the Company’s market has been significantly impacted by the widespread economic shutdown and market turmoil caused by the pandemic and drop in oil prices. While we expect to see impacts across all of our portfolios, we have identified four principle components of our impacted portfolios that are of particular focus where we expect there may be a greater effect and a more challenging recovery. We have identified that approximately $1.4 billion of our retail related loans, as having potential for weakness based on the products and services offered and/or type of delivery. Approximately half of these retail loans are income producing real estate secured. We have identified approximately $1.2 billion in hospitality-related loans as being significantly impacted which include loans to hotels, restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues located throughout our Gulf Coast market,

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with a concentration in New Orleans. Within our healthcare portfolio, we have approximately $1.2 billion in healthcare related services that we believe may be more adversely impacted, including loans to offices of physicians, dentist and other non-essential medical services, assisted living and select hospitals. Our energy related loans totaling $940 million, or 4.4% of the total portfolio, continues to be a focus with the reduced demand, lower prices and limited liquidity. We are closely monitoring our concentrations in these industries and others by proactive and frequent borrower dialogue, payment deferral, and other accommodations and financial support, where warranted. While these industries and others have been significantly impacted by the pandemic, the long-term impacts remain unknown and are dependent on several factors, including the severity of the economic downturn, length of time until full recovery and the effectiveness of government stimulus plans.  

 

Allowance for Credit Losses and Asset Quality

The Company's allowance for credit losses was $475.0 million at March 31, 2020 compared to $195.2 million at December 31, 2019, and $194.7 million at March 31, 2019. The significant increase over the prior period is driven by the implementation of the CECL standard totaling $76.7 million upon adoption and the current quarter allowance increase totaling $203.0 million. The adoption of the CECL standard on January 1, 2020 includes increases totaling $49.4 million in the funded allowance for loan losses and $27.3 million in the reserve for unfunded lending commitments. These increases are the result of the difference between estimated incurred losses at the adoption date and the forward-looking projected losses over the remaining estimated term of the financial instruments. The higher reserves from the change in accounting principal is largely driven by our longer-term assets as well as expected future funding of construction lending and certain other revolving products. Refer to Note 1 – Basis of Presentation - Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates for a description of the CECL methodology and Note 15 – Recent Accounting Pronouncements for additional discussion of the impact of adoption. 

The $203.0 million increase in the first quarter 2020 allowance for credit losses is due largely to the unprecedented impact of the widespread economic shutdown caused by the pandemic, including a significant decline in oil and gas prices. The Company probability-weighted three Moody’s macroeconomic scenarios in our allowance for credit loss analysis. The baseline forecast, which reflects a sharp recession in the first half of 2020 with relatively quick recovery in the second half of 2020, was weighted most heavily at 80%. The more severe downside scenarios S-3 (Moderate Recession) and S-4 (Protracted Slump) were weighted at 15% and 5%, respectively, to capture the risk a prolonged downturn might have to our markets, which is more heavily concentrated in tourism, oil and gas, lessors of real estate and certain areas of healthcare that may be more severely impacted by the widespread shutdown and market turmoil. These downside scenarios include double-dip recessions with a prolonged recovery, with the S-4 scenario having a more severe immediate impact and a longer, more gradual recovery compared to S-3. All three economic scenarios utilized were recessionary, with unemployment peaking in the second quarter of 2020; however, the downside scenarios increased severity and lengthened recovery to varying degrees. The degradation in economic conditions created the need for allowance builds across all portfolios in the first quarter of 2020. The increase in allowance for credit losses brings our coverage to total loans up to 2.21% at March 31, 2020, compared to 0.92% at December 31, 2019, and 0.97% at March 31, 2019.

The allowance for credit losses on the energy portfolio increased to $88.4 million, or 9.4% of that portfolio, compared to the January 1, 2020 allowance (representing the adoption of CECL) of $46.3 million, or 4.8%. The price war between Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Companies ("OPEC") amid the decline in energy demand and excess inventory resulting from global travel restrictions and economic shutdown caused significant reduction in oil prices in the quarter. This resulted in sharply reduced investment in exploration and further stress on the portfolio. The increase in the energy allowance includes a $29 million increase in the reserve for individually evaluated impaired loans in our reserve-based lending portfolio, reflecting the lower oil prices and deeper discounts on collateral values resulting from additional liquidity stress in the industry. The allowance for credit losses on the commercial nonenergy portfolio increased to $291.3 million, or 1.88%, at March 31, 2020 compared to the January 1, 2020 allowance of $156.9 million, or 1.04%. The commercial nonenergy portfolio includes concentration in lessors of real estate to various impacted industries including hospitality and tourism which includes hotels, restaurants, and bars, certain nonessential healthcare, certain types of retail outlets, and other industries that have been significantly impacted by the widespread shutdown. Our residential mortgage reserve for credit loss increased to $48.2 million, or 1.63%, at March 31, 2020, compared to the January 1, 2020 allowance of $35.3 million, or 1.11%. Our allowance for credit losses on the consumer portfolio was $47.1 million, or 2.19%, at March 31, 2020, compared to the January 1, 2020 allowance of $35.5 million, or 1.64%.    

The Company’s balance of criticized commercial loans totaled $530.3 million at March 31, 2020, down from $580.7 million at December 31, 2019. The decrease in commercial criticized loans includes $30.8 million attributable to the energy portfolio, due largely to charge-offs, and $19.6 million attributable to the commercial non energy portfolio. Criticized loans are defined as those having potential weaknesses that deserve management’s close attention (risk-rated as special mention, substandard and doubtful), including both accruing and nonaccruing loans. The Company routinely assesses the ratings of loans in its portfolio through an established and comprehensive portfolio management process. In addition, the Company often looks at portfolios of loans to determine if there are areas of risk not specifically identified in its loan by loan approach. In alignment with regulatory guidance, we have been working with our customers to manage the effects of economic stress. We expect that further risk rating adjustments may be required in the future to account for prolonged stresses on individual accounts.

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Net charge-offs were $43.8 million, or 0.83% of average total loans on an annualized basis in the first quarter of 2020, up from $9.5 million, or 0.18% of average total loans in the fourth quarter of 2019. Commercial net charge-offs totaled $39.5 million in the first quarter of 2020, up compared to $4.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. The increase in first quarter of 2020 charge-offs is largely due to net charge-offs in the upstream subsector of the energy portfolio totaling $35.9 million. Our residential mortgage portfolio had a minimal net recovery in the first quarter of 2020 compared a net charge-off of $0.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. Consumer net charge-offs were $4.3 million in the first quarter of 2020, down slightly compared to the prior quarter.

 

 

The following table sets forth activity in the allowance for credit losses for the periods indicated:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2019

 

Provision and Allowance for Credit Losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for loan losses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for loan losses at beginning of period

 

$

191,251

 

 

$

195,572

 

 

$

194,514

 

Loans charged-off:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial non real estate

 

 

40,713

 

 

 

6,218

 

 

 

16,344

 

Commercial real estate - owner-occupied

 

 

514

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

Total commercial & industrial

 

 

41,227

 

 

 

6,218

 

 

 

16,344

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

830

 

 

 

22

 

 

 

10

 

Construction and land development

 

 

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

Total commercial

 

 

42,057

 

 

 

6,240

 

 

 

16,354

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

141

 

 

 

186

 

 

 

406

 

Consumer

 

 

5,540

 

 

 

5,286

 

 

 

4,231

 

Total charge-offs

 

 

47,738

 

 

 

11,712

 

 

 

20,991

 

Recoveries of loans previously charged-off:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial non real estate

 

 

2,226

 

 

 

1,278

 

 

 

1,926

 

Commercial real estate - owner-occupied

 

 

81

 

 

 

22

 

 

 

17

 

Total commercial & industrial

 

 

2,307

 

 

 

1,300

 

 

 

1,943

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

7

 

 

 

51

 

 

 

2

 

Construction and land development

 

 

234

 

 

 

32

 

 

 

11

 

Total commercial

 

 

2,548

 

 

 

1,383

 

 

 

1,956

 

Residential mortgages

 

 

212

 

 

 

47

 

 

 

162

 

Consumer

 

 

1,214

 

 

 

779

 

 

 

1,004

 

Total recoveries

 

 

3,974

 

 

 

2,209

 

 

 

3,122

 

Total net charge-offs

 

 

43,764

 

 

 

9,503

 

 

 

17,869

 

Provision for loan losses

 

 

229,105

 

 

 

5,182

 

 

 

18,043

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (a)

 

 

49,411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for loan losses at end of period

 

$

426,003

 

 

$

191,251

 

 

$

194,688

 

Reserve for Unfunded Lending Commitments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reserve for Unfunded Lending Commitments at beginning of period

 

$

3,974

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (a)

 

 

27,330

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provision for losses on unfunded lending commitments

 

 

17,688

 

 

 

3,974

 

 

 

 

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments at end of period

 

$

48,992

 

 

$

3,974

 

 

$

-

 

Total Allowance for Credit Losses

 

$

474,995

 

 

$

195,225

 

 

$

194,688

 

Total Provision for Credit Losses

 

$

246,793

 

 

$

9,156

 

 

$

18,043

 

Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross charge-offs to average loans

 

 

0.90

%

 

 

0.22

%

 

 

0.42

%

Recoveries to average loans

 

 

0.08

%

 

 

0.04

%

 

 

0.06

%

Net charge-offs to average loans

 

 

0.83

%

 

 

0.18

%

 

 

0.36

%

Allowance for loan losses to period-end loans

 

 

1.98

%

 

 

0.90

%

 

 

0.97

%

 

(a)

Represents the increase in the allowance upon the January 1, 2020 adoption of ASC 326, commonly referred to as Current Expected Credit Losses, or CECL.

 

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The following table sets forth nonperforming assets by type for the periods indicated, consisting of nonaccrual loans, troubled debt restructurings and foreclosed and surplus ORE and other foreclosed assets. Loans past due 90 days or more and still accruing are also disclosed.

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Loans accounted for on a nonaccrual basis: (a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial  non-real estate

 

$

59,610

 

 

$

49,628

 

Commercial non-real estate - restructured

 

 

115,556

 

 

 

129,050

 

Total commercial non-real estate

 

 

175,166

 

 

 

178,678

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

7,851

 

 

 

7,413

 

Commercial real estate - owner-occupied - restructured

 

 

292

 

 

 

295

 

Total commercial real estate - owner-occupied

 

 

8,143

 

 

 

7,708

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

5,557

 

 

 

2,489

 

Commercial real estate - income producing - restructured

 

 

102

 

 

 

105

 

Total commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

5,659

 

 

 

2,594

 

Construction and land development

 

 

4,273

 

 

 

1,051

 

Construction and land development - restructured

 

 

48

 

 

 

166

 

Total construction and land development

 

 

4,321

 

 

 

1,217

 

Residential mortgage

 

 

40,954

 

 

 

36,638

 

Residential mortgage - restructured

 

 

1,912

 

 

 

2,624

 

Total residential mortgage

 

 

42,866

 

 

 

39,262

 

Consumer

 

 

17,903

 

 

 

16,159

 

Consumer - restructured

 

 

 

 

 

215

 

Total consumer

 

 

17,903

 

 

 

16,374

 

Total nonaccrual loans

 

$

254,058

 

 

$

245,833

 

Restructured loans - still accruing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial non-real estate

 

$

31,730

 

 

$

59,136

 

Commercial real estate - owner occupied

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Commercial real estate - income producing

 

 

367

 

 

 

373

 

Construction and land development

 

 

110

 

 

 

111

 

Residential mortgage

 

 

900

 

 

 

514

 

Consumer

 

 

1,144

 

 

 

1,131

 

Total restructured loans - still accruing

 

 

34,251

 

 

 

61,265

 

Total nonperforming loans

 

 

288,309

 

 

 

307,098

 

ORE and foreclosed assets

 

 

18,460

 

 

 

30,405

 

Total nonperforming assets (b)

 

$

306,769

 

 

$

337,503

 

Loans 90 days past due still accruing to loans (c)

 

$

17,790

 

 

$

6,582

 

Total restructured loans

 

$

152,161

 

 

$

193,720

 

Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonperforming assets to loans plus ORE and foreclosed assets

 

 

1.42

%

 

 

1.59

%

Allowance for loan losses to nonperforming loans and accruing loans 90 days past due

 

 

139.17

%

 

 

60.97

%

Loans 90 days past due still accruing to loans

 

 

0.08

%

 

 

0.03

%

 

(a)

Nonaccrual loans do not include purchased credit impaired loans accounted for under ASC 310-10 that would have otherwise been considered nonperforming, totaling $17.5 million at December 31, 2019. Effective January 1, 2020 with the adoption of ASC 310-326, such metrics include both originated and acquired.

(b)

Includes total nonaccrual loans, total restructured loans - still accruing and ORE and foreclosed assets.

(c)

Accruing loans past due 90 days or more do not include purchased credit impaired loans accounted for under ASC 310-10 that would have otherwise been considered delinquent, totaling $8.5 million at December 31, 2019. Effective January 1, 2020 with the adoption of ASC 310-326, such metrics include both originated and acquired.

Nonperforming assets totaled $306.8 million at March 31, 2020, down $30.7 million from December 31, 2019, and $42.8 million from March 31, 2019. Nonperforming loans decreased approximately $18.8 million compared to December 31, 2019, due largely to partial charge-offs and a note sale, partially offset by new downgrades. Our nonperforming loans included $34.3 million of accruing restructured loans, most of which are energy credits. ORE and foreclosed assets declined to $18.5 million at March 31, 2020, from $30.4 million at December 31, 2019, due primarily to write-downs totaling $9.8 million of equity interest in two energy-related companies received in borrower bankruptcy restructurings on two energy credits. Nonperforming assets as a percent of total loans,

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ORE and other foreclosed assets was 1.51% at March 31, 2020, down 11 bps from December 31, 2019 and 33 bps from March 31, 2019.

Short-Term Investments

Short-term liquidity assets are held to ensure funds are available to meet the cash flow needs of both borrowers and depositors. Short-term liquidity investments, including interest-bearing bank deposits and federal funds sold, were $876.3 million at March 31, 2020. This represents an increase of $766.1 million from December 31, 2019 and $712.6 million from March 31, 2019. The increase from both the prior quarter and prior year is to provide additional liquidity in order to meet clients’ needs during the economic impact of the pandemic. Normally these balances will change on a daily basis depending upon movement in customer loan and deposit accounts. Average short-term investments of $206.9 million for the first quarter of 2020 were up $67.3 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, and down $9.3 million compared to the first quarter of 2019.

Deposits

Total deposits were $25.0 billion at March 31, 2020, up $1.2 billion, or 5%, from December 31, 2019, primarily due to a $913 million increase in brokered deposits and strong growth in noninterest-bearing deposits. Total deposits increased $1.6 billion, or 7%, from March 31, 2019, primarily due to strong growth in noninterest-bearing deposits and the impact of approximately $1.3 billion of deposits assumed from the MidSouth acquisition in third quarter of 2019. Average deposits for the first quarter of 2020 were $24.3 billion, up $478.9 million, or 2%, from the fourth quarter of 2019 and up $1.2 billion, or 5%, from the first quarter of 2019.

Noninterest-bearing demand deposits were $9.2 billion at March 31, 2020, up $429.0 million, or 5%, from December 31, 2019, and $1.0 billion, or 13%, from March 31, 2019. The linked-quarter increase was primarily due to strong growth in both consumer and business accounts. The year over year increase reflects the noninterest-bearing demand deposits assumed in the MidSouth acquisition as well as strong organic growth during the first quarter of 2020. Noninterest-bearing demand deposits comprised 37% of total deposits at March 31, 2020, 37% at December 31, 2019 and 35% at March 31, 2019.

Interest-bearing transaction and savings accounts of $8.9 billion at March 31, 2020 increased $86.1 million, or 1%, from December 31, 2019 and $707.0 million, or 9%, from March 31, 2019, with the year-over-year increase mainly attributable to deposits from the MidSouth acquisition.

Interest-bearing public fund deposits totaled $3.3 billion at March 31, 2020, down $113.0 million, or 3%, from December 31, 2019, and up $21.9 million, or 1%, from March 31, 2019. The decrease in public fund deposits is related to typical seasonality. Time deposits other than public funds totaled $3.6 billion at March 31, 2020, up $802.8 million, or 28%, from December 31, 2019, driven primarily by a $913 million increase in brokered certificates of deposit. Time deposits other than public funds were down $146.6 million, or 4%, from March 31, 2019, largely due to a decrease in brokered certificates of deposit.

Short-Term Borrowings

At March 31, 2020, short-term borrowings totaled $2.7 billion, down $41.6 million, or 2%, from December 31, 2019, with a decrease in FHLB borrowings of $175 partially offset by a $134.9 million increase in federal funds purchased. Short-term borrowings increased $1.3 billion, or 92%, from March 31, 2019, mainly due to increased FHLB borrowings and higher federal funds purchased.

Average short-term borrowings of $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020 were down $243.3 million, or 10%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, and up $465.3 million, or 27%, compared to the first quarter of 2019.

Customer repurchase agreements and FHLB borrowings are the major sources of short-term borrowings. Customer repurchase agreements are offered mainly to commercial customers to assist them with their cash management strategies or to provide a temporary investment vehicle for their excess liquidity pending redeployment for corporate or investment purposes. While customer repurchase agreements provide a recurring source of funds to the Bank, amounts available will vary. FHLB borrowings are funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank that are collateralized by single family and commercial real estate loans included in the Bank’s loan portfolio, subject to specific criteria.

 

OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

Loan Commitments and Letters of Credit

In the normal course of business, the Bank enters into financial instruments, such as commitments to extend credit and letters of credit, to meet the financing needs of its customers. Such instruments are not reflected in the accompanying consolidated financial statements

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until they are funded, although they expose the Bank to varying degrees of credit risk and interest rate risk in much the same way as funded loans. Under regulatory capital guidelines, the Company and Bank must include unfunded commitments meeting certain criteria in risk-weighted capital calculations.

Commitments to extend credit include revolving commercial credit lines, nonrevolving loan commitments issued mainly to finance the acquisition and development or construction of real property or equipment, and credit card and personal credit lines. The availability of funds under commercial credit lines and loan commitments generally depends on whether the borrower continues to meet credit standards established in the underlying contract and has not violated other contractual conditions. Loan commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee by the borrower. Credit card and personal credit lines are generally subject to cancellation if the borrower’s credit quality deteriorates. A number of commercial and personal credit lines are used only partially or, in some cases, not at all before they expire, and the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements of the Company.

A substantial majority of the letters of credit are standby agreements that obligate the Bank to fulfill a customer’s financial commitments to a third party if the customer is unable to perform. The Bank issues standby letters of credit primarily to provide credit enhancement to its customers’ other commercial or public financing arrangements and to help them demonstrate financial capacity to vendors of essential goods and services. 

The contract amounts of these instruments reflect the Company's exposure to credit risk. The Company undertakes the same credit evaluation in making loan commitments and assuming conditional obligations as it does for on-balance sheet instruments and may require collateral or other credit support. At March 31, 2020, the Company has a reserve for unfunded lending commitments totaling $49.0 million.

The following table shows the commitments to extend credit and letters of credit at March 31, 2020 according to expiration date. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expiration Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less than

 

 

1-3

 

 

3-5

 

 

More than

 

(in thousands)

 

Total

 

 

1 year

 

 

years

 

 

years

 

 

5 years

 

Commitments to extend credit

 

$

7,591,029

 

 

$

3,360,339

 

 

$

1,853,853

 

 

$

1,494,917

 

 

$

881,920

 

Letters of credit

 

 

366,112

 

 

 

279,944

 

 

 

43,299

 

 

 

42,869

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

7,957,141

 

 

$

3,640,283

 

 

$

1,897,152

 

 

$

1,537,786

 

 

$

881,920

 

 

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES

On January 1, 2020, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 326, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses,” more commonly referred to as “CECL.” The provisions of this guidance required a material change to the manner in which the Company estimates and reports losses on financial instruments. Changes to the Company’s accountings policies related to CECL disclosed in Note 1 – Basis of Presentation – Critical Accounting Estimates, with further discussion of changes to significant accounting estimates noted below. There were no other material changes or developments during the reporting period with respect to methodologies that the Company uses when applying what management believes are critical accounting policies and developing critical accounting estimates as disclosed in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and with those generally practiced within the banking industry which require management to make estimates and assumptions about future events. Estimates are based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, and the resulting estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of certain assets and liabilities not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.

Allowance for Credit Loss

The allowance for credit losses is established in accordance with the CECL standard which introduces several additional subjective inputs to the allowance estimation process. The standard requires that management incorporate an economic forecast for a reasonable and supportable period, which is two years based on our current policy. The Company utilizes third party forecasts that consist of multiple economic scenarios, including a baseline, with a probability distribution of 50% better or worse economic performance and various upside and downside scenarios utilized at an aggregated state (or regional) levels across our footprint or national level, depending on the portfolio. The economic forecasts are generally lagging and may not incorporate all events and circumstances through the financial statement date. The Company’s management considers available forecasts, current events not captured and our specific portfolio characteristics and applies weights to the scenario output based on a best estimate of likely of outcomes. During the first quarter of 2020, the United States and global financial markets experienced unprecedented volatility, with significant uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and the resulting widespread economic shutdown, as well as the failure of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to reach an agreement on production curtailment in response to the pandemic. Rapidly changing

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economic conditions and resulting government response in the form of interest rate adjustments and several stimulus packages have introduced enhanced estimation uncertainty in the forecasts used to estimate expected credit loss. Our loss models were built using historical data that may not correlate to this unprecedented pandemic economic shutdown. The estimate of the life of a loan considers both contractual cash flows as well as estimated prepayments and forecasted draws on unfunded loan commitments that were also built on historical data that may react differently given the current environment. Such forecasted information is inherently uncertain, particularly in the volatile environment resulting from the pandemic. Forecast uncertainty includes the severity of the impact to local and global economic conditions as well as the timing of recovery, among other things. Therefore, actual result may differ significantly from management’s estimates.  

The quantitative loss rate analysis is supplemented by a review of qualitative factors that considers whether conditions differ from those existing during the historical periods used in the development of the credit models. Such factors include, but are not limited to, problem loan trends, changes in loan profiles and volumes, changes in lending policies and procedures, current economic and business conditions, credit concentrations, model limitations and other factors not captured by our models. While quantitative data for these factors is used where available, there is a high level of judgment applied in these processes.

For credits that are individually evaluated, a specific allowance is calculated as the shortfall between the credit’s value and the bank’s exposure. The loan’s value is measured by either the loan’s observable market price, the fair value of the collateral of the loan (less liquidation costs) if it is collateral dependent, or by the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s effective interest rate. Collateral on impaired loans includes, but is not limited to, commercial and residential real estate, oil and gas reserves, marine vessels, accounts receivable and other corporate assets. Values for impaired credits are highly subjective and based on information available at the time of valuation and the current resolution strategy. These values are difficult to assess and have heightened uncertainty resulting from the impact of the pandemic on market conditions. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Management considers the appropriateness of these critical assumptions as part of its allowance review and believes the ACL level is appropriate based on information available through the financial statement date. Refer to Note 4 – Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses for further discussion of significant assumptions used in the current allowance calculation.  

Goodwill Impairment Testing

Goodwill, which represents the excess of cost over the fair value of the net assets of an acquired business, is not amortized but is assessed for impairment on an annual basis, or more often if events or circumstances indicate there may be impairment, referred to as a triggering event. Upon the occurrence of a triggering event, accounting guidance allows the Company to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not, or a greater than a 50% likelihood, that the fair value of the entity is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill. When it is more likely than not that an impairment has occurred, the Company is required to perform a quantitative analysis and, if necessary, adjust the carrying amount of goodwill and record a goodwill impairment loss. The Company has qualitatively assessed and concluded that there is not a greater than 50% likelihood that the fair value of the entity is less than the its carrying amount as of March 31, 2020, given the short duration of change in macroeconomic conditions and excess of value as of the latest annual test performed as of September 30, 2019. Management will continue to monitor and assess the impacts of the pandemic on the Company’s value and, should conditions be more severe and/or recovery extend for a longer period than currently anticipated, our assessment may change which could have an impact on future earnings.    

NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

Refer to Note 15 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this report.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

The Company’s net income is materially dependent upon net interest income. The Company’s primary market risk is interest rate risk which stems from uncertainty with respect to absolute and relative levels of future market interest rates that affect financial products and services. In order to manage the exposures to interest rate risk, management measures the sensitivity of net interest income and cash flows under various market interest rate scenarios, establishes interest rate risk management policies and implements asset/liability management strategies designed to produce a relatively stable net interest margin under varying rate environments.

The following table presents an analysis of our interest rate risk as measured by the estimated changes in net interest income resulting from an instantaneous and sustained parallel shift in rates at March 31, 2020. Shifts are measured in 100 basis point increments in a range from -500 to +500 basis points from base case, with +100 through +300 basis points presented in the table below. Our interest rate sensitivity modeling incorporates a number of assumptions including loan and deposit repricing characteristics, the rate of loan prepayments and other factors. The base scenario assumes that the current interest rate environment is held constant over a 24-month forecast period and is the scenario to which all others are compared in order to measure the change in net interest income. Policy limits on the change in net interest income under a variety of interest rate scenarios are approved by the Board of Directors. All policy scenarios assume a static volume forecast where the balance sheet is held constant, although other scenarios are modeled.

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Estimated Increase

 

 

 

(Decrease) in NII

 

Change in Interest Rates

 

Year 1

 

 

Year 2

 

(basis points)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+100

 

 

2.70

%

 

 

5.22

%

+200

 

 

5.70

%

 

 

10.37

%

+300

 

 

8.42

%

 

 

14.91

%

 

The results indicate a general asset sensitivity across most scenarios driven primarily by repricing in variable rate loans and a funding mix which is composed of material volumes of non-interest bearing and lower rate sensitive deposits. When deemed to be prudent, management has taken actions to mitigate exposure to interest rate risk with on- or off-balance sheet financial instruments and intends to do so in the future. Possible actions include, but are not limited to, changes in the pricing of loan and deposit products, modifying the composition of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, and adding to, modifying or terminating existing interest rate swap agreements or other financial instruments used for interest rate risk management purposes.

 

Even if interest rates change in the designated amounts, there can be no assurance that our assets and liabilities would perform as anticipated. Additionally, a change in the U.S. Treasury rates in the designated amounts accompanied by a change in the shape of the U.S. Treasury yield curve would cause significantly different changes to net interest income than indicated above. Strategic management of our balance sheet and earnings is fluid and would be adjusted to accommodate these movements. As with any method of measuring interest rate risk, certain shortcomings are inherent in the methods of analysis presented above. For example, although certain assets and liabilities may have similar maturities or periods to repricing, they may react in different degrees to changes in market interest rates. Also, the interest rates on certain types of assets and liabilities may fluctuate in advance of changes in market interest rates, while interest rates on other types may lag behind changes in market rates. Certain assets such as adjustable-rate loans have features which restrict changes in interest rates on a short-term basis and over the life of the asset. Also, the ability of many borrowers to service their debt may decrease in the event of an interest rate increase. We consider all of these factors in monitoring exposure to interest rate risk.

 

In July 2017, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (the authority that regulates LIBOR) announced that it intends to stop compelling banks to submit rates for the calculation of LIBOR after 2021. At March 31, 2020, approximately 32% of our loan portfolio consisted of variable rate loans tied to LIBOR, along with related derivatives and other financial instruments. During the third quarter of 2019, the Company began transition activities by modifying documents to include pre-cessation fallback trigger language in all new and renewed loan and derivative transactions that reference LIBOR. Our Libor transition team is continuing to monitor developments and is taking steps to ensure readiness when the LIBOR benchmark rate is discontinued. 

 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

In connection with the preparation of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, an evaluation was carried out by the Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Based on that evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of March 31, 2020, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

Our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, identified no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the three month period ended March 31, 2020, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting. Consideration by management was given to operational changes that were made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

The Company, including subsidiaries, is party to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. We do not believe that loss contingencies, if any, arising from pending litigation and regulatory matters will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position or liquidity.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

The Company disclosed risk factors in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. The risks described may not be the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that are currently considered to not be material also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and/or operating results. The following risk factors have been included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in response to the global market disruptions that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our business and financial results, and the ultimate impact will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including the scope and duration of the pandemic and actions taken by governmental authorities in response to the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating extensive disruptions to the global economy and to the lives of individuals throughout the world. Governments, businesses, and the public are taking unprecedented actions to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to mitigate its effects, including quarantines, travel bans, shelter-in-place orders, closures of businesses and schools, fiscal stimulus, and legislation designed to deliver monetary aid and other relief. While the scope, duration, and full effects of COVID-19 are rapidly evolving and not fully known, the pandemic and related efforts to contain it have disrupted global economic activity, adversely affected the functioning of financial markets, impacted interest rates, increased economic and market uncertainty, and disrupted trade and supply chains. If these effects continue for a prolonged period or result in sustained economic stress or recession, many of the risk factors identified in the “Risk Factors” section included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 could be exacerbated and such effects could have a material adverse impact on us in a number of ways related to credit, collateral, customer demand, funding, operations, interest rate risk and human capital as described in more detail below.

Credit Risk. Our risks of timely loan repayment and the value of collateral supporting the loans are affected by the strength of our borrowers’ business. Concern about the spread of COVID-19 has caused and is likely to continue to cause business shutdowns, limitations on commercial activity and financial transactions, labor shortages, supply chain interruptions, increased unemployment and commercial property vacancy rates, reduced profitability and ability for property owners to make mortgage payments, and overall economic and financial market instability, all of which may cause our customers to be unable to make scheduled loan payments. If the effects of COVID-19 result in widespread and sustained repayment shortfalls on loans in our portfolio, we could incur significant delinquencies, foreclosures and credit losses, particularly if the available collateral is insufficient to cover our exposure. The future effects of COVID-19 on economic activity could negatively affect the collateral values associated with our existing loans, the ability to liquidate the real estate collateral securing our residential and commercial real estate loans, our ability to maintain loan origination volume and to obtain additional financing, the future demand for or profitability of our lending and services, and the financial condition and credit risk of our customers. Further, in the event of delinquencies, regulatory changes and policies designed to protect borrowers may slow or prevent us from making our business decisions or may result in a delay in our taking certain remediation actions, such as foreclosure. In addition, we have unfunded commitments to extend credit to customers. During a challenging economic environment like now, our customers are more dependent on our credit commitments and increased borrowings under these commitments could adversely impact our liquidity. Furthermore, in an effort to support our communities during the pandemic, we are participating in the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) under the CARES Act whereby loans to small businesses are made and those loans are subject to the regulatory requirements that would require forbearance of loan payments for a specified time or that would limit our ability to pursue all available remedies in the event of a loan default. If the borrower under the PPP loan fails to qualify for loan forgiveness, we are at the heightened risk of holding these loans at unfavorable interest rates as compared to the loans to customers that we would have otherwise extended credit.

Strategic Risk. Our financial condition and results of operations may be affected by a variety of external factors that may affect the price or marketability of our products and services, changes in interest rates that may increase our funding costs, reduced demand for our financial products due to economic conditions and the various response of governmental and nongovernmental authorities. In recent weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased economic and demand uncertainty and has led to severe disruption and volatility in the global capital markets. Furthermore, many of the governmental actions in response to the pandemic have been directed toward curtailing household and business activity to contain COVID-19. These actions have been rapidly

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changing. For example, in many of our markets, local governments have acted to temporarily close or restrict the operations of most businesses. The future effects of COVID-19 on economic activity could negatively affect the future banking products we provide, including a decline in loan originations.

Operational Risk. Current and future restrictions on our workforce’s access to our facilities could limit our ability to meet customer servicing expectations and have a material adverse effect on our operations. We rely on business processes and branch activity that largely depend on people and technology, including access to information technology systems as well as information, applications, payment systems and other services provided by third parties. In response to COVID-19, we have modified our business practices with a portion of our employees working remotely from their homes to have our operations uninterrupted as much as possible. Further, technology in employees’ homes may not be as robust as in our offices and could cause the networks, information systems, applications, and other tools available to employees to be more limited or less reliable than in our offices. The continuation of these work-from-home measures also introduces additional operational risk, including increased cybersecurity risk. These cyber risks include greater phishing, malware, and other cybersecurity attacks, vulnerability to disruptions of our information technology infrastructure and telecommunications systems for remote operations, increased risk of unauthorized dissemination of confidential information, limited ability to restore the systems in the event of a systems failure or interruption, greater risk of a security breach resulting in destruction or misuse of valuable information, and potential impairment of our ability to perform critical functions, including wiring funds, all of which could expose us to risks of data or financial loss, litigation and liability and could seriously disrupt our operations and the operations of any impacted customers.

Moreover, we rely on many third parties in our business operations, including the appraiser of the real property collateral, vendors that supply essential services such as loan servicers, providers of financial information, systems and analytical tools and providers of electronic payment and settlement systems, and local and federal government agencies, offices, and courthouses. In light of the developing measures responding to the pandemic, many of these entities may limit the availability and access of their services. For example, loan origination could be delayed due to the limited availability of real estate appraisers for the collateral. Loan closings could be delayed related to reductions in available staff in recording offices or the closing of courthouses in certain counties or parishes, which slows the process for title work, mortgage and UCC filings in those counties or parishes. If the third-party service providers continue to have limited capacities for a prolonged period or if additional limitations or potential disruptions in these services materialize, it may negatively affect our operations.

Interest Rate Risk. Our net interest income, lending activities, deposits and profitability are and are likely to continue to be negatively affected by volatility in interest rates caused by uncertainties stemming from COVID-19. In March 2020, the Federal Reserve lowered the target range for the federal funds rate to a range from 0 to 0.25 percent, citing concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on markets and stress in the energy sector. A prolonged period of extremely volatile and unstable market conditions would likely increase our funding costs and negatively affect market risk mitigation strategies. Higher income volatility from changes in interest rates and spreads to benchmark indices will likely cause a loss of future net interest income and a decrease in current fair market values of our assets. Fluctuations in interest rates will impact both the level of income and expense recorded on most of our assets and liabilities and the market value of all interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our net income, operating results, or financial condition.

Because there have been no comparable recent global pandemics that resulted in similar global impact, we do not yet know the full extent of COVID-19’s effects on our business, operations, or the global economy as a whole. Any future development will be highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including the scope and duration of the pandemic, the effectiveness of our work from home arrangements, third party providers’ ability to support our operation, and any actions taken by governmental authorities and other third parties in response to the pandemic. The uncertain future development of this crisis could materially and adversely affect our business, operations, operating results, financial condition, liquidity or capital levels.

We are subject to lending concentration risk.

 

Our loan portfolio contains several industry and collateral concentrations including, but not limited to, commercial and residential real estate, energy, healthcare and hospitality. Due to the exposure in these concentrations, disruptions in markets, economic conditions, including those resulting from the global response to COVID-19, changes in laws or regulations or other events could cause a significant impact on the ability of borrowers to repay and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

A substantial portion of our loan portfolio is secured by real estate. In weak economies, or in areas where real estate market conditions are distressed, we may experience a higher than normal level of nonperforming real estate loans. The collateral value of the portfolio and the revenue stream from those loans could come under stress, and additional provisions for the allowance for credit losses could be necessitated. Our ability to dispose of foreclosed real estate at prices at or above the respective carrying values could also be impaired, causing additional losses.

 

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At March 31, 2020, energy or energy-related loans comprised approximately 4.4% of our loan portfolio. Weakness in the oil and gas sector continues to impact many energy-related entities’ profitability, liquidity and/or enterprise value. Global markets for oil and gas have and may continue to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and/or other events beyond our control. Further volatility in commodity prices could have a negative impact on the U.S. economy and, in particular, the economies of energy-dominant states such as Texas and Louisiana, two of our core markets. Such circumstances could have a material adverse effect on the performance of energy-related businesses and other commercial segments in these markets, and, in turn, on our financial condition and results of operations.

 

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

 

 

 

Total number of shares or units purchased

 

 

Average price paid per share

 

 

Total number of shares purchased as part of a publicly announced plan or program

 

 

Maximum number of shares that may yet be purchased under such plans or programs

 

January 1, 2020 - January 31, 2020

 

 

315,851

 

 

$

40.26

 

 

 

315,851

 

 

 

1,572,279

 

February 1 - February 29, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,572,279

 

March 1 - March 31, 2020

 

 

1,001,472

 

 

$

34.07

 

 

 

1,001,472

 

 

 

570,807

 

 

 

 

1,317,323

 

 

$

35.56

 

 

 

1,317,323

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 6.  Exhibits   

(a)  Exhibits:

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description

 

Filed Herewith

 

Form

 

Exhibit

 

Filing Date

3.1

 

Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

 

8-K

 

3.1

 

5/1/2020

3.2

 

Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

 

8-K

 

3.2

 

5/1/2020

31.1

 

Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

31.2

 

Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

32.1

 

Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

32.2

 

Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

101

 

Inline XBRL Interactive Data

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

104

 

The cover page from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, formatted in Inline XBRL

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

Hancock Whitney Corporation

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ John M. Hairston

 

 

John M. Hairston

 

 

President & Chief Executive Officer

 

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Michael M. Achary

 

 

Michael M. Achary

 

 

Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Stephen E. Barker

 

 

Stephen E. Barker

 

 

Executive Vice President, Senior Accounting and Finance Executive (Principal Accounting Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

May 6, 2020

 

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