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LIMESTONE BANCORP, INC. - Annual Report: 2008 (Form 10-K)

Form 10-K
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-K

 

 

(Mark One)

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

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2008

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: 001-33033

 

 

PORTER BANCORP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Kentucky   61-1142247

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

  (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

2500 Eastpoint Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky   40223
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (502) 499-4800

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

 

Title of each class

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, no par value   NASDAQ Global Market

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

None

 

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act).    Yes  ¨     No  x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

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 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  x    No  ¨


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Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.     ¨

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

Large accelerated filer  ¨    Accelerated filer  ¨     Non-accelerated filer  x    Smaller reporting company  ¨

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

The aggregate market value of the voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold as of the close of business on June 30, 2008, was $39,785,971 based upon the last sales price reported for such date on the NASDAQ Global Market.

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s Common Stock, no par value, as of February 28, 2009, was 8,287,933.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held May 21, 2009 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K.

 

 

 


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No.

PART I

      1

Item 1.

   Business    1

Item 1A.

   Risk Factors    10

Item 1B.

   Unresolved Staff Comments    17

Item 2.

   Properties    17

Item 3.

   Legal Proceedings    17

Item 4.

   Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders    18

PART II

      18

Item 5.

   Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities    18

Item 6.

   Selected Financial Data    20

Item 7.

   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation    23

Item 7A.

   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk    46

Item 8.

   Financial Statements and Supplementary Data    49

Item 9.

   Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure    80

Item 9A.

   Controls and Procedures    80

Item 9B.

   Other Information    80

PART III

      80

Item 10.

   Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant    80

Item 11.

   Executive Compensation    81

Item 12.

   Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters    81

Item 13.

   Certain Relationships and Related Transactions    81

Item 14.

   Principal Accountant Fees and Services    81

PART IV

      81

Item 15.

   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules    81
   Signatures    81
   Index to Exhibits    82


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PART I

Preliminary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This report contains statements about the future expectations, activities and events that constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements express our beliefs, assumptions and expectations of our future financial and operating performance and growth plans, taking into account information currently available to us. These statements are not statements of historical fact. The words “believe,” “may,” “should,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “objective,” “seek,” “plan,” “strive” or similar words, or the negatives of these words, identify forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations of future results we expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties can be difficult to predict and may be out of our control. Factors that could contribute to differences in our results include, but are not limited to our ability to expand and grow our business and operations, including the establishment of additional banking offices and acquisition of additional banks, and our ability to realize the cost savings and revenue enhancements we expect from such activities; changes in the interest rate environment, which may reduce our margins or impact the value of securities, loans, deposits and other financial instruments; general economic or business conditions, either nationally, regionally or locally in the communities we serve, may be worse than expected, resulting in, among other things, a deterioration in credit quality or a reduced demand for credit; the continued service of key management personnel; our ability to attract, motivate and retain qualified employees; factors that increase the competitive pressure among depository and other financial institutions, including product and pricing pressures; the ability of our competitors with greater financial resources to develop and introduce products and services that enable them to compete more successfully than us; legislative or regulatory developments, including changes in laws concerning taxes, banking, securities, insurance and other aspects of the financial services industry; and fiscal and governmental policies of the United States federal government.

Other risks are detailed in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of this Form 10-K all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control.

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance or results. A forward-looking statement may include the assumptions or bases underlying the forward-looking statement. We have made our assumptions and bases in good faith and believe they are reasonable. We caution you however, that estimates based on such assumptions or bases frequently differ from actual results, and the differences can be material. The forward-looking statements included in this report speak only as of the date of the report. We do not intend to update these statements unless applicable laws require us to do so.

Item 1.     Business

Overview

We are a bank holding company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. We are the sixth largest independent banking organization domiciled in the state of Kentucky based on total assets. Through our subsidiary PBI Bank, we operate 19 full-service banking offices in 12 counties in Kentucky. Our markets include metropolitan Louisville in Jefferson County and the surrounding counties of Henry and Bullitt, and extend south along the Interstate 65 corridor to Tennessee. We serve south central Kentucky and southern Kentucky from banking offices in Butler, Green, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, Warren, Ohio, and Daviess Counties. We also have an office in Lexington, Kentucky, the second largest city in Kentucky. PBI Bank is both a traditional community bank with a wide range of commercial and personal banking products, with a focus on commercial real estate and residential real estate lending, and an innovative on-line bank which delivers competitive deposit products and services through an on-line banking division operating under the name of Ascencia. As of December 31, 2008, we had total assets of $1.6 billion, total net loans of $1.3 billion, total deposits of $1.3 billion and stockholders’ equity of $164 million.

History

We were organized in 1988, and historically conducted our banking business through separate community banks under the common control of J. Chester Porter, our chairman, and Maria L. Bouvette, our president and chief executive officer. In 2004, we began to streamline our operations by consolidating our subsidiary banks under common control into a single bank. We completed our reorganization on December 31, 2005, when we acquired the interests of other shareholders in our three partially owned subsidiary bank holding companies in exchange for shares of our common stock, cash and indebtedness. Before December 31, 2005, our company and one of our subsidiary banks were S corporations for federal income tax purposes. Following the consolidation of our four subsidiary banks and the termination of our S corporation elections on December 31, 2005, all of our taxable income became subject to federal income taxes beginning in 2006, which caused our income tax expense to increase compared to the preceding years. See “Item 6. Selected Financial Data – Unauditied Pro Forma Selected Consolidated Financial Data” for more about the consolidation. On December 31, 2005, we also renamed our consolidated subsidiary PBI Bank to create a single brand name for our banking operations throughout our market area.

 

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On September 21, 2006, we completed an initial public offering of 1,550,000 shares of common stock. We sold 1,250,000 newly issued shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $30.0 million, and J. Chester Porter and Maria L. Bouvette, our controlling shareholders, together sold 300,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $7.2 million for their own accounts. We received proceeds of $26.6 million, after deducting total expenses of $3.4 million, which consisted of $2.1 million in underwriters’ discounts and commissions and $1.3 million of other expenses.

We completed the acquisition of Ohio County Bancshares, Inc., the holding company for Kentucky Trust Bank, effective October 1, 2007. At the time of the closing, Kentucky Trust Bank operated six retail banking offices in three Kentucky counties, including the Bowling Green and Owensboro markets, and had assets of approximately $120 million. The total acquisition price paid was $12 million, approximately 50% in cash and 50% in Porter Bancorp shares totaling 263,409 shares.

We completed the acquisition of Paramount Bank in Lexington, Kentucky, effective February 1, 2008. Paramount had approximately $75 million in assets and $76 million in deposits. The total acquisition price paid was approximately $5 million in cash.

Our Markets

We operate in markets that include the four largest cities in Kentucky – Louisville, Lexington, Owensboro and Bowling Green – and in other communities along the I-65 corridor.

 

   

Louisville/Jefferson, Bullitt and Henry Counties: Our headquarters are in Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky and the sixteenth largest city in the United States. The Louisville metropolitan area includes the consolidated Louisville/Jefferson County and 12 surrounding Kentucky and Southern Indiana counties with an estimated 1.2 million residents in 2007. We also have banking offices in Bullitt County, south of Louisville, and Henry County, east of Louisville. Our six banking offices in these counties also serve the contiguous counties of Spencer, Shelby and Oldham to the east and northeast of Louisville. The area’s employers are diversified across many industries and include the air hub for United Parcel Service (“UPS”), two Ford assembly plants, General Electric’s Consumer and Industrial division, Humana, Norton Healthcare, Brown-Forman and YUM! Brands.

 

   

Lexington/Fayette County: Lexington, located in Fayette County, is the second largest city in Kentucky with an estimated countywide population of over 270,000 in 2006, an increase of 3.9% since the 2000 census. Lexington is the financial, educational, retail, healthcare and cultural hub for Central and Eastern Kentucky. It is known worldwide for its Bluegrass horse farms and Keeneland Race Track, and proudly boasts of itself as “The Horse Capital of the World.” It is also the home of the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University. The area’s employers include Toyota, Lexmark, IBM Global Services and Valvoline.

 

   

Owensboro/Daviess County: Owensboro, located on the banks of the Ohio River, is Kentucky’s third largest city. Daviess County had an estimated countywide population of approximately 94,000 in 2006. The city is called a festival city, with over 20 annual community celebrations that attract visitors from around the world, including its world famous Bar-B-Q Festival which attracts over 80,000 visitors giving Owensboro recognition as “The Bar-B-Q Capital of the World”. It is an industrial, medical, retail and cultural hub for Western Kentucky and the area employers include Owensboro Medical System, Texas Gas, US Bank Home Mortgage and Toyotetsu.

 

   

Southern Kentucky: This market includes Bowling Green, the fourth largest city in Kentucky, located about 60 miles north of Nashville, Tennessee. Bowling Green, located in Warren County, is the home of Western Kentucky University and is the economic hub of an estimated labor market of over 425,000 in 2004. This market also includes thriving communities in the contiguous Barren County, including the city of Glasgow. Major employers in Barren and Warren Counties include GM’s Corvette plant and several other automotive facilities and R.R. Donnelley’s regional printing facility.

 

   

South Central Kentucky: South of the Louisville metropolitan area, we have banking offices in Butler, Edmonson, Green, Hart, and Ohio Counties, which had a combined population of approximately 79,000 in 2006. This region includes stable community markets comprised primarily of agricultural and service-based businesses. Each of our banking offices in these markets has a stable customer base and core deposits that are less sensitive to market competition, which provide us a lower cost source of funds for our lending operations.

 

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Growth Strategies

Our existing markets and the markets contiguous to our existing markets continue to provide attractive growth opportunities. Our 2008 growth strategy was focused on the following initiatives:

 

   

Streamline operational efficiency, including full integration of recent acquisitions.

 

   

Increase market share of existing franchise.

 

   

Opened new retail office in Bullitt County in Q2.

 

   

Expansion into new modern retail facility in Ohio County – now under construction.

 

   

Open new Technology/Operations Center and additional retail banking office in Barren County.

 

   

Continuing execution of successful core deposit development initiatives and non-interest income improvement strategies.

 

   

Carefully manage growth and capital in this uncertain economic environment.

In 2008, we substantially strengthened our capital position when PBI Bank issued a $9.0 million subordinated capital note in July, which qualified as Tier 2 capital, and we issued $35.0 million of preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury under the Capital Purchase Program on November 21, 2008

Our 2009 focus will be managed growth in our markets while being attentive to credit quality in light of the challenging economic environment. We will also continue our long-term strategy of considering merger and acquisition opportunities that may arise from time to time. Management intends to remain disciplined and focused with regard to future merger and acquisition opportunities. We will continue to assess bank acquisitions, subject to market conditions and suitable candidates, which will be accretive to earnings within the first full year of combined operations; are in markets that have high growth potential; and have strong management teams that are compatible with our culture.

Our Products and Services

We meet our customers’ banking needs with a broad range of financial products and services. Our lending services include real estate, commercial, mortgage and consumer loans to small to medium-sized businesses located in our markets, the owners and employees of those businesses, as well as other executives and professionals. We complement our lending operations with an array of retail and commercial deposit products. In addition, we offer our customers drive-through banking facilities, automatic teller machines, night depository, personalized checks, credit cards, debit cards, internet banking, electronic funds transfers through ACH services, domestic and foreign wire transfers, travelers’ checks, cash management, vault services, loan and deposit sweep accounts and lock box services. Through our trust division, we offer personal trust services, employer retirement plan services and personal financial and retirement planning services.

Employees

At December 31, 2008, the Company had 276 full-time equivalent employees. Our employees are not subject to a collective bargaining agreement, and management considers the Company’s relationship with employees to be good.

Competition

The banking business is highly competitive, and we experience competition in our market from many other financial institutions. Competition among financial institutions is based upon interest rates offered on deposit accounts, interest rates charged on loans, other credit and service charges relating to loans, the quality and scope of the services offered, the convenience of banking facilities and, in the case of loans to commercial borrowers, relative lending limits. We compete with commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, mortgage banking firms, consumer finance companies, securities brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market funds and other mutual funds, as well as super-regional, national and international financial institutions that operate offices within our market area and beyond.

There are a number of banks that offer services exclusively over the internet, such as ING Bank and E*TRADE Bank, and other banks, such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank that market their internet services to their customers nationwide. We believe that only the very largest of the commercial banks with which we compete offer the comprehensiveness of internet banking services that we are able to offer. However, many of the larger banks do have greater market presence and greater financial resources to market their internet banking services. Additionally, new competitors and competitive factors are likely to emerge, particularly in view of the rapid development of internet commerce. On the other hand, there have been some recently published reports indicating that the actual rate of growth in the use of internet banking services by consumers and businesses is lower than had been previously predicted and that many customers still prefer to be able to conduct at least some of their banking transactions at local banking offices. We believe that these findings support our strategic decision to complement our traditional community bank with our uniquely branded online bank to offer customers the benefits of both traditional and internet banking services. We believe that this strategy will contribute to our growth in the future.

 

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Supervision and Regulation

The following is a summary description of the relevant laws, rules and regulations governing banks and bank holding companies. The descriptions of, and references to, the statutes and regulations below are brief summaries and do not purport to be complete. The descriptions are qualified in their entirety by reference to the specific statutes and regulations discussed.

Porter Bancorp. Porter Bancorp is registered as a bank holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and is subject to supervision and regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. As such, we must file with the Federal Reserve Board annual and quarterly reports and other information regarding our business operations and the business operations of our subsidiaries. We are also subject to examination by the Federal Reserve Board and to operational guidelines established by the Federal Reserve Board. We are subject to the Bank Holding Company Act and other federal laws on the types of activities in which we may engage, and to other supervisory requirements, including regulatory enforcement actions for violations of laws and regulations.

Acquisitions. A bank holding company must obtain Federal Reserve Board approval before acquiring, directly or indirectly, ownership or control of more than 5% of the voting stock or all or substantially all of the assets of a bank, merging or consolidating with any other bank holding company and before engaging, or acquiring a company that is not a bank but is engaged in certain non-banking activities. Federal law also prohibits a person or group of persons from acquiring “control” of a bank holding company without notifying the Federal Reserve Board in advance, and then only if the Federal Reserve Board does not object to the proposed transaction. The Federal Reserve Board has established a rebuttable presumptive standard that the acquisition of 10% or more of the voting stock of a bank holding company with a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 would constitute an acquisition of control of the bank holding company. In addition, any company is required to obtain the approval of the Federal Reserve Board before acquiring 25% (5% in the case of an acquirer that is a bank holding company) or more of any class of a bank holding company’s voting securities, or otherwise obtaining control or a “controlling influence” over a bank holding company.

Permissible Activities. A bank holding company is generally permitted under the Bank Holding Company Act to engage in or acquire direct or indirect control of more than 5% of the voting shares of any bank, bank holding company or company engaged in any activity that the Federal Reserve Board determines to be so closely related to banking as to be a proper incident to the business of banking.

Under current federal law, a bank holding company may elect to become a financial holding company, which enables the holding company to conduct activities that are “financial in nature.” Activities that are “financial in nature” include securities underwriting, dealing and market making; sponsoring mutual funds and investment companies; insurance underwriting and agency; merchant banking activities; and activities that the Federal Reserve Board has determined to be closely related to banking. No regulatory approval will be required for a financial holding company to acquire a company, other than a bank or savings association, engaged in activities that are financial in nature or incidental to activities that are financial in nature, as determined by the Federal Reserve Board. We have not filed an election to become a financial holding company.

U.S. Treasury Capital Purchase Program. Pursuant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (the “U.S. Treasury”) Capital Purchase Program (the “CPP”), on November 21, 2008, Porter Bancorp issued and sold to the U.S. Treasury in an offering exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, (i) 35,000 shares of Porter Bancorp’ Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value and liquidation preference $1,000 per share ($35 million aggregate liquidation preference) (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) and (ii) a warrant (the “Warrant”) to purchase 299,829 shares of Porter Bancorp’s common stock, at an exercise price of $17.51 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments for an aggregate purchase price of $35 million in cash. The securities purchase agreement, dated November 21, 2008, pursuant to which the securities issued to the U.S. Treasury under the CPP were sold, limits the payment of dividends on Porter Bancorp’s common stock to the current quarterly dividend of $0.21 per share without prior approval of the U.S. Treasury, limits Porter Bancorp’s ability to repurchase shares of its common stock (with certain exceptions, including the repurchase of our common stock to offset share dilution from equity-based compensation awards), grants the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, the Warrant and the common stock of Porter Bancorp to be issued under the Warrant certain registration rights, and subjects Porter Bancorp to certain of the executive compensation limitations included in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

Capital Adequacy Requirements. The Federal Reserve Board has adopted a system using risk-based capital guidelines to evaluate the capital adequacy of bank holding companies. Under the guidelines, specific categories of assets are assigned different risk weights, based generally on the perceived credit risk of the asset. These risk weights are multiplied by corresponding asset balances to

 

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determine a “risk-weighted” asset base. The guidelines require a minimum total risk-based capital ratio of 8.0%. At least half of the total capital must be composed of common equity, retained earnings, senior perpetual preferred stock issued to the U. S. Treasury under the CPP and qualifying perpetual preferred stock and certain hybrid capital instruments, less certain intangible assets (“Tier 1 capital”). The remainder may consist of certain subordinated debt, certain hybrid capital instruments, qualifying preferred stock and a limited amount of the allowance for loan losses (“Tier 2 capital”). Total capital is the sum of Tier 1 and Tier 2 capital. To be considered well-capitalized under the risk-based capital guidelines, an institution must maintain a total capital to total risk-weighted assets ratio of at least 10% and a Tier 1 capital to total risk-weighted assets ratio of 6% or greater. As of December 31, 2008, our ratio of total capital to total risk-weighted assets was 14.1% and our ratio of Tier 1 capital to total risk-weighted assets was 12.1%, both ratios significantly above the required amounts.

In addition to the risk-based capital guidelines, the Federal Reserve Board uses a leverage ratio as an additional tool to evaluate the capital adequacy of bank holding companies. The leverage ratio is a company’s Tier 1 capital divided by its average total consolidated assets. Certain highly rated bank holding companies may maintain a minimum leverage ratio of 3.0%, but other bank holding companies may be required to maintain a leverage ratio of 4.0%. As of December 31, 2008, our leverage ratio of 10.1% was significantly above the required amount.

The federal banking agencies’ risk-based and leverage ratios are minimum supervisory ratios generally applicable to banking organizations that meet certain specified criteria, assuming that they have the highest regulatory rating. Banking organizations not meeting these criteria are expected to operate with capital positions well above the minimum ratios. The federal bank regulatory agencies may set capital requirements for a particular banking organization that are higher than the minimum ratios when circumstances warrant. Federal Reserve Board guidelines also provide that banking organizations experiencing internal growth or making acquisitions will be expected to maintain strong capital positions substantially above the minimum supervisory levels, without significant reliance on intangible assets.

Dividends. Under Federal Reserve policy, bank holding companies should pay cash dividends on common stock only out of income available over the past year and only if prospective earnings retention is consistent with the organization’s expected future needs and financial condition. The policy provides that bank holding companies should not declare a level of cash dividends that undermines the bank holding company’s ability to serve as a source of strength to its banking subsidiaries.

Porter Bancorp is a legal entity separate and distinct from PBI Bank. The majority of our revenue is from dividends paid to us by PBI Bank. PBI Bank is subject to laws and regulations that limit the amount of dividends it can pay. If, in the opinion of a federal regulatory agency, an institution under its jurisdiction is engaged in or is about to engage in an unsafe or unsound practice, the agency may require, after notice and hearing, that the institution cease and desist from such practice. The federal banking agencies have indicated that paying dividends that deplete an institution’s capital base to an inadequate level would be an unsafe and unsound banking practice. Under FDICIA, an insured institution may not pay any dividend if payment would cause it to become undercapitalized or if it already is undercapitalized. Moreover, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC have issued policy statements providing that bank holding companies and banks should generally pay dividends only out of current operating earnings.

Under Kentucky law, dividends by Kentucky banks may be paid only from current or retained net profits. Before any dividend may be declared for any period (other than with respect to preferred stock), a bank must increase its capital surplus by at least 10% of the net profits of the bank for the period until the bank’s capital surplus equals the amount of its stated capital attributable to its common stock. Moreover, the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions must approve the declaration of dividends if the total dividends to be declared by a bank for any calendar year would exceed the bank’s total net profits for such year combined with its retained net profits for the preceding two years, less any required transfers to surplus or a fund for the retirement of preferred stock or debt. We are also subject to the Kentucky Business Corporation Act, which generally prohibits dividends to the extent they result in the insolvency of the corporation from a balance sheet perspective or in the corporation becoming unable to pay debts as they come due. PBI Bank did not pay any dividends in 2008. At year-end 2008, $33.9 million of retained earnings was available to the Bank to pay dividends in future periods.

Prior to November 21, 2011, unless Porter Bancorp has redeemed all of the Series A Preferred Stock issued to the U.S. Treasury on November 21, 2008 or unless the U.S. Treasury has transferred all the preferred securities to a third party, the consent of the U.S. Treasury will be required for Porter Bancorp to declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on common stock other than (i) regular quarterly cash dividends of not more than the current level of $0.21 per share, as adjusted for any stock split, stock dividend, reverse stock split, reclassification or similar transaction, (ii) dividends payable solely in shares of common stock and (iii) dividends or distributions of rights or junior stock in connection with a shareholders’ rights plan.

 

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Imposition of Liability for Undercapitalized Subsidiaries. Bank regulators are required to take “prompt corrective action” to resolve problems associated with insured depository institutions whose capital declines below certain levels. In the event an institution becomes “undercapitalized,” it must submit a capital restoration plan. The capital restoration plan will not be accepted by the regulators unless each company having control of the undercapitalized institution guarantees the subsidiary’s compliance with the capital restoration plan up to a certain specified amount. Any such guarantee from a depository institution’s holding company is entitled to a priority of payment in bankruptcy.

The aggregate liability of the holding company of an undercapitalized bank is limited to the lesser of 5% of the institution’s assets at the time it became undercapitalized or the amount necessary to cause the institution to be “adequately capitalized.” The bank regulators have greater power in situations where an institution becomes “significantly” or “critically” undercapitalized or fails to submit a capital restoration plan. For example, a bank holding company controlling such an institution can be required to obtain prior Federal Reserve Board approval of proposed dividends, or might be required to consent to a consolidation or to divest the troubled institution or other affiliates.

Source of Financial Strength. Under Federal Reserve policy, a bank holding company is expected to act as a source of financial strength to, and to commit resources to support, its bank subsidiaries. This support may be required at times when, absent such a policy, the bank holding company may not be inclined to provide it. In addition, any capital loans by the bank holding company to its bank subsidiaries are subordinate in right of payment to deposits and to certain other indebtedness of the bank subsidiary. In the event of a bank holding company’s bankruptcy, any commitment by the bank holding company to a federal bank regulatory agency to maintain the capital of subsidiary banks will be assumed by the bankruptcy trustee and entitled to a priority of payment.

PBI Bank. PBI Bank, a Kentucky chartered commercial bank, is subject to regular bank examinations and other supervision and regulation by both the FDIC and the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions (“KDFI”). Kentucky’s banking statutes contain a “super-parity” provision that permits a well-rated Kentucky banking corporation to engage in any banking activity which could be engaged in by a national bank operating in any state; a state bank, a thrift or savings bank operating in any other state; or a federal chartered thrift or federal savings association meeting the qualified thrift lender test and operating in any state could engage, provided the Kentucky bank first obtains a legal opinion specifying the statutory or regulatory provisions that permit the activity.

Capital Requirements. Similar to the Federal Reserve Board’s requirements for bank holding companies, the FDIC has adopted risk-based capital requirements for assessing state non-member banks’ capital adequacy. The FDIC’s risk-based capital guidelines require that all banks maintain a minimum ratio of total capital to total risk-weighted assets of 8.0% and a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to total risk-weighted assets of 4.0%. To be well-capitalized, a bank must have a ratio of total capital to total risk-weighted assets of at least 10.0% and a ratio of Tier 1 capital to total risk-weighted assets of 6.0%. As of December 31, 2008, PBI Bank’s ratio of total capital to total risk-weighted assets was 12.0% and its ratio of Tier 1 capital to total risk-weighted assets was 10.1%.

The FDIC also requires a minimum leverage ratio of 3.0% of Tier 1 capital to total assets for the highest rated banks and an additional cushion of approximately 100-200 basis points for all other banks, which will effectively increase the minimum leverage ratio for other banks to 4.0% or 5.0% of Tier 1 capital or more. As of December 31, 2008, PBI Bank’s leverage ratio was 8.4%. Under the FDIC’s regulations, the highest rated banks are those which have well diversified risks, including no undue interest rate risk exposure; excellent control systems; good earnings; high asset quality; high liquidity and well managed on-and-off-balance sheet activities; and which in general are considered strong banking organizations, rated in the highest rating category under the regulatory rating system for banks. The leverage ratio operates in tandem with the FDIC’s risk-based capital guidelines and places a limit on the amount of leverage a bank can undertake by requiring a minimum level of capital to total assets.

Prompt Corrective Action. Pursuant to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (“FDIA”), the FDIC must take prompt corrective action to resolve the problems of undercapitalized institutions. FDIC regulations define the levels at which an insured institution would be considered “well capitalized,” “adequately capitalized,” “undercapitalized,” “significantly undercapitalized” and “critically undercapitalized.” A “well-capitalized” bank has a total risk-based capital ratio of 10.0% or higher; a Tier 1 risk- based capital ratio of 6.0% or higher; a leverage ratio of 5.0% or higher; and is not subject to any written agreement, order or directive requiring it to maintain a specific capital level for any capital measure. An “adequately capitalized” bank has a total risk-based capital ratio of 8.0% or higher; a Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio of 4.0% or higher; a leverage ratio of 4.0% or higher (3.0% or higher if the bank was rated a composite 1 in its most recent examination report and is not experiencing significant growth); and does not meet the criteria for a well-capitalized bank. A bank is “undercapitalized” if it fails to meet any one of the ratios required to be adequately capitalized. As of December 31, 2008, PBI Bank was “well capitalized” as defined by the FDIC. A depository institution may be deemed to be in a capitalization category that is lower than is indicated by its actual capital position if it receives an unsatisfactory examination rating. The degree of regulatory scrutiny increases and the permissible activities of a bank decreases, as the bank moves downward through the capital categories. Depending on a bank’s level of capital, the FDIC’s corrective powers include:

 

   

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placing limits on asset growth and restriction on activities;

 

   

requiring the bank to issue additional voting or other capital stock or to be acquired;

 

   

placing restrictions on transactions with affiliates;

 

   

restricting the interest rate the bank may pay on deposits;

 

   

ordering a new election of the bank’s board of directors;

 

   

requiring that certain senior executive officers or directors be dismissed;

 

   

prohibiting the bank from accepting deposits from correspondent banks;

 

   

requiring the bank to divest certain subsidiaries;

 

   

prohibiting the payment of principal or interest on subordinated debt; and

 

   

ultimately, appointing a receiver for the bank.

In the event an institution is required to submit a capital restoration plan, the institution’s holding company must guaranty the subsidiary’s compliance with the capital restoration plan up to a certain specified amount. Any such guarantee from a depository institution’s holding company is entitled to a priority of payment in bankruptcy. The aggregate liability of the holding company of an undercapitalized bank is limited to the lesser of 5% of the institution’s assets at the time it became undercapitalized or the amount necessary to cause the institution to be “adequately capitalized.” The bank regulators have greater power in situations where an institution becomes “significantly” or “critically” undercapitalized or fails to submit a capital restoration plan. For example, a bank holding company controlling such an institution can be required to obtain prior Federal Reserve Board approval of proposed dividends, or might be required to consent to a consolidation or to divest the troubled institution or other affiliates.

Deposit Insurance Assessments. The deposits of PBI Bank are insured by the DIF of the FDIC up to the limits set forth under applicable law and are subject to the deposit insurance premium assessments of the DIF. The FDIC imposes a risk-based deposit premium assessment system, which was amended pursuant to the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005 (the “Reform Act”). Under this system, as amended, the assessment rates for an insured depository institution vary according to the level of risk incurred in its activities. To arrive at an assessment rate for a banking institution, the FDIC places it in one of four risk categories determined by reference to its capital levels and supervisory ratings. In addition, in the case of those institutions in the lowest risk category, the FDIC further determines its assessment rate based on certain specified financial ratios or, if applicable, its long-term debt ratings. Currently, banks pay between 5 and 43 basis points per $100 of assessable deposits, depending on the insured institution’s risk category as described above. On December 16, 2008, the FDIC adopted a final rule increasing risk-based assessment rates uniformly by 7 basis points to between 12 and 50 basis points, on an annualized basis, beginning in the first quarter of 2009. The assessment rate schedule can change from time to time, at the discretion of the FDIC, subject to certain limits. Under the current system, premiums are assessed quarterly. The Reform Act also provides for a one-time premium assessment credit for eligible insured depository institutions, including those institutions in existence and paying deposit insurance premiums on December 31, 1996, or certain successors to any such institution. The assessment credit is determined based on the eligible institution’s deposits at December 31, 1996 and is applied automatically to reduce the institution’s quarterly premium assessments to the maximum extent allowed, until the credit is exhausted. In addition, insured deposits have been required to pay a pro rata portion of the interest due on the obligations issued by the Financing Corporation (“FICO”) to fund the closing and disposal of failed thrift institutions by the Resolution Trust Corporation.

On February 27, 2009, the FDIC adopted an interim rule, with request for comment, which would institute a one-time special assessment of 20 cents per $100 of domestic deposits on FDIC insured institutions. If approved, PBI Bank estimates that the assessment would total approximately $2.8 million. The assessment would be payable on September 30, 2009.

Safety and Soundness Standards. The FDIA requires the federal bank regulatory agencies to prescribe standards, by regulations or guidelines, relating to internal controls, information systems and internal audit systems, loan documentation, credit underwriting, interest rate risk exposure, asset growth, asset quality, earnings, stock valuation and compensation, fees and benefits, and such other operational and managerial standards as the agencies deem appropriate. Guidelines adopted by the federal bank regulatory agencies establish general standards relating to internal controls and information systems, internal audit systems, loan documentation, credit underwriting, interest rate exposure, asset growth and compensation, fees and benefits. In general, the guidelines require, among other things, appropriate systems and practices to identify and manage the risk and exposures specified in the guidelines. The guidelines prohibit excessive compensation as an unsafe and unsound practice and describe compensation as excessive when the amounts paid are unreasonable or disproportionate to the services performed by an executive officer, employee, director or principal stockholder.

 

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In addition, the agencies adopted regulations that authorize, but do not require, an agency to order an institution that has been given notice by an agency that it is not satisfying any of such safety and soundness standards to submit a compliance plan. If, after being so notified, an institution fails to submit an acceptable compliance plan or fails in any material respect to implement an acceptable compliance plan, the agency must issue an order directing action to correct the deficiency and may issue an order directing other actions of the types to which an undercapitalized institution is subject under the “prompt corrective action” provisions of FDIA. See “Prompt Corrective Actions” above. If an institution fails to comply with such an order, the agency may seek to enforce such order in judicial proceedings and to impose civil money penalties.

Branching. Kentucky law permits Kentucky chartered banks to establish a banking office in any county in Kentucky. A Kentucky bank may also establish a banking office outside of Kentucky. Well capitalized Kentucky banks that have been in operation at least three years and that satisfy certain criteria relating to, among other things, their composite and management ratings, may establish a banking office in Kentucky without the approval of the KDFI upon notice to the KDFI and any other state bank with its main office located in the county where the new banking office will be located. Branching by all other banks requires the approval of the KDFI, who must ascertain and determine that the public convenience and advantage will be served and promoted and that there is reasonable probability of the successful operation of the banking office.

The transaction must also be approved by the FDIC, which considers a number of factors, including financial history, capital adequacy, earnings prospects, character of management, needs of the community and consistency with corporate powers.

An out-of-state bank is permitted to establish banking offices in Kentucky only by merging with a Kentucky bank. De novo branching into Kentucky by an out-of-state bank is not permitted. This difficulty for out-of-state banks to branch in Kentucky may limit the ability of a Kentucky bank to branch into many states, as several states have reciprocity requirements for interstate branching.

Insider Credit Transactions. The restrictions on loans to directors, executive officers, principal shareholders and their related interests (collectively referred to herein as “insiders”) contained in the Federal Reserve Act and Regulation O apply to all insured depository institutions and their subsidiaries. These restrictions include limits on loans to one borrower and conditions that must be met before such a loan can be made. There is also an aggregate limitation on all loans to insiders and their related interests. These loans cannot exceed the institution’s total unimpaired capital and surplus.

Consumer Protection Laws. PBI Bank is subject to consumer laws and regulations that are designed to protect consumers in transactions with banks. While the list set forth herein is not exhaustive, these laws and regulations include the Truth in Lending Act, the Truth in Savings Act, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the Expedited Funds Availability Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act, among others. These laws and regulations mandate certain disclosure requirements and regulate the manner in which financial institutions must deal with customers when taking deposits or making loans to such customers.

Privacy. Federal law currently contains extensive customer privacy protections provisions. Under these provisions, a financial institution must provide to its customers, at the inception of the customer relationship and annually thereafter, the institution’s policies and procedures regarding the handling of customers’ nonpublic personal financial information. These provisions also provide that, except for certain limited exceptions, an institution may not provide such personal information to unaffiliated third parties unless the institution discloses to the customer that such information may be so provided and the customer is given the opportunity to opt out of such disclosure. Federal law makes it a criminal offense, except in limited circumstances, to obtain or attempt to obtain customer information of a financial nature by fraudulent or deceptive means.

Community Reinvestment Act. The Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) requires the FDIC to assess our record in meeting the credit needs of the communities we serve, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods and persons. The FDIC’s assessment of our record is made available to the public. The assessment also is part of the Federal Reserve Board’s consideration of applications to acquire, merge or consolidate with another banking institution or its holding company, to establish a new banking office or to relocate an office.

Bank Secrecy Act. The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (“BSA”) was enacted to deter money laundering, establish regulatory reporting standards for currency transactions and improve detection and investigation of criminal, tax and other regulatory violations. BSA and subsequent laws and regulations require us to take steps to prevent the use of PBI Bank in the flow of illegal or illicit money, including, without limitation, ensuring effective management oversight, establishing sound policies and procedures, developing effective monitoring and reporting capabilities, ensuring adequate training and establishing a comprehensive internal audit of BSA compliance activities. In recent years, federal regulators have increased the attention paid to compliance with the provisions of BSA and related laws, with particular attention paid to “Know Your Customer” practices. Banks have been encouraged by regulators to enhance their identification procedures prior to accepting new customers in order to deter criminal elements from using the banking system to move and hide illegal and illicit activities.

 

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USA Patriot Act. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “Patriot Act”) contains anti-money laundering measures affecting insured depository institutions, broker-dealers and certain other financial institutions. The Patriot Act requires financial institutions to implement policies and procedures to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism, including standards for verifying customer identification at account opening, and rules to promote cooperation among financial institutions, regulators and law enforcement entities in identifying parties that may be involved in terrorism or money laundering, and grants the Secretary of the Treasury broad authority to establish regulations and to impose requirements and restrictions on financial institutions’ operations. In addition, the Patriot Act requires the federal bank regulatory agencies to consider the effectiveness of a financial institution’s anti-money laundering activities when reviewing bank mergers and bank holding company acquisitions.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the maximum deposit insurance amount per depositor has been increased from $100,000 to $250,000 until December 31, 2009. Additionally, on October 14, 2008, after receiving a recommendation from the boards of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve, and consulting with the President, the Secretary of the Treasury signed the systemic risk exception to the FDIC Act, enabling the FDIC to establish its Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (“TLGP”). Under the transaction account guarantee program of the TLGP, the FDIC will fully guarantee, until the end of 2009, all non-interest-bearing transaction accounts, including NOW accounts with interest rates of 0.5 percent or less and IOLTAs (lawyer trust accounts). The TLGP also guarantees all senior unsecured debt of insured depository institutions or their qualified holding companies issued between October 14, 2008 and June 30, 2009 with a stated maturity greater than 30 days. All eligible institutions were permitted to participate in both of the components of the TLGP without cost for the first 30 days of the program. Following the initial 30 day grace period, institutions were assessed at the rate of ten basis points for transaction account balances in excess of $250,000 for the transaction account guarantee program and at the rate of either 50, 75, or 100 basis points of the amount of debt issued, depending on the maturity date of the guaranteed debt, for the debt guarantee program. Institutions were required to opt-out of the TLGP if they did not wish to participate. PBI Bank chose to participate in the transaction account guarantee program and chose to opt out of the debt guarantee program.

Effect on Economic Environment. The policies of regulatory authorities, including the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve Board, have a significant effect on the operating results of bank holding companies and their subsidiaries. Among the means available to the Federal Reserve Board to affect the money supply are open market operations in U.S. government securities, changes in the discount rate on member bank borrowings and changes in reserve requirements against member bank deposits. These means are used in varying combinations to influence overall growth and distribution of bank loans, investments and deposits, and their use may affect interest rates charged on loans or paid for deposits.

Federal Reserve Board monetary policies have materially affected the operating results of commercial banks in the past and are expected to continue to do so in the future. The nature of future monetary policies and the effect of such policies on our business and earnings and those of our subsidiaries cannot be predicted.

Recently Enacted and Future Legislation. Various laws, regulations and governmental programs affecting financial institutions and the financial industry are from time to time introduced in Congress or otherwise promulgated by regulatory agencies. Such measures may change the operating environment of Porter Bancorp and its subsidiaries in substantial and unpredictable ways. The nature and extent of future legislative, regulatory or other changes affecting financial institutions is very unpredictable at this time.

Specifically, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “ARRA”) was enacted on February 17, 2009. The ARRA includes a wide variety of programs intended to stimulate the economy and provide for extensive infrastructure, energy, health, and education needs. In addition, the ARRA imposes certain new executive compensation and corporate governance obligations on all current and future CPP recipients, including Porter Bancorp, until the institution has redeemed the preferred stock, which CPP recipients are now permitted to do under the ARRA without regard to the three year holding period and without the need to raise new capital, subject to approval of its primary federal regulator. The executive compensation restrictions under the ARRA are more stringent than those currently in effect under the CPP, but it is yet unclear how these executive compensation standards will relate to the similar standards recently announced by the U.S. Treasury, or whether the standards will be considered effective immediately or only after implementing regulations are issued by the U.S. Treasury. The ARRA also sets forth additional corporate governance obligations for CPP recipients, including requirements for the U.S. Treasury to establish standards that provide for semi-annual meetings of compensation committees of the board of directors to discuss and evaluate employee compensation plans in light of an assessment of any risk posed from such compensation plans. CPP recipients are further required by the ARRA to have in place company-wide policies regarding excessive or luxury expenditures, permit non-binding shareholder “say-on-pay” proposals to be included in proxy materials, as well as require written certifications by the chief executive officer and chief financial officer with respect to compliance.

 

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On February 18, 2009 the U.S. Treasury outlined the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, which includes measures that could impact Porter Bancorp, including measures to (i) implement a comprehensive homeowner stability initiative that incentivizes financial institutions to reduce homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments, (ii) develop clear and consistent guidelines for loan modifications that participants will be obligated to use and (iii) authorize judicial modifications of home mortgages in personal bankruptcy cases, which modifications must be accepted by the loan servicer or lender. The foregoing programs and actions remain subject to further clarification, and full implementation, and their full impact upon Porter Bancorp remains unpredictable at this time.

We cannot predict what other legislation or economic policies of the various regulatory authorities might be enacted or adopted or what other regulations might be adopted or the effects thereof. Future legislation and policies and the effects thereof might have a significant influence on overall growth and distribution of loans, investments and deposits and affect interest rates charged on loans or paid on time and savings deposits. Such legislation and policies have had a significant effect on the operating results of commercial banks in the past and are expected to continue to do so in the future.

Available Information

We file reports with the SEC including our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current event reports on Form 8-K and proxy statements, as well as any amendments to those reports. The public may read and copy any materials the Registrant files with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act are accessible at no cost on our web site at http://www.pbibank.com, under the Investors Relations section, once they are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. A shareholder may also request a copy of our Annual Report or Form 10-K free of charge upon written request to: Corporate General Counsel, Porter Bancorp, Inc., 2500 Eastpoint Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky 40223.

Item 1A.     Risk Factors

An investment in our common stock involves a number of risks. Realization of any of the risks described below could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flow and/or future prospects.

Our business has been and may continue to be adversely affected by current conditions in the financial markets and by economic conditions generally.

The capital and credit markets have been experiencing unprecedented levels of volatility and disruption for more than a year. In some cases, the markets have produced downward pressure on stock prices and credit availability for certain issuers without regard to those issuers’ underlying financial strength. Reduced consumer spending and the absence of liquidity in the global credit markets during the current recession have depressed business activity across a wide range of industries. Unemployment has also increased significantly.

A sustained weakness or weakening in business and economic conditions generally or specifically in our markets could have one or more of the following adverse effects on our business:

 

   

A decrease in the demand for loans and other products and services offered by us;

 

   

A decrease in the value of collateral securing our loans;

 

   

An impairment of certain intangible assets, such as goodwill;

 

   

An increase in the number of customers who become delinquent, file for protection under bankruptcy laws or default on their loans.

Overall, during the past year, the general business environment has had an adverse effect on our business, and there can be no assurance that the environment will improve in the near term. Until conditions improve, we expect our businesses, financial condition and results of operations to be adversely affected.

 

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Current market developments may adversely affect our industry, businesses and results of operations.

Over the past year, the financial services industry as a whole, as well as the securities markets generally, have been materially and adversely affected by very significant declines in the values of nearly all asset classes and by a very serious lack of liquidity. Financial institutions in particular have been subject to increased volatility and an overall loss in investor confidence. The loss of confidence in the financial sector, increased volatility in the financial markets and reduced business activity could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Further negative market developments may affect consumer confidence levels and may cause adverse changes in payment patterns, causing increases in delinquencies and default rates, which may impact our charge-offs and provisions for credit losses. A worsening of these conditions would likely exacerbate the adverse effects of these difficult market conditions on us and others in the financial services industry.

A large percentage of our loans are collateralized by real estate, and further disruptions in the real estate market may result in losses and adversely affect our profitability.

Approximately 89.0% of our loan portfolio as of December 31, 2008 was comprised of loans collateralized by real estate. During the second half of 2008, the declining economic conditions have caused a decrease in demand for real estate which has resulted in flat to declining real estate values in our markets. Further disruptions in the real estate market could significantly impair the value of our collateral and our ability to sell the collateral upon foreclosure. The real estate collateral in each case provides an alternate source of repayment in the event of default by the borrower and may deteriorate in value during the time the credit is extended. If real estate values decline, it is also more likely that we would be required to increase our allowance for loan losses. If during a period of reduced real estate values we are required to liquidate the collateral securing a loan to satisfy the debt or to increase our allowance for loan losses, it could materially reduce our profitability and adversely affect our financial condition.

We have a significant percentage of real estate construction and development loans, which carry a higher degree of risk.

Approximately 27.5% of our loan portfolio as of December 31, 2008 consisted of real estate construction and development loans. These loans generally carry a higher degree of risk than long-term financing of existing properties because repayment depends on the ultimate completion of the project and usually on the sale of the property. If we are forced to foreclose on a project prior to completion, we may not be able to recover the entire unpaid portion of the loan or we may be required to fund additional money to complete the project or hold the property for an indeterminate period of time. Any of these outcomes may result in losses and adversely affect our profitability.

This portion of our loan portfolio has been under stress for over a year and, due to weakening credit quality, we increased our loan loss provision and our total allowance for credit losses. The weakness in these portions of our loan portfolio is expected to continue well into 2009. Accordingly, it is anticipated that our non-performing asset and charge-off levels will remain elevated.

Our decisions regarding credit risk may not be accurate, and our allowance for loan losses may not be sufficient to cover actual losses, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We maintain an allowance for loan losses at a level we believe is adequate to absorb probable incurred losses in our loan portfolio based on historical loan loss experience, specific problem loans, value of underlying collateral and other relevant factors. If our assessment of these factors is ultimately inaccurate, the allowance may not be sufficient to cover actual future loan losses, which would adversely affect our operating results. Our estimates are subjective and their accuracy depends on the outcome of future events. Changes in economic, operating and other conditions that are generally beyond our control could cause actual loan losses to increase significantly. In addition, bank regulatory agencies, as an integral part of their supervisory functions, periodically review the adequacy of our allowance for loan losses. Regulatory agencies may require us to increase our provision for loan losses or to recognize further loan charge-offs if their judgment differs from ours, which could have a material negative impact on our operating results.

Our profitability depends significantly on local economic conditions.

Because most of our business activities are conducted in central Kentucky and most of our credit exposure is in that region, we are at risk from adverse economic or business developments affecting this area, including declining regional and local business activity, a downturn in real estate values and agricultural activities and natural disasters. To the extent the central Kentucky economy continues to soften, the rates of delinquencies, foreclosures, bankruptcies and losses in our loan portfolio will likely increase. Moreover, the value of real estate or other collateral that secures our loans could be adversely affected by economic downturn or a localized natural disaster. The economic downturn has had a negative impact on our financial results and may continue to have a negative impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and future prospects.

 

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Our small to medium-sized business target market may have fewer resources to weather the downturn in the economy.

Our strategy includes lending to small and medium-sized businesses and other commercial enterprises. Small and medium-sized businesses frequently have smaller market shares than their competitors, may be more vulnerable to economic downturns, often need substantial additional capital to expand or compete and may experience substantial variations in operating results, any of which may impair a borrower’s ability to repay a loan. In addition, the success of a small and medium-sized business often depends on the management talents and efforts of one or two persons or a small group of persons, and the death, disability or resignation of one or more of these persons could have a material adverse impact on the business and its ability to repay our loan. A continued economic downturn could have a more pronounced negative impact on our target market, which could cause us to incur substantial credit losses that could materially harm our operating results.

Our profitability is vulnerable to fluctuations in interest rates.

Changes in interest rates could harm our financial condition or results of operations. Our results of operations depend substantially on net interest income, the difference between interest earned on interest-earning assets (such as investments and loans) and interest paid on interest-bearing liabilities (such as deposits and borrowings). Interest rates are highly sensitive to many factors, including governmental monetary policies and domestic and international economic and political conditions. Factors beyond our control, such as inflation, recession, unemployment, and money supply may also affect interest rates. If our interest-earning assets mature or reprice more quickly than our interest-bearing liabilities in a given period as a result of decreasing interest rates, our net interest income may decrease. Likewise, our net interest income may decrease if interest-bearing liabilities mature or reprice more quickly than interest-earning assets in a given period as a result of increasing interest rates.

Fixed-rate loans increase our exposure to interest rate risk in a rising rate environment because interest-bearing liabilities would be subject to repricing before assets become subject to repricing. Adjustable-rate loans decrease the risk associated with changes in interest rates but involve other risks, such as the inability of borrowers to make higher payments in an increasing interest rate environment. At the same time, for secured loans, the marketability of the underlying collateral may be adversely affected by higher interest rates. In a declining interest rate environment, there may be an increase in prepayments on loans as the borrowers refinance their loans at lower interest rates, which could reduce net interest income and harm our results of operations.

If we cannot obtain adequate funding, we may not be able to meet the cash flow requirements of our depositors and borrowers, or meet the operating cash needs of the Company to fund corporate expansion or other activities.

Our liquidity policies and limits are established by the Board of Directors, with operating limits set by the Asset Liability Committee (“ALCO”), based upon analyses of the ratio of loans to deposits, the percentage of assets funded with non-core or wholesale funding. The ALCO regularly monitors the overall liquidity position of PBI Bank and the Company to ensure that various alternative strategies exist to cover unanticipated events that could affect liquidity. Liquidity is the ability to meet cash flow needs on a timely basis at a reasonable cost. If our liquidity policies and strategies don’t work as well as intended, then we may be unable to make loans and to repay deposit liabilities as they become due or are demanded by customers. The ALCO follows established board approved policies and monitors guidelines to diversify our wholesale funding sources to avoid concentrations in any one-market source. Wholesale funding sources include Federal funds purchased, securities sold under repurchase agreements, non-core brokered deposits, and Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) advances that are collateralized with mortgage-related assets.

We maintain a portfolio of securities that can be used as a secondary source of liquidity. There are other available sources of liquidity, including the ability to acquire additional non-core brokered deposits, additional collateralized borrowings such as FHLB advances, the issuance of debt securities, and the issuance of preferred or common securities in public or private transactions. If we were unable to access any of these funding sources when needed, we might not be able to meet the needs of our customers, which could adversely impact our financial condition, our results of operations, cash flows and our level of regulatory-qualifying capital.

We may need to raise additional capital in the future, but that capital may not be available when needed or at all.

We may need to raise additional capital in the future to provide us with sufficient capital resources and liquidity to meet our commitments and business needs. Our ability to raise additional capital, if needed, will depend on, among other things, conditions in the capital markets at that time, which are outside of our control, and our financial performance. We cannot assure you that capital will be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. An inability to raise additional capital on acceptable terms when needed could have a materially adverse effect on our businesses, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Our issuance of securities to the US Department of the Treasury may limit our ability to return capital to our shareholders and is dilutive to our common shares. In addition, the dividend rate increases substantially after five years if we cannot redeem the shares by that time.

On November 21, 2008, as part of the Capital Purchase Program established under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (“EESA”), we sold $35 million of senior preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury. We also issued to the U.S. Treasury a warrant to purchase 299,829 shares of our common stock at $17.51 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments. The terms of the transaction with the U.S. Treasury limit our ability to pay dividends and repurchase our shares. For three years after issuance or until the U.S. Treasury no longer holds any preferred shares, we will not be able to increase our dividends above the current quarterly level of $0.21 per common share nor repurchase any of our shares without the U.S. Treasury’s approval with limited exceptions, most significantly the repurchase of our common stock to offset share dilution from equity-based compensation awards. Also, we will not be able to pay any dividends at all unless we are current on our dividend payments on the preferred shares. These restrictions, as well as the dilutive impact of the warrant, may have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

Unless we are able to redeem the preferred stock during the first five years, the dividends on this capital will increase substantially at that point, from 5% (approximately $1.75 million annually) to 9% (approximately $3.15 million annually). Depending on market conditions and our financial performance at the time, this increase in dividends could significantly impact our capital and liquidity.

The U.S. Treasury has the unilateral ability to change some of the restrictions imposed on us by virtue of our sale of securities to it.

Our agreement with the U.S. Treasury under which it purchased our senior preferred stock imposes restrictions on the conduct of our business, including restrictions related to our payment of dividends, repurchases of our stock and our executive compensation and corporate governance. The U.S. Treasury has the right under this agreement to unilaterally amend it to the extent required to comply with any future changes in federal statutes. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”) amended provisions of EESA relating to compensation and governance as they affect companies that have participated in the CPP. In some cases, these amendments require action by the U.S. Treasury to implement them. These amendments could have an adverse impact on the conduct of our business, as could additional amendments in the future that impose further requirements or amend existing requirements.

Our chairman and our president and chief executive officer together have sufficient voting power to elect or remove our directors, to determine the vote on any matter that requires shareholder approval, and otherwise control our company. In exercising their voting power, they may act according to their own interests, which may be adverse to your interests.

As of December 31, 2008, J. Chester Porter and Maria L. Bouvette beneficially owned approximately 5,492,784 shares, or 66.3% of our outstanding common stock. Mr. Porter and Ms. Bouvette each have made testamentary arrangements that provide for the other to retain voting control of his or her common stock in the event of death. Accordingly, they will be able to exercise control over our business and affairs and will be able to determine the outcome of any matter submitted to a vote of our shareholders, including the election and removal of our entire board of directors, any amendment of our articles of incorporation (including any amendment that changes the rights of our common stock) and any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. Mr. Porter and Ms. Bouvette could take actions or make decisions in their self-interest that are opposed to your best interests. They could remove directors who take actions or make decisions they oppose but are favored by our other shareholders. They may be less receptive to the desires communicated by shareholders. Neither our articles of incorporation, our bylaws, nor Kentucky law requires the vote of more than a simple majority of our outstanding shares of common stock to approve a matter submitted for shareholder approval, subject to the general statutory requirement that any transaction in which one or more directors have a direct or indirect interest (other than as a shareholder) must be “fair” to the corporation. Mr. Porter and Ms. Bouvette have a level of concentrated control that could discourage others from initiating any potential merger, takeover or other change of control transaction that may otherwise give you the opportunity to realize a premium over the then-prevailing market price of our common stock. As a result, the market price of our common stock could be adversely affected.

 

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We are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NASDAQ corporate governance rules because J. Chester Porter and Maria L. Bouvette together own more than 50% of our sole class of voting stock. As a controlled company, our controlling shareholders have greater power to make decisions in their own self-interest and against the interests of other shareholders, and investors and other shareholders will have fewer procedural and substantive protections against the exercise of this power.

A “controlled company” may elect not to comply with the following NASDAQ corporate governance rules, which require that:

 

   

a majority of its board of directors consists of “independent directors,” which the NASDAQ rules define as persons who are not either officers or employees of the company and have no relationships that, in the opinion of the board of directors, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out their responsibilities as directors;

 

   

decisions regarding the compensation paid to executive officers are made either by a compensation committee composed entirely of independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors;

 

   

nominations for election to the board of directors are made either by a nominating committee composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities or by a majority of the independent directors.

We intend to rely on our controlled company status to have Mr. Porter, a non-independent director, serve on our nominating and governance committee and to have Ms. Bouvette, a non-independent director, serve on our compensation committee. We expect them to continue to serve in those positions for the foreseeable future.

Although a majority of our directors are independent directors, they have all been selected by Mr. Porter and Ms. Bouvette, who together have the voting power to remove directors who oppose actions or decisions they favor. Mr. Porter and Ms. Bouvette also have the power to elect a majority of directors who are not independent directors. Our board may elect to dispense with the compensation committee and the nominating and governance committee at any time without shareholder consent. Accordingly, our shareholders have fewer procedural and substantive protections than shareholders of companies subject to all of the NASDAQ corporate governance requirements.

If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, our operations could be negatively affected.

Financial institutions like us that experience rapid growth face various risks and difficulties, including:

 

   

finding suitable markets for expansion;

 

   

finding suitable candidates for acquisition;

 

   

attracting funding to support additional growth;

 

   

maintaining asset quality;

 

   

attracting and retaining qualified management; and

 

   

maintaining adequate regulatory capital.

In addition, in order to manage our growth and maintain adequate information and reporting systems within our organization, we must identify, hire and retain additional qualified employees, particularly in the accounting and operational areas of our business.

If we do not manage our growth effectively, our business, financial condition, results of operations and future prospects could be negatively affected, and we may not be able to continue to implement our business strategy and successfully conduct our operations.

If we are not able to continue our historical levels of growth, which were accomplished in part through acquisitions, we may not be able to maintain our historical earnings trends.

We have expanded our business through both organic growth and a number of strategic acquisitions. Our ability to continue our organic growth depends, in part, upon our ability to expand our market presence, successfully attract core deposits and identify attractive commercial lending opportunities. If we are not able to do this successfully, we may not be able to maintain our historical earnings trends.

Our ability to implement our strategy for continued growth also depends on our ability to continue to identify and integrate acquisition targets profitably. We cannot assure you that we will be able to continue this trend, or that future acquisitions will always be profitable. In addition, we expect that competition for suitable acquisition candidates will be significant. We compete with other banks or financial service companies with similar acquisition strategies, many of which are larger and have greater financial and other resources than we do. We cannot assure you that we will be able to successfully identify and acquire suitable acquisition targets on acceptable terms and conditions.

 

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We face strong competition from other financial institutions and financial service companies, which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

We compete with other financial institutions in attracting deposits and making loans. Our competition in attracting deposits comes principally from other commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, securities brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market funds and other mutual funds. Our competition in making loans comes principally from other commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, mortgage banking firms and consumer finance companies. In addition, competition for business in the Louisville metropolitan area has grown in recent years as changes in banking law have allowed several banks to enter the market by establishing new branches. Likewise, competition is increasing in the other growing markets we have targeted, which may adversely affect our ability to execute our plans for expansion. Moreover, our advantage from having operated a nationally recognized online banking division since 1999 may diminish, as nearly all of our competitors now offer online banking and may become more successful in attracting online business over time as they become more experienced.

Competition in the banking industry may also limit our ability to attract and retain banking clients. We maintain smaller staffs of associates and have fewer financial and other resources than larger institutions with which we compete. Financial institutions that have far greater resources and greater efficiencies than we do may have several marketplace advantages resulting from their ability to:

 

   

offer higher interest rates on deposits and lower interest rates on loans than we can;

 

   

offer a broader range of services than we do;

 

   

maintain numerous branch locations; and

 

   

mount extensive promotional and advertising campaigns.

In addition, banks and other financial institutions with larger capitalization and other financial intermediaries may not be subject to the same regulatory restrictions as we are and may have larger lending limits than we do. Some of our current commercial banking clients may seek alternative banking sources as they develop needs for credit facilities larger than we can accommodate. If we are unable to attract and retain customers, we may not be able to maintain growth and our results of operations and financial condition may otherwise be negatively impacted.

We depend on our senior management team, and the unexpected loss of one or more of our senior executives could impair our relationship with customers and adversely affect our business and financial results.

Our future success significantly depends on the continued services and performance of our key management personnel, particularly J. Chester Porter, chairman of the board, Maria L. Bouvette, president and chief executive officer, and David B. Pierce, chief financial officer. We do not have employment agreements with any of our senior executives. Our future performance will depend on our ability to motivate and retain these and other key officers. The loss of the services of members of our senior management or other key officers or the inability to attract additional qualified personnel as needed could materially harm our business.

While management continually monitors and improves our system of internal controls, data processing systems, and corporate wide processes and procedures, there can be no assurance that we will not suffer losses from operational risk in the future.

Management maintains internal operational controls and we have invested in technology to help us process large volumes of transactions. However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to continue processing at the same or higher levels of transactions. If our systems of internal controls should fail to work as expected, if our systems were to be used in an unauthorized manner, or if employees were to subvert the system of internal controls, significant losses could occur.

We process large volumes of transactions on a daily basis and are exposed to numerous types of operation risk, which could cause us to incur substantial losses. Operational risk resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems includes the risk of fraud by employees or persons outside of our company, the execution of unauthorized transactions by employees, errors relating to transaction processing and systems, and breaches of the internal control system and compliance requirements. This risk of loss also includes potential legal actions that could arise as a result of the operational deficiency or as a result of noncompliance with applicable regulatory standards.

 

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We establish and maintain systems of internal operational controls that provide management with timely and accurate information about our level of operational risk. While not foolproof, these systems have been designed to manage operational risk at appropriate, cost effective levels. We have also established procedures that are designed to ensure that policies relating to conduct, ethics, and business practices are followed. Nevertheless, we experience loss from operational risk from time to time, including the effects of operational errors, and these losses may be substantial.

We operate in a highly regulated environment and, as a result, are subject to extensive regulation and supervision that could adversely affect our financial performance and our ability to implement our growth and operating strategies.

We are subject to examination, supervision and comprehensive regulation by federal and state regulatory agencies, which is describer under “Item 1 Business – Supervision and Regulation.” Regulatory oversight of banks is primarily intended to protect depositors, the federal deposit insurance funds, and the banking system as a whole, not our shareholders. Compliance with these regulations is costly and may make it more difficult to operate profitably.

Federal and state banking laws and regulations govern numerous matters including the payment of dividends, the acquisition of other banks and the establishment of new banking offices. We must also meet specific regulatory capital requirements. Our failure to comply with these laws, regulations and policies or to maintain our capital requirements could affect our ability to pay dividends on common stock, our ability to grow through the development of new offices and our ability to make acquisitions. These limitations may prevent us from successfully implementing our growth and operating strategies.

In addition, the laws and regulations applicable to banks could change at any time, which could significantly impact our business and profitability. For example, new legislation or regulation could limit the manner in which we may conduct our business, including our ability to attract deposits and make loans. Events that may not have a direct impact on us, such as the bankruptcy or insolvency of a prominent U.S. corporation, can cause legislators and banking regulators and other agencies such as the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the SEC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and various taxing authorities to respond by adopting and or proposing substantive revisions to laws, regulations, rules, standards, policies, and interpretations. The nature, extent, and timing of the adoption of significant new laws and regulations, or changes in or repeal of existing laws and regulations may have a material impact on our business and results of operations. Changes in regulation may cause us to devote substantial additional financial resources and management time to compliance, which may negatively affect our operating results.

Changes in banking laws could have a material adverse effect on us.

We are extensively regulated under federal and state banking laws and regulations that are intended primarily for the protection of depositors, federal deposit insurance funds and the banking system as a whole. In addition, the Company is subject to changes in federal and state laws as well as changes in banking and credit regulations, and governmental economic and monetary policies. We cannot predict whether any of these changes may adversely and materially affect the Company. The current regulatory environment for financial institutions entails significant potential increases in compliance requirements and associated costs. Federal and state banking regulators also possess broad powers to take supervisory actions as they deem appropriate. These supervisory actions may result in higher capital requirements, higher insurance premiums and limitations on our activities that could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business and profitability.

Legislative and regulatory actions taken now or in the future to address the current liquidity and credit crisis in the financial industry may significantly affect our financial condition, results of operation, liquidity or stock price.

The EESA, which established the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”), was enacted on October 3, 2008. As part of the TARP, the U.S. Treasury created the Capital Purchase Program (“CPP”), under which the U.S. Treasury will invest up to $250 billion in senior preferred stock of U.S. banks and savings associations or their holding companies for the purpose of stabilizing and providing liquidity to the U.S. financial markets. On February 17, 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the “ARRA”) was enacted as a sweeping economic recovery package intended to stimulate the economy and provide for extensive infrastructure, energy, health, and education needs. There can be no assurance as to the actual impact that EESA or its programs, including the CPP, and ARRA or its programs, will have on the national economy or financial markets. The failure of these significant legislative measures to help stabilize the financial markets and a continuation or worsening of current financial market conditions could materially and adversely affect our financial condition, results of operation, liquidity or stock price.

 

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In addition, there have been numerous actions undertaken in connection with or following EESA and ARRA by the Federal Reserve Board, Congress, the U.S. Treasury, the FDIC, the SEC and others in efforts to address the current liquidity and credit crisis in the financial industry that followed the sub-prime mortgage market meltdown which began in late 2007. These measures include homeowner relief that encourages loan restructuring and modification; the establishment of significant liquidity and credit facilities for financial institutions and investment banks; the lowering of the federal funds rate; emergency action against short selling practices; a temporary guaranty program for money market funds; the establishment of a commercial paper funding facility to provide back-stop liquidity to commercial paper issuers; a mandatory “stress test” requirement for banking institutions with assets in excess of $100 billion to analyze capital sufficiency and risk exposure; and coordinated international efforts to address illiquidity and other weaknesses in the banking sector. The purpose of these legislative and regulatory actions is to help stabilize the U.S. banking system. However, the EESA, the ARRA and any current or future legislative or regulatory initiatives may not have their desired effect, or may have an adverse effect when applied to us.

Item 1B.     Unresolved Staff Comments

Not applicable.

Item 2.     Properties

PBI Bank has 19 full-service banking offices. The following table shows the location, square footage and ownership of each property. We believe that each of these locations is adequately insured. Data processing and support operations are located in the Main and Canmer offices. Trust services and operations are located in the Fairview office.

 

Markets

   Square Footage    Owned/Leased

Louisville/Jefferson, Bullitt and Henry Counties

     

Main Office: 2500 Eastpoint Parkway, Louisville

   30,000    Owned

Eminence Office: 645 Elm Street, Eminence

   1,500    Owned

Hillview Office: 11998 Preston Highway, Hillview

   3,500    Owned

Pleasureville Office: 5440 Castle Highway, Pleasureville

   10,000    Owned

Shepherdsville Office: 340 South Buckman Street, Shepherdsville

   10,000    Owned

Conestoga Office: 155 Conestoga Parkway, Shepherdsville

   3,900    Owned

Lexington/Fayette County

     

Lexington Office: 2424 Harrodsburg Road, Suite 100, Lexington

   8,500    Leased

South Central Kentucky

     

Brownsville Office: 113 East Main, Brownsville

   8,500    Owned

Canmer Office: 2708 North Jackson Highway, Canmer

   5,000    Owned

Greensburg Office: 202-04 North Main Street, Greensburg

   11,000    Owned

Horse Cave Office: 210 East Main Street, Horse Cave

   5,000    Owned

Morgantown Office: 112 West Logan Street, Morgantown

   7,500    Owned

Munfordville Office: 949 South Dixie Highway, Munfordville

   9,000    Owned

Northside Office: 1300 North Main Street, Beaver Dam

   3,200    Owned

Wal-Mart Office: 1701 North Main Street, Beaver Dam

   500    Leased

Owensboro/Davies County

     

Owensboro Office: 1819 Frederica Street, Owensboro

   3,000    Owned

Southern Kentucky

     

Fairview Office: 1042 Fairview Avenue, Bowling Green

   3,300    Leased

Campbell Lane Office: 751 Campbell Lane, Bowling Green

   7,500    Owned

Glasgow Office: 1006 West Main Street, Glasgow

   12,000    Owned

Other Properties

     

Office Building: 701 Columbia Avenue, Glasgow

   19,000    Owned

Item 3.     Legal Proceedings

In the normal course of operations, we are defendants in various legal proceedings. In the opinion of management, there is no proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of our management, threatened litigation in which an adverse decision could result in a material adverse change in our business or consolidated financial position.

 

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Item 4.     Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

None

PART II

 

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol “PBIB”. The following table presents the high and low sales prices for our common stock reported on the NASDAQ Global Market for the periods indicated. All per share data has been restated to reflect stock dividends.

 

     2008
     Market Value    Dividend

Quarter Ended

   High    Low     

Fourth Quarter

   $ 18.81    $ 14.67    $ 0.21

Third Quarter

     18.73      14.00      0.20

Second Quarter

     17.71      14.30      0.20

First Quarter

     19.03      16.30      0.20

 

     2007
     Market Value    Dividend

Quarter Ended

   High    Low     

Fourth Quarter

   $ 20.48    $ 17.58    $ 0.20

Third Quarter

     21.75      19.68      0.19

Second Quarter

     22.67      21.56      0.19

First Quarter

     21.90      20.62      0.19

As of December 31, 2008, we had approximately 813 shareholders, including 213 shareholders of record and approximately 600 beneficial owners whose shares are held in “street” name by securities broker-dealers or other nominees.

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Dividends

Shareholders of a Kentucky corporation are entitled to receive such dividends and other distributions when, as and if declared from time to time by the board of directors out of funds legally available for distributions to shareholders. We anticipate paying regular dividends on a quarterly basis going forward. Any future determination relating to the payment of dividends will be made at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend on a number of factors, including our future earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, future prospects and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.

As a bank holding company, our principal source of revenue is the dividends that may be declared from time to time by PBI Bank out of funds legally available for payment of dividends. Various banking laws applicable to PBI Bank limit the payment of dividends to us. A Kentucky chartered bank may declare a dividend of an amount of the bank’s net profits as the board deems appropriate. The approval of the KDFI is required if the total of all dividends declared by the bank in any calendar year exceeds the total of its net profits for that year combined with its retained net profits for the preceding two years, less any required transfers to surplus or a fund for the retirement of preferred stock or debt. On July 1, 2008, PBI Bank sold a $9 million subordinated capital note to Silverton Bank, N.A. The capital note provides that if PBI Bank is in default under the terms of the capital note, PBI Bank would be prohibited from paying dividends on its common stock.

Until 2006, we operated as a subchapter S corporation, and our dividend policy was to pay cash dividends to our two shareholders in an amount not less than the tax due on their per share portion of our taxable income. Effective December 31, 2005, we became a subchapter C corporation for federal income tax purposes, and acquired shareholders as a result of our reorganization. Our shareholders are no longer taxed on their proportional share of our net income, and we have adjusted our dividend policy to pay a regular quarterly dividend.

 

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On November 21, 2008, we sold $35 million of senior preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury pursuant to the CPP. The terms of the transaction with the U.S. Treasury limit our ability to pay dividends. For three years after issuance or until the U.S. Treasury no longer holds any preferred shares, we will not be able to increase our dividends above the current quarterly level of $0.21 per common share without the U.S. Treasury’s approval with limited exceptions, most significantly the repurchase of our common stock to offset share dilution from equity-based compensation awards. Also, we will not be able to pay any dividends at all unless we are current on our dividend payments on the preferred shares.

In addition, we have issued an aggregate of approximately $25.0 million in our junior subordinated debentures to our subsidiary trusts. We pay interest on the debentures, which is used by the trusts to pay distributions on the trust preferred securities issued by them. The indenture governing the issuance of each of these debentures provides that if we fail to make an interest payment on the debentures, we would be prohibited from paying dividends on our common stock until all debenture interest payments are current. Accordingly, if we are unable to pay interest on these debentures, we will be contractually restricted from paying dividends on our common stock.

Purchases of Equity Securities by Issuer

In December 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the repurchase of shares of Porter Bancorp’s common stock in an amount not to exceed $3 million, exclusive of any fees or commissions. As of December 31, 2008, Porter Bancorp had approximately $2.5 million remaining to purchase shares under the current stock repurchase program. The shares may be repurchased from time to time in open market transactions or privately negotiated transactions at its discretion, subject to market conditions and other factors. The Company did not repurchase any shares in the fourth quarter of 2008. The terms of the $35 million senior preferred stock transaction with the U.S. Treasury limit our ability repurchase shares of common stock until after November 21, 2011, unless the preferred shares sold to the U.S. Treasury have been redeemed in whole or transferred to an unaffiliated third party.

 

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Item 6.     Selected Financial Data

The following table summarizes our selected historical consolidated financial data from 2004 to 2008. You should read this information in conjunction with Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and Item 8. “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” Since 2004, we have combined several banks and bank holding companies in which we or our principal shareholders have held a controlling interest. Our company and its surviving bank subsidiary also terminated their elections to be subchapter S corporations as a result of this reorganization, which was completed effective December 31, 2005. Under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), entities that are more than 50% owned by another person or entity are generally consolidated for financial reporting purposes. Accordingly, for all periods presented, all of the assets and liabilities of our former subsidiaries, regardless of our previous percentage of ownership in these entities, are included in our consolidated balance sheet. Our consolidated net income, however, includes our subsidiaries’ net income only to the extent of our previous ownership percentage. In addition, financial data as of dates before and for periods ended through December 31, 2005 have been derived from both S corporations and C corporations within our consolidated group. Beginning on December 31, 2005, and for all subsequent periods, our financial data will reflect that our consolidated group consists entirely of C corporations.

Selected Consolidated Financial Data

 

     As of and for the Years Ended December 31,

(Dollars in thousands except per share data)

   2008    2007    2006    2005    2004

Income Statement Data:

              

Interest income

   $ 100,107    $ 91,800    $ 72,863    $ 62,054    $ 49,947

Interest expense

     52,881      49,404      35,622      25,665      19,698
                                  

Net interest income

     47,226      42,396      37,241      36,389      30,249

Provision for loan losses

     5,400      4,025      1,405      3,645      2,533

Non-interest income

     6,868      5,556      5,196      5,433      4,553

Non-interest expense

     27,757      22,474      19,785      20,047      17,725
                                  

Income before minority interest and taxes

     20,937      21,453      21,247      18,130      14,544

Minority interest in net income of consolidated subsidiaries

     —        —        —        1,314      898
                                  

Income before income taxes

     20,937      21,453      21,247      16,816      13,646

Income tax expense

     6,927      7,224      6,908      2,201      2,759
                                  

Net income

     14,010      14,229      14,339      14,615      10,887

Less:

              

Dividends on preferred stock

     194      —        —        —        —  

Accretion on preferred stock

     20      —        —        —        —  
                                  

Net income available to common

   $ 13,796    $ 14,229    $ 14,339    $ 14,615    $ 10,887
                                  

Common Share Data (1):

              

Basic and diluted earnings per common share

   $ 1.68    $ 1.77    $ 2.05    $ 2.37    $ 1.77

Cash dividends declared per common share

     0.81      0.77      0.76      1.60      1.08

Book value per common share

     15.59      14.78      13.53      10.81      10.74

Tangible book value per common share

     12.33      12.18      11.86      8.88      9.95

Balance Sheet Data (at period end):

              

Total assets

   $ 1,647,857    $ 1,456,020    $ 1,051,006    $ 991,481    $ 887,201

Debt obligations:

              

FHLB advances

     142,776      121,767      47,562      63,563      50,961

Junior subordinated debentures

     25,000      25,000      25,000      25,000      25,000

Subordinated capital note

     9,000      —        —        —        —  

Notes payable

     —        —        —        9,600      100

Average Balance Data:

              

Average assets

   $ 1,572,599    $ 1,221,649    $ 995,018    $ 942,733    $ 829,204

Average loans

     1,324,658      1,019,628      814,202      776,207      684,458

Average deposits

     1,250,614      997,287      810,419      771,677      669,936

Average FHLB advances

     138,954      69,276      57,847      54,342      53,939

 

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     As of and for the Years Ended December 31,  

(Dollars in thousands except per share data)

   2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  

Average junior subordinated debentures

     25,000       25,000       25,000       25,000       22,200  

Average subordinated capital note

     4,525       —         —         —         —    

Average notes payable

     —         14       7,329       100       100  

Average stockholders’ equity

     131,706       114,797       83,428       68,922       64,116  

Selected Performance Ratios:

          

Return on average assets

     0.89 %     1.16 %     1.44 %     1.55 %     1.31 %

Return on average equity

     10.64       12.39       17.19       21.21       16.98  

Efficiency ratio (2)

     50.74       46.97       46.68       47.96       51.07  

Net interest spread

     2.79       3.11       3.50       3.67       3.50  

Net interest margin (fully tax equivalent)

     3.20       3.67       3.97       4.06       3.84  

Asset Quality Ratios:

          

Non-performing loans

   $ 21,323     $ 12,669     $ 8,940     $ 7,014     $ 5,608  

Allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans

     92.16 %     128.99 %     143.53 %     173.90 %     182.97 %

Allowance for loan losses to total loans

     1.46       1.34       1.50       1.54       1.40  

Non-performing loans to total loans

     1.58       1.04       1.05       0.89       0.76  

Capital Ratios:

          

Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio

     12.13 %     10.39 %     14.32 %     10.64 %     12.91 %

Total risk-based capital ratio

     14.05       11.64       15.57       12.01       14.23  

Leverage ratio

     10.10       9.07       11.86       8.62       10.73  

 

(1)  Common share data has been adjusted to reflect a 5% stock dividend effective November 10, 2008 and a stock split effective December 7, 2005.

 

(2)  Efficiency ratio is computed by dividing non-interest expense by the sum of net interest income and non-interest income excluding gains (losses) on sales of securities.

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Selected Consolidated Financial Data

The following unaudited pro forma selected consolidated financial data for the periods and at the dates indicated should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this document. The unaudited pro forma selected consolidated financial data is presented to show the impact on our historical financial position and results of operations of our reorganization and the additional taxes to be incurred as a result of our termination of subchapter S corporation status for federal income tax purposes. In the reorganization, which was consummated on December 31, 2005, we merged three partially owned subsidiaries into our company, issued a combination of shares, cash and promissory notes to the holders of minority interests in those subsidiaries, and consolidated our remaining subsidiary banks. Our company and its surviving bank subsidiary also terminated their elections to be subchapter S corporations as a result of the reorganization. The unaudited pro forma selected consolidated financial data presented below assume that the reorganization and terminations of subchapter S corporation status were consummated on January 1 of 2005. The unaudited pro forma selected consolidated financial information is intended for informational purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of our future financial position or future operating results or of our financial position or operating results that would have actually occurred if the reorganization and terminations of subchapter S corporation status had been effective as of the date or for the periods presented.

 

     As of and for the Years Ended December 31,  

(Dollars in thousands except per share data)

   2008     2007     2006     2005  

Net Income Available to Common:

        

As reported

   $ 13,796     $ 14,229     $ 14,339     $ 14,615  

Adjustments

        

Add-back of minority interests (1)

     —         —         —         1,314  

Additional taxes (2)

     —         —         —         (3,963 )

Acquisition funding (3)

     —         —         —         (587 )
                                

Adjusted net income

   $ 13,796     $ 14,229     $ 14,339     $ 11,379  
                                

Period End Shares Outstanding:

        

As reported and adjusted for stock dividend and split

     8,287,933       8,275,266       8,003,569       6,161,635  

Shares issued in reorganization adjusted for stock dividend

     —         —         —         487,434  
                                

Adjusted shares outstanding

     8,287,933       8,275,266       8,003,569       6,649,069  
                                

Balance Sheet Data:

        

Stockholders’ equity

        

As reported

   $ 164,213     $ 122,289     $ 108,346     $ 71,876  

Adjustment for effect of net income adjustments

     —         —         —         (3,236 )
                                

Adjusted stockholders’ equity

   $ 164,213     $ 122,289     $ 108,346     $ 68,640  
                                

Total Assets

        

As reported

   $ 1,647,857     $ 1,456,020     $ 1,051,006     $ 991,481  

Adjustment for cash-out in reorganization

     —         —         —         (5,313 )
                                

Adjusted total assets

   $ 1,647,857     $ 1,456,020     $ 1,051,006     $ 986,168  
                                

Common Share Data:

        

Basic and diluted earnings per common share (4)

   $ 1.68       1.77       2.05       1.71  

Book value per common share

     15.59       14.78       13.53       10.32  

Tangible book value per common share

     12.33       12.18       11.86       8.39  

Selected Performance Ratios (5):

        

Return on average equity

     10.64 %     12.39 %     17.19 %     16.57 %

Return on average assets

     0.89       1.16       1.44       1.21  

 

(1) This adjustment reflects the minority interests purchased in our reorganization. The minority interests were reported on an after-tax, C corporation basis.

 

(2) This adjustment represents a tax rate of 34% applied to reported pre-tax income less reported income tax expense to reflect the conversion from Subchapter S corporation to C corporation status.

 

(3) Acquisition funding includes $9,500,000 in senior notes at an annual 6% interest rate and $5,313,000 in cash at an assumed annual 6% interest rate; net of tax at a 34% tax rate.

 

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(4) The 68,991, 43,502 and 42,000 shares of unvested restricted stock granted under our 2006 stock incentive plan that were outstanding as of December 31, 2008, December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively, have not been included in computing earnings per share because they are unvested and anti-dilutive. Pro forma earnings per share for 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005, were computed based on weighted-average shares outstanding of 8,222,257, 8,033,975, 7,012,254, and 6,649,069, respectively.

 

(5) Average asset and average equity calculations utilize two-point period averages that reflect the adjustments for the reorganization and the conversion from subchapter S corporation to C corporation status. Ratios for the year ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 are actual results.

Item 7.     Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation

Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations analyzes the consolidated financial condition and results of operations of Porter Bancorp Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, PBI Bank. Porter Bancorp, Inc. is a Louisville, Kentucky-based bank holding company which operates 19 full-service banking offices in twelve counties through its wholly-owned subsidiary, PBI Bank. Our markets include metropolitan Louisville in Jefferson County and the surrounding counties of Henry and Bullitt, and extend south along the Interstate 65 corridor to Tennessee. We serve south central Kentucky and southern Kentucky from banking offices in Butler, Green, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, Warren, Ohio, and Daviess Counties. We also have an office in Lexington, Kentucky, the second largest city in Kentucky. Our markets have experienced annual positive deposit growth rates in recent years with the trend expected to continue for the next few years. The Bank is both a traditional community bank with a wide range of commercial and personal banking products and an innovative online bank which delivers competitive deposit products and services through an on-line banking division operating under the name of Ascencia.

In 2005, we completed a reorganization in which we acquired the minority interests of our three partially owned bank holding companies and consolidated our five subsidiary banks under the common control of our founders into a single bank. In the reorganization, we terminated the elections by our company and our banking subsidiary to be subchapter S corporations for federal income tax purposes. As a subchapter S corporation with two shareholders, we historically paid a substantial portion of our net income as dividends to fund the tax liability our shareholders owed on our income and to provide a return on their investment. Dividends paid in 2005, our last year as a subchapter S corporation, represented 69.4% of our net income. As a C corporation, we now pay federal and state income taxes directly, but our shareholders no longer have to pay taxes on their share of our income, and we have adjusted our dividend policy accordingly. The dividends we have paid in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may pay in the future are subject to our future earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, future prospects and other factors our board of directors deems relevant.

On September 21, 2006, we completed an initial public offering of 1,550,000 shares of our common stock at an initial public offering price per share of $24.00. The aggregate purchase price of the offering was $37.2 million. The Company sold 1,250,000 newly issued shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $30.0 million, and selling shareholders sold 300,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $7.2 million, for their own accounts. The net proceeds to us were $26.6 million after deducting total expenses of $3.4 million.

On October 1, 2007, we completed the acquisition of Ohio County Bancshares, and its wholly owned subsidiary Kentucky Trust Bank. The aggregate purchase price was $12 million paid in cash and stock. We acquired $120.1 million in assets and $94.5 million in deposits and recorded $5.3 million in goodwill and $3.0 million in core deposit intangibles. This acquisition established our presence in Ohio and Daviess counties and improved our market position in Warren County.

On February 1, 2008, we completed the acquisition of Paramount Bank in Lexington, Kentucky, in a $5 million all cash transaction. We acquired $75 million in assets and $76 million in deposits and recorded goodwill of $6.0 million and $631,000 in core deposit intangibles. This acquisition established our physical presence in Lexington, Kentucky, Fayette County, the second largest market in the state.

We focus on commercial and commercial real estate lending, both in markets where we have banking offices and other growing markets in our region. Commercial, commercial real estate and real estate construction loans accounted for 67.9% of our total loan portfolio as of December 31, 2008, and 69.8% as of December 31, 2007, and contributed significantly to our earnings. Commercial lending generally produces higher yields than residential lending, but requires more rigorous underwriting standards and credit quality monitoring.

 

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Overview of 2008

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes and other schedules presented elsewhere in the report.

For the year ended December 31, 2008, we reported net income of $14.0 million compared to net income of $14.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2007. Basic and diluted earnings per common share were $1.68 for the year ended December 31, 2008, compared to $1.77 for 2007.

Significant developments for the year ended December 31, 2008 were:

 

   

Loans grew 10.9% to $1.4 billion compared to $1.2 billion at December 31, 2007.

 

   

Total assets increased 13.2% to $1.6 billion since the 2007 year-end, fueled by organic loan growth and the acquisition of Paramount Bank.

 

   

Deposits grew 10.5% to $1.3 billion compared with $1.2 billion at December 31, 2007.

 

   

Our efficiency continues to outperform our peers at 50.7% for 2008 compared with 47.0% for 2007.

 

   

Net interest margin declined to 3.20% for 2008 compared to 3.67% for 2007 as our rates earned on loans declined faster than rates we paid on deposits. This is a result of the Federal Reserve’s actions to reduce short-term interest rates during 2008.

 

   

Provision for loan losses increased $1.4 million, or 32%, in comparison to 2007 as the result of loan growth, an increase in non-performing loans, and increased net loan charge-offs of $3.5 million, or 0.27% of average loans for 2008, compared with $2.1 million, or 0.21% of average loans for 2007.

 

   

Securities in our investment portfolio are evaluated for other than temporary impairment in accordance with generally accepted accounting principals. During the fourth quarter, we recorded a $471,000 write-down on certain securities with an original cost of $832,000.

 

   

We completed the acquisition of Paramount Bank in Lexington, Kentucky in a $5 million all cash transaction on February 1, 2008. The acquisition added approximately $75 million in assets and $76 million in deposits, of which approximately $15 million are core demand deposits. This acquisition established our physical presence in Lexington, Fayette County, the second largest market in Kentucky.

 

   

We completed the sale of our Burkesville branch in November 2008. The transaction allowed us to exit a market not contiguous to our geographical footprint and resulted in a gain of approximately $410,000.

 

   

We repurchased 17,371 common shares of our common stock at an aggregate price of $300,518 under our $3 million stock repurchase plan in the first quarter 2008. The Company has approximately $2.5 million remaining under the original $3 million authorized by the Board of Directors to purchase additional shares of common stock.

 

   

Capital was strengthened with the sale of a $9 million subordinated capital note by our bank subsidiary, PBI Bank, on July 1, 2008. The capital note, which qualifies as Tier 2 capital, will provide funding for continued loan growth and maintain the bank’s strong capital position without being dilutive to common shareholders of Porter Bancorp.

 

   

Capital was further strengthened with the sale of $35 million of preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury Department under the Capital Purchase Program on November 21, 2008. The senior preferred shares pay a cumulative annual dividend rate of 5% for the first five years then will reset to a dividend rate of 9% after five years.

These items are discussed in further detail throughout this “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” Section.

Application of Critical Accounting Policies

Our accounting and reporting policies comply with GAAP and conform to general practices within the banking industry. We believe that of our significant accounting policies, the following may involve a higher degree of management assumptions and judgments that could result in materially different amounts to be reported if conditions or underlying circumstances were to change.

Allowance for Loan Losses – PBI Bank maintains an allowance for loan losses believed to be sufficient to absorb probable incurred credit losses existing in the loan portfolio, and the senior loan committee evaluates the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses on a quarterly basis. We evaluate the adequacy of the allowance using, among other things, historical loan loss experience, known and inherent risks in the portfolio, adverse situations that may affect the borrower’s ability to repay, estimated value of the underlying

 

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collateral and current economic conditions. While we evaluate the allowance for loan losses, in part, based on historical losses within each loan category, estimates for losses within the commercial real estate portfolio depend more on credit analysis and recent payment performance. The allowance may be allocated for specific loans or loan categories, but the entire allowance is available for any loan that, in management’s judgment, should be charged off. The allowance consists of specific and general components. The specific component relates to loans that are individually classified as impaired or loans otherwise classified as substandard or doubtful. The general component covers non-classified loans and is based on historical loss experience adjusted for current factors. The methodology for allocating the allowance for loan and lease losses takes into account our increase in commercial and consumer lending. We increase the amount of the allowance allocated to commercial loans and consumer loans in response to the growth of the commercial and consumer loan portfolios and management’s recognition of the higher risks and loan losses in these lending areas. We develop allowance estimates based on actual loss experience adjusted for current economic conditions. Allowance estimates are a prudent measurement of the risk in the loan portfolio which we apply to individual loans based on loan type. If the mix and amount of future charge-off percentages differ significantly from those assumptions used by management in making its determination, we may be required to materially increase our allowance for loan losses and provision for loan losses, which could adversely affect our results.

Goodwill and Intangible Assets – We test goodwill and intangible assets that have indefinite useful lives for impairment at least annually and more frequently if circumstances indicate their value may not be recoverable. We test goodwill for impairment by comparing the fair value of the reporting unit to the book value of the reporting unit. If the fair value, net of goodwill, exceeds book value, then goodwill is not considered to be impaired. Intangible assets that are not amortized will be tested for impairment at least annually by comparing the fair values of those assets to their carrying values. Other identifiable intangible assets that are subject to amortization are amortized on an accelerated basis over the years expected to be benefited, which we believe is 10 years. We review these amortizable intangible assets for impairment if circumstances indicate their value may not be recoverable based on a comparison of fair value to carrying value. Based on the annual goodwill impairment test as of December 31, 2008, management does not believe any of the goodwill is impaired as of that date. While management believes no impairment existed at December 31, 2008 under accounting standards applicable at that date, different conditions or assumptions, or changes in cash flows or profitability, if significantly negative or unfavorable, could have a material adverse effect on the outcome of the impairment evaluation and financial condition or future results of operations.

Stock-based Compensation – We adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123(R) “Share-Based Payment (Revised 2004),” on January 1, 2006. Among other things, SFAS No. 123(R) eliminates the ability to account for stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value based method of accounting and requires that such transactions be recognized as compensation expense in the income statement based on their fair values on the date of the grant. SFAS No. 123(R) requires that management make assumptions including stock price volatility and employee turnover that are utilized to measure compensation expense. We estimate the fair value of stock options granted at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, which requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, such as volatility, risk-free interest rates and dividend pay-out rates.

Valuation of Deferred Tax Asset –We evaluate deferred tax assets quarterly. We will realize this asset to the extent it is profitable or carry back tax losses to periods in which we paid income taxes. Our determination of the realization of the deferred tax asset will be based upon management’s judgment of various future events and uncertainties, including the timing and amount of future income we will earn and the implementation of various tax plans to maximize realization of the deferred tax assets. Management believes we will generate sufficient operating earnings to realize the deferred tax benefits. Examinations of our income tax returns or changes in tax law may impact the tax liabilities and resulting provisions for income taxes.

Results of Operations

The following table summarizes components of income and expense and the change in those components for 2008 compared with 2007:

 

     For the
Years Ended December 31,
   Change from Prior Period  
     2008    2007    Amount    Percent  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Gross interest income

   $ 100,107    $ 91,800    $ 8,307    9.0 %

Gross interest expense

     52,881      49,404      3,477    7.0  

Net interest income

     47,226      42,396      4,830    11.4  

Provision for credit losses

     5,400      4,025      1,375    34.2  

Non-interest income

     7,475      5,449      2,026    37.2  

 

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     For the
Years Ended December 31,
   Change from Prior Period  
     2008     2007    Amount     Percent  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Gains (losses) on sale of securities, net

   (136 )   107    (243 )   (227.1 )

Other than temporary impairment on securities

   (471 )   —      (471 )   (100.0 )

Non-interest expense

   27,757     22,474    5,283     23.5  

Net income before taxes

   20,937     21,453    (516 )   (2.4 )

Income tax expense

   6,927     7,224    (297 )   (4.1 )

Net income

   14,010     14,229    (219 )   (1.5 )

Net income of $14.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2008 decreased $219,000, or 1.5%, from $14.2 million for 2007. This decrease in earnings was primarily attributable to increased provision for loan losses expense. Provision for loan losses expense increased $1.4 million, or 34.2%, in comparison to 2007 as a result of our loan growth, an increase in non-performing loans, and increased net loan charge-offs of $3.5 million, or 0.27% of average loans for 2008, compared with $2.1 million, or 0.21% of average loans for 2007. Non-interest income increased $2.0 million, or 37.2%, in comparison to 2007 primarily as a result of increased service charges on deposit accounts, income from fiduciary activities originating from the trust operation acquired with Kentucky Trust Bank, and the gain on sale of our Burkesville branch. These increases were partially offset by reduced gains on sales of investment securities and other than temporary impairment write-downs on investment securities. Non-interest expense increased $5.3 million, or 23.5%, in comparison to 2007 as a result of increased salary and benefits expense and an increase in occupancy and equipment expense primarily related to the Kentucky Trust Bank acquisition. In addition, FDIC insurance premiums rose significantly due to amendments made by the FDIC in 2007 to its risk-based deposit premium assessment systems.

The following table summarizes components of income and expense and the change in those components for 2007 compared with 2006:

 

     For the
Years Ended December 31,
   Change from Prior Period  
     2007    2006    Amount     Percent  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Gross interest income

   $ 91,800    $ 72,863    $ 18,937     26.0 %

Gross interest expense

     49,404      35,622      13,782     38.7  

Net interest income

     42,396      37,241      5,155     13.8  

Provision for credit losses

     4,025      1,405      2,620     186.5  

Non-interest income

     5,449      5,146      303     5.9  

Gain on sale of securities

     107      50      57     114.0  

Non-interest expense

     22,474      19,785      2,689     13.6  

Net income before taxes

     21,453      21,247      206     1.0  

Income tax expense

     7,224      6,908      316     4.6  

Net income

     14,229      14,339      (110 )   (0.8 )

Net income of $14.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2007 decreased $110,000, or 0.8%, from $14.3 million for 2006. This decrease in earnings was primarily attributable to increased provision for loan losses expense. Provision for loan losses expense increased $2.6 million, or 186.5%, in comparison to 2006 as a result of our substantial loan growth coupled with net loan charge-offs of $2.1million, or 0.21% of average loans for 2007, compared with $770,000, or 0.09% of average loans for 2006. Non-interest income increased $303,000, or 5.9%, in comparison to 2006 primarily as a result of increased service charges on deposit accounts and income from fiduciary activities originating from the trust operation acquired with Kentucky Trust Bank. These increases were partially offset by reduced gains on sales of residential real estate loans resulting from our decision to move to a brokerage model and reduced gains on sales of government guaranteed loans which are cyclical in nature. Non-interest expense increased $2.7 million, or 13.6%, in comparison to 2006 as a result of increased salary and benefits expense and an increase in occupancy and equipment expense primarily related to the Kentucky Trust Bank acquisition. In addition, other real estate owned expense increased due to higher costs related to foreclosing on nonperforming collateral, and collecting amounts due.

 

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Net Interest Income – Our net interest income was $47.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, an increase of $4.8 million, or 11.4%, compared with $42.4 million for the same period in 2007. Net interest spread and margin were 2.79% and 3.20%, respectively, for 2008, compared with 3.11% and 3.67%, respectively, for 2007. The increase in net interest income was primarily the result of higher loan volume, but was partially offset by the reduction in net interest margin due to short-term pressure from the Federal Reserve’s actions to reduce short-term interest rates during 2008. The increase of $305.0 million in average loans for 2008, compared to the same period in 2007, was due to the acquisitions of Kentucky Trust Bank and Paramount Bank, and organic growth in our loan portfolio.

Our average interest-earning assets were $1.5 billion for 2008, compared with $1.2 billion for 2007, a 28.1% increase primarily attributable to loan growth and the Kentucky Trust Bank and Paramount Bank acquisitions. Average loans were $1.3 billion for 2008, compared with $1.0 billion for 2007, a 30% increase. Our total interest income increased 9.0% to $100.1 million for 2008, compared with $91.8 million for 2007. The change was due primarily to higher loan volume.

Our average interest-bearing liabilities also increased by 30.6% to $1.3 billion for 2008, compared with $1.0 billion for 2007. Our total interest expense increased by 7.0% to $52.9 million for 2008, compared with $49.4 million during 2007, due primarily to increases in the volume of certificates of deposit and FHLB advances. Our average volume of certificates of deposit increased 27.8% to $946.5 million for 2008, compared with $740.7 million for 2007. The average interest rate paid on certificates of deposits decreased to 4.31% for 2008, compared with 5.09% for 2007. Our average volume of FHLB advances increased 100.6% to $139.0 million for 2008, compared with $69.3 million for 2007. The average interest rate paid on FHLB advances decreased to 4.02% for 2008, compared with 4.71% for 2007. The decrease in cost of funds was the result of the continued re-pricing of certificates of deposit at maturity at lower interest rates, and decreased rates on FHLB advances.

Our net interest income was $42.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2007, an increase of $5.2 million, or 13.8%, compared with $37.2 million for the same period in 2006. Net interest spread and margin were 3.11% and 3.67%, respectively, for 2007, compared with 3.50% and 3.97%, respectively, for 2006. The increase in net interest income was primarily the result of higher loan volume, but was partially offset by the reduction in net interest margin due to the use of promotional pricing on loans and deposits to gain market share in new markets as well as short-term pressure from the Federal reserve’s actions to reduce short-term interest rates during the second half of 2007. The increase of $205.4 million in average loans for 2007, compared to the same period in 2006, was due to the acquisition of Kentucky Trust Bank and organic growth in our loan portfolio.

Our average interest-earning assets were $1.2 billion for 2007, compared with $946.3 million for 2006, a 23.0% increase primarily attributable to loan growth and the Kentucky Trust Bank acquisition. Average loans were $1.0 billion for 2007, compared with $814.2 million for 2006, a 25.2% increase. Our total interest income increased 26.0% to $91.8 million for 2007, compared with $72.9 million for 2006. The change was due primarily to higher loan volume.

Our average interest-bearing liabilities also increased by 22.2% to $1.0 billion for 2007, compared with $839.6 million for 2006. Our total interest expense increased by 38.7% to $49.4 million for 2007, compared with $35.6 million during 2006, due primarily to an increase in the volume of, and higher interest rates paid on, certificates of deposit. Our average volume of certificates of deposit increased 16.7% to $740.7 million for 2007, compared with $634.9 million for 2006. The average interest rate paid on certificates of deposits increased to 5.09% for 2007, compared with 4.40% for 2006. The increase in cost of funds was the result of the continued re-pricing of certificates of deposit at maturity at higher interest rates. Certificate of deposit volume increases also reflect increased interest rates.

 

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Average Balance Sheets

The following table sets forth the average daily balances, the interest earned or paid on such amounts, and the weighted average yield on interest-earning assets and weighted average cost of interest-bearing liabilities for the periods indicated. Dividing income or expense by the average daily balance of assets or liabilities, respectively, derives such yields and costs for the periods presented.

 

     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2008     2007  
     Average
Balance
    Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
    Average
Balance
    Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

ASSETS

              

Interest-earning assets:

              

Loans receivables (1)(2)

              

Real estate

   $ 1,164,892     $ 81,125    6.96 %   $ 892,104     $ 73,667    8.26 %

Commercial

     102,726       7,238    7.05       80,795       6,727    8.33  

Consumer

     38,786       3,637    9.38       31,453       2,969    9.44  

Agriculture

     15,555       1,181    7.59       14,187       1,262    8.90  

Other

     2,699       36    1.33       1,089       56    5.14  

U.S. Treasury and agencies

     11,000       482    4.38       21,529       927    4.31  

Mortgage-backed securities

     76,227       3,828    5.02       59,507       3,016    5.07  

State and political subdivision securities (3)

     20,272       818    6.21       16,578       684    6.35  

State and political subdivision securities

     2,455       133    5.42       2,458       133    5.41  

Corporate bonds

     6,499       382    5.88       2,259       143    6.33  

FHLB stock

     9,876       518    5.25       9,155       604    6.60  

Other debt securities

     704       46    6.53       217       23    10.60  

Other equity securities

     3,474       112    3.22       3,911       163    4.17  

Federal funds sold

     21,138       405    1.92       26,575       1,331    5.01  

Interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions

     14,853       166    1.12       2,031       95    4.68  
                                  

Total interest-earning assets

     1,491,156       100,107    6.74 %     1,163,848       91,800    7.92 %

Less: Allowance for loan losses

     (18,087 )          (14,130 )     

Non-interest-earning assets

     99,530            71,931       
                          

Total assets

   $ 1,572,599          $ 1,221,649       
                          

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

              

Interest-bearing liabilities

              

Certificates of deposit and other time deposits

   $ 946,477     $ 40,811    4.31 %   $ 740,693     $ 37,711    5.09 %

NOW and money market deposits

     176,812       3,822    2.16       157,645       5,800    3.68  

Savings accounts

     33,969       440    1.30       25,766       371    1.44  

Federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements

     14,045       555    3.95       7,858       337    4.29  

FHLB advances

     138,954       5,589    4.02       69,276       3,260    4.71  

Junior subordinated debentures

     29,525       1,664    5.64       25,000       1,924    7.70  

Other borrowing

     —         —      —         14       1    7.14  
                                  

Total interest-bearing liabilities

     1,339,782       52,881    3.95 %     1,026,252       49,404    4.81 %

Non-interest-bearing liabilities

              

Non-interest-bearing deposits

     93,356            73,183       

Other liabilities

     7,755            7,417       
                          

Total liabilities

     1,440,893            1,106,852       

 

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     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2008     2007  
     Average
Balance
   Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
    Average
Balance
   Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Stockholders’ equity

     131,706           114,797      
                        

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 1,572,599         $ 1,221,649      
                        

Net interest income

      $ 47,226         $ 42,396   
                        

Net interest spread

         2.79 %         3.11 %
                        

Net interest margin

         3.20 %         3.67 %
                        

Ratio of average interest-earning assets to average interest-bearing liabilities

         111.30 %         113.41 %
                        

 

(1) Includes loan fees in both interest income and the calculation of yield on loans.

 

(2) Calculations include non-accruing loans in average loan amounts outstanding.

 

(3) Taxable equivalent yields are calculated assuming a 35% federal income tax rate.

 

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     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2007     2006  
     Average
Balance
    Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
    Average
Balance
    Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

ASSETS

              

Interest-earning assets:

              

Loans receivables (1)(2)

              

Real estate

   $ 892,104     $ 73,667    8.26 %   $ 715,074     $ 58,359    8.16 %

Commercial

     80,795       6,727    8.33       55,047       4,483    8.14  

Consumer

     31,453       2,969    9.44       29,955       2,743    9.16  

Agriculture

     14,187       1,262    8.90       12,878       1,142    8.87  

Other

     1,089       56    5.14       1,248       59    4.73  

U.S. Treasury and agencies

     21,529       927    4.31       19,630       746    3.80  

Mortgage-backed securities

     59,507       3,016    5.07       56,197       2,606    4.64  

State and political subdivision securities (3)

     16,578       684    6.35       16,789       703    6.44  

State and political subdivision securities

     2,458       133    5.41       836       46    5.50  

Corporate bonds

     2,259       143    6.33       2,374       155    6.53  

FHLB stock

     9,155       604    6.60       8,661       504    5.82  

Other debt securities

     217       23    10.60       —         —      —    

Other equity securities

     3,911       163    4.17       3,442       155    4.50  

Federal funds sold

     26,575       1,331    5.01       18,629       887    4.76  

Interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions

     2,031       95    4.68       5,568       275    4.94  
                                  

Total interest-earning assets

     1,163,848       91,800    7.92 %     946,328       72,863    7.74 %

Less: Allowance for loan losses

     (14,130 )          (12,695 )     

Non-interest-earning assets

     71,931            61,385       
                          

Total assets

   $ 1,221,649          $ 995,018       
                          

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

              

Interest-bearing liabilities

              

Certificates of deposit and other time deposits

   $ 740,693     $ 37,711    5.09 %   $ 634,919     $ 27,940    4.40 %

NOW and money market deposits

     157,645       5,800    3.68       87,267       2,060    2.36  

Savings accounts

     25,766       371    1.44       23,455       211    0.90  

Federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements

     7,858       337    4.29       3,816       153    4.01  

FHLB advances

     69,276       3,260    4.71       57,847       2,710    4.68  

Junior subordinated debentures

     25,000       1,924    7.70       25,000       2,117    8.47  

Other borrowing

     14       1    7.14       7,329       431    5.88  
                                  

Total interest-bearing liabilities

     1,026,252       49,404    4.81 %     839,633       35,622    4.24 %

Non-interest-bearing liabilities

              

Non-interest-bearing deposits

     73,183            64,778       

Other liabilities

     7,417            7,179       
                          

Total liabilities

     1,106,852            911,590       

Stockholders’ equity

     114,797            83,428       
                          

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 1,221,649          $ 995,018       
                          

 

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     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2007     2006  
     Average
Balance
   Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
    Average
Balance
   Interest
Earned/Paid
   Average
Yield/Cost
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Net interest income

      $ 42,396         $ 37,241   
                        
                

Net interest spread

         3.11 %         3.50 %
                        
                

Net interest margin

         3.67 %         3.97 %
                        

Ratio of average interest-earning assets to average interest-bearing liabilities

         113.41 %         112.71 %
                        
                

 

(1) Includes loan fees in both interest income and the calculation of yield on loans.

 

(2) Calculations include non-accruing loans in average loan amounts outstanding.

 

(3) Taxable equivalent yields are calculated assuming a 35% federal income tax rate.

 

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Rate/Volume Analysis

The table below sets forth information regarding changes in interest income and interest expense for the periods indicated. For each category of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, information is provided on changes attributable to (1) changes in rate (changes in rate multiplied by old volume); (2) changes in volume (changes in volume multiplied by old rate); and (3) changes in rate-volume (change in rate multiplied by change in volume). Changes in rate-volume are proportionately allocated between rate and volume variance.

 

     Year Ended December 31, 2008 vs. 2007     Year Ended December 31, 2007 vs. 2006  
     Increase (decrease)
due to change in
    Increase (decrease)
due to change in
 
     Rate     Volume     Net
Change
    Rate     Volume     Net
Change
 
     (in thousands)  

Interest-earning assets:

            

Loan receivables

   $ (14,236 )   $ 22,772     $ 8,536     $ 844     $ 17,051     $ 17,895  

U.S. Treasury and agencies

     16       (461 )     (445 )     105       76       181  

Mortgage-backed securities

     (28 )     840       812       251       159       410  

State and political subdivision securities

     (20 )     154       134       7       61       68  

Corporate bonds

     (11 )     250       239       (5 )     (7 )     (12 )

FHLB stock

     (131 )     45       (86 )     70       30       100  

Other debt securities

     (12 )     35       23       —         23       23  

Other equity securities

     (34 )     (17 )     (51 )     (11 )     19       8  

Federal funds sold

     (696 )     (230 )     (926 )     48       396       444  

Interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions

     (121 )     192       71       (14 )     (166 )     (180 )
                                                

Total increase (decrease) in interest income

     (15,273 )     23,580       8,307       1,295       17,642       18,937  
                                                

Interest-bearing liabilities:

            

Certificates of deposit and other time deposits

     (6,343 )     9,443       3,100       4,740       5,031       9,771  

NOW and money market accounts

     (2,617 )     639       (1,978 )     1,531       2,209       3,740  

Savings accounts

     (40 )     109       69       137       23       160  

Federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements

     (28 )     246       218       12       172       184  

FHLB advances

     (534 )     2,863       2,329       12       538       550  

Junior subordinated debentures

     (570 )     310       (260 )     (193 )     —         (193 )

Other borrowings

     —         (1 )     (1 )     119       (549 )     (430 )
                                                

Total increase (decrease) in interest expense

     (10,132 )     13,609       3,477       6,358       7,424       13,782  
                                                

Increase (decrease) in net interest income

   $ (5,141 )   $ 9,971     $ 4,830     $ (5,063 )   $ 10,218     $ 5,155  
                                                

Non-Interest Income – The following table presents for the periods indicated the major categories of non-interest income:

 

     For the Years Ended
December 31,
     2008     2007    2006
     (in thousands)

Service charges on deposit accounts

   $ 3,424     $ 2,760    $ 2,537

Income from fiduciary activities

     1,079       206      —  

Secondary market brokerage fees

     365       296      353

Title insurance commissions

     157       186      137

Gains on sales of loans originated for sale

     —         —        284

Gains (losses) on sales of investment securities, net

     (136 )     107      50

Other than temporary impairment on securities

     (471 )     —        —  

Gain on sale of branch

     410       —        —  

Other

     2,040       2,001      1,835
                     

Total non-interest income

   $ 6,868     $ 5,556    $ 5,196
                     

 

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Non-interest income increased by $1.3 million to $6.9 million for 2008 compared with $5.6 million for 2007. Our non-interest income increased due to increased service charges on deposit accounts of $664,000, or 24.1%, attributable to the acquisitions of Paramount Bank in 2008 and Kentucky Trust Bank in 2007, increased income from fiduciary activities of $873,000 arising from the trust operation acquired with Kentucky Trust Bank, and gain of $410,000 on the sale of our Burkesville branch. These increases were partially offset by decreased gains on sales of investment securities and the $471,000 write-down of other than temporary impairment of financial market sector equity securities with an original cost of $832,000. Gains on sales of investment securities decreased $243,000, or 227.1%, to a net loss of $136,000 for 2008 compared with a net gain of $107,000 for 2007.

Non-interest income increased by $360,000 to $5.6 million for 2007 compared with $5.2 million for 2006. Our non-interest income increased due to increased service charges on deposit accounts of $223,000, or 8.8%, attributable to the acquisition of Kentucky Trust Bank in 2007 and a change in product fee structures during the second half of 2006 making certain products more competitive, income from fiduciary activities of $206,000 arising from the trust operation acquired with Kentucky Trust Bank, and increased gains on sales of investment securities. These increases were partially offset by decreased income from gains on sales of government guaranteed loans, gains on sales of loans originated for sale, and secondary market brokerage fees. Gains on sales of loans originated for sale to the secondary market decreased as the result of management’s decision to exit the business of originating home loans for sale. We are now concentrating on brokering long-term home loans to the secondary market through our mortgage division. Secondary market brokerage fees decreased $57,000, or 16.1%, to $296,000 for 2007 compared to $353,000 for 2006 due to lower consumer loan demand.

Non-interest Expense – The following table presents the major categories of non-interest expense:

 

     For the Years Ended
December 31,
     2008    2007    2006
     (in thousands)

Salary and employee benefits

   $ 14,792    $ 12,470    $ 11,432

Occupancy and equipment

     3,587      2,727      2,474

State franchise tax

     1,740      1,336      1,074

FDIC insurance

     1,051      298      98

Other real estate owned expense

     881      833      249

Professional fees

     787      829      622

Postage and delivery

     748      546      508

Communications

     711      466      511

Office supplies

     569      474      462

Advertising

     463      544      645

Loss on early extinguishment of debt

     —        —        280

Other

     2,428      1,951      1,430
                    

Total non-interest expense

   $ 27,757    $ 22,474    $ 19,785
                    

Non-interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $27.8 million represented a 23.5% increase from $22.5 million for the same period last year. Salaries and employee benefits are the largest component of non-interest expense. This expense increased $2.3 million, or 18.6%, in comparison with the same period of 2007 as a result of cost of living wage increases, and the addition of staff from the Paramount and Kentucky Trust Bank acquisitions.

Occupancy expense increased $860,000, or 31.5%, to $3.6 million in 2008 from $2.7 million in 2007 to support the addition of a new office opened in 2008 and the acquisitions of Paramount and Kentucky Trust Bank. State franchise taxes are based primarily on average capital levels. These taxes increased 30.2% from 2007 to 2008 as our capital grew. State franchise tax increased $404,000 to $1.7 million in 2008 from $1.3 million in 2007. FDIC insurance premiums rose significantly in 2008 due to amendments made by the FDIC in 2007 to its risk-based deposit premium assessment system and because we no longer had the deposit insurance credits which were used during the first nine months of 2007 thereby reducing deposit insurance payments in fiscal year 2007. FDIC insurance increased $753,000 to $1.1 million in 2008 from $298,000 in 2007. On February 27, 2009, the FDIC adopted an interim rule, with request for comment, which would institute a one-time special assessment of 20 cents per $100 of domestic deposits on FDIC insured institutions. If approved, PBI Bank estimates that the assessment would total approximately $2.8 million. The assessment would be payable on September 30, 2009.

 

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Other real estate owned expense increased $48,000, or 5.8%, to $881,000 in 2008 from $833,000 in 2007 due to higher costs related to foreclosing on nonperforming credits, repossessing collateral, and collecting amounts due. Postage and delivery expense increased $202,000, or 37.0%, to $748,000 in 2008 from $546,000 in 2007 as account statement mailings increased due to the Paramount and Kentucky Trust Bank acquisitions. Expenses also increased for communications from $466,000 in 2007 to $711,000 in 2008 due to additional costs related to communication lines with new and acquired branches. Office supplies increased $95,000 to $569,000 in 2008 from $474,000 in 2007 due to higher costs related to increased staff from the Paramount and Kentucky Trust Bank acquisitions.

Non-interest expense increases were partially offset by decreases in professional fees and advertising expense. Professional fees decreased $42,000, or 5.1%, to $787,000 in 2008 from $829,000 in 2007 due to lower data processing fees. Data processing operations of Kentucky Trust Bank were merged with our Data Center in the first quarter of 2008. Advertising expenses decreased $81,000, or 14.9%, to $463,000 in 2008 from $544,000 in 2007. We decreased spending on media advertising in 2008 to focus more on internal programs designed to grow accounts through increased customer service and in-house marketing efforts.

Non-interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2007 of $22.5 million represented a 13.6% increase from $19.8 million for the same period last year. Salaries and employee benefits are the largest component of non-interest expense. This expense increased $1.0 million, or 9.1%, in comparison with the same period of 2006 as a result of performance bonuses and cost of living wage increases, and the addition of staff from the Kentucky Trust Bank acquisition.

Occupancy expense increased $253,000, or 10.2%, to $2.7 million in 2007 from $2.5 million in 2006 to support the addition of new offices opened in 2007 and the acquisition of Kentucky Trust Bank. Professional fees increased $207,000, or 33.3%, to $829,000 in 2007 from $622,000 in 2006 as services related to shareholder and investor communications increased as we were a public company for all of 2007 in comparison to slightly more than one quarter in 2006. State franchise tax increased $262,000 to $1.3 million in 2007 from $1.1 million in 2006. State franchise taxes are based primarily on average capital levels. These taxes increased 24.4% from 2006 to 2007 as our capital grew. Expenses also increased for other real estate owned from $249,000 in 2006 to $833,000 in 2007 due to higher costs related to foreclosing on nonperforming credits, repossessing collateral, and collecting amounts due.

Non-interest expense increases were partially offset by decreases in advertising and communications expense. Advertising expenses decreased $101,000 or 15.7% to $544,000 in 2007 from $645,000 in 2006. We increased our spending on advertising in 2006 in connection with branding the bank’s new name, PBI Bank, Inc. Communication expense decreased $45,000 or 8.8% to $466,000 in 2007 from $511,000 in 2006 due to our negotiation of lower usage rates with our primary connectivity provider.

Income Tax Expense – Income tax expense was $6.9 million for 2008 compared with $7.2 million for 2007. Our statutory federal tax rate was 35% in both 2008 and 2007. Our effective federal tax rate decreased to 33.1% in 2008 from 33.7% in 2007, as the percentage of our tax exempt income to total income increased.

Income tax expense was $7.2 million for 2007 compared with $6.9 million for 2006. Our statutory federal tax rate was 35% in both 2007 and 2006. Our effective federal tax rate increased to 33.7% in 2007 from 32.5% in 2006.

Analysis of Financial Condition

Total assets at December 31, 2008 were $1.65 billion compared with $1.46 billion at December 31, 2007, an increase of $191.8 million or 13.2%. This increase was primarily attributable to an increase of $129.1 million in net loans from organic loan growth and the acquisition of Paramount Bank. We also had an increase of $45.0 million in securities available for sale.

Total assets at December 31, 2007 increased to $1.46 billion compared with $1.05 billion at December 31, 2006, an increase of $405.0 million or 38.5%. This increase was primarily attributable to an increase of $359.8 million in net loans from organic loan growth and the acquisition of Kentucky Trust Bank. We also had an increase of $32.9 million in securities available for sale.

Loans Receivable – Loans receivable increased $132.4 million or 10.9% during the year ended December 31, 2008 to $1.4 billion. Our commercial, commercial real estate, and real estate construction portfolios increased by an aggregate of $67.4 million or 7.9% during 2008 and comprised 67.9% of the total loan portfolio at December 31, 2008.

 

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Loans receivable increased $363.3 million or 42.5% to $1.2 billion at December 31, 2007 compared with $854.4 million at December 31, 2006. Our commercial, commercial real estate, and real estate construction portfolios increased $254.0 million, or 42.7%, to $849.5 million at December 31, 2007. At December 31, 2007, these loans comprised 69.8% of the total loan portfolio compared with 69.7% of the loan portfolio at December 31, 2006.

Loan Portfolio Composition – The following table presents a summary of the loan portfolio at the dates indicated, net of deferred loan fees, by type. There are no foreign loans in our portfolio and other than the categories noted, there is no concentration of loans in any industry exceeding 10% of total loans.

 

     As of December 31,  
     2008     2007  
     Amount    Percent     Amount    Percent  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Type of Loan:

          

Real estate:

          

Commercial

   $ 454,634    33.68 %   $ 422,405    34.69 %

Construction

     371,301    27.50       318,462    26.15  

Residential

     342,835    25.39       288,703    23.71  

Home equity

     33,249    2.46       25,382    2.08  

Commercial

     90,978    6.74       108,619    8.92  

Consumer

     37,783    2.80       38,061    3.13  

Agriculture

     16,181    1.20       14,855    1.22  

Other

     3,145    0.23       1,211    0.10  
                          

Total loans

   $ 1,350,106    100.00 %   $ 1,217,698    100.00 %
                          

 

     As of December 31,  
     2006     2005     2004  
     Amount    Percent     Amount    Percent     Amount    Percent  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Type of Loan:

               

Real estate:

               

Commercial

   $ 324,354    37.96 %   $ 305,099    38.52 %   $ 306,980    41.81 %

Construction

     211,973    24.81       190,080    24.00       142,359    19.39  

Residential

     195,591    22.89       177,683    22.44       169,529    23.09  

Home equity

     19,099    2.24       22,707    2.87       19,662    2.68  

Commercial

     59,113    6.92       50,626    6.39       48,152    6.56  

Consumer

     29,709    3.48       30,808    3.89       34,353    4.68  

Agriculture

     13,436    1.57       13,625    1.72       11,700    1.59  

Other

     1,092    0.13       1,323    0.17       1,446    0.20  
                                       

Total loans

   $ 854,367    100.00 %   $ 791,951    100.00 %   $ 734,181    100.00 %
                                       

Our lending activities are subject to a variety of lending limits imposed by state and federal law. PBI Bank’s secured legal lending limit to a single borrower was approximately $31.1 million at December 31, 2008.

At December 31, 2008, we had twelve loan relationships with aggregate extensions of credit in excess of $10 million. These loans are performing as agreed and we believe they are adequately collateralized.

As of December 31, 2008, we had $21.4 million of participations in real estate loans purchased from, and $108.3 million of participations in real estate loans sold to, other banks. As of December 31, 2007, we had $31.8 million of participations in real estate loans purchased from, and $98.1 million of participations in real estate loans sold to, other banks.

Our loan participation totals include participations in real estate loans purchased from and sold to two affiliate banks, The Peoples Bank, Mt. Washington and The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville. Our chairman, J. Chester Porter and his brother, William G. Porter, each own a 50% interest in Lake Valley Bancorp, Inc., the parent holding company of The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville, Kentucky. J. Chester Porter, William G. Porter and our president and chief executive officer, Maria L. Bouvette, serve as directors of The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville. Our chairman, J. Chester Porter owns an interest of approximately 36.0% and his brother, William G. Porter, owns an interest of approximately 3.0% in Crossroads Bancorp, Inc., the parent holding company of The Peoples Bank, Mount

 

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Washington, Kentucky. J. Chester Porter and Maria L. Bouvette, serve as directors of The Peoples Bank, Mount Washington. We have entered into management services agreements with each of these banks. Each agreement provides that our executives and employees provide management and accounting services to the subject bank, including overall responsibility for establishing and implementing policy and strategic planning. These entities are not consolidated in the financial statements of the Company. Maria Bouvette also serves as chief financial officer of each of the banks. We receive a $4,000 monthly fee from The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville and a $2,000 monthly fee from The Peoples Bank, Mount Washington for these services.

As of December 31, 2008, we had $6.0 million of participations in real estate loans purchased from, and $23.7 million of participations in real estate loans sold, to these affiliate banks. As of December 31, 2007, we had $6.8 million of participations in real estate loans purchased from, and $17.3 million of participations in real estate loans sold to, these affiliate banks.

Loan Maturity Schedule – The following table sets forth information at December 31, 2008, regarding the dollar amount of loans, net of deferred loan fees, maturing in the loan portfolio based on their contractual terms to maturity:

 

     As of December 31, 2008
     Maturing
Within
One Year
   Maturing
1 through
5 Years
   Maturing
Over 5
Years
   Total
Loans
     (dollars in thousands)

Loans with fixed rates:

           

Real estate:

           

Commercial

   $ 55,950    $ 173,747    $ 14,986    $ 244,683

Construction

     43,996      29,702      7,201      80,899

Residential

     39,275      154,689      64,932      258,896

Home equity

     49      151      70      270

Commercial

     14,823      25,074      891      40,788

Consumer

     8,367      23,201      2,692      34,260

Agriculture

     6,261      3,892      126      10,279

Other

     602      201      —        803
                           

Total fixed rate loans

   $ 169,323    $ 410,657    $ 90,898    $ 670,878
                           

Loans with floating rates:

           

Real estate:

           

Commercial

   $ 82,619    $ 77,364    $ 49,968    $ 209,951

Construction

     192,616      95,297      2,489      290,402

Residential

     34,098      21,160      28,681      83,939

Home equity

     632      5,511      26,836      32,979

Commercial

     30,283      10,485      9,422      50,190

Consumer

     1,913      988      622      3,523

Agriculture

     4,021      1,333      548      5,902

Other

     1,877      416      49      2,342
                           

Total floating rate loans

   $ 348,059    $ 212,554    $ 118,615    $ 679,228
                           

Non-Performing Assets – Non-performing assets consist of certain restructured loans for which interest rate or other terms have been renegotiated, loans past due 90 days or more still on accrual, loans on which interest is no longer accrued, real estate acquired through foreclosure and repossessed assets. Loans, including impaired loans, are placed on non-accrual status when they become past due 90 days or more as to principal or interest, unless they are adequately secured and in the process of collection. Loans are considered impaired if full principal or interest payments are not anticipated in accordance with the contractual loan terms. Impaired loans are carried at the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s effective interest rate or at the fair value of the collateral if the loan is collateral dependent. Loans are reviewed on a regular basis and normal collection procedures are implemented when a borrower fails to make a required payment on a loan. If the delinquency on a mortgage loan exceeds 90 days and is not cured through normal collection procedures or an acceptable arrangement is not worked out with the borrower, we institute measures to remedy the default, including commencing a foreclosure action. Consumer loans generally are charged off when a loan is deemed uncollectible by management and any available collateral has been disposed of. Commercial business and real estate loan delinquencies are handled on an individual basis by management with the advice of legal counsel.

 

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Interest income on loans is recognized on the accrual basis except for those loans placed on non-accrual status. The accrual of interest on impaired loans is discontinued when management believes, after consideration of economic and business conditions and collection efforts, that the borrowers’ financial condition is such that collection of interest is doubtful, which typically occurs after the loan becomes 90 days delinquent. When interest accrual is discontinued, existing accrued interest is reversed and interest income is subsequently recognized only to the extent cash payments are received.

Real estate acquired as a result of foreclosure or by deed in lieu of foreclosure is classified as real estate owned until such time as it is sold. New and used automobile, motorcycle and all terrain vehicles acquired as a result of foreclosure are classified as repossessed assets until they are sold. When such property is acquired it is recorded at its fair market value less costs to sell. Any write-down of the property at the time of acquisition is charged to the allowance for loan losses. Subsequent gains and losses are included in non-interest expense.

The following table sets forth information with respect to non-performing assets as of the dates indicated:

 

     As of December 31,  
     2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Past due 90 days or more still on accrual

   $ 11,598     $ 2,145     $ 2,010     $ 1,969     $ 1,329  

Loans on non-accrual status

     9,725       10,524       6,930       5,045       4,279  
                                        

Total non-performing loans

     21,323       12,669       8,940       7,014       5,608  

Real estate acquired through foreclosure

     7,839       4,309       2,415       1,781       1,667  

Other repossessed assets

     96       30       9       1       27  
                                        

Total non-performing assets

   $ 29,258     $ 17,008     $ 11,364     $ 8,796     $ 7,302  
                                        

Non-performing loans to total loans

     1.58 %     1.04 %     1.05 %     0.89 %     0.76 %

Non-performing assets to total assets

     1.78 %     1.17 %     1.08 %     0.89 %     0.82 %

Interest income that would have been earned on non-performing loans was $601,000, $586,000 and $437,000 for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 respectively. Interest income recognized on accruing non-performing loans was $181,000, $140,000, and $34,000 for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006, respectively.

At December 31, 2008 we had restructured loans totaling $13.6 million with borrowers who experienced deterioration in financial condition. These loans are secured by 1-4 residential or commercial real estate properties. Management believes these loans are well secured and the borrowers have the ability to repay the loans in accordance with the renegotiated terms. Loans more than 90 days past due increased $9.5 million from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008, and non-accrual loans decreased $799,000 from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008. The increase in loans more than 90 days past due was primarily attributable to commercial real estate loans and residential construction loan. Management believes these loans are well secured and has begun the appropriate collection actions to resolve them. Management believes it has established adequate loan loss reserves for these credits.

Allowance for Loan Losses – The allowance for loan losses is based on management’s continuing review and evaluation of individual loans, loss experience, current economic conditions, risk characteristics of various categories of loans and such other factors that, in management’s judgment, require current recognition in estimating loan losses.

The following table sets forth an analysis of loan loss experience as of and for the periods indicated:

 

     As of December 31,
     2008    2007    2006    2005    2004
     (dollars in thousands)

Balances at beginning of period

   $ 16,342    $ 12,832    $ 12,197    $ 10,261    $ 8,094
                                  

Loans charged-off:

              

Real estate

     2,711      1,777      467      1,411      253

Commercial

     347      299      132      1,117      495

Consumer

     749      267      436      519      552

Agriculture

     27      31      1      —        —  

Other

     —        —        —        37      14
                                  

Total charge-offs

     3,834      2,374      1,036      3,084      1,314
                                  

 

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     As of December 31,  
     2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Recoveries:

          

Real estate

     145       84       59       246       22  

Commercial

     85       54       121       222       38  

Consumer

     85       88       83       100       55  

Agriculture

     8       8       3       —         —    

Other

     —         —         —         —         1  
                                        

Total recoveries

     323       234       266       568       116  
                                        

Net charge-offs

     3,511       2,140       770       2,516       1,198  
                                        

Provision for loan losses

     5,400       4,025       1,405       3,645       2,533  

Balance acquired in bank acquisition

     1,421       1,625       —         807       832  
                                        

Balance at end of period

   $ 19,652     $ 16,342     $ 12,832     $ 12,197     $ 10,261  
                                        

Allowance for loan losses to total loans

     1.46 %     1.34 %     1.50 %     1.54 %     1.40 %

Net charge-offs to average loans outstanding

     0.27 %     0.21 %     0.09 %     0.32 %     0.18 %

Allowance for loan losses to total non-performing loans

     92.16 %     128.99 %     143.53 %     173.90 %     187.97 %

Our allowance for loan losses is a reserve established through charges to earnings in the form of a provision for loan losses. The allowance for loan losses in comprised of three components: specific reserves, general reserves and unallocated reserves. Generally, all loans that have been identified as impaired are reviewed on a quarterly basis in order to determine whether a specific allowance is required. A loan is considered impaired when, based on current information, it is probable that we will not receive all amounts due in accordance with the contractual terms of the loan agreement. Once a loan has been identified as impaired, management measures impairment in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 114, “Accounting By Creditors for Impairment of a Loan,” as amended by SFAS No. 118, “Accounting by Creditors for Impairment of a Loan—Income Recognition and Disclosures.” When management’s measured value of the impaired loan is less than the recorded investment in the loan, the amount of the impairment is recorded as a specific reserve. These specific reserves are determined on an individual loan basis based on management’s current evaluation of our loss exposure for each credit, given the payment status, financial condition of the borrower and value of any underlying collateral. Loans for which specific reserves are provided are excluded from the general reserve and unallocated allowance calculations described below. Changes in specific reserves from period to period are the result of changes in the circumstances of individual loans such as charge-offs, pay-offs, changes in collateral values or other factors.

The allowance for loan losses represents management’s estimate of the amount necessary to provide for known and inherent losses in the loan portfolio in the normal course of business. Due to the uncertainty of risks in the loan portfolio, management’s judgment of the amount of the allowance necessary to absorb loan losses is approximate. The allowance for loan losses is also subject to regulatory examinations and determination by the regulatory agencies as to its adequacy in comparison with peer institutions.

We make specific allowances for each impaired loan based on its type and classification as discussed above. At year-end 2008, our allowance for loan losses to total non-performing loans decreased to 92.16% from 128.99% at year-end 2007. The decline in this metric between periods is directly attributable to the increases in loans past due 90 days or more and still accruing and loans on non-accrual status. We have assessed these loans for collectability and considered, among other things, the borrower’s ability to repay, the value of the underlying collateral, and other market conditions to ensure that the allowance for loan losses is adequate to absorb probable incurred losses. We also maintain a general reserve for each loan type in the loan portfolio. In determining the amount of the general reserve portion of our allowance for loan losses, management considers factors such as our historical loan loss experience, the growth, composition and diversification of our loan portfolio, current delinquency levels, the results of recent regulatory examinations and general economic conditions. Based on these factors we apply estimated percentages to the various categories of loans, not including any loan that has a specific allowance allocated to it, based on our historical experience, portfolio trends and economic and industry trends. This information is used by management to set the general reserve portion of the allowance for loan losses at a level it deems prudent.

Our emphasis on continued growth of our loan portfolio through the origination of construction, commercial mortgage and 1-4 family residential loans has been one of the more significant factors we have taken into account in evaluating the general portion of our allowance for loan losses.

 

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Because there are additional risks of losses that cannot be quantified precisely or attributed to particular loans or types of loans, including general economic and business conditions and credit quality trends, we have established an unallocated portion of the allowance for loan losses based on our evaluation of these risks. The unallocated portion of our allowance is determined based on various factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions of our market area, the growth, composition and diversification of our loan portfolio, types of collateral securing our loans, the experience level of our lending officers and staff, the quality of our credit risk management and the results of independent third party reviews of our classification of credits. The unallocated portion of our allowance for loan losses as a percentage of the total allowance has remained consistent over the periods presented. As of December 31, 2008 and 2007, the unallocated portions of the allowance for loan losses were $742,000, or 3.8% of the total allowance, and $543,000, or 3.3% of the total allowance, respectively.

Based on an evaluation of the loan portfolio, management presents a quarterly review of the allowance for loan losses to our board of directors, indicating any change in the allowance for loan losses since the last review and any recommendations as to adjustments in the allowance for loan losses.

This evaluation is inherently subjective as it requires estimates that are susceptible to significant revision as more information becomes available or as events change. We used the same methodology and generally similar assumptions in assessing the allowance for both comparison periods. We increased the allowance for loan losses as a percentage of loans outstanding to 1.46% at December 31, 2008 from 1.34% at December 31, 2007. The level of the allowance is based on estimates and the ultimate losses may vary from these estimates.

We follow a loan review program designed to evaluate the credit risk in our loan portfolio. Through this loan review process, we maintain an internally classified watch list which helps management assess the overall quality of the loan portfolio and the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses. Loans categorized as watch list loans show warning elements where the present status exhibits one or more deficiencies that require attention in the short term or where pertinent ratios of the loan account have weakened to a point where more frequent monitoring is warranted. These loans do not have all of the characteristics of a classified loan (substandard or doubtful) but do show weakened elements as compared with those of a satisfactory credit. We review these loans to assist in assessing the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses.

In establishing the appropriate classification for specific assets, management considers, among other factors, the estimated value of the underlying collateral, the borrower’s ability to repay, the borrower’s repayment history and the current delinquent status. As a result of this process, loans are categorized as special mention, substandard or doubtful.

Loans classified as “special mention” do not have all of the characteristics of substandard or doubtful loans. They have one or more deficiencies which warrant special attention and which corrective action, such as accelerated collection practices, may remedy.

Loans classified as “substandard” are those loans with clear and defined weaknesses such as a highly leveraged position, unfavorable financial ratios, uncertain repayment sources or poor financial condition which may jeopardize the repayment of the debt as contractually agreed. They are characterized by the distinct possibility that we will sustain some losses if the deficiencies are not corrected.

Loans classified as “doubtful” are those loans which have characteristics similar to substandard loans but with an increased risk that collection or liquidation in full is highly questionable and improbable.

Once a loan is deemed impaired or uncollectible as contractually agreed, the loan is charged-off either partially or in-full against the allowance for loan losses, based upon the expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s effective interest rate, or the fair value of collateral with respect to collateral-based loans.

As of December 31, 2008, we had $84.1 million of loans classified as substandard, $10,000 classified as doubtful, $49.4 million classified as special mention and none classified as loss. This compares with $33.0 million of loans classified as substandard, $590,000 classified as doubtful, $9.8 million classified as special mention and none classified as loss as of December 31, 2007. The $51.1 million increase in loans classified as substandard is primarily attributable to the downgrade of credits displaying financial weakness indicated by inconsistent payments. Factors affecting each credit are specific to the borrowers business or related to macro economic events and we continue to monitor these credits regularly. As of December 31, 2008 we had specific allocations of $7.6 million in the allowance for loan losses related to these classified loans. This compares to specific allocations of $4.5 million in the allowance for loan losses related to classified loan at December 31, 2007.

 

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We recorded a provision for loan losses of $5.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, compared with $4.0 million for 2007 and $1.4 million for 2006. The total allowance for loan losses was $19.7 million or 1.46% of total loans at December 31, 2008, compared with $16.3 million or 1.34% of total loans at December 31, 2007, and $12.8 million or 1.50% of total loans at December 31, 2006. The increased allowance is primarily due to the increase in our loan portfolio of $132.4 million from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008, the increase of $8.6 million in non-performing loans to $21.3 million at December 31, 2008 from $12.7 million at December 31, 2007, and increased loan charge-offs. Net charge-offs were $3.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2008 compared with $2.1 million for 2007 and $770,000 for 2006. We acquired a banking office in 2008 and a financial institution in 2007, and applied generally accepted accounting principles in connection with these acquisitions. More specifically, we applied the provisions of Statement of Position 03-3: “Accounting for Certain Loans or Debt Securities Acquired in a Transfer” to the 2008 and 2007 transactions. We identified no substantial loan or homogenous group of loans having evidence of deterioration of credit quality as defined by the statement. As a result, the existing allowance for loan loss in the amount of $1.4 million and $1.6 million, respectively, were recorded as of the dates of acquisition.

The following table depicts management’s allocation of the allowance for loan losses by loan type. Allowance funding and allocation is based on management’s current evaluation of risk in each category, economic conditions, past loss experience, loan volume, past due history and other factors. Since these factors and management’s assumptions are subject to change, the allocation is not necessarily predictive of future portfolio performance. The allocation is made by analytical purposes and is not necessarily indicative of the categories in which future losses may occur. The total allowance is available to absorb losses from any segment of loans.

 

                As of December 31,  
                2008     2007  
                Amount of
Allowance
   Percent
of
Loans
to Total
Loans
    Amount of
Allowance
   Percent
of
Loans
to Total
Loans
 
                (dollars in thousands)  

Real estate:

               

Commercial

        $ 6,770    33.68 %   $ 6,606    34.69 %

Residential

          2,271    27.85       1,580    25.79  

Construction

          5,907    27.50       3,653    26.15  

Commercial

          1,623    6.74       1,655    8.92  

Consumer

          603    2.80       574    3.13  

Other

          1,736    1.43       1,731    1.32  

Unallocated

          742    —         543    —    
                               

Total

        $ 19,652    100.00 %   $ 16,342    100.00 %
                               
     As of December 31,  
     2006     2005     2004  
     Amount of
Allowance
   Percent
of
Loans
to Total
Loans
    Amount of
Allowance
   Percent
of
Loans
to Total
Loans
    Amount of
Allowance
   Percent
of
Loans
to Total
Loans
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Real estate:

               

Commercial

   $ 6,519    37.96 %   $ 5,529    38.52 %   $ 4,215    41.81 %

Residential

     1,103    25.13       1,194    25.31       843    25.77  

Construction

     2,000    24.81       1,950    24.00       1,652    19.39  

Commercial

     896    6.92       1,020    6.39       1,230    6.56  

Consumer

     460    3.48       563    3.89       549    4.68  

Other

     1,245    1.70       1,373    1.89       1,216    1.79  

Unallocated

     609    —         568    —         556    —    
                                       

Total

   $ 12,832    100.00 %   $ 12,197    100.00 %   $ 10,261    100.00 %
                                       

Investment Securities – The securities portfolio serves as a source of liquidity and earnings and contributes to the management of interest rate risk. We have the authority to invest in various types of liquid assets, including short-term United States Treasury obligations and securities of various federal agencies, obligations of states and political subdivisions, corporate bonds, certificates of deposit at insured savings and loans and banks, bankers’ acceptances and federal funds. We may also invest a portion of our assets

 

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in certain commercial paper and corporate debt securities. We are also authorized to invest in mutual funds and stocks whose assets conform to the investments that we are authorized to make directly. The investment portfolio increased by $45.0 million, or 35.2%, to $173.1 million at December 31, 2008 compared with $128.0 million at December 31, 2007. We focused new investments in 2008 primarily in the mortgage-backed securities category.

The following table sets forth the carrying value of our securities portfolio at the dates indicated. There were no securities classified as held-to-maturity at either period end.

 

     December 31, 2008    December 31, 2007
     Amortized
Cost
   Gross
Unrealized
Gains
   Gross
Unrealized
Losses
    Fair
Value
   Amortized
Cost
   Gross
Unrealized
Gains
   Gross
Unrealized
Losses
    Fair Value
     (dollars in thousands)

Securities available-for-sale U.S. Treasury and agencies

   $ 2,938    $ 22    $ —       $ 2,960    $ 27,163    $ 200    $ (32 )   $ 27,331

Mortgage-backed

     136,946      1,293      (612 )     137,627      69,364      377      (363 )     69,378

State and municipal

     24,493      330      (415 )     24,408      19,958      277      (72 )     20,163

Corporate

     6,489      39      (451 )     6,077      6,508      34      (120 )     6,422

Other debt

     704      —        —         704      704      —        —         704

Equity

     1,900      28      (627 )     1,301      4,461      568      (991 )     4,038
                                                         

Total

   $ 173,470    $ 1,712    $ (2,105 )   $ 173,077    $ 128,158    $ 1,456    $ (1,578 )   $ 128,036
                                                         

The following table sets forth the scheduled maturities, fair values and weighted-average yields for our securities held at December 31, 2008:

 

     Due Within
One Year
    After One Year
But Within

Five Years
    After Five Years
But Within

Ten Years
    After Ten Years     Total  
     Amount    Yield     Amount    Yield     Amount    Yield     Amount    Yield     Amount    Yield  

U.S. Treasury and agencies

   $ 1,731    3.60 %   $ 1,229    5.32 %   $ —      —   %   $ —      —   %   $ 2,960    4.60 %

Mortgage-backed

     54    4.60       2,056    4.59       25,204    4.15       110,313    6.19       137,627    5.08  

State and municipal

     25    3.54       1,813    6.12       10,713    5.40       11,857    6.12       24,408    5.94  

Corporate bonds

     —      —         1,263    6.28       4,814    5.77       —      —         6,077    5.88  

Other debt

     —      —         —      —         —      —         704    6.50       704    6.50  
                                             

Total

   $ 1,810    3.63 %   $ 6,361    5.51 %   $ 40,731    4.68 %   $ 122,874    6.18 %   $ 171,776    5.16 %
                                             

Equity

                         1,301   
                             

Total

                       $ 173,077   
                             

 

Average yields in the table above were calculated on a tax equivalent basis using a federal income tax rate of 35%. Mortgage-backed securities are securities that have been developed by pooling a number of real estate mortgages. These securities are issued by federal agencies such as Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as non-agency or private company issuers. These securities are deemed to have high credit ratings, and minimum regular monthly cash flows of principal and interest. Cash flows from agency backed mortgage-backed securities are guaranteed by the issuing agencies.

Unlike U.S. Treasury and U.S. government agency securities, which have a lump sum payment at maturity, mortgage-backed securities provide cash flows from regular principal and interest payments and principal prepayments throughout the lives of the securities. Mortgage-backed securities that are purchased at a premium will generally suffer decreasing net yields as interest rates drop because home owners tend to refinance their mortgages. Thus, the premium paid must be amortized over a shorter period. Therefore, those securities purchased at a discount will obtain higher net yields in a decreasing interest rate environment. As interest rates rise, the opposite will generally be true. During a period of increasing interest rates, fixed rate mortgage-backed securities do not tend to experience heavy prepayments of principal and consequently, the average life of this security will not be shortened. If interest rates begin to fall, prepayments will increase. Non-agency and private issuer mortgage-backed securities do not carry a government guarantee. We limit our purchases of these securities to bank qualified issues with high credit ratings. We regularly monitor the

 

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performance and credit ratings of these securities and evaluate these securities, as we do all of our securities, for other than temporary impairment on a quarterly basis. At December 31, 2008, 80.2% of the mortgage-backed securities we held had contractual final maturities of more than ten years with a weighted average life of 19.5 years.

The Company held 44 equity securities at December 31, 2008. Of these securities, 12 had an unrealized loss of $315,000 and had been in an unrealized loss position for less than twelve months and 14 had an unrealized loss of $312,000 and had been in an unrealized loss position for more than 12 months. Management monitors the credit quality and current market pricing for these equity securities monthly. Management currently intends to hold all securities with unrealized losses until recovery, which for fixed income securities may be at maturity. During the fourth quarter, we recorded an other than temporary impairment charge totaling $471,000 for equity securities held in our portfolio with an original cost of $832,000. The market prices of the stocks had been below our initial investment for more than twelve months and after consideration of the companies financial conditions and the likelihood the market value would recover to our cost basis in a reasonable period of time, the investment was written down to fair value. As of December 31, 2008, management does not believe any of the remaining equity securities in our portfolio with unrealized losses should be classified as other than temporarily impaired.

Deposits – We attract both short-term and long-term deposits from the general public by offering a wide range of deposit accounts and interest rates. In recent years we have been required by market conditions to rely increasingly on short to mid-term certificate accounts and other deposit alternatives, including brokered and wholesale deposits, that are more responsive to market interest rates. We use forecasts based on interest rate risk simulations to assist management in monitoring our use of certificates of deposit and other deposit products as funding sources and the impact of their use on interest income and net interest margin in various rate environments.

We primarily rely on our banking office network to attract and retain deposits in our local markets and leverage our online Ascencia division to attract out-of-market deposits. Market interest rates and rates on deposit products offered by competing financial institutions can significantly affect our ability to attract and retain deposits. During 2008, total deposits increased $122.0 million compared with 2007. During 2007, total deposits increased by $304.7 million compared with 2006. The increase in deposits for 2008 was primarily in certificates of deposit balances and non-interest bearing demand accounts. The 2007 increase was primarily in money market accounts and certificate of deposit balances.

To evaluate our funding needs in light of deposit trends resulting from continually changing conditions, management and board committees evaluate simulated performance reports that forecast changes in margins along with other pertinent economic data. We continue to offer attractively priced deposit products along our product line to allow us to retain deposit customers and reduce interest rate risk during various rising and falling rate cycles.

We offer savings accounts, NOW accounts, money market accounts and fixed rate certificates with varying maturities. The flow of deposits is influenced significantly by general economic conditions, changes in interest rates and competition. Our management adjusts interest rates, maturity terms, service fees and withdrawal penalties on our deposit products periodically. The variety of deposit products allows us to compete more effectively in obtaining funds and to respond with more flexibility to the flow of funds away from depository institutions into outside investment alternatives. However, our ability to attract and maintain deposits and the costs of these funds has been, and will continue to be, significantly affected by market conditions.

The following table sets forth the average daily balances and weighted average rates paid for our deposits for the periods indicated:

 

     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2008     2007     2006  
     Average
Balance
   Average
Rate
    Average
Balance
   Average
Rate
    Average
Balance
   Average
Rate
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Demand

   $ 93,356      $ 73,183      $ 64,778   

Interest Checking

     92,496    1.71 %     60,600    2.05 %     51,127    1.60 %

Money Market

     84,316    2.66       97,045    4.69       36,140    3.43  

Savings

     33,969    1.30       25,766    1.44       23,455    0.90  

Certificates of Deposit

     946,477    4.31       740,693    5.09       634,919    4.40  
                           

Total Deposits

   $ 1,250,614      $ 997,287      $ 810,419   
                           

Weighted Average Rate

      3.60 %      4.40 %      3.73 %

 

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The following table sets forth the average daily balances and weighted average rates paid for our certificates of deposit for the periods indicated:

 

     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2008     2007     2006  
     Average
Balance
   Average
Rate
    Average
Balance
   Average
Rate
    Average
Balance
   Average
Rate
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Certificates of Deposit Less than $100,000

   $ 607,420    4.28 %   $ 529,114    5.04 %   $ 473,813    4.36 %

$100,000 or more

     339,057    4.36       211,579    5.22       161,106    4.53  
                           

Total

   $ 946,477    4.31 %   $ 740,693    5.09 %   $ 634,919    4.40 %
                           

The following table shows at December 31, 2008 the amount of our time deposits of $100,000 or more by time remaining until maturity:

 

Maturity Period

   Amount
     (dollars in thousands)

Three months or less

   $ 88,133

Three months through six months

     142,760

Six months through twelve months

     120,165

Over twelve months

     59,273
      

Total

   $ 410,331
      

We strive to maintain competitive pricing on our deposit products which we believe allows us to retain a substantial percentage of our customers when their time deposits mature.

Borrowing – Deposits are the primary source of funds for our lending and investment activities and for our general business purposes. We can also use advances (borrowings) from the FHLB of Cincinnati to supplement our pool of lendable funds, meet deposit withdrawal requirements and manage the terms of our liabilities. Advances from the FHLB are secured by our stock in the FHLB, certain commercial real estate loans and substantially all of our first mortgage residential loans. At December 31, 2008 we had $142.8 million in advances outstanding from the FHLB and the capacity to increase our borrowings an additional $67.0 million. The FHLB of Cincinnati functions as a central reserve bank providing credit for savings banks and other member financial institutions. As a member, we are required to own capital stock in the FHLB and are authorized to apply for advances on the security of such stock and certain of our home mortgages and other assets (principally, securities which are obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States) provided that we meet certain standards related to creditworthiness.

The following table sets forth information about our FHLB advances as of and for the periods indicated:

 

     December 31,  
     2008     2007     2006  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Average balance outstanding

   $ 138,954     $ 69,276     $ 57,847  

Maximum amount outstanding at any month-end during the period

     146,021       121,767       77,680  

End of period balance

     142,776       121,767       47,562  

Weighted average interest rate:

      

At end of period

     3.31 %     4.58 %     4.69 %

During the period

     4.02 %     4.71 %     4.68 %

Subordinated Capital Note – At December 31, 2008 our bank subsidiary, PBI Bank, had a subordinated capital note outstanding in the amount of $9 million. The note is unsecured, bears interest at the BBA three-month LIBOR floating rate plus 300 basis points, and qualifies as Tier 2 capital. Interest only is due quarterly through September 30, 2010, at which time quarterly principal payments of $225,000 plus interest will commence. The note is due July 1, 2020. At December 31, 2008, the interest rate on this note was 4.44%.

 

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Junior Subordinated Debentures – At December 31, 2008, we had four issues of junior subordinated debentures outstanding totaling $25.0 million as shown in the table below.

 

Description

   Liquidation
Amount
Trust
Preferred
Securities
   Issuance
Date
   Optional
Prepayment
Date (2)
   Interest
Rate (1)
  Junior
Subordinated
Debt and
Investment
in Trust
   Maturity
Date
     (dollars in
thousands)
                 (dollars in
thousands)
    

Porter Statutory Trust II

   $ 5,000    2/13/2004    3/17/2009    3-month LIBOR + 2.85%   $ 5,155    2/13/2034

Porter Statutory Trust III

     3,000    4/15/2004    6/17/2009    3-month LIBOR + 2.79%     3,093    4/15/2034

Porter Statutory Trust IV

     14,000    12/14/2006    3/1/2012    3-month LIBOR + 1.67%     14,434    3/1/2037

Asencia Statutory Trust I

     3,000    2/13/2004    3/17/2009    3-month LIBOR + 2.85%     3,093    2/13/2034
                        
   $ 25,000            $ 25,775   
                        

 

(1) As of December 31, 2008 the 3-month LIBOR was 1.42%.

 

(2) The debentures are callable approximately five years after the issuance date at their principal amount plus accrued interest.

The trust preferred securities are subject to mandatory redemption, in whole or in part, upon repayment of the subordinated debentures at maturity or their earlier redemption at the liquidation preference. The subordinated debentures, which mature February 13, 2034, April 15, 2034, and March 1, 2037 are redeemable before the maturity date at our option on or after March 17, 2009, June 17, 2009, and March 1, 2012, respectively, at their principal amount plus accrued interest. We have the option to defer interest payments on the subordinated debentures from time to time for a period not to exceed 20 consecutive quarters. If we defer these interest payments, we would be prohibited from paying dividends on our common stock.

The trust preferred securities issued by our subsidiary trusts are currently included in our Tier 1 capital for regulatory purposes. On March 1, 2005, the Federal Reserve Board adopted final rules that continue to allow trust preferred securities to be included in Tier 1 capital, subject to stricter quantitative and qualitative limits. Currently, no more than 25% of our Tier I capital can consist of trust preferred securities and qualifying perpetual preferred stock. To the extent the amount of our trust preferred securities exceeds the 25% limit, the excess is includable in Tier 2 capital. The new quantitative limits will be fully effective March 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2008, Porter Bancorp’s trust preferred securities totaled 15.4% of its Tier 1 capital.

Each of the trusts issuing the trust preferred securities holds junior subordinated debentures we issued with a 30 year maturity. The final rules provide that in the last five years before the junior subordinated debentures mature, the associated trust preferred securities will be excluded from Tier 1 capital and included in Tier 2 capital. In addition, the trust preferred securities during this five-year period would be amortized out of Tier 2 capital by one-fifth each year and excluded from Tier 2 capital completely during the year before maturity.

Liquidity

Liquidity risk arises from the possibility we may not be able to satisfy current or future financial commitments, or may become unduly reliant on alternative funding sources. The objective of liquidity risk management is to ensure that we meet the cash flow requirements of depositors and borrowers, as well as our operating cash needs, taking into account all on- and off-balance sheet funding demands. Liquidity risk management also involves ensuring that we meet our cash flow needs at a reasonable cost. We maintain an investment and funds management policy, which identifies the primary sources of liquidity, establishes procedures for monitoring and measuring liquidity, and establishes minimum liquidity requirements in compliance with regulatory guidance. Our Asset Liability Committee continually monitors and reviews our liquidity position.

Funds are available from a number of sources, including the sale of securities in the available-for-sale portion of the investment portfolio, principal pay-downs on loans and mortgage-backed securities, brokered deposits and other wholesale funding. During 2008 and 2007 we utilized brokered and wholesale deposits to supplement our funding strategy. At December 31, 2008, these deposits totaled $103.3 million. We also secured federal funds borrowing lines from major correspondent banks totaling $46.5 million on an unsecured basis and an additional $25.0 million on a secured basis.

 

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Traditionally, we have borrowed from the FHLB to supplement our funding requirements. At December 31, 2008, we had an unused borrowing capacity with the FHLB of $67.0 million. Management believes our sources of liquidity are adequate to meet expected cash needs for the foreseeable future.

We use cash to pay dividends on common stock, if and when declared by the board of directors, and to service debt. The main sources of funding include dividends paid by PBI Bank, management fees received from PBI Bank and affiliated banks and financing obtained in the capital markets.

Capital

Stockholders’ equity increased $41.9 million to $164.2 million at December 31, 2008 compared with $122.3 million at December 31, 2007. The increase was primarily due to the sale of $35 million of preferred stock to the U.S. Treasury Department under the Capital Purchase Program. We issued senior preferred shares to the U.S. Treasury that pay a cumulative annual dividend of 5% for the first five years and 9% thereafter. Additionally, the increase in stockholders’ equity was due to net income earned during 2008 reduced by dividends declared on common stock. Both our company and PBI Bank qualified as well capitalized under regulatory guidelines at December 31, 2008.

Kentucky banking laws limit the amount of dividends that may be paid to a holding company by its subsidiary banks without prior approval. These laws limit the amount of dividends that may be paid in any calendar year to current year’s net income, as defined in the laws, combined with the retained net income of the preceding two years, less any dividends declared during those periods. At December 31, 2008, without prior approval, PBI Bank had approximately $33.9 million of retained earnings that could be used to pay dividends.

Each of the federal bank regulatory agencies has established minimum leverage capital requirements for banking organizations. Banking organizations must maintain a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to adjusted average quarterly assets equal to 3% to 5% subject to federal bank regulatory evaluation of an organization’s overall safety and soundness. At December 31, 2008, Porter Bancorp’s and PBI Bank’s ratios of Tier 1 capital and total capital to risk-adjusted assets, and leverage ratios exceeded the minimum regulatory requirements and the minimum requirements for well capitalized institutions.

The following table shows the ratios of Tier 1 capital and total capital to risk-adjusted assets and the leverage ratios for Porter Bancorp and PBI Bank at December 31, 2008:

 

     Regulatory
Minimums
    Well-Capitalized
Minimums
    Porter
Bancorp
    PBI
Bank
 

Tier 1 capital

   4.0 %   6.0 %   12.13 %   10.06 %

Total risk-based capital

   8.0     10.0     14.05     11.99  

Tier 1 leverage ratio

   4.0     5.0     10.10     8.37  

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

In the normal course of business, we enter into various transactions, which, in accordance with GAAP, are not included in our consolidated balance sheets. We enter into these transactions to meet the financing needs of our customers. These transactions include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit, which involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk and interest rate risk in excess of the amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets.

Our commitments associated with outstanding standby letters of credit and commitments to extend credit as of December 31, 2008 are summarized below. Since commitments associated with letters of credit and commitments to extend credit may expire unused, the amounts shown do not necessarily reflect our actual future cash funding requirements:

 

     One year
or less
   More than 1
year but less
than 3 years
   3 years or
more but less
than 5 years
   5 years
or more
   Total
     (dollars in thousands)

Commitments to extend credit

   $ 66,852    $ 42,654    $ 15,329    $ 24,800    $ 149,635

Standby letters of credit

     9,369      467      —        —        9,836
                                  

Total

   $ 76,221    $ 43,121    $ 15,329    $ 24,800    $ 159,471
                                  

Standby Letters of Credit – Standby letters of credit are written conditional commitments we issue to guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. If the customer does not perform in accordance with the terms of the agreement with the third party, we would be required to fund the commitment. The maximum potential amount of future payments we could be required to make is

 

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represented by the contractual amount of the commitment. If the commitment is funded, we would be entitled to seek recovery from the customer. Our policies generally require that standby letter of credit arrangements contain security and debt covenants similar to those contained in loan agreements.

Commitments to Extend Credit – We enter into contractual commitments to extend credit, normally with fixed expiration dates or termination clauses, at specified rates and for specific purposes. Substantially all of our commitments to extend credit are contingent upon customers maintaining specific credit standards at the time of loan funding. We minimize our exposure to loss under these commitments by subjecting them to credit approval and monitoring procedures.

Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes our contractual obligations and other commitments to make future payments as of December 31, 2008:

 

     One year or
less
   More than 1
year but less
than 3 years
   3 years or
more but less
than 5 years
   5 years or
more
   Total
     (dollars in thousands)

Time deposits

   $ 866,053    $ 133,240    $ 13,364    $ 194    $ 1,012,851

FHLB advances (1)

     76,595      45,000      5,000      —        126,595

FHLB borrowing (2)

     3,174      4,781      2,983      5,243      16,181

Subordinated capital note

     —        1,350      1,800      5,850      9,000

Junior subordinated debentures

     —        —        —        25,000      25,000
                                  

Total

   $ 945,822    $ 184,371    $ 23,147    $ 36,287    $ 1,189,627
                                  

 

(1) Includes single maturity fixed rate advances with rates ranging from 0.99% to 6.38%, averaging 3.26%.

 

(2) Fixed rate mortgage-matched borrowing with rates ranging from 0% to 9.10%, and maturities ranging from 2009 through 2035, averaging 3.74%.

Impact of Inflation and Changing Prices

The financial statements and related data presented herein have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, which require the measurement of financial position and operating results in historical dollars without considering changes in the relative purchasing power of money over time due to inflation.

We have an asset and liability structure that is essentially monetary in nature. As a result, interest rates have a more significant impact on our performance than the effects of general levels of inflation. Periods of high inflation are often accompanied by relatively higher interest rates, and periods of low inflation are accompanied by relatively lower interest rates. As market interest rates rise or fall in relation to the rates earned on our loans and investments, the value of these assets decreases or increases respectively.

Item 7A.     Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

To minimize the volatility of net interest income and exposure to economic loss that may result from fluctuating interest rates, we manage our exposure to adverse changes in interest rates through asset and liability management activities within guidelines established by our Asset Liability Committee (“ALCO”). The ALCO, which is comprised of senior management representatives, has the responsibility for approving and ensuring compliance with asset/liability management policies. Interest rate risk is the exposure to adverse changes in the net interest income as a result of market fluctuations in interest rates. The ALCO, on an ongoing basis, monitors interest rate and liquidity risk in order to implement appropriate funding and balance sheet strategies. Management considers interest rate risk to be our most significant market risk.

We utilize an earnings simulation model to analyze net interest income sensitivity. We then evaluate potential changes in market interest rates and their subsequent effects on net interest income. The model projects the effect of instantaneous movements in interest rates of both 100 and 200 basis points. While short-term interest rates are very low at present, we believe our 100 and 200 basis points scenarios remain appropriate in both rates up and rates down scenarios given that prime rate was 3.25% at year-end 2008. Assumptions based on the historical behavior of our deposit rates and balances in relation to changes in interest rates are also incorporated into the model. These assumptions are inherently uncertain and, as a result, the model cannot precisely measure future net interest income or precisely predict the impact of fluctuations in market interest rates on net interest income. Actual results will differ from the model’s simulated results due to timing, magnitude and frequency of interest rate changes as well as changes in market conditions and the application and timing of various management strategies.

 

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Our interest sensitivity profile was asset sensitive at December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007. Given an instantaneous 100 basis point decrease in rates that was sustained for 12 months, our base net interest income would decrease by an estimated 7.6% at December 31, 2008 compared with a decrease of 5.4% at December 31, 2007. Given a 100 basis point increase in interest rates our base net interest income would increase by an estimated 5.1% at December 31, 2008 compared with an increase of 5.3% at December 31, 2007.

The following table indicates the estimated impact on net interest income under various interest rate scenarios for the year ended December 31, 2008, as calculated using the static shock model approach:

 

     Change in Future
Net Interest Income
 

Change in Interest Rates

   Dollar Change     Percentage Change  
     (dollars in thousands)  

+ 200 basis points

   $ 4,477     9.30 %

+ 100 basis points

     2,469     5.13  

- 100 basis points

     (3,650 )   (7.58 )

- 200 basis points

     (7,687 )   (15.97 )

We also monitor the repricing terms of our assets and liabilities through gap matrix reports for the rates in unchanged, rising and falling interest rate scenarios. The reports illustrate, at designated time frames, the dollar amount of assets and liabilities maturing or repricing.

Our interest sensitivity at any point in time will be affected by a number of factors. These factors include the mix of interest sensitive assets and liabilities as well as their relative pricing schedules. It is also influenced by market interest rates, deposit growth, loan growth, decay rates and prepayment speed assumptions.

The following table sets forth the amounts of our interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities outstanding at December 31, 2008 which we anticipate, based upon certain assumptions, to reprice or mature in each of the future time periods shown. The projected repricing of assets and liabilities anticipates prepayments and scheduled rate adjustments, as well as contractual maturities under an interest rate unchanged scenario within the selected time intervals. While we believe such assumptions are reasonable, we cannot assure you that assumed repricing rates will approximate our actual future activity.

 

     Volume Subject to Repricing Within
     0 – 90
Days
   91 – 181
Days
   182 – 365
Days
   1 – 5
Years
   Over 5
Years
   Non-
Interest
Sensitive
    Total
     (dollars in thousands)

Assets:

                   

Federal funds sold and short-term investments

   $ 37,589    $ —      $ —      $ —      $ —        —       $ 37,589

Interest-bearing deposits with banks

     —        —        600      —        —        —         600

Investment securities

     13,011      9,762      16,849      80,659      50,791      2,005       173,077

FHLB stock

     10,072      —        —        —        —        —         10,072

Loans, net of allowance

     837,099      110,414      142,496      250,515      9,582      (19,652 )     1,330,454

Fixed and other assets

     —        —        —        —        —        96,065       96,065
                                                 

Total assets

   $ 897,771    $ 120,176    $ 159,945    $ 331,174    $ 60,373    $ 78,418     $ 1,647,857
                                                 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

                   

Interest-bearing checking, savings, and money market accounts

   $ 182,758    $ —      $ —      $ —      $ —      $ —       $ 182,758

Certificates of deposit

     225,519      347,398      290,688      147,658      1,588      —         1,012,851

Borrowed funds

     99,594      609      12,541      68,040      6,076      —         186,860

Other liabilities

     —        —        —        —        —        101,175       101,175

Stockholders’ equity

     —        —        —        —        —        164,213       164,213
                                                 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 507,871    $ 348,007    $ 303,229    $ 215,698    $ 7,664    $ 265,388     $ 1,647,857
                                                 

 

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     Volume Subject to Repricing Within
     0 – 90
Days
    91 – 181
Days
    182 – 365
Days
    1 – 5
Years
    Over 5
Years
    Non-
Interest
Sensitive
   Total
     (dollars in thousands)

Period gap

   $ 389,900     $ (227,831 )   $ (143,284 )   $ 115,476     $ 52,709       
                                             

Cumulative gap

   $ 389,900     $ 162,069     $ 18,785     $ 134,261     $ 186,970       
                                             

Period gap to total assets

     23.66 %     (13.83 %)     (8.70 %)     7.01 %     3.20 %     
                                             

Cumulative gap to total assets

     23.66 %     9.84 %     1.14 %     8.15 %     11.35 %     
                                             

Cumulative interest-earning assets to cumulative interest-bearing liabilities

     176.77 %     118.94 %     101.62 %     109.77 %     113.52 %     
                                             

Our one-year cumulative gap position as of December 31, 2008 was positive $18.8 million or 1.1% of assets. This is a one-day position that is continually changing and is not necessarily indicative of our position at any other time. Any gap analysis has inherent shortcomings because certain assets and liabilities may not move proportionally as interest rates change.

 

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Item 8.     Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

The following consolidated financial statements and reports are included in this section:

 

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

   50

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

   51

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2008 and 2007

   52

Consolidated Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006

   53

Consolidated Statements of Change in Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006

   54

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006

   56

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

   58

 

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LOGO

MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

The Management of Porter Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) is responsible for the preparation, integrity, and fair presentation of the Company’s annual consolidated financial statements. All information has been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and, as such, includes certain amounts that are based on Management’s best estimates and judgments.

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting presented in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Two of the objectives of internal control are to provide reasonable assurance to Management and the Board of Directors that transactions are properly authorized and recorded in our financial records, and that the preparation of the Company’s financial statements and other financial reporting is done in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Management has made its own assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2008, in relation to the criteria described in the report, Internal Control — Integrated Framework , issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). Based on our assessment, Management concludes that as of December 31, 2008, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective based on those criteria. This annual report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting pursuant to temporary rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this annual report.

There are inherent limitations in the effectiveness of internal control, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of controls. Accordingly, even effective internal control can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to reliability of financial statements. Furthermore, the effectiveness of internal control can vary with changes in circumstances. Based on its assessment, Management believes that as of December 31, 2008, the Company’s internal control was effective in achieving the objectives stated above.

 

/s/ Maria L. Bouvette     /s/ David B. Pierce

Maria L. Bouvette

President and Chief Executive Officer

   

David B. Pierce

Chief Financial Officer

March 25, 2009

 

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LOGO

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Porter Bancorp, Inc.

Louisville, Kentucky

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Porter Bancorp, Inc. as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in stockholders’ equity, comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2008. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Porter Bancorp, Inc. as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2008, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Crowe Horwath, LLP

Louisville, Kentucky

March 25, 2009

 

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PORTER BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

December 31,

(Dollar amounts in thousands except share data)

 

     2008     2007  

Assets

    

Cash and due from financial institutions

   $ 43,767     $ 23,608  

Federal funds sold

     8,779       19,379  
                

Cash and cash equivalents

     52,546       42,987  

Interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions

     600       600  

Securities available for sale

     173,077       128,036  

Loans, net of allowance of $19,652 and $16,342, respectively

     1,330,454       1,201,356  

Premises and equipment

     22,543       21,279  

Goodwill

     23,794       18,174  

Accrued interest receivable and other assets

     44,843       43,588  
                

Total assets

   $ 1,647,857     $ 1,456,020  
                

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

    

Deposits

    

Non-interest bearing

   $ 92,940     $ 95,533  

Interest bearing

     1,195,609       1,071,021  
                

Total deposits

     1,288,549       1,166,554  

Federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements

     10,084       11,285  

Federal Home Loan Bank advances

     142,776       121,767  

Accrued interest payable and other liabilities

     8,235       9,125  

Subordinated capital note

     9,000       —    

Junior subordinated debentures

     25,000       25,000  
                

Total liabilities

     1,483,644       1,333,731  

Commitments and contingent liabilities (Note 17)

     —         —    

Stockholders’ equity

    

Preferred stock, no par, 1,000,000 shares authorized, 35,000 issued and outstanding

     34,131       —    

Common stock, no par, 10,000,000 shares authorized, 8,287,933 and 8,275,266 shares issued and outstanding, respectively

     76,897       70,747  

Non-voting common stock, no par, 9,000,000 shares authorized

     —         —    

Additional paid-in capital

     13,483       11,270  

Retained earnings

     39,957       40,351  

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

     (255 )     (79 )
                

Total stockholders’ equity

     164,213       122,289  
                

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 1,647,857     $ 1,456,020  
                

See accompanying notes.

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

Years Ended December 31,

(Dollar amounts in thousands except per share data)

 

     2008     2007    2006

Interest income

       

Loans, including fees

   $ 93,217     $ 84,681    $ 66,786

Taxable securities

     4,983       4,405      3,708

Tax exempt securities

     818       684      703

Federal funds sold and other

     1,089       2,030      1,666
                     
     100,107       91,800      72,863
                     

Interest expense

       

Deposits

     45,073       43,882      30,211

Federal Home Loan Bank advances

     5,589       3,260      2,710

Subordinated capital note

     296       —        —  

Junior subordinated debentures

     1,368       1,924      2,117

Notes payable

     —         1      431

Federal funds purchased and other

     555       337      153
                     
     52,881       49,404      35,622
                     

Net interest income

     47,226       42,396      37,241

Provision for loan losses

     5,400       4,025      1,405
                     

Net interest income after provision for loan losses

     41,826       38,371      35,836

Non-interest income

       

Service charges on deposit accounts

     3,424       2,760      2,537

Income from fiduciary activities

     1,079       206      —  

Secondary market brokerage fees

     365       296      353

Title insurance commissions

     157       186      137

Net (loss) gain on sales of securities

     (136 )     107      50

Other than temporary impairment on securities

     (471 )     —        —  

Gain on sale of branch

     410       —        —  

Net gain on sales of loans originated for sale

     —         —        284

Other

     2,040       2,001      1,835
                     
     6,868       5,556      5,196
                     

Non-interest expense

       

Salaries and employee benefits

     14,792       12,470      11,432

Occupancy and equipment

     3,587       2,727      2,474

State franchise tax

     1,740       1,336      1,074

FDIC insurance

     1,051       298      98

Other real estate owned expense

     881       833      249

Professional fees

     787       829      622

Postage and delivery

     748       546      508

Communications

     711       466      511

Advertising

     463       544      645

Loss on early extinguishment of debt

     —         —        280

Other

     2,997       2,425      1,892
                     
     27,757       22,474      19,785
                     

Income before income taxes

     20,937       21,453      21,247

Income tax expense

     6,927       7,224      6,908
                     

Net income

     14,010       14,229      14,339

Less:

       

Dividends on preferred stock

     (194 )     —        —  

Accretion on preferred stock

     (20 )     —        —  
                     

Net income available to common shareholders

   $ 13,796     $ 14,229    $ 14,339
                     

Basic and diluted earnings per common share

   $ 1.68     $ 1.77    $ 2.05
                     

 

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PORTER BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

Years Ended December 31,

(Dollar amounts in thousands except share and per share data)

 

    Shares   Amount                      
    Common     Non-Voting
Common
    Preferred   Common     Non-Voting
Common
    Preferred   Additional
Paid-In
Capital
  Retained
Earnings
    Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
    Total  

Balances, January 1, 2006

  5,000,000     1,332,447     —     $ 25,638     $ 12,522     —     $ 10,879   $ 23,356     $ (519 )   $ 71,876  

Issuance of stock in initial public offering, net

  1,250,000     —       —       26,660       —       —       —       —         —         26,660  

Issuance of unvested stock

  —       41,600     —       —         —       —       —       —         —         —    

Forfeited unvested stock

  —       (1,600 )   —       —         —       —       —       —         —         —    

Conversion of non-voting stock to voting

  1,372,447     (1,372,447 )   —       12,522       (12,522 )   —       —       —         —         —    

Stock-based compensation expense

  —       —       —       —         —       —       157     —         —         157  

Comprehensive income:

                   

Net income

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       14,339       —         14,339  

Changes in net unrealized gain (loss) on securities held for sale, net of reclassifications and tax effects

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       —         654       654  
                         

Total comprehensive income

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       —         —         14,993  
                         

Cash dividends declared ($0.76 per share)

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       (5,340 )     —         (5,340 )
                                                                 

Balances, December 31, 2006

  7,622,447     —       —       64,820       —       —       11,036     32,355       135       108,346  

Issuance of stock in acquisition, net

  263,409     —       —       6,119       —       —       —       —         —         6,119  

Issuance of unvested stock

  7,500     —       —       —         —       —       —       —         —         —    

Forfeited unvested stock

  (2,150 )   —       —       —         —       —       —       —         —         —    

Shares repurchased

  (10,000 )   —       —       (192 )     —       —       —       —         —         (192 )

Stock-based compensation expense

  —       —       —       —         —       —       234     —         —         234  

Comprehensive income:

                   

Net income

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       14,229       —         14,229  

Changes in net unrealized gain (loss) on securities held for sale, net of reclassifications and tax effects

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       —         (214 )     (214 )
                         

Total comprehensive income

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       —         —         14,015  
                         

Cash dividends declared ($0.77 per share)

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       (6,233 )     —         (6,233 )
                                                                 

Balances, December 31, 2007

  7,881,206     —       —       70,747       —       —       11,270     40,351       (79 )     122,289  

Issuance of preferred stock and a common stock warrant

  —       —       35,000     —         —       34,111     889     —         —         35,000  

Issuance of unvested stock

  31,952     —       —       —         —       —       —       —         —         —    

Forfeited unvested stock

  (2,731 )   —       —       —         —       —       —       —         —         —    

Shares repurchased

  (17,371 )   —       —       (301 )     —       —       —       —         —         (301 )

Stock-based compensation expense

  —       —       —       —         —       —       296     —         —         296  

Comprehensive income:

                   

Net income

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       14,010       —         14,010  

Changes in net unrealized gain (loss) on securities held for sale, net of tax effects

  —       —       —       —         —       —       —       —         (176 )     (176 )
                         

 

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    Shares   Amount                      
    Common   Non-Voting
Common
  Preferred   Common   Non-Voting
Common
  Preferred   Additional
Paid-In
Capital
  Retained
Earnings
    Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
    Total  

Total comprehensive income

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       —         —         13,834  
                         

Dividends on preferred stock

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       (194 )     —         (194 )

Amortization of preferred stock discount

  —     —     —       —       —       20     —       (20 )     —         —    

Cash dividends declared ($0.81 per share)

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       (6,711 )     —         (6,711 )

5% stock dividend declared

  394,877   —     —       6,451     —       —       1,028     (7,479 )     —         —    
                                                           

Balances, December 31, 2008

  8,287,933   —     35,000   $ 76,897   $ —     $ 34,131   $ 13,483   $ 39,957     $ (255 )   $ 164,213  
                                                           

See accompanying notes.

 

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PORTER BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

Years Ended December 31,

(in thousands)

 

     2008     2007     2006  

Cash flows from operating activities

      

Net income

   $ 14,010     $ 14,229     $ 14,339  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities

      

Depreciation and amortization

     3,664       2,485       1,976  

Provision for loan losses

     5,400       4,025       1,405  

Net amortization on securities

     (53 )     (32 )     404  

Stock-based compensation expense

     280       234       157  

Net gain on sales of loans

     —         —         (284 )

Loans originated for sale

     —         —         (8,825 )

Proceeds from sales of loans held for sale

     —         —         9,109  

Net loss (gain) on other real estate owned

     263       391       (18 )

Net realized loss (gain) on sales of securities

     607       (107 )     (50 )

Net gain on sale of branch

     (410 )     —         —    

Earnings on bank owned life insurance

     (300 )     (296 )     (258 )

Federal Home Loan Bank stock dividends

     (393 )     —         (503 )

Net change in accrued interest receivable and other assets

     2,089       502       (841 )

Net change in accrued interest payable and other liabilities

     (942 )     (853 )     (3,515 )
                        

Net cash from operating activities

     24,215       20,578       13,096  

Cash flows from investing activities

      

Net change in interest-bearing deposits with banks

     —         —         200  

Purchases of available-for-sale securities

     (92,280 )     (37,171 )     (15,223 )

Sales and calls of available-for-sale securities

     24,339       2,800       4,421  

Maturities and prepayments of available-for-sale securities

     22,075       18,664       20,341  

Proceeds from sale of other real estate owned

     12,119       8,260       1,122  

Improvements to other real estate owned

     (386 )     (1,066 )     —    

Loan originations and payments, net

     (82,186 )     (292,431 )     (65,771 )

(Purchases) sales of premises and equipment, net

     (2,415 )     (4,544 )     (408 )

Redemption of (investment in) bank owned life insurance

     2,179       —         (1,100 )

Acquisition of Ohio County Bancshares, net

     —         (5,881 )     —    

Acquisition of Associates Mortgage Group, net

     —         —         (250 )

Acquisition of Paramount Bank, net

     (5,215 )     —         —    

Disposal of Burkesville branch, net

     (8,904 )     —         —    
                        

Net cash from investing activities

     (130,674 )     (311,369 )     (56,668 )
                        

Cash flows from financing activities

      

Net change in deposits

     59,416       210,222       55,277  

Net change in federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements

     (1,201 )     7,641       (3,442 )

Repayment of notes payable

     —         (2,534 )     (9,600 )

Repayment of Federal Home Loan Bank advances

     (53,991 )     (30,984 )     (42,221 )

Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank

     75,000       99,595       26,220  

Proceeds from subordinated capital note

     9,000       —         —    

Proceeds from junior subordinated debentures

     —         —         14,000  

Repayment of junior subordinated debentures

     —         —         (14,000 )

Issuance of preferred stock, net

     35,000       —         —    

Issuance of common stock for initial public offering, net

     —         —         26,660  

Repurchase of common stock

     (301 )     (192 )     —    

Cash dividends paid on preferred stock

     (194 )     —         —    

Cash dividends paid on common stock

     (6,711 )     (6,233 )     (5,340 )
                        

 

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     2008    2007     2006

Net cash from financing activities

     116,018      277,515       47,554
                     

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

     9,559      (13,276 )     3,982

Beginning cash and cash equivalents

     42,987      56,263       52,281
                     

Ending cash and cash equivalents

   $ 52,546    $ 42,987     $ 56,263
                     

Supplemental cash flow information:

       

Interest paid

   $ 53,322    $ 48,161     $ 34,736

Income taxes paid

     6,700      8,150       7,295

Supplemental non-cash disclosure:

       

Transfer from loans to other real estate

   $ 16,004    $ 9,725     $ 1,764

Issuance of common stock in acquisition of Ohio County Bancshares, net

     —        6,119       —  

5% Stock dividend

     7,479      —         —  

See accompanying notes.

 

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PORTER BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006

NOTE 1 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Nature of Operations and Principles of Consolidation – The consolidated financial statements include Porter Bancorp, Inc. (Company or PBI) and its subsidiary, PBI Bank (Bank). The Company owns a 100% interest in the Bank.

The Company provides financial services through its offices in Central Kentucky and Louisville. Its primary deposit products are checking, savings, and term certificate accounts, and its primary lending products are residential mortgage, commercial, and real estate loans. Substantially all loans are collateralized by specific items of collateral including business assets, commercial real estate, and residential real estate. Commercial loans are expected to be repaid from cash flow from operations of businesses. There are no significant concentrations of loans to any one industry or customer. However, customers’ ability to repay their loans is dependent on the real estate and general economic conditions in the area. Other financial instruments which potentially represent concentrations of credit risk include deposit accounts in other financial institutions and federal funds sold. The Company also provides trust services.

Use of Estimates – To prepare financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, management makes estimates and assumptions based on available information. These estimates and assumptions affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and the disclosures provided, and future results could differ. The allowance for loan losses, intangible assets, stock compensation, income tax assets, and fair values of financial instruments are particularly subject to change.

Cash Flows – Cash and cash equivalents include cash, deposits with other financial institutions under 90 days, and federal funds sold. Net cash flows are reported for customer and loan deposit transactions, interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions, and federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements.

Securities – Debt securities are classified as available-for-sale when they might be sold before maturity. Equity securities with readily determined fair values are classified as available-for-sale. Securities available for sale are carried at fair value, with unrealized holding gains and losses reported in other comprehensive income.

Interest income includes amortization of purchase premium or discount. Premiums and discounts on securities are amortized on the level-yield method anticipating prepayments on mortgage backed securities. Gains and losses on sales are recorded on the trade date and determined using the specific identification method.

Declines in the fair value of securities below their cost that are other-than-temporary are reflected as realized losses. In estimating other-than-temporary losses, management considers the length of time and extent that fair value has been less than cost, the financial condition and near term prospects of the issuer, and the Company’s ability and intent to hold the security for a period sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in fair value.

Loans – Loans that management has the intent and ability to hold for the foreseeable future or until maturity or payoff are reported at the principal balance outstanding, net of deferred loan fees and costs, and an allowance for loan losses. Interest income is accrued on the unpaid principal balance. Loan origination fees, net of certain direct origination costs, are deferred and recognized in interest income using the level-yield method without anticipating prepayments.

Interest income on mortgage and commercial loans is discontinued at the time the loan is 90 days delinquent unless the loan is well collateralized and in process of collection. Consumer and credit card loans are typically charged off no later than 120 days past due. Past due status is based on the contractual terms of the loan. In all cases, loans are placed on non-accrual or charged off at an earlier date if collection of principal or interest is considered doubtful.

All interest accrued but not received for loans placed on non-accrual is reversed against interest income. Interest received on such loans is accounted for on the cash-basis or cost-recovery method, until qualifying for return to accrual. Loans are returned to accrual status when all the principal and interest amounts contractually due are brought current and future payments are reasonably assured.

Allowance for Loan Losses – The allowance for loan losses is a valuation allowance for probable incurred credit losses. Loan losses are charged against the allowance when management believes the uncollectibility of a loan balance is confirmed. Subsequent recoveries, if any, are credited to the allowance. Management estimates the allowance balance required using past loan loss experience, the nature and volume of the portfolio, information about specific borrower situations and estimated collateral values, economic conditions, and other factors. Allocations of the allowance may be made for specific loans, but the entire allowance is available for any loan that, in management’s judgment, should be charged off. The allowance consists of specific and general components. The specific component relates to loans that are individually classified as impaired or loans otherwise classified as substandard or doubtful. The general component covers non-classified loans and is based on historical loss experience adjusted for current factors.

 

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A loan is impaired when full payment under the loan terms is not expected. Commercial and commercial real estate loans are individually evaluated for impairment. If a loan is impaired, a portion of the allowance is allocated so that the loan is reported, net, at the present value of estimated future cash flows using the loan’s existing rate, or at the fair value of collateral if repayment is expected solely from the collateral. Large groups of smaller balance homogeneous loans, such as consumer and residential real estate loans are collectively evaluated for impairment, and accordingly, they are not separately identified for impairment disclosures.

Other Real Estate Owned – Assets acquired through or instead of loan foreclosure are initially recorded at fair value less costs to sell when acquired, establishing a new cost basis. If fair value declines subsequent to foreclosure, a valuation allowance is recorded through expense. Costs after acquisition are expensed. Other real estate owned of $7.8 million and $4.3 million is included in other assets on the balance sheet at December 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

Premises and Equipment – Land is carried at cost. Premises and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Buildings and related components are depreciated using the straight-line method with useful lives ranging from 5 to 33 years. Furniture, fixtures and equipment are depreciated using the straight-line or accelerated method with useful lives ranging from 3 to 7 years.

Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) Stock – The Bank is a member of the FHLB system. Members are required to own a certain amount of stock based on the level of borrowings and other factors, and may invest in additional amounts. FHLB stock is carried at cost, classified as a restricted security, and periodically evaluated for impairment. Because this stock is viewed as long term investment, impairment is based on ultimate recovery of par value. Both cash and stock dividends are reported as income.

Goodwill and Intangible Assets – Goodwill results from business acquisitions and represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of acquired tangible assets and liabilities, and identifiable intangible assets. Goodwill is assessed at least annually for impairment and any such impairment will be recognized in the period identified.

Other intangible assets consist of core deposit and trust account intangible assets arising from whole bank and branch acquisitions. They are initially measured at fair value and then are amortized on an accelerated or straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives.

Bank Owned Life Insurance – The Bank has purchased life insurance policies on certain key executives. In accordance with EITF 06-05, Company owned life insurance is recorded at the amount that can be realized under the insurance contract at the balance sheet date, which is the cash surrender value adjusted for other charges or other amounts due that are probable at settlement.

Long-Term Assets – Premises and equipment, other intangible assets, and other long-term assets are reviewed for impairment when events indicate their carrying amount may not be recoverable from future undiscounted cash flows. If impaired, the assets are recorded at fair value.

Repurchase Agreements – Substantially all repurchase agreement liabilities represent amounts advanced by various customers. Securities are pledged to cover these liabilities, which are not covered by federal deposit insurance.

Benefit Plans – Employee 401(k) and profit sharing plan expense is the amount of matching contributions. Deferred compensation and supplemental retirement plan expense allocates the benefits over years of service.

Stock-Based Compensation – Compensation cost is recognized for stock options and restricted stock awards issued to employees, based on the fair value of these awards at the date of grant. A Black-Scholes model is utilized to estimate the fair value of stock options, while the market price of the Corporation’s common stock at the date of grant is used for restricted stock awards. Compensation cost is recognized over the required service period, generally defined as the vesting period. For awards with graded vesting, compensation cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.

Income Taxes – Income tax expense is the total of the current year income tax due or refundable and the change in deferred tax assets and liabilities. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are the expected future tax amounts for the temporary differences between carrying amounts and tax bases of assets and liabilities, computed using enacted tax rates. A valuation allowance, if needed, reduces deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

 

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The Company adopted FASB Interpretation 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (“FIN 48”), as of January 1, 2007. A tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. The adoption had no affect on the Company’s financial statements.

The Company recognizes interest and/or penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense.

Loan Commitments and Related Financial Instruments – Financial instruments include off-balance sheet credit instruments, such as commitments to make loans and commercial letters of credit, issued to meet customer-financing needs. The face amount for these items represents the exposure to loss, before considering customer collateral or ability to repay. Such financial instruments are recorded when they are funded.

Comprehensive Income – Comprehensive income consists of net income and other comprehensive income. Other comprehensive income includes unrealized gains and losses on securities available for sale, which are also recognized as a separate component of equity.

Equity – Stock dividends in excess of 20% are reported by transferring the par value of the stock issued from retained earnings to common stock. Stock dividends for 20% or less are reported by transferring the fair value, as of the ex-dividend date, of the stock issued from retained earnings to common stock and additional paid-in capital. Fractional share amounts are paid in cash with a reduction in retained earnings.

Earnings Per Common Share – Basic earnings per common share are net income available to common shareholders divided by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per common share include the dilutive effect of additional potential common shares issuable under stock options and warrants. Earnings and dividends per share are restated for all stock splits and dividends through the date of issue of the financial statements.

Loss Contingencies – Loss contingencies, including claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business, are recorded as liabilities when the likelihood of loss is probable and an amount or range of loss can be reasonably estimated. Management does not believe there now are such matters that will have a material effect on the financial statements.

Dividend Restriction – Banking regulations require maintaining certain capital levels and may limit the dividends paid by the Bank to the Company or by the Company to shareholders. (See Note 16 for more specific disclosure.)

Preferred Stock – Preferred stock was issued in 2008 and is outstanding under the United States Department of the Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program. Issued in conjunction with the Preferred Stock were common stock warrants. See footnote 15 for a discussion of all terms and conditions of that transaction. The proceeds received in the offering were allocated on a pro rata basis to the Preferred Stock and the Warrants based on relative fair values. In estimating the fair value of the Warrants, the Company utilized the Black-Scholes model which includes assumptions regarding the Company’s common stock prices, stock price volatility, dividend yield, the risk free interest rate and the estimated life of the Warrant. The fair value of the Preferred Stock was determined using a discounted cash flow methodology. The value assigned to the Preferred Stock will be amortized up to the $35.0 million liquidation value of such preferred stock, with the cost of such amortization being reported as additional preferred stock dividends. Dividends are accrued and paid quarterly.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments – Fair values of financial instruments are estimated using relevant market information and other assumptions, as more fully disclosed in Note 18. Fair value estimates involve uncertainties and matters of significant judgment regarding interest rates, credit risk, prepayments, and other factors, especially in the absence of broad markets for particular items. Changes in assumptions or in market conditions could significantly affect the estimates.

In October, 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. 157-3 “Determining the Fair Value of a Financial Asset When the Market for that Asset Is Not Active.” The FSP clarifies the application of SFAS 157 in a market that is not active and provides an example to illustrate key consideration in determining the fair value of a financial asset with the market for that financial asset is not active. The impact of adoption was not material.

Reclassifications – Some items in the prior year financial statements were reclassified to conform to the current presentation.

Adoption of New Accounting Standards

In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement No. 157, Fair Value Measurements. This Statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. This Statement establishes a fair value hierarchy about the assumptions used to measure fair value and clarifies assumptions about risk and the effect of a restriction on the sale or use of an asset. The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. In February 2008, the FASB

 

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issued Staff Position (FSP) 157-2, Effective Date of FASB Statement No. 157. This FSP delays the effective date of FAS 157 for all nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value on a recurring basis (at least annually) to fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. (See Note 18 for more specific disclosure.)

In September 2006, the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force finalized Issue No. 06-4, Accounting for Deferred Compensation and Postretirement Benefit Aspects of Endorsement Split-Dollar Life Insurance Arrangements. This issue requires that a liability be recorded during the service period when a split-dollar life insurance agreement continues after participants’ employment or retirement. The required accrued liability will be based on either the post-employment benefit cost for the continuing life insurance or based on the future death benefit depending on the contractual terms of the underlying agreement. This issue is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2007. The impact of adoption was not material.

In February 2007, the FASB issued Statement No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. The standard provides companies with an option to report selected financial assets and liabilities at fair value and establishes presentation and disclosure requirements designed to facilitate comparisons between companies that choose different measurement attributes for similar types of assets and liabilities. The new standard is effective for the Company on January 1, 2008. The Company did not elect the fair value option for any financial assets or financial liabilities as of January 1, 2008.

Effect of Newly Issued But Not Yet Effective Accounting Standards

In December 2007, the FASB issued FAS No. 141 (revised 2007), Business Combinations (“FAS 141(R)”), which establishes principles and requirements for how an acquirer recognizes and measures in its financial statements the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any non-controlling interest in an acquiree, including the recognition and measurement of goodwill acquired in a business combination. FAS No. 141(R) is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2008. Earlier adoption is prohibited. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material effect on the Corporation’s results of operations or financial position.

NOTE 2 – STOCK PLANS AND STOCK BASED COMPENSATION

At December 31, 2008, the Company has a stock option plan and a stock incentive plan. On December 31, 2005, the Company assumed the 2000 Stock Option Plan of Ascencia Bank, Inc. when the Company acquired the minority interest of Ascencia Bancorp, Inc. On February 23, 2006, the Company adopted the Porter Bancorp, Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan. With regard to the 2000 Option Plan, no additional grants were made after assumption of the plan and none are expected to be made in the future. The 2006 Plan permits the issuance of up to 400,000 shares of the Company’s common stock upon the exercise of stock options or upon the grant of stock awards. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had granted outstanding options to purchase 199,809 shares under the 2000 option plan and 83,820 shares under the 2006 plan. The Company also had granted under the 2006 plan 68,991 unvested shares net of forfeitures and vesting. The Company has 249,285 shares remaining available for issue under the 2006 Plan. All shares issued under the above mentioned plans came from authorized and unissued shares.

On May 15, 2006, the board of directors approved the Porter Bancorp, Inc. 2006 Non-Employee Directors Stock Ownership Incentive Plan, which was approved by holders of the Company’s voting common stock on June 8, 2006. On May 22, 2008, shareholders voted to amend the plan to change the form of incentive award from stock options to unvested shares. Under the terms of the plan, 100,000 shares are reserved for issuance to non-employee directors upon the exercise of stock options or upon the grant of unvested stock awards granted under the plan. Prior to the amendment, options were granted automatically under the plan at fair market value on the date of grant. The options vest over a three-year period and have a five year term. After May 22, 2008, unvested shares will be granted automatically under the plan at fair market value on the date of grant and vest semi-annually on the anniversary date of the grant over three years. To date, the Company has granted options to purchase 66,895 shares and granted 2,096 unvested shares to non-employee directors. At December 31, 2008, 31,009 shares remain available for issue under this plan.

All stock options have an exercise price that is equal to or greater than the fair market value of the Company’s stock on the date the options were granted. Options granted generally become fully exercisable at the end of three years of continued employment. Options granted under the 2000 plan have a life of ten years while those granted under the 2006 plan have a life of five years.

 

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The following table summarizes stock option activity as of and for the year indicated:

 

     December 31, 2008
     Options     Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

Outstanding, beginning

   298,784     $ 23.97

Granted

   —         —  

Forfeited

   (15,155 )     22.81
        

Outstanding, ending

   283,629     $ 24.03
        

The following table details stock options outstanding:

 

     December 31, 2008

Stock options vested and currently exercisable:

     262,344

Weighted average exercise price

   $ 24.16

Aggregate intrinsic value

   $ 0

Weighted average remaining life (in years)

     1.7

Total Options Outstanding:

     283,629

Aggregate intrinsic value

   $ 0

Weighted average remaining life (in years)

     1.8

The intrinsic value of stock options is calculated based on the exercise price of the underlying awards and the market price of our common stock as of the reporting date. The intrinsic value of the vested and expected to vest stock options is $0 at December 31, 2008. There were no options exercised during 2008 or 2007. The Company recorded $60,000 and $127,000 of stock option compensation during 2008 and 2007, respectively, to salaries and employee benefits. Since the stock options are non-qualified stock options, a tax benefit of $21,000 and $44,000, respectively, was recognized. No options were modified during either period. As of December 31, 2008, no stock options issued by the Company have been exercised.

The fair value of each stock option granted is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes based stock option valuation model. This model requires the input of subjective assumptions that will usually have a significant impact on the fair value estimate. Expected volatilities are based on volatilities of similar publicly traded companies due to the limited historical trading activity of the Company’s stock, and other factors. Expected dividends are based on dividend trends and the market price of the Company’s stock price at grant. The Company uses historical data to estimate option exercises within the valuation model. The risk-free rate for periods within the contractual life of the option is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant.

The weighted-average assumptions used for options granted in 2007 (no options were issued in 2008) are summarized as follows:

 

     2007  

Risk-free interest rate

     4.81 %

Expected option life

     3.5 years  

Expected stock price volatility

     22.0 %

Expected dividend yield

     3.5 %

Fair value

   $ 3.50  

As described above, the Company grants unvested shares which vest over time to employees and non-employee directors. The shares vest either semi-annually or annually over three to ten years on the anniversary date of the grant date provided the employee or director continues in such capacity at the vesting date. The fair value on the date of grant ranged from $17.90 to $25.50 per share. The Company recorded $220,000 and $107,000, respectively, of stock-based compensation during 2008 and 2007 to salaries and employee benefits. A deferred tax benefit of $77,000 and $37,000, respectively, was recognized related to this expense.

 

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The following table summarizes unvested share activity as of and for the year indicated:

 

     December 31, 2008
     Shares     Weighted
Average
Grant
Price

Outstanding, beginning

   43,502     $ 23.71

Granted

   33,550       18.54

Vested

   (5,160 )     23.20

Forfeited

   (2,901 )     22.16
        

Outstanding, ending

   68,991     $ 20.82
        

Unrecognized stock based compensation expense related to stock options and unvested shares for 2008 and beyond is estimated as follows (in thousands):

 

2009

   $ 290

2010

     232

2011

     221

2012

     216

2013 & thereafter

     395

 

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NOTE 3 – SECURITIES

The fair value of available for sale securities and the related gross unrealized gains and losses recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows:

 

     Fair Value    Gross
Unrealized
Gains
   Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 
     (in thousands)  

December 31, 2008

        

U.S. Government and federal agency

   $ 2,960    $ 22    $ —    

State and municipal

     24,408      330      (415 )

Mortgage-backed

     137,627      1,293      (612 )

Corporate bonds

     6,077      39      (451 )

Other

     704      —        —    
                      

Total debt securities

     171,776      1,684      (1,478 )

Equity

     1,301      28      (627 )
                      

Total

   $ 173,077    $ 1,712    $ (2,105 )
                      

December 31, 2007

        

U.S. Government and federal agency

   $ 27,331    $ 200    $ (32 )

State and municipal

     20,163      277      (72 )

Mortgage-backed

     69,378      377      (363 )

Corporate bonds

     6,422      34      (120 )

Other

     704      —        —    
                      

Total debt securities

     123,998      888      (587 )

Equity

     4,038      568      (991 )
                      

Total

   $ 128,036    $ 1,456    $ (1,578 )
                      

Sales and calls of available for sale securities were as follows:

 

     2008    2007    2006
     (in thousands)

Proceeds

   $ 24,411    $ 2,800    $ 4,421

Gross gains

     625      107      73

Gross losses

     761      —        23

The tax benefit (provision) related to these net gains and losses realized on sales were $48,000, $(37,000) and $(17,000), respectively.

Contractual maturities of debt securities at year-end 2008 were as follows. Securities not due at a single maturity date, primarily mortgage-backed and equity securities are shown separately.

 

     Available
for Sale
Fair Value
     (in thousands)

Due in one year or less

   $ 1,756

Due from one to five years

     4,305

Due from five to ten years

     15,526

Due after ten years

     12,562

Mortgage-backed

     137,627

Equity

     1,301
      

Total

   $ 173,077
      

Securities pledged at year-end 2008 and 2007 had carrying values of approximately $74,201,000 and $83,683,000, respectively, and were pledged to secure public deposits, repurchase agreements, and Federal Home Loan Bank advances.

 

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At year-end 2008 and 2007, there were no holdings of securities of any one issuer, other than the U.S. Government and its agencies, in an amount greater than 10% of stockholders’ equity.

Securities with unrealized losses at year-end 2008 and 2007, aggregated by investment category and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are as follows:

 

     Less than 12 Months     12 Months or More     Total  

Description of Securities

   Fair
Value
   Unrealized
Loss
    Fair
Value
   Unrealized
Loss
    Fair
Value
   Unrealized
Loss
 
     (in thousands)  

2008

               

U.S. Government and federal agency

   $ —      $ —       $ —      $ —       $ —      $ —    

State and municipal

     12,240      (412 )     96      (3 )     12,336      (415 )

Mortgage-backed

     43,849      (555 )     1,446      (57 )     45,295      (612 )

Corporate bonds

     2,266      (141 )     2,776      (310 )     5,042      (451 )

Equity

     578      (315 )     447      (312 )     1,025      (627 )
                                             

Total temporarily impaired

   $ 58,933    $ (1,423 )   $ 4,765    $ (682 )   $ 63,698    $ (2,105 )
                                             

2007

               

U.S. Government and federal agency

   $ —      $ —       $ 4,911    $ (32 )   $ 4,911    $ (32 )

State and municipal

     2,092      (25 )     2,974      (47 )     5,066      (72 )

Mortgage-backed

     19,315      (152 )     16,276      (211 )     35,591      (363 )

Corporate bonds

     5,012      (120 )     —        —         5,012      (120 )

Equity

     1,456      (799 )     571      (192 )     2,027      (991 )
                                             

Total temporarily impaired

   $ 27,875    $ (1,096 )   $ 24,732    $ (482 )   $ 52,607    $ (1,578 )
                                             

The Company evaluates securities for other-than-temporary impairment at least on a quarterly basis, and more frequently when economic or market concerns warrant such evaluation. Consideration is given to the length of time and the extent to which the fair value has been less than cost, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the issuer, underlying credit quality of the issuer, and the intent and ability of the Company to retain its investment in the issuer for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in fair value. In analyzing an issuer’s financial condition, the Company may consider whether the securities are issued by the federal government or its agencies, whether downgrades by bond rating agencies have occurred, the sector or industry trends and cycles affecting the issuer, and the results of reviews of the issuer’s financial condition.

As of December 31, 2008, the Company holds 44 equity securities. Of these securities, 12 had an unrealized loss of $315,000 and had been in an unrealized loss position for less than twelve months and 14 had an unrealized loss of $312,000 and had been in an unrealized loss position for more than 12 months. Management monitors the credit quality and current market pricing for these equity securities monthly. Management currently intends to hold all securities with unrealized losses until recovery, which for fixed income securities may be at maturity. During the fourth quarter, we recorded an other than temporary impairment charge totaling $471,000 for equity securities held in our portfolio with an original cost of $832,000. The market prices of the stocks had been below our initial investment for more than twelve months and after consideration of the companies financial conditions and the likelihood the market value would recover to our cost basis in a reasonable period of time, the investment was written down to fair value. As of December 31, 2008, management does not believe any of the remaining equity securities in our portfolio with unrealized losses should be classified as other than temporarily impaired.

 

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NOTE 4 – LOANS

Loans at year-end were as follows:

 

     2008     2007  
     (in thousands)  

Commercial

   $ 90,978     $ 108,619  

Real estate

     1,202,019       1,054,952  

Agriculture

     16,181       14,855  

Consumer

     37,783       38,061  

Other

     3,145       1,211  
                

Subtotal

     1,350,106       1,217,698  

Less: Allowance for loan losses

     (19,652 )     (16,342 )
                

Loans, net

   $ 1,330,454     $ 1,201,356  
                

Activity in the allowance for loan losses for the years indicated was as follows:

 

     2008     2007     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Beginning balance

   $ 16,342     $ 12,832     $ 12,197  

Acquired in bank acquisition

     1,421       1,625       —    

Provision for loan losses

     5,400       4,025       1,405  

Loans charged-off

     (3,834 )     (2,374 )     (1,036 )

Loan recoveries

     323       234       266  
                        

Ending balance

   $ 19,652     $ 16,342     $ 12,832  
                        

Impaired loans were as follows:

 

     2008    2007
     (in thousands)

Loans with no allocated allowance for loan losses

   $ 3,479    $ 3,239

Loans with allocated allowance for loan losses

     2,624      4,167
             

Total

   $ 6,103    $ 7,406
             

Amount of the allowance for loan losses allocated

   $ 224    $ 216

 

     2008    2007    2006
     (in thousands)

Average of impaired loans during the year

   $ 5,441    $ 4,842    $ 3,881

Interest income recognized during impairment

     84      98      18

Cash basis interest income recognized

     84      98      18

Impaired loans include commercial, construction, agriculture, and commercial real estate loans on non-accrual or classified as doubtful, whereby collection of the total amount is improbable, or loss, whereby all or a portion of the loan has been written off or a specific allowance for loss had been provided.

Nonperforming loans were as follows:

 

     2008    2007
     (in thousands)

Loans past due 90 days or more still on accrual

   11,598    2,145

Non-accrual loans

   9,725    10,524

Nonperforming loans include impaired loans and smaller balance homogeneous loans, such as residential mortgage and consumer loans, that are collectively evaluated for impairment. At December 31, 2008 we had restructured loans totaling $13.6 million with borrowers who experienced deterioration in financial condition. These loans are secured by 1-4 residential or commercial real estate properties. Management believes these loans are well secured and the borrowers have the ability to repay the loans in accordance with the renegotiated terms.

 

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NOTE 5 – PREMISES AND EQUIPMENT

Year-end premises and equipment were as follows:

 

     2008     2007  
     (in thousands)  

Land and buildings

   $ 22,363     $ 20,713  

Furniture and equipment

     16,581       15,643  
                
     38,944       36,356  

Accumulated depreciation

     (16,401 )     (15,077 )
                
   $ 22,543     $ 21,279  
                

Depreciation expense was $1,410,000, $1,056,000 and $1,040,000 for 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively.

NOTE 6 – GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS

Goodwill

The change in balance of goodwill during the years indicated was as follows:

 

     2008     2007
     (in thousands)

Beginning of year

   $ 18,174     $ 12,881

Acquired goodwill

     5,986       5,293

Adjustments

     (334 )     —  

Disposal of goodwill from sale of Burkesville branch

     (32 )     —  
              

End of year

   $ 23,794     $ 18,174
              

Adjustments to goodwill resulted from finalizing evaluations related to the Ohio County Bancshares acquisition in 2007.

Acquired Intangible Assets

Acquired intangible assets were as follows as of year end:

 

     2008    2007
     Gross
Carrying
Amount
   Accumulated
Amortization
   Gross
Carrying
Amount
   Accumulated
Amortization
     (in thousands)

Amortized intangible assets:

           

Core deposit intangibles

   $ 4,183    $ 748    $ 3,600    $ 287

Trust account intangibles

     100      13      —        —  

Core deposit intangibles of $631,000 were acquired in the Paramount Bank acquisition and $48,000 of core deposit intangibles were disposed of in the sale of the Burkesville branch. Trust account intangibles were identified and recorded when final adjustments were made relating to the Ohio County Bancshares acquisition which occurred in 2007.

Aggregate amortization expense was $474,000, $115,000 and $94,000 for 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively.

Estimated aggregate amortization expense for intangible assets for each of the next five years is as follows (in thousands):

 

2009

   $ 479

2010

     474

2011

     469

2012

     451

2013

     437

 

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NOTE 7 – DEPOSITS

Time deposits of $100,000 or more were approximately $410,331,000 and $279,734,000 at year-end 2008 and 2007, respectively.

Scheduled maturities of total time deposits for each of the next five years are as follows (in thousands):

 

2009

   $ 866,053

2010

     119,227

2011

     14,013

2012

     6,462

2013

     6,902

Thereafter

     194
      
   $ 1,012,851
      

NOTE 8 – SECURITIES SOLD UNDER AGREEMENTS TO REPURCHASE

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase are secured by agency, mortgage-backed, and municipal securities with a carrying amount of $12,450,000 and $12,399,000 at year-end 2008 and 2007, respectively.

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase are financing arrangements that mature within two years. At maturity, the securities underlying the agreements are returned to the Company. Information concerning securities sold under agreements to repurchase is summarized as follows:

 

     2008     2007  
     (in thousands)  

Average daily balance during the year

   $ 10,715     $ 4,925  

Average interest rate during the year

     4.42 %     3.99 %

Maximum month-end balance during the year

   $ 11,369     $ 11,569  

Weighted average interest rate at year-end

     4.45 %     4.28 %

NOTE 9 – ADVANCES FROM FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK

At year-end, advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank were as follows:

 

     2008    2007
     (in thousands)

Single maturity advances with fixed rates from 0.99% to 6.38% maturing from 2009 through 2012, averaging 3.26% for 2008

   $ 126,595    $ 76,595

Single maturity advance with a variable rate of 4.75% maturing 2009

     —        25,000

Monthly amortizing advances with fixed rates from 0.00% to 9.10% and maturities ranging from 2009 through 2035, averaging 3.74% for 2008

     16,181      20,172
             

Total

   $ 142,776    $ 121,767
             

Each advance is payable per terms on agreement, with a prepayment penalty. The advances were collateralized by approximately $464,992,000 and $414,105,000 of first mortgage loans, under a blanket lien arrangement at year-end 2008 and 2007. Based on this collateral and the Company’s holdings of Federal Home Loan Bank stock, the Company was eligible to borrow up to an additional $67,012,000 at year-end 2008.

Scheduled principal payments on the above during the next five years (in thousands):

 

     Advances

2009

   $ 79,769

2010

     47,556

2011

     2,225

2012

     6,729

2013

     1,254

Thereafter

     5,243
      
   $ 142,776
      

 

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At year-end 2008, the Company had approximately $71,500,000 of federal funds lines of credit available from correspondent institutions, and $67,012,000 unused lines of credit with the Federal Home Loan Bank.

NOTE 10 – SUBORDINATED CAPITAL NOTE

The subordinated capital note issued by PBI Bank totaled $9 million at December 31, 2008. The note is unsecured, bears interest at the BBA three-month LIBOR floating rate plus 300 basis points, and qualifies as Tier 2 capital. Interest only is due quarterly through September 30, 2010, at which time quarterly principal payments of $225,000 plus interest will commence. The note is due July 1, 2020. At December 31, 2008, the interest rate on this note was 4.44%.

NOTE 11 – JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES

The junior subordinated debentures are subject to mandatory redemption, in whole or in part, upon repayment of the junior subordinated debentures at maturity or their earlier redemption at the liquidation preference. The junior subordinated debentures are redeemable at par prior to the maturity dates of February 13, 2034, April 15, 2034, and March 1, 2037, at the option of the Company as defined within the trust indenture. The Company has the option to defer interest payments on the junior subordinated debentures from time to time for a period not to exceed twenty (20) consecutive quarters. If payments are deferred, the Company is prohibited from paying dividends to its common stockholders. A summary of the junior subordinated debentures is as follows:

 

Description

   Issuance
Date
   Optional
Prepayment
Date
   Interest Rate     Junior
Subordinated
Debt Owed to
Trust
   Maturity
Date

Porter Statutory Trust II

   02-13-2004    03-17-2009    3-month LIBOR + 2.85 %   $ 5,000,000    02-13-2034

Porter Statutory Trust III

   04-15-2004    06-17-2009    3-month LIBOR + 2.79 %     3,000,000    04-15-2034

Porter Statutory Trust IV

   12-14-2006    03-01-2012    3-month LIBOR + 1.67 %     14,000,000    03-01-2037

Asencia Statutory Trust I

   02-13-2004    03-17-2009    3-month LIBOR + 2.85 %     3,000,000    02-13-2034
                 
           $ 25,000,000   
                 

On December 18, 2006, the Company refinanced $14 million of junior subordinated debentures which resulted in a write-off of $280,000 of unamortized debt issuance costs.

NOTE 12 – OTHER BENEFIT PLANS

401(K) Plan – The Company 401(k) Savings Plan allows employees to contribute up to 15% of their compensation, which is matched equal to 50% of the first 4% of compensation contributed. The Company, at its discretion, may make an additional contribution. Total contributions made by the Company to the plan amounted to approximately $395,000, $295,000 and $369,000 in 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively.

Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan – During 2004, the Company created a supplemental executive retirement plan covering certain executive officers. Under the plan, the Company pays each participant, or their beneficiary, a specific defined benefit amount over 10 years, beginning with the individual’s termination of service. A liability is accrued for the obligation under these plans. The expense incurred for the plan was $180,000, $180,000 and $158,000 for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively. The related liability was $717,000 and $537,000 at December 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively, and is included in other liabilities on the balance sheets.

The Company purchased life insurance on the participants to fund the benefits of these plans. Life insurance with a cash surrender value of $1,100,000 was purchased during 2006. The Company acquired life insurance with a cash surrender value in 2007 of $2,145,000 in the Ohio County Bancshares acquisition. The life insurance acquired in the Ohio County Bancshares acquisition was redeemed in 2008. It had a cash value of $2,179,000 at the time of redemption. The cash surrender value of all insurance policies was $7,227,000 and $9,105,000 at December 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively. Income earned from the cash surrender value of life insurance totaled $300,000, $296,000 and $258,000 for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively. The income is recorded as other non-interest income.

 

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NOTE 13 – INCOME TAXES

Income tax expense (benefit) was as follows:

 

     2008     2007     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Current

   $ 7,413     $ 7,940     $ 7,037  

Deferred

     (486 )     (716 )     (129 )
                        
   $ 6,927     $ 7,224     $ 6,908  
                        

Effective tax rates differ from federal statutory rate of 35% applied to income before income taxes due to the following.

 

     2008     2007     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Federal statutory rate times financial statement income

   $ 7,328     $ 7,509     $ 7,436  

Effect of:

      

Tax-exempt income

     (289 )     (210 )     (224 )

Non taxable life insurance income

     (112 )     (111 )     (96 )

Federal tax credits

     (38 )     (38 )     (38 )

Other, net

     38       74       (170 )
                        

Total

   $ 6,927     $ 7,224     $ 6,908  
                        

Year-end deferred tax assets and liabilities were due to the following.

 

     2008    2007
     (in thousands)

Deferred tax assets:

     

Allowance for loan losses

   $ 6,757    $ 5,569

Net unrealized loss on securities available for sale

     137      43

Other than temporary impairment write-down

     165      —  

Net operating loss carryforward

     154      217

Amortization of non-compete agreements

     79      131

Other

     691      876
             
     7,983      6,836
             

Deferred tax liabilities:

     

Depreciation

     424      504

FHLB stock dividends

     1,276      1,139

Purchase accounting adjustments

     1,720      1,291

Other

     724      608
             
     4,144      3,542
             

Net deferred tax asset

   $ 3,839    $ 3,294
             

The Company does not have any beginning and ending unrecognized tax benefits. The Company does not expect the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits to significantly increase or decrease in the next twelve months. There were no interest and penalties recorded in the income statement or accrued for the year ending December 31, 2008 related to unrecognized tax benefits.

The Company and its subsidiaries are subject to U.S. federal income tax and the Company is subject to income tax in the state of Kentucky. The Company is no longer subject to examination by taxing authorities for years before 2005.

 

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NOTE 14 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Loans to principal officers, directors, and their affiliates in 2008 were as follows (in thousands):

 

Beginning balance

   $ 1,034  

New loans

     888  

Repayments

     (267 )
        

Ending balance

   $ 1,655  
        

Deposits from principal officers, directors, and their affiliates at year-end 2008 and 2007 were $9,775,000 and $11,535,000.

Our loan participation totals include participations in real estate loans purchased from and sold to two affiliate banks, The Peoples Bank, Mt. Washington and The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville. Our chairman, J. Chester Porter and his brother, William G. Porter, each own a 50% interest in Lake Valley Bancorp, Inc., the parent holding company of The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville, Kentucky. J. Chester Porter, William G. Porter and our president and chief executive officer, Maria L. Bouvette, serve as directors of The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville. Our chairman, J. Chester Porter owns an interest of approximately 36.0% and his brother, William G. Porter, owns an interest of approximately 3.0% in Crossroads Bancorp, Inc., the parent holding company of The Peoples Bank, Mount Washington, Kentucky. J. Chester Porter and Maria L. Bouvette, serve as directors of The Peoples Bank, Mount Washington. We have entered into management services agreements with each of these banks. Each agreement provides that our executives and employees provide management and accounting services to the subject bank, including overall responsibility for establishing and implementing policy and strategic planning. Maria Bouvette also serves as chief financial officer of each of the banks. We receive a $4,000 monthly fee from The Peoples Bank, Taylorsville and a $2,000 monthly fee from The Peoples Bank, Mount Washington for these services.

As of December 31, 2008, we had $6.0 million of participations in real estate loans purchased from, and $23.7 million of participations in real estate loans sold, to these affiliate banks. As of December 31, 2007, we had $6.8 million of participations in real estate loans purchased from, and $17.3 million of participations in real estate loans sold to, these affiliate banks.

NOTE 15 – PREFERRED STOCK

On November 21, 2008, as part of the United States Department of the Treasury’s (the “U.S. Treasury”) Capital Purchase Program made available to certain financial institutions in the U.S. pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (“EESA”), the Company and the U.S. Treasury entered into a Letter Agreement including the Securities Purchase Agreement – Standard Terms incorporated therein (the “Purchase Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company issued to the U.S. Treasury, in exchange for aggregate consideration of $35.0 million, (i) 35,000 shares of the Company’s Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, no par value per share and liquidation preference $1,000 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and (ii) a warrant (the “Warrant”) to purchase up to 299,829 shares (the “Warrant Common Stock”) of the Company’s common stock, no par value per share, at an exercise price of $17.51 per share.

The Series A Preferred Stock qualifies as Tier 1 capital and pays cumulative cash dividends quarterly at a rate of 5% per annum for the first five years, and 9% per annum thereafter. The Series A Preferred Stock is non-voting, other than class voting rights on certain matters that could adversely affect the Series A Preferred Stock. The Series A Preferred Stock may be redeemed by the Company at par on or after February 15, 2012. Prior to this date, the Series A Preferred Stock may not be redeemed unless the Company has received aggregate gross proceeds from one or more qualified equity offerings of any Tier 1 perpetual preferred or common stock of the Company (a “Qualified Equity Offering”) of not less than $8.75 million. Subject to certain limited exceptions, until November 21, 2011, or such earlier time as all Series A Preferred Stock has been redeemed or transferred by U.S. Treasury, the Company will not, without U.S. Treasury’s consent, be able to increase its dividend rate per share of common stock or repurchase its common stock.

The Warrant is immediately exercisable and has a 10-year term. The U.S. Treasury may not exercise voting power with respect to any shares of Warrant Common Stock until the Warrant has been exercised. If the Company receives aggregate gross cash proceeds of not less than $35,000,000 from one or more Qualified Equity Offerings on or prior to December 31, 2009, the number of shares of Warrant Common Stock underlying the Warrant then held by the U.S. Treasury will be reduced by one half of the original number of shares underlying the Warrant.

 

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Upon receipt of the aggregate consideration from the U.S. Treasury on November 21, 2008, the Company allocated the $35.0 million proceeds on a pro rata basis to the Series A Preferred Stock and the Warrant based on relative fair values. In estimating the fair value of the Warrant, the Company utilized the Black-Scholes model which includes assumptions regarding the Company’s common stock prices, stock price volatility, dividend yield, the risk free interest rate and the estimated life of the Warrant. The fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock was determined using a discounted cash flow methodology and a discount rate of 13%. As a result, the Company assigned $889,000 of the aggregate proceeds to the Warrant and $34.1 million to the Series A Preferred Stock. The value assigned to the Series A Preferred Stock will be amortized up to the $35.0 million liquidation value of such preferred stock, with the cost of such amortization being reported as additional preferred stock dividends. This results in a total dividend with a consistent effective yield of 5.40% over a five-year period, which is the expected life of the Series A Preferred Stock.

In addition, the Purchase Agreement (i) grants the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, the Warrant and the Warrant Common Stock certain registration rights, (ii) subjects the Company to certain of the executive compensation limitations included in the EESA (which are discussed below) and (iii) allows the Treasury to unilaterally amend any of the terms of the Purchase Agreement to the extent required to comply with any changes after November 21, 2008 in applicable federal statutes.

On December 18, 2008 the Company filed a “shelf” registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the purpose of registering the Series A Preferred Stock, the Warrant and the Warrant Common Stock in order to permit the sale of such securities by the U.S. Treasury at any time after effectiveness of the registration statement. On January 5, 2009, the Company was notified by the Commission that the “shelf” registration statement was deemed effective.

Immediately prior to the execution of the Purchase Agreement, the Company amended its compensation, bonus, incentive and other benefit plans, arrangements and agreements to the extent necessary to comply with the executive compensation and corporate governance requirements of Section 111(b) of the EESA. The applicable executive compensation requirements apply to the compensation of the Company’s most senior executive officers (collectively, the “senior executive officers”). In addition, in connection with the closing of the U.S. Treasury’s purchase of the Series A Preferred Stock each of the senior executive officers was required to execute a waiver of any claim against the United States or the Company for any changes to his compensation or benefits that are required in order to comply with the regulation issued by the U.S. Treasury as published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2008.

On February 17, 2009, the America Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (“ARRA”) required the U.S. Treasury to enact additional compensation standards. Under the ARRA, the compensation standards now include (i) a prohibition on severance payments to our five most highly-compensated employees, other than payments for services performed or benefits accrued; (ii) a prohibition on paying any bonuses, retention awards and other incentive compensation to our five most highly-compensated employees, except in the form of long-term restricted stock that has a value not exceeding one-third of the employee’s total annual compensation and (iii) a prohibition on companies implementing any compensation plan that would encourage manipulation of the reported earnings of the Company in order to enhance the compensation of any of its employees. The executive compensation restrictions under the ARRA are more stringent than those currently in effect under the CPP, but it is yet unclear how these executive compensation standards will relate to the existing standards, or whether the standards will be considered effective immediately or only after implementing regulations are issued by the U.S. Treasury. The ARRA further provides that CPP recipients are permitted (subject to the U.S. Treasury’s consultation with the appropriate Federal banking agency, if any) to repay any assistance previously received without regard to any waiting periods and without regard to whether the financial institution has replaced the funds with funds from any other source. Upon repayment of assistance, the U.S. Treasury is to liquidate warrants associated with the assistance at the current market price and the financial institution will no longer be subject to any of the CPP compensation restrictions.

 

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NOTE 16 – CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS ON RETAINED EARNINGS

Banks and bank holding companies are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and, additionally for banks, prompt corrective action regulations involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators. Failure to meet capital requirements can initiate regulatory action.

Prompt corrective action regulations provide five classifications: well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized, and critically undercapitalized, although these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to accept brokered deposits. If undercapitalized, capital distributions are limited, as is asset growth and expansion, and capital restoration plans are required. At year-end 2008 and 2007, the most recent regulatory notifications categorized the Bank as well capitalized under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. There are no conditions or events since that notification that management believes have changed the Bank’s category.

Actual and required capital amounts (in millions) and ratios are presented below at year-end:

 

     Actual     Minimum Required
For Capital
Adequacy Purposes
    To be Categorized
As Well
Capitalized Under
Prompt Corrective
Action Provisions
 
     Amount    Ratio     Amount    Ratio     Amount    Ratio  

2008

               

Total Capital to risk-weighted assets

               

Consolidated

   $ 187.6    14.1 %   $ 106.8    8.0 %     N/A    N/A  

PBI Bank

     159.7    12.0       106.5    8.0     $ 133.2    10.0 %

Tier 1 (Core) Capital to risk-weighted assets

               

Consolidated

   $ 161.9    12.1 %   $ 53.4    4.0 %     N/A    N/A  

PBI Bank

     134.0    10.1       53.3    4.0     $ 79.9    6.0 %

Tier 1 Leverage Ratio

               

Consolidated

   $ 161.9    10.1 %   $ 64.1    4.0 %     N/A    N/A  

PBI Bank

     134.0    8.4       64.0    4.0     $ 80.0    5.0 %

2007

               

Total Capital to risk-weighted assets

               

Consolidated

   $ 140.7    11.6 %   $ 96.7    8.0 %     N/A    N/A  

PBI Bank

     126.8    10.6       96.1    8.0     $ 120.2    10.0 %

Tier 1 (Core) Capital to risk-weighted assets

               

Consolidated

   $ 125.6    10.4 %   $ 48.4    4.0 %     N/A    N/A  

PBI Bank

     111.8    9.3       48.1    4.0     $ 72.1    6.0 %

Tier 1 Leverage Ratio

               

Consolidated

   $ 125.6    9.1 %   $ 55.4    4.0 %     N/A    N/A  

PBI Bank

     111.8    8.1       55.1    4.0     $ 68.9    5.0 %

The Company’s primary source of funds to pay dividends to stockholders is the dividends it receives from the Bank. The Bank is subject to certain regulations on the amount of dividends it may declare without prior regulatory approval. Under these regulations, the amount of dividends that may be paid in any year is limited to that year’s net profits, as defined, combined with the retained net profits of the preceding two years, less dividends declared during those periods. At year-end 2008, $33,925,000 of retained earnings was available to the Bank to pay dividends.

NOTE 17 – LOAN COMMITMENTS AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES

Some financial instruments, such as loan commitments, lines of credit and letters of credit are issued to meet customer-financing needs. These are agreements to provide credit or to support the credit of others, as long as conditions established in the contract are met, and usually have expiration dates. Commitments may expire without being used. Off-balance-sheet risk to credit loss exists up to the face amount of these instruments, although material losses are not anticipated. The same credit policies are used to make such commitments as are used for loans, including obtaining collateral at exercise of the commitment.

 

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The Company holds instruments, in the normal course of business, with clients that are considered financial guarantees in accordance with FIN 45, Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements and Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others. Standby letters of credit guarantees are issued in connection with agreements made by clients to counterparties. Standby letters of credit are contingent upon failure of the client to perform the terms of the underlying contract. The Company evaluates each credit request of its customers in accordance with established lending policies. Based on these evaluations and the underlying policies, the amount of required collateral (if any) is established. Collateral held varies but may include negotiable instruments, accounts receivable, inventory, property, plant and equipment, income producing properties, residential real estate, and vehicles. The Company’s access to these collateral items is generally established through the maintenance of recorded liens or, in the case of negotiable instruments, possession. No liability is currently established for the standby letters of credit.

The contractual amounts of financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk at year end were as follows:

 

     2008    2007
     Fixed
Rate
   Variable
Rate
   Fixed
Rate
   Variable
Rate
     (in thousands)

Commitments to make loans

   $ 14,274    $ 47,763    $ 11,882    $ 107,961

Unused lines of credit

     15,401      72,197      16,014      60,252

Standby letters of credit

     2,654      7,182      3,567      6,556

Commitments to make loans are generally made for periods of one year or less.

NOTE 18 – FAIR VALUES

In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements” (“SFAS No. 157”). SFAS No. 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The statement establishes a fair value hierarchy about the assumptions used to measure fair value and clarifies assumptions about risk and the effect of a restriction on the sale or use of an asset and was effective for us during the first quarter of 2008. In February 2008, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position (FSP) 157-2, “Effective Date of FASB Statement No. 157” (“FSP 157-2”). FSP 157-2 delays the effective date of SFAS No. 157 for all non-financial assets and non-financial liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value on a recurring basis (at least annually) to fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. We have included the disclosures required by SFAS No. 157 in this document. In October, 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. 157-3 “Determining the Fair Value of a Financial Asset When the Market for that Asset Is Not Active.” The FSP clarifies the application of SFAS 157 in a market that is not active and provides an example to illustrate key consideration in determining the fair value of a financial asset with the market for that financial asset is not active.

SFAS No. 157 defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. We use various valuation techniques to determine fair value, including market, income and cost approaches. SFAS No. 157 also establishes a fair value hierarchy which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. SFAS No. 157 describes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:

Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that an entity has the ability to access as of the measurement date, or observable inputs.

Level 2: Significant other observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, and other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.

Level 3: Significant unobservable inputs that reflect an entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.

 

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In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. When that occurs, we classify the fair value hierarchy on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. We used the following methods and significant assumptions to estimate fair value.

Securities: The fair values of securities available for sale are determined by obtaining quoted prices on nationally recognized securities exchanges or matrix pricing, which is a mathematical technique used widely in the industry to value debt securities without relying exclusively on quoted prices for the specific securities but rather by relying on the securities’ relationship to other benchmark quoted securities. Matrix pricing relies on the securities’ relationship to similarly traded securities, benchmark curves, and the benchmarking of like securities. Matrix pricing utilizes observable market inputs such as benchmark yields, reported trades, broker/dealer quotes, issuer spreads, two-sided markets, benchmark securities, bids, offers, reference data, and industry and economic events. In instances where broker quotes are used, these quotes are obtained from market makers or broker-dealers recognized to be market participants. This valuation method is classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

Impaired Loans: Impaired loans are evaluated at the time the loan is identified as impaired and are recorded at the lower of cost or market value. Market value is measured based on the value of the collateral securing these loans and is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. Fair value is determined using several methods. Generally the fair value of real estate is determined based on appraisals by qualified licensed appraisers. These appraisals may utilize a single valuation approach or a combination of approaches including comparable sales and the income approach. Adjustments are routinely made in the appraisal process by the appraisers to adjust for differences between the comparable sales and income data available. Such adjustments are typically significant and result in a Level 3 classification of the inputs for determining fair value. Impaired loans are evaluated quarterly for additional impairment.

Financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis are summarized below:

Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2008 Using

 

               (in thousands)     

Description

   December 31,
2008
   Quoted Prices In
Active Markets for
Identical Assets
(Level 1)
   Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
   Significant
Unobservable
Inputs

(Level 3)

Available-for-sale securities

   $ 173,077    $ 1,301    $ 171,776    $ —  
Financial assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis are summarized below:
Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2008 Using
               (in thousands)     

Description

   December 31,
2008
   Quoted Prices In
Active Markets for
Identical Assets
(Level 1)
   Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
   Significant
Unobservable
Inputs

(Level 3)

Impaired loans

   $ 4,854    $ —      $ —      $ 4,854

Impaired loans had a carrying amount of $6.1 million, with a valuation allowance of $1.2 million, resulting in an additional provision for loan losses of $1.06 million for 2008.

 

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Carrying amount and estimated fair values of financial instruments were as follows at year-end:

 

     2008    2007
     Carrying
Amount
   Fair
Value
   Carrying
Amount
   Fair
Value
     (in thousands)

Financial assets

           

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 52,546    $ 52,546    $ 42,987    $ 42,987

Interest-bearing deposits with banks

     600      600      600      600

Loans, net

     1,330,454      1,342,446      1,201,356      1,207,241

Accrued interest receivable

     10,228      10,228      10,380      10,380

Financial liabilities

           

Deposits

   $ 1,288,549    $ 1,285,772    $ 1,166,554    $ 1,160,764

Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase

     10,084      10,084      11,285      11,285

Federal Home Loan Bank advances

     142,776      144,030      121,767      124,193

Subordinated capital notes

     9,000      8,216      —        —  

Junior subordinated debentures

     25,000      21,326      25,000      25,000

Accrued interest payable

     3,722      3,722      4,195      4,195

The methods and assumptions used to estimate fair value are described as follows:

Carrying amount is the estimated fair value for cash and cash equivalents, interest-bearing deposits with banks, repurchase agreements, accrued interest receivable and payable, demand deposits, short-term borrowings, and variable rate loans or deposits that reprice frequently and fully. The fair value of loans is estimated in accordance with paragraph 31 of SFAS No. 107, “Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments”, by discounting expected future cash flows using market rates on like maturity. For fixed rate loans or deposits and for variable rate loans or deposits with infrequent repricing or repricing limits, fair value is based on discounted cash flows using current market rates applied to the estimated life and credit risk. Fair value of subordinated capital notes and junior subordinated debentures are based on current rates for similar types of financing. The carrying amount is the estimated fair value for variable and subordinated debentures that reprice frequently. The fair value of off-balance-sheet items is based on the current fees or cost that would be charged to enter into or terminate such arrangements, which is not material.

NOTE 19 – BUSINESS COMBINATIONS AND BRANCH DISPOSAL

Burkesville Branch

On November 14, 2008, our subsidiary bank, PBI Bank, sold its branch located in Burkesville, Kentucky to First & Farmers National Bank of Somerset, Kentucky. The sales price was $800,000 and was paid in cash. The branch had approximately $13.1 million in deposits and $3.4 million in loans at the time of sale.

Paramount Bank

On February 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Paramount Bank in Lexington, Kentucky in a $5 million all-cash transaction. Operating results of Paramount Bank are included in the consolidated financial statements since the date of the acquisition. As a result of this acquisition, we expect to further solidify our market share in the Lexington market, expand our customer base to enhance deposit fee income, provide an opportunity to market additional products and services to new customers and reduce operating costs through economies of scale.

The acquisition added approximately $73 million in loans and $76 million in deposits. The purchase price resulted in approximately $6 million in goodwill, and $631,000 in core deposit intangibles. The intangible assets will be amortized over 5-10 years, using an accelerated method. Goodwill will not be amortized but instead evaluated periodically for impairment. Goodwill and intangible assets will be deducted for tax purposes over 15 years using the straight-line method.

The following table summarizes the estimated fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition.

 

     (in thousands)

Loans, net

   $ 73,420

Goodwill

     5,986

Core deposit intangibles

     631

Other assets

     1,033

 

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     (in thousands)  

Total assets acquired

     81,070  
        

Deposits

     (75,657 )

Other liabilities

     (198 )
        

Total liabilities assumed

     (75,855 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 5,215  
        

Ohio County Bancshares, Inc.

On October 1, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding shares of Ohio County Bancshares, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Kentucky Trust Bank. Operating results of Kentucky Trust Bank are included in the consolidated financial statements since the date of the acquisition. As a result of this acquisition, we expect to further solidify our market share in the Southern Kentucky market, expand our customer base to enhance deposit fee income, provide an opportunity to market additional products and services to new customers and reduce operating costs through economies of scale.

We issued 263,409 shares with a market value of $6.1 million and cash of $5.9 million for a total purchase price of $12 million. The value of the stock was determined based upon the closing price of our stock on the last trading day before the board of directors approved the transaction. The purchase price resulted in approximately $5.3 million in goodwill, $3 million in core deposit intangibles, and $100,000 in trust account intangibles. The intangible assets will be amortized over 5-10 years, using accelerated and straight-line methods. Goodwill will not be amortized but instead evaluated periodically for impairment. Goodwill and intangible assets will be deducted for tax purposes over 15 years using the straight-line method.

The following table summarizes the estimated fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition.

 

     (in thousands)  

Securities available for sale

   $ 17,426  

Loans, net

     82,397  

Goodwill

     5,293  

Core deposit intangibles

     2,915  

Trust account intangibles

     100  

Other assets

     12,000  
        

Total assets acquired

     120,131  
        

Deposits

     (94,476 )

Other liabilities

     (13,655 )
        

Total liabilities assumed

     (108,131 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 12,000  
        

NOTE 20 – EARNINGS PER SHARE

The factors used in the earnings per share computation follow:

 

     2008     2007    2006
     (in thousands, except share and per share data)

Basic

       

Net income

   $ 14,010     $ 14,229    $ 14,339

Less:

       

Preferred stock dividends

     (194 )     —        —  

Accretion of preferred stock discount

     (20 )     —        —  
                     

Net income available to common shareholders

   $ 13,796     $ 14,229    $ 14,339
                     

Weighted average voting and convertible non-voting common shares outstanding

     8,221,501       8,033,962      7,012,254
                     

 

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     2008    2007    2006
     (in thousands, except share and per share data)

Basic earnings per common share

   $ 1.68    $ 1.77    $ 2.05
                    

Diluted

        

Weighted average voting and convertible non-voting common shares outstanding

     8,221,501      8,033,962      7,012,254

Add: dilutive effects of assumed exercises of stock options, warrants, and unvested shares

     756      13      —  
                    

Average shares and potential common shares

     8,222,257      8,033,975      7,012,254
                    

Diluted earnings per common share

   $ 1.68    $ 1.77    $ 2.05
                    

All historical data has been adjusted to reflect the 5% stock dividend.

Unvested shares of common stock of 68,991 for 2008, 43,502 for 2007 and 42,000 for 2006; and stock options for 283,629 shares of common stock for 2008, 298,784 shares of common stock for 2007, and 264,411 shares of common stock for 2006, were not considered in computing diluted earnings per common share because they were anti-dilutive. Additionally, a warrant for the purchase of 299,829 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $17.51 was outstanding at December 31, 2008 (none at December 31, 2007 and 2006) but was not included in the diluted EPS computation as inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.

NOTE 21 – OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

Other comprehensive income (loss) components and related tax effects were as follows:

 

     2008     2007     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities

   $ (878 )   $ (219 )   $ 1,040  

Less: Reclassification adjustment for gains (losses) realized in income

     (607 )     107       50  
                        

Net unrealized gains (losses)

     (271 )     (326 )     990  

Tax effect

     95       (112 )     (336 )
                        

Net-of-tax amount

   $ (176 )   $ (214 )   $ 654  
                        

NOTE 22 – PARENT COMPANY ONLY CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Condensed financial information of Porter Bancorp Inc. is presented as follows:

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS

December 31,

 

     2008    2007
     (in thousands)

ASSETS

     

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 24,148    $ 5,373

Securities available-for-sale

     2,005      6,762

Investment in banking subsidiaries

     160,439      132,558

Investment in and advances to other subsidiaries

     777      778

Other assets

     3,277      3,079
             

Total assets

   $ 190,646    $ 148,550
             

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

     

Debt

   $ 25,775    $ 25,775

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     658      486

Shareholders’ equity

     164,213      122,289
             

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

   $ 190,646    $ 148,550
             

 

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CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

Years ended December 31,

 

     2008     2007     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Interest income

   $ 402     $ 1,010     $ 452  

Dividends from subsidiaries

     43       6,059       8,066  

Other income

     1,428       1,481       1,431  

Interest expense

     (1,410 )     (1,984 )     (2,614 )

Other expense

     (3,461 )     (2,677 )     (2,636 )
                        

Income before income tax and undistributed subsidiary income

     (2,998 )     3,889       4,699  

Income tax expense (benefit)

     (1,081 )     (852 )     (1,131 )

Equity in undistributed subsidiary income

     15,927       9,488       8,509  
                        

Net income

   $ 14,010     $ 14,229     $ 14,339  
                        

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

Years ended December 31,

 

     2008     2007     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Cash flows from operating activities

      

Net income

   $ 14,010     $ 14,229     $ 14,339  

Adjustments:

      

Equity in undistributed subsidiary income

     (15,927 )     (9,488 )     (8,509 )

Loss on sale of assets

     799       —         —    

Change in other assets

     171       357       (849 )

Change in other liabilities

     (153 )     (1,388 )     (3,715 )

Other

     321       215       491  
                        

Net cash (used in) from operating activities

     (779 )     3,925       1,757  

Cash flows from investing activities

      

Investments in subsidiaries

     (12,000 )     (5,881 )     —    

Purchase of securities

     —         (3,823 )     (47 )

Sales of securities

     3,760       150       185  

Other

     —         —         —    
                        

Net cash (used in) from investing activities

     (8,240 )     (9,554 )     138  

Cash flows from financing activities

      

Repayment of borrowings

     —         (2,534 )     (9,600 )

Proceeds from sale of preferred stock, net

     35,000       —         —    

Proceeds from sale of common stock, net

     —         —         26,660  

Repurchase of common stock, net

     (301 )     (192 )     —    

Dividends paid on preferred stock

     (194 )     —         —    

Dividends paid on common stock

     (6,711 )     (6,233 )     (5,340 )
                        

Net cash from (used in) financing activities

     27,794       (8,959 )     11,720  
                        

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

     18,775       (14,588 )     13,615  

Beginning cash and cash equivalents

     5,373       19,961       6,346  
                        

Ending cash and cash equivalents

   $ 24,148     $ 5,373     $ 19,961  
                        

 

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NOTE 23 – QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED)

 

     Interest
Income
   Net Interest
Income
   Net
Income
    Earnings Per Share
           Basic    Basic
     (in thousands, except per share data)

2008

             

First quarter

   $ 25,674    $ 11,343    $ 3,597     $ .44    $ .44

Second quarter

     25,041      11,972      3,973       .48      .48

Third quarter

     25,106      12,433      4,100       .50      .50

Fourth quarter

     24,286      11,478      2,340 (1)     .26      .26

2007

             

First quarter

   $ 20,054    $ 9,744    $ 3,601     $ .45    $ .45

Second quarter

     21,935      10,120      3,689       .46      .46

Third quarter

     23,851      10,736      3,299       .42      .42

Fourth quarter

     25,960      11,796      3,640       .44      .44

 

(1) Fourth quarter net income was lower than previous quarters due to increased provision for loan losses expense during the quarter.

All historical data has been adjusted for the 5% stock dividend.

Item 9.     Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None

Item 9A.     Controls and Procedures

Our management, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2008. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report. Our Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, set forth under Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” identifies the framework used by management to evaluate the effectiveness of our internal control. This annual report does not include an attestation report of the company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this annual report.

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter of 2008 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting.

Item 9B.     Other Information

None

PART III

Item 10.     Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant.

We have adopted a code of ethics applicable to our Chief Executive Officer and our senior financial officers, which is posted on our website at http://www.pbibank.com. If we amend or waive any of the provisions of the Code of Ethics applicable to our Chief Executive Officer or senior financial officers, we intend to disclose the amendment or waiver on our website. We will provide to any person without charge, upon request, a copy of this Code of Ethics. You can request a copy by contacting Porter Bancorp, Inc., Corporate General Counsel, 2500 Eastpoint Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky, 40223, (telephone) 502-499-4800.

 

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Additional information required by this Item 10 is omitted because we are filing a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A on or before April 30, 2009, which includes the required information. The required information contained in our proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 11.     Executive Compensation.

The information required by this Item 11 is omitted because we are filing a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A on or before April 30, 2009, which includes the required information. The required information contained in our proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 12.     Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

The information required by this Item 12 is omitted because we are filing a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A on or before April 30, 2009, which includes the required information. The required information contained in our proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 13.     Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.

The information required by this Item 13 is omitted because we are filing a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A on or before April 30, 2009, which includes the required information. The required information contained in our proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 14.     Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

The information required by this Item 14 is omitted because we are filing a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A on or before April 30, 2009, which includes the required information. The required information contained in our proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference.

PART IV

Item 15.     Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a) 1.    The following financial statements are included in this Form 10-K:
   Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2008 and 2007
   Consolidated Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006
   Consolidated Statements of Change in Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006
   Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006
   Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
   Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
(a) 2.    List of Financial Statement Schedules
   Financial statement schedules are omitted because the information is not applicable.
(a) 3.    List of Exhibits
   The Exhibit Index of this report is incorporated by reference. The compensatory plans or arrangement required to be filed as exhibits to this Form 10-K pursuant to Item 14(c) are noted with an asterisk in the Exhibit Index.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

   PORTER BANCORP, INC.
March 26, 2009    By:    /s/ Maria L. Bouvette
       
      Maria L. Bouvette
      President & Chief Executive Officer

 

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated.

 

/s/ J. Chester Porter

J. Chester Porter

   Chairman of the Board of Directors    March 26, 2009

/s/ Maria L. Bouvette

Maria L. Bouvette

   President and Chief Executive Officer    March 26, 2009

/s/ David B. Pierce

David B. Pierce

   Chief Financial Officer    March 26, 2009

/s/ David L. Hawkins

David L. Hawkins

   Director    March 26, 2009

/s/ W. Glenn Hogan

W. Glenn Hogan

   Director    March 26, 2009

/s/ Sidney L. Monroe

Sidney L. Monroe

   Director    March 26, 2009

/s/ Stephen A. Williams

Stephen A. Williams

   Director    March 26, 2009

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No. (1)

 

Description

  3.1  

  Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Registrant. Exhibit 3.1 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

  3.2  

  Articles of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation. Exhibit 3.1 to Form 8-K filed November 24, 2008 is hereby incorporated by reference.

  3.3  

  Bylaws of the Registrant. Exhibit 3.2 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

  4.1  

  Warrant to purchase up to 299,829 shares. Exhibit 4.1 to Form 8-K filed November 24, 2008 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.1+

  USAccess Bank, Inc. (now known as PBI Bank) 2000 Stock Option Plan. Exhibit 10.1 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.2+

  Amendment to PBI Bank 2000 Stock Option Plan.

10.3+

  Porter Bancorp, Inc. Amended and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan. Exhibit 10.2 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.4+

  Form of Porter Bancorp, Inc. Stock Option Award Agreement. Exhibit 10.3 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.5+

  Form of Porter Bancorp, Inc. Restricted Stock Award Agreement. Exhibit 10.4 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.6+

  Form of Ascencia Bank (now known as PBI Bank) Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan. Exhibit 10.5 to Form S-1 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed April 11, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.7+

  Form of Amendment to PBI Bank Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.

 

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Exhibit No. (1)

 

Description

10.8+

  Porter Bancorp, Inc. 2006 Non-Employee Directors Stock Ownership Incentive Plan, as amended May 22, 2008. Annex A Definitive Proxy Statement filed April 17, 2008 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.9+

  Amendment to Porter Bancorp, Inc. 2006 Non-Employee Directors Stock Ownership Incentive Plan, as amended May 22, 2008.

10.10

  Promissory Installment Note of Maria L. Bouvette and J. Chester Porter, as borrowers, to David L. Hawkins, as lender. Exhibit 10.7 to Form S-1/A Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-133198) filed May 24, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.11

  Letter Agreement, dated November 21, 2008 including the Securities Purchase Agreement – Standard Terms incorporated by reference therein, between the Company and the U.S. Treasury. Exhibit 10.1 to Form 8-K filed November 24, 2008 is hereby incorporated by reference.

10.12

  Form of Waiver of Senior Executive Officers. Exhibit 10.2 to Form 8-K filed November 24, 2008 is hereby incorporated by reference.

21.1  

  List of Subsidiaries of Porter Bancorp, Inc.

23.1  

  Consent of Crowe Horwath LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

31.1  

  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 or 15d-14

31.2  

  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 or 15d-14

32.1  

  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(b) or 15d-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350

32.2  

  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(b) or 15d-14(b) and U.S.C. Section 1350

 

+ Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

 

(1) The Company has other long-term debt agreements that meet the exclusion set forth in Section 601(b)(4)(iii)(A) of Regulation S-K. The Company hereby agrees to furnish a copy of such agreements to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

 

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