Company: WBS-PG
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000801337-25-000083
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Company: WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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 risk characteristics that are not reflected or captured in the quantitative models, but are likely to impact the measurement of estimated credit losses. Qualitative adjustments are based on management’s judgment of the Company, market, industry, or business specific data, and may be applied in relation to economic forecasts when relevant facts and circumstances are expected to impact credit losses, particularly in times of significant volatility in economic activity. Qualitative factors that are generally used in the Company’s models for all loan and lease portfolios include, but are not limited to, nature and volume of portfolio growth, credit quality trends, underwriting exception levels, quality of internal loan review, credit concentrations, and staffing trends. 

During the first quarter of 2025, the Company incorporated a new economic uncertainty qualitative factor in its models to reflect the estimated impact from proposed tariffs, a heightened risk of recession/inflation, and the general economic uncertainty that has developed, which resulted in an increase to the collective ACL of $17.3 million from December 31, 2024, to June 30, 2025. The qualitative portion of the collective ACL accounted for approximately 37% and 39% of the total ACL on loans and leases at June 30, 2025, and December 31, 2024, respectively. Excluding the impact from the new economic uncertainty qualitative factor in the first quarter of 2025, the balance of qualitative reserves primarily relates to credit quality trends and credit concentration factors, which decreased in the second quarter of 2025 given improvements in commercial risk rating migration.

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Individually Assessed Loans and Leases. If the risk characteristics of a loan or lease change such that it no longer matches the risk characteristics of the collectively assessed pool, it is removed from the population and individually assessed for credit losses. Generally, all non-accrual loans and loans with a charge-off are individually assessed. The measurement method used to calculate the expected credit loss on an individually assessed loan or lease depends on the type and whether the loan or lease is considered to be collateral dependent. Methods for collateral dependent commercial loans are either based on the fair value of the collateral less estimated costs to sell when the basis of repayment is the sale of collateral, or the present value of the expected cash flows from the operation of the collateral. For non-collateral dependent loans, either a discounted cash flow method or other loss factor method is used. Any individually assessed loan or lease for which no specific allowance is deemed necessary is either the result of sufficient cash flows or sufficient collateral coverage