Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001212545-25-000141
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Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 rate). These portfolio layer hedges provide the Company the ability to execute a fair value hedge of the interest rate risk associated with a portfolio of similar prepayable assets, whereby the last dollar amount estimated to remain in the portfolio of assets was identified as the hedged item. Under these interest rate swap contracts, the Company receives a variable rate and pays a fixed rate on the outstanding notional amount. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company terminated a portion of its portfolio layer method swaps. The terminated hedge had a notional value of $500 million and a cumulative loan basis adjustment of $4 million at the time of termination. The cumulative loan basis adjustment was allocated to the individual loans remaining within the closed pool and will be amortized over the remaining life of these loans through interest income.The Company also had pay fixed/receive variable interest rate swaps, designated as fair value hedges using the last-of-layer method. Upon termination of these last-of-layer hedges in 2022, the cumulative basis adjustment on these hedges was allocated across the remaining loan pool and was being amortized over the remaining term. The terminated last-of-layer hedge basis adjustment was fully amortized as of December 31, 2024.Derivatives Not Designated in Hedge RelationshipsManagement enters into certain contracts and agreements, including foreign exchange derivative contracts, back-to-back interest rate contracts, risk participation agreements and equity warrants, which are not designated as accounting hedges. Foreign exchange derivative contracts include spot, forward, forward window, and swap contracts. The purpose of these derivative contracts is to mitigate foreign currency risk on transactions entered into, or on behalf of customers. The Company's back-to-back interest rate contracts are used to allow customers to manage long-term interest rate risk. Contracts with customers, along with the related derivative trades the Company places, are both remeasured at fair value, and are referred to as economic hedges since they economically offset the Company's exposure. The Company also uses derivative financial instruments to manage exposure to interest rate risk within its mortgage banking business related to IRLCs and its inventory of loans HFS and MSRs. The Company economically hedges the changes in fair value associated with changes in interest rates generally by utilizing forward purchase and sale commitments, interest rate futures and interest rate contracts.Risk participation agreements are entered into with lead banks in certain loan syndications to share in the risk of default on interest rate swaps on participated loans. Equity warrants represent the right to buy shares in a company at a specified price and are