Company: ISBA
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000842517-25-000135
Chunk: 94

Company: ISABELLA BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 94
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, which may require future cash payments.  We also have loan related commitments that may impact liquidity.  The commitments include unused lines of credit, commercial and standby letters of credit, and commitments to grant loans.  These commitments to grant loans include residential mortgage loans with the majority committed to be sold to the secondary market.  Many of these commitments historically have expired without being drawn upon and do not necessarily represent our future cash requirements.

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We are party to credit related financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk. These financial instruments are entered into in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of our customers. These financial instruments involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit and interest rate risk in excess of the amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets. The contractual or notional amounts of these instruments reflect the extent of involvement we have in a particular class of financial instrument.

Our exposure to credit-related loss in the event of nonperformance by the counterparties to the financial instruments for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit could be up to the contractual notional amount of those instruments. We use the same credit policies when analyzing the creditworthiness of counterparties as we do for extending loans to customers. No significant losses are anticipated as a result of these commitments.

Impact of Inflation

Our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. GAAP requires the measurement of financial position and operating results in terms of historical dollars, without considering changes in the relative value of money over time due to inflation or recession.

The Corporation’s asset and liability structure is substantially different from that of an industrial company in that virtually all assets and liabilities of the Corporation are monetary in nature. Management believes the impact of inflation on financial results depends upon the Corporation’s ability to react to changes in interest rates and by such reaction, reduce the inflationary impact on performance. Interest rates do not necessarily move in the same direction, or at the same magnitude, as the prices of other goods and services. However, other operating expenses do reflect general levels of inflation. Management seeks to manage the relationship between interest rate-sensitive assets and liabilities in order to protect against wide net interest income fluctuations, including those resulting from inflation.

Various information shown elsewhere in this Form 10-Q will assist in the understanding of how well the Corporation is positioned to react to changing interest rates and inflationary trends. In particular, additional information related to the Corporation’s interest rate-sensitive assets and liabilities is contained in this Item 2, “Management's