Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000357173-25-000091
Chunk: 13

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
Chunk 13
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

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Interest Rate Risk

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We are subject to interest rate risk from changes on assets (loans and securities), liabilities (customer deposits and borrowed funds) and off-balance sheet derivatives (interest rate swaps). Fluctuations in interest rates may have a material impact to fair market values of our financial instruments, cash flows, and net interest income. Like most financial institutions, we have an exposure to changes in both short-term and long-term interest rates. We believe a financial institution’s ability to effectively tune its interest rate risk profile and strategically position its balance sheet through rate cycles helps sustain the financial performance of the institution.

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The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) reduced the Federal Funds target rate by 50 basis points in 2025 to a range of 3.75% - 4.00%, widely expected by market participants. While hiring and firing remained low, the FRB acknowledged the recent slowdown in job creation suggests a weakening labor market. Although the current forward curve implies one additional rate cut in December 2025 as probable, future rate cuts are uncertain given the lack of recent data from the government shutdown.

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We manage interest rate risk within guidelines established by the asset liability policy which are intended to limit the amount of rate exposure. In practice, we seek to manage our interest rate risk exposure within our guidelines so that such exposure does not pose a material risk to our future earnings. We manage various market risks in the normal course of our operations, including credit, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk. Other types of market risk, such as foreign currency exchange risk and commodity price risk, do not arise in the normal course of our business activities and operations. In addition, since we do not hold a trading portfolio, we are not exposed to significant market risk from trading activities. Our interest rate risk exposures at September 30, 2025, and December 31, 2024, are outlined in the table below.

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Our net income can be significantly influenced by a variety of external factors, including: overall economic conditions, policies and actions of regulatory authorities, the amounts of and rates at which assets and liabilities reprice, variances in prepayment of loans and securities other than those that are assumed, early withdrawal of deposits, exercise of call options on borrowings or securities, competition, a general rise or decline in interest rates, changes in the slope of the yield-curve, changes in historical relationships between indices (such as SOFR and Prime),