Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000798941-25-000010
Chunk: 146

Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 146
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 new cost basis to depreciate over the remaining useful life of the asset.Derivative Assets and LiabilitiesBancShares manages economic risk and exposure to interest rate and foreign currency risk through derivative transactions in over-the-counter markets with other financial institutions. BancShares also offers derivative products to its customers in order for them to manage their interest rate and currency risks. BancShares does not enter into derivative financial instruments for speculative purposes.

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Derivatives utilized by BancShares may include swaps, forward settlement contracts, options contracts, and risk participations. A swap agreement is a contract between two parties to exchange cash flows based on specified underlying notional amounts, assets and/or indices. Forward settlement contracts are agreements to buy or sell a quantity of a financial instrument, index, currency or commodity at a predetermined future date, and rate or price. An option contract is an agreement that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset from or to another party at a predetermined price or rate over a specific period of time. A risk participation is a financial guarantee, in exchange for a fee, that gives the buyer the right to be made whole in the event of a predefined default event.At inception, BancShares documents all relationships between hedging instruments and hedged items, including effectiveness as well as the risk management objectives and strategies for undertaking various hedges. Upon executing a derivative contract, BancShares designates the derivative as either a qualifying hedge or nonqualifying hedge (defined below). The designation may change based upon management’s reassessment of circumstances. BancShares assesses hedge effectiveness at inception and on an ongoing basis.  In order to manage its interest rate exposure, BancShares enters into fair value hedges of certain fixed rate debt and deposits. BancShares recognizes the changes in the fair values of the hedging instrument and hedged item in interest expense for borrowings and deposits in the Consolidated Statements of Income.BancShares also utilizes floating-rate loan portfolio cash flow hedges. The changes in fair value of the hedging instrument in a cash flow hedge are reported in AOCI and subsequently reclassified to earnings during the periods in which the hedged cash flows affect earnings. The recognized gains and losses on loan portfolio cash flow hedges are reported in “interest and fees on loans” on the Consolidated Statements of Income when reclassified from AOCI to earnings. If an accounting hedge (“qualifying hedge”) subsequently ceases to qualify as an effective hedge or the forecasted cash flows are no longer probable of occurring in a cash