Company: UVSP
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000102212-25-000006
Chunk: 106

Company: UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 106
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 be considered "well capitalized"). The minimum required Tier 1 capital to average assets ratio is 4.0% (5.0% to be considered "well capitalized"). Under current rules, in order to avoid limitations on capital distributions (including dividend payments and certain discretionary bonus payments to executive officers), a banking organization must hold a capital conservation buffer comprised of common equity Tier 1 capital above its minimum risk-based capital requirements in an amount greater than 2.5% of total risk-weighted assets. See Note 21, "Regulatory Matters" included in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included herein under Item 8 for further discussion. 

Federal law requires, among other things, that federal bank regulators take "prompt corrective action" with respect to institutions that do not meet minimum capital requirements.

Insurance of Deposit Accounts 

The Bank's deposits are insured up to applicable limits by the Deposit Insurance Fund of the FDIC. Deposit insurance per account owner is $250,000 for each account ownership category. 

The FDIC charges insured depository institutions premiums to maintain the Deposit Insurance Fund. Under the FDIC's risk-based assessment system, institutions deemed less risky pay lower assessments. Assessments for institutions of less than $10 billion of assets are based on financial measures and supervisory ratings derived from statistical modeling estimating the probability of failure within three years.

The FDIC has authority to increase initial base deposit insurance assessment rates and did so by two basis points beginning in the first quarterly assessment period of 2023. As a result, effective January 1, 2023, assessment rates for institutions of the 

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Bank's size range from 2.5 to 32 basis points. Any significant future increase in insurance premiums would likely have an adverse effect on the operating expenses and results of operations of the Bank. Management cannot predict what insurance assessment rates will be in the future.

Transactions with Affiliates and Loans to Insiders

A state member bank's authority to engage in transactions with its affiliates is generally limited by Sections 23A and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act and by the Act's implementing regulation, Regulation W. An affiliate includes, among other things, a company that controls, or is under common control with, an insured depository institution such as the Bank. In general, "covered transactions" between an insured depository institution and its affiliates, as defined by Section 23A and Regulation W, are subject to certain quantitative limits and collateral requirements. "Covered transactions" with affiliates must be consistent with safe and