Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001518715-25-000026
Chunk: 62

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 62
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 cash flows from operations and borrowing capacity will be sufficient to meet our liquidity needs for at least the next 12 months. We are currently not aware of any other trends or demands, commitments, events or uncertainties that will result in or that are reasonably likely to result in our liquidity increasing or decreasing in any material way that will impact our liquidity needs during or beyond the next 12 months.

Cash Flows

For 2024 and 2023, cash and cash equivalents increased $190.9 million and $142.8 million, respectively. As a banking institution, the Company has extensive access to liquidity. As excess liquidity can reduce the Company’s earnings and returns, the Company manages its cash positions to minimize the level of excess liquidity and does not attempt to maximize the level of cash and cash equivalents. The following discussion highlights the major activities and transactions that affected our cash flows during these periods. 

Cash flows from operating activities

The Company's operating assets and liabilities are used to support our lending activities, including the origination and sale of mortgage loans. For 2024, $46 million of cash was used in operating activities primarily due to our net loss for the year, excluding the impact of the $88.8 million loss on the sale of $990 million of multifamily loans, the net proceeds of which are included in investing activities. For 2023, cash of $8 million was provided by operating activities.

Cash flows from investing activities

The Company's investing activities are primarily related to investment securities and LHFI. For 2024, cash of $1.3 billion was provided by investing activities primarily from proceeds from the sale of $990 million of multifamily loans, principal repayments on AFS investment securities, LHFI repayments in excess of originations and net FHLB stock sales. For 2023, cash of $484 million was provided by investing activities primarily from the cash acquired from an acquisition of branches and the related deposits, principal repayments on AFS investment securities and LHFI repayments in excess of originations, partially offset by the purchase of AFS investments securities and net FHLB stock purchases.

Cash flows from financing activities 

The Company's financing activities are primarily related to deposits, net proceeds from borrowings and equity transactions. For 2024, cash of $1.1 billion was used in financing activities primarily due to a net decrease in long-term and short-term 

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borrowings, which was generated from the sale of $990 million of multifamily loans and decreases in deposits.