Company: BWFG
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001505732-25-000089
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Company: Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 cash flows from our investment securities portfolios, loan sales, loan repayments and earnings. Investment securities designated as Available for sale may also be sold in response to short-term or long-term liquidity needs.

The Bank’s liquidity positions are monitored daily by management. The Asset Liability Committee ("ALCO") establishes guidelines to ensure maintenance of prudent levels of liquidity. ALCO reports to the Company’s Board of Directors.

The Bank has a detailed liquidity funding policy and a contingency funding plan that provide for the prompt and comprehensive response to unexpected demands for liquidity. We employ a stress testing methodology to estimate needs for contingent funding that could result from unexpected outflows of funds in excess of “business as usual” cash flows. The Bank has established unsecured borrowing capacity with Zions Bank, PCBB, and ACBB. The Bank also maintains additional collateralized borrowing capacity with the FRB and the FHLB in excess of levels used in the ordinary course of business. Our sources of liquidity include cash, unpledged investment securities, borrowings from the FRB, FHLB, lines of credit from Zions Bank, PCBB, and ACBB, the brokered deposit market and national CD listing services.

Capital Resources

Shareholders’ equity totaled $275.2 million as of March 31, 2025, an increase of $4.7 million compared to December 31, 2024, primarily a result of net income of $6.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The increase was partially offset by dividends paid of $1.6 million and share repurchases of $0.9 million.

The Bank and Company are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possibly additional discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Company’s financial statements. At March 31, 2025, the Bank met all capital adequacy requirements to which it was subject and exceeded the regulatory minimum capital levels to be considered well-capitalized under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. At March 31, 2025, the Bank’s ratio of Common Equity Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets was 12.10%, total capital to risk-weighted assets was 12.10%, Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets was 13.21% and Tier 1 capital to average assets was 10.14%. At March 31, 2025, the Company met