Company: BANC-PF
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-009438
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Company: BANC OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 72
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 our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the account or disclosure to which it relates.

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Allowance for loan and lease losses - collectively evaluatedDescription of the MatterThe Company’s allowance for loan and lease losses (ALLL) was $239.4 million as of December 31, 2024, of which $234.0 million relates to the collectively evaluated ALLL. The provision for loan and lease losses was $43.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. As discussed in Note 1, the ALLL is measured using the current expected credit loss (CECL) approach for the Company’s loan and lease portfolio. The ALLL is comprised on an individually evaluated component for loans and leases that no longer share similar risk characteristics with other loans and leases and a pooled loans component for loans and leases that share similar risk characteristics. The Company’s CECL methodology for the pooled loans component includes both quantitative and qualitative loss factors which are applied to its population of loans and leases and assessed at a pool level. The quantitative CECL model estimates credit losses by applying pool-specific probability of default and loss given default rates to the expected exposure at default over the contractual life of loans and leases. The qualitative component considers internal and external risk factors that may not be adequately assessed in