Company: FCNCB
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000798941-25-000050
Chunk: 213

Company: FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 213
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 performance. Generally, when inflows arising from deposit and treasury services products exceed loan and lease demand, we invest excess funds into the securities portfolio or into interest-earning deposits at banks. Conversely, when loan demand exceeds growth in deposits and short-term borrowings, we allow interest-earning deposits at banks to decline and use proceeds from maturing securities and prepayments to fund loan growth. Refer to Note 3—Investment Securities and “Funding, Liquidity and Capital Overview” in the “Executive Overview” section of this MD&A for additional disclosures regarding investment securities.

The carrying value of investment securities at September 30, 2025 totaled $45.12 billion, an increase of $1.03 billion or 2% from $44.09 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase from December 31, 2024 resulted from purchases of $7.87 billion, which were primarily U.S agency residential mortgage-backed and short-duration U.S. Treasury investment securities partially offset by maturities, sales, and payments of $7.60 billion, and non-cash items, such as fair value changes for investment securities available for sale and marketable equity securities, along with amortization and accretion.   

Our portfolio of investment securities available for sale consists of mortgage-backed securities issued by government agencies and government sponsored entities, U.S. Treasury securities, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds. Investment securities available for sale are reported at fair value and unrealized gains and losses are included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”), net of deferred taxes. As of September 30, 2025, investment securities available for sale had a net pretax unrealized loss of $224 million, compared to $762 million as of December 31, 2024, primarily reflecting changes in interest rates and maturities. The fair value of investment securities is impacted by interest rates, credit spreads, market volatility and liquidity conditions. The fair value of the investment securities portfolio generally increases when interest rates decrease or when credit spreads tighten. Given the consistently strong credit rating of the U.S. Treasury, and the long history of no credit losses on debt securities issued by government agencies and government sponsored entities, no allowance for credit loss was required as of September 30, 2025. For corporate bonds, we analyzed the changes in interest rates relative to when the investment securities were purchased or acquired, and considered other factors including changes in credit ratings, del