Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001518715-25-000026
Chunk: 23

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 23
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 the cost of our funding may change at a different rate than our interest income, which may have a negative impact on our net interest income and, in turn, our results of operations, financial condition and capital position. If we are required to rely more heavily on more expensive funding sources to support future growth, our revenues may not increase proportionately to cover our costs. In that case, our results of operations, financial condition and capital position would be adversely affected. Further, the volatility inherent in some of these funding sources, particularly brokered deposits, may increase our exposure to liquidity risk.

Risks Related to Operations

Our employees' hybrid-remote work schedules may create failure or circumvention of our controls and procedures, including safeguarding our confidential information.

Many of our employees work from home in a hybrid-remote work schedule. We face risks associated with having a significant portion of our employees working from home as we may have less oversight over certain internal controls and the confidentiality requirements of our compliance and contractual obligations are more challenging to meet as confidential information is being accessed from a wider range of locations and there is more opportunity for inadvertent disclosure or malicious interception. Many of our vendors also allow their workforce to work from home, which create similar issues if our confidential information is being accessed by employees of those vendors in connection with their performance of services for us. While we have not identified any significant concerns to date with our internal controls, compliance obligations or confidentiality requirements, the change in work environment, team dynamics and job responsibilities for us and our vendors could increase our risk of failure in these areas, which could have a negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations and heightened, compliance, operational and reputational risks.

We rely on third party purchasers to buy our loans in the secondary market, and changes to their policies and practices may significantly impact our financial results.

We originate a substantial portion of our single family mortgage loans for sale to third party investors, including government-sponsored enterprises (“GSEs”) such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. Changes in the types of loans purchased by these GSEs or the program requirements for those entities could adversely impact our ability to sell certain of the loans we originate for sale, leaving us unable to find a buyer on similar terms. Similarly, changes in the fee structures by any of our third party loan purchasers, including the GSEs, may increase our costs of doing business, the cost of loans to our customers, and the cost of selling loans to third party loan purchasers, all of which could in turn