Company: PNBK
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-025485
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Company: PATRIOT NATIONAL BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Note 11.  Regulatory and Operational Matters

Federal and state regulatory authorities have adopted standards requiring financial institutions to maintain increased levels of capital. Effective  January 1, 2015, federal banking agencies imposed four minimum capital requirements on a community bank’s risk-based capital ratios consisting of Total Capital, Tier 1 Capital, Common Equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) Capital, and a Tier 1 Leverage Capital ratio. The risk-based capital ratios measure the adequacy of a bank's capital against the riskiness of its on- and off-balance sheet assets and activities. Failure to maintain adequate capital is a basis for "prompt corrective action" or other regulatory enforcement action. In assessing a bank's capital adequacy, regulators also consider other factors such as interest rate risk exposure, liquidity, funding and market risks, quality and level of earnings, concentrations of credit, quality of loans and investments, nontraditional activity risk, policy effectiveness, and management's overall ability to monitor and control risk.Under the instituted regulatory framework, to be considered “well capitalized”, a financial institution must generally have a Total Capital ratio of at least 10%, a Tier 1 Capital ratio of at least 8.0%, a CET1 Capital ratio at least 6.5%, and a Tier 1 Leverage Capital ratio of at least 5%. However, regardless of a financial institution’s ratios, the OCC may require increased capital ratios or impose dividend restrictions based on the other factors it considers in assessing a bank’s capital adequacy. Under the final capital rules that became effective on January 1, 2015, there was a requirement for a CET1 capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, which is in addition to the other minimum risk-based capital standards in the rule. Institutions that do not maintain this required capital buffer become subject to progressively more stringent limitations on the percentage of earnings that may be distributed to shareholders or used for stock repurchases and on the payment of discretionary bonuses to senior executive management. The capital conversation buffer of 2.5% has been included in the minimum capital adequacy ratios as of March 31, 2025.On April 17, 2024, based on its supervisory profile, the Bank was notified by the OCC that it established individual minimum capital ratios (“IMCR”) for the Bank. Specifically, the Bank is required to maintain the following ratios: a common equity tier 1 capital