Company: BANC-PF
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001169770-25-000024
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Company: BANC OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
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 deterioration in the commercial real estate market may lead to increased provisions for credit losses because our loans are concentrated in commercial real estate loans.

The Level of Noninterest Expense

Our noninterest expense includes fixed and controllable overhead, the largest components of which are compensation expense, customer related expense, information technology and data processing expense, and occupancy expense. Customer related expenses are primarily earnings credit rate ("ECRs") payments to customers and are mostly driven by the Homeowners Association ("HOA") business. ECRs are rate-sensitive and fluctuate in response to changes in the federal funds rate. Additionally, noninterest expense included insurance and assessments, intangible asset amortization, leased equipment depreciation, other professional services, loan expenses, acquisition, integration and organization costs, and other expense. We monitor our efficiency ratio as a key measure of operational performance.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based upon our condensed consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements requires us to make a number of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts and disclosures in the condensed consolidated financial statements. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions based upon historical experience and various other factors and circumstances. We believe that our estimates and assumptions are reasonable; however, actual results may ultimately differ significantly from these estimates and assumptions, which could have a material adverse effect on the carrying value of assets and liabilities at the balance sheet dates and on our results of operations for the reporting periods.

 Our accounting policies and estimates are fundamental to understanding the following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations. We identify critical policies and estimates as those that require management to make particularly difficult, subjective, and/or complex judgments about matters that are inherently uncertain and because of the likelihood that materially different amounts would be reported under different conditions or using different assumptions. These policies and estimates relate to the ACL on loans and leases held for investment, business combinations, the carrying value of goodwill and other intangible assets, and the realization of deferred income tax assets and liabilities. 

Our critical accounting policies and estimates are described in Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in the Form 10-K. 

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures 

We use certain non-GAAP financial measures to provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the Company’s operational performance and to enhance investors’ overall understanding of such financial performance. This disclosure should