Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000007789-25-000179
Chunk: 292

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 292
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 cash used in investing activities was 1.2 billion, for a net increase in cash and cash equivalents of 43.2 million since year-end 2023. At September 30, 2024, assets of 42.2 billion increased $1.2 billion, or 3%, from year-end 2023. On the funding side, deposits of 33.6 billion increased $108.2 million, or 0%, from year-end 2023, short-term funding increased $590.2 million, or 181%, and FHLB advances increased $26.9 million, or 1%.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Market risk and interest rate risk are managed centrally. Market risk is the potential for loss arising from adverse changes in the fair value of fixed-income securities, equity securities, other earning assets, and derivative financial instruments as a result of changes in interest rates or other factors. Interest rate risk is the potential for reduced net interest income resulting from adverse changes in the level of interest rates. As a financial institution that engages in transactions involving an array of financial products, the Corporation is exposed to both market risk and interest rate risk. In addition to market risk, interest rate risk is measured and managed through a number of methods. The Corporation uses financial modeling simulation techniques that measure the sensitivity of future earnings due to changing rate environments to measure interest rate risk.

Policies established by the Corporation’s ALCO and approved by the Board of Directors are intended to limit these risks. The Board has delegated day-to-day responsibility for managing market and interest rate risk to ALCO. The primary objectives of market risk management are to minimize any adverse effect that changes in market risk factors may have on net interest income and to offset the risk of price changes for certain assets recorded at fair value.

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Interest Rate Risk

The primary goal of interest rate risk management is to control exposure to interest rate risk within policy limits approved by the Board of Directors. These limits and guidelines reflect the Corporation's risk appetite for interest rate risk over both short-term and long-term horizons. 

The major sources of the Corporation's non-trading interest rate risk are timing differences in the maturity and re-pricing characteristics of assets and liabilities, changes in the shape of the yield curve, and the potential exercise of explicit or embedded options. We measure these risks and their impact by identifying and quantifying exposures through the use of sophisticated simulation and valuation models which are employed by management to understand interest rate sensitive EAR and MVE at risk