Company: TFC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000092230-25-000020
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Company: TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7A
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 experience. Prior to December 2024, interest-bearing-deposit rate paid was projected to move at a constant ratio (deposit beta) of market rates, primarily the Federal Funds Rate, aligned to historical through the cycle experience, and deposit balances in alternate scenarios were aligned to the Truist baseline scenario. In December 2024, we enhanced our deposit methodology to more dynamically incorporate client deposit balance levels, the mix across product types, and deposit rate paid across alternate rate scenarios based on modeled changes in customer and bank behavior. 

NII at risk measures the change in NII under alternate interest rate scenarios relative to Truist’s baseline scenario, which incorporates Truist’s current balance sheet and off-balance sheet hedges as well as expectations for new business over the forecast horizon. Truist’s baseline scenario relies on assumptions including expectations of the economy and interest rates – which are influenced by market conditions, new business volume, pricing, and customer behavior. In measuring NII at risk, Truist assumes that changes in key factors, such as prepayments and deposit pricing (betas), largely move in line with those it has experienced in prior rate cycles. However, future behavior of key factors may vary from Truist’s assumptions. NII at risk measurement assumes, when applicable, that U.S. interest rates floor at zero and Truist does not take any balance sheet or hedging actions in response to the rate scenarios.

Truist evaluates a wide range of alternate scenarios including instantaneous and gradual as well as parallel and non-parallel changes in interest rates. The table below presents the estimated change to NII over the following 12 months for select parallel alternate scenarios, expressed as a percentage change relative to baseline NII.

The change in simulation analysis results from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024 in the table below was primarily due to the aforementioned enhanced deposit methodology. The use of dynamic deposit balance models results in rotation to higher cost funding products (e.g., CDs) when market rates increase and to lower cost funding products (e.g., non-maturity deposits) when market rates decrease. The use of dynamic rate paid models results in varying deposit betas based on the timing and conditions within market rate cycles but generally result in lower betas in the simulation analysis results than the prior methodology due to beta lag effects relative to changes in market rates. These updates were made to better reflect expected deposit behavior and Truist’s NII rate sensitivity to changes in market rates. Together, the incorporation