Company: ISBA
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000842517-25-000053
Chunk: 80

Company: ISABELLA BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 80
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rued interest is excluded from the measurement of the allowance for credit losses, including investments and loans.  Generally, accrued interest is reversed when a loan is placed in nonaccrual status or charged off.  Current year accrued interest is reversed through interest income while accrued interest from prior years is charged off through the ACL.TRANSFERS OF FINANCIAL ASSETS: Transfers of financial assets, including mortgage loans and participation loans, are accounted for as sales when control over the assets has been surrendered.  Control over transferred assets is determined to be surrendered when 1) the assets have been legally isolated from us, 2) the transferee obtains the right (free of conditions that constrain it from taking advantage of the right) to pledge or exchange the transferred assets, and 3) we do not maintain effective control over the transferred assets through an agreement to repurchase them before their maturity.  Other than servicing, we have no substantive continuing involvement related to these loans.CAPITALIZED MORTGAGE SERVICING RIGHTS: Servicing assets are recognized as separate assets when rights are acquired through purchase or through sale of financial assets.  We have no purchased servicing rights. For sales of mortgage loans, a portion of the cost of originating the loan is allocated to the servicing right based on relative fair value.  Fair value is based on market prices for comparable mortgage servicing contracts, when available, or alternatively, is based on a valuation model that calculates the present value of estimated future net servicing income.  The valuation model incorporates assumptions that market participants would use in estimating future net servicing income, such as the cost to service, the discount rate, the custodial earnings rate, an inflation rate, ancillary income, prepayment speeds and default rates and losses.Servicing assets are evaluated for impairment based upon the fair value of the rights as compared to amortized cost.  Impairment is determined by stratifying rights into tranches based on predominant risk characteristics, such as interest rate, loan type, and investor type.  Impairment is recognized through a valuation allowance for an individual tranche, to the extent that fair value is less than the capitalized amount for the tranche.  If we later determine that all or a portion of the impairment no longer exists for a particular tranche, a reduction of the valuation allowance may be recorded as an increase to income.  Capitalized servicing rights are reported in other assets and are amortized into noninterest income in proportion to, and over the period of, the estimated future net servicing income