Company: BOKF
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000875357-25-000013
Chunk: 163

Company: BOK FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 163
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5.75% for 2024, compared to 5.38% in 2023. Loan yields increased 24 basis points to 7.32%. The available for sale securities portfolio yield increased 63 basis points to 3.69%, and the yield on trading securities grew 37 basis points to 5.11%. 

Funding costs increased 58 basis points compared to 2023. The cost of interest-bearing deposits increased 89 basis points. The cost of other short-term borrowings increased 17 basis points while the cost of funds purchased and repurchase agreements decreased 45 basis points. The benefit to net interest margin from earning assets funded by non-interest bearing liabilities was 91 basis points for 2024, compared to 98 basis points for 2023.

Average earning assets for 2024 increased $2.6 billion, or 6%, over 2023. Average trading securities increased $1.1 billion. Average loans, net of allowance for loan losses, increased $1.0 billion, largely due to growth in commercial loans and loans to individuals. The average balance of available for sale securities, which consists largely of residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by U.S. government agencies, increased $860 million. 

Total average deposits increased $3.1 billion over the prior year, including a $5.4 billion increase in interest-bearing deposits, partially offset by a $2.3 billion decrease in average demand deposit balances. Average short-term borrowings decreased $1.1 billion. 

Our overall objective is to manage the Company's balance sheet for changes in interest rates as described in the Market Risk section of this report. Approximately 82% of our commercial and commercial real estate loan portfolios are either variable rate loans or fixed rate loans that will reprice within one year. These loans are funded primarily by deposit accounts that are either non-interest bearing or that reprice more slowly than the loans. The result is a balance sheet that would be asset-sensitive which means that assets generally reprice more quickly than liabilities. One of the strategies that we use to manage toward a relative rate-neutral position is to purchase fixed rate residential mortgage-backed securities issued primarily by U.S. government agencies and fund them with market rate sensitive liabilities. The liability-sensitive nature of this strategy provides an offset to the asset-sensitive characteristics of our loan portfolio. We also may use derivative instruments to manage our interest rate risk. 

The effectiveness of these strategies is reflected in the overall change in net