Company: BCML
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001730984-25-000017
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Company: BayCom Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7A
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Item 7A Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Market Risk.  Market risk represents the risk of loss due to changes in market values of assets and liabilities. We incur market risk in the normal course of business through exposures to market interest rates, equity prices, and credit spreads. We have identified two primary sources of market risk: interest rate risk and price risk.

Interest Rate Risk.  Interest rate risk is the risk to earnings and values arising from changes in market interest rates. Interest rate risk arises from timing differences in the repricing and maturities of interest earning assets and interest bearing liabilities (reprice risk), changes in the expected maturities of assets and liabilities arising from embedded options, such as borrowers’ ability to prepay residential mortgage loans at any time and depositors’ ability to redeem certificates of deposit before maturity (option risk), changes in the shape of the yield curve where interest rates increase or decrease in a nonparallel fashion (yield curve risk), and changes in spread relationships between different yield curves, such as U.S. Treasuries and SOFR (basis risk).

The Asset Liability Committee of our Board of Directors (“ALCO”) establishes broad policy limits with respect to interest rate risk. ALCO establishes specific operating guidelines within the parameters of the Board of Directors’ policies. In general, we seek to minimize the impact of changing interest rates on net interest income and the economic