Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000007789-25-000179
Chunk: 152

Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 152
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2025.

Income tax expense recorded on the consolidated statements of income involves the interpretation and application of certain accounting pronouncements and federal and state tax laws and regulations. 

The Corporation is subject to examination by various taxing authorities. Examination by taxing authorities may impact the amount of tax expense and/or the reserve for uncertainty in income taxes if their interpretations differ from those of management, based on their judgments about information available to them at the time of their examinations. 

Balance Sheet Analysis 

•At September 30, 2025, total assets were $44.5 billion, up $1.4 billion, or 3%, from December 31, 2024.

◦Interest bearing deposits in other financial institutions were $802.3 million at September 30, 2025, up $348.7 million, or 77%, from December 31, 2024. Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreement to resell were $0.1 million at September 30, 2025, down $21.9 million, or 100% from December 31, 2024. See Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for detailed information.

◦AFS investment securities, at fair value were $5.2 billion at September 30, 2025, up $635.8 million, or 14%, from December 31, 2024. FHLB and Fed Reserve Stocks were $251.6 million at September 30, 2025, up $72.0 million, or 40%, from December 31, 2024. See Note 5 Investment Securities of the notes to the consolidated financial statements for details on these changes.

◦Loans of  $31.0 billion at September 30, 2025 were up $1.2 billion, or 4%, from December 31, 2024 primarily due to increases in commercial and business lending along with increases in auto finance loans, offset by a decrease in residential mortgage loans. See section Loans and Note 6 Loans of the notes to consolidated financial statements for additional details.

◦Residential loans held for sale were $74.6 million at September 30, 2025, down $572.1 million, or 88%, from December 31, 2024. The decrease from December 31, 2024 was a result of the mortgage portfolio sale announced as part of the balance sheet repositioning in the fourth quarter of 2024 and the sale closing in January