Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000357173-25-000035
Chunk: 13

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
Chunk 13
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

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Interest Rate Risk

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We are subject to interest rate risk from changes on assets (loans and securities), liabilities (customer deposits and borrowed funds) and off-balance sheet derivatives (interest rate swaps). Fluctuations in interest rates may have a material impact to fair market values of our financial instruments, cash flows, and net interest income. Like most financial institutions, we have an exposure to changes in both short-term and long-term interest rates. We believe a financial institution’s ability to effectively tune its interest rate risk profile and strategically position its balance sheet through rate cycles helps sustain financial performance of our institution.

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The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) has held the Federal Funds (“FF”) target rate at a range of 4.25-4.50%. The recently enacted tariffs could move the FRB further from its goals of promoting price stability, and the current posture is to wait for greater clarity. Despite the current outlook on rates, the current forward curve continues to expect multiple rate cuts in 2025. Recently, Treasury markets have been volatile as investors digested the news of tariffs; Treasury auctions evidenced a reduction of demand by US-based investors that was offset by increased demand by non-US buyers.

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We manage interest rate risk within guidelines established by the asset liability policy which are intended to limit the amount of rate exposure. In practice, we seek to manage our interest rate risk exposure within our guidelines so that such exposure does not pose a material risk to our future earnings. We manage various market risks in the normal course of our operations, including credit, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk. Other types of market risk, such as foreign currency exchange risk and commodity price risk, do not arise in the normal course of our business activities and operations. In addition, since we do not hold a trading portfolio, we are not exposed to significant market risk from trading activities. Our interest rate risk exposures at March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, are outlined in the table below.

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Our net income can be significantly influenced by a variety of external factors, including: overall economic conditions, policies and actions of regulatory authorities, the amounts of and rates at which assets and liabilities reprice, variances in prepayment of loans and securities other than those that are assumed, early withdrawal of deposits, exercise of call options on borrowings or securities, competition, a general rise or decline in interest rates, changes in the slope of the