Borrowings

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Borrowings [Abstract]

Borrowings

NOTE (8) – Borrowings

The Bank enters into agreements under which it sells securities subject to an obligation to repurchase the same or similar securities. Under these arrangements, the Bank may transfer legal control over the assets but still retain effective control through an agreement that both entitles and obligates the Bank to repurchase the assets. As a result, these repurchase agreements are accounted for as collateralized financing agreements (i.e., secured borrowings) and not as a sale and subsequent repurchase of securities. The obligation to repurchase the securities is reflected as a liability in the Banks’s consolidated statements of financial condition, while the securities underlying the repurchase agreements remain in the respective investment securities asset accounts. In other words, there is no offsetting or netting of the investment securities assets with the repurchase agreement liabilities. As of June 30, 2021, securities sold under agreements to repurchase totaled $70.7 million at an average rate of 0.10%. The market value of securities pledged totaled $71.9 million as of June 30, 2021 and included $17.8 million of U.S. Government Agency securities, $47.5 million of mortgage-backed securities,  and $6.6 million of collateralized mortgage obligations. There were no securities pledged as of December 31, 2020.

At June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Bank had outstanding Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) totaling $96.0 million and $110.5 million, respectively. The weighted rate interest rate was 1.95% and 1.94% as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. The weighted average contractual maturity was 26 months and 27 months as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. The advances were collateralized by loans with a market value of $193.6 million at June 30, 2021.

On March 17, 2004, the Company issued $6.0 million of Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debentures (the “Debentures”) in a private placement to a trust that was capitalized to purchase subordinated debt and preferred stock of multiple community banks.  Interest on the Debentures is payable quarterly at a rate per annum equal to the 3-Month LIBOR plus 2.54%.  The interest rate is determined as of each March 17, June 17, September 17, and December 17, and was 2.69% at June 30, 2021.  On October 16, 2014, the Company made payments of $900 thousand of principal on Debentures, executed a Supplemental Indenture for the Debentures that extended the maturity of the Debentures to March 17, 2024, and modified the payment terms of the remaining $5.1 million principal amount thereof.  The modified terms of the Debentures require quarterly payments of interest only through March 2019 at the original rate of 3-Month LIBOR plus 2.54%.  Starting in June 2019, the Company began making quarterly payments of equal amounts of principal, plus interest, and will continue until the Debentures are fully amortized on March 17, 2024. At June 30, 2021, the Company had repaid a total of $2.2 million of the scheduled principal. The Debentures may be called for redemption at any time by the Company.

In connection with the New Market Tax Credit activities of City First Bank CFC 45 is a partnership whose members include CFNMA and City First New Markets Fund II, LLC. This CDE acts in effect as a pass-through for a Merrill Lynch allocation totaling $14.0 million that needed to be deployed. In December 2015, Merrill Lynch made a $14.0 million non-recourse loan to CFC 45, whereby CFC 45 passed that loan through to a Qualified Active Low-Income Business (“QALICB”). The loan to the QALICB is secured by a Leasehold Deed of Trust that, due to the pass-through, non-recourse structure is operationally and ultimately for the benefit of Merrill Lynch rather than CFC 45. Debt service payments received by CFC 45 from the QALICB are passed through to Merrill Lynch in return for which CFC 45 receives a servicing fee. The financial statements of CFC 45 are consolidated with those of the Bank and the Company.

There are two notes for CFC 45. Note A is in the amount of $9.9 million with a fixed interest rate of 5.2% per annum. Note B is in the amount of $4.1 million with a fixed interest rate of 0.24% per annum. Quarterly interest only payments commenced in March 2016 and will continue through March 2023 for Notes A and B. Beginning in June 2023, quarterly principal and interest payments will be due for Notes A and B. Both notes will mature on December 1, 2040.