Regulatory Matters

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Regulatory Matters [Abstract]

Regulatory Matters

NOTE 19 – REGULATORY MATTERS

The Company is required to maintain cash reserve balances either in vault cash or with the Federal Reserve Bank.  The total of those reserve balances was approximately $1.7 million at December 31, 2012.

The Bank is subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies.  Failure to meet the minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possibly additional discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Company’s financial statements.  Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Bank must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of the Bank’s assets, liabilities and certain off-balance sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices.  The Bank’s capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk-weightings and other factors.

Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Bank to maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth below) of total and Tier I capital (as defined in the regulations) to risk-weighted assets, and of Tier I capital to average assets.  Management believes, as of December 31, 2012, that the Bank meets all capital adequacy requirements to which they are subject.

As of December 31, 2012, the most recent notification from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation categorized the Bank as well capitalized under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action.  There are no conditions or events since that notification that management believes have changed the Bank’s category.

The Bank’s actual capital amounts and ratios at December 31, 2012 and 2011 are presented below:

								To be Well Capitalized
								under Prompt
					For Capital Adequacy			Corrective Action
		Actual			Purposes			Provisions
(Dollars in thousands)		Amount	Ratio		Amount	Ratio		Amount	Ratio
As of December 31, 2012
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets):	$	51,672	14.13%	$	>29,246	>8.00%	$	>36,558	>10.00%
Tier I capital (to risk-weighted assets):		47,096	12.88		>14,623	>4.00		>21,935	>6.00
Tier I capital (to average assets):		47,096	9.27		>20,311	>4.00		>25,389	>5.00
As of December 31, 2011
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets):	$	50,541	14.31%	$	>28,260	>8.00%	$	>35,325	>10.00%
Tier I capital (to risk-weighted assets):		46,091	13.05		>14,130	>4.00		>21,195	>6.00
Tier I capital (to average assets):		46,091	9.29		>19,853	>4.00		>24,816	>5.00

The Bank is subject to certain restrictions on the amount of dividends that it may declare due to regulatory considerations.  The State of New Jersey banking laws specify that no dividend shall be paid by the Bank on its capital stock unless, following the payment of such dividend, the capital stock of the Bank will be unimpaired and the Bank will have a surplus of not less than 50% of its capital stock or, if not, the payment of such dividend will not reduce the surplus of the Bank.

At December 31, 2012, the Bank’s funds available for payment of dividends were $41.6 million.  Accordingly, $7.5 million of the Company’s equity in the net assets of the Bank was restricted as of December 31, 2012.

In addition, dividends paid by the Bank to the Company would be prohibited if the effect thereof would cause the Bank’s capital to be reduced below applicable minimum capital requirements.