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Off-Balance Sheet Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Investments All Other Investments [Abstract]  
Off-Balance Sheet Commitments and Contingencies

Note 14. Off-Balance Sheet Commitments and Contingencies

In the ordinary course of operations, the Company is party to legal proceedings. Based upon information currently available, the Company’s management believes that such legal proceedings, in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.

Also in the ordinary course of operations, the Company offers various financial products to its customers to meet their credit and liquidity needs. These instruments involve elements of credit and interest rate risk in excess of the amount recognized in the consolidated balance sheets. The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instruments for commitments to extend credit and stand-by letters of credit written is represented by the contractual amount of these instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional commitments as it does for on-balance sheet commitments.

Subject to its normal credit standards and risk monitoring procedures, the Company makes contractual commitments to extend credit. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require the payment of a fee. Since many of the commitments may expire without being completely drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company had outstanding loan commitments of $170.9 million and $160.5 million, respectively.

 

The Company estimates the credit loss exposure for all off-balance sheet credit commitments that are not unconditionally cancellable by the Company using a process consistent with that used in developing the allowance for loan losses for on-balance sheet portfolio loans. The Company estimates future fundings, which may be less than the total unfunded commitment amounts, based on historical funding experience and management’s judgment. Allowance for loan loss factors, which are based on loan type, are applied to these funding estimates to arrive at the reserve balance. Changes in a reserve for unfunded commitments are recognized in other noninterest expense in the consolidated statements of operations and the reserve for unfunded commitments is reported in other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company has $85 thousand and $97 thousand of reserves for unfunded commitments, respectively.

Conditional commitments are issued by the Company in the form of performance stand-by letters of credit, which guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, commitments under outstanding performance stand-by letters of credit totaled $6.1 million and $2.8 million, respectively. Additionally, but to a much lesser extent, the Company issues financial stand-by letters of credit, which guarantee payment to the underlying beneficiary (i.e., third party) if the customer fails to meet its designated financial obligation. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, commitments under outstanding financial stand-by letters of credit totaled $77 thousand and $40 thousand, respectively. The credit risk of issuing stand-by letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loans to customers.

The Company has investments in three separate low-income housing equity funds as of December 31, 2019 and 2018. The general purpose of these funds is to encourage and assist participants in investing in low-income residential rental properties located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, develop and implement strategies to maintain projects as low-income housing, deliver federal low-income housing tax credits to investors, allocate tax losses and other possible tax benefits to investors, and to preserve and protect project assets. The investments in these funds were recorded as other assets on the consolidated balance sheets and were $1.2 million and $1.3 million as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. These investments and related tax benefits have expected terms through 2030. Additional capital calls expected for the funds totaled $275 thousand at December 31, 2019 and are included in other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.