Regulatory Capital Requirements

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Banking and Thrift [Abstract]

Regulatory Capital Requirements

REGULATORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS

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

Generally, savings institutions, such as the Bank, may make capital distributions during any calendar year equal to the earnings of the previous two calendar years and current year-to-date earnings.  It is generally required that the Bank remain well capitalized before and after the proposed distribution.  The Company's ability to pay dividends is dependent, in part, upon its ability to obtain capital distributions from the Bank. So long as the Bank continues to remain well capitalized after each capital distribution and operates in a safe and sound manner, it is management's belief that the regulators will continue to allow the Bank to distribute its net income to the Company, although no assurance can be given in this regard.

In conjunction with the Company's corporate reorganization in December 2010, a "liquidation account" was established for the benefit of certain depositors of the Bank in an amount equal to Capitol Federal Savings Bank MHC's ownership interest in the retained earnings of Capitol Federal Financial as of June 30, 2010. As of September 30, 2019, the balance of this liquidation account was $127.6 million. Under applicable federal banking regulations, neither the Company nor the Bank is permitted to pay dividends on its capital stock to its stockholders if stockholders' equity would be reduced below the amount of the liquidation account at that time.

The Bank and the Company must maintain certain minimum capital ratios as set forth in the table below for capital adequacy purposes. Effective January 1, 2016, the Company and Bank were required to maintain a capital conservation buffer above certain minimum risk-based capital ratios for capital adequacy purposes in order to avoid certain restrictions on capital distributions and other payments including dividends, share repurchases, and certain compensation. The required capital conservation buffer was phased in over a four-year period by increasing the required buffer amount by 0.625% each year to a total of 2.50%. The capital conservation buffer was fully phased in on January 1, 2019. The capital conservation buffer was 2.500% at September 30, 2019 and 1.875% at September 30, 2018. At September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Bank and Company exceeded the capital conservation buffer requirement. Management believes, as of September 30, 2019, that the Bank and Company meet all capital adequacy requirements to which they are subject and there were no conditions or events subsequent to September 30, 2019 that would change the Bank's or Company's category.

In September 2019, the regulatory agencies, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and FRB, adopted a final rule, effective January 1, 2020, creating a community bank leverage ratio ("CBLR") for institutions with total consolidated assets of less than $10 billion and that meet other qualifying criteria. Qualifying institutions that elect to use the CBLR framework and that maintain a leverage ratio of greater than 9% will be considered to have satisfied the generally applicable risk-based and leverage capital requirements in the regulatory agencies' capital rules and to have met the well-capitalized ratio requirements. Management is still reviewing the CBLR framework, but expects the Bank and Company will elect to use the CBLR framework.

									To Be Well
									Capitalized
									Under Prompt
					For Capital				Corrective Action
	Actual				Adequacy Purposes				Provisions
	Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio
	(Dollars in thousands)
Bank
As of September 30, 2019
Tier 1 leverage	$	1,169,037	12.1	%	$	387,427	4.0	%	$	484,284	5.0	%
Common Equity Tier 1 ("CET1") capital	1,169,037		24.1		218,042		4.5		314,949		6.5
Tier 1 capital	1,169,037		24.1		290,722		6.0		387,630		8.0
Total capital	1,178,263		24.3		387,630		8.0		484,537		10.0
As of September 30, 2018
Tier 1 leverage	1,202,125		13.0		370,559		4.0		463,199		5.0
CET1 capital	1,202,125		25.1		215,764		4.5		311,659		6.5
Tier 1 capital	1,202,125		25.1		287,685		6.0		383,580		8.0
Total capital	1,210,589		25.2		383,580		8.0		479,475		10.0
Company
As of September 30, 2019
Tier 1 leverage	1,336,377		13.8		387,346		4.0		N/A		N/A
CET1 capital	1,336,377		27.6		218,070		4.5		N/A		N/A
Tier 1 capital	1,336,377		27.6		290,759		6.0		N/A		N/A
Total capital	1,345,603		27.8		387,679		8.0		N/A		N/A
As of September 30, 2018
Tier 1 leverage	1,381,791		14.9		370,475		4.0		N/A		N/A
CET1 capital	1,381,791		28.6		215,793		4.5		N/A		N/A
Tier 1 capital	1,381,791		28.8		287,724		6.0		N/A		N/A
Total capital	1,390,255		29.0		383,632		8.0		N/A		N/A