10-Q

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2023

or

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from __________ to __________

Commission File Number: 001-38534

Amerant Bancorp Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Florida		65-0032379
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
220 Alhambra Circle
Coral Gables,	Florida	33134
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)
(305)		460-4728
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock	AMTB	New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes   ☒  No ☐ 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes   ☒  No ☐ 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer	☒	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☐	Smaller reporting company	☐
		Emerging growth company	☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐ 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐       No ☒

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

Class	Outstanding as of October 23, 2023
Class A Common Stock, $0.10 par value per share	33,576,894 shares of Class A Common Stock

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AMERANT BANCORP INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

FORM 10-Q

September 30, 2023

INDEX

		Page
PART I.	FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1	Financial Statements	3
	Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2023 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2022	3
	Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 (Unaudited)	4
	Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 (Unaudited)	6
	Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 (Unaudited)	8
	Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)	10
Item 2	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	60
	Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements	60
	Overview	63
	Results of Operations	73
	Financial Condition	98
Item 3	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	123
Item 4	Controls and Procedures	126
PART II	OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1	Legal Proceedings	128
Item 1A	Risk Factors	128
Item 2	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	128
Item 3	Defaults Upon Senior Securities	128
Item 4	Mine Safety Disclosures	128
Item 5	Other Information	129
Item 6	Exhibits	130
	Signatures	131

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Part 1. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Amerant Bancorp Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands, except share data)	(Unaudited) September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Assets
Cash and due from banks	$	48,145	$	19,486
Interest earning deposits with banks	202,946		228,955
Restricted cash	51,837		42,160
Other short-term investments	6,024		—
Cash and cash equivalents	308,952		290,601
Securities
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value	1,033,797		1,057,621
Debt securities held to maturity, at amortized cost (estimated fair value of $195,165 and $217,609 at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively)	230,254		242,101
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,438		11,383
Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank stock	47,878		55,575
Securities	1,314,367		1,366,680
Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost	43,257		—
Mortgage loans held for sale, at fair value	25,952		62,438
Loans held for investment, gross	7,073,387		6,857,194
Less: Allowance for credit losses	98,773		83,500
Loans held for investment, net	6,974,614		6,773,694
Bank owned life insurance	232,736		228,412
Premises and equipment, net	43,004		41,772
Deferred tax assets, net	63,501		48,703
Operating lease right-of-use assets	116,763		139,987
Goodwill	20,525		19,506
Accrued interest receivable and other assets	202,029		156,011
Total assets	$	9,345,700	$	9,127,804
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
Deposits
Demand
Noninterest bearing	$	1,370,157	$	1,367,664
Interest bearing	2,416,797		2,300,469
Savings and money market	1,457,080		1,647,811
Time	2,302,878		1,728,255
Total deposits	7,546,912		7,044,199
Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	595,000		906,486
Senior notes	59,447		59,210
Subordinated notes	29,412		29,284
Junior subordinated debentures held by trust subsidiaries	64,178		64,178
Operating lease liabilities	120,665		140,147
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	210,299		178,574
Total liabilities	8,625,913		8,422,078
Contingencies (Note 16)
Stockholders’ equity
Class A common stock, $0.10 par value, 250 million shares authorized; 33,583,621 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2023 (33,815,161 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2022)	3,359		3,382
Additional paid in capital	194,103		194,694
Retained earnings	630,933		590,375
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(105,634)		(80,635)
Total stockholders' equity before noncontrolling interest	722,761		707,816
Noncontrolling interest	(2,974)		(2,090)
Total stockholders' equity	719,787		705,726
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$	9,345,700	$	9,127,804

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Unaudited)

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Interest income
Loans	$	120,244	$	76,779	$	348,315	$	194,631
Investment securities	13,868		10,906		40,400		28,669
Interest earning deposits with banks and other interest income	5,271		1,452		14,295		2,102
Total interest income	139,383		89,137		403,010		225,402
Interest expense
Interest bearing demand deposits	16,668		4,934		46,201		6,258
Savings and money market deposits	11,045		3,609		28,409		5,719
Time deposits	22,482		4,717		53,844		13,501
Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	8,207		3,977		22,591		9,799
Senior notes	942		941		2,825		2,825
Subordinated notes	361		362		1,084		811
Junior subordinated debentures	1,097		700		3,264		2,002
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	4		—		5		—
Total interest expense	60,806		19,240		158,223		40,915
Net interest income	78,577		69,897		244,787		184,487
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	8,000		7,314		48,777		(2,912)
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses	70,577		62,583		196,010		187,399
Noninterest income
Deposits and service fees	5,053		4,629		14,952		13,826
Brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities	4,370		4,619		12,808		13,654
Change in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance	1,483		1,352		4,324		4,028
Loan-level derivative income	1,196		2,786		3,743		6,947
Cards and trade finance servicing fees	734		622		1,829		1,720
Gain (loss) on early extinguishment of advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank, net	7,010		—		33,623		(712)
Derivative (losses) gains, net	(77)		(95)		179		(585)
Securities (losses) gains, net	(54)		1,508		(11,022)		(325)
Other noninterest income	2,206		535		7,447		4,359
Total noninterest income	21,921		15,956		67,883		42,912
Noninterest expense
Salaries and employee benefits	31,334		30,109		100,457		90,724
Occupancy and equipment	7,293		6,559		20,828		21,044
Professional and other services fees	5,325		5,045		20,368		15,918
Telecommunication and data processing	3,556		3,861		11,647		11,113
Advertising expenses	2,724		2,066		9,642		8,291
FDIC assessments and insurance	2,590		1,746		8,066		4,668
Depreciation and amortization	1,795		1,481		5,362		3,927
Loan-level derivative expense	18		1,810		1,728		4,865
Other real estate owned and repossessed assets (income) expense, net	(134)		234		2,297		3,408
Contract termination costs	—		289		1,550		7,103
Loans held for sale valuation expense	5,562		—		5,562		159
Other operating expenses	4,357		2,913		14,146		7,952
Total noninterest expenses	64,420		56,113		201,653		179,172
Income before income tax expense	28,078		22,426		62,240		51,139
Income tax expense	(6,337)		(4,936)		(13,511)		(10,994)
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	21,741		17,490		48,729		40,145
Noncontrolling interest	(378)		(44)		(884)		(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Unaudited)

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands, except per share data)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale arising during the period	$	(18,569)	$	(34,959)	$	(25,939)	$	(101,038)
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) on cash flow hedges arising during the period	129		(16)		217		162
Reclassification adjustment for items included in net income	(268)		(274)		723		(549)
Other comprehensive loss	(18,708)		(35,249)		(24,999)		(101,425)
Comprehensive income (loss)	$	3,411	$	(17,715)	$	24,614	$	(60,088)
Earnings Per Share (Note 18):
Basic earnings per common share	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.48	$	1.22
Diluted earnings per common share	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.47	$	1.21

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (Unaudited)

Three and Nine Month Periods Ended September 30, 2023

	Common Stock			Additional Paid in Capital		Treasury Stock		Retained Earnings		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (loss)		Total Stockholders' Equity Before Noncontrolling Interest		Noncontrolling interest		Total Stockholders' Equity
(in thousands, except share data)	Shares Outstanding	Issued Shares - Par Value
	Class A
Balance at December 31, 2022	33,815,161	$	3,382	$	194,694	$	—	$	590,375	$	(80,635)	$	707,816	$	(2,090)	$	705,726
Repurchase of Class A common stock	(22,403)	—		—		(566)		—		—		(566)		—		(566)
Treasury stock retired	—	(2)		(564)		566		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock issued	10,440	1		(1)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered	(44,896)	(4)		(1,166)		—		—		—		(1,170)		—		(1,170)
Restricted stock forfeited	(1,394)	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Performance stock units vested	10,621	1		(1)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock units vested	46,731	5		(5)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Stock-based compensation expense	—	—		1,825		—		—		—		1,825		—		1,825
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	—	—		—		—		20,186		—		20,186		—		20,186
Dividends paid	—	—		—		—		(3,017)		—		(3,017)		—		(3,017)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	—	—		—		—		—		—		—		(244)		(244)
Other comprehensive income	—	—		—		—		—		6,316		6,316		—		6,316
Balance at March 31, 2023	33,814,260	$	3,383	$	194,782	$	—	$	607,544	$	(74,319)	$	731,390	$	(2,334)	$	729,056
Repurchase of Class A common stock	(95,262)	—		—		(1,659)		—		—		(1,659)		—		(1,659)
Treasury stock retired	—	(10)		(1,649)		1,659		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock and restricted stock units surrendered	(4,414)	(1)		(198)		—		—		—		(199)		—		(199)
Stock issued for employee stock purchase plan	30,557	3		683		—		—		—		686		—		686
Restricted stock forfeited	(26,432)	(3)		3		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock units vested	17,450	2		(2)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Stock-based compensation expense	—	—		1,656		—		—		—		1,656		—		1,656
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	—	—		—		—		7,308		—		7,308		—		7,308
Dividends paid	—	—		—		—		(3,023)		—		(3,023)		—		(3,023)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	—	—		—		—		—		—		—		(262)		(262)
Other comprehensive loss	—	—		—		—		—		(12,607)		(12,607)		—		(12,607)
Balance at June 30, 2023	33,736,159	$	3,374	$	195,275	$	—	$	611,829	$	(86,926)	$	723,552	$	(2,596)	$	720,956
Repurchase of Class A common stock	(142,188)	—		—		(2,708)		—		—		(2,708)		—		(2,708)
Treasury stock retired	—	(14)		(2,694)		2,708		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock units vested	639	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock forfeited	(8,865)	(1)		1		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock and restricted stock units surrendered	(2,124)	—		(17)		—		—		—		(17)		—		(17)
Stock-based compensation expense	—	—		1,538		—		—		—		1,538		—		1,538
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	—	—		—		—		22,119		—		22,119		—		22,119
Dividends paid	—	—		—		—		(3,015)		—		(3,015)		—		(3,015)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	—	—		—		—		—		—		—		(378)		(378)
Other comprehensive loss	—	—		—		—		—		(18,708)		(18,708)		—		(18,708)
Balance at September 30, 2023	33,583,621	$	3,359	$	194,103	$	—	$	630,933	$	(105,634)	$	722,761	$	(2,974)	$	719,787

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (Unaudited)

Three and Nine Month Periods Ended September 30, 2022

	Common Stock			Additional Paid in Capital		Treasury Stock		Retained Earnings		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (loss)		Total Stockholders' Equity Before Noncontrolling Interest		Noncontrolling interest		Total Stockholders' Equity
(in thousands, except share data)	Shares Outstanding	Issued Shares - Par Value
	Class A
Balance at December 31, 2021	35,883,320	$	3,589	$	262,510	$	—	$	553,167	$	15,217	$	834,483	$	(2,610)	$	831,873
Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle, net of tax	—	—		—		—		(13,872)		—		(13,872)		—		(13,872)
Repurchase of Class A common stock	(1,643,480)	—		—		(54,820)		—		—		(54,820)		—		(54,820)
Treasury stock retired	—	(165)		(54,655)		54,820		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock issued	104,762	10		(10)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock surrendered	(15,174)	(2)		(994)		—		—		—		(996)		—		(996)
Restricted stock forfeited	(1,000)	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock units vested	22,394	2		(2)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Stock-based compensation expense	—	—		1,260		—		—		—		1,260		—		1,260
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	—	—		—		—		15,379		—		15,379		—		15,379
Dividends paid	—	—		—		—		(3,154)		—		(3,154)		—		(3,154)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	—	—		—		—		—		—		—		(1,076)		(1,076)
Other comprehensive loss	—	—		—		—		—		(39,641)		(39,641)		—		(39,641)
Balance at March 31, 2022	34,350,822	$	3,434	$	208,109	$	—	$	551,520	$	(24,424)	$	738,639	$	(3,686)	$	734,953
Repurchase of Class A common stock	(611,525)	—		—		(17,240)		—		—		(17,240)		—		(17,240)
Treasury stock retired	—	(61)		(17,179)		17,240		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock issued	37,938	4		(4)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock forfeited	(28,586)	(3)		3		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock units vested	10,955	1		(1)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Stock-based compensation expense	—	—		1,276		—		—		—		1,276		—		1,276
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	—	—		—		—		8,424		—		8,424		—		8,424
Dividends paid	—	—		—		—		(3,049)		—		(3,049)		—		(3,049)
Transfer of subsidiary shares from noncontrolling interest	—	—		(1,867)		—		—		—		(1,867)		1,867		—
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	—	—		—		—		—		—		—		(72)		(72)
Other comprehensive loss	—	—		—		—		—		(26,535)		(26,535)		—		(26,535)
Balance at June 30, 2022	33,759,604	$	3,375	$	190,337	$	—	$	556,895	$	(50,959)	$	699,648	$	(1,891)	$	697,757
Restricted stock issued	22,200	2		(2)		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock forfeited	(7,937)	(1)		1		—		—		—		—		—		—
Restricted stock surrendered	(618)	—		(17)		—		—		—		(17)		—		(17)
Stock-based compensation expense	—	—		1,651		—		—		—		1,651		—		1,651
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	—	—		—		—		17,534		—		17,534		—		17,534
Dividends paid	—	—		—		—		(3,013)		—		(3,013)		—		(3,013)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	—	—		—		—		—		—		—		(44)		(44)
Other comprehensive loss	—	—		—		—		—		(35,249)		(35,249)		—		(35,249)
Balance at September 30, 2022	33,773,249	$	3,376	$	191,970	$	—	$	571,416	$	(86,208)	$	680,554	$	(1,935)	$	678,619

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	$	48,729	$	40,145
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	48,777		(2,912)
Net premium amortization on securities	3,656		6,977
Depreciation and amortization	5,362		3,927
Stock-based compensation expense	5,019		4,187
Change in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance	(4,324)		(4,028)
Securities losses, net	11,022		325
Derivative (gains) losses, net	(179)		585
(Gains) losses on sale of loans, net	(3,502)		656
Loans held for sale valuation expense	5,562		159
Loss on sale of other repossessed assets	2,649		—
Impairment on investment carried at cost	1,963		—
Deferred taxes and others	(3,254)		4,593
(Gain) Loss on early extinguishment of advances from the FHLB, net	(33,623)		712
Proceeds from sales and repayments of loans held for sale (at fair value)	213,467		115,827
Originations and purchases of loans held for sale (at fair value)	(268,242)		(210,791)
Net changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accrued interest receivable and other assets	(16,249)		(14,175)
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	24,153		21,677
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	40,986		(32,136)
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of investment securities:
Available for sale	(104,904)		(207,352)
Held to maturity securities	—		(129,996)
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	(2,500)		(12,656)
Federal Home Loan Bank stock	(51,016)		(20,824)
	(158,420)		(370,828)
Maturities, sales, calls and paydowns of investment securities:
Available for sale	82,175		188,408
Held to maturity	11,281		13,255
Federal Home Loan Bank stock	58,713		14,527
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	11,168		252
	163,337		216,442
Net increase in loans	(270,969)		(927,531)
Proceeds from loan sales	41,871		76,615
Cash paid in business acquisition	(1,970)		—
Net purchases of premises and equipment and others	(8,317)		(8,032)
Proceeds from sale of repossessed assets	2,464		—
Net cash used in investing activities	(232,004)		(1,013,334)
Cash flows from financing activities
Net (decrease) increase in demand, savings and money market accounts	(71,910)		908,650
Net increase in time deposits	574,623		48,601
Proceeds from Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	1,280,000		730,000
Repayments of Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	(1,558,438)		(560,712)
Proceeds from issuance of subordinated notes, net of issuance costs	—		29,146
Repurchase of common stock - Class A	(4,933)		(72,060)
Dividend paid	(9,055)		(9,216)
Disbursements arising from stock-based compensation, net	(918)		(1,013)
Net cash provided by financing activities	209,369		1,073,396
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash	18,351		27,926
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Beginning of period	290,601		274,208
End of period	$	308,952	$	302,134

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) (continued)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information
Cash paid:
Interest	$	150,526	$	37,248
Income taxes	20,038		21,766
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new lease obligations	8,573		5,617
Noncash investing activities:
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	95,674		51,640
Loans transferred to other assets	26,534		—
Loans held for investment (at lower of fair value or cost) transferred to loans held for sale	48,819		—
Loans held for sale (at lower of cost or fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	—		65,802

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements (unaudited).

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1.Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

a) Business

Amerant Bancorp Inc. (the “Company”) is a Florida corporation incorporated in 1985, which has operated since January 1987. The Company is a bank holding company registered under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (“BHC Act”), as a result of its 100% ownership of Amerant Bank, N.A. (the “Bank”). The Company’s principal office is in the City of Coral Gables, Florida. The Bank is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (“Federal Reserve”) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (“FHLB”). The Bank has three main operating subsidiaries, Amerant Investments, Inc., a securities broker-dealer (“Amerant Investments”), Amerant Mortgage, LLC (“Amerant Mortgage”), a majority-owned mortgage lending company domiciled in Florida, and Elant Bank & Trust, a Grand-Cayman based trust company (the “Cayman Bank”).

On August 3, 2023, the “Company” provided written notice to The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) of its determination to voluntarily withdraw the principal listing of the Company’s Class A common stock, $0.10 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), from Nasdaq and transfer the listing of the Common Stock to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). The Company’s Common Stock listing and trading on Nasdaq ended at market close on August 28, 2023, and trading commenced on the NYSE at market open on August 29, 2023 where it continues to trade under the stock symbol “AMTB”.

Restructuring costs

The Company continues to work at optimizing its operating structure to best support its business activities. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded estimated contract termination and related costs of approximately $1.6 million in connection with the implementation of the multi-year outsourcing agreement with a recognized third party financial technology services provider entered into in 2021 ($0.3 million and $7.1 million in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, respectively). There were no contract termination costs in the three months ended September 30, 2023. The Company currently does not expect to incur additional significant contract termination costs in connection with the implementation of this agreement.

During the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded severance costs of approximately $0.5 million and $2.9 million, respectively, and branch closure expenses and related charges of $0.3 million and $2.3 million, respectively. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded consulting and other professional fees of $4.8 million (none in the three months ended September 30, 2023), and a charge of $1.4 million related to the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software (none in the three months ended September 30, 2023).

During the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, the Company recorded severance costs of approximately $0.4 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and consulting and other professional fees of $1.1 million and $2.4 million, respectively. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recorded a lease impairment charge of $1.6 million mainly related to the closing of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022.

Severance costs are included in “salaries and employees benefits expense” in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

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Stock Repurchase Programs

On December 19, 2022, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $25 million of its shares of Class A common stock (the “2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program”). The 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program is effective from January 1, 2023 until December 31, 2023. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 142,188 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $19.05 per share, and 259,853 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $18.98 per share, respectively, under the 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program. The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was $2.7 million and $4.9 million in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, respectively, including transaction costs.

In January 2022, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 652,118 shares of Class A common stock under a stock repurchase program to repurchase up to $50 million of the Company’s Class A common stock authorized by the Board of Directors in September 2021 (the “2021 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program”). The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was approximately $22.1 million, including transaction costs. On January 31, 2022, the Company announced the completion of the 2021 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details.

On January 31, 2022, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $50 million of its shares of Class A common stock (the “2022 Common Stock Repurchase Program”). In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 1,602,887 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $31.14 under the 2022 Common Stock Repurchase Program. The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was approximately $49.9 million, including transaction costs. On May 19, 2022, the Company announced the completion of the 2022 Common Stock Repurchase Program. There were no repurchases of shares of Class A common stock in the three months ended September 30, 2022.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the cancellation of all shares of Class A common stock previously repurchased. As of September 30, 2023 and 2022, there were no shares of Class A common stock held as treasury stock.

For more information about repurchase programs, see Note 18 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), on March 1, 2023 (the “2022 Form 10-K”).

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Company offers an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). The number of shares of Class A common stock issued in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 under the ESPP was 30,557. The Company recognized compensation expense of $0.1 million and $0.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $0.4 million and $0.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, in connection with the ESPP. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the ESPP.

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Dividends

Set forth below are the details of dividends declared and paid by the Company in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

Declaration Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Dividend Per Share	Dividend Amount
07/19/2023	08/15/2023	08/31/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
04/19/2023	05/15/2023	05/31/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
01/18/2023	02/13/2023	02/28/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
07/20/2022	08/17/2022	08/31/2022	$0.09	$3.0 million
04/13/2022	05/13/2022	05/31/2022	$0.09	$3.0 million
01/19/2022	02/11/2022	02/28/2022	$0.09	$3.2 million

On October 18, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock. The dividend is payable on November 30, 2023, to shareholders of record on November 14, 2023.

Business Acquisition

On January 13, 2023 (the “Acquisition Date”), Amerant Mortgage completed the acquisition of certain assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of F&B Acquisition Group LLC (“F&B”), including access to an assembled workforce and other identifiable intangibles which collectively constitute a business (the “F&B Acquisition.”) The F&B Acquisition was recorded as a business acquisition using the acquisition method of accounting. The initial purchase price of approximately $2.0 million was paid in cash and included the fair value of certain loans held for sale of $1.0 million. The initial purchase price excludes any contingent consideration. The Company recorded preliminary goodwill of $1.0 million, which represents the excess of the initial purchase price over the estimated fair value of tangible and intangible assets acquired, net of the liabilities assumed. As of September 30, 2023, the Company has not completed its determination of the final allocation of the purchase price to the assets and liabilities of the F&B Acquisition, including any identifiable intangible assets and any contingent consideration. Any adjustment to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed with the F&B Acquisition, including adjustments from any identifiable intangible asset and contingent consideration, will result in an adjustment of goodwill. The final allocation of purchase price is expected to be finalized by December 31, 2023.

Impairment on Investments Carried At Cost

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $2.0 million related to an investment carried at cost and included in other assets in the consolidated balance sheets. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on our investments carried at cost.

Naming Rights

In September 2023, the Company acquired exclusive naming rights to an arena in Broward County, Florida. The naming rights have been recorded as an intangible asset with an offsetting liability for related payments to be made in the future. The naming rights intangible asset is included in other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The naming rights liability is included as part of other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

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Bank Owned Life Insurance

In October 2023, the Company restructured certain of its Bank Owned Life Insurance (“BOLI”) contracts, by surrendering existing lower-yielding policies and reinvesting the proceeds in higher-yielding policies. The restructuring had no material impact to results of operations.

b) Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Significant Accounting Policies

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required for a fair statement of financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. These adjustments are of a normal, recurring nature. Interim period operating results may not be indicative of the operating results for a full year or any other period. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2022 and the accompanying footnote disclosures for the Company, which are included in the 2022 Form 10-K.

For a complete summary of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K.

Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant estimates made by management include: (i) the determination of the allowance for credit losses; (ii) the fair values of loans held for sale and securities, the value assigned to goodwill during periodic goodwill impairment tests, and the fair value of other real estate owned (“OREO”); (iii) the cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance; and (iv) the determination of whether the amount of deferred tax assets will more likely than not be realized. Management believes that these estimates are appropriate. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Reclassifications

In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, loan-level derivative expenses are presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. Previously, these expenses were presented as a component of professional and other services fees in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, OREO and repossessed assets, net expense is presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. OREO and repossessed assets expense includes expenses and revenue (rental income) from the operation of foreclosed property/assets as well as fair value adjustments and gains/losses from the sale of OREO and repossessed assets. In 2022, while OREO valuation expense was presented separately, all other OREO-related expenses were presented as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. We had no other repossessed assets in 2022.

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Beginning in the three months ended September 30, 2023, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures is included as part of provision for (reversal of) credit losses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Prior to that period, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures was included as part of other operating expenses in the the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

c) Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Issued and Adopted

Guidance on Troubled Debt Restructurings

In March 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance that eliminates the recognition and measurement guidance on troubled debt restructurings, or TDR, for creditors, and aligns it with existing guidance to determine whether a loan modification results in a new loan or a continuation of an existing loan. The guidance also requires enhanced disclosures about certain loan modifications by creditors when a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty. The amended guidance is effective in periods beginning after December 15, 2022 using either a prospective or modified retrospective transition approach. Early adoption was permitted if an entity had already adopted the guidance on accounting for credit losses on financial instruments (“CECL”). The Company adopted this guidance on TDR as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Guidance on Accounting for Credit Losses on Financial Instruments

In 2022, the Company adopted ASC Topic 326 on CECL. The Company adopted the CECL guidance as of the beginning of the reporting period of adoption, January 1, 2022, using a modified retrospective approach for all its financial assets measured at amortized cost and off-balance sheet credit exposures. For more details on the adoption of CECL, see the 2022 Form 10-K.

The following table reflects the impact of adopting CECL on the allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) and other line items on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022:

Consolidated Balance Sheets

	As of September 30, 2022
(in thousands)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Assets
Allowance for credit losses	$	53,711	$	76,473	$	22,762
Deferred tax assets, net	45,791		51,644		5,853
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	181,693		181,863		170
Stockholders’ Equity
Retained earnings	588,495		571,416		(17,079)

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Consolidated Statements of Operations

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022						Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
(in thousands, except per share amounts)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes		As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Total interest income	$	89,137	$	89,137	$	—	$	225,402	$	225,402	$	—
Total interest expense	19,240		19,240		—		40,915		40,915		—
Net interest income	69,897		69,897		—		184,487		184,487		—
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	3,000		7,314		4,314		(7,000)		(2,912)		4,088
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses	66,897		62,583		(4,314)		191,487		187,399		(4,088)
Total noninterest income	15,956		15,956		—		42,912		42,912		—
Total noninterest expense	56,113		56,113		—		179,172		179,172		—
Income before income taxes	26,740		22,426		(4,314)		55,227		51,139		(4,088)
Income tax expense	(5,864)		(4,936)		928		(11,875)		(10,994)		881
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	20,876		17,490		(3,386)		43,352		40,145		(3,207)
Noncontrolling interest	(44)		(44)		—		(1,192)		(1,192)		—
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$	20,920	$	17,534	$	(3,386)	$	44,544	$	41,337	$	(3,207)
Basic earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.31	$	1.22	$	(0.09)
Diluted earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.30	$	1.21	$	(0.09)
Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.09	$	0.09	$	—	$	0.27	$	0.27	$	—

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(1)Quarterly amounts previously reported on our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022 do not reflect the adoption of CECL. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company recorded a provision for credit losses totaling $20.9 million, including $11.1 million related to the retroactive effect of adopting CECL for all previous quarterly periods in the year ended December 31, 2022, including loan growth and changes to macro-economic conditions during the period. Quarterly amounts included in the 2022 Form 10-K and in this Form 10-Q reflect the impacts of the adoption of CECL on each interim period of 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the adoption of CECL.

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Guidance on Fair Value Hedges

In March 2022, the FASB issued amended guidance to expand and clarify existing guidance on fair value hedge accounting of interest rate risk for portfolios of financial assets. The amendments clarify, among others, the “last-of-layer” method for making the fair value hedge accounting for these portfolios more accessible. The amendment also improves the last-of-layer concepts and expands them to non-prepayable financial assets, allowing more flexibility in the structure of derivatives used to hedge interest rate risk. The amended guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amended guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. The amended guidance is available for early adoption. The Company adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no impact to its consolidated financial statements.

Issued and Not Yet Adopted

For a complete summary of recently issued accounting guidance that has not yet been adopted, see Note 1 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K.

d) Subsequent Events

The effects of other significant subsequent events, if any, have been recognized or disclosed in these unaudited interim consolidated financial statements.

2. Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, interest-earning deposits with banks were mainly comprised of deposits with the Federal Reserve and other U.S. banks of approximately $203 million and $229 million, respectively. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the average interest rate on these deposits was approximately 5.58% and 1.79%, respectively. These deposits have no stated maturity dates.

As of September 30, 2023, the Company held US Treasury Bills classified as part of other short-term investments in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. At September 30, 2023, the Company held $6.0 million with an average yield of 4.65% related to these investments. These other short-term investments have a stated maturity of 90 days or less and as such are deemed cash and cash equivalents. There were no other short-term investments at December 31, 2022.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had restricted cash balances of $51.8 million and $42.2 million, respectively. These balances include cash pledged as collateral, by other banks to us, to secure derivatives’ margin calls. This cash pledged as collateral also represents an obligation, by the Company, to repay according to margin requirements. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, this obligation was $51.2 million and $41.6 million, respectively, which is included as part of other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. In addition, we have cash balances of $0.6 million pledged as collateral to secure the issuance of letters of credit by other banks on behalf of our customers.

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3.Securities

a) Debt Securities

Debt securities available for sale

Amortized cost, allowance for credit losses and approximate fair values of debt securities available for sale are summarized as follows:

	September 30, 2023
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Allowance for Credit Losses		Estimated Fair Value
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	$	473,047	$	26	$	(58,438)	$	—	$	414,635
Corporate debt securities (2)	285,370		—		(32,792)		—		252,578
U.S. government agency debt securities (1) (2)	409,306		61		(53,380)		—		355,987
Collateralized loan obligations	5,000		5		—		—		5,005
Municipal bonds (1)	1,732		—		(92)		—		1,640
U.S. treasury securities	3,976		—		(24)		—		3,952
Total debt securities available for sale (3)	$	1,178,431	$	92	$	(144,726)	$	—	$	1,033,797

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total residential-mortgage backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $769.4 million and fair value of $668.7 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $101.1 million and fair value of $88.8 million .

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

	December 31, 2022
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Allowance for Credit Losses		Estimated Fair Value
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	$	480,359	$	981	$	(43,666)	$	—	$	437,674
Corporate debt securities (2)	306,898		1		(26,199)		—		280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities (1) (2)	373,593		42		(42,814)		—		330,821
U.S. treasury securities	1,997		—		(1)		—		1,996
Municipal bonds (1)	1,731		—		(75)		—		1,656
Collateralized loan obligations	5,000		—		(226)		—		4,774
Total debt securities available for sale (3)	$	1,169,578	$	1,024	$	(112,981)	$	—	$	1,057,621

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total residential-mortgage backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $743.0 million and fair value of $666.5 million.

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(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $91.0 million and fair value of $80.9 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $5.6 million as of December 31, 2022, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in 2022.

The Company had investments in foreign corporate debt securities available for sale, primarily in Canada, of $9.8 million and $9.7 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had no foreign sovereign or foreign government agency debt securities available for sale. Investments in foreign corporate debt securities available for sale are denominated in U.S. Dollars.

In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls, gross realized gains, and gross realized losses of debt securities available for sale were as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls of debt securities available for sale	$	—	$	12,154	$	1,240	$	26,312
Gross realized gains	$	—	$	22	$	—	$	71
Gross realized losses	—		—		(10,760)		—
Realized (loss) gain, net	$	—	$	22	$	(10,760)	$	71

The Company’s investment in debt securities available for sale with unrealized losses aggregated by the length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands, except securities count)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	52	$	79,491	$	(3,063)	335	$	333,171	$	(55,375)	$	412,662	$	(58,438)
Corporate debt securities	6	13,242		(673)		55	239,336		(32,119)		252,578		(32,792)
U.S. government agency debt securities	30	43,592		(941)		167	294,482		(52,439)		338,074		(53,380)
Municipal bonds	—	—		—		3	1,640		(92)		1,640		(92)
U.S. treasury securities	2	3,952		(24)		—	—		—		3,952		(24)
	90	$	140,277	$	(4,701)	560	$	868,629	$	(140,025)	$	1,008,906	$	(144,726)

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

	December 31, 2022
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands, except securities count)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	250	$	292,595	$	(22,315)	108	$	96,986	$	(21,351)	$	389,581	$	(43,666)
Corporate debt securities	50	203,516		(13,374)		14	72,190		(12,825)		275,706		(26,199)
U.S. government agency debt securities	92	88,056		(4,976)		104	240,668		(37,838)		328,724		(42,814)
Municipal bonds	3	1,656		(75)		—	—		—		1,656		(75)
U.S. treasury securities	1	1,996		(1)		—	—		—		1,996		(1)
Collateralized Loan Obligations	1	4,774		(226)		—	—		—		4,774		(226)
	397	$	592,593	$	(40,967)	226	$	409,844	$	(72,014)	$	1,002,437	$	(112,981)

U.S. Government Sponsored Enterprise Debt Securities and U.S. Government Agency Debt Securities

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company held certain debt securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government and U.S. government-sponsored entities and agencies. The Company does not intend to sell these debt securities and it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell the securities before their anticipated recovery. The Company evaluates these securities for credit losses by reviewing current market conditions, the extent and nature of changes in fair value, credit ratings, default and delinquency rates and current analysts’ evaluations. The Company believes the decline in fair value on these debt securities is attributable to changes in interest rates and investment securities markets, generally, and not credit quality. As a result, the Company did not record an ACL on these securities as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Corporate Debt Securities

Investments in corporate debt securities available for sale in an unrealized loss position as of September 30, 2023 include: (i) securities considered “investment-grade-quality,” primarily issued by financial institutions, with a fair value of $229.7 million ($258.8 million at December 31, 2022) and total unrealized losses of $28.7 million at that date ($24.1 million at December 31, 2022), and (ii) securities considered “non-investment-grade-quality,” primarily issued by financial institutions and companies in the technology industry, with a fair value of $22.9 million ($16.9 million at December 31, 2022) and total unrealized losses of $4.1 million at that date ($2.1 million at December 31, 2022).

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 , our corporate debt securities available for sale issued by financial institutions were primarily “investment-grade-quality”, and had a fair value of $182.2 million and $206.3 million, respectively, and net unrealized losses of $22.9 million and $16.6 million, respectively.

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At December 31, 2022, the Bank had one corporate debt security held for sale (the “Signature Bond”) issued by Signature Bank, N.A. (“Signature”) with a fair value of $9.1 million and unrealized loss of $0.9 million. At December 31, 2022, the Signature Bond was in an unrealized loss position for less than one year. On March 12, 2023, Signature was closed by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC, as receiver, announced that shareholders and certain unsecured debt holders will not be protected. On March 27, 2023, the Bank sold the Signature Bond in an open market transaction and realized a pretax loss on sale of approximately $9.5 million which is recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

In May 2023, the Company sold a portion of its investment in a corporate debt security held for sale issued by a financial institution, to reduce single point exposure. The Company had proceeds of $0.8 million and realized a pre-tax loss of $1.2 million in connection with this transaction. This loss was recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive (loss) income for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

The Company does not intend to sell its investments in corporate debt securities available for sale and it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell these investments before their anticipated recovery. The Company evaluates corporate debt securities for credit losses by reviewing various qualitative and quantitative factors such as current market conditions, the extent and nature of changes in fair value, credit ratings, default and delinquency rates, and current analysts’ evaluations. The Company believes the decline in fair value on these debt securities is attributable to changes in interest rates and investment securities markets, generally, and not credit quality. As a result, the Company did not record an ACL on these securities as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Debt securities held to maturity

Amortized cost and approximate fair values of debt securities held to maturity are summarized as follows:

	September 30, 2023
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Estimated Fair Value		Allowance for Credit Losses
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government agency debt securities (1)	$	65,002	$	—	$	(10,338)	$	54,664	$	—
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities(1) (2)	165,252		—		(24,751)		140,501		—
Total debt securities held to maturity (3)	$	230,254	$	—	$	(35,089)	$	195,165	$	—

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total residential mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $202.6 million and fair value of $170.6 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $27.6 million and fair value of $24.5 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $0.7 million as of September 30, 2023, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

	December 31, 2022
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Estimated Fair Value		Allowance for Credit Losses
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government agency debt securities (1)	$	68,556	$	109	$	(7,778)	$	60,887	$	—
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	173,545		—		(16,823)		156,722		—
Total debt securities held to maturity (3)	$	242,101	$	109	$	(24,601)	$	217,609	$	—

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total residential mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $213.9 million and fair value of $191.4 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, includes total commercial mortgage-backed securities with amortized cost of $28.2 million and fair value of $26.2 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $0.8 million as of December 31, 2022, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in 2022.

The Company’s investment in debt securities held to maturity with unrealized losses aggregated by length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government agency debt securities	1	$	9,425	$	(500)	12	$	45,239	$	(9,838)	$	54,664	$	(10,338)
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	—	—		—		34	140,501		(24,751)		140,501		(24,751)
	1	$	9,425	$	(500)	46	$	185,740	$	(34,589)	$	195,165	$	(35,089)

	December 31, 2022
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government agency debt securities	—	$	—	$	—	12	$	50,755	$	(7,778)	$	50,755	$	(7,778)
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	31	142,033		(9,085)		3	14,689		(7,738)		156,722		(16,823)
	31	$	142,033	$	(9,085)	15	$	65,444	$	(15,516)	$	207,477	$	(24,601)

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Beginning January 1, 2022, the Company evaluates all debt securities held to maturity quarterly to determine if any securities in an unrealized loss position require an ACL. The Company considers that all debt securities held to maturity issued or sponsored by the U.S. government are considered to be risk-free as they have the backing of the government. The Company believes there are no current expected credit losses on these securities and, therefore, did not record an ACL on any of its debt securities held to maturity as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022. The Company monitors the credit quality of held to maturity securities through the use of credit ratings. Credit ratings are monitored by the Company on at least a quarterly basis. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, all debt securities held to maturity held by the Company were rated investment grade or higher.

Contractual maturities

Contractual maturities of debt securities at September 30, 2023 are as follows:

	Available for Sale				Held to Maturity
(in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value
Within 1 year	$	2,705	$	2,682	$	—	$	—
After 1 year through 5 years	125,842		118,742		6,603		3,247
After 5 years through 10 years	228,020		199,276		14,634		13,358
After 10 years	821,864		713,097		209,017		178,560
	$	1,178,431	$	1,033,797	$	230,254	$	195,165

b) Equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading

As of September 30, 2023, the Company had an equity security with readily available fair value not held for trading with an original cost of $2.5 million and fair value of $2.4 million, which was purchased in the second quarter of 2023. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading with an original cost of $12.7 million and fair value of $11.4 million. These equity securities have no stated maturities. The Company recognized net unrealized losses of $0.1 million and unrealized gains of $1.5 million in the three month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and unrealized net losses of $0.1 million and $0.4 million in the nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to the change in market value of these equity securities. In the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company sold its equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading, with a total fair value of $11.2 million at the time of sale, and recognized a net loss of $0.2 million in connection with this transaction.

c) Securities Pledged

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had $159.5 million and $314.5 million, respectively, in securities pledged as collateral. These securities were pledged to secure advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank, public funds and for other purposes as permitted by law.

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4.Loans

a) Loans held for investment

Loans held for investment consist of the following loan classes:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,593,571	$	1,615,716
Multi-family residential	771,654		820,023
Land development and construction loans	301,938		273,174
	2,667,163		2,708,913
Single-family residential	1,371,194		1,102,845
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,046,450
	5,168,278		4,858,208
Commercial loans (1)	1,452,759		1,381,234
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,353		13,292
Consumer loans and overdrafts	438,997		604,460
Total loans held for investment, gross (2)	$	7,073,387	$	6,857,194

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(1)At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes equipment loans and leases totaling $49.3 million and $45.3 million, respectively.

(2)Excludes accrued interest receivable.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, loans with outstanding principal balances of $2.5 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively, were pledged as collateral to secure advances from the FHLB.

The amounts above include loans under syndication facilities of approximately $312 million and $367 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, which include Shared National Credit facilities and agreements to enter into credit agreements with other lenders (club deals) and other agreements. In addition, consumer loans and overdrafts in the table above include indirect consumer loans purchased totaling $254.7 million and $433.3 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

International loans included above were $103.3 million and $99.2 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, mainly single-family residential loans. These loans are net of collateral of cash, cash equivalents or other financial instruments totaling $6.6 million and $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

The Company purchased single-family residential loans totaling $10.3 million and $110.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $17.5 million and $132.1 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, the Company purchased $91 million and $345 million, respectively, in indirect consumer loans. There were no purchases of indirect consumer loans in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

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The age analyses of the loan portfolio by class as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, are summarized in the following tables:

	September 30, 2023
	Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income				Past Due
(in thousands)			Current		30-59 Days		60-89 Days		Greater than 90 Days		Total Past Due
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,593,571	$	1,593,571	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	771,654		748,075		235		—		23,344		23,579
Land development and construction loans	301,938		301,938		—		—		—		—
	2,667,163		2,643,584		235		—		23,344		23,579
Single-family residential	1,371,194		1,369,078		—		1,845		271		2,116
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,124,503		1,393		1,229		2,796		5,418
	5,168,278		5,137,165		1,628		3,074		26,411		31,113
Commercial loans	1,452,759		1,442,915		3,225		4,209		2,410		9,844
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,353		13,353		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	438,997		433,444		2,995		2,558		—		5,553
	$	7,073,387	$	7,026,877	$	7,848	$	9,841	$	28,821	$	46,510

	December 31, 2022
	Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income				Past Due
(in thousands)			Current		30-59 Days		60-89 Days		Greater than 90 Days		Total Past Due
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,615,716	$	1,615,716	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	820,023		818,394		1,387		242		—		1,629
Land development and construction loans	273,174		273,174		—		—		—		—
	2,708,913		2,707,284		1,387		242		—		1,629
Single-family residential	1,102,845		1,098,310		3,140		150		1,245		4,535
Owner occupied	1,046,450		1,039,928		172		6,014		336		6,522
	4,858,208		4,845,522		4,699		6,406		1,581		12,686
Commercial loans	1,381,234		1,373,042		1,523		475		6,194		8,192
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,292		13,292		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	604,460		601,921		2,439		62		38		2,539
	$	6,857,194	$	6,833,777	$	8,661	$	6,943	$	7,813	$	23,417

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Nonaccrual status

The following tables present the amortized cost basis of loans on nonaccrual status and loans past due over 90 days and still accruing as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	As of September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance		Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance		Total Nonaccrual Loans (1)		Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		23,344		$	23,344	—
	—		23,344		23,344		—
Single-family residential	843		1,690		$	2,533	—
Owner occupied	1,951		149		2,100		—
	2,794		25,183		$	27,977	—
Commercial loans	959		3,754		$	4,713	504
Consumer loans and overdrafts	1		—		1		—
Total	$	3,754	$	28,937	$	32,691	$	504

	As of December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance		Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance		Total Nonaccrual Loans (1)		Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	20,057	$	—	$	20,057	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—
	20,057		—		20,057		—
Single-family residential	—		1,526		1,526		253
Owner occupied	5,936		334		6,270		—
	25,993		1,860		27,853		253
Commercial loans	482		8,789		9,271		183
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		4		4		35
Total	$	26,475	$	10,653	$	37,128	$	471

The Company did not recognize any interest income on nonaccrual loans during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

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b) Loans held for sale

Loans held for sale consist of the following loan classes:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	43,256	$	—
Total loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost (1)	43,256		—
Mortgage loans held for sale at fair value
Land development and construction loans (2)	6,931		9,424
Single-family residential (3)	19,022		53,014
Total loans held for sale at fair value (4)	25,953		62,438
Total loans held for sale (5)(6)	$	69,209	$	62,438

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(1)In the third quarter of 2023, the Company transferred a New York-based CRE loan held for investment to the loans held for sale category, and recognized a valuation allowance of $5.6 million as result of the fair value adjustment of this loan. The Company subsequently sold this loan and there was no material impact to the Company’s results of operations as result of this transaction.

(2)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $14 million in land development and construction loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(3)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $81 million in single-family residential loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(4)Loans held for sale in connection with Amerant Mortgage’s ongoing business.

(5)Remained current and in accrual status at each of the periods shown.

(6)Excludes accrued interest receivable.

c) Concentration of risk

The Company’s loan portfolio is dependent mostly on the economic conditions that affect South Florida, Tampa Bay and the greater Houston and New York City areas. The Company manages diversification of its loan portfolio held for investment and held for sale, through policies with limitations primarily for exposure to individual or related debtors, economic sectors, geography, loan types, and for country risk exposure.

d) Accrued interest receivable on loans

Accrued interest receivable on total loans, including loans held for investment and held for sale, was $33.0 million and $27.7 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company reversed approximately $0.1 million and $0.5 million, respectively, of accrued interest receivable against interest income in connection with real estate and commercial loans placed in non-accrual status during the periods. In the three months ended September 30, 2022, the Company reversed approximately $0.3 million of accrued interest receivable against interest income in connection with consumer loans and overdrafts placed in non-accrual status during the period. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company reversed approximately $0.6 million of accrued interest receivable against interest income in connection with loans placed in non-accrual status during the period, including: (i) $0.5 million related to consumer loans and overdrafts, and (ii) a total of $0.1 million related to real estate and commercial loans.

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5.Allowance for Credit Losses

The analyses by loan segment of the changes in the ACL for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 is summarized in the following tables:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	42,238	$	36,626	$	—	$	27,092	$	105,956
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	(3,067)		4,852		—		5,615		7,400
Loans charged-off	(90)		(9,288)		—		(6,441)		(15,819)
Recoveries	10		736		—		490		1,236
Balance at end of the period	$	39,091	$	32,926	$	—	$	26,756	$	98,773

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	25,237	$	25,888	$	—	$	32,375	$	83,500
Provision for credit losses - loans	13,655		20,639		—		13,883		48,177
Loans charged-off	(90)		(18,715)		—		(20,428)		(39,233)
Recoveries	289		5,114		—		926		6,329
Balance at end of the period	$	39,091	$	32,926	$	—	$	26,756	$	98,773

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Recast (1)
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	20,459	$	21,152	$	—	$	28,864	$	70,475
Provision for credit losses - loans (1)	2,869		927		—		3,518		7,314
Loans charged-off	—		(99)		—		(1,712)		(1,811)
Recoveries	12		443		—		40		495
Balance at end of the period (1)	$	23,340	$	22,423	$	—	$	30,710	$	76,473

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(1)Recast amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

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	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Recast (1)
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	17,952	$	38,979	$	42	$	12,926	$	69,899
Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle (1)	17,418		(8,281)		(42)		9,579		18,674
(Reversal of) provision for credit losses - loans (1)	(12,056)		(2,435)		—		11,579		(2,912)
Loans charged-off	—		(7,979)		—		(3,674)		(11,653)
Recoveries	26		2,139		—		300		2,465
Balance at end of the period (1)	$	23,340	$	22,423	$	—	$	30,710	$	76,473

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(1)Recast amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

The ACL was determined utilizing a reasonable and supportable forecast period. The ACL was determined using a weighted-average of various economic scenarios provided by a third-party, and incorporated qualitative components. There has not been material changes in our policies and methodology to estimate the ACL in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

The ACL increased by $15.3 million, or 18.3% at September 30, 2023, compared to December 31, 2022. The ACL as a percentage of total loans held for investment was 1.40% at September 30, 2023 compared to 1.22% at December 31, 2022. The provision for credit losses on loans in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was partially offset by net charge-offs. During the third quarter of 2023, the provision for credit losses on loans included $7.6 million to cover charge-offs and $1.4 million due to loan composition and volume changes. These provision requirements were partially offset by a $0.4 million release due to credit quality and macroeconomic factor updates and a $1.2 million release due to recoveries. In the first nine months of 2023, the provision for credit losses on loans includes $36.3 million in additional reserve requirements for loan charge-offs and credit quality, $2.3 million to account for loan growth and composition in the period and $9.6 million to reflect updated macroeconomic factors and loss factor update.

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The following is a summary of net proceeds from sales of loans held for investment by portfolio segment:

Three Months Ended September 30, (in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and others		Total
2023	$	20,500	$	6,909	$	—	$	—	$	27,409
2022	$	—	$	6,483	$	—	$	—	$	6,483

Nine Months Ended September 30, (in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and others		Total
2023	$	34,075	$	7,796	$	—	$	—	$	41,871
2022	$	11,566	$	6,483	$	—	$	1,313	$	19,362

Loan Modifications to Borrowers Experiencing Financial Difficulty

The Company modifies loans related to borrowers experiencing financial difficulties by providing multiple types of concessions. Typically, one type of concession, such as a term extension, is granted initially. If the borrower continues to experience financial difficulty, another concession, such as principal forgiveness, may be granted.

The Company had no new loan modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023. There were no loans that defaulted in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and had been modified within 12 months preceding the payment default related to these modifications.

Troubled Debt Restructurings

As result of adoption of guidance related to CECL effective as of January 1, 2023, the Company had no reportable balances related to TDRs as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

There were no new TDRs in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022. In addition, during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, there were no TDR loans that subsequently defaulted within the 12 months of restructuring in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022.

Credit Risk Quality

The sufficiency of the ACL is reviewed at least quarterly by the Chief Risk Officer and the Chief Financial Officer. The Board of Directors considers the ACL as part of its review of the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company believes the ACL to be sufficient to absorb expected credit losses in the loans portfolio in accordance with GAAP.

Loans may be classified but not considered collateral dependent due to one of the following reasons: (1) the Company has established minimum dollar amount thresholds for individual assessment of expected credit losses, which results in loans under those thresholds being excluded from individual assessment of expected credit losses; and (2) classified loans may be considered in the assessment because the Company expects to collect all amounts due.

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As part of the on-going monitoring of the credit quality of the Company’s loan portfolio, management tracks certain credit quality indicators including trends related primarily to (i) the risk rating of loans, (ii) the loan payment status, (iii) net charge-offs, (iv) nonperforming loans and (v) the general economic conditions in the main geographies where the Company’s borrowers conduct their businesses. The Company considers the views of its regulators as to loan classification and in the process of estimating expected credit losses.

The Company utilizes an internal risk rating system to identify the risk characteristics of each of its loans, or group of homogeneous loans such as consumer loans. Internal risk ratings are updated on a continuous basis on a scale from 1 (worst credit quality) to 10 (best credit quality). Loans are then grouped in five master risk categories for purposes of monitoring rising levels of potential loss risks and to enable the activation of collection or recovery processes as defined in the Company’s Credit Risk Policy. Internal risk ratings are considered the most meaningful indicator of credit quality for commercial loans. Generally, internal risk ratings for commercial real estate loans and commercial loans with balances over $3 million are updated at least annually and more frequently if circumstances indicate that a change in risk rating may be warranted. For consumer loans, single-family residential loans and smaller commercial loans under $3 million, risk ratings are updated based on the loans past due status.The following is a summary of the master risk categories and their associated loan risk ratings, as well as a description of the general characteristics of the master risk category:

	Loan Risk Rating
Master risk category
Nonclassified	4 to 10
Classified	1 to 3
Substandard	3
Doubtful	2
Loss	1

Nonclassified

This category includes loans considered as Pass (5-10) and Special Mention (4). A loan classified as Pass is considered of sufficient quality to preclude a lower adverse rating. These loans are generally well protected by the current net worth and paying capacity of the borrower or by the value of any collateral received. Special Mention loans are defined as having potential weaknesses that deserve management’s close attention which, if left uncorrected, could potentially result in further credit deterioration. Special Mention loans may include loans originated with certain credit weaknesses or that developed those weaknesses since their origination.

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Classified

This classification indicates the presence of credit weaknesses which could make loan repayment unlikely, such as partial or total late payments and other contractual defaults.

Substandard

A loan classified substandard is inadequately protected by the sound worth and paying capacity of the borrower or the collateral pledged. They are characterized by the distinct possibility that the Company will sustain some loss if the credit weaknesses are not corrected. Loss potential, while existing in the aggregate amount of substandard loans, does not have to exist in individual assets.

Doubtful

These loans have all the weaknesses inherent in a loan classified as substandard with the added characteristic that the weaknesses make collection or liquidation in full, on the basis of currently existing facts, conditions, and values, highly questionable and improbable. These are poor quality loans in which neither the collateral, if any, nor the financial condition of the borrower presently ensure collection in full in a reasonable period of time. As a result, the possibility of loss is extremely high.

Loss

Loans classified as loss are considered uncollectible and of such little value that the continuance as bankable assets is not warranted. This classification does not mean that the assets have absolutely no recovery or salvage value, but not to the point where a write-off should be deferred even though partial recoveries may occur in the future. This classification is based upon current facts, not probabilities. As a result, loans in this category should be promptly charged off in the period in which they are determined to be uncollectible.

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Loans held for investment by Credit Quality Indicators

The following tables present Loans held for investment by credit quality indicators and year of origination as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
	Term Loans
	Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	$	99,056	$	191,221	$	597,265	$	35,803	$	90,311	$	402,213	$	177,702	$	1,593,571
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Nonowner occupied	99,056		191,221		597,265		35,803		90,311		402,213		177,702		1,593,571
Multi-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	1,801		70,396		105,857		26,605		117,535		120,969		305,147		748,310
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		23,344		—		23,344
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Multi-family residential	1,801		70,396		105,857		26,605		117,535		144,313		305,147		771,654
Land development and construction loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	42,384		9,735		28,911		21,945		—		26,928		172,035		301,938
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total land development and construction loans	42,384		9,735		28,911		21,945		—		26,928		172,035		301,938
Single-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	286,064		460,287		181,306		65,722		21,041		71,615		282,074		1,368,109
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		691		2,394		3,085
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Single-family residential	286,064		460,287		181,306		65,722		21,041		72,306		284,468		1,371,194
Owner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	143,861		262,104		434,620		20,904		58,112		161,840		44,066		1,125,507
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		354		1,880		2,234
Classified
Substandard	—		—		1,316		—		—		864		—		2,180
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total owner occupied	143,861		262,104		435,936		20,904		58,112		163,058		45,946		1,129,921

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	September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Non-real estate loans
Commercial Loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	302,410		292,024		79,465		12,127		34,900		38,184		660,939		1,420,049
Special Mention	7,007		—		—		—		—		—		19,968		26,975
Classified
Substandard	—		623		17		106		1,777		854		2,355		5,732
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		3		—		—		3
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial Loans	309,417		292,647		79,482		12,233		36,680		39,038		683,262		1,452,759
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	—		—		—		—		—		13,353		—		13,353
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		13,353		—		13,353
Consumer loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	28,583		211,027		61,386		21,306		35		10		116,649		438,996
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		1		—		1
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total consumer loans	28,583		211,027		61,386		21,306		35		11		116,649		438,997
Total loans held for investment, gross	$	911,166	$	1,497,417	$	1,490,143	$	204,518	$	323,714	$	861,220	$	1,785,209	$	7,073,387

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	December 31, 2022
	Term Loans
	Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	$	177,852	$	637,015	$	34,525	$	91,941	$	82,385	$	342,174	$	221,333	$	1,587,225
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		8,378		—		8,378
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		20,113		—		—		—		20,113
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Nonowner occupied	177,852		637,015		34,525		112,054		82,385		350,552		221,333		1,615,716
Multi-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	85,670		110,943		26,881		126,724		27,242		124,433		318,130		820,023
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Multi-family residential	85,670		110,943		26,881		126,724		27,242		124,433		318,130		820,023
Land development and construction loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	8,846		27,746		23,459		188		—		26,930		186,005		273,174
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total land development and construction loans	8,846		27,746		23,459		188		—		26,930		186,005		273,174
Single-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	480,328		186,790		70,853		21,654		16,630		65,249		259,411		1,100,915
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		741		1,189		1,930
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Single-family residential	480,328		186,790		70,853		21,654		16,630		65,990		260,600		1,102,845
Owner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	256,816		479,961		22,341		63,629		21,790		162,411		33,146		1,040,094
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	2,096		1,631		656		—		650		1,283		40		6,356
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total owner occupied	258,912		481,592		22,997		63,629		22,440		163,694		33,186		1,046,450

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	December 31, 2022
	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Non-real estate loans
Commercial Loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	400,781		95,470		19,815		42,936		32,248		16,297		761,489		1,369,036
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		1,499		—		250		1,749
Classified
Substandard	—		84		267		194		27		984		8,890		10,446
Doubtful	—		—		—		3		—		—		—		3
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial Loans	400,781		95,554		20,082		43,133		33,774		17,281		770,629		1,381,234
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	—		—		—		—		—		13,292		—		13,292
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		13,292		—		13,292
Consumer loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	338,744		121,011		29,053		68		54		—		115,300		604,230
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	98		128		—		—		—		4		—		230
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total consumer loans	338,842		121,139		29,053		68		54		4		115,300		604,460
Total loans held for investment, gross	$	1,751,231	$	1,660,779	$	227,850	$	367,450	$	182,525	$	762,176	$	1,905,183	$	6,857,194

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The following tables present gross charge-offs by year of origination for the periods presented:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	90	$	—	$	90
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Commercial loans	108		534		46		4,868		1,814		1,918		—		9,288
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	193		3,527		2,365		185		9		162		—		6,441
Total Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	301	$	4,061	$	2,411	$	5,053	$	1,823	$	2,170	$	—	$	15,819

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Year-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	90	$	—	$	90
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		39		—		39
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		129		—		129
Commercial loans	108		9,308		216		5,026		1,814		2,243		—		18,715
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	592		9,589		8,608		1,031		22		547		—		20,389
Total Year-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	700	$	18,897	$	8,824	$	6,057	$	1,836	$	2,919	$	—	$	39,233

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	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—				—		—
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Commercial loans	—		—		—		—		—		99		—		99
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	622		785		305		—		—				—		1,712
Total Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	622	$	785	$	305	$	—	$	—	$	99	$	—	$	1,811

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Year-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		14		—		14
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		14		—		14
Commercial loans	2,523		—		4,429		541		—		486		—		7,979
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	665		2,008		986		—		—		1		—		3,660
Total Year-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	3,188	$	2,008	$	5,415	$	541	$	—	$	501	$	—	$	11,653

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Collateral -Dependent Loans

Loans are considered collateral-dependent when the repayment of the loan is expected to be provided by the sale or operation of the underlying collateral. The Company performs an individual evaluation as part of the process of calculating the allowance for credit losses related to these loans. The following tables present the amortized cost basis of collateral dependent loans related to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty by type of collateral as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	As of September 30, 2023
	Collateral Type
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Residential Real Estate		Other		Total		Specific Reserves
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Multi-family residential	$	23,344	—		—		$	23,344	8,567
Single-family residential (1)	—		797		—		797		—
Owner occupied (2)	1,951		—		—		1,951		—
Commercial loans	—		—		3,620		3,620		—
Total	$	25,295	$	797	$	3,620	$	29,712	$	8,567

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(1)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 66.8% at September 30, 2023.

(2)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 58.1% at September 30, 2023.

	As of December 31, 2022
	Collateral Type
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Residential Real Estate		Other		Total		Specific Reserves
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied (1)	$	20,121	$	—	$	—	$	20,121	$	—
Owner occupied (2)	5,934		—		—		5,934		—
	26,055		—		—		26,055		—
Commercial loans (3)	1,998		—		6,401		8,399		5,179
Total	$	28,053	$	—	$	6,401	$	34,454	$	5,179

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(1)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 92.7% at December 31, 2022.

(2)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 62.7% at December 31, 2022.

(3)Includes loans with no specific reserves totaling $0.5 million with a weighted-average loan-to-value of approximately 42.0% at December 31, 2022.

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Collateral dependent loans are evaluated on an individual basis for purposes of determining expected credit losses. For collateral-dependent loans where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the operation or sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the loan as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the loan exceeds the present value of expected cash flows from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the loan exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated costs to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the loan. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the weighted-average loan-to-values related to existing owner-occupied collateral dependent loans with no specific reserves decreased approximately 2% since December 31, 2022.

6.Time Deposits

Time deposits in denominations of $100,000 or more amounted to approximately $1.3 billion at September 30, 2023 and $928 million at December 31, 2022, respectively. Time deposits in denominations of more than $250,000 amounted to approximately $700 million and $486 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, brokered time deposits amounted to $723 million and $609 million, respectively.

Large Time Deposits by Maturity

The following table sets forth the maturities of our time deposits with individual balances equal to or greater than $100,000 as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)
Less than 3 months	$	394,866	30.1	%	$	140,292	15.1	%
3 to 6 months	151,991		11.6	%	148,137		16.0	%
6 to 12 months	598,763		45.7	%	497,436		53.6	%
1 to 3 years	157,740		12.0	%	135,663		14.6	%
Over 3 years	8,215		0.6	%	6,889		0.7	%
Total	$	1,311,575	100.0	%	$	928,417	100.0	%

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7.Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had outstanding advances from the FHLB as follows:

			Outstanding Balance
Year of Maturity	Interest Rate	Interest Rate Type	At September 30, 2023		At December 31, 2022
			(in thousands)
2023	0.61% to 4.84%	Fixed	—		304,821
2024	1.68%	Fixed	—		100,000
2025	1.40% to 3.07%	Fixed	—		451,665
2026	4.25% to 4.90%	Fixed	110,000		—
2027 and after (1)	1.82% to 4.40%	Fixed	485,000		50,000
			$	595,000	$	906,486

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(1)There were no callable advances from the FHLB as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

In the first quarter of 2023, the Company realized a pretax gain of $13.2 million on the early repayment of $565 million in advances from the FHLB. In the second quarter of 2023, the Company realized a pretax gain of $13.4 million on the early repayment of $355 million in advances from the FHLB. In the third quarter of 2023, the Company realized a pretax gain of $7.0 million on the early repayment of $225 million in advances from the FHLB. These early repayments are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies.

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8.Senior Notes

On June 23, 2020, the Company completed a $60.0 million offering of senior notes with a coupon rate of 5.75% and a maturity date of June 30, 2025 (the “Senior Notes”). The net proceeds, after direct issuance costs of $1.6 million, totaled $58.4 million. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, these Senior Notes amounted to $59.4 million and $59.2 million, respectively, net of direct unamortized issuance costs of $0.6 million and $0.8 million, respectively. The Senior Notes are presented net of direct issuance costs in the consolidated financial statements. These costs have been deferred and are being amortized over the term of the Senior Notes of 5 years as an adjustment to yield. These Senior Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated, and rank equally with all of our existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.

9.Subordinated Notes

On March 9, 2022, the Company entered into a Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Amerant Florida Bancorp Inc (“Amerant Florida” or the “Guarantor”), and qualified institutional buyers pursuant to which the Company sold and issued $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due March 15, 2032 (the “Subordinated Notes”). Net proceeds were $29.1 million, after estimated direct issuance costs of approximately $0.9 million. Unamortized direct issuance costs are deferred and amortized over the term of the Subordinated Notes of 10 years. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, these Subordinated Notes amounted to $29.4 million and $29.3 million, respectively, net of direct unamortized issuance costs of $0.6 million and $0.7 million, respectively.

The Subordinated Notes initially bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.25% per annum, from and including March 9, 2022, to but excluding March 15, 2027, with interest payable semi-annually in arrears. From and including March 15, 2027, to but excluding the stated maturity date or early redemption date, the interest rate will reset quarterly to an annual floating rate equal to the then-current benchmark rate, which will initially be the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus 251 basis points, with interest during such period payable quarterly in arrears. If the three-month SOFR cannot be determined during the applicable floating rate period, a different index will be determined and used in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Notes.

These Subordinated Notes are unsecured, subordinated obligations of the Company and rank junior in right of payment to all of the Company’s current and future senior indebtedness. Prior to March 15, 2027, the Company may redeem the Subordinated Notes, in whole but not in part, only under certain limited circumstances. On or after March 15, 2027, the Company may, at its option, redeem the Subordinated Notes, in whole or in part, on any interest payment date, subject to the receipt of any required regulatory approvals. The Subordinated Notes have been structured to qualify as Tier 2 capital of the Company for regulatory capital purposes, and rank equally in right of payment to all of our existing and future subordinated indebtedness.

The Subordinated Notes were offered and sold by the Company in a private placement offering in reliance on exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D under the Securities Act. In connection with the sale and issuance of the Subordinated Notes, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement, pursuant to which the Company agreed to take certain actions to provide for the exchange of the Subordinated Notes for subordinated notes that are registered under the Securities Act and will have substantially the same terms.

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On June 21, 2022, the Company successfully completed the exchange of all of its outstanding Subordinated Notes for an equal principal amount of its registered 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2032 (the “Registered Subordinated Notes”). The terms of the Registered Subordinated Notes are substantially identical to the terms of the Subordinated Notes, except that the Registered Subordinated Notes are not subject to the transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional interest provisions (under the circumstances described in the registration rights agreement relating to our fulfillment of our registration obligations) applicable to the Subordinated Notes.

On August 2, 2022, the Company completed an intercompany transaction of entities under common control, pursuant to which the Guarantor, merged with and into the Company, with the Company as sole survivor. See ”Amerant Florida Merger” in the 2022 Form 10-K for more details.

10. Junior Subordinated Debentures Held by Trust Subsidiaries

The following tables provide information on the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities issued by, and the junior subordinated debentures issued to, each of the statutory trust subsidiaries as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust		Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust		Year of Issuance	Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	Year of Maturity
Commercebank Capital Trust VI	$	9,250	$	9,537	2002	3-M SOFR + 3.61%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VII	8,000		8,248		2003	3-M SOFR + 3.51%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VIII	5,000		5,155		2004	3-M SOFR + 3.11%	2034
Commercebank Capital Trust IX	25,000		25,774		2006	3-M SOFR + 2.01%	2038
Commercebank Capital Trust X	15,000		15,464		2006	3-M SOFR + 2.04%	2036
	$	62,250	$	64,178

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	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust		Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust		Year of Issuance	Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	Year of Maturity
Commercebank Capital Trust VI	$	9,250	$	9,537	2002	3-M LIBOR + 3.35%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VII	8,000		8,248		2003	3-M LIBOR + 3.25%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VIII	5,000		5,155		2004	3-M LIBOR + 2.85%	2034
Commercebank Capital Trust IX	25,000		25,774		2006	3-M LIBOR + 1.75%	2038
Commercebank Capital Trust X	15,000		15,464		2006	3-M LIBOR + 1.78%	2036
	$	62,250	$	64,178

In the third quarter of 2023, SOFR replaced LIBOR as the floating rate for the Company’s junior subordinated debentures. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the LIBOR cessation and its impact on our financial instruments.

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11. Derivative Instruments

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the fair values of the Company’s derivative instruments were as follows:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Other Assets		Other Liabilities		Other Assets		Other Liabilities
Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges	$	1,199	$	919	$	167	$	45
Interest rate swaps not designated as hedging instruments:
Customers	62		76,173		603		66,439
Third party broker	76,173		62		66,439		603
	76,235		76,235		67,042		67,042
Interest rate caps not designated as hedging instruments:
Customers	—		8,374		—		10,002
Third party broker	8,715		—		10,207		—
	8,715		8,374		10,207		10,002
Mortgage derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate lock commitments	708		—		727		—
Forward contracts	287		90		107		71
	995		90		834		71
	$	87,144	$	85,618	$	78,250	$	77,160

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Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments

Interest Rate Swaps On Debt Instruments

The Company enters into interest rate swap contracts on debt instruments which the Company designates and qualifies as cash flow hedges. These interest rate swaps are designed as cash flow hedges to manage the exposure that arises from differences in the amount of the Company’s known or expected cash receipts and the known or expected cash payments on designated debt instruments. These interest rate swap contracts involve the Company’s payment of fixed-rate amounts in exchange for the Company receiving variable-rate payments over the life of the contracts without exchange of the underlying notional amount.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had five interest rate swap contracts on debt instruments with notional amounts totaling $64.2 million maturing in the third and fourth quarters of 2025. These contracts were designated as cash flow hedges to manage the exposure of variable rate interest payments on all of the Company’s outstanding variable-rate junior subordinated debentures with principal amounts at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 totaling $64.2 million. The Company expects these interest rate swaps to be highly effective in offsetting the effects of changes in interest rates on cash flows associated with the Company’s variable-rate junior subordinated debentures. The Company recognized unrealized gains of $0.2 million and $8 thousand in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and unrealized gains of $0.3 million and unrealized losses of $0.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to these interest rate swap contracts. These unrealized losses were included as part of interest expense on junior subordinated debentures in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. As of September 30, 2023, the estimated net unrealized gains in accumulated other comprehensive income expected to be reclassified into expense in the next twelve months amounted to $0.3 million.

In 2019, the Company terminated 16 interest rate swaps on debt instruments that had been designated as cash flow hedges of variable rate interest payments on the outstanding and expected rollover of variable-rate advances from the FHLB. The Company is recognizing the contracts’ cumulative net unrealized gains of $8.9 million in earnings over the remaining original life of the terminated interest rate swaps ranging between one month and seven years. The Company recognized approximately $0.3 million in each of the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 and $1.0 million in each of the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 as a reduction of interest expense on FHLB advances as a result of this amortization.

Interest Rate Swaps On Loans

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company entered into an interest rate swap contract with a notional amount of $50.0 million, and maturity in the second quarter of 2025. The Company designated this interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge to manage interest rate risk exposure on variable rate interest receipts on the first $50 million principal balance of a pool of loans. This interest rate swap contract involves the Company’s payment of variable-rate amounts in exchange for the Company receiving fixed-rate payments over the life of the contract without exchange of the underlying notional amount. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized unrealized losses of $0.2 million related to this interest rate swap contract. These unrealized losses were included as part of interest income on loans in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. As of September 30, 2023, the estimated net unrealized losses in accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income expected to be reclassified into interest income in the next twelve months amounted to $0.7 million.

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Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments

Interest Rate Swaps

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had 143 interest rate swap contracts with customers, respectively, with total notional amounts of $969.4 million and $925.4 million, respectively. These instruments involve the Company’s payment of variable-rate amounts to customers in exchange for the Company receiving fixed-rate payments from customers over the life of the contracts without exchange of the underlying notional amount. In addition, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had interest rate swap mirror contracts with third party brokers with similar terms.

The Company enters into swap participation agreements with other financial institutions to manage the credit risk exposure on certain interest rate swaps with customers. Under these agreements, the Company, as the beneficiary or guarantor, will receive or make payments from/to the counterparty if the borrower defaults on the related interest rate swap contract. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had four swap participation agreements with total notional amounts of approximately $72.6 million and $74.0 million, respectively. The notional amount of these agreements is based on the Company’s pro-rata share of the related interest rate swap contracts. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the fair value of swap participation agreements was not significant.

Interest Rate Caps

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had 15 and 19 interest rate cap contracts with customers with total notional amounts of $353.4 million and $448.8 million, respectively. These instruments involve the Company making payments if an interest rate exceeds the agreed strike price. In addition, at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had 14 and 16 interest rate cap mirror contracts, respectively, with a third party broker with total notional amounts of $332.4 million and $371.9 million, respectively.

In April 2022, the Company entered into 4 interest rate cap contracts with various third-party brokers with total notional amounts of $140.0 million. These interest rate caps initially served to partially offset changes in the estimated fair value of interest rate cap contracts with customers at December 31, 2022. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were 1 and 4 interest rate cap contracts, respectively, with total notional amounts of $35.0 million and $140.0 million, respectively, in connection with this transaction.

Mortgage Derivatives

The Company enters into interest rate lock commitments and forward sale contracts to manage the risk exposure in the mortgage banking area. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had interest rate lock commitments with notional amounts of $92.4 million and $77.0 million, respectively, and forward contracts with notional amounts of $36.5 million and $17.0 million, respectively. Interest rate lock commitments guarantee the funding of residential mortgage loans originated for sale, at specified interest rates and times in the future. Forward sale contracts consist of commitments to deliver mortgage loans, originated and/or purchased, in the secondary market at a future date. The change in the fair value of these instruments was an unrealized gain of $0.1 million in each of the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, and an unrealized gain of $0.1 million and $0.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. These amounts were recorded as part of other noninterest income in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

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Credit Risk-Related Contingent Features

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the aggregate fair value of interest rate swaps in a liability position was $77.2 million and $67.1 million, respectively.

Some agreements may require pledging of securities when the valuation of a interest rate swap falls below a certain amount. There were no securities pledged as collateral for interest rate swaps in a liability position at September 30, 2023. At December 31, 2022, there were $0.5 million in debt securities held for sale pledged as collateral to secure interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges, with a fair value of $45 thousand. In addition, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had cash held as collateral of $51.2 million and $41.6 million, respectively, for derivatives margin calls. See Note 2 “Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash” for additional information about cash held as collateral. As of September 30, 2023, there were no collateral requirements related to interest rate swaps with third-party brokers not designated as hedging instruments.

12. Leases

The Company leases certain premises and equipment under operating leases. The leases have remaining lease terms ranging from less than one year to 42 years, some of which have renewal options reasonably certain to be exercised and, therefore, have been reflected in the total lease term and used for the calculation of minimum payments required. The Company had variable lease payments of $0.6 million and $0.4 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $1.7 million and $1.3 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, which include mostly common area maintenance and taxes, included in occupancy and equipment on the consolidated statements of income. In addition, the Company recorded right of use (“ROU”) asset impairment charges of $1.1 million and $1.6 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. ROU asset impairment charges in the first nine months of 2023 were in connection with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023, and with the decision to close another branch in Miami, Florida in 2023 (First nine months of 2022 - in connection with the closure of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022). These impairments were recorded as occupancy and equipment expense on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

Lease costs for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:

(in thousands)	Three months ended September 30,				Nine months ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost	$	5,248	$	4,278	$	13,866	$	13,008
Short-term lease cost	24		18		24		62
Variable lease cost	588		414		1,675		1,304
Sublease income (1)	(857)		(527)		(2,582)		(2,164)
Total lease cost, net	$	5,003	$	4,183	$	12,983	$	12,210

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(1)Primarily in connection with the subleasing of portions of the Company’s headquarters building and, to a lesser extent, the sublease of the New York office space.

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As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had an ROU asset of $116.8 million and $140.0 million and total operating lease liability of $124.1 million and $145.3 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had a short-term lease liability of $3.4 million and $5.2 million, respectively, included as part of other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.

The following table provides supplemental information to leases as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended Ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
(in thousands, except weighted average data)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	4,267		3,499		11,908		10,811
Weighted average remaining lease term for operating leases	17.0 years		18.3 years		17.0 years		18.3 years
Weighted average discount rate for operating leases	9.66	%	5.94	%	9.66	%	5.94	%

The following table presents a maturity analysis and reconciliation of the undiscounted cash flows to the total operating lease liabilities as of September 30, 2023 for the remaining 3 months of 2023 and thereafter:

(in thousands)
For the remaining three months of 2023	$	3,585
2024	14,579
2025	14,659
2026	14,905
2027	15,216
Thereafter	199,817
Total minimum payments required	262,761
Less: implied interest	(138,689)
Total lease obligations	$	124,072

The Company provides equipment financing through a variety of loan and lease structures, including direct or sale type finance leases and operating leases. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were $2.5 million and $13.6 million, respectively, in direct or sale type finance leases included as part of loans held for investment, gross in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet, and included as part of commercial loans in our loan portfolio held for investment. As of September 30, 2023, there were $3.1 million in operating leases included as part of premises and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

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13.Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan

The Company sponsors the 2018 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan (the “2018 Equity Plan”). See Note 14 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K for more information on the 2018 Equity Plan, the Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Plan and stock-based compensation awards for the year ended December 31, 2022, including restricted stock awards (“RSAs”), restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and performance stock units (“PSUs”).

Restricted Stock Awards

The following table shows the activity of restricted stock awards during the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Number of restricted shares	Weighted-average grant date fair value
Non-vested shares, beginning of year	295,076	$	25.83
Granted	10,440	27.42
Vested	(103,118)	24.22
Forfeited	(36,691)	23.87
Non-vested shares at September 30, 2023	165,707	$	27.37

In the first nine months of 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 10,440 RSAs to various employees, under the LTI Plan. The fair value of the RSAs granted was based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date which averaged $27.42 per RSA. These RSAs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

The Company recorded compensation expense related to the RSAs of $0.3 million and $0.9 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $1.8 million and $2.4 million during the nine months September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The total unamortized deferred compensation expense of $1.5 million for all unvested restricted stock outstanding at September 30, 2023 will be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.2 years.

Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units

The following table shows the activity of RSUs and PSUs during the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Stock-settled RSUs			Stock-settled PSUs
	Number of RSUs	Weighted-average grant date fair value		Number of PSUs	Weighted-average grant date fair value
Non-vested, beginning of year	123,970	$	22.83	137,199	$	17.43
Granted	231,976	24.18		53,420	25.09
Vested	(64,820)	22.71		(10,442)	19.00
Forfeited	(12,081)	27.08		(2,867)	33.63
Non-vested, at September 30, 2023	279,045	$	23.80	177,310	$	19.38

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On February 16, 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 113,297 RSUs to various executive officers under the LTI Plan. The fair value of the RSUs granted was based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date which was $28.93 per RSU. These RSUs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

On February 16, 2023, the Company granted a target of 38,049 PSUs to various executive officers under the LTI Plan. These PSUs generally vest at the end of a three-year performance period, but only result in the issuance of shares of Class A common stock if the Company achieves a performance target. The Company used an option pricing model to estimate fair value of the PSUs granted which was $29.11 per PSU.

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 65,759 RSUs to various executive officers and employees. The fair values of the RSUs granted were based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date. The weighted average fair value of these RSUs was $19.04 per RSU. These RSUs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company granted a target of 15,371 PSUs to various executive officers under the LTI Plan. These PSUs generally vest at the end of a three-year performance period, but only result in the issuance of shares of Class A common stock if the Company achieves a performance target. The Company used an option pricing model to estimate fair value of the PSUs granted. The weighted average fair value of the PSUs granted was $15.60 per PSU.

In the third quarter of 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 24,000 RSUs to various executive officers and employees. Included in those 24,000 shares are 16,111 shares that will vest as follows: 40% will vest in two substantially equal installments on each of July 24, 2024 and 2025, and the remaining 60% will vest on July 24, 2026. The remaining 7,889 RSUs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date. The fair values of the RSUs granted were based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date. The weighted average fair value of these RSUs was $19.96 per RSU.

On June 7, 2023, the Company granted 28,920 stock-settled RSUs to its independent directors. The fair value of the RSUs granted was based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date which was $20.74 per RSU. These RSUs will vest within one year.

The Company recorded compensation expense related to RSUs and PSUs of $1.3 million and $0.7 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $3.2 million and $1.7 million during the nine months September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The total unamortized deferred compensation expense of $5.6 million for all unvested stock-settled RSUs and PSUs outstanding at September 30, 2023 will be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.9 years.

14.Income Taxes

The Company uses an estimated annual effective tax rate method in computing its interim tax provision. This effective tax rate is based on forecasted annual consolidated pre-tax income, permanent tax differences and statutory tax rates. Under this method, the tax effect of certain items that do not meet the definition of ordinary income or expense are computed and recognized as discrete items when they occur.

The effective combined federal and state tax rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 were 21.71% and 21.50%, respectively. Effective tax rates differ from the statutory rates mainly due to the impact of forecasted permanent non-taxable interest and other income, forecasted permanent non-deductible expenses, and the effect of corporate state taxes.

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

15.     Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”):

The components of AOCL/AOCI are summarized as follows using applicable blended average federal and state tax rates for each period:

	September 30, 2023						December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale	$	(144,634)	$	36,907	$	(107,727)	$	(111,957)	$	28,605	$	(83,352)
Net unrealized holding gains on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges	2,818		(725)		2,093		3,659		(942)		2,717
Total (AOCL) AOCI	$	(141,816)	$	36,182	$	(105,634)	$	(108,298)	$	27,663	$	(80,635)

The components of other comprehensive loss for the periods presented are summarized as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Change in fair value arising during the period	$	(25,007)	$	6,438	$	(18,569)	$	(47,015)	$	12,056	$	(34,959)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses included in net income	—		—		—		(22)		5		(17)
	(25,007)		6,438		(18,569)		(47,037)		12,061		(34,976)
Net unrealized holding losses (gains) on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Change in fair value arising during the period	174		(45)		129		(22)		6		(16)
Reclassification adjustment for net interest income included in net income	(360)		92		(268)		(345)		88		(257)
	(186)		47		(139)		(367)		94		(273)
Total other comprehensive loss	$	(25,193)	$	6,485	$	(18,708)	$	(47,404)	$	12,155	$	(35,249)

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Change in fair value arising during the period	$	(34,775)	$	8,836	$	(25,939)	$	(135,554)	$	34,516	$	(101,038)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income	2,098		(534)		1,564		(71)		18		(53)
	(32,677)		8,302		(24,375)		(135,625)		34,534		(101,091)
Net unrealized holding losses on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Change in fair value arising during the period	288		(71)		217		295		(133)		162
Reclassification adjustment for net interest income included in net income	(1,129)		288		(841)		(667)		171		(496)
	(841)		217		(624)		(372)		38		(334)
Total other comprehensive loss	$	(33,518)	$	8,519	$	(24,999)	$	(135,997)	$	34,572	$	(101,425)

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

16.    Contingencies

From time to time the Company and its subsidiaries may be exposed to loss contingencies. In the ordinary, course of business, those contingencies may include, known but unasserted claims, and legal/regulatory inquiries or examinations. The Company records these loss contingencies as a liability when the likehood of loss is probable and an amount or range of loss can be reasonably estimated. In the opinion of management, the Company maintains a liability that is in an estimated amount sufficient to cover said loss contingencies, if any, at the reporting dates.

Financial instruments whose contract amount represents off-balance sheet credit risk at September 30, 2023 are generally short-term and are as follows:

(in thousands)	Approximate Contract Amount
Commitments to extend credit	$	1,238,080
Standby letters of credit	32,300
Commercial letters of credit	64
	$	1,270,444

The following table summarizes the changes in the allowance for credit losses for off-balance sheet credit risk exposures for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

(in thousands)	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
Balances at beginning of the period	$	2,002	$	1,702	$	1,702	$	1,702
Provision for credit losses - off balance sheet exposures	600		—		900		—
Balances at end of period	$	2,602	$	1,702	$	2,602	$	1,702

Beginning in the three months ended September 30, 2023, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures is included as part of provision for (reversal of) credit losses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Prior to that period, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures was included as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

17.    Fair Value Measurements

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)		Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)		Total Carrying Value in the Consolidated Balance Sheet
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Other short-term investments	$	—	$	6,024	$	—	$	6,024
Securities
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	—		414,635		—		414,635
Corporate debt securities	—		252,578		—		252,578
U.S. government agency debt securities	—		355,987		—		355,987
Collateralized loan obligations	—		5,005		—		5,005
Municipal bonds	—		1,640		—		1,640
U.S treasury securities	—		3,952		—		3,952
	—		1,033,797		—		1,033,797
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading	2,438		—		—		2,438
	2,438		1,033,797		—		1,036,235
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	—		25,952		—		25,952
Bank owned life insurance	—		232,736		—		232,736
Other assets
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	—		—		1,306		1,306
Derivative instruments	—		87,144		—		87,144
	$	2,438	$	1,385,653	$	1,306	$	1,389,397
Liabilities
Other liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	85,618	$	—	$	85,618

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)		Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)		Total Carrying Value in the Consolidated Balance Sheet
Assets
Securities
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	$	—	$	437,674	$	—	$	437,674
Corporate debt securities	—		280,700		—		280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities	—		330,821		—		330,821
Collateralized loan obligations	—		4,774		—		4,774
U.S treasury securities	—		1,996		—		1,996
Municipal bonds	—		1,656		—		1,656
	—		1,057,621		—		1,057,621
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading	11,383		—		—		11,383
	11,383		1,057,621		—		1,069,004
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	—		62,438		—		62,438
Bank owned life insurance	—		228,412		—		228,412
Other assets
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	—		—		1,307		1,307
Derivative instruments	—		78,250		—		78,250
	$	11,383	$	1,426,721	$	1,307	$	1,439,411
Liabilities
Other liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	77,160	$	—	$	77,160

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

The following tables present the major categories of assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total Write Downs
Description
Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost	$	43,257	$	—	$	—	$	43,257	$	5,562
Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral (1)	24,146		—		—		24,146		4,371
Other Real Estate Owned (2)	20,181		—		—		20,181		—
	$	87,584	$	—	$	—	$	87,584	$	9,933

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(1)Include loans with specific reserves of $8.6 million and total write downs of $4.4 million at September 30, 2023.

(2)Consists of commercial real estate property.

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total Write Downs
Description
Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral (1)	$	30,158	$	—	$	—	$	30,158	$	3,851

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(1)Include loans with specific reserves of $5.2 million and total write downs of $3.9 million at December 31, 2022.

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

The following table presents the significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) used in the valuation of assets measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis.

Financial Instrument	Unobservable Inputs	Valuation Methods	Discount Range	Typical Discount
Collateral dependent loans	Discount to fair value	Appraisal value, as adjusted	0-30%	6-7%
		Inventory	0-100%	30-50%
		Accounts receivables	0-100%	20-30%
		Equipment	0-100%	20-30%
Other Real Estate Owned	Discount to fair value	Appraisal value, as adjusted	N/A	6-7%

There were no other significant assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Loans Held for Sale, at Lower of Fair Value or Cost

For loans held for sale that are carried at the lower of fair value or cost, the fair value is generally based on quoted market prices of similar loans and is considered to be Level 2.

Collateral Dependent Loans Measured For Expected Credit Losses

The carrying amount of collateral dependent loans is typically based on the fair value of the underlying collateral. The Company primarily uses third party appraisals to assist in measuring expected credit losses on collateral dependent loans. The Company also uses third party appraisal reviewers for loans with an outstanding balance of $1 million and above. These appraisals generally use the market or income approach valuation technique and use market observable data to formulate an opinion of the fair value of the loan’s collateral. However, the appraiser uses professional judgment in determining the fair value of the collateral or properties and may also adjust these values for changes in market conditions subsequent to the appraisal date. When current appraisals are not available for certain loans, the Company uses judgment on market conditions to adjust the most current appraisal. The sales prices may reflect prices of sales contracts not closed and the amount of time required to sell out the real estate project may be derived from current appraisals of similar projects. As a consequence, the fair value of the collateral is considered a Level 3 valuation.

OREO and Repossessed Assets

The Company values OREO at the lower of cost or fair value of the property, less cost to sell. The fair value of the property is generally based upon recent appraisal values of the property, less cost to sell. The Company primarily uses third party appraisals to assist in measuring the valuation of OREO. Period revaluations are classified as level 3 as the assumptions used may not be observable. The fair value of non-real estate repossessed assets is provided by a third party based on their assumptions and quoted market prices for similar assets, when available. At March 31, 2023, the Company had other repossessed assets with a carrying value of $6.4 million. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company sold these repossessed assets and recognized a loss on sale of $2.6 million which is included in the result of operations for that period.

The Company had no OREO or repossessed asset balances as of December 31, 2022.

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The estimated fair value of financial instruments where fair value differs from carrying value are as follows:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Carrying Value		Estimated Fair Value		Carrying Value		Estimated Fair Value
Financial assets:
Debt securities held to maturity	$	230,254	$	195,165	$	242,101	$	217,609
Loans	3,319,421		3,145,042		3,314,553		3,181,696
Financial liabilities:
Time deposits	1,579,458		1,569,852		1,119,510		1,099,294
Advances from the FHLB	595,000		588,604		906,486		873,852
Senior notes	59,447		56,293		59,210		58,755
Subordinated notes	29,412		28,481		29,284		28,481
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178		63,237		64,178		64,182

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Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

18.Earnings Per Share

The following table shows the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands, except share data and per share amounts)	2023		2022 (1)		2023		2022 (1)
Numerator:
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest (1)	$	21,741	$	17,490	$	48,729	$	40,145
Noncontrolling interest	(378)		(44)		(884)		(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc. (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Net income available to common stockholders (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Denominator:
Basic weighted average shares outstanding	33,489,560		33,476,418		33,537,759		33,985,856
Dilutive effect of share-based compensation awards	207,060		270,460		218,756		267,706
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding	33,696,620		33,746,878		33,756,515		34,253,562
Basic earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.48	$	1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.47	$	1.21

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(1)Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

As of September 30, 2023 and 2022, potential dilutive instruments consisted of unvested shares of restricted stock, RSUs and PSUs totaling 577,511 and 532,867, respectively. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, potential dilutive instruments were included in the diluted earnings per share computation because, when the unamortized deferred compensation cost related to these shares was divided by the average market price per share in those periods, fewer shares would have been purchased than restricted shares assumed issued. Therefore, in those periods, such awards resulted in higher diluted weighted average shares outstanding than basic weighted average shares outstanding, and had a dilutive effect on per share earnings.

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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis is designed to provide a better understanding of various factors related to Amerant Bancorp Inc.’s (the “Company,” “Amerant,” “our” or “we”) results of operations and financial condition and its wholly and partially owned subsidiaries, including its principal subsidiary, Amerant Bank, N.A. (the “Bank”). The Bank has three main operating subsidiaries, Amerant Investments, Inc., a securities broker-dealer (“Amerant Investments”), Amerant Mortgage, LLC (“Amerant Mortgage”), a majority-owned mortgage lending company domiciled in Florida, and Elant Bank & Trust, a Grand-Cayman based trust company (the “Cayman Bank”).

This discussion is intended to supplement and highlight information contained in the accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and related footnotes included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Form 10-Q”), as well as the information contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 (the “2022 Form 10-K”).

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Various of the statements made in this Form 10-Q, including information incorporated herein by reference to other documents, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of, and subject to, the protections of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions and future performance and condition, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause the actual results, performance, achievements, or financial condition of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance, achievements, or financial condition expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. You should not expect us to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should be read together with the “Risk Factors” included in the 2022 Form 10-K, in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, and in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements through our use of words such as “may,” “will,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “seek,” “should,” “indicate,” “would,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “consider”, “expect,” “estimate,” “continue,” “plan,” “point to,” “project,” “could,” “intend,” “target” and other similar words and expressions of the future. These forward-looking statements may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation:

•Liquidity risks could affect our operations and jeopardize our financial condition and certain funding sources could increase our interest rate expense;

•We may not be able to develop and maintain a strong core deposit base or other low-cost funding sources;

•We may elect or be compelled to seek additional capital in the future, but that capital may not be available when it is needed or on acceptable terms and, as a result, our ability to expand our operations could be materially impaired;

•Our ability to receive dividends from our subsidiaries could affect our liquidity and our ability to pay dividends;

•Our profitability is subject to interest rate risk;

•Our allowance for credit losses may prove inadequate and our business, financial condition and profitability may suffer;

•Our concentration of CRE loans could result in increased loan losses, and adversely affect our business, earnings, and financial condition;

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•Many of our loans are to commercial borrowers, which have unique risks compared to other types of loans;

•Our valuation of securities and the determination of credit impairment in our investment securities portfolio are subjective and, if changed, could materially adversely affect our results of operations or financial condition;

•Nonperforming and similar assets take significant time to resolve and may adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition;

•We are subject to environmental liability risk associated with lending activities;

•Deterioration in the real estate markets, including the secondary market for residential mortgage loans, can adversely affect us;

•We may not effectively manage risks associated with the replacement of LIBOR as a reference rate;

•Many of our major systems depend on and are operated by third-party vendors, and any systems failures or interruptions could adversely affect our operations and the services we provide to our customers;

•Our information systems are exposed to cybersecurity threats and may experience interruptions and security breaches that could adversely affect our business and reputation;

•Our strategic plan and growth strategy may not be achieved as quickly or as fully as we seek;

•Defaults by or deteriorating asset quality of other financial institutions could adversely affect us;

•New lines of business, new products and services, or strategic project initiatives may subject us to additional risks;

•We may not have the ability or resources to keep pace with rapid technological changes in the financial services industry or implement new technology effectively;

•Conditions in Venezuela could adversely affect our operations;

•Our ability to achieve our environmental, social and governance goals are subject to risks, many of which are outside of our control, and our reputation could be harmed if we fail to meet such goals;

•We may be unable to attract and retain key people to support our business;

•Severe weather, natural disasters, global pandemics, acts of war or terrorism, theft, civil unrest, government expropriation or other external events could have significant effects on our business;

•Any failure to protect the confidentiality of customer information could adversely affect our reputation and subject us to financial sanctions and other costs that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations;

•We could be required to write down our goodwill;

•We have a net deferred tax asset that may or may not be fully realized;

•We may incur losses due to minority investments in fintech and specialty finance companies;

•We are subject to risks associated with sub-leasing portions of our corporate headquarters building;

•Our success depends on our ability to compete effectively in highly competitive markets;

•Potential gaps in our risk management policies and internal audit procedures may leave us exposed to unidentified or unanticipated risk, which could negatively affect our business;

•Any failure to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could impair the reliability of our financial statements, which in turn could harm our business, impair investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and our access to the capital markets and cause the price of our common stock to decline and subject us to regulatory penalties;

•Material and negative developments adversely impacting the financial services industry at large and causing volatility in financial markets and the economy may have materially adverse effects on our liquidity, business, financial condition and results of operations;

•Our business activities, results of operations and financial condition are subject to adverse effects from the outbreak and spread of contagious diseases such as COVID-19, which adverse effects may continue;

•Our business may be adversely affected by economic conditions in general and by conditions in the financial markets;

•We are subject to extensive regulation that could limit or restrict our activities and adversely affect our earnings;

•Litigation and regulatory investigations are increasingly common in our businesses and may result in significant financial losses and/or harm to our reputation;

•We are subject to capital adequacy and liquidity standards, and if we fail to meet these standards our financial condition and operations would be adversely affected;

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•Increases in FDIC deposit insurance premiums and assessments could adversely affect our financial condition;

•Federal banking agencies periodically conduct examinations of our business, including our compliance with laws and regulations, and our failure to comply with any regulatory actions, if any, could adversely impact us;

•The Federal Reserve may require us to commit capital resources to support the Bank;

•We may face higher risks of noncompliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering statutes and regulations than other financial institutions;

•Failures to comply with the fair lending laws, CFPB regulations or the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, could adversely affect us;

•Certain of our existing shareholders could exert significant control over the Company;

•The rights of our common shareholders are subordinate to the holders of any debt securities that we have issued or may issue from time to time;

•The stock price of financial institutions, like Amerant, may fluctuate significantly;

•We have the ability to issue additional equity securities, which would lead to dilution of our issued and outstanding Class A common stock;

•Certain provisions of our amended and restated articles of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, Florida law, and U.S. banking laws could have anti-takeover effects;

•We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our debt, including the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Debentures;

•We are a holding company with limited operations and depend on our subsidiaries for the funds required to make payments of principal and interest on the Senior Notes, Subordinated Notes and the Debentures;

•We may incur a substantial level of debt that could materially adversely affect our ability to generate sufficient cash to fulfill our obligations under the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Debentures; and

•The other factors and information included in the 2022 Form 10-K and other filings that we make with the SEC under the Exchange Act and Securities Act. See “Risk Factors” in the 2022 Form 10-K, and the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

The foregoing factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read together with the other cautionary statements included in the 2022 Form 10-K. Because of these risks and other uncertainties, our actual future financial condition, results, performance or achievements, or industry results, may be materially different from the results indicated by the forward-looking statements in this Form 10-Q. In addition, our past results of operations are not necessarily indicative of our future results of operations. You should not rely on any forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.

Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update, revise or correct any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law. All written or oral forward-looking statements that are made by us or are attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary notice, together with those risks and uncertainties described in “Risk Factors” in the 2022 Form 10-K, in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, and in our other filings with the SEC, which are available at the SEC’s website www.sec.gov.

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OVERVIEW

Our Company

We are a bank holding company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida. We provide individuals and businesses a comprehensive array of deposit, credit, investment, wealth management, retail banking, mortgage services, and fiduciary services. We serve customers in our United States markets and select international customers. These services are offered through Amerant Bank, N.A, or the Bank, which is also headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, and its subsidiaries. Fiduciary, investment, wealth management and mortgage services are provided by the Bank, the Bank’s securities broker-dealer, Amerant Investments Inc., or Amerant Investments, the Bank’s Grand-Cayman based trust company, Elant Bank & Trust Ltd., or the Cayman Bank, and Amerant Mortgage, LLC. or Amerant Mortgage. The Bank’s primary markets are South Florida, where we are headquartered and operate sixteen banking centers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, and Houston, Texas, where we operate six banking centers that serve the nearby areas of Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend and Waller counties. In addition, we have a loan production office (“LPO”) in Tampa, Florida.

The Bank intends to open several additional banking centers in 2023, including: i) a new location in Tampa, FL which will transition our Tampa operation from an LPO to a full service bank with full banking capabilities; ii) and new locations in downtown Miami, FL, Fort Lauderdale, FL, and River Oaks in Houston, TX. The Bank has obtained Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) approval to proceed with each location.

During the third quarter of 2023, we announced the establishment of a new regional headquarter in Broward County, Florida, which we currently expect to open by the first quarter of 2024. In addition, we also expect to open a regional headquarter office in Tampa in the first quarter of 2024.

Business Developments

For more information on the progress of our strategic initiatives in 2022, see Item 1. Business section included in the 2022 Form 10-K.

Progress on our Strategic Initiatives

The Company is dedicated to finding new ways to increase efficiencies and profitable growth across the Company while simultaneously providing an enhanced banking experience for customers. Below is a summary of actions taken by the Company in the first nine months of 2023:

Growing our core deposits. We continue to focus on organic deposit growth and work on improving deposit mix to generate more core deposits. The loan to deposit ratio at September 30, 2023 was 94.64% compared to 98.23% at December 31, 2022. The ratio of non-interest bearing deposits to total deposits ratio was 18.16% at September 30, 2023 compared to 19.42% at December 31, 2022, which reflects growing consumer and business awareness of the rising interest rates and seeking better returns.

Provide a superior customer experience. During the first quarter of 2023, we launched a new Amerant website which provides improved user experience with enhanced navigation and ease of access to information across all device types. Additionally, the Company expects the FIS conversion will be taking place in early November 2023. We believe the conversion to a new information technology platform will provide an upgraded digital experience for our customers and improve our operations.

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Improving Amerant's brand awareness. Our campaign "Imagine a Bank", which we launched in the fourth quarter of 2021, continued in 2023 with greater emphasis on our partnerships with sports teams across South Florida, which includes the Miami Heat, the Florida Panthers, and the University of Miami Hurricanes. During the second quarter of 2023, we announced a multi-year partnership with Rice University in Houston, Texas, making us the “Official Bank of Rice University Athletics”. Most recently, during the third quarter, we entered into a multi-year extension of our partnership with the University of Miami Hurricanes. We are also now the naming rights partner of the Amerant Bank Arena in Broward County, which is the home venue of the Florida Panthers. Lastly, we continue to focus on raising brand awareness through impactful campaigns, such as out-of-home advertising and various campaigns via social media and public relations.

Lines of business and geographies. Our banking center rationalization continues. As we announced in the first quarter, we have signed a five-year lease for our first banking center in Tampa with an estimated opening in the fourth quarter of 2023 along with the new branches in downtown Miami and downtown Fort Lauderdale. In the second quarter, we have received approval from the OCC for a private banking location in the River Oaks area in Houston, TX.

During the first quarter of 2023, we optimized our international banking structure with the intent to drive favorable core deposit growth. The previously separate groups of international retail, private and commercial banking are now reporting to a single leader dedicated to solely focus on growing international deposits. We also continued to add key personnel in Amerant Mortgage and business development personnel at the Bank. In addition, we recruited two executives for the previously open positions for a new Head of Commercial Banking and a new Houston market president. Amerant Mortgage grew its national footprint with the addition beginning early in the quarter of a Midwest hub, adding business development personnel in the quarter to generate conforming mortgages for sale into the secondary market. This growth resulted in the recognition of $1.0 million to preliminary goodwill. The final purchase price allocation, which will adjust goodwill, is expected to be finalized by December 31, 2023.

We also opened our new operations center in Miramar, Florida during the first quarter of 2023. This reduced the size of our operations center by approximately 42,000 square feet from 100,000 square feet to approximately 58,000 square feet at our new location, and our annual rental expense will decrease by nearly $1 million. In the first quarter of 2023, the Company ended its pre-existing lease agreement on its former operations center.

During the second quarter of 2023, we merged the business banking group with the retail banking group as part of our ongoing efforts to streamline our organizational structure. We continued to selectively add key business development personnel in all three markets we serve including the hire of the private banking leader in Houston who started in the beginning of the third quarter of 2023. We also rationalized the organization in several support areas which will result in future period efficiency and personnel expense savings and improve ratio of customer facing versus support positions, including two executive positions that are not being replaced. As previously announced, we also opened our full-service branch in Key Biscayne in June 2023. Lastly, we closed the FM 1960 banking center and merged it with the Champions banking center in Houston. We also announced the appointment of our new Chief Financial Officer, which completed all expected executive-level changes in management, as our former CFO has now assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer.

Most recently, the closure of the Edgewater location near Miami, FL, which was announced during the second quarter of 2023, has officially taken place. Customers are being served at another location until the opening of the downtown Miami branch currently expected in the fourth quarter of 2023.

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Improve operational efficiency. The Company continues to work on optimizing its operating structure to support its business activities. In the third quarter and in the first nine months of 2023, staff reduction costs include severance expenses, primarily related to severance expenses in connection with employment terminations and changes in certain positions. With respect to our balance sheet composition, during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company repaid $1.6 billion in FHLB advances, which includes early repayment of $1.1 billion. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company borrowed $1.3 billion in FHLB advances. These activities are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies intended to maximize value on its assets and liabilities.

Integrate ESG into our DNA. During the third quarter of 2023, we continued to advance our Impact Program initiatives and completed a series of activities within the scope of the program. Those activities included: i) pre-purchasing carbon emission offsets to cover our calculated baseline scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions for 2023 through 2025; ii) launching and offering team members an online course on the “Return On Investment (ROI) of Going Green,” as part of our efforts to sponsor environmentally conscious activities; iii) sponsoring the “Dream in Green” program - the Green Schools Challenge, which engages students in hands-on activities to save energy and water at school and teaches them about the links between natural resources, climate change and community sustainability; and iv) sponsoring the “Freebee” transportation service in Key Biscayne, FL, which reduces carbon emissions in that geography.

Other Relevant Matters. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, we repurchased 142,188 and 259,853 shares, respectively, of Class A common stock under the $25 million share repurchase program. Lastly, the Company appointed a new independent director, Ashaki Rucker, who officially joined the Board of Directors effective April 17, 2023. She is now a member of the Compensation and Human Capital Committee, and the Risk Committee.

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Primary Factors Used to Evaluate Our Business

Results of Operations. In addition to net income or loss, the primary factors we use to evaluate and manage our results of operations include net interest income, noninterest income and expenses, and indicators of financial performance including return on assets (“ROA”) and return on equity (“ROE”). We also use certain non-GAAP financial measures in the internal evaluation and management of our businesses.

Net Interest Income. Net interest income represents interest income less interest expense. We generate interest income from interest, dividends and fees received on interest-earning assets, including loans and investment securities we own. We incur interest expense from interest paid on interest-bearing liabilities, including interest-bearing deposits, and borrowings such as FHLB advances and other borrowings such as repurchase agreements, notes, debentures and other funding sources we may have from time to time. Net interest income typically is the most significant contributor to our revenues and net income. To evaluate net interest income, we measure and monitor: (i) yields on our loans and other interest-earning assets; (ii) the costs of our deposits and other funding sources; (iii) our net interest spread; (iv) our net interest margin, or NIM; and (v) our provisions for credit losses. Net interest spread is the difference between rates earned on interest-earning assets and rates paid on interest-bearing liabilities. NIM is calculated by dividing net interest income for the period by average interest-earning assets during that same period. Because noninterest-bearing sources of funds, such as noninterest-bearing deposits and stockholders’ equity, also fund interest-earning assets, NIM includes the benefit of these noninterest-bearing sources of funds. Non-refundable loan origination fees, net of direct costs of originating loans, as well as premiums or discounts paid on loan purchases, are deferred and recognized over the life of the related loan as an adjustment to interest income in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”).

Changes in market interest rates and the interest we earn on interest-earning assets, or which we pay on interest-bearing liabilities, as well as the volumes and the types of interest-earning assets, interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing liabilities and stockholders’ equity, usually have the largest impact on periodic changes in our net interest spread, NIM and net interest income. We measure net interest income before and after the provision for loan losses.

Noninterest Income. Noninterest income consists of, among other revenue streams: (i) service fees on deposit accounts; (ii) income from brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities; (iii) benefits from and changes in cash surrender value of bank-owned life insurance, or BOLI, policies; (iv) card and trade finance servicing fees; (v) securities gains or losses; (vi) net gains and losses on early extinguishment of FHLB advances; (vii) income from derivative transaction with customers; (viii) derivative gains or losses; (ix) gains or losses on the sale of properties; and (x) other noninterest income which includes mortgage banking revenue.

Our income from service fees on deposit accounts is affected primarily by the volume, growth and mix of deposits we hold and volume of transactions initiated by customers (i.e. wire transfers). These are affected by prevailing market pricing of deposit services, interest rates, our marketing efforts and other factors.

Our income from brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities consists of brokerage commissions related to our customers’ trading volume, fiduciary and investment advisory fees generally based on a percentage of the average value of assets under management and custody (“AUM”), and account administrative services and ancillary fees during the contractual period.

Income from changes in the cash surrender value of our BOLI policies represents the amounts that may be realized under the contracts with the insurance carriers, which are nontaxable. In October 2023, the Company restructured certain of its BOLI contracts, by surrendering existing lower-yielding policies and reinvesting the proceeds in higher-yielding policies. The restructuring had no material impact to our results of operations. This transaction is expected to increase income from this source prospectively.

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Interchange fees, other fees and revenue sharing are recognized when earned. Trade finance servicing fees, which primarily include commissions on letters of credit, are generally recognized over the service period on a straight line basis. Card servicing fees include credit and debit card interchange fees and other fees. We have also entered into referral arrangements with recognized U.S.-based card issuers, which permit us to serve our customers and earn referral fees and share interchange revenue without exposure to credit risk.

Our gains and losses on sales of securities are derived from sales from our securities portfolio and are primarily dependent on changes in U.S. Treasury interest rates and asset liability management activities. Generally, as U.S. Treasury rates increase, our securities portfolio decreases in market value, and as U.S. Treasury rates decrease, our securities portfolio increases in value. We also recognize unrealized gains or losses on changes in the valuation of marketable equity securities not held for trading.

Our fee income generated on customer interest rate swaps and other loan level derivatives are primarily dependent on volume of transactions completed with customers and are included in noninterest income.

Derivatives unrealized net gains and derivatives unrealized net losses are primarily derived from changes in market value of uncovered interest rate caps with clients.

Other noninterest income includes mortgage banking income related to Amerant Mortgage, which consists of gain on sale of loans, gain on loans market valuation, other fees and smaller sources of income. Mortgage banking income was $0.5 million and $0.1 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $3.9 million and $3.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Noninterest Expense. Noninterest expenses generally increase as our business grows and whenever necessary to implement or enhance policies and procedures for regulatory compliance, and other purposes.

Noninterest expense consists of: (i) salaries and employee benefits; (ii) occupancy and equipment expenses; (iii) professional and other services fees; (iv) loan-level derivative expenses; (v) FDIC deposit and business insurance assessments and premiums; (vi) telecommunication and data processing expenses; (vii) depreciation and amortization; (viii) advertising and marketing expenses; (ix) other real estate and repossessed assets, net (x) contract termination costs , and (xi) other operating expenses.

Salaries and employee benefits include compensation (including severance expenses), employee benefits and employer tax expenses for our personnel. Salaries and employee benefits are partially offset by costs directly related to the origination of loans, which are deferred and amortized over the life of the related loans as adjustments to interest income in accordance with GAAP.

Occupancy expense consists of lease expense on our leased properties, including right-of-use or ROU asset impairment charges, and other occupancy-related expenses. Equipment expense includes furniture, fixtures and equipment related expenses. Rental income associated with subleasing portions of the Company’s headquarters building and the subleasing of the New York office space, primarily, is included as a reduction to rent expense under lease agreements under occupancy and equipment cost.

Professional and other services fees include legal, accounting, consulting fees, internal audit fees, card processing fees, director’s fees, regulatory agency fees, such as OCC examination fees, and other fees related to our business operations.

Loan-level derivative expenses are incurred in back-to-back derivative transactions with commercial loan clients and with brokers. The Company pays a fee upon inception of the back-to-back derivative transactions, corresponding to the spread between a wholesale rate and a retail rate.

Contract termination costs represent estimated expenses to terminate contracts before the end of their terms, and are recognized when the Company terminates a contract in accordance with its terms, generally considered the time when the Company gives written notice to the counterparty within the notification period contractually established.

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Contract termination costs also include expenses associated with the abandonment of existing capitalized projects which are no longer expected to be completed as a result of a contract termination. Changes to initial estimated expenses to terminate contracts resulting from revisions to timing or the amount of estimated cash flows are recognized in the period of the changes.

Advertising expenses include the costs of promoting the Amerant brand to create positive awareness, as well as the costs associated with promoting the Company’s products and services to promote consideration to buy the Company’s products and services. These costs include expenses to produce, deliver and communicate advertisements using available media and technologies, primarily streaming and other digital advertising platforms. Advertising expenses are expensed as incurred, except for media production costs which are expensed upon the first airing of the advertisement.

FDIC deposit and business insurance assessments and premiums include deposit insurance, net of any credits applied against these premiums, corporate liability and other business insurance premiums.

Telecommunication and data processing expenses include expenses paid to our third-party data processing system providers and other telecommunication and data service providers, as well as expenses related to the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software in 2023.

Depreciation and amortization expense includes the value associated with the depletion of the value on our owned properties and equipment, including leasehold improvements made to our leased properties.

OREO and repossessed assets expense includes expenses and revenue (rental income) from the operation of foreclosed property/assets as well as fair value adjustments and gains/losses from the sale of OREO and repossessed assets. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, “OREO” and repossessed assets expense is presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss). In 2022, while OREO valuation expense was presented separately, all other OREO-related expenses were presented as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. We had no other repossessed assets in 2022.

Other operating expenses include community engagement and other operational expenses. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, other operating expenses include an impairment charge of $2.0 million on an investment carried at cost and included as part of other assets. Other operating expenses are partially offset by other operating expenses directly related to the origination of loans, which are deferred and amortized over the life of the related loans as adjustments to interest income in accordance with GAAP.

Noninterest expenses in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 include salaries and employee benefits, mortgage lending costs and professional and other service fees in connection with Amerant Mortgage’s ongoing business.

Non-routine noninterest expense items include restructuring expenses and other non-routine noninterest expenses. Restructuring expenses are those incurred for actions designed to implement the Company’s business strategy. These actions include, but are not limited to reductions in workforce, streamlining operational processes, rolling out the Amerant brand, implementation of new technology system applications, decommissioning of legacy technologies, enhanced sales tools and training, expanded product offerings and improved customer analytics to identify opportunities. Other non-routine noninterest expenses include the effect of non-core banking activities such as the valuation of OREO and loans held for sale, the sale of repossessed assets, and impairment of investments.

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The table below shows a detail of non-routine noninterest expenses for the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Non-routine noninterest expense items
Restructuring costs:
Staff reduction costs (1)	$	489	$	358	$	2,886	$	1,797
Contract termination costs (2)	—		289		1,550		7,103
Consulting and other professional fees (3)	—		1,073		4,750		2,399
Disposition of fixed assets (4)	—		—		1,419		—
Branch closure expenses and related charges (5)	252		—		2,279		1,612
Digital transformation expenses	—		—		—		45
Total restructuring costs	$	741	$	1,720	$	12,884	$	12,956
Other non-routine noninterest expense items:
Loss on sale of repossessed assets and other real estate owned valuation expense(6)	—		234		2,649		3,408
Impairment charge on investment carried at cost (7)	—		—		1,963		—
Loans held for sale valuation expense (8)	5,562		—		5,562		159
Total non-routine noninterest expense items	$	6,303	$	1,954	$	23,058	$	16,523

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(1)    Staff reduction costs in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 consist of severance expenses related to organizational rationalization.

(2)    Contract termination and related costs associated with third party vendors resulting from the engagement of our new technology provider.

(3) In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses in connection with the engagement of FIS of $4.6 million. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, includes expenses in connection with the engagement of FIS of $1.0 million and $1.8 million, respectively.

(4) In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses in connection with the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software.

(5) In each of the three and nine months periods ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses in connection with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses associated with the closure of a branch in Miami, Florida in 2023, including $0.9 million of accelerated amortization of leasehold improvements and $0.6 million of right-of-use, or ROU asset impairment. Furthermore, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes $0.5 million of ROU asset impairment associated with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022 includes ROU asset impairment charge of $1.6 million in connection with the closure of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022 and expenses related to the branch lease termination in Wellington, Florida in 2022.

(6)    In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, amounts represent the loss on sale of repossessed assets in connection with equipment-financing activities. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, amounts represent the fair value adjustment related to one OREO property in New York.

(7) In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes an impairment charge of $2.0 million related to an investment carried at cost and included in other assets.

(8)    Fair value adjustment related to loans held for sale carried at the lower of fair value or cost.

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Primary Factors Used to Evaluate Our Financial Condition

The primary factors we use to evaluate and manage our financial condition include asset quality, capital and liquidity.

Asset Quality. We manage the diversification and quality of our assets based upon factors that include the level, distribution and risks in each category of assets. Problem assets may be categorized as classified, delinquent, nonaccrual and nonperforming assets. We also manage the adequacy of our allowance for credit losses (“ACL”), or the allowance, the diversification and quality of loan and investment portfolios, the extent of counterparty risks, credit risk concentrations and other factors.

On January 1, 2022, the Company adopted ASC Topic 326 - Financial Instruments - Credit Losses, which replaced the incurred loss methodology with an expected loss methodology that is referred to as the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) methodology. See Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K and the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for more details on the adoption of CECL by the Company. We review and update our allowance for expected credit losses periodically to calibrate loss estimation models based on our loan volumes, and credit and economic conditions in our markets. The models may differ among our loan segments to reflect their different asset types, and includes qualitative factors, which are updated periodically based on the type of loan and other factors.

Capital. Financial institution regulators have established minimum capital ratios for banks and bank holding companies. We manage capital based upon factors that include: (i) the level and quality of capital and our overall financial condition; (ii) the trend and volume of problem assets; (iii) the adequacy of reserves; (iv) the level and quality of earnings; (v) the risk exposures in our balance sheet under various scenarios, including stressed conditions; (vi) the Tier 1 capital ratio, the total capital ratio, the Tier 1 leverage ratio, and the CET1 capital ratio; (vii) the tangible common equity ratio; and (viii) other factors, including market conditions.

Liquidity. Our deposit base consists primarily of personal and commercial accounts maintained by individuals and businesses in our primary markets and select international core depositors. The Company is focused on relationship-driven core deposits. The Company may also use third party providers of domestic sources of deposits as part of its balance sheet management strategies. We define core deposits as total deposits excluding all time deposits. This definition of core deposits differs from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (the “FFIEC”) Uniform Bank Performance Report (the “UBPR”) definition of “core deposits,” which exclude brokered time deposits and retail time deposits of more than $250,000. See “Core Deposits” discussion for more details.

We manage liquidity based upon factors that include the amount of core deposit relationships as a percentage of total deposits, the level of diversification of our funding sources, the allocation and amount of our deposits among deposit types, the short-term funding sources used to fund assets, the amount of non-deposit funding used to fund assets, the availability of unused funding sources, off-balance sheet obligations, the amount of cash and liquid securities we hold, the availability of assets readily convertible into cash without undue loss, the characteristics and maturities of our assets when compared to the characteristics of our liabilities and other factors.

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Summary Results

The summary results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 include the following:

•Total assets were $9.3 billion at September 30, 2023, up $217.9 million, or 2.4%, compared to $9.1 billion at December 31, 2022.

•Total gross loans, which includes loans held for sale at fair value, were $7.14 billion at September 30, 2023, up $223.0 million, or 3.2%, compared to $6.9 billion at December 31, 2022.

•Cash and cash equivalents were $309.0 million, up $18.4 million or 6.3%, compared to $290.6 million at December 31, 2022.

•Total deposits were $7.55 billion at September 30, 2023, up $502.7 million, or 7.1%, compared to $7.04 billion at December 31, 2022.

•Total advances from the FHLB were $595.0 million, down $311.5 million or 34.4%, compared to $906.5 million as of December 31, 2022. This was primarily a result of early repayments of $225.0 million and $1.1 billion in the third quarter and first nine months of 2023, respectively, as part of asset and liability management strategies. An additional $2.3 billion remained available under credit facilities from FHLB as of September 30, 2023.

•Average yield on loans increased to 6.77% in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 5.06% in the three months ended September 30, 2022. Average yield on loans increased to 6.65% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 4.55% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•Total non-performing assets increased to $53.4 million at September 30, 2023, up $15.8 million, or 42.0%, compared to $37.6 million at December 31, 2022.

•The ACL as of September 30, 2023 was $98.8 million, up $15.3 million, or 18.3%, compared to $83.5 million as of December 31, 2022.

•Core deposits were $5.24 billion at September 30, 2023, down $71.9 million, or 1.4%, compared to $5.32 billion at December 31, 2022.

•Average cost of total deposits increased to 2.66% in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 0.83% in the three months ended September 30, 2022. Average cost of total deposits increased to 2.33% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 0.57% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•Loan to deposit ratio improved to 94.64% at September 30, 2023 compared to 98.23% at December 31, 2022.

•AUM totaled $2.09 billion, as of September 30, 2023, up $96.5 million, or 4.8%, from $2.00 billion as of December 31, 2022.

•Pre-provision net revenue (“PPNR”)(1) was $36.5 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $6.7 million or 22.4%, compared to $29.8 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022. PPNR(1) was $111.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $62.5 million or 126.4% from $49.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

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•Net Interest Margin (“NIM”) was 3.57% in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 3.61% in the three months ended September 30, 2022. NIM increased to 3.76% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 3.36% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•Net Interest Income (“NII”) was $78.6 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, up $8.7 million, or 12.4%, from $69.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022. NII was $244.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, up $60.3 million or 32.7%, compared to $184.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•Provision for credit losses was $8.0 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, compared to a release from ACL of $7.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022 (2). The provision for credit losses in the three months ended September 30, 2023 included $7.6 million to cover charge-offs and $1.4 million due to loan composition and volume changes. These provision requirements were partially offset by a $0.4 million release due to credit quality and macroeconomic factor updates and a $1.2 million release due to recoveries The provision for credit losses was $48.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, compared to a release from ACL of $2.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022 (2).

•Non-interest income was $21.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, up $6.0 million or 37.4%, from $16.0 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022. Non-interest income was $67.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, up $25.0 million or 58.2%, from $42.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•Non-interest expense was $64.4 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, down $8.3 million, or 14.8%, from $56.1 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022. Non-interest expense was $201.7 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, up $22.5 million or 12.5%, from $179.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•The efficiency ratio was 64.1% in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 65.4% in the three months ended September 30, 2022. The efficiency ratio was 64.5% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, compared to 78.8% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.

•Return on Assets (“ROA”) was 0.92% in the three months ended September 30, 2023, compared to 0.84% in the three months ended September 30, 2022 (2). ROA was 0.70% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 0.75% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022(2).

•Return on average equity (“ROE”) was 11.93% in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 9.46% in the three months ended September 30, 2022 (2. ROE was 8.97% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to 7.28% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022(2).

•Repurchased 142,188 shares for $2.7 million during 3Q23. As of September 30, 2023, repurchases totaled 259,853 shares for $4.9 million; $20 million remains available of $25 million Class A common stock share repurchase program.

1Non-GAAP measure, see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for more information and for a reconciliation to GAAP.

2The Company adopted the new guidance on accounting for current expected credit losses on financial instruments (“CECL”) in the fourth quarter of 2022, effective as of January 1, 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details of the CECL adoption and related effects to quarterly results for each quarter in the year ended December 31, 2022.

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Results of Operations - Comparison of Results of Operations for the Three and Nine Month Periods Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

Net income

The table below sets forth certain results of operations data for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Change				Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023				Change
(in thousands, except per share amounts and percentages)	2023		2022		2023 vs 2022				2023		2022		2023 vs 2022
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Net interest income	$	78,577	$	69,897	$	8,680	12.4	%	$	244,787	$	184,487	$	60,300	32.7	%
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses (1)	8,000		7,314		686		9.4		48,777		(2,912)		51,689		NM
Net interest income after provision (reversal of) for credit losses (1)	70,577		62,583		7,994		12.8	%	196,010		187,399		8,611		4.6	%
Noninterest income	21,921		15,956		5,965		37.4	%	67,883		42,912		24,971		58.2	%
Noninterest expense	64,420		56,113		8,307		14.8	%	201,653		179,172		22,481		12.6	%
Income before income tax expense (1)	28,078		22,426		5,652		25.2	%	62,240		51,139		11,101		21.7	%
Income tax expense (1)	(6,337)		(4,936)		(1,401)		(28.4)	%	(13,511)		(10,994)		(2,517)		(22.9)	%
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest (1)	21,741		17,490		4,251		24.3	%	48,729		40,145		8,584		21.4	%
Less: noncontrolling interest	(378)		(44)		(334)		(759.1)	%	(884)		(1,192)		308		25.8	%
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc. (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	4,585	26.2	%	$	49,613	$	41,337	$	8,276	20.0	%
Basic earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	0.14	26.9	%	$	1.48	$	1.22	$	0.26	21.3	%
Diluted earnings per common share (1) (2)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	0.14	26.9	%	$	1.47	$	1.21	$	0.26	21.5	%

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(1)    Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 to our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for additional information.

(2)    In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, potential dilutive instruments consisted of unvested shares of restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance share units. See Note 18 to our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for details on the dilutive effects of the issuance of restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance share units on earnings per share for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

NM - means not meaningful

Three Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

In the three months ended September 30, 2023, net income attributable to the Company was $22.1 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, compared to net income attributable to the Company of $17.5 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, in the same quarter of 2022. The increase of $4.6 million, or 26.2%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 was primarily driven by higher net interest income and noninterest income. These results were partially offset by higher noninterest expenses and provision for credit losses.

In the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, net income excludes a loss of $0.4 million and $44.0 thousand, respectively, attributable to a noncontrolling interest in Amerant Mortgage. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more information on changes in noncontrolling interest in Amerant Mortgage in 2022. There were no significant changes in the three and nine months period ended September 30, 2023.

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Net interest income was $78.6 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $8.7 million, or 12.4%, from $69.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022. This was primarily driven by: (i) an increase of 173 basis points in the yield on total interest earning assets, and (ii) increases of $1.0 billion, or 17.1% and $85.8 million, or 33.2%, in the average balance of loans and interest earnings deposits with banks, respectively. The increase in net interest income was partially offset by: (i) higher cost of total deposits, FHLB advances and junior subordinated debentures; (ii) higher average balance of total deposits, mainly time deposits and interest bearing demand deposits, and (iii) lower average balance of debt securities available for sale. See “Net Interest Income” for more details.

Noninterest income was $21.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $6.0 million, or 37.4%, compared to $16.0 million in the three months ended September 30, 2022. This increase was mainly driven by: (i) higher net gains on the early extinguishment of advances from the FHLB; (ii) higher other non-interest income, and (iii) higher deposit and service fees. These increases were partially offset by: (i) lower loan-level derivative income; (ii) lower net gains on securities, and (iii) lower brokerage, advisory and fiduciary fees. See “Noninterest Income” for more details.

Noninterest expense was $64.4 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $8.3 million, or 14.8%, compared to $56.1 million in the same period in 2022. This increase was mainly due to: (i) a valuation expense of $5.6 million in the third quarter of 2023 related to the fair value adjustment of a New York-based CRE loan held for sale; (ii) higher other operating expenses; (iii) higher salary and employee benefits; (iv) higher FDIC assessments and insurance expenses; (v) higher occupancy and equipment expenses; (vi) higher advertising expenses; (vii) higher depreciation and amortization, and (viii) higher professional and other service fees. These increases were partially offset by: (i) lower loan level-derivative expenses; (ii) lower other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense; (iii) the absence of $0.3 million in costs associated with the termination of technology contracts resulting from the transition to FIS supported systems and applications in the third quarter of 2022, and (iv) lower telecommunication and data processing expenses. See “Noninterest Expense” for more details.

In the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, noninterest expense included non-routine items of $6.3 million and $2.0 million, respectively. Non-routine items in noninterest expense include $0.7 million and $1.7 million of restructuring costs in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Other non-routine items in noninterest expense in the three months ended September 30, 2023 included a valuation expense of $5.6 million related to the fair value adjustment of a New York-based CRE loan held for sale, compared to other non-routine items in noninterest expense in the three months ended September 30, 2022 which included a $0.2 million valuation expense related to the fair value adjustment of an OREO property in New York. See “Our Company - Primary Factors Used to Evaluate Our Business” for detailed information on non-routine items in noninterest expense.

In the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company incurred noninterest expenses of $3.0 million and $2.7 million, respectively, related to Amerant Mortgage which consists of salaries and employee benefits expense, mortgage lending costs and professional and other services fees. Amerant Mortgage had 98 full time equivalent employees (“FTEs”) at September 30, 2023 compared to 67 at September 30, 2022.

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Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, net income was $49.6 million, or $1.47 per diluted share, compared to net income of $41.3 million, or $1.21 per diluted share, in the same period of 2022. The increase of $8.3 million or 20.0%, was primarily due to higher net interest income and noninterest income. This was partially offset by: (i) a provision for credit losses of $48.8 million in the first nine months of 2023, compared to reversal of credit losses of $2.9 million in the same period one year ago, and (ii) higher non-interest expenses.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, net income excludes a loss of $0.9 million and $1.2 million, respectively, attributable to a noncontrolling interest in Amerant Mortgage.

Net interest income was $244.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $60.3 million, or 32.7%, from $184.5 million in the same period one year ago. This was primarily driven by: (i) an increase of 209 basis points in the yield on total interest earning assets, and (ii) $1.3 billion, or 22.5%, $94.7 million, or 38.3% and $59.9 million, or 33.9%, in the average balance of loans, interest earning deposits with banks, and debt securities held to maturity, respectively. The increase in net interest income was partially offset by: (i) higher cost of total deposits, FHLB advances and junior subordinated debentures; (ii) higher average balance of total deposits, primarily time and interest bearing demand deposits; (iii) lower average balance of debt securities available for sale, and (iv) the cost of the Subordinated Notes issued in March 2022. See “Net Interest Income” for more details.

Noninterest income was $67.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $25.0 million, or 58.2%, compared to $42.9 million in the same period of 2022, mainly due to: (i) higher net gains on the early extinguishment of advances from the FHLB; (ii) higher other noninterest income; (iii) higher deposits and services fees, and (iv) higher net unrealized gains on derivative valuation related to interest rate caps with clients. These increases were partially offset by: (i) net losses on the sale of certain securities totaling $11.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023; (ii) lower loan-level derivative income, and (iii) lower brokerage, advisory and fiduciary fees. See “Noninterest Income” for more details.

Noninterest expense was $201.7 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $22.5 million, or 12.6%, compared to $179.2 million in the same period in 2022, mainly due to: (i) higher salary and employee benefits; (ii) other operating expenses; (iii) a valuation expense of $5.6 million in the first nine months of 2023 related to the fair value adjustment of a New York-based CRE loan held for sale; (iv) higher professional and other service fees; (v) higher FDIC assessments and insurance expenses; (vi) higher depreciation and amortization expense; (vii) higher advertising expenses, and (viii) higher telecommunication and data processing expenses. These increases were partially offset by: (i) a decrease of $5.6 million in costs associated with the termination of technology contracts resulting from the transition to FIS supported systems and applications; (ii) lower loan-level derivative expenses, and (iii) lower other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense. See “Noninterest Expense” for more details.

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In the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, noninterest expense included non-routine items of $23.1 million and $16.5 million, respectively. Non-routine items in noninterest expense include $12.9 million and $13.0 million of restructuring costs in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Other non-routine items in noninterest expense in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 included: (i) a valuation expense of $5.6 million related to the fair value adjustment of a New York-based CRE loan held for sale; (ii) a $2.0 million impairment charge on an investment carried at cost and included as part of other assets, and (iii) a $2.6 million loss on sale of repossessed assets in connection with our equipment-financing activities. Other non-routine items in noninterest expense in the nine months ended September 30, 2022 included: (i) a $3.4 million valuation expense related to the fair value adjustment of an OREO property in New York, and (ii) a $0.2 million valuation expense related to the change in fair value of New York loans held for sale). See “Our Company - Primary Factors Used to Evaluate Our Business” for detailed information on non-routine items in noninterest expense.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company incurred noninterest expenses of $10.9 million and $9.8 million, respectively, related to Amerant Mortgage which consists of salaries and employee benefits expense, mortgage lending costs and professional and other services fees.

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Average Balance Sheet, Interest and Yield/Rate Analysis

The following tables present average balance sheet information, interest income, interest expense and the corresponding average yields earned and rates paid for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. The average balances for loans include both performing and non-performing balances. Interest income on loans includes the effects of discount accretion and the amortization of non-refundable loan origination fees, net of direct loan origination costs as well as the amortization of net premiums/discounts on loan purchases, accounted for as yield adjustments. Average balances represent the daily average balances for the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Average Balances		Income/ Expense		Yield/ Rates		Average  Balances		Income/ Expense		Yield/ Rates
Interest-earning assets:
Loan portfolio, net (1)(2)	$	7,048,891	$	120,244	6.77	%	$	6,021,294	$	76,779	5.06	%
Debt securities available for sale (3) (4)	1,052,147		10,924		4.12	%	1,110,153		8,379		2.99	%
Debt securities held to maturity (5)	232,146		1,958		3.35	%	235,916		1,921		3.23	%
Debt securities held for trading	2,048		4		0.77	%	65		1		6.10	%
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,479		21		3.36	%	12,018		—		—	%
Federal Reserve Bank and FHLB stock	54,056		961		7.05	%	49,398		605		4.86	%
Deposits with banks	344,015		5,248		6.05	%	258,237		1,452		2.23	%
Other short-term investments	1,964		23		4.65	%	—		—		—	%
Total interest-earning assets	8,737,746		139,383		6.33	%	7,687,081		89,137		4.60	%
Total non-interest-earning assets (6)	756,141						639,118
Total assets	$	9,493,887					$	8,326,199

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	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2023							2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Average Balances			Income/ Expense		Yield/ Rates		Average  Balances			Income/ Expense		Yield/ Rates
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Checking and saving accounts
Interest bearing DDA	$	2,523,092		$	16,668	2.62	%	$	2,077,321		$	4,934	0.94	%
Money market	1,144,580			11,013		3.82	%	1,363,799			3,555		1.03	%
Savings	280,096			32		0.05	%	320,861			54		0.07	%
Total checking and saving accounts	3,947,768			27,713		2.79	%	3,761,981			8,543		0.90	%
Time deposits	2,201,138			22,482		4.05	%	1,247,084			4,717		1.50	%
Total deposits	6,148,906			50,195		3.24	%	5,009,065			13,260		1.05	%
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	326			4		4.87	%	—			—		—	%
Advances from the FHLB (7)	800,978			8,207		4.07	%	866,639			3,977		1.82	%
Senior notes	59,409			942		6.29	%	59,092			941		6.32	%
Subordinated notes	29,391			361		4.87	%	29,220			362		4.92	%
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178			1,097		6.78	%	64,178			700		4.33	%
Total interest-bearing liabilities	7,103,188			60,806		3.40	%	6,028,194			19,240		1.27	%
Non-interest-bearing liabilities:
Non-interest-bearing demand deposits	1,335,041							1,316,988
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	320,369							245,425
Total non-interest-bearing liabilities	1,655,410							1,562,413
Total liabilities	8,758,598							7,590,607
Stockholders’ equity	735,289							735,592
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$	9,493,887						$	8,326,199
Excess of average interest-earning assets over average interest-bearing liabilities	$	1,634,558						$	1,658,887
Net interest income				$	78,577						$	69,897
Net interest rate spread						2.93	%						3.33	%
Net interest margin (8)						3.57	%						3.61	%
Cost of total deposits (9)						2.66	%						0.83	%
Ratio of average interest-earning assets to average interest-bearing liabilities	123.01		%					127.52		%
Average non-performing loans/ Average total loans	0.56		%					0.42		%

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	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023							2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Average Balances			Income/ Expense		Yield/ Rates		Average  Balances			Income/ Expense		Yield/ Rates
Interest-earning assets:
Loan portfolio, net (1)(2)	$	7,006,633		$	348,315	6.65	%	$	5,718,264		$	194,631	4.55	%
Debt securities available for sale (3) (4)	1,050,648			31,494		4.01	%	1,130,231			23,371		2.76	%
Debt securities held to maturity (5)	236,325			6,046		3.42	%	176,462			3,605		2.73	%
Debt securities held for trading	783			6		1.02	%	67			3		5.99	%
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,455			21		1.14	%	8,615			—		—	%
Federal Reserve Bank and FHLB stock	54,911			2,833		6.90	%	50,118			1,690		4.51	%
Deposits with banks	342,127			14,272		5.58	%	247,401			2,102		1.14	%
Other short-term investments	662			23		4.65	%	—			—		—	%
Total interest-earning assets	8,694,544			403,010		6.20	%	7,331,158			225,402		4.11	%
Total non-interest-earning assets (6)	735,943							592,087
Total assets	$	9,430,487						$	7,923,245
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Checking and saving accounts
Interest bearing DDA	$	2,503,147		$	46,201	2.47	%	$	1,769,001		$	6,258	0.47	%
Money market	1,215,005			28,295		3.11	%	1,293,748			5,639		0.58	%
Savings	288,959			114		0.05	%	321,634			80		0.03	%
Total checking and saving accounts	4,007,111			74,610		2.49	%	3,384,383			11,977		0.47	%
Time deposits	2,006,417			53,844		3.59	%	1,265,982			13,501		1.43	%
Total deposits	6,013,528			128,454		2.86	%	4,650,365			25,478		0.73	%
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	130			5		5.14	%	20			—		—	%
Advances from the FHLB (7)	862,310			22,591		3.50	%	883,566			9,799		1.48	%
Senior notes	59,330			2,825		6.37	%	59,014			2,825		6.40	%
Subordinated notes	29,349			1,084		4.94	%	22,030			811		4.92	%
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178			3,264		6.80	%	64,178			2,002		4.17	%
Total interest-bearing liabilities	7,028,825			158,223		3.01	%	5,679,173			40,915		0.96	%
Non-interest-bearing liabilities:
Non-interest-bearing demand deposits	1,348,242							1,275,689
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	313,967							209,123
Total non-interest-bearing liabilities	1,662,209							1,484,812
Total liabilities	8,691,034							7,163,985
Stockholders’ equity	739,453							759,260
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$	9,430,487						$	7,923,245
Excess of average interest-earning assets over average interest-bearing liabilities	$	1,665,719						$	1,651,985
Net interest income				$	244,787						$	184,487
Net interest rate spread						3.19	%						3.15	%
Net interest margin (8)						3.76	%						3.36	%
Cost of total deposits (9)						2.33	%						0.57	%
Ratio of average interest-earning assets to average interest-bearing liabilities	123.70		%					129.09		%
Average non-performing loans/ Average total loans	0.48		%					0.56		%

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(1) Includes loans held for investment net of the allowance for credit losses, and loans held for sale. The average balance of the allowance for credit losses was $101.2 million and $51.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $89.1 million and $58.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The average balance of total loans held for sale was $58.8 million and $142.5 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $70.1 million and $130.8 million in the nine months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

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(2)    Includes average non-performing loans of $39.8 million and $25.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $34.1 million and $32.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Interest income that would have been recognized on outstanding non-performing loans at September 30, 2023 and 2022 was $1.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, and $2.5 million and $0.6 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Interest income from this source was immaterial in the three month period ended September 30, 2022.

(3)    Includes the average balance of net unrealized gains and losses in the fair value of debt securities available for sale. The average balance includes average net unrealized losses of $119.8 million and $72.4 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $110.5 million and $42.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

(4)    Includes nontaxable securities with average balances of $18.6 million and $17.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $18.6 million in each of the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. The tax equivalent yield for these nontaxable securities was 4.34% and 2.69% for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and 4.64% and 3.67% for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. In 2023 and 2022, the tax equivalent yields were calculated by assuming a 21% tax rate and dividing the actual yield by 0.79.

(5) Includes nontaxable securities with average balances of $49.6 million and $41.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $50.1 million and $42.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The tax equivalent yield for these nontaxable securities was 4.26% and 3.48% for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and 4.21% and 3.31% for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. In 2023 and 2022, the tax equivalent yields were calculated by assuming a 21% tax rate and dividing the actual yield by 0.79.

(6) Excludes the allowance for credit losses.

(7)    The terms of the FHLB advance agreements require the Bank to maintain certain investment securities or loans as collateral for these advances.

(8)    NIM is defined as net interest income divided by average interest-earning assets, which are loans, securities, deposits with banks and other financial assets which yield interest or similar income.

(9)    Calculated based upon the average balance of total noninterest bearing and interest bearing deposits.

Net Interest Income

Three Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

In the three months ended September 30, 2023, net interest income was $78.6 million, an increase of $8.7 million, or 12.4%, from $69.9 million in the same period of 2022. This was primarily driven by: (i) an increase of 173 basis points in the yield on total interest earning assets, and (ii) increases of $1.0 billion, or 17.1% and $85.8 million, or 33.2%, in the average balance of loans and interest earning deposits with banks, respectively. The increase in net interest income was partially offset by: (i) higher cost of total deposits, FHLB advances and junior subordinated debentures: (ii) higher average balance of total deposits, mainly time deposits and interest bearing demand deposits, and (iii) a decrease of $58.0 million, or 5.2% in the average balance of debt securities available for sale. The increase in average yields on interest earning assets includes the effect of 500 basis points in the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate since the end of the first quarter of 2022. Net interest margin was 3.57% in the three months ended September 30, 2023, a decrease of 4 basis points from 3.61% in the three months ended September 30, 2022. See discussions further below for more details.

During the third quarter of 2023, we had higher average balance of loans compared to the same period last year. In addition, our asset sensitive position enabled us to partially offset, via repricing of variable-rate loans, the incremental cost of deposits and borrowings we recorded during the third quarter of 2023. See discussions further below for more details.

Interest Income

Total interest income was $139.4 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $50.2 million, or 56.4%, compared to $89.1 million for the same period of 2022. This was primarily driven by a 173 basis points increase in the average yield on total interest earning assets. In addition, there were increases of $1.0 billion, or 17.1%, and $85.8 million, or 33.2%, in the average balance of loans and interest earnings deposits with banks, respectively. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $58.0 million, or 5.2%, in the average balance of debt securities available for sale.

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Interest income on loans in the three months ended September 30, 2023 was $120.2 million, an increase of $43.5 million, or 56.6%, compared to $76.8 million in the same period last year, primarily due to: (i) a 171 basis points increase in average yields, mainly attributable to higher market rates, and (ii) an increase of $1.0 billion, or 17.1%, in the average balance of loans. The increase in the average balance of loans includes: (i) originations of CRE and owner-occupied loans; (ii) originations and purchases of single-family residential and construction loans through Amerant Mortgage; (iii) originations of commercial loans, including loans and leases under a new white label equipment finance solution launched in the second quarter of 2022 and other specialty finance loans, and (iv) originations of consumer loans under a separate white label program. See “-Average Balance Sheet, Interest and Yield/Rate Analysis” for detailed information.

Interest income on debt securities available for sale was $10.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $2.5 million, or 30.4%, compared to $8.4 million in the same period of 2022. This was mainly due to an increase of 113 basis points in average yields, primarily driven by higher market rates. This was partially offset by a decrease of $58.0 million, or 5.2%, in the average balance of these securities. The decline in the average balance was primarily due to a decrease in carrying value due to market rates increasing throughout 2022 and the first nine months of 2023. In the three months ended September 30, 2023, the average balance of accumulated net unrealized loss included in the carrying value of these securities was $119.8 million compared to $72.4 million in the same period last year. As of September 30, 2023, corporate debt securities comprised 24.4% of the available-for-sale portfolio, down from 29.7% at September 30, 2022.

As of September 30, 2023, floating rate investments represent 15.4% of our total investment portfolio compared to 16.1% at September 30, 2022. In addition, the overall duration increased to 5.3 years at September 30, 2023 from 5.0 years at September 30, 2022, as the model anticipates longer duration due to recent higher mortgage rates and therefore slower prepayments.

Interest Expense

Interest expense was $60.8 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $41.6 million, or 216.0%, compared to $19.2 million in the same period of 2022. This was primarily due to: (i) higher cost of total deposits, advances from FHLB and junior subordinated debentures. In addition, there was an increase of $1.1 billion, or 17.8%, in the average balance of total interest bearing liabilities, mainly time deposits and interest bearing demand deposits.

Interest expense on interest-bearing deposits was $50.2 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $36.9 million, or 278.5%, compared to $13.3 million for the same period of 2022. This was mainly driven by an increase of 219 basis points in the average rates paid on total deposits, and an increase of $1.1 billion, or 22.8%, in their average balance. See below for a detailed explanation of changes by major deposit category:

•Time deposits. Interest expense on total time deposits increased $17.8 million, or 376.6%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. This was mainly due to an increase of 255 basis points in the average cost of total time deposits. In addition, there was an increase of $954.1 million, or 76.5%, in the average balance of these deposits, including $354.2 million and $585.1 million in the average balance of brokered time deposits and customer certificate of deposits (“CDs”), respectively.

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•Interest bearing checking and savings accounts. Interest expense on checking and savings accounts increased $19.2 million, or 224.4% in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period one year ago, mainly due to an increase of 189 basis points in the average costs on these deposits. In addition, there was an increase of $185.8 million, or 4.9% in the average balance of total interest bearing checking and savings accounts in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. This was mainly driven by: (i) higher average domestic personal accounts; (ii) new domestic deposits from escrow accounts, municipalities, and from domestic individuals and businesses through large fund providers as well as new large customer relationships throughout 2022 and the nine months ended September 30, 2023, and (iii) increased reciprocal deposits in the first nine months of 2023. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $195.7 million, or 9.1%, in the average balance of international accounts, including a decrease of $258.9 million, or 14.7%, in international personal accounts, partially offset by an increase of $63.2 million, or 15.8%, in international commercial accounts.

Interest expense on advances from the FHLB increased $4.2 million, or 106.4%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period of 2022, primarily driven by an increase of 225 basis points in the average rate paid on these borrowings. This was partially offset by a decline of $65.7 million, or 7.6%, in the average balance on this funding source. In the first nine months of 2023, the Company borrowed $1.3 billion, and repaid $1.6 billion of advances from the FHLB, including early repayments. See “Capital Resources and Liquidity Management” for more details on the early repayment of advances from the FHLB.

Interest expense on junior subordinated debentures increased $0.4 million, or 56.7%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period of 2022, primarily driven by an increase of 245 basis points in the average rate paid on these borrowings.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, net interest income was $244.8 million, an increase of $60.3 million, or 32.7%, from $184.5 million in the same period of 2022. This was primarily driven by: (i) an increase of 209 basis points in the yield on total interest earning assets, and (ii) $1.3 billion, or 22.5%, $94.7 million, or 38.3% and $59.9 million, or 33.9%, in the average balance of loans, interest earning deposits with banks, and debt securities held to maturity, respectively. The increase in net interest income was partially offset by: (i) higher cost of total deposits, FHLB advances and junior subordinated debentures; (ii) higher average balance of total deposits, primarily time and interest bearing demand deposits; (iii) lower average balance of debt securities available for sale, and (iv) the cost of the Subordinated Notes issued in March 2022. The increase in average yields on interest earning assets includes the effect of 500 basis points in the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate since the end of the first quarter of 2022. Net interest margin was 3.76% in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of 40 basis points from 3.36% in the nine months ended September 30, 2022. See discussions further below for more details.

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Interest Income

Total interest income was $403.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $177.6 million, or 78.8%, compared to $225.4 million for the same period of 2022. This was primarily driven by a 209 basis points increase in the average yield on total interest earning assets. In addition, there were increases of $1.3 billion, or 22.5%, $94.7 million, or 38.3% and $59.9 million, or 33.9%, in the average balance of loans, interest earning deposits with banks, and debt securities held to maturity, respectively. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $79.6 million, or 7.0%, in the average balance of debt securities available for sale.

Interest income on loans in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was $348.3 million, an increase of $153.7 million, or 79.0%, compared to $194.6 million in the same period last year, primarily due to: (i) a 210 basis points increase in average yields, mainly attributable to higher market rates, and (ii) an increase of $1.3 billion, or 22.5%, in the average balance of loans. The increase in the average balance of loans includes: (i) originations of CRE and owner-occupied loans; (ii) originations and purchases of single-family residential and construction loans through Amerant Mortgage; (iii) originations of commercial loans, including loans and leases under a new white label equipment finance solution launched in the second quarter of 2022 and other specialty finance loans, and (iv) originations of consumer loans under a separate white label program. See “-Average Balance Sheet, Interest and Yield/Rate Analysis” for detailed information.

Interest income on debt securities available for sale was $31.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $8.1 million, or 34.8%, compared to $23.4 million in the same period of 2022. This was mainly due to an increase of 125 basis points in average yields, primarily driven by higher market rates. This was partially offset by a decrease of $79.6 million, or 7.0%, in the average balance of these securities. The decline in the average balance was primarily due to a decrease in carrying value due to market rates increasing throughout 2022 and the first nine months of 2023. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the average balance of accumulated net unrealized loss included in the carrying value of these securities was $110.5 million compared to $42.9 million in the same period last year.

Interest income on debt securities held to maturity was $6.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $2.4 million, or 67.7%, compared to $3.6 million in the same period of 2022. This was mainly due to an increase of $59.9 million, or 33.9%, in the average balance of these securities. In addition, there was an increase of 69 basis points in average yields, primarily driven by higher market rates.

Interest Expense

Interest expense was $158.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $117.3 million, or 286.7%, compared to $40.9 million in the same period of 2022. This was primarily due to: (i) higher cost of total deposits, advances from FHLB and junior subordinated debentures. In addition, there was an increase of $1.3 billion, or 23.76%, in the average balance of total interest bearing liabilities, mainly time deposits and interest bearing demand deposits, and subordinated notes as these were issued in March 2022.

Interest expense on interest-bearing deposits was $128.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, an increase of $103.0 million, or 404.2%, compared to $25.5 million for the same period of 2022. This was mainly driven by an increase of 213 basis points in the average rates paid on total deposits, and an increase of $1.4 billion, or 29.3%, in their average balance. See below for a detailed explanation of changes by major deposit category:

•Time deposits. Interest expense on total time deposits increased $40.3 million, or 298.8%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. This was mainly due to an increase of 216 basis points in the average cost of total time deposits. In addition, there was an increase of $740.4 million, or 58.5%, in the average balance of these deposits, including $357.1 million and $386.9 million in brokered time deposits and customer certificate of deposits (“CDs”), respectively. The increase in the average balance of time deposits was partially offset by a decline of $3.5 million in online deposits.

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•Interest bearing checking and savings accounts. Interest expense on checking and savings accounts increased $62.6 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 to $74.6 million compared to $12.0 million in the same period one year ago. This increase was primarily due to an increase of 202 basis points in the average costs on these deposits. In addition, there was an increase of $622.7 million, or 18.4% in the average balance of total interest bearing checking and savings accounts in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. This was mainly driven by: (i) higher average domestic personal accounts; (ii) new domestic deposits from escrow accounts, municipalities, and from domestic individuals and businesses through large fund providers as well as new large customer relationships throughout 2022 and the nine months ended September 30, 2023, and (iii) increased reciprocal deposits in the first nine months of 2023. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $163.9 million, or 7.6%, in the average balance of international accounts, including a decrease of $217.6 million, or 12.3%, in international personal accounts, partially offset by an increase of $53.8 million, or 13.9%, in international commercial accounts.

Interest expense on advances from the FHLB increased $12.8 million, or 130.5%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period of 2022, primarily driven by an increase of 202 basis points in the average rate paid on these borrowings. See “Capital Resources and Liquidity Management” for more details on the early repayment of advances from the FHLB.

On March 9, 2022, the Company sold and issued $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due on March 15, 2032. The Subordinated Notes initially bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.25% per annum, from and including March 9, 2022, to but excluding March 15, 2027, with interest payable semi-annually in arrears. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, interest expense on these subordinated notes was $1.1 million and $0.8 million, respectively. See the 2022 Form 10-K for additional information.

Interest expense on junior subordinated debentures increased $1.3 million, or 63.0%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period of 2022, primarily driven by an increase of 263 basis points in the average rate paid on these borrowings.

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Analysis of the Allowance for Credit Losses

Set forth in the table below are the changes in the allowance for credit losses for each of the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
			(1)				(1)
Balance at the beginning of the period	$	105,956	$	70,475	$	83,500	$	69,899
Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle (1)	—		—		—		18,674
Charge-offs
Domestic Loans:
Real estate loans
Commercial Real Estate (CRE)
Non-owner occupied	(90)		—		(90)		—
Single-family residential	—		—		(39)		(10)
Commercial	(9,288)		(99)		(18,715)		(7,979)
Consumer and others	(6,441)		(1,712)		(20,386)		(3,660)
	(15,819)		(1,811)		(39,230)		(11,649)
International Loans (2):
Real estate loans
Single-family residential	—		—		—		(4)
Consumer and others	—		—		(3)		—
	—		—		(3)		(4)
Total Charge-offs	$	(15,819)	$	(1,811)	$	(39,233)	$	(11,653)
Recoveries
Domestic Loans:
Real estate loans
Commercial Real Estate (CRE)
Non-Owner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	116	$	—
Land development and construction loans	10		12		173		26
	10		12		289		26
Single-family residential	13		36		62		146
Commercial	606		301		4,157		1,560
Consumer and others	477		2		862		134
	1,106		351		5,370		1,866
International Loans (2):
Commercial	130		142		957		579
Consumer and others	—		2		2		20
	130		144		959		599
Total Recoveries	$	1,236	$	495	$	6,329	$	2,465
Net charge-offs	(14,583)		(1,316)		(32,904)		(9,188)
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses - loans (1)	7,400		7,314		48,177		(2,912)
Balance at the end of the period	$	98,773	$	76,473	$	98,773	$	76,473

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(1)    Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 to our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for additional information.

(2)     Includes transactions in which the debtor or the customer is domiciled outside the U.S., even when the collateral is located in the U.S.

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Three Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

The Company recorded a provision for credit losses on loans of $7.4 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, compared to $7.3 million in the same period last year. During the third quarter of 2023, the provision for credit losses on loans included $7.6 million to cover charge-offs and $1.4 million due to loan composition and volume changes. These provision requirements were partially offset by a $0.4 million release due to credit quality and macroeconomic factor updates and a $1.2 million release due to recoveries.

During the three months ended September 30, 2023, charge-offs increased $14.0 million, or 773.5%, compared to the same period of the prior year. In the three months ended September 30, 2023, charge-offs included $6.4 million related to multiple consumer loans, primarily purchased indirect consumer loans, and $9.3 million related to multiple commercial loans. In the three months ended September 30, 2022, charge-offs included: (i) $1.7 million related to multiple consumer loans, and (ii) $0.2 million in connection with two commercial loans. The ratio of net charge-offs over the average total loan portfolio held for investment was 0.82% in the third quarter of 2023, compared to 0.09% in the third quarter of 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more information on charge-offs for the year ended December 31, 2022.

During the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, consistent with the Company’s applicable policy, the Company obtained independent third-party collateral valuations on all real estate securing non-performing loans with existing valuations older than 12-months, to support current ACL levels. No additional provision for credit losses were deemed necessary as a result of these valuations.

We continue to proactively and carefully monitor the Company’s credit quality practices, including examining and responding to patterns or trends that may arise across certain industries or regions.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

The Company recorded a provision for credit losses on loans of $48.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, compared to a release from the ACL of $2.9 million in the same period last year. In the first nine months of 2023, the provision for credit losses on loans includes $36.3 million in additional reserve requirements for loan charge-offs and credit quality, $2.3 million to account for loan growth and composition in the period and $9.6 million to reflect updated macroeconomic factors and loss factor updates.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, charge-offs increased $27.6 million, or 236.7%, compared to the same period of the prior year. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, charge-offs included: (i) $6.5 million related to an equipment-financing commercial loan relationship that was transferred to other repossessed assets in the first quarter of 2023 and subsequently sold in the second quarter of 2023; (ii) $20.4 million related to multiple consumer loans, primarily purchased indirect consumer loans, and (iii) $12.3 million in connection with multiple commercial and real estate loans. Charge-offs in the first nine months of 2023, were partially offset primarily by a $3.1 million recovery from a Miami-based U.S. coffee trader (“the Coffee Trader”) charged-off last year. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, charge-offs included: (i) $7.4 million related to four commercial loans, including $3.6 million related to the Coffee Trader and $2.5 million related to a nonaccrual loan paid off during the period, (ii) an aggregate of $3.7 million in consumer loans, and (iii) an aggregate of $0.5 million related to multiple smaller loans. The ratio of net charge-offs over the average total loan portfolio held for investment was 0.63% in the first nine months of 2023, compared to 0.22% in the first nine months of 2022.

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Noninterest Income

The table below sets forth a comparison for each of the categories of noninterest income for the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended September 30,								Change
	2023				2022				2023 vs 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Amount		%		Amount		%		Amount		%
Deposits and service fees	$	5,053	23.1	%	$	4,629	29.0	%	$	424	9.2	%
Brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities	4,370		19.9	%	4,619		29.0	%	(249)		(5.4)	%
Loan-level derivative income (1)	1,196		5.5	%	2,786		17.5	%	(1,590)		(57.1)	%
Change in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”)(2)	1,483		6.8	%	1,352		8.5	%	131		9.7	%
Cards and trade finance servicing fees	734		3.4	%	622		3.9	%	112		18.0	%
Gain on early extinguishment of FHLB advances, net	7,010		32.0	%	—		—	%	7,010		NM
Derivative gains, net (3)	(77)		(0.4)	%	(95)		(0.6)	%	18		(19.0)	%
Securities losses, net (4)	(54)		(0.3)	%	1,508		9.5	%	(1,562)		(103.6)	%
Other noninterest income (5)	2,206		10.0	%	535		3.2	%	1,671		312.3	%
Total noninterest income	$	21,921	100.0	%	$	15,956	100.0	%	$	5,965	37.4	%

	Nine Months Ended September 30,								Change
	2023				2022				2023 vs 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Amount		%		Amount		%		Amount		%
Deposits and service fees	$	14,952	22.0	%	$	13,826	32.2	%	$	1,126	8.1	%
Brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities	12,808		18.9	%	13,654		31.8	%	(846)		(6.2)	%
Loan-level derivative income (1)	3,743		5.5	%	6,947		16.2	%	(3,204)		(46.1)	%
Change in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) (2)	4,324		6.4	%	4,028		9.4	%	296		7.4	%
Cards and trade finance servicing fees	1,829		2.7	%	1,720		4.0	%	109		6.3	%
Gain (loss) on early extinguishment of FHLB advances, net	33,623		49.5	%	(712)		(1.7)	%	34,335		NM
Derivative gains (losses), net (3)	179		0.3	%	(585)		(1.4)	%	764		(130.6)	%
Securities losses, net (4)	(11,022)		(16.2)	%	(325)		(0.8)	%	(10,697)		NM
Other noninterest income (5)	7,447		10.9	%	4,359		10.3	%	3,088		70.8	%
Total noninterest income	$	67,883	100.0	%	$	42,912	100.0	%	$	24,971	58.2	%

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(1)    Income from interest rate swaps and other derivative transactions with customers. The Company incurred expenses related to derivative transactions with customers of $18.0 thousand and $1.8 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $1.7 million and $4.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, which are included as part of noninterest expenses under loan-level derivative expense.

(2)    Changes in cash surrender value of BOLI are not taxable.

(3)    Net unrealized gains and losses related to uncovered interest rate caps with clients.

(4)    Includes net gains of $22 thousand in the three months ended September 30, 2022, and a net loss of $10.8 million and net gain of $0.1 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, in connection with the sale of debt securities available for sale. In addition, includes unrealized losses of $0.1 million and unrealized gains of $1.5 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and unrealized losses of $0.1 million and $0.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to the change in fair value of equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading which are recorded in results of the period. Also, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company sold equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading, with a total fair value of $11.2 million at the time of sale, and recognized a net loss of $0.2 million in connection with this transaction.

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(5)    Includes mortgage banking revenue of $0.5 million and $0.1 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $3.9 million and $3.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to Amerant Mortgage. Mortgage banking revenue primarily consisting of gain on sale of loans, gain on loans market valuation, other fees and smaller sources of income. In addition, in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, includes rental income from operating leases of $0.3 million and $0.7 million, respectively. Other sources of income in the periods shown include income from foreign currency exchange transactions with customers and valuation income on the investment balances held in the non-qualified deferred compensation plan.

NM - means not meaningful

Three Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

Total noninterest income increased $6.0 million, or 37.4%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023, compared to the same period of 2022, mainly due to: (i) higher net gains on the early extinguishment of advances from the FHLB; (ii) higher other non-interest income, and (iii) higher deposit and service fees. These increases were partially offset by: (i) lower loan-level derivative income; (ii) lower net gains on securities, and (iii) lower brokerage, advisory and fiduciary fees.

In the three months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded a net gain of $7.0 million on the early repayment of approximately $225 million of advances from the FHLB. These early repayments of advances from the FHLB are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies. There were no significant gains or losses in connection with the early termination of advances from the FHLB in the three months ended September 30, 2022.

Other noninterest income increased $1.7 million, or 312.3%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, primarily driven by: (i) an increase of $0.4 million or 284.4% in mortgage banking income; (ii) an increase of $0.4 million in income from foreign currency exchange transactions with customers; (iii) rental income from operating leases of approximately 0.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023, and (iv) an aggregate increase of approximately $0.6 million in other smaller sources of income.

Deposits and service fees increased $0.4 million, or 9.2%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily due to higher service charge fee income as well as higher wire transfer fees.

Loan-level derivative income decreased $1.6 million, or 57.1%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, mainly driven by a lower volume of interest rate swap transactions with clients.

Brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities decreased $0.2 million, or 5.4%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year. This was primarily driven by: (i) lower brokerage fees as a result of lower fixed income and equity trading volumes, and (ii) lower fiduciary fees. These decreases were partially offset by higher advisory fees mainly driven by the growth in our AUM in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the same period last year.

Our AUM totaled $2.09 billion at September 30, 2023, an increase of $96.5 million, or 4.8%, from $2.0 billion at December 31, 2022, primarily driven by increased market valuations as well as net new assets as we continue to execute on our relationship-focused strategy.

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Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

Total noninterest income increased $25.0 million, or 58.2%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, compared to the same period of 2022, mainly due to: (i) higher net gains on the early extinguishment of advances from the FHLB; (ii) higher other noninterest income; (iii) higher deposits and services fees, and (iv) higher net unrealized gains on derivative valuation related to interest rate caps with clients. These increases were partially offset by: (i) net losses on the sale of certain securities totaling $11.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, mainly driven by losses on the sale of certain debt securities available for sale and marketable equity securities not held for trading; (ii) lower loan-level derivative income, and (iii) lower brokerage, advisory and fiduciary fees.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded net gains of $33.6 million on the early repayment of approximately $1.1 billion of advances from the FHLB. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recorded a net loss of $0.7 million on the early extinguishment of approximately $180 million of advances from the FHLB. These early repayments of advances from the FHLB are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies.

Other noninterest income increased $3.1 million, or 70.8%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, primarily driven by: (i) an increase of $0.7 million or 22.8% in mortgage banking income compared to the first nine months of 2022; (ii) rental income from operating leases of approximately $0.7 million in the first nine months of 2023; (iii) an increase of $0.7 million in income from foreign currency exchange transactions with customers, and (iv) an aggregate increase of approximately $1.0 million related to other smaller sources of income.

Deposits and service fees increased $1.1 million, or 8.1%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily due to higher service charge fee income as well as higher wire transfer fees.

In May 2023, the Company sold a portion of its investment in a corporate debt security held for sale issued by a financial institution, to reduce single point exposure. The Company received proceeds of $0.8 million and realized a pre-tax loss of $1.2 million in connection with this transaction. This loss was recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive (loss) income. Additionally, on March 27, 2023, the Company sold one corporate debt security held for sale issued by Signature Bank, N.A in an open market transaction. In the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company realized a pretax loss on sale of approximately $9.5 million in connection with this transaction which is recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive (loss) income. See “Securities” for additional information.

Loan-level derivative income decreased $3.2 million, or 46.1%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, mainly driven by a lower volume of interest rate swap transactions with clients.

Brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities decreased $0.8 million, or 6.2%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by: (i) lower brokerage fees as a result of lower equity trading volumes/commissions, and (ii) lower fiduciary fees.

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Noninterest Expense

The table below presents a comparison for each of the categories of noninterest expense for the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended September 30,								Change
	2023				2022				2023 vs 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Amount		%		Amount		%		Amount		%
Salaries and employee benefits (1)	$	31,334	48.6	%	$	30,109	53.7	%	$	1,225	4.1	%
Professional and other services fees (2)	5,325		8.3	%	5,045		9.0	%	280		5.6	%
Occupancy and equipment (3)	7,293		11.3	%	6,559		11.7	%	734		11.2	%
Telecommunications and data processing (4)	3,556		5.5	%	3,861		6.9	%	(305)		(7.9)	%
Advertising expenses	2,724		4.2	%	2,066		3.7	%	658		31.9	%
FDIC assessments and insurance	2,590		4.0	%	1,746		3.1	%	844		48.3	%
Other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense, net (5) (6)	(134)		(0.2)	%	234		0.4	%	(368)		(157.3)	%
Depreciation and amortization (7)	1,795		2.8	%	1,481		2.6	%	314		21.2	%
Contract termination costs (8)	—		—	%	289		0.5	%	(289)		(100.0)	%
Loan-level derivative expense (9)	18		—	%	1,810		3.2	%	(1,792)		(99.0)	%
Loans held for sale valuation expense (10)	5,562		8.6	%	—		—	%	5,562		NM
Other operating expenses (11)	4,357		6.9	%	2,913		5.2	%	1,444		49.6	%
Total noninterest expenses (12)	$	64,420	100.0	%	$	56,113	100.0	%	$	8,307	14.8	%

	Nine Months Ended September 30,								Change
	2023				2022				2023 vs 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Amount		%		Amount		%		Amount		%
Salaries and employee benefits (1)	$	100,457	49.8	%	$	90,724	50.6	%	$	9,733	10.7	%
Professional and other services fees (2)	20,368		10.1	%	15,918		8.9	%	4,450		28.0	%
Occupancy and equipment (3)	20,828		10.3	%	21,044		11.8	%	(216)		(1.0)	%
Telecommunications and data processing (4)	11,647		5.8	%	11,113		6.2	%	534		4.8	%
Advertising expenses	9,642		4.8	%	8,291		4.6	%	1,351		16.3	%
FDIC assessments and insurance	8,066		4.0	%	4,668		2.6	%	3,398		72.8	%
Other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense, net (5)(6)	2,297		1.1	%	3,408		1.9	%	(1,111)		(32.6)	%
Depreciation and amortization (7)	5,362		2.7	%	3,927		2.2	%	1,435		36.5	%
Contract termination costs (8)	1,550		0.8	%	7,103		4.0	%	(5,553)		(78.2)	%
Loan-level derivative expense (9)	1,728		0.9	%	4,865		2.7	%	(3,137)		(64.5)	%
Loans held for sale valuation expense (10)	5,562		2.8	%	159		0.1	%	5,403		NM
Other operating expenses (11)	14,146		6.9	%	7,952		4.4	%	6,194		77.9	%
Total noninterest expenses (12)	$	201,653	100.0	%	$	179,172	100.0	%	$	22,481	12.6	%

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(1)    Includes staff reduction costs of $0.5 million and $0.4 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $2.9 million and $1.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, which consists of severance costs primarily related to organizational rationalization.

(2) In the nine month period ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses in connection with the engagement of FIS of $4.6 million. In the three months ended September 30, 2022, includes additional expenses of $1.0 million in connection with the engagement of FIS. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, includes additional expenses of $2.4 million: including (i) $1.8 million resulting from the Company’s transition to our new technology provider; (ii) $0.2 million in connection with certain search and recruitment expenses; (iii) $0.1 million of costs associated with the subleasing of the New York office space, and (iv) an aggregate of $0.3 million in other expenses. There were no significant non-routine consulting expenses in connection with the engagement of FIS in the three months ended September 30, 2023.

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(3) In each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, includes a rent termination fee of $0.3 million in connection with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes $0.6 million related to ROU asset impairment in connection with the closure of a branch in Miami, Florida in 2023. Furthermore, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes $0.5 million related to ROU asset impairment in connection with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023. In the nine month period ended September 30, 2022, includes ROU asset impairment changes of $1.6 million in connection with the closure of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022. There were no ROU asset impairment charges in connection with branch closures in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

(4) Includes a charge of $1.4 million in the nine month period ended September 30, 2023 related to the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software .

(5)     In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes a loss on sale of repossessed assets in connection with our equipment-financing activities of $2.6 million.. In each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, includes $0.2 million and $3.4 million related to the fair value adjustment related to one OREO property in New York. In addition, in each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, includes OREO rental income of $0.4 million and $0.9 million. We had no other OREO rental income in the three and nine month periods September 30, 2022.

(6) Beginning in the three months ended June 30, 2023, other real estate owned (“OREO”) and repossessed assets expense is presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. In 2022, while OREO valuation expense was presented separately, all other OREO-related expenses were presented as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. We had no other repossessed assets in 2022.

(7)    In the nine months ended ended September 30, 2023, includes $0.9 million of the accelerated depreciation of leasehold improvements in connection with the closure of a branch in Miami, Florida in 2023.

(8) Contract termination and related costs associated with third party vendors resulting from the Company’s transition to our new technology provider.

(9)    Includes service fees in connection with our loan-level derivative income generation activities.

(10)    Valuation allowance as a result of changes in the fair value of loans held for sale carried at the lower of fair value or cost.

(11)    In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes an impairment charge of $2.0 million related to an investment carried at cost and included in other assets. In addition, in all the periods shown, includes charitable contributions, community engagement, postage and courier expenses, and debits which mirror the valuation income on the investment balances held in the non-qualified deferred compensation plan in order to adjust our liability to participants of the deferred compensation plan.

(12)    Includes $3.0 million and $2.7 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $10.9 million and $9.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to Amerant Mortgage, primarily consisting of salaries and employee benefits, mortgage lending costs and professional and other services fees.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

Noninterest expense increased $8.3 million, or 14.8%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, mainly due to: (i) a valuation expense of $5.6 million in the third quarter of 2023 related to the fair value adjustment of a New York-based CRE loan held for sale; (ii) higher other operating expenses; (iii) higher salary and employee benefits; (iv) higher FDIC assessments and insurance expenses; (v) higher occupancy and equipment expenses; (vi) higher advertising expenses; (vii) higher depreciation and amortization, and (viii) higher professional and other service fees. These increases were partially offset by: (i) lower loan level-derivative expenses; (ii) lower other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense; (iii) the absence of $0.3 million in costs associated with the termination of technology contracts resulting from the transition to FIS supported systems and applications in the third quarter of 2022, and (iv) lower telecommunication and data processing expenses.

Other operating expenses increased $1.4 million, or 49.6%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023, mainly driven by: (i) higher indirect loan costs and loan servicing fees; (ii) higher mortgage lending costs, and (iii) an aggregate increase in business development and other expenses.

Salaries and employee benefits increased $1.2 million, or 4.1%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period one year ago, mainly driven by: (i) salary increases mainly in connection with new hires during the first nine months of 2023, primarily in business areas; (ii) higher equity variable compensation in connection with the long term incentive program, and (iii) higher severance expenses. These results were partially offset by: (i) decreases in salaries and employee benefits related to staff reductions resulting from our ongoing transformation and efficiency improvement efforts, (ii) lower bonus commissions, and (iii) lower non-equity variable compensation. At September 30, 2023, our FTEs were 700, a net increase of 19 FTEs, or 2.8% compared to 681 FTEs at September 30, 2022.

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FDIC assessments and insurance increased $0.8 million, or 48.3%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by higher FDIC assessment rates and higher average assets.

Occupancy and equipment expenses increased $0.7 million, or 11.2%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period one year ago. This was primarily driven by higher branch closure expenses and real estate taxes in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the third quarter of 2022.

Advertising expenses increased $0.7 million, or 31.9%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, mainly due to higher expenses resulting from campaigns in connection with our partnerships with professional sports teams.

Depreciation and amortization expenses increased $0.3 million, or 21.2%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year. This was mainly driven by the additional depreciation expense in the third quarter of 2023 in connection with operating lease equipment.

Professional and other services fees increased $0.3 million, or 5.6%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year. This was primarily driven by higher other professional fees in connection with the new technology services received from FIS that began in the third quarter of 2023. This increase was partially offset by the absence of non-routine consulting fees in the third quarter of 2022 in connection with the engagement of FIS.

Loan-level derivative expenses decreased $1.8 million, or 99.0%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, mainly driven by a lower volume of derivative transactions with clients.

Other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense decreased $0.4 million, or 157.3%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, mainly driven by new OREO rental income in the third quarter of 2023.

Telecommunication and data processing expenses decreased $0.3 million, or 7.9%, in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by: (i) less usage of long distance communications, and (ii) lower computer software and technology support services.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022

Noninterest expense increased $22.5 million, or 12.6%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, mainly due to: (i) higher salary and employee benefits; (ii) other operating expenses; (iii) a valuation expense of $5.6 million in the first nine months of 2023 related to the fair value adjustment of New York-based CRE loan held for sale; (iv) higher professional and other service fees; (v) higher FDIC assessments and insurance expenses; (vi) higher depreciation and amortization expense; (vii) higher advertising expenses, and (viii) higher telecommunication and data processing expenses. These increases were partially offset by: (i) a decrease of $5.6 million in costs associated with the termination of technology contracts resulting from the transition to FIS supported systems and applications; (ii) lower loan-level derivative expenses, and (iii) lower other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense.

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Salaries and employee benefits increased $9.7 million, or 10.7%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period one year ago, mainly driven by: (i) salary increases mainly in connection with new hires during the first nine months of 2023, primarily in business areas; (ii) higher non-equity variable compensation; (iii) severance expenses; (iv) higher commissions, and (v) higher equity variable compensation in connection with the long term incentive program . These results were partially offset by decreases in salaries and employee benefits related to staff reductions resulting from our ongoing transformation and efficiency improvement efforts.

Other operating expenses increased $6.2 million, or 77.9%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, mainly driven by: (i) an impairment charge of $2.0 million related to an investment carried at cost in the first nine months of 2023; (ii) higher indirect loan costs and loan servicing fees; (iii) higher mortgage lending costs, and (iv) an aggregate increase in business development and other expenses.

Professional and other services fees increased $4.5 million, or 28.0%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by higher consulting and other professional fees in connection with the Company’s transition to our new technology provider. In addition, in the first nine months of 2023, we incurred higher other professional fees in connection with the new technology services received from FIS.

FDIC assessments and insurance increased $3.4 million, or 72.8%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by higher FDIC assessment rates and higher average assets.

Depreciation and amortization expenses increased $1.4 million, or 36.5%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year mainly driven by: (i) $0.9 million of accelerated depreciation of leasehold improvements resulting from the decision to close a branch in Miami, Florida in 2023, and (ii) additional depreciation expense in the first nine months of 2023 in connection with operating lease equipment.

Advertising expenses increased $1.4 million, or 16.3%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, mainly due to higher expenses resulting from campaigns in connection with our partnerships with professional sports teams which advanced to the finals of their respective leagues.

Telecommunication and data processing expenses increased $0.5 million, or 4.8%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by a charge of $1.4 million in connection with the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software in the first nine months of 2023. This increase was partially offset by lower computer software and technology support services.

Loan-level derivative expenses decreased $3.1 million, or 64.5%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, mainly driven by a lower volume of interest rate swap transactions with clients. This was partially offset by additional expenses in the first nine months of 2023 as a result of transitioning interest rate swap and cap contracts with clients from LIBOR to a new replacement index.

Other real estate owned and repossessed assets expense decreased $1.1 million, or 32.6%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to the same period last year, mainly driven by: (i) the absence in 2023 of a fair value adjustment of $3.4 million in connection with an OREO property in New York that took place in the first nine months of 2022, and (ii) new OREO rental income in the first nine months of 2023. This was partially offset by a loss on sale of repossessed assets in connection with equipment-financing activities of $2.6 million in the first nine months of 2023.

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Income Taxes

The table below sets forth information related to our income taxes for the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended September 30,						Change					Nine Months Ended September 30,						Change
	2023			2022 (1)			2023 vs 2022					2023			2022 (1)			2023 vs 2022
(in thousands, except effective tax rates and percentages)
Income before income tax expense (1)	$	28,078		$	22,426		$	5,652		25.2	%	$	62,240		$	51,139		$	11,101		21.7	%
Income tax expense (1)	$	6,337		$	4,936		$	1,401		28.4	%	$	13,511		$	10,994		$	2,517		22.9	%
Effective income tax rate	22.57		%	22.01		%	0.56		%	2.5	%	21.71		%	21.50		%	0.21		%	1.0	%

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(1)    Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 to our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for additional information.

In the third quarter of 2023, income tax expense increased to $6.3 million from $4.9 million in the third quarter of 2022, mainly driven by higher income before income taxes in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the same period last year. In the first nine months of 2023, income tax expense increased to $13.5 million from $11.0 million in the first nine months of 2022, primarily driven by higher income before income taxes in the first nine months of 2023 compared to the same period last year.

As of September 30, 2023, the Company’s net deferred tax assets were $63.5 million, an increase of $14.8 million, or 30.4%, compared to $48.7 million as of December 31, 2022. This result was mainly driven by: (i) an increase of $8.3 million in connection with the $32.7 million in pretax net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, and (ii) the net increase of $15.3 million in the allowance for credit losses recorded in the first nine months of 2023, which increased the related net deferred tax asset by $3.9 million in the first nine months of 2023.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company supplements its financial results that are determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) with non-GAAP financial measures, such as “pre-provision net revenue (PPNR)”, “core pre-provision net revenue (Core PPNR)”, “tangible stockholders’ equity (book value) per common share”, “tangible common equity ratio, adjusted for unrealized losses on debt securities held to maturity”, and “tangible stockholders' equity (book value) per common share, adjusted for unrealized losses on debt securities held to maturity”. This supplemental information is not required by or is not presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company refers to these financial measures and ratios as “non-GAAP financial measures” and they should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the GAAP measures presented herein.

We use certain non-GAAP financial measures, including those mentioned above, both to explain our results to shareholders and the investment community and in the internal evaluation and management of our businesses. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures and the information they provide are useful to investors since these measures permit investors to view our performance using the same tools that our management uses to evaluate our past performance and prospects for future performance, especially in light of the additional costs we have incurred in connection with the Company’s restructuring activities that began in 2018 and continued in 2023, including the effect of non-core banking activities such as the sale of loans and securities and other repossessed assets, the valuation of securities, derivatives, loans held for sale and other real estate owned and repossessed assets, the early repayment of FHLB advances, impairment of investments, and other non-routine actions intended to improve customer service and operating performance. While we believe that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating our performance, this information should be considered as supplemental and not as a substitute for or superior to the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Additionally, these non-GAAP financial measures may differ from similar measures presented by other companies.

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The following table is a reconciliation of the Company’s PPNR and Core PPNR, non-GAAP financial measures, as of the dates presented:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc. (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Plus: provision for credit losses (1)(2)	8,000		7,314		48,777		(2,912)
Plus: provision for income tax expense (1)	6,337		4,936		13,511		10,994
Pre-provision net revenue (PPNR)	36,456		29,784		111,901		49,419
Plus: non-routine noninterest expense items	6,303		1,954		23,058		16,523
Less: non-routine noninterest income items	(6,879)		(1,413)		(22,780)		1,699
Core pre-provision net revenue (Core PPNR)	$	35,880	$	30,325	$	112,179	$	67,641
Total noninterest income	$	21,921	$	15,956	$	67,883	$	42,912
Less: Non-routine noninterest income items:
Derivatives (losses) gains, net	(77)		(95)		179		(585)
Securities (losses) gains, net	(54)		1,508		(11,022)		(325)
Gains (loss) on early extinguishment of FHLB advances, net	7,010		—		33,623		(712)
Loss on sale of loans	—		—		—		(77)
Total non-routine noninterest income items	$	6,879	$	1,413	$	22,780	$	(1,699)
Core noninterest income	$	15,042	$	14,543	$	45,103	$	44,611
Total noninterest expenses	$	64,420	$	56,113	$	201,653	$	179,172
Non-routine noninterest expense items
Restructuring costs (3):
Staff reduction costs (4)	489		358		2,886		1,797
Consulting and other professional fees (5)	—		1,073		4,750		2,399
Contract termination costs (6)	—		289		1,550		7,103
Disposition of fixed assets (7)	—		—		1,419		—
Branch closure expenses and related charges (8)	252		—		2,279		1,612
Digital transformation expenses	—		—		—		45
Total restructuring costs	$	741	$	1,720	$	12,884	$	12,956
Other non-routine noninterest expense items:
Loss on sale of repossessed assets and other real estate owned valuation expense (9)	—		234		2,649		3,408
Impairment charge on investment carried at cost (10)	—		—		1,963		—
Loans held for sale valuation expense (11)	5,562		—		5,562		159
Total non-routine noninterest expense items	$	6,303	$	1,954	$	23,058	$	16,523
Core noninterest expenses	$	58,117	$	54,159	$	178,595	$	162,649

(1)     As previously disclosed, the Company adopted CECL in the fourth quarter of 2022, effective as of January 1, 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details of the CECL adoption and related effects to quarterly results for each quarter in the year ended December 31, 2022.

(2)     In the third quarter of 2023, includes $7.4 million and $0.6 million of provision for credit losses on loans and unfunded commitments (contingencies), respectively. In the first nine months of 2023, includes $48.2 million and $0.6 million of provision for credit losses on loans and unfunded commitments, respectively. There was no provision for credit losses on unfunded commitments in the third quarter and first nine months of 2022.

(3)     Expenses incurred for actions designed to implement the Company’s business strategy. These actions include, but are not limited to reductions in workforce, streamlining operational processes, rolling out the Amerant brand, implementation of new technology system applications, decommissioning of legacy technologies, enhanced sales tools and training, expanded product offerings and improved customer analytics to identify opportunities.

(4)    Staff reduction costs in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 consist of severance expenses related to organizational rationalization.

(5) In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes non-routine expenses in connection with the engagement of FIS of $4.6 million. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, includes non-routine expenses in connection with the engagement of FIS of $1.0 million and $1.8 million, respectively.

(6)    Contract termination and related costs associated with third party vendors resulting from the engagement of our new technology provider.

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(7) In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses in connection with the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software .

(8) In each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses in connection with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes expenses associated with the closure of a branch in Miami, Florida in 2023, including $0.9 million of accelerated amortization of leasehold improvements and $0.6 million of right-of-use, or ROU asset impairment. Furthermore, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes $0.5 million of ROU asset impairment associated with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022 includes ROU asset impairment changes of $1.6 million in connection with the closure of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022.

(9)    In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, amount represents the loss on sale of repossessed assets in connection with equipment-financing activities. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, amounts represent the fair value adjustment related to one OREO property in New York.

(10)    In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, includes an impairment charge of $2.0 million related to an investment carried at cost and included in other assets.

(11) Fair value adjustment related to loans held for sale carried at the lower of fair value or cost.

The following table is a reconciliation of the Company’s tangible common equity and tangible assets, non- GAAP financial measures, to total equity and total assets, respectively, as of the dates presented:

(in thousands, except percentages, share data and per share amounts)	As of September 30, 2023			As of December 31, 2022
Stockholders' equity	$	719,787		$	705,726
Less: goodwill and other intangibles (1)	(26,818)			(23,161)
Tangible common stockholders' equity	$	692,969		$	682,565
Total assets	9,345,700			9,127,804
Less: goodwill and other intangibles (1)	(26,818)			(23,161)
Tangible assets	$	9,318,882		$	9,104,643
Common shares outstanding	33,583,621			33,815,161
Tangible common equity ratio	7.44		%	7.50		%
Stockholders' book value per common share	$	21.43		$	20.87
Tangible stockholders' equity book value per common share	$	20.63		$	20.19
Tangible common stockholders' equity	$	692,969		$	682,565
Less: Net unrealized accumulated losses on debt securities held to maturity, net of tax (2)	(26,138)			(18,234)
Tangible common stockholders' equity, adjusted for net unrealized accumulated losses on debt securities held to maturity	$	666,831		$	664,331
Tangible assets	$	9,318,882		$	9,104,643
Less: Net unrealized accumulated losses on debt securities held to maturity, net of tax (2)	(26,138)			(18,234)
Tangible assets, adjusted for net unrealized accumulated losses on debt securities held to maturity	$	9,292,744		$	9,086,409
Common shares outstanding	33,583,621			33,815,161
Tangible common equity ratio, adjusted for net unrealized accumulated losses on debt securities held to maturity	7.18		%	7.31		%
Tangible stockholders' book value per common share, adjusted for unrealized accumulated losses on debt securities held to maturity	$	19.86		$	19.65

(1)    At September 30, 2023 other intangible assets consist primarily of naming rights and mortgage servicing rights (“MSRs”). At December 31, 2022, other intangible assets primarily consist of MSRs. Other intangible assets are included in other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

(2)    At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, amounts were calculated based upon the fair value of debt securities held to maturity, and assuming a tax rate of 25.51% and 25.55%, respectively.

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Financial Condition - Comparison of Financial Condition as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022

Assets. Total assets were $9.3 billion as of September 30, 2023, an increase of $217.9 million, or 2.4%, compared to $9.1 billion at December 31, 2022. This result was primarily driven by increases of: (i) $207.7 million, or 3.0%, in total loans held for investment, net of the ACL, and loans held for sale; (ii) $46.0 million, or 29.5%, in accrued interest receivable and other assets primarily driven by new OREO balances and an increase in derivative assets, and (iii) $18.4 million, or 6.3%, in cash and cash equivalents. These increases were partially offset by decreases of: (i) $52.3 million, or 3.8%, in total securities, mainly debt securities available for sale, and (ii) $23.2 million, or 16.6%, decrease in operating lease right-of-use assets mainly the result of the modification of a lease in the first quarter of 2023. See “-Average Balance Sheet, Interest and Yield/Rate Analysis” for detailed information, including changes in the composition of our interest-earning assets. See “Loan Quality” for more details on OREO and repossessed assets.

Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents increased to $309.0 million at September 30, 2023 from $290.6 million at December 31, 2022, primarily as a result of higher non-interest earning cash balances which include cash and due from banks and restricted cash. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, cash balances held at the Federal Reserve Bank were $217 million and $228 million, respectively. In addition, at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents included restricted cash of $51.8 million and $42.2 million, respectively, which was held primarily to cover margin calls on derivative transactions with certain brokers. Furthermore, at September 30, 2023, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents included other short-term investments of $6.0 million which consist of US Treasury Bills that mature in 90 days or less.

Cash and cash equivalents provided by operating activities were $41.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily driven by net income before attribution of non controlling interest of $48.7 million in the first nine months of 2023, which included a non-cash provision for credit losses of $48.8 million. This was partially offset by mortgage loans held for sale originations and purchases, net of sales, during the period.

Net cash used in investing activities was $232.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, mainly driven by: (i) a net increase in loans of $271.0 million, (ii) purchases of investment securities totaling $158.4 million, and (iii) net purchases of premises and equipment of $8.3 million. These disbursements were partially offset by: (i) maturities, sales, calls and paydowns of investment securities totaling $163.3 million; (ii) proceeds from sale of loans held for investment of $41.9 million, and (iii) proceeds from the sale of repossessed assets in connection with our equipment-financing activities of $2.5 million.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, net cash provided by financing activities was $209.4 million. These activities included a net increase of $574.6 million in time deposits. These proceeds were partially offset by: (i) net repayments of FHLB advances of $278.4 million; (ii) a net decrease of $71.9 million in total demand, savings and money market deposit balances; (iii) $9.1 million of dividends declared and paid by the Company in the first nine months of 2023, and (iv) an aggregate $4.9 million in connection with the repurchase of shares of Class A common stock under a stock repurchase program launched in the first quarter of 2023. See “-Capital Resources and Liquidity Management” for more details on changes in FHLB advances in the first nine months of 2023 and the stock repurchase programs.

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Loans

Loans are our largest component of interest-earning assets. The table below depicts the trend of loans as a percentage of total assets and the allowance for loan losses as a percentage of total loans for the periods presented.

	September 30, 2023			December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)
Total loans, gross (1)	$	7,142,596		$	6,919,632
Total loans, gross / total assets	76.4		%	75.8		%
Allowance for credit losses	$	98,773		$	83,500
Allowance for credit losses / total loans held for investment, gross (1) (2)	1.40		%	1.22		%
Total loans, net (3)	$	7,043,823		$	6,836,132
Total loans, net / total assets	75.4		%	74.9		%

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(1)    Total loans, gross is the principal balance of outstanding loans, including loans held for investment and loans held for sale, net of unamortized deferred nonrefundable loan origination fees and loan origination costs, and unamortized premiums paid on purchased loans, excluding the allowance for credit losses. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were $26.0 million and $62.4 million, respectively, in mortgage loans held for sale carried at fair value in connection with the Company’s mortgage banking activities through its subsidiary Amerant Mortgage. In addition, as of September 30, 2023, includes $43.3 million in loans held for sale carried at the lower of estimated fair value or cost.

(2)    See Note 5 of our audited consolidated financial statements included in the 2022 Form 10-K and our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q for more details on our credit loss estimates.

(3)    Total loans, net is the principal balance of outstanding loans, including loans held for investment and held for sale, net of unamortized deferred nonrefundable loan origination fees and loan origination costs, and unamortized premiums paid on purchased loans, excluding the allowance for credit losses.

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The table below summarizes the composition of our loans held for investment by type of loan as of the end of each period presented. International loans include transactions in which the debtor or customer is domiciled outside the U.S., even when the collateral is U.S. property. All international loans are denominated and payable in U.S. Dollars.

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Domestic Loans:
Real Estate Loans
Commercial real estate (CRE)
Non-owner occupied (1)	$	1,593,571	$	1,615,716
Multi-family residential	771,654		820,023
Land development and construction loans	301,938		273,174
	2,667,163		2,708,913
Single-family residential (2)	1,324,233		1,048,396
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,046,450
	5,121,317		4,803,759
Commercial loans (3)	1,397,593		1,338,157
Loans to depository institutions and acceptances (4)	13,353		13,292
Consumer loans and overdrafts (5) (6)	437,817		602,793
Total Domestic Loans	6,970,080		6,758,001
International Loans:
Real Estate Loans
Single-family residential (7)	46,961		54,449
Commercial loans	55,166		43,077
Consumer loans and overdrafts (8)	1,180		1,667
Total International Loans	103,307		99,193
Total Loans held for investment	$	7,073,387	$	6,857,194

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(1)    As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes $140.9 million and $84.8 million, respectively, in specialty properties (marinas, nursing and residential care facilities, and other specialty type CRE properties).

(2)    As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes $258 million and $230.3 million, respectively, in single-family residential loans purchased by the Company through Amerant Mortgage.

(3)    As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes $690.8 million and $420.3 million, respectively, in specialty finance loans. These specialty finance loans include $49.3 million and $45.3 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, in commercial loans and leases originated under a white-label equipment financing solution launched in the second quarter of 2022.

(4)    Mostly comprised of loans secured by cash or U.S. Government securities.

(5)    Includes customers’ overdraft balances totaling $1.6 million and $4.7 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

(6)    Includes indirect lending loans purchased with an outstanding balance of $254.7 million and $433.3 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. In addition, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes $57.5 million and $43.8 million, respectively, in consumer loan originated under a white-label program. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the outstanding balance of indirect lending loans includes unamortized premiums paid of $3.8 million and $10.9 million, respectively.

(7)    Secured by real estate properties located in the U.S.

(8)    International customers’ overdraft balances were de minimis at each of the dates presented.

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The composition of our CRE loan portfolio held for investment by industry segment at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 is depicted in the following table:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Retail (1)	$	718,896	$	731,229
Multifamily	771,654		820,023
Office Space	343,234		342,248
Specialty (2)	140,915		84,791
Land and Construction	301,938		273,174
Hospitality	268,648		324,881
Industrial and Warehouse	121,878		132,567
Total CRE (3)	$	2,667,163	$	2,708,913

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(1)    Includes loans generally granted to finance the acquisition or operation of non-owner occupied properties such as retail shopping centers, free-standing single-tenant properties, and mixed-use properties primarily dedicated to retail, where the primary source of repayment is derived from the rental income generated from the use of the property by its tenants.

(2)    Includes marinas, nursing and residential care facilities, and other specialty type CRE properties.

(3)     Includes loans held for investment in the NY loan portfolio, which were $240 million at September 30, 2023 and $330 million at December 31, 2022.

The table below summarizes the composition of our loans held for sale by type of loan as of the end of each period presented:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	43,256	$	—
Total loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost (1)	43,256		—
Mortgage loans held for sale at fair value
Land development and construction loans (2)	6,931		9,424
Single-family residential (3)	19,022		53,014
Total loans held for sale at fair value (4)	25,953		62,438
Total loans held for sale (5)	$	69,209	$	62,438

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(1)In the third quarter of 2023, the Company transferred a New York-based CRE loan held for investment to the loans held for sale category, and recognized a valuation allowance of $5.6 million as result of the fair value adjustment of this loan. The Company subsequently sold this loan and there was no material impact to the Company’s results of operations as result of this transaction.

(2)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $14 million in land development and construction loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(3)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $81 million in single-family residential loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(4)Loans held for sale in connection with Amerant Mortgage’s ongoing business.

(5)Remained current and in accrual status at each of the periods shown.

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At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were $26.0 million and $62.4 million, respectively, of primarily single-family residential loans held for sale carried at their estimated fair value. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, in connection with mortgage loans held for sale, we originated and purchased approximately $268.2 million, and had proceeds of approximately $213.5 million, mainly from the sale of these loans.

In the third quarter of 2023, the Company transferred a New York-based CRE loan held for investment to the loans held for sale category, with an amortized cost of $48.8 million at the time of transfer, and recognized a valuation allowance of $5.6 million as a result of the fair value adjustment of this loan. The Company subsequently sold this loan and there was no material impact to the Company’s results of operations as result of this transaction.

As of September 30, 2023, total loans held for investment were $7.1 billion, up $216.2 million, or 3.2%, compared to $6.9 billion at December 31, 2022. Domestic loans held for investment increased $212.1 million, or 3.1%, as of September 30, 2023, compared to December 31, 2022. The increase in total domestic loans held for investment includes net increases of $275.8 million, or 26.3%, $83.5 million, or 8.0%, and $59.4 million, or 4.4% in domestic single-family residential loans, owner occupied loans and commercial loans, respectively. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $165.0 million, or 27.4%, in domestic consumer loans as the Company discontinued the purchases of indirect consumer loans in the first nine months of 2023 and such indirect lending portfolio is set to runoff over time. In addition, there was a net decrease of $41.8 million, or 1.5%, in CRE domestic loans, primarily driven by the transfer to held for sale of a New York- based CRE loan as discussed above.

The increase in our domestic loan portfolio held for investment in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 includes the effect of: (i) originations of commercial loans, including $21 million of loans originated through a new white label equipment financing solution launched in the second quarter of 2022 as well as other specialty finance loans; (ii) originations of single-family residential loans; (iii) originations of CRE and owner-occupied loans; (iv) approximately $17.5 million of single-family residential loans purchased by the Company through its subsidiary Amerant Mortgage, and (v) originations of consumer loans of approximately $27 million through a new white-label program launched in the third quarter of 2022. These results were partially offset primarily by loan pay downs and payoffs during the period.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company has added approximately $305 million in single-family residential and construction loans through Amerant Mortgage, which includes loans originated and purchased from different channels.

Loans to international customers, primarily from Venezuela and other customers in Latin America, increased $4.1 million, or 4.1%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, mainly driven by an increase of (i) $12.1 million, or 28.1%, in commercial loans to Panama, partially offset by a decrease of $7.5 million, or 13.8%, in single family residential loans, including a reduction of $7.2 million, or15.3%, in loans related to Venezuelan customers.

As of September 30, 2023, loans under syndication facilities, included in loans held for investment, were $312.5 million, a decrease of $54.5 million, or 14.8%, compared to $367.0 million at December 31, 2022. This decrease was primarily driven by pay downs totaling $94.1 million. In addition, in the third quarter of 2023, the Company transferred a syndicated CRE loan in New York of $48.8 million to the held for sale category. These decreases were partially offset by an aggregate of $88.8 million in new loans and increased balance of existing loans. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, loans under syndication facilities held for investment include Shared National Credit facilities of $128 million and $143 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2023, syndicated loans that financed highly leveraged transactions were $5.8 million, or 0.1%, of total loans, compared to $8.5 million, or 0.1%, of total loans as of December 31, 2022.

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Foreign Outstanding

The table below summarizes the composition of our international loan portfolio by country of risk for the periods presented. All of our foreign loans are denominated in U.S. Dollars, and bear fixed or variable rates of interest based upon different market benchmarks plus a spread.

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
	Net Exposure (1)		% Total Assets		Net Exposure (1)		% Total Assets
(in thousands, except percentages)
Venezuela (2)	$	39,885	0.4	%	$	47,037	0.5	%
Other (3)	63,422		0.7	%	52,156		0.6	%
Total	$	103,307	1.1	%	$	99,193	1.1	%

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(1)    Consists of outstanding principal amounts, net of collateral of cash, cash equivalents or other financial instruments totaling $6.6 million and $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

(2)    Includes mortgage loans for single-family residential properties located in the U.S. totaling $39.8 million and $47.0 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

(3)    Includes loans to borrowers in other countries which do not individually exceed one percent of total assets in any of the periods shown.

The maturities of our outstanding international loans were:

	September 30, 2023								December 31, 2022
	Less than 1 year		1-3 Years		More than 3 years		Total (1)		Less than 1 year		1-3 Years		More than 3 years		Total (1)
(in thousands)
Venezuela (2)	$	975	$	—	$	38,910	$	39,885	$	3,507	$	295	$	43,235	$	47,037
Other (3)	13,846		6,475		43,101		63,422		13,221		13,647		25,288		52,156
Total	$	14,821	$	6,475	$	82,011	$	103,307	$	16,728	$	13,942	$	68,523	$	99,193

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(1)    Consists of outstanding principal amounts, net of collateral of cash, cash equivalents or other financial instruments totaling $6.6 million and $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

(2)    Includes mortgage loans for single-family residential properties located in the U.S.

(3)    Includes loans to borrowers in other countries which do not individually exceed one percent of total assets in any of the periods shown.

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Loan Quality

Allocation of Allowance for Credit Losses

In the following table, we present the allocation of the ACL by loan segment at the end of the periods presented. The amounts shown in this table should not be interpreted as an indication that charge-offs in future periods will occur in these amounts or percentages. These amounts represent our best estimates of expected credit losses to be collected throughout the life of the loans, at the reported dates, derived from historical events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts at the dates reported. Our allowance for credit losses is established using estimates and judgments, which consider the views of our regulators in their periodic examinations. Re-evaluation of the ACL estimate in future periods, in light of changes in composition and characteristics of the loan portfolio, changes in the reasonable and supportable forecast and other factors then prevailing may result in material changes in the amount of the ACL and credit loss expense in those future periods. We also show the percentage of each loan class, which includes loans in nonaccrual status.

	September 30, 2023					December 31, 2022
	Allowance			% of Loans in Each Category to Total Loans Held for Investment		Allowance			% of Loans in Each Category to Total Loans Held for Investment
(in thousands, except percentages)
Domestic Loans
Real estate	$	39,091		40.0	%	$	25,237		42.2	%
Commercial	32,376			36.0	%	25,483			34.7	%
Financial institutions	—			0.2	%	—			0.2	%
Consumer and others (1)	26,120			22.3	%	31,569			21.5	%
	97,587			98.5	%	82,289			98.6	%
International Loans (2)
Commercial	550			0.8	%	405			0.6	%
Consumer and others (1)	636			0.7	%	806			0.8	%
	1,186			1.5	%	1,211			1.5	%
Total Allowance for Loan Losses	$	98,773		100.0	%	$	83,500		100.0	%
% of Total Loans held for investment	1.40		%			1.22		%

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(1)     Includes (i) unsecured indirect consumer loans (domestic) to qualified individuals purchased in 2022, 2021 and 2020; and (ii) mortgage loans for and secured by single-family residential properties located in the U.S.

(2)     Includes transactions in which the debtor or customer is domiciled outside the U.S. and all collateral is located in the U.S.

The ACL was determined utilizing a reasonable and supportable forecast period. The ACL was determined using a weighted-average of various macroeconomic scenarios provided by a third-party, and incorporated qualitative components. There has not been material changes in our policies and methodology to estimate the ACL in the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the changes in the allocation of the ACL were primarily attributed to reserve requirements for loan charge-offs, loan composition and credit quality changes as well as updated macroeconomic factors.

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Non-Performing Assets

In the following table, we present a summary of our non-performing assets by loan class, which includes non-performing loans by portfolio segment, both domestic and international, and other real estate owned, or OREO and other repossessed assets, at the dates presented. Non-performing loans consist of: (i) nonaccrual loans where the accrual of interest has been discontinued, and (ii) accruing loans 90 days or more contractually past due as to interest or principal.

	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
(in thousands)
Non-Accrual Loans (1)
Domestic Loans:
Real Estate Loans
Commercial real estate (CRE)
Non-owner occupied	$	—	$	20,057
Multi-family residential	23,344		—
	23,344		20,057
Single-family residential	2,056		1,307
Owner occupied (2)	2,100		6,270
	27,500		27,634
Commercial loans (2)(3)	4,713		9,271
Consumer loans and overdrafts (4)	1		1
Total Domestic	32,214		36,906
International Loans: (5)
Real Estate Loans
Single-family residential	477		219
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		3
Total International	477		222
Total Non-Accrual Loans	$	32,691	$	37,128
Past Due Accruing Loans (6)
Domestic Loans:
Real Estate Loans
Single-family residential	$	—	$	253
Commercial	504		183
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		35
Total Domestic	504		471
International Loans:
Real Estate Loans
Single-family residential	—		—
Total International	—		—
Total Past Due Accruing Loans	504		471
Total Non-Performing Loans	$	33,195	$	37,599
OREO and other repossessed assets	20,181		—
Total Non-Performing Assets	$	53,376	$	37,599

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(1)    Prior to the first quarter of 2023, included loan modifications that met the definition of troubled debt restructurings, or TDR, which may be performing in accordance with their modified loan terms.

(2)    In the third quarter of 2023, the Company sold a loan relationship in nonaccrual status and classified as Substandard with a total carrying value of $8.6 million at the time of sale. This loan relationship included a commercial loan of $4.6 million and multiple owner occupied loans totaling $4.0 million. The Company charged-off $2.1 million against the ACL in the third quarter of 2023 in connection with this sale, which had already been reserved in a prior period. Therefore, this transaction had no impact to the Company’s results of operations in the third quarter of 2023.

(3) In the second quarter of 2023, we collected $2.8 million in full satisfaction of a commercial loan relationship in nonaccrual status and classified as Substandard at March 31, 2023.

(4)    In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company changed its charge-off policy for unsecured consumer loans from 120 to 90 days past due. This change resulted in an additional $3.4 million in charge-offs for unsecured consumer loans in the fourth quarter of 2022.

(5)    Includes transactions in which the debtor or customer is domiciled outside the U.S., but where all collateral is located in the U.S.

(6)    Loans past due 90 days or more but still accruing.

The following table presents the activity of non-performing assets by type of loan in the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Single-family Residential		Owner-occupied		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		OREO and Other Repossessed Assets		Total
Balance at beginning of period	$	20,057	$	1,779	$	6,270	$	9,454	$	—	$	39	$	—	$	37,599
Plus:
Loans placed in nonaccrual status	26,126		2,210		1,316		26,731		—		20,388		—		76,771
Less:
Nonaccrual loan charge-offs	(90)		(39)		—		(18,715)		—		(20,389)		—		(39,233)
Nonaccrual loans sold, net of charge offs	—		—		(4,084)		(2,413)		—		—		—		(6,497)
Nonaccrual loan collections and others	(2,692)		(1,341)		(1,402)		(3,487)		—		(37)		124		(8,835)
Loans returned to accrual status	—		(76)		—		—		—		—		—		(76)
Transferred from Loans to OREO and Other Repossessed Assets	(20,057)		—		—		(6,353)		—		—		26,410		—
Other repossessed assets sold	—		—		—		—		—		—		(6,353)		(6,353)
Balances at end of period	$	23,344	$	2,533	$	2,100	$	5,217	$	—	$	1	$	20,181	$	53,376

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company placed in nonaccrual status and further downgraded to Substandard a New York-based CRE multi-family residential loan of $24.3 million.

In the third quarter of 2023, the Company sold a loan relationship in nonaccrual status and classified as Substandard with a total carrying value of $8.6 million at the time of sale. This loan relationship included a commercial loan of $4.6 million and multiple owner occupied loans totaling $4.0 million. The Company charged-off $2.1 million against the ACL in the third quarter of 2023 in connection with this sale, which had already been reserved in a prior period. Therefore, this transaction had no impact to the Company’s results of operations in the third quarter of 2023.

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In the first quarter of 2023, the Company received one CRE property guaranteeing a New York based non-owner-occupied loan with a carrying amount of $20.1 million, and transferred it to OREO at the net of its fair value less cost to sell of approximately $20.2 million. This loan was among the loans placed in non-accrual status in 2022. There was no impact on the consolidated results of operations in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 as a result of this transaction.

In the first quarter of 2023, the Company placed in nonaccrual status a $12.9 million equipment-financing commercial loan relationship, charged-off $6.5 million related to the portion of the balance deemed uncollectible, and transferred the remaining balance of $6.4 million to other repossessed assets. In the second quarter of 2023, the Company sold these repossessed assets and recognized a loss on the sale of $2.6 million which is included in the result of operations for the period.

We recognized no interest income on non accrual loans during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

The Company’s loans by credit quality indicators are summarized in the following table. We have no purchased-credit-impaired loans.

	September 30, 2023								December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Special Mention		Substandard		Doubtful		Total (1)		Special Mention		Substandard		Doubtful		Total (1)
Real Estate Loans
Commercial Real Estate (CRE)
Non-owner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	8,378	$	20,113	$	—	$	28,491
Multi-family residential	—		23,344		—		23,344		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction  loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		23,344		—		23,344		8,378		20,113		—		28,491
Single-family residential	—		3,085		—		3,085		—		1,930		—		1,930
Owner occupied (2)	2,234		2,180		—		4,414		—		6,356		—		6,356
	2,234		28,609		—		30,843		8,378		28,399		—		36,777
Commercial loans (2)(3)	26,975		5,732		3		32,710		1,749		10,446		3		12,198
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		1		—		1		—		230		—		230
	$	29,209	$	34,342	$	3	$	63,554	$	10,127	$	39,075	$	3	$	49,205

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(1) There are no loans categorized as a “Loss” as of the dates presented.

(2) In the third quarter of 2023, the Company sold a loan relationship in nonaccrual status and classified as Substandard with a total carrying value of $8.6 million at the time of sale. This loan relationship included a commercial loan of $4.6 million and multiple owner occupied loans totaling $4.0 million. The Company charged-off $2.1 million against the ACL in the third quarter of 2023 in connection with this sale, which had already been reserved in a prior period. Therefore, this transaction had no impact to the Company’s results of operations in the third quarter of 2023.

(3) In the second quarter of 2023, we collected $2.8 million in full satisfaction of a commercial loan relationship in nonaccrual status and classified as Substandard at March 31, 2023.

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Classified Loans. Classified loans includes substandard and doubtful loans. The following table presents the activity of classified loans by type of loan in the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

(in thousands)	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Commercial Real Estate		Single-family Residential		Owner-occupied		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of period	$	20,113	$	1,930	$	6,356	$	10,449	$	—	$	230	$	39,078
Plus:
Loans downgraded to substandard and doubtful	26,126		3,238		1,330		26,752		—		20,456		77,902
Less:													—
Classified loan charge-offs	(90)		(39)		—		(18,715)		—		(20,389)		(39,233)
Classified loans sold, net of charge offs	—		—		(4,084)		(2,413)		—		—		(6,497)
Classified loan collections and others	(2,748)		(1,968)		(1,422)		(3,985)		—		(296)		(10,419)
Loans upgraded	—		(76)		—		—		—		—		(76)
Transferred from Loans to OREO and Other Repossessed Assets	(20,057)		—		—		(6,353)		—		—		(26,410)
Balances at end of period	$	23,344	$	3,085	$	2,180	$	5,735	$	—	$	1	$	34,345

Special Mention Loans. Special mention loans as of September 30, 2023 totaled $29.2 million, an increase of $19.1 million, or 188.4%, from $10.1 million as of December 31, 2022. This increase was primarily driven by an aggregate of $64.7 million in downgrades, including: (i) $24.3 million related to a New York CRE multi-family residential loan; (ii) $15.3 million corresponding to a borrower in the seafood wholesale industry, including two commercial loans totaling $13.1 million and an owner-occupied loan of $2.2 million; (iii) $10 million related to a used car dealer in Texas; (iv) $7 million related to a Miami based borrower in the coffee industry; (v) $6.5 million to related to a land development and construction loan in Texas that was subsequently paid off in July 2023, and (vi) a $1.5 million commercial loan to an acute care facility. These increases were partially offset by: (i) the further downgrade to Classified of the $24.3 million New York CRE multi-family residential loan previously mentioned and the $1.5 million commercial loan to an acute care facility, and (ii) an aggregate of $10.0 million in upgrades, including $8.3 million related to a New York income producing commercial property and an aggregate of $1.7 million corresponding to two commercial loans; and iii) payoffs to existing special mention loans of $2.8 million. All special mention loans remained current at September 30, 2023.

Potential problem loans, which are accruing loans classified as substandard and are less than 90 days past due, at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, are as follows:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Real estate loans
Single-family residential (1)	553		150
Owner occupied	80		86
	633		236
Commercial loans	1,021		1,178
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		226
	$	1,654	$	1,640

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(1) Corresponds to both domestic and international single-family residential loans.

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Securities

The following table sets forth the book value and percentage of each category of securities at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022. The book value for debt securities classified as available for sale and equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading represents fair value. The book value for debt securities classified as held to maturity represents amortized cost less ACL if required. The Company determined that an ACL on its debt securities available for sale as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 was not required. The Company adopted CECL in 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for details.

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
	Amount		%		Amount		%
(in thousands, except percentages)
Debt securities available for sale:
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	$	414,635	31.5	%	$	437,674	32.0	%
Corporate debt securities (1) (2) (3)	252,578		19.2	%	280,700		20.6	%
U.S. government agency debt securities	355,987		27.1	%	330,821		24.2	%
U.S. treasury securities	3,952		0.3	%	1,996		0.1	%
Municipal bonds	1,640		0.1	%	1,656		0.1	%
Collateralized loan obligations	5,005		0.4	%	4,774		0.4	%
	$	1,033,797	78.6	%	$	1,057,621	77.4	%
Debt securities held to maturity (4)	$	230,254	17.5	%	$	242,101	17.7	%
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading (5)	$	2,438	0.2	%	$	11,383	0.8	%
Other securities (6):	$	47,878	3.7	%	$	55,575	4.1	%
	$	1,314,367	100.0	%	$	1,366,680	100.0	%

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(1)    As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 corporate debt includes $9.8 million and $9.7 million, respectively, of debt securities issued by foreign corporate entities. The securities’ issuers were from Canada in two different sectors at September 30, 2023, and at December 31, 2022. The Company limits exposure to foreign investments based on cross border exposure by country, risk appetite and policy. All foreign investments are denominated in U.S. Dollars.

(2)    As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, debt securities in the financial services sector issued by domestic corporate entities represent 2.0% and 2.3% of our total assets, respectively.

(3)    As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes $124.0 million and $143.0 million, respectively, in subordinated debt securities issued by financial institutions. Additionally, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were $58.3 million and $63.3 million in unsecured senior notes issued by financial institutions.

(4)    Includes securities issued by the U.S. government or U.S. government sponsored agencies.

(5)    In the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company sold its marketable equity securities with a total fair value of $11.2 million at the time of sale, and recognized a net loss of $0.2 million in connection with this transaction. In the three months ended September 30, 2023, the Company purchased an investment in an open-end fund incorporated in the U.S with an original cost of $2.5 million. The Fund's objective is to provide a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and investments deemed to be qualified under the Community Reinvestment Act.

(6)    Includes investments in FHLB and Federal Reserve Bank stock. Amounts correspond to original cost at the date presented. Original cost approximates fair value because of the nature of these investments.

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As of September 30, 2023, total securities decreased $52.3 million, or 3.8%, to $1.31 billion compared to $1.37 billion at December 31, 2022. The decrease in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was mainly driven by maturities, sales, calls and pay downs, totaling $163.3 million, and (ii) net pre-tax unrealized holding losses, on debt securities available for sale of $32.7 million primarily attributable to changes in market interest rates during the period. These decreases were partially offset by purchases of $158.4 million.

In May 2023, the Company sold a portion of its investment in a corporate debt security held for sale issued by a financial institution, to reduce single point exposure. The Company realized proceeds of $0.8 million and realized a pre-tax loss of $1.2 million in connection with this transaction. This loss was recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

At December 31, 2022, the Bank had one corporate debt security held for sale (the “Signature Bond”) issued by Signature Bank, N.A. (“Signature”) with a fair value of $9.1 million and unrealized loss of $0.9 million. At December 31, 2022, the Signature Bond was in an unrealized loss position for less one than year. On March 12, 2023, Signature was closed by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC, as receiver, announced that shareholders and certain unsecured debt holders will not be protected. On March 27, 2023, the Bank sold the Signature Bond in an open market transaction and realized a pretax loss on sale of approximately $9.5 million which is recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

Debt securities available for sale had net unrealized holding losses of $144.7 million and net unrealized holding gains of $0.1 million at September 30, 2023, compared to December 31, 2022 when net unrealized holding losses were $113.0 million and net unrealized holding gains were $1.0 million. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded net after-tax unrealized holding losses of $24.4 million which are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss for the period. This was attributable to changes in market interest rates during the period. The Company does not intend to sell these debt securities and it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell the securities before their anticipated recovery. The Company believes these securities are not credit-impaired because the change in fair value is attributable to changes in interest rates and investment securities markets, generally, and not credit quality. As a result, the Company did not record an allowance for credit losses on these securities as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

The Company considers that all debt securities held to maturity issued or sponsored by the U.S. government are considered to be risk-free as they have the backing of the U.S. government. The Company considers there are not current expected credit losses on these securities and, therefore, did not record an ACL on any of its debt securities held to maturity as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022. The Company monitors the credit quality of held to maturity securities through the use of credit ratings. Credit ratings are monitored by the Company on at least a quarterly basis. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, all held to maturity securities held by the Company were rated investment grade.

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The following tables set forth the book value, scheduled maturities and weighted average yields for our securities portfolio at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022. Similar to the table above, the book value for securities available for sale and equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading is equal to fair market value and the book value for debt securities held to maturity is equal to amortized cost less an ACL if required.

September 30, 2023
(in thousands, except percentages)	Total				Less than a year				One to five years				Five to ten years				Over ten years				No maturity
	Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. Government sponsored enterprise debt	$	414,635	3.60	%	$	627	2.85	%	$	26,778	3.29	%	$	38,205	4.05	%	$	349,025	3.57	%	$	—	—	%
Corporate debt-domestic	242,741		4.43	%	—		—	%	79,535		5.53	%	152,272		3.89	%	10,934		3.87	%	—		—	%
U.S. Government agency debt	355,987		4.02	%	81		2.95	%	2,590		4.25	%	6,480		6.15	%	346,836		3.98	%	—		—	%
Municipal bonds	1,640		2.56	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	343		2.10	%	1,297		2.68	%	—		—	%
Corporate debt-foreign	9,837		3.64	%	—		—	%	7,861		3.81	%	1,976		2.98	%	—		—	%	—		—	%
Collateralized loan obligations	5,005		6.57	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	5,005		6.57	%	—		—	%
U.S. treasury securities	3,952		4.57	%	1,974		4.67	%	1,978		4.47	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%
	$	1,033,797	3.96	%	$	2,682	4.19	%	$	118,742	4.87	%	$	199,276	3.98	%	$	713,097	3.79	%	$	—	—	%
Debt securities held to maturity	$	230,254	3.46	%	$	—	—	%	$	6,603	2.50	%	$	14,634	2.92	%	$	209,017	3.53	%	$	—	—	%
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,438		2.71	%	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		2,438		2.71	%
Other securities	$	47,878	6.72	%	$	—	—	%	$	—	—	%	$	—	—	%	$	—	—	%	$	47,878	6.72	%
	$	1,314,367	3.97	%	$	2,682	4.19	%	$	125,345	4.74	%	$	213,910	3.91	%	$	922,114	3.73	%	$	50,316	6.53	%

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December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)	Total				Less than a year				One to five years				Five to ten years				Over ten years				No maturity
	Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield		Amount		Yield
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. Government sponsored enterprise debt	$	437,674	3.32	%	$	37	5.27	%	$	21,136	2.89	%	$	38,540	3.34	%	$	377,961	3.34	%	$	—	—	%
Corporate debt-domestic	270,979		3.97	%	9,108		4.47	%	45,293		3.88	%	205,628		3.98	%	10,950		3.74	%	—		—	%
U.S. Government agency debt	330,821		3.18	%	136		4.05	%	2,806		3.16	%	8,433		4.59	%	319,446		3.14	%	—		—	%
Municipal bonds	1,656		2.49	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	342		2.01	%	1,314		2.61	%	—		—	%
Corporate debt-foreign	9,721		3.64	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	9,721		3.64	%	—		—	%	—		—	%
Collateralized loan obligations	4,774		6.49	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	4,774		6.49	%	—		—	%
U.S. treasury securities	1,996		4.47	%	—		—	%	1,996		4.47	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%
	$	1,057,621	3.46	%	$	9,281	4.47	%	$	71,231	3.57	%	$	262,664	3.89	%	$	714,445	3.28	%	$	—	—	%
Debt securities held to maturity	$	242,101	3.44	%	$	—	—	%	$	6,480	2.50	%	$	13,130	2.90	%	$	222,491	3.50	%	$	—	—	%
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	11,383		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	—		—	%	11,383		—	%
Other securities	$	55,575	5.16	%	$	—	—	%	$	—	—	%	$	—	—	%	$	—	—	%	$	55,575	5.16	%
	$	1,366,680	3.50	%	$	9,281	4.47	%	$	77,711	3.48	%	$	275,794	3.84	%	$	936,936	3.33	%	$	66,958	4.28	%

The investment portfolio’s weighted average effective duration increased to 5.3 years at September 30, 2023 compared to 4.9 years at December 31, 2022, as the model anticipates longer duration due to recent higher mortgage rates and therefore slower prepayments.

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Liabilities

Total liabilities were $8.63 billion at September 30, 2023, an increase of $203.8 million, or 2.4%, compared to $8.42 billion at December 31, 2022. This was primarily driven by net increases of $502.7 million, or 7.1%, in total deposits, mainly due to an increase in time deposits and interest bearing demand deposits. These increases were partially offset by: (i) a net decrease of $311.5 million, or 34.4%, in advances from the FHLB, including the repayment of $1.6 billion which was partially offset by the addition of $1.3 billion of these borrowings in the first nine months of 2023, and (ii) $19.5 million, or 13.9%, in long-term lease liability primarily resulting from the modification of a lease in the first nine months of 2023. See “Capital Resources and Liquidity Management” and “Deposits” for more details on the changes in advances from the FHLB and total deposits.

Deposits

We continue with our efforts in growing our deposits. Our efforts include the additions of retail, private and commercial banking team members, which contributed to increasing deposit levels in the first nine months of 2023. See “Our Company- Business Developments” for additional information.

Total deposits were $7.55 billion at September 30, 2023, an increase of $502.7 million, or 7.1%, compared to December 31, 2022. The increase in deposits in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was mainly due to a net increase of $574.6 million, or 33.2%, in time deposits, partially offset by a decrease of $71.9 million, or 1.4%, in core deposits. The $574.6 million, or 33.2%, increase in time deposits includes increases of $459.9 million, or 41.1%, in customer CDs and $114.7 million, or 18.8%, in brokered time deposits. The decrease of $71.9 million, or 1.4%, in core deposits was primarily driven by a decrease of $190.7 million, or 11.6%, in savings and money market transaction accounts, which was partially offset by increases of $116.3 million, or 5.1%, and $2.5 million, or 0.2%, in interest bearing and noninterest bearing demand deposits, respectively. The $116.3 million, or 5.1% in interest bearing demand deposits was primarily due to an increase in reciprocal deposits during the period. As of September 30, 2023 total brokered deposits were $736.0 million, an increase of $106.7 million, or 17.0%, compared to $629.3 million at December 31, 2022.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, approximately 68% and 65%, respectively, of our total deposits were FDIC insured. In addition, at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, we carried $263.0 million and $261.8 million, respectively, in qualified public deposits, which are subject to collateral maintenance requirements by the state of Florida.

At September 30, 2023, reciprocal deposits were $1.0 billion and over 200 customers compared to $418 million and just over 27 customers at December 31, 2022. Reciprocal deposits are 100% insured by the FDIC, primarily through a deposit network. We are actively offering this alternative to our high balance customers.

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Deposits by Country of Domicile

The following table shows deposits by country of domicile of the depositor as of the dates presented and the changes during the period.

					Change
(in thousands, except percentages)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022		Amount		%
Deposits
Domestic (1) (2)	$	5,067,937	$	4,620,906	$	447,031	9.7	%
Foreign:
Venezuela (3)	1,892,453		1,911,551		(19,098)		(1.0)	%
Others (4)	586,522		511,742		74,780		14.6	%
Total foreign	2,478,975		2,423,293		55,682		2.3	%
Total deposits	$	7,546,912	$	7,044,199	$	502,713	7.1	%

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(1)    Includes brokered deposits of $736.0 million and $629.3 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

(2)    Domestic deposits, excluding brokered, increased $340.3 million, or 8.5%, compared to December 31, 2022.

(3)    Based upon the diligence we customarily perform to "know our customers" for anti-money laundering, OFAC and sanctions purposes, we believe that the U.S. economic embargo on certain Venezuelan persons will not adversely affect our Venezuelan customer relationships, generally.

(4) As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, deposits from Spain represent 1.3% and 1.2%, respectively, of our total assets. All other foreign deposits included here, excluding deposits from Venezuelan resident customers, did not exceed 1% of of our total assets.

Our domestic deposits increased $447.0 million, or 9.7%, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily driven by increases of: (i) $322.2 million in domestic customer CDs; (ii) $207.4 million in domestic interest bearing demand transaction accounts, and (iii) $114.7 million in domestic brokered time deposits. These increases were partially offset by decreases of: (i) $117.0 million in domestic savings and money market transaction accounts, including a decrease of $8.5 million in domestic brokered money market deposits, and (ii) $30.2 million in noninterest bearing demand deposits.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, total foreign deposits increased $55.7 million, or 2.3%, primarily driven by a $74.8 million, or 14.6%, in deposits from countries other than Venezuela, partially offset by a decrease of $19.1 million, or 1.0%, in deposits from customers domiciled in Venezuela. In the first quarter of 2023, we reorganized international banking to simplify the structure and drive favorable cost deposit growth. See “Our Company- Business Developments” for additional information.

Core Deposits

Our core deposits were $5.24 billion and $5.32 billion as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. Core deposits represented 69.5% and 75.5% of our total deposits at those dates, respectively. The decrease of $71.9 million, or 1.4%, in core deposits in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was mainly driven by the previously mentioned decrease in savings and money markets deposits. We define “core deposits” as total deposits excluding all time deposits.

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Brokered Deposits

We utilize brokered deposits primarily as an asset/liability management tool. As of September 30, 2023, we had $736.0 million in brokered deposits, which represented 9.8% of our total deposits at that date (8.90% as of December 31, 2022). As of September 30, 2023, brokered deposits increased $106.7 million, or 17.0%, compared to $629.3 million as of December 31, 2022, mainly due to an increase in brokered time deposits. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, brokered deposits included time deposits of $723.4 million and $608.7 million, respectively, and brokered interest bearing demand and money market deposits of $12.6 million and $20.5 million, respectively. The Company has not historically sold brokered CDs in individual denominations over $100,000.

Large Fund Providers

Large fund providers consists of third party relationships with balances over $20 million. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, our large fund providers, included 18 and 22 deposit relationships, respectively, with total balances of $937.3 million and $1.2 billion, respectively. The decrease in large fund providers in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was mainly driven by the Company’s continued focus on depository relationship. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, approximately 65% and 60%, respectively, of these deposit balances from large fund providers were insured by the FDIC, as most of these funds are acquired via deposit networks.

Large Time Deposits by Maturity

The following table sets forth the maturities of our time deposits with individual balances equal to or greater than $100,000 as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)
Less than 3 months	$	394,866	30.1	%	$	140,292	15.1	%
3 to 6 months	151,991		11.6	%	148,137		16.0	%
6 to 12 months	598,763		45.7	%	497,436		53.6	%
1 to 3 years	157,740		12.0	%	135,663		14.6	%
Over 3 years	8,215		0.6	%	6,889		0.7	%
Total	$	1,311,575	100.0	%	$	928,417	100.0	%

Short-Term Borrowings

In addition to deposits, we use short-term borrowings from time to time, such as advances from the FHLB and borrowings from other banks, as a source of funds to meet the daily liquidity needs of our customers and fund growth in earning assets. Short-term borrowings have maturities of 12 months or less as of the reported period-end.

There were no outstanding short-term borrowings at September 30, 2023 and all of our outstanding short-term borrowings at December 31, 2022 corresponded to advances from the FHLB. There were no other borrowings or repurchase agreements outstanding at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

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The following table sets forth information about the outstanding amounts of our short-term borrowings at the close of, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and year ended December 31, 2022.

	September 30, 2023			December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)
Outstanding at period-end	$	—		$	304,821
Average amount	57,207			111,448
Maximum amount outstanding at any month-end	204,863			304,821
Weighted average interest rate:
During period	4.08		%	1.98		%
End of period	—		%	3.17		%

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Return on Equity and Assets

The following table shows annualized return on average assets, return on average equity, and average equity to average assets ratio for the periods presented:

	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023			2022			2023			2022
(in thousands, except percentages and per share data)				(1)						(1)
Net income attributable to the Company (1)	$	22,119		$	17,534		$	49,613		$	41,337
Basic earnings per common share (1)	0.66			0.52			1.48			1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (1)(2)	0.66			0.52			1.47			1.21
Average total assets	$	9,493,887		$	8,326,199		$	9,430,487		$	7,923,245
Average stockholders' equity	735,289			735,592			739,453			759,260
Net income attributable to the Company / Average total assets (ROA) (1)	0.92		%	0.84		%	0.70		%	0.70		%
Net income attributable to the Company / Average stockholders' equity (ROE) (1)	11.93		%	9.46		%	8.97		%	7.28		%
Average stockholders' equity / Average total assets ratio	7.74		%	8.83		%	7.84		%	9.58		%

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(1)Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 to our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for additional information.

(2)In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, potential dilutive instruments consisted of unvested shares of restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance share units. See Note 18 to our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for details on the dilutive effects of the issuance of restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance share units on earnings per share for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

During the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, basic and diluted earnings per share increased compared to same periods one year ago, primarily driven by higher net income earned.

Capital Resources and Liquidity Management

Capital Resources 

Stockholders’ equity is influenced primarily by earnings, dividends, if any, and changes in accumulated other comprehensive income or loss (AOCI/AOCL) caused primarily by fluctuations in unrealized holding gains or losses, net of taxes, on debt securities available for sale and derivative instruments. AOCI or AOCL are not included in stockholders’ equity for purposes of determining our capital for bank regulatory purposes.

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Total stockholders’ equity was $719.8 million as of September 30, 2023, an increase of $14.1 million, or 2.0%, compared to $705.7 million as of December 31, 2022. This increase was primarily driven by: (i) net income of $49.6 million in the first nine months of 2023, and (ii) a net aggregate of $4.3 million in connection with stock-based incentive compensation programs. These increases were partially offset by: (i) after-tax net unrealized holding losses of $25.0 million primarily from the change in the market value of debt securities available for sale; (ii) $9.1 million of dividends declared and paid by the Company in the first nine months of 2023; and (iii) an aggregate of $4.9 million of Class A common stock repurchased in the first nine months of 2023, under a stock repurchase program launched in the first quarter of 2023. See more details on the stock repurchase program launched in the first quarter of 2023 further below.

Non-controlling Interest

The Company records net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in its condensed consolidated statement of operations equal to the percentage of the economic or ownership interest retained in the interest of Amerant Mortgage, and presents non-controlling interests as a component of stockholders’ equity on the consolidated balance sheets. Equity attributable to the non-controlling interest was a net loss of $3.0 million as of September 30, 2023, compared to a net loss of $2.1 million as of December 31, 2022. Net loss attributable to the non-controlling interest was approximately $0.4 million and $44.0 thousand in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $0.9 million and $1.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. See the 2022 Form 10-K for details on changes to non-controlling interest in 2022. There were no significant changes to noncontrolling interest in the first nine months of 2023.

Common Stock Transactions

Class A Common Stock Repurchases and Cancellation of Treasury Shares. On December 19, 2022, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $25 million of its shares of Class A common stock (the “2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program”). The 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program is effective from January 1, 2023 until December 31, 2023. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 259,853 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $18.98 per share, under the 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program. The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was approximately $4.9 million, including transaction costs.

For more information about the repurchase program, see Note 18 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements on the 2022 Form 10-K.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the cancellation of all shares of Class A common stock repurchased in the first nine months of 2023. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were no shares of Class A common stock held as treasury stock.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan.The Company offers an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). The number of shares of Class A common stock issued in the first nine months of 2023 under the ESPP was 30,557. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the ESPP.

Dividends. On January 18, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock. The dividend was paid on February 28, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 13, 2023. The aggregate amount in connection with this dividend was $3.0 million.

On April 19, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock. The dividend was paid on May 31, 2023, to shareholders of record on May 15, 2023. The aggregate amount paid in connection with this dividend was approximately $3.0 million.

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On July 19, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock. The dividend was paid on August 31, 2023, to shareholders of record on August 15, 2023. The aggregate amount paid in connection with this dividend was approximately $3.0 million.

On October 18, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock. The dividend is payable on November 30, 2023, to shareholders of record on November 14, 2023.

Liquidity Management

We manage our liquidity based on several factors that include the amount of core deposit relationships as a percentage of total deposits, the level of diversification of our funding sources, the allocation and amount of our deposits among deposit types, the short-term funding sources used to fund assets, the amount of non-deposit funding used to fund assets, the availability of unused funding sources, off-balance sheet obligations, the amount of cash and liquid securities we hold, the availability of assets readily convertible into cash without undue loss, the characteristics and maturities of our assets when compared to the characteristics of our liabilities and other factors.

Liquidity risk management is a relevant element of our asset/liability management. Our contingency funding plan is constantly monitored by our Assets and Liabilities Committee and serves as the basis to identify our liquidity needs. The contingency funding plan models several liquidity stress scenarios to evaluate different potential liquidity outflows or funding gaps resulting from economic disruptions and volatility in the financial markets, among other factors.

Customer deposits have been our principal source of funding, supplemented by our investment securities portfolio, our shot-term and long-term borrowings as well as loan repayments and amortizations. The Company’s liquidity position includes cash and cash equivalents of $309.0 million at September 30, 2023, compared to $290.6 million at December 31, 2022.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had $595.0 million and $906.5 million, respectively, of outstanding advances from the FHLB. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, we had an additional $2.3 billion of remaining credit availability with the FHLB, and $1.9 billion of FHLB borrowing capacity, including both securities and loans. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company repaid $1.6 billion in advances from the FHLB, and borrowed $1.3 billion from this source. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded net gains of $33.6 million on the early repayment of approximately $1.1 billion of advances from the FHLB. These early repayments are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies.

There were no new other borrowings as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

We also have available uncommitted federal funds lines with several banks.We had no outstanding borrowings under uncommitted federal funds lines with banks at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Holding and Intermediate Holding Subsidiaries

We are a corporation separate and apart from the Bank and, therefore, must provide for our own liquidity. Historically, our main source of funding has been dividends declared and paid to us by the Bank. In addition, we issued the Senior Notes in 2020 and Subordinated Notes in 2022. Also, as a result of the Amerant Florida Merger in 2022, the Company is now the obligor and guarantor on our junior subordinated debt and the guarantor of the Senior Notes and Subordinated Notes. The Company held cash and cash equivalents at the Bank of $53.0 million as of September 30, 2023 and $64.9 million as of December 31, 2022, in funds available to service its Senior Notes, Subordinated Notes and junior subordinated debt and for general corporate purposes, as a separate stand-alone entity. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the Amerant Florida Merger.

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Subsidiary Dividends

There are statutory and regulatory limitations that affect the ability of the Bank to pay dividends to the Company. These limitations exclude the effects of AOCI/AOCL. Management believes that these limitations will not affect the Company’s ability to meet its ongoing short-term cash obligations. See “Supervision and Regulation” in the 2022 Form 10-K. The Company did not receive any dividends from the Bank in the first nine months of 2023.

Based on our current outlook, we believe that net income, advances from the FHLB, available other borrowings and any dividends paid to us by the Bank will be sufficient to fund liquidity requirements for the foreseeable future.

Regulatory Capital Requirements

The Company’s consolidated regulatory capital amounts and ratios are presented in the following table:

	Actual				Required for Capital Adequacy Purposes				Regulatory Minimums To be Well Capitalized
(in thousands, except percentages)	Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio
September 30, 2023
Total capital ratio	$	995,853	12.70	%	$	627,125	8.00	%	$	783,907	10.00	%
Tier 1 capital ratio	868,412		11.08	%	470,344		6.00	%	627,125		8.00	%
Tier 1 leverage ratio	868,412		9.05	%	383,834		4.00	%	479,793		5.00	%
Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1)	807,545		10.30	%	352,758		4.50	%	509,539		6.50	%
December 31, 2022
Total capital ratio	$	947,505	12.39	%	$	611,733	8.00	%	$	764,666	10.00	%
Tier 1 capital ratio	833,078		10.89	%	458,799		6.00	%	611,733		8.00	%
Tier 1 leverage ratio	833,078		9.18	%	363,130		4.00	%	453,913		5.00	%
Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1)	772,105		10.10	%	344,100		4.50	%	497,033		6.50	%

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The Bank’s consolidated regulatory capital amounts and ratios are presented in the following table:

	Actual				Required for Capital Adequacy Purposes				Regulatory Minimums to be Well Capitalized
(in thousands, except percentages)	Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio		Amount		Ratio
September 30, 2023
Total capital ratio	$	995,611	12.71	%	$	626,439	8.00	%	$	783,048	10.00	%
Tier 1 capital ratio	897,688		11.46	%	469,829		6.00	%	626,439		8.00	%
Tier 1 leverage ratio	897,688		9.37	%	383,148		4.00	%	478,935		5.00	%
Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1)	897,688		11.46	%	352,372		4.50	%	508,981		6.50	%
December 31, 2022
Total capital ratio	$	923,113	12.10	%	$	610,149	8.00	%	$	762,686	10.00	%
Tier 1 capital ratio	837,970		10.99	%	457,612		6.00	%	610,149		8.00	%
Tier 1 leverage ratio	837,970		9.27	%	361,655		4.00	%	452,069		5.00	%
Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1)	837,970		10.99	%	343,209		4.50	%	495,746		6.50	%

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Contractual Obligations

In the normal course of business, we and our subsidiaries enter into various contractual obligations that may require future cash payments. Significant commitments for future cash obligations include capital expenditures related to operating leases, certain binding agreements we have entered into for services including outsourcing of technology services, advertising and other services, and other borrowing arrangements which are not material to our liquidity needs. We currently anticipate that our available funds, credit facilities, and cash flows from operations will be sufficient to meet our operational cash needs for the foreseeable future. Other than the changes discussed herein, there have been no material changes to the contractual obligations previously disclosed in the 2022 Form 10-K.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company borrowed $1.3 billion in advances from the FHLB and repaid $1.6 billion of these borrowings. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded net gains of $33.6 million on the early repayment of approximately $1.1 billion of advances from the FHLB. These early repayments are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, total time deposits increased $574.6 million, or 33.2%, including increases of $459.9 million in customer time deposits and $114.7 million in brokered time deposits. See “Deposits” for additional information.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

For our critical accounting policies and estimates disclosure, see the 2022 Form 10-K where such matters are disclosed for the Company’s latest fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements. Except as discussed below, there are no recently issued accounting pronouncements that have recently been adopted by us. For a description of accounting standards issued that are pending adoption, see Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Company’s interim consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q.

In 2022, the Company adopted ASC Topic 326 on CECL. The Company adopted the CECL guidance as of the beginning of the reporting period of adoption, January 1, 2022, using a modified retrospective approach for all its financial assets measured at amortized cost and off-balance sheet credit exposures. For more details on the adoption of CECL, see the 2022 Form 10-K.

In March 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance that eliminates the recognition and measurement guidance on troubled debt restructurings, or TDR, for creditors, and aligns it with existing guidance to determine whether a loan modification results in a new loan or a continuation of an existing loan. This guidance also requires enhanced disclosures about certain loan modifications by creditors when a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty. The amended guidance is effective in periods beginning after December 15, 2022 using either a prospective or modified retrospective transition approach. Early adoption was permitted if an entity had already adopted the guidance on accounting for credit losses on financial instruments (“CECL”). The Company adopted this new guidance as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In March 2022, the FASB issued amended guidance to expand and clarify existing guidance on fair value hedge accounting of interest rate risk for portfolios of financial assets. The amendments clarify, among others, the “last-of-layer” method for making the fair value hedge accounting for these portfolios more accessible. The amendment also improves the last-of-layer concepts and expands them to nonprepayable financial assets, allowing more flexibility in the structure of derivatives used to hedge interest rate risk. The amended guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amended guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. The amended guidance is available for early adoption. The Company adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no impact to its consolidated financial statements.

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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

We believe interest rate and price risks are the most significant market risks impacting us. We monitor and evaluate these risks using sensitivity analyses to measure the effects on earnings, equity and the available for sale portfolio mark-to-market exposure, of changes in market interest rates. Exposures are managed to a set of limits previously approved by our Board of Directors and monitored by management. See discussions below for material changes in our market risk exposure as compared to those discussed in our 2022 Form 10-K, Part II, Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk”.

Earnings Sensitivity

The following table shows the sensitivity of our net interest income as a function of modeled interest rate changes:

	Change in earnings (1)
	September 30,				December 31,
(in thousands, except percentages)	2023				2022
Change in Interest Rates (Basis points)
Increase of 200	$	33,446	9.6	%	$	27,580	7.9	%
Increase of 100	22,180		6.3	%	18,320		5.3	%
Decrease of 50	(5,739)		(1.6)	%	(5,683)		(1.6)	%
Decrease of 100	(12,238)		(3.5)	%	(11,548)		(3.3)	%
Decrease of 200	(25,756)		(7.4)	%	(34,279)		(9.8)	%

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(1) Represents the change in net interest income, and the percentage that change represents of the base scenario net interest income. The base scenario assumes (i) flat interest rates over the next 12 months, (ii) that total financial instrument balances are kept constant over time and (iii) that interest rate shocks are instant and parallel to the yield curve, for the various interest rates and indices that affect our net interest income.

Net interest income in the base scenario, decreased to approximately $350 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 compared to $349 million as of December 31, 2022. [This decrease is mainly due to higher cost of total deposits and borrowings. This was partially offset by: (i) higher floating loan rates on existing loans due to increase in market rates repricing higher through the first nine months of 2023; and (ii) the growth in the size of the balance sheet as total assets increased $217.9 million, or 2.4%, in the first nine months of 2023 compared to December 31, 2022.

The Company periodically reviews the scenarios used for earnings sensitivity to reflect market conditions.

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Economic Value of Equity (EVE) Analysis

The following table shows the sensitivity of our EVE as a function of interest rate changes as of the periods presented:

	Change in equity (1)
	September 30,		December 31,
	2023		2022
Change in Interest Rates (Basis points)
Increase of 200	(7.91)	%	(7.97)	%
Increase of 100	(2.75)	%	(3.06)	%
Decrease of 50	2.81	%	3.08	%
Decrease of 100	4.08	%	4.11	%
Decrease of 200	7.00	%	4.95	%

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(1) Represents the percentage of equity change in a static balance sheet analysis assuming interest rate shocks are instant and parallel to the yield curves for the various interest rates and indices that affect our net interest income.

During the periods reported, the modeled effects on the EVE remained within established Company risk limits.

Available for Sale Portfolio mark-to-market exposure

The Company measures the potential change in the market price of its investment portfolio, and the resulting potential change on its equity for different interest rate scenarios. This table shows the result of this test as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	Change in market value (1)
	September 30,		December 31,
(in thousands)	2023		2022
Change in Interest Rates
(Basis points)
Increase of 200	$	(88,580)	$	(116,288)
Increase of 100	(45,594)		(59,755)
Decrease of 50	(23,108)		30,527
Decrease of 100	48,919		60,578
Decrease of 200	97,071		115,225

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(1) Represents the amounts by which the investment portfolio mark-to-market would change assuming rate shocks that are instant and parallel to the yield curves for the various interest rates and indices that affect our net interest income.

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The average duration of our investment portfolio increased to 5.3 years at September 30, 2023 compared to 4.9 years at December 31, 2022, as the model anticipates longer duration due to recent higher mortgage rates and therefore slower prepayments. Additionally, the floating rate portfolio increased to 15.4% at September 30, 2023 from 13.2% at December 31, 2022.

Limits Approval Process

The following table sets forth information regarding our interest rate sensitivity due to the maturities of our interest bearing assets and liabilities as of September 30, 2023. This information may not be indicative of our interest rate sensitivity position at other points in time.

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands except percentages)	Total		Less than one year			One to three years			Four to Five Years			More than five years			Non-rate
Earning Assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	308,952	$	202,946		$	—		$	—		$	—		$	106,006
Securities:
Debt available for sale	1,033,797		252,532			285,707			127,588			367,970			—
Debt held to maturity	230,254		—			—			—			230,254			—
Federal Reserve and FHLB stock	47,878		34,639			—			—			—			13,239
Marketable equity securities	2,438		2,438			—			—			—			—
Trading securities	—		—			—			—			—			—
Loans held for sale	69,209		69,209			—			—			—			—
Loans held for investment-performing (1)	7,040,192		4,545,636			1,070,447			642,385			781,725			—
Earning Assets	$	8,732,720	$	5,107,400		$	1,356,154		$	769,973		$	1,379,949		$	119,245
Liabilities
Interest bearing demand deposits	2,416,797		2,416,797			—			—			—			—
Saving and money market	1,457,080		1,457,080			—			—			—			—
Time deposits	2,302,878		1,585,782			606,120			110,412			564			—
FHLB advances	595,000		—			110,000			485,000			—			—
Senior Notes	59,447		—			59,447			—			—			—
Subordinated Notes	29,412		—			—			—			29,412			—
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178		64,178			—			—			—			—
Interest bearing liabilities	$	6,924,792	$	5,523,837		$	775,567		$	595,412		$	29,976		$	—
Interest rate sensitivity gap			(416,437)			580,587			174,561			1,349,973			119,245
Cumulative interest rate sensitivity gap			(416,437)			164,150			338,711			1,688,684			1,807,929
Earnings assets to interest bearing liabilities (%)			92.5		%	174.9		%	129.3		%	4,603.5		%	N/M

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(1)     “Loan held for investment-performing” excludes $33.2 million of non-performing loans (non-accrual loans and loans 90 days or more past-due and still accruing).

N/M    Not meaningful

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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

The following table shows the outstanding balance of financial instruments whose contracts represent off-balance sheet credit risk as of the end of the periods presented. Except as disclosed below, we are not involved in any other off-balance sheet contractual relationships that are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our financial condition, a change in our financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources. For more details on the Company’s off-balance sheet arrangements, see Note 19 to our audited consolidated financial statements included in the 2022 Form 10-K.

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Commitments to extend credit	$	1,238,080	$	1,165,701
Letters of credit	32,364		20,726
	$	1,270,444	$	1,186,427

ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company maintains a set of disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

As required by Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, we carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our CEO and CFO, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on such evaluation, our CEO and CFO have concluded that, due to the material weakness in the Company's internal control over financial reporting that was described in Part II, Item 9A of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company's disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the period covered by this Form 10-Q.

Notwithstanding the material weakness, management believes, based on its procedures in preparing this report, that the consolidated financial statements included in this report fairly present, in all material respects, the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows as of and for the periods presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.

Remediation

As previously indicated in Part II, Item 9A of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, we developed a remediation plan to address the material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting. Such weaknesses will not be considered fully remediated until the applicable controls have been fully designed, documented, implemented and operate for a sufficient period of time for management to conclude, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. While we intend to complete the remediation of the material weakness in 2023, there can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully complete the remediation within the contemplated timeline.

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Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the period covered by this Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

We are, from time to time, in the ordinary course of business, engaged in litigation, and we have a small number of unresolved claims pending. In addition, as part of the ordinary course of business, we are parties to litigation involving claims to the ownership of funds in particular accounts, the collection of delinquent accounts, credit relationships, challenges to security interests in collateral and foreclosure interests, that are incidental to our regular business activities. While the ultimate liability with respect to these litigation matters and claims cannot be determined at this time, we believe that potential liabilities relating to pending matters are not likely to be material to our financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Where appropriate, reserves for these various matters of litigation are established, under FASB ASC Topic 450, Contingencies, based in part upon management’s judgment and the advice of legal counsel.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

For detailed information about certain risk factors that could materially affect our business, financial condition or future results see "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of the 2022 Form 10-K and the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Other than the risk factors set forth in Part II, Item 1A of our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, there have been no material changes to the risk factors previously disclosed in the 2022 Form 10-K.

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

The following table provides information regarding repurchases of the Company’s common stock by the Company during the three months ended September 30, 2023:

	(a)	(b)		(c)	(d)
Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased	Average Price Paid Per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (1)	Maximum Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Current Program
July 1 - July 31	33,182	$	18.13	33,182	$	22,173,679
August 1 - August 31	65,567	19.38		65,567	20,902,954
September 1 - September 30	43,439	19.24		43,439	20,067,154
Total	142,188	$	19.05	142,188	$	20,067,154

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(1) On December 19, 2022, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $25 million of its shares of Class A common stock (the “2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program”). The 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program is effective from January 1, 2023 until December 31, 2023. In the three months ended September 30, 2023, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 142,188 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $19.05 per share, under the 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program.

ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

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ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION

Securities Trading Plans of Directors and Executive Officers

During the quarter ended September 30, 2023, none of our directors or executive officers adopted or terminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K).    

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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number	Description
3.3.	Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended, of Amerant Bancorp Inc., effective October 18, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to Form 8-K, filed on October 24, 2023).
31.1	Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, As Adopted Pursuant To Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by Gerald P. Plush, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
31.2	Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, As Adopted Pursuant To Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by Sharymar Calderon, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.
32.1	Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant To Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by Gerald P. Plush, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. *
32.2	Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant To Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by Sharymar Calderon, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. *
101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
104	Cover Page Interactive Data (embedded within XBRL documents)

*Furnished herewith

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

		AMERANT BANCORP INC. (Registrant)
Date:	October 27, 2023	By:	/s/ Gerald P. Plush
			Gerald P. Plush
			Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
Date:	October 27, 2023	By:	/s/ Sharymar Calderon
			Sharymar Calderon
			Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

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EX-31.1

AMERANT BANCORP INC.

EXHIBIT 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULE 13a-14 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

CERTIFICATION

I, Gerald P. Plush, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Amerant Bancorp Inc.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as

defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a)Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b)Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial

    reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial

    reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted

    accounting principles;

c)Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d)Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a)All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b)Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: October 27, 2023

/s/ Gerald P. Plush

Gerald P. Plush
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer

EX-31.2

AMERANT BANCORP INC.

EXHIBIT 31.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULE 13a-14 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

CERTIFICATION

I, Sharymar Calderon, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Amerant Bancorp Inc.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as

defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a)Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b)Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial

    reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial

    reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted

    accounting principles;

c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d)Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a)All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b)Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: October 27, 2023

/s/ Sharymar Calderon

Sharymar Calderon

Executive Vice President,

Chief Financial Officer

EX-32.1

AMERANT BANCORP INC.

EXHIBIT 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Amerant Bancorp Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2023, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Gerald P. Plush, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1)The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2)The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: October 27, 2023

/s/ Gerald P. Plush

Gerald P. Plush

Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer

EX-32.2

AMERANT BANCORP INC.

EXHIBIT 32.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Amerant Bancorp Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2023, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Sharymar Calderon, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1)The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2)The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: October 27, 2023

/s/ Sharymar Calderon

Sharymar Calderon
Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer
 

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Cover Page - shares	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Oct. 23, 2023
Cover [Abstract]
Document Type	10-Q
Document Quarterly Report	true
Document Period End Date	Sep. 30, 2023
Document Transition Report	false
Entity File Number	001-38534
Entity Registrant Name	Amerant Bancorp Inc.
Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code	FL
Entity Tax Identification Number	65-0032379
Entity Address, Address Line One	220 Alhambra Circle
Entity Address, City or Town	Coral Gables,
Entity Address, State or Province	FL
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code	33134
City Area Code	(305)
Local Phone Number	460-4728
Title of 12(b) Security	Class A Common Stock
Trading Symbol	AMTB
Security Exchange Name	NYSE
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Interactive Data Current	Yes
Entity Filer Category	Large Accelerated Filer
Entity Small Business	false
Entity Emerging Growth Company	false
Entity Shell Company	false
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		33,576,894
Entity Central Index Key	0001734342
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2023
Document Fiscal Period Focus	Q3
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Consolidated Balance Sheets - USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Assets
Cash and due from banks	$ 48,145,000	$ 19,486,000
Interest earning deposits with banks	202,946,000	228,955,000
Restricted cash	51,837,000	42,160,000
Other short-term investments	6,024,000	0
Cash and cash equivalents	308,952,000	290,601,000
Securities
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value	1,033,797,000	1,057,621,000
Debt securities held to maturity, at amortized cost (estimated fair value of $195,165 and $217,609 at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively)	230,254,000	242,101,000
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,438,000	11,383,000
Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank stock	47,878,000	55,575,000
Securities	1,314,367,000	1,366,680,000
Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost	43,257,000	0
Mortgage loans held for sale, at fair value	25,952,000	62,438,000
Loans held for investment, gross	7,073,387,000	6,857,194,000
Less: Allowance for credit losses	98,773,000	83,500,000
Loans held for investment, net	6,974,614,000	6,773,694,000
Bank owned life insurance	232,736,000	228,412,000
Premises and equipment, net	43,004,000	41,772,000
Deferred tax assets, net	63,501,000	48,703,000
Operating lease right-of-use assets	116,763,000	139,987,000
Goodwill	20,525,000	19,506,000
Accrued interest receivable and other assets	202,029,000	156,011,000
Total assets	9,345,700,000	9,127,804,000
Deposits
Noninterest bearing	1,370,157,000	1,367,664,000
Interest bearing	2,416,797,000	2,300,469,000
Savings and money market	1,457,080,000	1,647,811,000
Time	2,302,878,000	1,728,255,000
Total deposits	7,546,912,000	7,044,199,000
Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	595,000,000	906,486,000
Senior notes	59,447,000	59,210,000
Subordinated notes	29,412,000	29,284,000
Junior subordinated debentures held by trust subsidiaries	64,178,000	64,178,000
Operating lease liabilities	120,665,000	140,147,000
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	210,299,000	178,574,000
Total liabilities	8,625,913,000	8,422,078,000
Contingencies (Note 16)
Stockholders’ equity
Class A common stock, $0.10 par value, 250 million shares authorized; 33,583,621 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2023 (33,815,161 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2022)	3,359,000	3,382,000
Additional paid in capital	194,103,000	194,694,000
Retained earnings	630,933,000	590,375,000
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(105,634,000)	(80,635,000)
Total stockholders' equity before noncontrolling interest	722,761,000	707,816,000
Noncontrolling interest	(2,974,000)	(2,090,000)
Total stockholders' equity	719,787,000	705,726,000
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$ 9,345,700,000	$ 9,127,804,000

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Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Statement of Financial Position [Abstract]
Held-to-maturity, fair value	$ 195,165	$ 217,609
Class A Common Stock
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)	$ 0.10	$ 0.10
Common stock, shares authorized (in shares)	250,000,000	250,000,000
Common stock, shares issued (in shares)	33,583,621	33,815,161
Common stock, shares outstanding (in shares)	33,583,621	33,815,161

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Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Unaudited) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Interest income
Loans	$ 120,244	$ 76,779	$ 348,315	$ 194,631
Investment securities	13,868	10,906	40,400	28,669
Interest earning deposits with banks and other interest income	5,271	1,452	14,295	2,102
Total interest income	139,383	89,137	403,010	225,402
Interest expense
Interest bearing demand deposits	16,668	4,934	46,201	6,258
Savings and money market deposits	11,045	3,609	28,409	5,719
Time deposits	22,482	4,717	53,844	13,501
Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	8,207	3,977	22,591	9,799
Senior notes	942	941	2,825	2,825
Subordinated notes	361	362	1,084	811
Junior subordinated debentures	1,097	700	3,264	2,002
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	4	0	5	0
Total interest expense	60,806	19,240	158,223	40,915
Net interest income	78,577	69,897	244,787	184,487
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	8,000	7,314	48,777	(2,912)
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses	70,577	62,583	196,010	187,399
Noninterest income
Deposits and service fees	5,053	4,629	14,952	13,826
Brokerage, advisory and fiduciary activities	4,370	4,619	12,808	13,654
Change in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance	1,483	1,352	4,324	4,028
Loan-level derivative income	1,196	2,786	3,743	6,947
Cards and trade finance servicing fees	734	622	1,829	1,720
Gain (loss) on early extinguishment of advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank, net	7,010	0	33,623	(712)
Derivative (losses) gains, net	(77)	(95)	179	(585)
Securities (losses) gains, net	(54)	1,508	(11,022)	(325)
Other noninterest income	2,206	535	7,447	4,359
Total noninterest income	21,921	15,956	67,883	42,912
Noninterest expense
Salaries and employee benefits	31,334	30,109	100,457	90,724
Occupancy and equipment	7,293	6,559	20,828	21,044
Professional and other services fees	5,325	5,045	20,368	15,918
Telecommunication and data processing	3,556	3,861	11,647	11,113
Advertising expenses	2,724	2,066	9,642	8,291
FDIC assessments and insurance	2,590	1,746	8,066	4,668
Depreciation and amortization	1,795	1,481	5,362	3,927
Loan-level derivative expense	18	1,810	1,728	4,865
Other real estate owned and repossessed assets (income) expense, net	(134)	234	2,297	3,408
Contract termination costs	0	289	1,550	7,103
Loans held for sale valuation expense	5,562	0	5,562	159
Other operating expenses	4,357	2,913	14,146	7,952
Total noninterest expenses	64,420	56,113	201,653	179,172
Income before income tax expense	28,078	22,426	62,240	51,139
Income tax expense	(6,337)	(4,936)	(13,511)	(10,994)
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	21,741	17,490	48,729	40,145
Noncontrolling interest	(378)	(44)	(884)	(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	22,119	17,534	49,613	41,337
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale arising during the period	(18,569)	(34,959)	(25,939)	(101,038)
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) on cash flow hedges arising during the period	129	(16)	217	162
Reclassification adjustment for items included in net income	(268)	(274)	723	(549)
Other comprehensive loss	(18,708)	(35,249)	(24,999)	(101,425)
Comprehensive income (loss)	$ 3,411	$ (17,715)	$ 24,614	$ (60,088)
Earnings Per Share (Note 18):
Basic earnings per common share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.66	$ 0.52	$ 1.48	$ 1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.66	$ 0.52	$ 1.47	$ 1.21

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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity (Unaudited) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Total	Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle, net of tax	Class A	Total Stockholders' Equity Before Noncontrolling Interest	Total Stockholders' Equity Before Noncontrolling Interest Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle, net of tax	Total Stockholders' Equity Before Noncontrolling Interest Class A	Common Stock Class A	Additional Paid in Capital	Treasury Stock	Treasury Stock Class A	Retained Earnings	Retained Earnings Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle, net of tax	Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (loss)	Noncontrolling interest
Beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2021							35,883,320
Beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2021	$ 831,873	$ (13,872)		$ 834,483	$ (13,872)		$ 3,589	$ 262,510	$ 0		$ 553,167	$ (13,872)	$ 15,217	$ (2,610)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares)							(1,643,480)
Repurchase of Class A common stock			$ (54,820)			$ (54,820)				$ (54,820)
Treasury stock retired	0			0			$ (165)	(54,655)	54,820
Restricted stock issued (in shares)							104,762
Restricted stock issued	0			0			$ 10	(10)
Restricted stock surrendered (in shares)							(15,174)
Restricted stock and restricted stock units surrendered	(996)			(996)			$ (2)	(994)
Restricted stock forfeited (in shares)							(1,000)
Restricted stock forfeited	0			0
Restricted stock units vested (in shares)							22,394
Restricted stock units vested	0			0			$ 2	(2)
Stock-based compensation expense	1,260			1,260				1,260
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	15,379			15,379							15,379
Dividends paid	(3,154)			(3,154)							(3,154)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(1,076)			0										(1,076)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(39,641)			(39,641)									(39,641)
Ending balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2022							34,350,822
Ending balance at Mar. 31, 2022	734,953			738,639			$ 3,434	208,109	0		551,520		(24,424)	(3,686)
Beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2021							35,883,320
Beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2021	831,873	$ (13,872)		834,483	$ (13,872)		$ 3,589	262,510	0		553,167	$ (13,872)	15,217	(2,610)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	41,337
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(1,192)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(101,425)
Ending balance (in shares) at Sep. 30, 2022							33,773,249
Ending balance at Sep. 30, 2022	678,619			680,554			$ 3,376	191,970	0		571,416		(86,208)	(1,935)
Beginning balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2022							34,350,822
Beginning balance at Mar. 31, 2022	734,953			738,639			$ 3,434	208,109	0		551,520		(24,424)	(3,686)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares)							(611,525)
Repurchase of Class A common stock			$ (17,240)			(17,240)				(17,240)
Treasury stock retired	0			0			$ (61)	(17,179)	17,240
Restricted stock issued (in shares)							37,938
Restricted stock issued	0			0			$ 4	(4)
Restricted stock forfeited (in shares)							(28,586)
Restricted stock forfeited	0			0			$ (3)	3
Restricted stock units vested (in shares)							10,955
Restricted stock units vested	0			0			$ 1	(1)
Stock-based compensation expense	1,276			1,276				1,276
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	8,424			8,424							8,424
Dividends paid	(3,049)			(3,049)							(3,049)
Transfer of subsidiary shares from noncontrolling interest	0			(1,867)				(1,867)						1,867
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(72)			0										(72)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(26,535)			(26,535)									(26,535)
Ending balance (in shares) at Jun. 30, 2022							33,759,604
Ending balance at Jun. 30, 2022	697,757			699,648			$ 3,375	190,337	0		556,895		(50,959)	(1,891)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Restricted stock issued (in shares)							22,200
Restricted stock issued	0			0			$ 2	(2)
Restricted stock surrendered (in shares)							(618)
Restricted stock and restricted stock units surrendered	(17)			(17)				(17)
Restricted stock forfeited (in shares)							(7,937)
Restricted stock forfeited	0			0			$ (1)	1
Stock-based compensation expense	1,651			1,651				1,651
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	17,534			17,534							17,534
Dividends paid	(3,013)			(3,013)							(3,013)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(44)			0										(44)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(35,249)			(35,249)									(35,249)
Ending balance (in shares) at Sep. 30, 2022							33,773,249
Ending balance at Sep. 30, 2022	678,619			680,554			$ 3,376	191,970	0		571,416		(86,208)	(1,935)
Beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2022			33,815,161				33,815,161
Beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2022	705,726			707,816			$ 3,382	194,694	0		590,375		(80,635)	(2,090)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares)							(22,403)
Repurchase of Class A common stock			$ (566)			(566)				(566)
Treasury stock retired	0			0			$ (2)	(564)	566
Restricted stock issued (in shares)							10,440
Restricted stock issued	0			0			$ 1	(1)
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered (in shares)							(44,896)
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered	(1,170)			(1,170)			$ (4)	(1,166)
Restricted stock forfeited (in shares)							(1,394)
Restricted stock forfeited	0			0
Performance stock units vested (in shares)							10,621
Performance stock units vested	0			0			$ 1	(1)
Restricted stock units vested (in shares)							46,731
Restricted stock units vested	0			0			$ 5	(5)
Stock-based compensation expense	1,825			1,825				1,825
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	20,186			20,186							20,186
Dividends paid	(3,017)			(3,017)							(3,017)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(244)			0										(244)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	6,316			6,316									6,316
Ending balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2023							33,814,260
Ending balance at Mar. 31, 2023	729,056			731,390			$ 3,383	194,782	0		607,544		(74,319)	(2,334)
Beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2022			33,815,161				33,815,161
Beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2022	705,726			707,816			$ 3,382	194,694	0		590,375		(80,635)	(2,090)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares)							(259,853)
Stock issued for employee stock purchase plan (in shares)							30,557
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	49,613
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(884)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(24,999)
Ending balance (in shares) at Sep. 30, 2023			33,583,621				33,583,621
Ending balance at Sep. 30, 2023	719,787			722,761			$ 3,359	194,103	0		630,933		(105,634)	(2,974)
Beginning balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2023							33,814,260
Beginning balance at Mar. 31, 2023	729,056			731,390			$ 3,383	194,782	0		607,544		(74,319)	(2,334)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares)							(95,262)
Repurchase of Class A common stock			$ (1,659)			(1,659)				(1,659)
Treasury stock retired	0			0			$ (10)	(1,649)	1,659
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered (in shares)							(4,414)
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered	(199)			(199)			$ (1)	(198)
Stock issued for employee stock purchase plan	686			686			$ 3	683
Restricted stock forfeited (in shares)							(26,432)
Restricted stock forfeited	0			0			$ (3)	3
Restricted stock units vested (in shares)							17,450
Restricted stock units vested	0			0			$ 2	(2)
Stock-based compensation expense	1,656			1,656				1,656
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	7,308			7,308							7,308
Dividends paid	(3,023)			(3,023)							(3,023)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(262)			0										(262)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(12,607)			(12,607)									(12,607)
Ending balance (in shares) at Jun. 30, 2023							33,736,159
Ending balance at Jun. 30, 2023	720,956			723,552			$ 3,374	195,275	0		611,829		(86,926)	(2,596)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares)							(142,188)
Repurchase of Class A common stock			$ (2,708)			$ (2,708)				$ 2,708
Treasury stock retired	0			0			$ (14)	(2,694)	2,708
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered (in shares)							(2,124)
Restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance stock units surrendered								(17)
Restricted stock and restricted stock units surrendered	(17)			(17)
Restricted stock forfeited (in shares)							(8,865)
Restricted stock forfeited	0			0			$ (1)	1
Restricted stock units vested (in shares)							639
Restricted stock units vested	0			0
Stock-based compensation expense	1,538			1,538				1,538
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	22,119			22,119							22,119
Dividends paid	(3,015)			(3,015)							(3,015)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling-interest shareholders	(378)			0										(378)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(18,708)			(18,708)									(18,708)
Ending balance (in shares) at Sep. 30, 2023			33,583,621				33,583,621
Ending balance at Sep. 30, 2023	$ 719,787			$ 722,761			$ 3,359	$ 194,103	$ 0		$ 630,933		$ (105,634)	$ (2,974)

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	$ 48,729	$ 40,145
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	48,777	(2,912)
Net premium amortization on securities	3,656	6,977
Depreciation and amortization	5,362	3,927
Stock-based compensation expense	5,019	4,187
Change in cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance	(4,324)	(4,028)
Securities losses, net	11,022	325
Derivative (gains) losses, net	(179)	585
(Gains) losses on sale of loans, net	(3,502)	656
Loans held for sale valuation expense	5,562	159
Loss on sale of other repossessed assets	(2,649)	0
Impairment on investment carried at cost	1,963	0
Deferred taxes and others	(3,254)	4,593
(Gain) Loss on early extinguishment of advances from the FHLB, net	(33,623)	712
Proceeds from sales and repayments of loans held for sale (at fair value)	213,467	115,827
Originations and purchases of loans held for sale (at fair value)	(268,242)	(210,791)
Net changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accrued interest receivable and other assets	(16,249)	(14,175)
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	24,153	21,677
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	40,986	(32,136)
Purchases of investment securities:
Available for sale	(104,904)	(207,352)
Held to maturity securities	0	(129,996)
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	(2,500)	(12,656)
Federal Home Loan Bank stock	(51,016)	(20,824)
Purchases of investment securities	(158,420)	(370,828)
Maturities, sales, calls and paydowns of investment securities:
Available for sale	82,175	188,408
Held to maturity	11,281	13,255
Federal Home Loan Bank stock	58,713	14,527
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	11,168	252
Maturities, sales, calls and paydowns of investment securities	163,337	216,442
Net increase in loans	(270,969)	(927,531)
Proceeds from loan sales	41,871	76,615
Cash paid in business acquisition	(1,970)	0
Net purchases of premises and equipment and others	(8,317)	(8,032)
Proceeds from sale of repossessed assets	2,464	0
Net cash used in investing activities	(232,004)	(1,013,334)
Cash flows from financing activities
Net (decrease) increase in demand, savings and money market accounts	(71,910)	908,650
Net increase in time deposits	574,623	48,601
Proceeds from Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	1,280,000	730,000
Repayments of Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	(1,558,438)	(560,712)
Proceeds from issuance of subordinated notes, net of issuance costs	0	29,146
Repurchase of common stock - Class A	(4,933)	(72,060)
Dividend paid	(9,055)	(9,216)
Disbursements arising from stock-based compensation, net	(918)	(1,013)
Net cash provided by financing activities	209,369	1,073,396
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash	18,351	27,926
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Beginning of period	290,601	274,208
End of period	308,952	302,134
Cash paid:
Interest	150,526	37,248
Income taxes	20,038	21,766
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new lease obligations	8,573	5,617
Noncash investing activities:
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	95,674	51,640
Loans transferred to other assets	26,534	0
Loans held for investment (at lower of fair value or cost) transferred to loans held for sale	48,819	0
Loans held for sale (at lower of cost or fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	$ 0	$ 65,802

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

a) Business

Amerant Bancorp Inc. (the “Company”) is a Florida corporation incorporated in 1985, which has operated since January 1987. The Company is a bank holding company registered under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (“BHC Act”), as a result of its 100% ownership of Amerant Bank, N.A. (the “Bank”). The Company’s principal office is in the City of Coral Gables, Florida. The Bank is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (“Federal Reserve”) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (“FHLB”). The Bank has three main operating subsidiaries, Amerant Investments, Inc., a securities broker-dealer (“Amerant Investments”), Amerant Mortgage, LLC (“Amerant Mortgage”), a majority-owned mortgage lending company domiciled in Florida, and Elant Bank & Trust, a Grand-Cayman based trust company (the “Cayman Bank”).

On August 3, 2023, the “Company” provided written notice to The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) of its determination to voluntarily withdraw the principal listing of the Company’s Class A common stock, $0.10 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), from Nasdaq and transfer the listing of the Common Stock to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). The Company’s Common Stock listing and trading on Nasdaq ended at market close on August 28, 2023, and trading commenced on the NYSE at market open on August 29, 2023 where it continues to trade under the stock symbol “AMTB”.

Restructuring costs

The Company continues to work at optimizing its operating structure to best support its business activities. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded estimated contract termination and related costs of approximately $1.6 million in connection with the implementation of the multi-year outsourcing agreement with a recognized third party financial technology services provider entered into in 2021 ($0.3 million and $7.1 million in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, respectively). There were no contract termination costs in the three months ended September 30, 2023. The Company currently does not expect to incur additional significant contract termination costs in connection with the implementation of this agreement.

During the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded severance costs of approximately $0.5 million and $2.9 million, respectively, and branch closure expenses and related charges of $0.3 million and $2.3 million, respectively. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded consulting and other professional fees of $4.8 million (none in the three months ended September 30, 2023), and a charge of $1.4 million related to the disposition of fixed assets due to the write off of in-development software (none in the three months ended September 30, 2023).

During the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, the Company recorded severance costs of approximately $0.4 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and consulting and other professional fees of $1.1 million and $2.4 million, respectively. In addition, in the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recorded a lease impairment charge of $1.6 million mainly related to the closing of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022.

Severance costs are included in “salaries and employees benefits expense” in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

Stock Repurchase Programs

On December 19, 2022, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $25 million of its shares of Class A common stock (the “2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program”). The 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program is effective from January 1, 2023 until December 31, 2023. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 142,188 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $19.05 per share, and 259,853 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $18.98 per share, respectively, under the 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program. The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was $2.7 million and $4.9 million in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, respectively, including transaction costs.

In January 2022, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 652,118 shares of Class A common stock under a stock repurchase program to repurchase up to $50 million of the Company’s Class A common stock authorized by the Board of Directors in September 2021 (the “2021 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program”). The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was approximately $22.1 million, including transaction costs. On January 31, 2022, the Company announced the completion of the 2021 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details.

On January 31, 2022, the Company announced that the Board of Directors authorized a new repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $50 million of its shares of Class A common stock (the “2022 Common Stock Repurchase Program”). In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 1,602,887 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $31.14 under the 2022 Common Stock Repurchase Program. The aggregate purchase price for these transactions was approximately $49.9 million, including transaction costs. On May 19, 2022, the Company announced the completion of the 2022 Common Stock Repurchase Program. There were no repurchases of shares of Class A common stock in the three months ended September 30, 2022.

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the cancellation of all shares of Class A common stock previously repurchased. As of September 30, 2023 and 2022, there were no shares of Class A common stock held as treasury stock.

For more information about repurchase programs, see Note 18 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), on March 1, 2023 (the “2022 Form 10-K”).

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Company offers an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). The number of shares of Class A common stock issued in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 under the ESPP was 30,557. The Company recognized compensation expense of $0.1 million and $0.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $0.4 million and $0.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, in connection with the ESPP. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the ESPP.

Dividends

Set forth below are the details of dividends declared and paid by the Company in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

Declaration Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Dividend Per Share	Dividend Amount
07/19/2023	08/15/2023	08/31/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
04/19/2023	05/15/2023	05/31/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
01/18/2023	02/13/2023	02/28/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
07/20/2022	08/17/2022	08/31/2022	$0.09	$3.0 million
04/13/2022	05/13/2022	05/31/2022	$0.09	$3.0 million
01/19/2022	02/11/2022	02/28/2022	$0.09	$3.2 million

On October 18, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock. The dividend is payable on November 30, 2023, to shareholders of record on November 14, 2023.

Business Acquisition

On January 13, 2023 (the “Acquisition Date”), Amerant Mortgage completed the acquisition of certain assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of F&B Acquisition Group LLC (“F&B”), including access to an assembled workforce and other identifiable intangibles which collectively constitute a business (the “F&B Acquisition.”) The F&B Acquisition was recorded as a business acquisition using the acquisition method of accounting. The initial purchase price of approximately $2.0 million was paid in cash and included the fair value of certain loans held for sale of $1.0 million. The initial purchase price excludes any contingent consideration. The Company recorded preliminary goodwill of $1.0 million, which represents the excess of the initial purchase price over the estimated fair value of tangible and intangible assets acquired, net of the liabilities assumed. As of September 30, 2023, the Company has not completed its determination of the final allocation of the purchase price to the assets and liabilities of the F&B Acquisition, including any identifiable intangible assets and any contingent consideration. Any adjustment to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed with the F&B Acquisition, including adjustments from any identifiable intangible asset and contingent consideration, will result in an adjustment of goodwill. The final allocation of purchase price is expected to be finalized by December 31, 2023.

Impairment on Investments Carried At Cost

In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $2.0 million related to an investment carried at cost and included in other assets in the consolidated balance sheets. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on our investments carried at cost.

Naming Rights

In September 2023, the Company acquired exclusive naming rights to an arena in Broward County, Florida. The naming rights have been recorded as an intangible asset with an offsetting liability for related payments to be made in the future. The naming rights intangible asset is included in other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The naming rights liability is included as part of other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

Bank Owned Life Insurance

In October 2023, the Company restructured certain of its Bank Owned Life Insurance (“BOLI”) contracts, by surrendering existing lower-yielding policies and reinvesting the proceeds in higher-yielding policies. The restructuring had no material impact to results of operations.

b) Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Significant Accounting Policies

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required for a fair statement of financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. These adjustments are of a normal, recurring nature. Interim period operating results may not be indicative of the operating results for a full year or any other period. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2022 and the accompanying footnote disclosures for the Company, which are included in the 2022 Form 10-K.

For a complete summary of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K.

Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant estimates made by management include: (i) the determination of the allowance for credit losses; (ii) the fair values of loans held for sale and securities, the value assigned to goodwill during periodic goodwill impairment tests, and the fair value of other real estate owned (“OREO”); (iii) the cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance; and (iv) the determination of whether the amount of deferred tax assets will more likely than not be realized. Management believes that these estimates are appropriate. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Reclassifications

In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, loan-level derivative expenses are presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. Previously, these expenses were presented as a component of professional and other services fees in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, OREO and repossessed assets, net expense is presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. OREO and repossessed assets expense includes expenses and revenue (rental income) from the operation of foreclosed property/assets as well as fair value adjustments and gains/losses from the sale of OREO and repossessed assets. In 2022, while OREO valuation expense was presented separately, all other OREO-related expenses were presented as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. We had no other repossessed assets in 2022.

Beginning in the three months ended September 30, 2023, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures is included as part of provision for (reversal of) credit losses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Prior to that period, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures was included as part of other operating expenses in the the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

c) Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Issued and Adopted

Guidance on Troubled Debt Restructurings

In March 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance that eliminates the recognition and measurement guidance on troubled debt restructurings, or TDR, for creditors, and aligns it with existing guidance to determine whether a loan modification results in a new loan or a continuation of an existing loan. The guidance also requires enhanced disclosures about certain loan modifications by creditors when a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty. The amended guidance is effective in periods beginning after December 15, 2022 using either a prospective or modified retrospective transition approach. Early adoption was permitted if an entity had already adopted the guidance on accounting for credit losses on financial instruments (“CECL”). The Company adopted this guidance on TDR as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Guidance on Accounting for Credit Losses on Financial Instruments

In 2022, the Company adopted ASC Topic 326 on CECL. The Company adopted the CECL guidance as of the beginning of the reporting period of adoption, January 1, 2022, using a modified retrospective approach for all its financial assets measured at amortized cost and off-balance sheet credit exposures. For more details on the adoption of CECL, see the 2022 Form 10-K.

The following table reflects the impact of adopting CECL on the allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) and other line items on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022:

Consolidated Balance Sheets

	As of September 30, 2022
(in thousands)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Assets
Allowance for credit losses	$	53,711	$	76,473	$	22,762
Deferred tax assets, net	45,791		51,644		5,853
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	181,693		181,863		170
Stockholders’ Equity
Retained earnings	588,495		571,416		(17,079)

Consolidated Statements of Operations

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022						Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
(in thousands, except per share amounts)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes		As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Total interest income	$	89,137	$	89,137	$	—	$	225,402	$	225,402	$	—
Total interest expense	19,240		19,240		—		40,915		40,915		—
Net interest income	69,897		69,897		—		184,487		184,487		—
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	3,000		7,314		4,314		(7,000)		(2,912)		4,088
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses	66,897		62,583		(4,314)		191,487		187,399		(4,088)
Total noninterest income	15,956		15,956		—		42,912		42,912		—
Total noninterest expense	56,113		56,113		—		179,172		179,172		—
Income before income taxes	26,740		22,426		(4,314)		55,227		51,139		(4,088)
Income tax expense	(5,864)		(4,936)		928		(11,875)		(10,994)		881
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	20,876		17,490		(3,386)		43,352		40,145		(3,207)
Noncontrolling interest	(44)		(44)		—		(1,192)		(1,192)		—
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$	20,920	$	17,534	$	(3,386)	$	44,544	$	41,337	$	(3,207)
Basic earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.31	$	1.22	$	(0.09)
Diluted earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.30	$	1.21	$	(0.09)
Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.09	$	0.09	$	—	$	0.27	$	0.27	$	—

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(1)Quarterly amounts previously reported on our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022 do not reflect the adoption of CECL. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company recorded a provision for credit losses totaling $20.9 million, including $11.1 million related to the retroactive effect of adopting CECL for all previous quarterly periods in the year ended December 31, 2022, including loan growth and changes to macro-economic conditions during the period. Quarterly amounts included in the 2022 Form 10-K and in this Form 10-Q reflect the impacts of the adoption of CECL on each interim period of 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the adoption of CECL.

Guidance on Fair Value Hedges

In March 2022, the FASB issued amended guidance to expand and clarify existing guidance on fair value hedge accounting of interest rate risk for portfolios of financial assets. The amendments clarify, among others, the “last-of-layer” method for making the fair value hedge accounting for these portfolios more accessible. The amendment also improves the last-of-layer concepts and expands them to non-prepayable financial assets, allowing more flexibility in the structure of derivatives used to hedge interest rate risk. The amended guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amended guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. The amended guidance is available for early adoption. The Company adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no impact to its consolidated financial statements.

Issued and Not Yet Adopted

For a complete summary of recently issued accounting guidance that has not yet been adopted, see Note 1 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K.

d) Subsequent Events

The effects of other significant subsequent events, if any, have been recognized or disclosed in these unaudited interim consolidated financial statements.

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Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Cash and Cash Equivalents [Abstract]

Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash

Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, interest-earning deposits with banks were mainly comprised of deposits with the Federal Reserve and other U.S. banks of approximately $203 million and $229 million, respectively. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the average interest rate on these deposits was approximately 5.58% and 1.79%, respectively. These deposits have no stated maturity dates.

As of September 30, 2023, the Company held US Treasury Bills classified as part of other short-term investments in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. At September 30, 2023, the Company held $6.0 million with an average yield of 4.65% related to these investments. These other short-term investments have a stated maturity of 90 days or less and as such are deemed cash and cash equivalents. There were no other short-term investments at December 31, 2022.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had restricted cash balances of $51.8 million and $42.2 million, respectively. These balances include cash pledged as collateral, by other banks to us, to secure derivatives’ margin calls. This cash pledged as collateral also represents an obligation, by the Company, to repay according to margin requirements. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, this obligation was $51.2 million and $41.6 million, respectively, which is included as part of other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. In addition, we have cash balances of $0.6 million pledged as collateral to secure the issuance of letters of credit by other banks on behalf of our customers.

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Securities

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]

Securities

Securities

a) Debt Securities

Debt securities available for sale

Amortized cost, allowance for credit losses and approximate fair values of debt securities available for sale are summarized as follows:

	September 30, 2023
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Allowance for Credit Losses		Estimated Fair Value
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	$	473,047	$	26	$	(58,438)	$	—	$	414,635
Corporate debt securities (2)	285,370		—		(32,792)		—		252,578
U.S. government agency debt securities (1) (2)	409,306		61		(53,380)		—		355,987
Collateralized loan obligations	5,000		5		—		—		5,005
Municipal bonds (1)	1,732		—		(92)		—		1,640
U.S. treasury securities	3,976		—		(24)		—		3,952
Total debt securities available for sale (3)	$	1,178,431	$	92	$	(144,726)	$	—	$	1,033,797

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total residential-mortgage backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $769.4 million and fair value of $668.7 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $101.1 million and fair value of $88.8 million .

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

	December 31, 2022
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Allowance for Credit Losses		Estimated Fair Value
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	$	480,359	$	981	$	(43,666)	$	—	$	437,674
Corporate debt securities (2)	306,898		1		(26,199)		—		280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities (1) (2)	373,593		42		(42,814)		—		330,821
U.S. treasury securities	1,997		—		(1)		—		1,996
Municipal bonds (1)	1,731		—		(75)		—		1,656
Collateralized loan obligations	5,000		—		(226)		—		4,774
Total debt securities available for sale (3)	$	1,169,578	$	1,024	$	(112,981)	$	—	$	1,057,621

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total residential-mortgage backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $743.0 million and fair value of $666.5 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $91.0 million and fair value of $80.9 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $5.6 million as of December 31, 2022, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in 2022.

The Company had investments in foreign corporate debt securities available for sale, primarily in Canada, of $9.8 million and $9.7 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had no foreign sovereign or foreign government agency debt securities available for sale. Investments in foreign corporate debt securities available for sale are denominated in U.S. Dollars.

In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls, gross realized gains, and gross realized losses of debt securities available for sale were as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls of debt securities available for sale	$	—	$	12,154	$	1,240	$	26,312
Gross realized gains	$	—	$	22	$	—	$	71
Gross realized losses	—		—		(10,760)		—
Realized (loss) gain, net	$	—	$	22	$	(10,760)	$	71

The Company’s investment in debt securities available for sale with unrealized losses aggregated by the length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands, except securities count)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	52	$	79,491	$	(3,063)	335	$	333,171	$	(55,375)	$	412,662	$	(58,438)
Corporate debt securities	6	13,242		(673)		55	239,336		(32,119)		252,578		(32,792)
U.S. government agency debt securities	30	43,592		(941)		167	294,482		(52,439)		338,074		(53,380)
Municipal bonds	—	—		—		3	1,640		(92)		1,640		(92)
U.S. treasury securities	2	3,952		(24)		—	—		—		3,952		(24)
	90	$	140,277	$	(4,701)	560	$	868,629	$	(140,025)	$	1,008,906	$	(144,726)

	December 31, 2022
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands, except securities count)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	250	$	292,595	$	(22,315)	108	$	96,986	$	(21,351)	$	389,581	$	(43,666)
Corporate debt securities	50	203,516		(13,374)		14	72,190		(12,825)		275,706		(26,199)
U.S. government agency debt securities	92	88,056		(4,976)		104	240,668		(37,838)		328,724		(42,814)
Municipal bonds	3	1,656		(75)		—	—		—		1,656		(75)
U.S. treasury securities	1	1,996		(1)		—	—		—		1,996		(1)
Collateralized Loan Obligations	1	4,774		(226)		—	—		—		4,774		(226)
	397	$	592,593	$	(40,967)	226	$	409,844	$	(72,014)	$	1,002,437	$	(112,981)

U.S. Government Sponsored Enterprise Debt Securities and U.S. Government Agency Debt Securities

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company held certain debt securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government and U.S. government-sponsored entities and agencies. The Company does not intend to sell these debt securities and it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell the securities before their anticipated recovery. The Company evaluates these securities for credit losses by reviewing current market conditions, the extent and nature of changes in fair value, credit ratings, default and delinquency rates and current analysts’ evaluations. The Company believes the decline in fair value on these debt securities is attributable to changes in interest rates and investment securities markets, generally, and not credit quality. As a result, the Company did not record an ACL on these securities as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Corporate Debt Securities

Investments in corporate debt securities available for sale in an unrealized loss position as of September 30, 2023 include: (i) securities considered “investment-grade-quality,” primarily issued by financial institutions, with a fair value of $229.7 million ($258.8 million at December 31, 2022) and total unrealized losses of $28.7 million at that date ($24.1 million at December 31, 2022), and (ii) securities considered “non-investment-grade-quality,” primarily issued by financial institutions and companies in the technology industry, with a fair value of $22.9 million ($16.9 million at December 31, 2022) and total unrealized losses of $4.1 million at that date ($2.1 million at December 31, 2022).

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 , our corporate debt securities available for sale issued by financial institutions were primarily “investment-grade-quality”, and had a fair value of $182.2 million and $206.3 million, respectively, and net unrealized losses of $22.9 million and $16.6 million, respectively.

At December 31, 2022, the Bank had one corporate debt security held for sale (the “Signature Bond”) issued by Signature Bank, N.A. (“Signature”) with a fair value of $9.1 million and unrealized loss of $0.9 million. At December 31, 2022, the Signature Bond was in an unrealized loss position for less than one year. On March 12, 2023, Signature was closed by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC, as receiver, announced that shareholders and certain unsecured debt holders will not be protected. On March 27, 2023, the Bank sold the Signature Bond in an open market transaction and realized a pretax loss on sale of approximately $9.5 million which is recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

In May 2023, the Company sold a portion of its investment in a corporate debt security held for sale issued by a financial institution, to reduce single point exposure. The Company had proceeds of $0.8 million and realized a pre-tax loss of $1.2 million in connection with this transaction. This loss was recorded in the consolidated statement of comprehensive (loss) income for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

The Company does not intend to sell its investments in corporate debt securities available for sale and it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell these investments before their anticipated recovery. The Company evaluates corporate debt securities for credit losses by reviewing various qualitative and quantitative factors such as current market conditions, the extent and nature of changes in fair value, credit ratings, default and delinquency rates, and current analysts’ evaluations. The Company believes the decline in fair value on these debt securities is attributable to changes in interest rates and investment securities markets, generally, and not credit quality. As a result, the Company did not record an ACL on these securities as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Debt securities held to maturity

Amortized cost and approximate fair values of debt securities held to maturity are summarized as follows:

	September 30, 2023
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Estimated Fair Value		Allowance for Credit Losses
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government agency debt securities (1)	$	65,002	$	—	$	(10,338)	$	54,664	$	—
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities(1) (2)	165,252		—		(24,751)		140,501		—
Total debt securities held to maturity (3)	$	230,254	$	—	$	(35,089)	$	195,165	$	—

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total residential mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $202.6 million and fair value of $170.6 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $27.6 million and fair value of $24.5 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $0.7 million as of September 30, 2023, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

	December 31, 2022
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Estimated Fair Value		Allowance for Credit Losses
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government agency debt securities (1)	$	68,556	$	109	$	(7,778)	$	60,887	$	—
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	173,545		—		(16,823)		156,722		—
Total debt securities held to maturity (3)	$	242,101	$	109	$	(24,601)	$	217,609	$	—

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total residential mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $213.9 million and fair value of $191.4 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, includes total commercial mortgage-backed securities with amortized cost of $28.2 million and fair value of $26.2 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $0.8 million as of December 31, 2022, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in 2022.

The Company’s investment in debt securities held to maturity with unrealized losses aggregated by length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government agency debt securities	1	$	9,425	$	(500)	12	$	45,239	$	(9,838)	$	54,664	$	(10,338)
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	—	—		—		34	140,501		(24,751)		140,501		(24,751)
	1	$	9,425	$	(500)	46	$	185,740	$	(34,589)	$	195,165	$	(35,089)

	December 31, 2022
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government agency debt securities	—	$	—	$	—	12	$	50,755	$	(7,778)	$	50,755	$	(7,778)
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	31	142,033		(9,085)		3	14,689		(7,738)		156,722		(16,823)
	31	$	142,033	$	(9,085)	15	$	65,444	$	(15,516)	$	207,477	$	(24,601)

Beginning January 1, 2022, the Company evaluates all debt securities held to maturity quarterly to determine if any securities in an unrealized loss position require an ACL. The Company considers that all debt securities held to maturity issued or sponsored by the U.S. government are considered to be risk-free as they have the backing of the government. The Company believes there are no current expected credit losses on these securities and, therefore, did not record an ACL on any of its debt securities held to maturity as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022. The Company monitors the credit quality of held to maturity securities through the use of credit ratings. Credit ratings are monitored by the Company on at least a quarterly basis. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, all debt securities held to maturity held by the Company were rated investment grade or higher.

Contractual maturities

Contractual maturities of debt securities at September 30, 2023 are as follows:

	Available for Sale				Held to Maturity
(in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value
Within 1 year	$	2,705	$	2,682	$	—	$	—
After 1 year through 5 years	125,842		118,742		6,603		3,247
After 5 years through 10 years	228,020		199,276		14,634		13,358
After 10 years	821,864		713,097		209,017		178,560
	$	1,178,431	$	1,033,797	$	230,254	$	195,165

b) Equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading

As of September 30, 2023, the Company had an equity security with readily available fair value not held for trading with an original cost of $2.5 million and fair value of $2.4 million, which was purchased in the second quarter of 2023. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading with an original cost of $12.7 million and fair value of $11.4 million. These equity securities have no stated maturities. The Company recognized net unrealized losses of $0.1 million and unrealized gains of $1.5 million in the three month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and unrealized net losses of $0.1 million and $0.4 million in the nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to the change in market value of these equity securities. In the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company sold its equity securities with readily available fair value not held for trading, with a total fair value of $11.2 million at the time of sale, and recognized a net loss of $0.2 million in connection with this transaction.

c) Securities Pledged

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had $159.5 million and $314.5 million, respectively, in securities pledged as collateral. These securities were pledged to secure advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank, public funds and for other purposes as permitted by law.

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Loans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Receivables [Abstract]

Loans

Loans

a) Loans held for investment

Loans held for investment consist of the following loan classes:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,593,571	$	1,615,716
Multi-family residential	771,654		820,023
Land development and construction loans	301,938		273,174
	2,667,163		2,708,913
Single-family residential	1,371,194		1,102,845
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,046,450
	5,168,278		4,858,208
Commercial loans (1)	1,452,759		1,381,234
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,353		13,292
Consumer loans and overdrafts	438,997		604,460
Total loans held for investment, gross (2)	$	7,073,387	$	6,857,194

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(1)At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes equipment loans and leases totaling $49.3 million and $45.3 million, respectively.

(2)Excludes accrued interest receivable.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, loans with outstanding principal balances of $2.5 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively, were pledged as collateral to secure advances from the FHLB.

The amounts above include loans under syndication facilities of approximately $312 million and $367 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, which include Shared National Credit facilities and agreements to enter into credit agreements with other lenders (club deals) and other agreements. In addition, consumer loans and overdrafts in the table above include indirect consumer loans purchased totaling $254.7 million and $433.3 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

International loans included above were $103.3 million and $99.2 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, mainly single-family residential loans. These loans are net of collateral of cash, cash equivalents or other financial instruments totaling $6.6 million and $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

The Company purchased single-family residential loans totaling $10.3 million and $110.3 million in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $17.5 million and $132.1 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, the Company purchased $91 million and $345 million, respectively, in indirect consumer loans. There were no purchases of indirect consumer loans in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

The age analyses of the loan portfolio by class as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, are summarized in the following tables:

	September 30, 2023
	Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income				Past Due
(in thousands)			Current		30-59 Days		60-89 Days		Greater than 90 Days		Total Past Due
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,593,571	$	1,593,571	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	771,654		748,075		235		—		23,344		23,579
Land development and construction loans	301,938		301,938		—		—		—		—
	2,667,163		2,643,584		235		—		23,344		23,579
Single-family residential	1,371,194		1,369,078		—		1,845		271		2,116
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,124,503		1,393		1,229		2,796		5,418
	5,168,278		5,137,165		1,628		3,074		26,411		31,113
Commercial loans	1,452,759		1,442,915		3,225		4,209		2,410		9,844
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,353		13,353		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	438,997		433,444		2,995		2,558		—		5,553
	$	7,073,387	$	7,026,877	$	7,848	$	9,841	$	28,821	$	46,510

	December 31, 2022
	Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income				Past Due
(in thousands)			Current		30-59 Days		60-89 Days		Greater than 90 Days		Total Past Due
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,615,716	$	1,615,716	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	820,023		818,394		1,387		242		—		1,629
Land development and construction loans	273,174		273,174		—		—		—		—
	2,708,913		2,707,284		1,387		242		—		1,629
Single-family residential	1,102,845		1,098,310		3,140		150		1,245		4,535
Owner occupied	1,046,450		1,039,928		172		6,014		336		6,522
	4,858,208		4,845,522		4,699		6,406		1,581		12,686
Commercial loans	1,381,234		1,373,042		1,523		475		6,194		8,192
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,292		13,292		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	604,460		601,921		2,439		62		38		2,539
	$	6,857,194	$	6,833,777	$	8,661	$	6,943	$	7,813	$	23,417

Nonaccrual status

The following tables present the amortized cost basis of loans on nonaccrual status and loans past due over 90 days and still accruing as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	As of September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance		Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance		Total Nonaccrual Loans (1)		Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		23,344		$	23,344	—
	—		23,344		23,344		—
Single-family residential	843		1,690		$	2,533	—
Owner occupied	1,951		149		2,100		—
	2,794		25,183		$	27,977	—
Commercial loans	959		3,754		$	4,713	504
Consumer loans and overdrafts	1		—		1		—
Total	$	3,754	$	28,937	$	32,691	$	504

	As of December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance		Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance		Total Nonaccrual Loans (1)		Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	20,057	$	—	$	20,057	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—
	20,057		—		20,057		—
Single-family residential	—		1,526		1,526		253
Owner occupied	5,936		334		6,270		—
	25,993		1,860		27,853		253
Commercial loans	482		8,789		9,271		183
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		4		4		35
Total	$	26,475	$	10,653	$	37,128	$	471

The Company did not recognize any interest income on nonaccrual loans during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.

b) Loans held for sale

Loans held for sale consist of the following loan classes:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	43,256	$	—
Total loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost (1)	43,256		—
Mortgage loans held for sale at fair value
Land development and construction loans (2)	6,931		9,424
Single-family residential (3)	19,022		53,014
Total loans held for sale at fair value (4)	25,953		62,438
Total loans held for sale (5)(6)	$	69,209	$	62,438

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(1)In the third quarter of 2023, the Company transferred a New York-based CRE loan held for investment to the loans held for sale category, and recognized a valuation allowance of $5.6 million as result of the fair value adjustment of this loan. The Company subsequently sold this loan and there was no material impact to the Company’s results of operations as result of this transaction.

(2)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $14 million in land development and construction loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(3)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $81 million in single-family residential loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(4)Loans held for sale in connection with Amerant Mortgage’s ongoing business.

(5)Remained current and in accrual status at each of the periods shown.

(6)Excludes accrued interest receivable.

c) Concentration of risk

The Company’s loan portfolio is dependent mostly on the economic conditions that affect South Florida, Tampa Bay and the greater Houston and New York City areas. The Company manages diversification of its loan portfolio held for investment and held for sale, through policies with limitations primarily for exposure to individual or related debtors, economic sectors, geography, loan types, and for country risk exposure.

d) Accrued interest receivable on loans

Accrued interest receivable on total loans, including loans held for investment and held for sale, was $33.0 million and $27.7 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company reversed approximately $0.1 million and $0.5 million, respectively, of accrued interest receivable against interest income in connection with real estate and commercial loans placed in non-accrual status during the periods. In the three months ended September 30, 2022, the Company reversed approximately $0.3 million of accrued interest receivable against interest income in connection with consumer loans and overdrafts placed in non-accrual status during the period. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company reversed approximately $0.6 million of accrued interest receivable against interest income in connection with loans placed in non-accrual status during the period, including: (i) $0.5 million related to consumer loans and overdrafts, and (ii) a total of $0.1 million related to real estate and commercial loans.

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Allowance for Credit Losses

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Receivables [Abstract]

Allowance for Credit Losses

Allowance for Credit Losses

The analyses by loan segment of the changes in the ACL for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 is summarized in the following tables:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	42,238	$	36,626	$	—	$	27,092	$	105,956
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	(3,067)		4,852		—		5,615		7,400
Loans charged-off	(90)		(9,288)		—		(6,441)		(15,819)
Recoveries	10		736		—		490		1,236
Balance at end of the period	$	39,091	$	32,926	$	—	$	26,756	$	98,773

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	25,237	$	25,888	$	—	$	32,375	$	83,500
Provision for credit losses - loans	13,655		20,639		—		13,883		48,177
Loans charged-off	(90)		(18,715)		—		(20,428)		(39,233)
Recoveries	289		5,114		—		926		6,329
Balance at end of the period	$	39,091	$	32,926	$	—	$	26,756	$	98,773

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Recast (1)
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	20,459	$	21,152	$	—	$	28,864	$	70,475
Provision for credit losses - loans (1)	2,869		927		—		3,518		7,314
Loans charged-off	—		(99)		—		(1,712)		(1,811)
Recoveries	12		443		—		40		495
Balance at end of the period (1)	$	23,340	$	22,423	$	—	$	30,710	$	76,473

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(1)Recast amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Recast (1)
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	17,952	$	38,979	$	42	$	12,926	$	69,899
Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle (1)	17,418		(8,281)		(42)		9,579		18,674
(Reversal of) provision for credit losses - loans (1)	(12,056)		(2,435)		—		11,579		(2,912)
Loans charged-off	—		(7,979)		—		(3,674)		(11,653)
Recoveries	26		2,139		—		300		2,465
Balance at end of the period (1)	$	23,340	$	22,423	$	—	$	30,710	$	76,473

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(1)Recast amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

The ACL was determined utilizing a reasonable and supportable forecast period. The ACL was determined using a weighted-average of various economic scenarios provided by a third-party, and incorporated qualitative components. There has not been material changes in our policies and methodology to estimate the ACL in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

The ACL increased by $15.3 million, or 18.3% at September 30, 2023, compared to December 31, 2022. The ACL as a percentage of total loans held for investment was 1.40% at September 30, 2023 compared to 1.22% at December 31, 2022. The provision for credit losses on loans in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was partially offset by net charge-offs. During the third quarter of 2023, the provision for credit losses on loans included $7.6 million to cover charge-offs and $1.4 million due to loan composition and volume changes. These provision requirements were partially offset by a $0.4 million release due to credit quality and macroeconomic factor updates and a $1.2 million release due to recoveries. In the first nine months of 2023, the provision for credit losses on loans includes $36.3 million in additional reserve requirements for loan charge-offs and credit quality, $2.3 million to account for loan growth and composition in the period and $9.6 million to reflect updated macroeconomic factors and loss factor update.

The following is a summary of net proceeds from sales of loans held for investment by portfolio segment:

Three Months Ended September 30, (in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and others		Total
2023	$	20,500	$	6,909	$	—	$	—	$	27,409
2022	$	—	$	6,483	$	—	$	—	$	6,483

Nine Months Ended September 30, (in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and others		Total
2023	$	34,075	$	7,796	$	—	$	—	$	41,871
2022	$	11,566	$	6,483	$	—	$	1,313	$	19,362

Loan Modifications to Borrowers Experiencing Financial Difficulty

The Company modifies loans related to borrowers experiencing financial difficulties by providing multiple types of concessions. Typically, one type of concession, such as a term extension, is granted initially. If the borrower continues to experience financial difficulty, another concession, such as principal forgiveness, may be granted.

The Company had no new loan modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023. There were no loans that defaulted in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and had been modified within 12 months preceding the payment default related to these modifications.

Troubled Debt Restructurings

As result of adoption of guidance related to CECL effective as of January 1, 2023, the Company had no reportable balances related to TDRs as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

There were no new TDRs in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022. In addition, during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022, there were no TDR loans that subsequently defaulted within the 12 months of restructuring in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022.

Credit Risk Quality

The sufficiency of the ACL is reviewed at least quarterly by the Chief Risk Officer and the Chief Financial Officer. The Board of Directors considers the ACL as part of its review of the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company believes the ACL to be sufficient to absorb expected credit losses in the loans portfolio in accordance with GAAP.

Loans may be classified but not considered collateral dependent due to one of the following reasons: (1) the Company has established minimum dollar amount thresholds for individual assessment of expected credit losses, which results in loans under those thresholds being excluded from individual assessment of expected credit losses; and (2) classified loans may be considered in the assessment because the Company expects to collect all amounts due.

As part of the on-going monitoring of the credit quality of the Company’s loan portfolio, management tracks certain credit quality indicators including trends related primarily to (i) the risk rating of loans, (ii) the loan payment status, (iii) net charge-offs, (iv) nonperforming loans and (v) the general economic conditions in the main geographies where the Company’s borrowers conduct their businesses. The Company considers the views of its regulators as to loan classification and in the process of estimating expected credit losses.

The Company utilizes an internal risk rating system to identify the risk characteristics of each of its loans, or group of homogeneous loans such as consumer loans. Internal risk ratings are updated on a continuous basis on a scale from 1 (worst credit quality) to 10 (best credit quality). Loans are then grouped in five master risk categories for purposes of monitoring rising levels of potential loss risks and to enable the activation of collection or recovery processes as defined in the Company’s Credit Risk Policy. Internal risk ratings are considered the most meaningful indicator of credit quality for commercial loans. Generally, internal risk ratings for commercial real estate loans and commercial loans with balances over $3 million are updated at least annually and more frequently if circumstances indicate that a change in risk rating may be warranted. For consumer loans, single-family residential loans and smaller commercial loans under $3 million, risk ratings are updated based on the loans past due status.The following is a summary of the master risk categories and their associated loan risk ratings, as well as a description of the general characteristics of the master risk category:

	Loan Risk Rating
Master risk category
Nonclassified	4 to 10
Classified	1 to 3
Substandard	3
Doubtful	2
Loss	1

Nonclassified

This category includes loans considered as Pass (5-10) and Special Mention (4). A loan classified as Pass is considered of sufficient quality to preclude a lower adverse rating. These loans are generally well protected by the current net worth and paying capacity of the borrower or by the value of any collateral received. Special Mention loans are defined as having potential weaknesses that deserve management’s close attention which, if left uncorrected, could potentially result in further credit deterioration. Special Mention loans may include loans originated with certain credit weaknesses or that developed those weaknesses since their origination.

Classified

This classification indicates the presence of credit weaknesses which could make loan repayment unlikely, such as partial or total late payments and other contractual defaults.

Substandard

A loan classified substandard is inadequately protected by the sound worth and paying capacity of the borrower or the collateral pledged. They are characterized by the distinct possibility that the Company will sustain some loss if the credit weaknesses are not corrected. Loss potential, while existing in the aggregate amount of substandard loans, does not have to exist in individual assets.

Doubtful

These loans have all the weaknesses inherent in a loan classified as substandard with the added characteristic that the weaknesses make collection or liquidation in full, on the basis of currently existing facts, conditions, and values, highly questionable and improbable. These are poor quality loans in which neither the collateral, if any, nor the financial condition of the borrower presently ensure collection in full in a reasonable period of time. As a result, the possibility of loss is extremely high.

Loss

Loans classified as loss are considered uncollectible and of such little value that the continuance as bankable assets is not warranted. This classification does not mean that the assets have absolutely no recovery or salvage value, but not to the point where a write-off should be deferred even though partial recoveries may occur in the future. This classification is based upon current facts, not probabilities. As a result, loans in this category should be promptly charged off in the period in which they are determined to be uncollectible.

Loans held for investment by Credit Quality Indicators

The following tables present Loans held for investment by credit quality indicators and year of origination as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
	Term Loans
	Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	$	99,056	$	191,221	$	597,265	$	35,803	$	90,311	$	402,213	$	177,702	$	1,593,571
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Nonowner occupied	99,056		191,221		597,265		35,803		90,311		402,213		177,702		1,593,571
Multi-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	1,801		70,396		105,857		26,605		117,535		120,969		305,147		748,310
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		23,344		—		23,344
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Multi-family residential	1,801		70,396		105,857		26,605		117,535		144,313		305,147		771,654
Land development and construction loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	42,384		9,735		28,911		21,945		—		26,928		172,035		301,938
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total land development and construction loans	42,384		9,735		28,911		21,945		—		26,928		172,035		301,938
Single-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	286,064		460,287		181,306		65,722		21,041		71,615		282,074		1,368,109
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		691		2,394		3,085
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Single-family residential	286,064		460,287		181,306		65,722		21,041		72,306		284,468		1,371,194
Owner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	143,861		262,104		434,620		20,904		58,112		161,840		44,066		1,125,507
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		354		1,880		2,234
Classified
Substandard	—		—		1,316		—		—		864		—		2,180
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total owner occupied	143,861		262,104		435,936		20,904		58,112		163,058		45,946		1,129,921

	September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Non-real estate loans
Commercial Loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	302,410		292,024		79,465		12,127		34,900		38,184		660,939		1,420,049
Special Mention	7,007		—		—		—		—		—		19,968		26,975
Classified
Substandard	—		623		17		106		1,777		854		2,355		5,732
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		3		—		—		3
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial Loans	309,417		292,647		79,482		12,233		36,680		39,038		683,262		1,452,759
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	—		—		—		—		—		13,353		—		13,353
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		13,353		—		13,353
Consumer loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	28,583		211,027		61,386		21,306		35		10		116,649		438,996
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		1		—		1
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total consumer loans	28,583		211,027		61,386		21,306		35		11		116,649		438,997
Total loans held for investment, gross	$	911,166	$	1,497,417	$	1,490,143	$	204,518	$	323,714	$	861,220	$	1,785,209	$	7,073,387

	December 31, 2022
	Term Loans
	Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	$	177,852	$	637,015	$	34,525	$	91,941	$	82,385	$	342,174	$	221,333	$	1,587,225
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		8,378		—		8,378
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		20,113		—		—		—		20,113
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Nonowner occupied	177,852		637,015		34,525		112,054		82,385		350,552		221,333		1,615,716
Multi-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	85,670		110,943		26,881		126,724		27,242		124,433		318,130		820,023
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Multi-family residential	85,670		110,943		26,881		126,724		27,242		124,433		318,130		820,023
Land development and construction loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	8,846		27,746		23,459		188		—		26,930		186,005		273,174
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total land development and construction loans	8,846		27,746		23,459		188		—		26,930		186,005		273,174
Single-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	480,328		186,790		70,853		21,654		16,630		65,249		259,411		1,100,915
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		741		1,189		1,930
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Single-family residential	480,328		186,790		70,853		21,654		16,630		65,990		260,600		1,102,845
Owner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	256,816		479,961		22,341		63,629		21,790		162,411		33,146		1,040,094
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	2,096		1,631		656		—		650		1,283		40		6,356
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total owner occupied	258,912		481,592		22,997		63,629		22,440		163,694		33,186		1,046,450

	December 31, 2022
	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Non-real estate loans
Commercial Loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	400,781		95,470		19,815		42,936		32,248		16,297		761,489		1,369,036
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		1,499		—		250		1,749
Classified
Substandard	—		84		267		194		27		984		8,890		10,446
Doubtful	—		—		—		3		—		—		—		3
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial Loans	400,781		95,554		20,082		43,133		33,774		17,281		770,629		1,381,234
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	—		—		—		—		—		13,292		—		13,292
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		13,292		—		13,292
Consumer loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	338,744		121,011		29,053		68		54		—		115,300		604,230
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	98		128		—		—		—		4		—		230
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total consumer loans	338,842		121,139		29,053		68		54		4		115,300		604,460
Total loans held for investment, gross	$	1,751,231	$	1,660,779	$	227,850	$	367,450	$	182,525	$	762,176	$	1,905,183	$	6,857,194

The following tables present gross charge-offs by year of origination for the periods presented:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	90	$	—	$	90
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Commercial loans	108		534		46		4,868		1,814		1,918		—		9,288
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	193		3,527		2,365		185		9		162		—		6,441
Total Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	301	$	4,061	$	2,411	$	5,053	$	1,823	$	2,170	$	—	$	15,819

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Year-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	90	$	—	$	90
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		39		—		39
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		129		—		129
Commercial loans	108		9,308		216		5,026		1,814		2,243		—		18,715
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	592		9,589		8,608		1,031		22		547		—		20,389
Total Year-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	700	$	18,897	$	8,824	$	6,057	$	1,836	$	2,919	$	—	$	39,233

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—				—		—
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Commercial loans	—		—		—		—		—		99		—		99
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	622		785		305		—		—				—		1,712
Total Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	622	$	785	$	305	$	—	$	—	$	99	$	—	$	1,811

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Year-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		14		—		14
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		14		—		14
Commercial loans	2,523		—		4,429		541		—		486		—		7,979
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	665		2,008		986		—		—		1		—		3,660
Total Year-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	3,188	$	2,008	$	5,415	$	541	$	—	$	501	$	—	$	11,653

Collateral -Dependent Loans

Loans are considered collateral-dependent when the repayment of the loan is expected to be provided by the sale or operation of the underlying collateral. The Company performs an individual evaluation as part of the process of calculating the allowance for credit losses related to these loans. The following tables present the amortized cost basis of collateral dependent loans related to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty by type of collateral as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	As of September 30, 2023
	Collateral Type
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Residential Real Estate		Other		Total		Specific Reserves
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Multi-family residential	$	23,344	—		—		$	23,344	8,567
Single-family residential (1)	—		797		—		797		—
Owner occupied (2)	1,951		—		—		1,951		—
Commercial loans	—		—		3,620		3,620		—
Total	$	25,295	$	797	$	3,620	$	29,712	$	8,567

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(1)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 66.8% at September 30, 2023.

(2)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 58.1% at September 30, 2023.

	As of December 31, 2022
	Collateral Type
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Residential Real Estate		Other		Total		Specific Reserves
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied (1)	$	20,121	$	—	$	—	$	20,121	$	—
Owner occupied (2)	5,934		—		—		5,934		—
	26,055		—		—		26,055		—
Commercial loans (3)	1,998		—		6,401		8,399		5,179
Total	$	28,053	$	—	$	6,401	$	34,454	$	5,179

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(1)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 92.7% at December 31, 2022.

(2)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 62.7% at December 31, 2022.

(3)Includes loans with no specific reserves totaling $0.5 million with a weighted-average loan-to-value of approximately 42.0% at December 31, 2022.

Collateral dependent loans are evaluated on an individual basis for purposes of determining expected credit losses. For collateral-dependent loans where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the operation or sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the loan as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the loan exceeds the present value of expected cash flows from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the loan exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated costs to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the loan. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the weighted-average loan-to-values related to existing owner-occupied collateral dependent loans with no specific reserves decreased approximately 2% since December 31, 2022.

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Time Deposits

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Time Deposits Disclosure [Abstract]

Time Deposits

Time Deposits

Time deposits in denominations of $100,000 or more amounted to approximately $1.3 billion at September 30, 2023 and $928 million at December 31, 2022, respectively. Time deposits in denominations of more than $250,000 amounted to approximately $700 million and $486 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, brokered time deposits amounted to $723 million and $609 million, respectively.

Large Time Deposits by Maturity

The following table sets forth the maturities of our time deposits with individual balances equal to or greater than $100,000 as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)
Less than 3 months	$	394,866	30.1	%	$	140,292	15.1	%
3 to 6 months	151,991		11.6	%	148,137		16.0	%
6 to 12 months	598,763		45.7	%	497,436		53.6	%
1 to 3 years	157,740		12.0	%	135,663		14.6	%
Over 3 years	8,215		0.6	%	6,889		0.7	%
Total	$	1,311,575	100.0	%	$	928,417	100.0	%

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Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Advance from Federal Home Loan Bank [Abstract]

Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank

Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had outstanding advances from the FHLB as follows:

			Outstanding Balance
Year of Maturity	Interest Rate	Interest Rate Type	At September 30, 2023		At December 31, 2022
			(in thousands)
2023	0.61% to 4.84%	Fixed	—		304,821
2024	1.68%	Fixed	—		100,000
2025	1.40% to 3.07%	Fixed	—		451,665
2026	4.25% to 4.90%	Fixed	110,000		—
2027 and after (1)	1.82% to 4.40%	Fixed	485,000		50,000
			$	595,000	$	906,486

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(1)There were no callable advances from the FHLB as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

In the first quarter of 2023, the Company realized a pretax gain of $13.2 million on the early repayment of $565 million in advances from the FHLB. In the second quarter of 2023, the Company realized a pretax gain of $13.4 million on the early repayment of $355 million in advances from the FHLB. In the third quarter of 2023, the Company realized a pretax gain of $7.0 million on the early repayment of $225 million in advances from the FHLB. These early repayments are part of the Company’s asset/liability management strategies.

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Senior Notes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Senior Notes

Senior NotesOn June 23, 2020, the Company completed a $60.0 million offering of senior notes with a coupon rate of 5.75% and a maturity date of June 30, 2025 (the “Senior Notes”). The net proceeds, after direct issuance costs of $1.6 million, totaled $58.4 million. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, these Senior Notes amounted to $59.4 million and $59.2 million, respectively, net of direct unamortized issuance costs of $0.6 million and $0.8 million, respectively. The Senior Notes are presented net of direct issuance costs in the consolidated financial statements. These costs have been deferred and are being amortized over the term of the Senior Notes of 5 years as an adjustment to yield. These Senior Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated, and rank equally with all of our existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.Subordinated Notes

On March 9, 2022, the Company entered into a Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Amerant Florida Bancorp Inc (“Amerant Florida” or the “Guarantor”), and qualified institutional buyers pursuant to which the Company sold and issued $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due March 15, 2032 (the “Subordinated Notes”). Net proceeds were $29.1 million, after estimated direct issuance costs of approximately $0.9 million. Unamortized direct issuance costs are deferred and amortized over the term of the Subordinated Notes of 10 years. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, these Subordinated Notes amounted to $29.4 million and $29.3 million, respectively, net of direct unamortized issuance costs of $0.6 million and $0.7 million, respectively.

The Subordinated Notes initially bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.25% per annum, from and including March 9, 2022, to but excluding March 15, 2027, with interest payable semi-annually in arrears. From and including March 15, 2027, to but excluding the stated maturity date or early redemption date, the interest rate will reset quarterly to an annual floating rate equal to the then-current benchmark rate, which will initially be the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus 251 basis points, with interest during such period payable quarterly in arrears. If the three-month SOFR cannot be determined during the applicable floating rate period, a different index will be determined and used in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Notes.

These Subordinated Notes are unsecured, subordinated obligations of the Company and rank junior in right of payment to all of the Company’s current and future senior indebtedness. Prior to March 15, 2027, the Company may redeem the Subordinated Notes, in whole but not in part, only under certain limited circumstances. On or after March 15, 2027, the Company may, at its option, redeem the Subordinated Notes, in whole or in part, on any interest payment date, subject to the receipt of any required regulatory approvals. The Subordinated Notes have been structured to qualify as Tier 2 capital of the Company for regulatory capital purposes, and rank equally in right of payment to all of our existing and future subordinated indebtedness.

The Subordinated Notes were offered and sold by the Company in a private placement offering in reliance on exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D under the Securities Act. In connection with the sale and issuance of the Subordinated Notes, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement, pursuant to which the Company agreed to take certain actions to provide for the exchange of the Subordinated Notes for subordinated notes that are registered under the Securities Act and will have substantially the same terms.

On June 21, 2022, the Company successfully completed the exchange of all of its outstanding Subordinated Notes for an equal principal amount of its registered 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2032 (the “Registered Subordinated Notes”). The terms of the Registered Subordinated Notes are substantially identical to the terms of the Subordinated Notes, except that the Registered Subordinated Notes are not subject to the transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional interest provisions (under the circumstances described in the registration rights agreement relating to our fulfillment of our registration obligations) applicable to the Subordinated Notes.On August 2, 2022, the Company completed an intercompany transaction of entities under common control, pursuant to which the Guarantor, merged with and into the Company, with the Company as sole survivor. See ”Amerant Florida Merger” in the 2022 Form 10-K for more details.

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Subordinated Notes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Subordinated Notes

Senior NotesOn June 23, 2020, the Company completed a $60.0 million offering of senior notes with a coupon rate of 5.75% and a maturity date of June 30, 2025 (the “Senior Notes”). The net proceeds, after direct issuance costs of $1.6 million, totaled $58.4 million. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, these Senior Notes amounted to $59.4 million and $59.2 million, respectively, net of direct unamortized issuance costs of $0.6 million and $0.8 million, respectively. The Senior Notes are presented net of direct issuance costs in the consolidated financial statements. These costs have been deferred and are being amortized over the term of the Senior Notes of 5 years as an adjustment to yield. These Senior Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated, and rank equally with all of our existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.Subordinated Notes

On March 9, 2022, the Company entered into a Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Amerant Florida Bancorp Inc (“Amerant Florida” or the “Guarantor”), and qualified institutional buyers pursuant to which the Company sold and issued $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due March 15, 2032 (the “Subordinated Notes”). Net proceeds were $29.1 million, after estimated direct issuance costs of approximately $0.9 million. Unamortized direct issuance costs are deferred and amortized over the term of the Subordinated Notes of 10 years. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, these Subordinated Notes amounted to $29.4 million and $29.3 million, respectively, net of direct unamortized issuance costs of $0.6 million and $0.7 million, respectively.

The Subordinated Notes initially bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.25% per annum, from and including March 9, 2022, to but excluding March 15, 2027, with interest payable semi-annually in arrears. From and including March 15, 2027, to but excluding the stated maturity date or early redemption date, the interest rate will reset quarterly to an annual floating rate equal to the then-current benchmark rate, which will initially be the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus 251 basis points, with interest during such period payable quarterly in arrears. If the three-month SOFR cannot be determined during the applicable floating rate period, a different index will be determined and used in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Notes.

These Subordinated Notes are unsecured, subordinated obligations of the Company and rank junior in right of payment to all of the Company’s current and future senior indebtedness. Prior to March 15, 2027, the Company may redeem the Subordinated Notes, in whole but not in part, only under certain limited circumstances. On or after March 15, 2027, the Company may, at its option, redeem the Subordinated Notes, in whole or in part, on any interest payment date, subject to the receipt of any required regulatory approvals. The Subordinated Notes have been structured to qualify as Tier 2 capital of the Company for regulatory capital purposes, and rank equally in right of payment to all of our existing and future subordinated indebtedness.

The Subordinated Notes were offered and sold by the Company in a private placement offering in reliance on exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D under the Securities Act. In connection with the sale and issuance of the Subordinated Notes, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement, pursuant to which the Company agreed to take certain actions to provide for the exchange of the Subordinated Notes for subordinated notes that are registered under the Securities Act and will have substantially the same terms.

On June 21, 2022, the Company successfully completed the exchange of all of its outstanding Subordinated Notes for an equal principal amount of its registered 4.25% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2032 (the “Registered Subordinated Notes”). The terms of the Registered Subordinated Notes are substantially identical to the terms of the Subordinated Notes, except that the Registered Subordinated Notes are not subject to the transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional interest provisions (under the circumstances described in the registration rights agreement relating to our fulfillment of our registration obligations) applicable to the Subordinated Notes.On August 2, 2022, the Company completed an intercompany transaction of entities under common control, pursuant to which the Guarantor, merged with and into the Company, with the Company as sole survivor. See ”Amerant Florida Merger” in the 2022 Form 10-K for more details.

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Junior Subordinated Debentures Held by Trust Subsidiaries

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Junior Subordinated Debentures Held by Trust Subsidiaries

Junior Subordinated Debentures Held by Trust Subsidiaries

The following tables provide information on the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities issued by, and the junior subordinated debentures issued to, each of the statutory trust subsidiaries as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust		Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust		Year of Issuance	Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	Year of Maturity
Commercebank Capital Trust VI	$	9,250	$	9,537	2002	3-M SOFR + 3.61%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VII	8,000		8,248		2003	3-M SOFR + 3.51%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VIII	5,000		5,155		2004	3-M SOFR + 3.11%	2034
Commercebank Capital Trust IX	25,000		25,774		2006	3-M SOFR + 2.01%	2038
Commercebank Capital Trust X	15,000		15,464		2006	3-M SOFR + 2.04%	2036
	$	62,250	$	64,178

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust		Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust		Year of Issuance	Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	Year of Maturity
Commercebank Capital Trust VI	$	9,250	$	9,537	2002	3-M LIBOR + 3.35%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VII	8,000		8,248		2003	3-M LIBOR + 3.25%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VIII	5,000		5,155		2004	3-M LIBOR + 2.85%	2034
Commercebank Capital Trust IX	25,000		25,774		2006	3-M LIBOR + 1.75%	2038
Commercebank Capital Trust X	15,000		15,464		2006	3-M LIBOR + 1.78%	2036
	$	62,250	$	64,178

In the third quarter of 2023, SOFR replaced LIBOR as the floating rate for the Company’s junior subordinated debentures. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the LIBOR cessation and its impact on our financial instruments.

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Derivative Instruments

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Derivative Instruments

Derivative Instruments

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the fair values of the Company’s derivative instruments were as follows:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Other Assets		Other Liabilities		Other Assets		Other Liabilities
Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges	$	1,199	$	919	$	167	$	45
Interest rate swaps not designated as hedging instruments:
Customers	62		76,173		603		66,439
Third party broker	76,173		62		66,439		603
	76,235		76,235		67,042		67,042
Interest rate caps not designated as hedging instruments:
Customers	—		8,374		—		10,002
Third party broker	8,715		—		10,207		—
	8,715		8,374		10,207		10,002
Mortgage derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate lock commitments	708		—		727		—
Forward contracts	287		90		107		71
	995		90		834		71
	$	87,144	$	85,618	$	78,250	$	77,160

Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments

Interest Rate Swaps On Debt Instruments

The Company enters into interest rate swap contracts on debt instruments which the Company designates and qualifies as cash flow hedges. These interest rate swaps are designed as cash flow hedges to manage the exposure that arises from differences in the amount of the Company’s known or expected cash receipts and the known or expected cash payments on designated debt instruments. These interest rate swap contracts involve the Company’s payment of fixed-rate amounts in exchange for the Company receiving variable-rate payments over the life of the contracts without exchange of the underlying notional amount.

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had five interest rate swap contracts on debt instruments with notional amounts totaling $64.2 million maturing in the third and fourth quarters of 2025. These contracts were designated as cash flow hedges to manage the exposure of variable rate interest payments on all of the Company’s outstanding variable-rate junior subordinated debentures with principal amounts at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 totaling $64.2 million. The Company expects these interest rate swaps to be highly effective in offsetting the effects of changes in interest rates on cash flows associated with the Company’s variable-rate junior subordinated debentures. The Company recognized unrealized gains of $0.2 million and $8 thousand in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and unrealized gains of $0.3 million and unrealized losses of $0.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to these interest rate swap contracts. These unrealized losses were included as part of interest expense on junior subordinated debentures in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. As of September 30, 2023, the estimated net unrealized gains in accumulated other comprehensive income expected to be reclassified into expense in the next twelve months amounted to $0.3 million.

In 2019, the Company terminated 16 interest rate swaps on debt instruments that had been designated as cash flow hedges of variable rate interest payments on the outstanding and expected rollover of variable-rate advances from the FHLB. The Company is recognizing the contracts’ cumulative net unrealized gains of $8.9 million in earnings over the remaining original life of the terminated interest rate swaps ranging between one month and seven years. The Company recognized approximately $0.3 million in each of the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 and $1.0 million in each of the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 as a reduction of interest expense on FHLB advances as a result of this amortization.

Interest Rate Swaps On Loans

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company entered into an interest rate swap contract with a notional amount of $50.0 million, and maturity in the second quarter of 2025. The Company designated this interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge to manage interest rate risk exposure on variable rate interest receipts on the first $50 million principal balance of a pool of loans. This interest rate swap contract involves the Company’s payment of variable-rate amounts in exchange for the Company receiving fixed-rate payments over the life of the contract without exchange of the underlying notional amount. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized unrealized losses of $0.2 million related to this interest rate swap contract. These unrealized losses were included as part of interest income on loans in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. As of September 30, 2023, the estimated net unrealized losses in accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income expected to be reclassified into interest income in the next twelve months amounted to $0.7 million.

Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments

Interest Rate Swaps

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had 143 interest rate swap contracts with customers, respectively, with total notional amounts of $969.4 million and $925.4 million, respectively. These instruments involve the Company’s payment of variable-rate amounts to customers in exchange for the Company receiving fixed-rate payments from customers over the life of the contracts without exchange of the underlying notional amount. In addition, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had interest rate swap mirror contracts with third party brokers with similar terms.

The Company enters into swap participation agreements with other financial institutions to manage the credit risk exposure on certain interest rate swaps with customers. Under these agreements, the Company, as the beneficiary or guarantor, will receive or make payments from/to the counterparty if the borrower defaults on the related interest rate swap contract. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had four swap participation agreements with total notional amounts of approximately $72.6 million and $74.0 million, respectively. The notional amount of these agreements is based on the Company’s pro-rata share of the related interest rate swap contracts. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the fair value of swap participation agreements was not significant.

Interest Rate Caps

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had 15 and 19 interest rate cap contracts with customers with total notional amounts of $353.4 million and $448.8 million, respectively. These instruments involve the Company making payments if an interest rate exceeds the agreed strike price. In addition, at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had 14 and 16 interest rate cap mirror contracts, respectively, with a third party broker with total notional amounts of $332.4 million and $371.9 million, respectively.

In April 2022, the Company entered into 4 interest rate cap contracts with various third-party brokers with total notional amounts of $140.0 million. These interest rate caps initially served to partially offset changes in the estimated fair value of interest rate cap contracts with customers at December 31, 2022. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were 1 and 4 interest rate cap contracts, respectively, with total notional amounts of $35.0 million and $140.0 million, respectively, in connection with this transaction.

Mortgage Derivatives

The Company enters into interest rate lock commitments and forward sale contracts to manage the risk exposure in the mortgage banking area. At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had interest rate lock commitments with notional amounts of $92.4 million and $77.0 million, respectively, and forward contracts with notional amounts of $36.5 million and $17.0 million, respectively. Interest rate lock commitments guarantee the funding of residential mortgage loans originated for sale, at specified interest rates and times in the future. Forward sale contracts consist of commitments to deliver mortgage loans, originated and/or purchased, in the secondary market at a future date. The change in the fair value of these instruments was an unrealized gain of $0.1 million in each of the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, and an unrealized gain of $0.1 million and $0.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. These amounts were recorded as part of other noninterest income in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

Credit Risk-Related Contingent Features

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the aggregate fair value of interest rate swaps in a liability position was $77.2 million and $67.1 million, respectively.

Some agreements may require pledging of securities when the valuation of a interest rate swap falls below a certain amount. There were no securities pledged as collateral for interest rate swaps in a liability position at September 30, 2023. At December 31, 2022, there were $0.5 million in debt securities held for sale pledged as collateral to secure interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges, with a fair value of $45 thousand. In addition, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had cash held as collateral of $51.2 million and $41.6 million, respectively, for derivatives margin calls. See Note 2 “Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash” for additional information about cash held as collateral. As of September 30, 2023, there were no collateral requirements related to interest rate swaps with third-party brokers not designated as hedging instruments.

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Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Leases [Abstract]

Leases

Leases

The Company leases certain premises and equipment under operating leases. The leases have remaining lease terms ranging from less than one year to 42 years, some of which have renewal options reasonably certain to be exercised and, therefore, have been reflected in the total lease term and used for the calculation of minimum payments required. The Company had variable lease payments of $0.6 million and $0.4 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $1.7 million and $1.3 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, which include mostly common area maintenance and taxes, included in occupancy and equipment on the consolidated statements of income. In addition, the Company recorded right of use (“ROU”) asset impairment charges of $1.1 million and $1.6 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. ROU asset impairment charges in the first nine months of 2023 were in connection with the closure of a branch in Houston, Texas in 2023, and with the decision to close another branch in Miami, Florida in 2023 (First nine months of 2022 - in connection with the closure of a branch in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2022). These impairments were recorded as occupancy and equipment expense on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

Lease costs for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:

(in thousands)	Three months ended September 30,				Nine months ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost	$	5,248	$	4,278	$	13,866	$	13,008
Short-term lease cost	24		18		24		62
Variable lease cost	588		414		1,675		1,304
Sublease income (1)	(857)		(527)		(2,582)		(2,164)
Total lease cost, net	$	5,003	$	4,183	$	12,983	$	12,210

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(1)Primarily in connection with the subleasing of portions of the Company’s headquarters building and, to a lesser extent, the sublease of the New York office space.

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had an ROU asset of $116.8 million and $140.0 million and total operating lease liability of $124.1 million and $145.3 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had a short-term lease liability of $3.4 million and $5.2 million, respectively, included as part of other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.

The following table provides supplemental information to leases as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended Ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
(in thousands, except weighted average data)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	4,267		3,499		11,908		10,811
Weighted average remaining lease term for operating leases	17.0 years		18.3 years		17.0 years		18.3 years
Weighted average discount rate for operating leases	9.66	%	5.94	%	9.66	%	5.94	%

The following table presents a maturity analysis and reconciliation of the undiscounted cash flows to the total operating lease liabilities as of September 30, 2023 for the remaining 3 months of 2023 and thereafter:

(in thousands)
For the remaining three months of 2023	$	3,585
2024	14,579
2025	14,659
2026	14,905
2027	15,216
Thereafter	199,817
Total minimum payments required	262,761
Less: implied interest	(138,689)
Total lease obligations	$	124,072

The Company provides equipment financing through a variety of loan and lease structures, including direct or sale type finance leases and operating leases. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were $2.5 million and $13.6 million, respectively, in direct or sale type finance leases included as part of loans held for investment, gross in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet, and included as part of commercial loans in our loan portfolio held for investment. As of September 30, 2023, there were $3.1 million in operating leases included as part of premises and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

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Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan

Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan

The Company sponsors the 2018 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan (the “2018 Equity Plan”). See Note 14 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K for more information on the 2018 Equity Plan, the Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Plan and stock-based compensation awards for the year ended December 31, 2022, including restricted stock awards (“RSAs”), restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and performance stock units (“PSUs”).

Restricted Stock Awards

The following table shows the activity of restricted stock awards during the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Number of restricted shares	Weighted-average grant date fair value
Non-vested shares, beginning of year	295,076	$	25.83
Granted	10,440	27.42
Vested	(103,118)	24.22
Forfeited	(36,691)	23.87
Non-vested shares at September 30, 2023	165,707	$	27.37

In the first nine months of 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 10,440 RSAs to various employees, under the LTI Plan. The fair value of the RSAs granted was based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date which averaged $27.42 per RSA. These RSAs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

The Company recorded compensation expense related to the RSAs of $0.3 million and $0.9 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $1.8 million and $2.4 million during the nine months September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The total unamortized deferred compensation expense of $1.5 million for all unvested restricted stock outstanding at September 30, 2023 will be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.2 years.

Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units

The following table shows the activity of RSUs and PSUs during the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Stock-settled RSUs			Stock-settled PSUs
	Number of RSUs	Weighted-average grant date fair value		Number of PSUs	Weighted-average grant date fair value
Non-vested, beginning of year	123,970	$	22.83	137,199	$	17.43
Granted	231,976	24.18		53,420	25.09
Vested	(64,820)	22.71		(10,442)	19.00
Forfeited	(12,081)	27.08		(2,867)	33.63
Non-vested, at September 30, 2023	279,045	$	23.80	177,310	$	19.38

On February 16, 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 113,297 RSUs to various executive officers under the LTI Plan. The fair value of the RSUs granted was based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date which was $28.93 per RSU. These RSUs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

On February 16, 2023, the Company granted a target of 38,049 PSUs to various executive officers under the LTI Plan. These PSUs generally vest at the end of a three-year performance period, but only result in the issuance of shares of Class A common stock if the Company achieves a performance target. The Company used an option pricing model to estimate fair value of the PSUs granted which was $29.11 per PSU.

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 65,759 RSUs to various executive officers and employees. The fair values of the RSUs granted were based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date. The weighted average fair value of these RSUs was $19.04 per RSU. These RSUs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

In the second quarter of 2023, the Company granted a target of 15,371 PSUs to various executive officers under the LTI Plan. These PSUs generally vest at the end of a three-year performance period, but only result in the issuance of shares of Class A common stock if the Company achieves a performance target. The Company used an option pricing model to estimate fair value of the PSUs granted. The weighted average fair value of the PSUs granted was $15.60 per PSU.

In the third quarter of 2023, the Company granted an aggregate of 24,000 RSUs to various executive officers and employees. Included in those 24,000 shares are 16,111 shares that will vest as follows: 40% will vest in two substantially equal installments on each of July 24, 2024 and 2025, and the remaining 60% will vest on July 24, 2026. The remaining 7,889 RSUs will vest in three equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date. The fair values of the RSUs granted were based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date. The weighted average fair value of these RSUs was $19.96 per RSU.

On June 7, 2023, the Company granted 28,920 stock-settled RSUs to its independent directors. The fair value of the RSUs granted was based on the market price of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the grant date which was $20.74 per RSU. These RSUs will vest within one year.

The Company recorded compensation expense related to RSUs and PSUs of $1.3 million and $0.7 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $3.2 million and $1.7 million during the nine months September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The total unamortized deferred compensation expense of $5.6 million for all unvested stock-settled RSUs and PSUs outstanding at September 30, 2023 will be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.9 years.

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Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The Company uses an estimated annual effective tax rate method in computing its interim tax provision. This effective tax rate is based on forecasted annual consolidated pre-tax income, permanent tax differences and statutory tax rates. Under this method, the tax effect of certain items that do not meet the definition of ordinary income or expense are computed and recognized as discrete items when they occur.

The effective combined federal and state tax rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 were 21.71% and 21.50%, respectively. Effective tax rates differ from the statutory rates mainly due to the impact of forecasted permanent non-taxable interest and other income, forecasted permanent non-deductible expenses, and the effect of corporate state taxes.

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Equity [Abstract]

Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”)

Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”):

The components of AOCL/AOCI are summarized as follows using applicable blended average federal and state tax rates for each period:

	September 30, 2023						December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale	$	(144,634)	$	36,907	$	(107,727)	$	(111,957)	$	28,605	$	(83,352)
Net unrealized holding gains on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges	2,818		(725)		2,093		3,659		(942)		2,717
Total (AOCL) AOCI	$	(141,816)	$	36,182	$	(105,634)	$	(108,298)	$	27,663	$	(80,635)

The components of other comprehensive loss for the periods presented are summarized as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Change in fair value arising during the period	$	(25,007)	$	6,438	$	(18,569)	$	(47,015)	$	12,056	$	(34,959)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses included in net income	—		—		—		(22)		5		(17)
	(25,007)		6,438		(18,569)		(47,037)		12,061		(34,976)
Net unrealized holding losses (gains) on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Change in fair value arising during the period	174		(45)		129		(22)		6		(16)
Reclassification adjustment for net interest income included in net income	(360)		92		(268)		(345)		88		(257)
	(186)		47		(139)		(367)		94		(273)
Total other comprehensive loss	$	(25,193)	$	6,485	$	(18,708)	$	(47,404)	$	12,155	$	(35,249)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Change in fair value arising during the period	$	(34,775)	$	8,836	$	(25,939)	$	(135,554)	$	34,516	$	(101,038)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income	2,098		(534)		1,564		(71)		18		(53)
	(32,677)		8,302		(24,375)		(135,625)		34,534		(101,091)
Net unrealized holding losses on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Change in fair value arising during the period	288		(71)		217		295		(133)		162
Reclassification adjustment for net interest income included in net income	(1,129)		288		(841)		(667)		171		(496)
	(841)		217		(624)		(372)		38		(334)
Total other comprehensive loss	$	(33,518)	$	8,519	$	(24,999)	$	(135,997)	$	34,572	$	(101,425)

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Contingencies

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Contingencies

Contingencies

From time to time the Company and its subsidiaries may be exposed to loss contingencies. In the ordinary, course of business, those contingencies may include, known but unasserted claims, and legal/regulatory inquiries or examinations. The Company records these loss contingencies as a liability when the likehood of loss is probable and an amount or range of loss can be reasonably estimated. In the opinion of management, the Company maintains a liability that is in an estimated amount sufficient to cover said loss contingencies, if any, at the reporting dates.

Financial instruments whose contract amount represents off-balance sheet credit risk at September 30, 2023 are generally short-term and are as follows:

(in thousands)	Approximate Contract Amount
Commitments to extend credit	$	1,238,080
Standby letters of credit	32,300
Commercial letters of credit	64
	$	1,270,444

The following table summarizes the changes in the allowance for credit losses for off-balance sheet credit risk exposures for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

(in thousands)	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
Balances at beginning of the period	$	2,002	$	1,702	$	1,702	$	1,702
Provision for credit losses - off balance sheet exposures	600		—		900		—
Balances at end of period	$	2,602	$	1,702	$	2,602	$	1,702

Beginning in the three months ended September 30, 2023, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures is included as part of provision for (reversal of) credit losses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Prior to that period, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures was included as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

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Fair Value Measurements

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]

Fair Value Measurements

Fair Value Measurements

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)		Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)		Total Carrying Value in the Consolidated Balance Sheet
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Other short-term investments	$	—	$	6,024	$	—	$	6,024
Securities
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	—		414,635		—		414,635
Corporate debt securities	—		252,578		—		252,578
U.S. government agency debt securities	—		355,987		—		355,987
Collateralized loan obligations	—		5,005		—		5,005
Municipal bonds	—		1,640		—		1,640
U.S treasury securities	—		3,952		—		3,952
	—		1,033,797		—		1,033,797
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading	2,438		—		—		2,438
	2,438		1,033,797		—		1,036,235
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	—		25,952		—		25,952
Bank owned life insurance	—		232,736		—		232,736
Other assets
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	—		—		1,306		1,306
Derivative instruments	—		87,144		—		87,144
	$	2,438	$	1,385,653	$	1,306	$	1,389,397
Liabilities
Other liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	85,618	$	—	$	85,618

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)		Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)		Total Carrying Value in the Consolidated Balance Sheet
Assets
Securities
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	$	—	$	437,674	$	—	$	437,674
Corporate debt securities	—		280,700		—		280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities	—		330,821		—		330,821
Collateralized loan obligations	—		4,774		—		4,774
U.S treasury securities	—		1,996		—		1,996
Municipal bonds	—		1,656		—		1,656
	—		1,057,621		—		1,057,621
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading	11,383		—		—		11,383
	11,383		1,057,621		—		1,069,004
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	—		62,438		—		62,438
Bank owned life insurance	—		228,412		—		228,412
Other assets
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	—		—		1,307		1,307
Derivative instruments	—		78,250		—		78,250
	$	11,383	$	1,426,721	$	1,307	$	1,439,411
Liabilities
Other liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	77,160	$	—	$	77,160

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

The following tables present the major categories of assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total Write Downs
Description
Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost	$	43,257	$	—	$	—	$	43,257	$	5,562
Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral (1)	24,146		—		—		24,146		4,371
Other Real Estate Owned (2)	20,181		—		—		20,181		—
	$	87,584	$	—	$	—	$	87,584	$	9,933

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(1)Include loans with specific reserves of $8.6 million and total write downs of $4.4 million at September 30, 2023.

(2)Consists of commercial real estate property.

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total Write Downs
Description
Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral (1)	$	30,158	$	—	$	—	$	30,158	$	3,851

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(1)Include loans with specific reserves of $5.2 million and total write downs of $3.9 million at December 31, 2022.

The following table presents the significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) used in the valuation of assets measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis.

Financial Instrument	Unobservable Inputs	Valuation Methods	Discount Range	Typical Discount
Collateral dependent loans	Discount to fair value	Appraisal value, as adjusted	0-30%	6-7%
		Inventory	0-100%	30-50%
		Accounts receivables	0-100%	20-30%
		Equipment	0-100%	20-30%
Other Real Estate Owned	Discount to fair value	Appraisal value, as adjusted	N/A	6-7%

There were no other significant assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

Loans Held for Sale, at Lower of Fair Value or Cost

For loans held for sale that are carried at the lower of fair value or cost, the fair value is generally based on quoted market prices of similar loans and is considered to be Level 2.

Collateral Dependent Loans Measured For Expected Credit Losses

The carrying amount of collateral dependent loans is typically based on the fair value of the underlying collateral. The Company primarily uses third party appraisals to assist in measuring expected credit losses on collateral dependent loans. The Company also uses third party appraisal reviewers for loans with an outstanding balance of $1 million and above. These appraisals generally use the market or income approach valuation technique and use market observable data to formulate an opinion of the fair value of the loan’s collateral. However, the appraiser uses professional judgment in determining the fair value of the collateral or properties and may also adjust these values for changes in market conditions subsequent to the appraisal date. When current appraisals are not available for certain loans, the Company uses judgment on market conditions to adjust the most current appraisal. The sales prices may reflect prices of sales contracts not closed and the amount of time required to sell out the real estate project may be derived from current appraisals of similar projects. As a consequence, the fair value of the collateral is considered a Level 3 valuation.

OREO and Repossessed Assets

The Company values OREO at the lower of cost or fair value of the property, less cost to sell. The fair value of the property is generally based upon recent appraisal values of the property, less cost to sell. The Company primarily uses third party appraisals to assist in measuring the valuation of OREO. Period revaluations are classified as level 3 as the assumptions used may not be observable. The fair value of non-real estate repossessed assets is provided by a third party based on their assumptions and quoted market prices for similar assets, when available. At March 31, 2023, the Company had other repossessed assets with a carrying value of $6.4 million. In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company sold these repossessed assets and recognized a loss on sale of $2.6 million which is included in the result of operations for that period.

The Company had no OREO or repossessed asset balances as of December 31, 2022.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The estimated fair value of financial instruments where fair value differs from carrying value are as follows:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Carrying Value		Estimated Fair Value		Carrying Value		Estimated Fair Value
Financial assets:
Debt securities held to maturity	$	230,254	$	195,165	$	242,101	$	217,609
Loans	3,319,421		3,145,042		3,314,553		3,181,696
Financial liabilities:
Time deposits	1,579,458		1,569,852		1,119,510		1,099,294
Advances from the FHLB	595,000		588,604		906,486		873,852
Senior notes	59,447		56,293		59,210		58,755
Subordinated notes	29,412		28,481		29,284		28,481
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178		63,237		64,178		64,182

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Earnings Per Share

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Earnings Per Share

Earnings Per Share

The following table shows the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands, except share data and per share amounts)	2023		2022 (1)		2023		2022 (1)
Numerator:
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest (1)	$	21,741	$	17,490	$	48,729	$	40,145
Noncontrolling interest	(378)		(44)		(884)		(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc. (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Net income available to common stockholders (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Denominator:
Basic weighted average shares outstanding	33,489,560		33,476,418		33,537,759		33,985,856
Dilutive effect of share-based compensation awards	207,060		270,460		218,756		267,706
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding	33,696,620		33,746,878		33,756,515		34,253,562
Basic earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.48	$	1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.47	$	1.21

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(1)Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

As of September 30, 2023 and 2022, potential dilutive instruments consisted of unvested shares of restricted stock, RSUs and PSUs totaling 577,511 and 532,867, respectively. In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, potential dilutive instruments were included in the diluted earnings per share computation because, when the unamortized deferred compensation cost related to these shares was divided by the average market price per share in those periods, fewer shares would have been purchased than restricted shares assumed issued. Therefore, in those periods, such awards resulted in higher diluted weighted average shares outstanding than basic weighted average shares outstanding, and had a dilutive effect on per share earnings.

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Pay vs Performance Disclosure - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended						9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Pay vs Performance Disclosure
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$ 22,119	$ 7,308	$ 20,186	$ 17,534	$ 8,424	$ 15,379	$ 49,613	$ 41,337

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Insider Trading Arrangements	3 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023
Trading Arrangements, by Individual
Rule 10b5-1 Arrangement Adopted	false
Non-Rule 10b5-1 Arrangement Adopted	false
Rule 10b5-1 Arrangement Terminated	false
Non-Rule 10b5-1 Arrangement Terminated	false

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Restructuring costs

Restructuring costsThe Company continues to work at optimizing its operating structure to best support its business activities.

Significant Accounting Policies

Significant Accounting Policies

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required for a fair statement of financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. These adjustments are of a normal, recurring nature. Interim period operating results may not be indicative of the operating results for a full year or any other period. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2022 and the accompanying footnote disclosures for the Company, which are included in the 2022 Form 10-K.

For a complete summary of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K.

Estimates

EstimatesThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant estimates made by management include: (i) the determination of the allowance for credit losses; (ii) the fair values of loans held for sale and securities, the value assigned to goodwill during periodic goodwill impairment tests, and the fair value of other real estate owned (“OREO”); (iii) the cash surrender value of bank owned life insurance; and (iv) the determination of whether the amount of deferred tax assets will more likely than not be realized. Management believes that these estimates are appropriate. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Reclassifications

Reclassifications

In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023, loan-level derivative expenses are presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. Previously, these expenses were presented as a component of professional and other services fees in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income.

In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, OREO and repossessed assets, net expense is presented separately in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. OREO and repossessed assets expense includes expenses and revenue (rental income) from the operation of foreclosed property/assets as well as fair value adjustments and gains/losses from the sale of OREO and repossessed assets. In 2022, while OREO valuation expense was presented separately, all other OREO-related expenses were presented as part of other operating expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive (loss) income. We had no other repossessed assets in 2022.

Beginning in the three months ended September 30, 2023, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures is included as part of provision for (reversal of) credit losses in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Prior to that period, the provision for credit losses for off-balance sheet exposures was included as part of other operating expenses in the the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Issued and Adopted

Guidance on Troubled Debt Restructurings

In March 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance that eliminates the recognition and measurement guidance on troubled debt restructurings, or TDR, for creditors, and aligns it with existing guidance to determine whether a loan modification results in a new loan or a continuation of an existing loan. The guidance also requires enhanced disclosures about certain loan modifications by creditors when a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty. The amended guidance is effective in periods beginning after December 15, 2022 using either a prospective or modified retrospective transition approach. Early adoption was permitted if an entity had already adopted the guidance on accounting for credit losses on financial instruments (“CECL”). The Company adopted this guidance on TDR as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Guidance on Accounting for Credit Losses on Financial Instruments

In 2022, the Company adopted ASC Topic 326 on CECL. The Company adopted the CECL guidance as of the beginning of the reporting period of adoption, January 1, 2022, using a modified retrospective approach for all its financial assets measured at amortized cost and off-balance sheet credit exposures. For more details on the adoption of CECL, see the 2022 Form 10-K.

The following table reflects the impact of adopting CECL on the allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) and other line items on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022:

Consolidated Balance Sheets

	As of September 30, 2022
(in thousands)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Assets
Allowance for credit losses	$	53,711	$	76,473	$	22,762
Deferred tax assets, net	45,791		51,644		5,853
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	181,693		181,863		170
Stockholders’ Equity
Retained earnings	588,495		571,416		(17,079)

Consolidated Statements of Operations

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022						Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
(in thousands, except per share amounts)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes		As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Total interest income	$	89,137	$	89,137	$	—	$	225,402	$	225,402	$	—
Total interest expense	19,240		19,240		—		40,915		40,915		—
Net interest income	69,897		69,897		—		184,487		184,487		—
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	3,000		7,314		4,314		(7,000)		(2,912)		4,088
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses	66,897		62,583		(4,314)		191,487		187,399		(4,088)
Total noninterest income	15,956		15,956		—		42,912		42,912		—
Total noninterest expense	56,113		56,113		—		179,172		179,172		—
Income before income taxes	26,740		22,426		(4,314)		55,227		51,139		(4,088)
Income tax expense	(5,864)		(4,936)		928		(11,875)		(10,994)		881
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	20,876		17,490		(3,386)		43,352		40,145		(3,207)
Noncontrolling interest	(44)		(44)		—		(1,192)		(1,192)		—
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$	20,920	$	17,534	$	(3,386)	$	44,544	$	41,337	$	(3,207)
Basic earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.31	$	1.22	$	(0.09)
Diluted earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.30	$	1.21	$	(0.09)
Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.09	$	0.09	$	—	$	0.27	$	0.27	$	—

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(1)Quarterly amounts previously reported on our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022 do not reflect the adoption of CECL. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company recorded a provision for credit losses totaling $20.9 million, including $11.1 million related to the retroactive effect of adopting CECL for all previous quarterly periods in the year ended December 31, 2022, including loan growth and changes to macro-economic conditions during the period. Quarterly amounts included in the 2022 Form 10-K and in this Form 10-Q reflect the impacts of the adoption of CECL on each interim period of 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the adoption of CECL.

Guidance on Fair Value Hedges

In March 2022, the FASB issued amended guidance to expand and clarify existing guidance on fair value hedge accounting of interest rate risk for portfolios of financial assets. The amendments clarify, among others, the “last-of-layer” method for making the fair value hedge accounting for these portfolios more accessible. The amendment also improves the last-of-layer concepts and expands them to non-prepayable financial assets, allowing more flexibility in the structure of derivatives used to hedge interest rate risk. The amended guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amended guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. The amended guidance is available for early adoption. The Company adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2023, and determined that its adoption had no impact to its consolidated financial statements.

Issued and Not Yet Adopted

For a complete summary of recently issued accounting guidance that has not yet been adopted, see Note 1 to the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements in the 2022 Form 10-K.

Subsequent Events

Subsequent EventsThe effects of other significant subsequent events, if any, have been recognized or disclosed in these unaudited interim consolidated financial statements.

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Schedule of Dividends Declared

Set forth below are the details of dividends declared and paid by the Company in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

Declaration Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Dividend Per Share	Dividend Amount
07/19/2023	08/15/2023	08/31/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
04/19/2023	05/15/2023	05/31/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
01/18/2023	02/13/2023	02/28/2023	$0.09	$3.0 million
07/20/2022	08/17/2022	08/31/2022	$0.09	$3.0 million
04/13/2022	05/13/2022	05/31/2022	$0.09	$3.0 million
01/19/2022	02/11/2022	02/28/2022	$0.09	$3.2 million

Schedule of Impact of Adopting CECL

The following table reflects the impact of adopting CECL on the allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) and other line items on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022:

Consolidated Balance Sheets

	As of September 30, 2022
(in thousands)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Assets
Allowance for credit losses	$	53,711	$	76,473	$	22,762
Deferred tax assets, net	45,791		51,644		5,853
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities	181,693		181,863		170
Stockholders’ Equity
Retained earnings	588,495		571,416		(17,079)

Consolidated Statements of Operations

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022						Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
(in thousands, except per share amounts)	As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes		As Reported		As Recast (1)		Changes
Total interest income	$	89,137	$	89,137	$	—	$	225,402	$	225,402	$	—
Total interest expense	19,240		19,240		—		40,915		40,915		—
Net interest income	69,897		69,897		—		184,487		184,487		—
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses	3,000		7,314		4,314		(7,000)		(2,912)		4,088
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses	66,897		62,583		(4,314)		191,487		187,399		(4,088)
Total noninterest income	15,956		15,956		—		42,912		42,912		—
Total noninterest expense	56,113		56,113		—		179,172		179,172		—
Income before income taxes	26,740		22,426		(4,314)		55,227		51,139		(4,088)
Income tax expense	(5,864)		(4,936)		928		(11,875)		(10,994)		881
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	20,876		17,490		(3,386)		43,352		40,145		(3,207)
Noncontrolling interest	(44)		(44)		—		(1,192)		(1,192)		—
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$	20,920	$	17,534	$	(3,386)	$	44,544	$	41,337	$	(3,207)
Basic earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.31	$	1.22	$	(0.09)
Diluted earnings per common share	$	0.62	$	0.52	$	(0.10)	$	1.30	$	1.21	$	(0.09)
Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.09	$	0.09	$	—	$	0.27	$	0.27	$	—

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(1)Quarterly amounts previously reported on our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022 do not reflect the adoption of CECL. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company recorded a provision for credit losses totaling $20.9 million, including $11.1 million related to the retroactive effect of adopting CECL for all previous quarterly periods in the year ended December 31, 2022, including loan growth and changes to macro-economic conditions during the period. Quarterly amounts included in the 2022 Form 10-K and in this Form 10-Q reflect the impacts of the adoption of CECL on each interim period of 2022. See the 2022 Form 10-K for more details on the adoption of CECL.

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Securities (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]

Schedule of Available for Sale Securities from Amortized Cost to Fair Value

Amortized cost, allowance for credit losses and approximate fair values of debt securities available for sale are summarized as follows:

	September 30, 2023
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Allowance for Credit Losses		Estimated Fair Value
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	$	473,047	$	26	$	(58,438)	$	—	$	414,635
Corporate debt securities (2)	285,370		—		(32,792)		—		252,578
U.S. government agency debt securities (1) (2)	409,306		61		(53,380)		—		355,987
Collateralized loan obligations	5,000		5		—		—		5,005
Municipal bonds (1)	1,732		—		(92)		—		1,640
U.S. treasury securities	3,976		—		(24)		—		3,952
Total debt securities available for sale (3)	$	1,178,431	$	92	$	(144,726)	$	—	$	1,033,797

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total residential-mortgage backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $769.4 million and fair value of $668.7 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $101.1 million and fair value of $88.8 million .

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $6.3 million as of September 30, 2023, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

	December 31, 2022
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Allowance for Credit Losses		Estimated Fair Value
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	$	480,359	$	981	$	(43,666)	$	—	$	437,674
Corporate debt securities (2)	306,898		1		(26,199)		—		280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities (1) (2)	373,593		42		(42,814)		—		330,821
U.S. treasury securities	1,997		—		(1)		—		1,996
Municipal bonds (1)	1,731		—		(75)		—		1,656
Collateralized loan obligations	5,000		—		(226)		—		4,774
Total debt securities available for sale (3)	$	1,169,578	$	1,024	$	(112,981)	$	—	$	1,057,621

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total residential-mortgage backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $743.0 million and fair value of $666.5 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities available for sale, with amortized cost of $91.0 million and fair value of $80.9 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $5.6 million as of December 31, 2022, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in 2022.

Schedule of Realized Gain (Loss)

In the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls, gross realized gains, and gross realized losses of debt securities available for sale were as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2023		2022
Proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls of debt securities available for sale	$	—	$	12,154	$	1,240	$	26,312
Gross realized gains	$	—	$	22	$	—	$	71
Gross realized losses	—		—		(10,760)		—
Realized (loss) gain, net	$	—	$	22	$	(10,760)	$	71

Schedule of Available for Sale Securities with Unrealized Losses

The Company’s investment in debt securities available for sale with unrealized losses aggregated by the length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands, except securities count)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	52	$	79,491	$	(3,063)	335	$	333,171	$	(55,375)	$	412,662	$	(58,438)
Corporate debt securities	6	13,242		(673)		55	239,336		(32,119)		252,578		(32,792)
U.S. government agency debt securities	30	43,592		(941)		167	294,482		(52,439)		338,074		(53,380)
Municipal bonds	—	—		—		3	1,640		(92)		1,640		(92)
U.S. treasury securities	2	3,952		(24)		—	—		—		3,952		(24)
	90	$	140,277	$	(4,701)	560	$	868,629	$	(140,025)	$	1,008,906	$	(144,726)

	December 31, 2022
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands, except securities count)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	250	$	292,595	$	(22,315)	108	$	96,986	$	(21,351)	$	389,581	$	(43,666)
Corporate debt securities	50	203,516		(13,374)		14	72,190		(12,825)		275,706		(26,199)
U.S. government agency debt securities	92	88,056		(4,976)		104	240,668		(37,838)		328,724		(42,814)
Municipal bonds	3	1,656		(75)		—	—		—		1,656		(75)
U.S. treasury securities	1	1,996		(1)		—	—		—		1,996		(1)
Collateralized Loan Obligations	1	4,774		(226)		—	—		—		4,774		(226)
	397	$	592,593	$	(40,967)	226	$	409,844	$	(72,014)	$	1,002,437	$	(112,981)

The Company’s investment in debt securities held to maturity with unrealized losses aggregated by length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government agency debt securities	1	$	9,425	$	(500)	12	$	45,239	$	(9,838)	$	54,664	$	(10,338)
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	—	—		—		34	140,501		(24,751)		140,501		(24,751)
	1	$	9,425	$	(500)	46	$	185,740	$	(34,589)	$	195,165	$	(35,089)

	December 31, 2022
	Less Than 12 Months					12 Months or More					Total
(in thousands)	Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Number of Securities	Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss		Estimated Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
U.S. government agency debt securities	—	$	—	$	—	12	$	50,755	$	(7,778)	$	50,755	$	(7,778)
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities	31	142,033		(9,085)		3	14,689		(7,738)		156,722		(16,823)
	31	$	142,033	$	(9,085)	15	$	65,444	$	(15,516)	$	207,477	$	(24,601)

Schedule of Debt Securities, Held-to-Maturity

Amortized cost and approximate fair values of debt securities held to maturity are summarized as follows:

	September 30, 2023
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Estimated Fair Value		Allowance for Credit Losses
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government agency debt securities (1)	$	65,002	$	—	$	(10,338)	$	54,664	$	—
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities(1) (2)	165,252		—		(24,751)		140,501		—
Total debt securities held to maturity (3)	$	230,254	$	—	$	(35,089)	$	195,165	$	—

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total residential mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $202.6 million and fair value of $170.6 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of September 30, 2023, we had total commercial mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $27.6 million and fair value of $24.5 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $0.7 million as of September 30, 2023, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023.

	December 31, 2022
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Estimated Fair Value		Allowance for Credit Losses
(in thousands)			Gains		Losses
U.S. government agency debt securities (1)	$	68,556	$	109	$	(7,778)	$	60,887	$	—
U.S. government sponsored enterprise debt securities (1) (2)	173,545		—		(16,823)		156,722		—
Total debt securities held to maturity (3)	$	242,101	$	109	$	(24,601)	$	217,609	$	—

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(1)Includes residential mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, we had total residential mortgage-backed securities, included as part of total debt securities held to maturity, with amortized cost of $213.9 million and fair value of $191.4 million.

(2)Includes commercial mortgage-backed securities. As of December 31, 2022, includes total commercial mortgage-backed securities with amortized cost of $28.2 million and fair value of $26.2 million.

(3)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $0.8 million as of December 31, 2022, which is included as part of accrued interest receivable and other assets in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The Company did not record any write offs on accrued interest receivable related to these securities in 2022.

Schedule of Contractual Maturities of Securities

Contractual maturities of debt securities at September 30, 2023 are as follows:

	Available for Sale				Held to Maturity
(in thousands)	Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value
Within 1 year	$	2,705	$	2,682	$	—	$	—
After 1 year through 5 years	125,842		118,742		6,603		3,247
After 5 years through 10 years	228,020		199,276		14,634		13,358
After 10 years	821,864		713,097		209,017		178,560
	$	1,178,431	$	1,033,797	$	230,254	$	195,165

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Loans (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Receivables [Abstract]

Schedule of Loan Portfolio by Classes

Loans held for investment consist of the following loan classes:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,593,571	$	1,615,716
Multi-family residential	771,654		820,023
Land development and construction loans	301,938		273,174
	2,667,163		2,708,913
Single-family residential	1,371,194		1,102,845
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,046,450
	5,168,278		4,858,208
Commercial loans (1)	1,452,759		1,381,234
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,353		13,292
Consumer loans and overdrafts	438,997		604,460
Total loans held for investment, gross (2)	$	7,073,387	$	6,857,194

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(1)At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, includes equipment loans and leases totaling $49.3 million and $45.3 million, respectively.

(2)Excludes accrued interest receivable.

Loans held for sale consist of the following loan classes:

(in thousands)	September 30, 2023		December 31, 2022
Loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	43,256	$	—
Total loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost (1)	43,256		—
Mortgage loans held for sale at fair value
Land development and construction loans (2)	6,931		9,424
Single-family residential (3)	19,022		53,014
Total loans held for sale at fair value (4)	25,953		62,438
Total loans held for sale (5)(6)	$	69,209	$	62,438

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(1)In the third quarter of 2023, the Company transferred a New York-based CRE loan held for investment to the loans held for sale category, and recognized a valuation allowance of $5.6 million as result of the fair value adjustment of this loan. The Company subsequently sold this loan and there was no material impact to the Company’s results of operations as result of this transaction.

(2)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $14 million in land development and construction loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(3)In the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transferred approximately $81 million in single-family residential loans held for sale to the loans held for investment category.

(4)Loans held for sale in connection with Amerant Mortgage’s ongoing business.

(5)Remained current and in accrual status at each of the periods shown.

(6)Excludes accrued interest receivable.

Schedule of Loan Portfolio Delinquencies

The age analyses of the loan portfolio by class as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, are summarized in the following tables:

	September 30, 2023
	Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income				Past Due
(in thousands)			Current		30-59 Days		60-89 Days		Greater than 90 Days		Total Past Due
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,593,571	$	1,593,571	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	771,654		748,075		235		—		23,344		23,579
Land development and construction loans	301,938		301,938		—		—		—		—
	2,667,163		2,643,584		235		—		23,344		23,579
Single-family residential	1,371,194		1,369,078		—		1,845		271		2,116
Owner occupied	1,129,921		1,124,503		1,393		1,229		2,796		5,418
	5,168,278		5,137,165		1,628		3,074		26,411		31,113
Commercial loans	1,452,759		1,442,915		3,225		4,209		2,410		9,844
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,353		13,353		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	438,997		433,444		2,995		2,558		—		5,553
	$	7,073,387	$	7,026,877	$	7,848	$	9,841	$	28,821	$	46,510

	December 31, 2022
	Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income				Past Due
(in thousands)			Current		30-59 Days		60-89 Days		Greater than 90 Days		Total Past Due
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Non-owner occupied	$	1,615,716	$	1,615,716	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	820,023		818,394		1,387		242		—		1,629
Land development and construction loans	273,174		273,174		—		—		—		—
	2,708,913		2,707,284		1,387		242		—		1,629
Single-family residential	1,102,845		1,098,310		3,140		150		1,245		4,535
Owner occupied	1,046,450		1,039,928		172		6,014		336		6,522
	4,858,208		4,845,522		4,699		6,406		1,581		12,686
Commercial loans	1,381,234		1,373,042		1,523		475		6,194		8,192
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	13,292		13,292		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	604,460		601,921		2,439		62		38		2,539
	$	6,857,194	$	6,833,777	$	8,661	$	6,943	$	7,813	$	23,417

The following tables present the amortized cost basis of loans on nonaccrual status and loans past due over 90 days and still accruing as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	As of September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance		Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance		Total Nonaccrual Loans (1)		Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		23,344		$	23,344	—
	—		23,344		23,344		—
Single-family residential	843		1,690		$	2,533	—
Owner occupied	1,951		149		2,100		—
	2,794		25,183		$	27,977	—
Commercial loans	959		3,754		$	4,713	504
Consumer loans and overdrafts	1		—		1		—
Total	$	3,754	$	28,937	$	32,691	$	504

	As of December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance		Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance		Total Nonaccrual Loans (1)		Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	20,057	$	—	$	20,057	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—
	20,057		—		20,057		—
Single-family residential	—		1,526		1,526		253
Owner occupied	5,936		334		6,270		—
	25,993		1,860		27,853		253
Commercial loans	482		8,789		9,271		183
Consumer loans and overdrafts	—		4		4		35
Total	$	26,475	$	10,653	$	37,128	$	471

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Allowance for Credit Losses (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Receivables [Abstract]

Schedule of Allowance for Loan Losses

The analyses by loan segment of the changes in the ACL for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 is summarized in the following tables:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	42,238	$	36,626	$	—	$	27,092	$	105,956
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	(3,067)		4,852		—		5,615		7,400
Loans charged-off	(90)		(9,288)		—		(6,441)		(15,819)
Recoveries	10		736		—		490		1,236
Balance at end of the period	$	39,091	$	32,926	$	—	$	26,756	$	98,773

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	25,237	$	25,888	$	—	$	32,375	$	83,500
Provision for credit losses - loans	13,655		20,639		—		13,883		48,177
Loans charged-off	(90)		(18,715)		—		(20,428)		(39,233)
Recoveries	289		5,114		—		926		6,329
Balance at end of the period	$	39,091	$	32,926	$	—	$	26,756	$	98,773

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Recast (1)
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	20,459	$	21,152	$	—	$	28,864	$	70,475
Provision for credit losses - loans (1)	2,869		927		—		3,518		7,314
Loans charged-off	—		(99)		—		(1,712)		(1,811)
Recoveries	12		443		—		40		495
Balance at end of the period (1)	$	23,340	$	22,423	$	—	$	30,710	$	76,473

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(1)Recast amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Recast (1)
(in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and Others		Total
Balance at beginning of the period	$	17,952	$	38,979	$	42	$	12,926	$	69,899
Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle (1)	17,418		(8,281)		(42)		9,579		18,674
(Reversal of) provision for credit losses - loans (1)	(12,056)		(2,435)		—		11,579		(2,912)
Loans charged-off	—		(7,979)		—		(3,674)		(11,653)
Recoveries	26		2,139		—		300		2,465
Balance at end of the period (1)	$	23,340	$	22,423	$	—	$	30,710	$	76,473

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(1)Recast amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

The following is a summary of net proceeds from sales of loans held for investment by portfolio segment:

Three Months Ended September 30, (in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and others		Total
2023	$	20,500	$	6,909	$	—	$	—	$	27,409
2022	$	—	$	6,483	$	—	$	—	$	6,483

Nine Months Ended September 30, (in thousands)	Real Estate		Commercial		Financial Institutions		Consumer and others		Total
2023	$	34,075	$	7,796	$	—	$	—	$	41,871
2022	$	11,566	$	6,483	$	—	$	1,313	$	19,362

Schedule of Credit Quality Indicators

The following is a summary of the master risk categories and their associated loan risk ratings, as well as a description of the general characteristics of the master risk category:

	Loan Risk Rating
Master risk category
Nonclassified	4 to 10
Classified	1 to 3
Substandard	3
Doubtful	2
Loss	1

Schedule Of Financing Receivables By Type Of Collateral

The following tables present Loans held for investment by credit quality indicators and year of origination as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
	Term Loans
	Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	$	99,056	$	191,221	$	597,265	$	35,803	$	90,311	$	402,213	$	177,702	$	1,593,571
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Nonowner occupied	99,056		191,221		597,265		35,803		90,311		402,213		177,702		1,593,571
Multi-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	1,801		70,396		105,857		26,605		117,535		120,969		305,147		748,310
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		23,344		—		23,344
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Multi-family residential	1,801		70,396		105,857		26,605		117,535		144,313		305,147		771,654
Land development and construction loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	42,384		9,735		28,911		21,945		—		26,928		172,035		301,938
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total land development and construction loans	42,384		9,735		28,911		21,945		—		26,928		172,035		301,938
Single-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	286,064		460,287		181,306		65,722		21,041		71,615		282,074		1,368,109
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		691		2,394		3,085
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Single-family residential	286,064		460,287		181,306		65,722		21,041		72,306		284,468		1,371,194
Owner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	143,861		262,104		434,620		20,904		58,112		161,840		44,066		1,125,507
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		354		1,880		2,234
Classified
Substandard	—		—		1,316		—		—		864		—		2,180
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total owner occupied	143,861		262,104		435,936		20,904		58,112		163,058		45,946		1,129,921

	September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Non-real estate loans
Commercial Loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	302,410		292,024		79,465		12,127		34,900		38,184		660,939		1,420,049
Special Mention	7,007		—		—		—		—		—		19,968		26,975
Classified
Substandard	—		623		17		106		1,777		854		2,355		5,732
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		3		—		—		3
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial Loans	309,417		292,647		79,482		12,233		36,680		39,038		683,262		1,452,759
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	—		—		—		—		—		13,353		—		13,353
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		13,353		—		13,353
Consumer loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	28,583		211,027		61,386		21,306		35		10		116,649		438,996
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		1		—		1
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total consumer loans	28,583		211,027		61,386		21,306		35		11		116,649		438,997
Total loans held for investment, gross	$	911,166	$	1,497,417	$	1,490,143	$	204,518	$	323,714	$	861,220	$	1,785,209	$	7,073,387

	December 31, 2022
	Term Loans
	Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	$	177,852	$	637,015	$	34,525	$	91,941	$	82,385	$	342,174	$	221,333	$	1,587,225
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		8,378		—		8,378
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		20,113		—		—		—		20,113
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Nonowner occupied	177,852		637,015		34,525		112,054		82,385		350,552		221,333		1,615,716
Multi-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	85,670		110,943		26,881		126,724		27,242		124,433		318,130		820,023
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Multi-family residential	85,670		110,943		26,881		126,724		27,242		124,433		318,130		820,023
Land development and construction loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	8,846		27,746		23,459		188		—		26,930		186,005		273,174
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total land development and construction loans	8,846		27,746		23,459		188		—		26,930		186,005		273,174
Single-family residential
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	480,328		186,790		70,853		21,654		16,630		65,249		259,411		1,100,915
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		741		1,189		1,930
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total Single-family residential	480,328		186,790		70,853		21,654		16,630		65,990		260,600		1,102,845
Owner occupied
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	256,816		479,961		22,341		63,629		21,790		162,411		33,146		1,040,094
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	2,096		1,631		656		—		650		1,283		40		6,356
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total owner occupied	258,912		481,592		22,997		63,629		22,440		163,694		33,186		1,046,450

	December 31, 2022
	Term Loans Amortized Cost Basis by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis		Total
Non-real estate loans
Commercial Loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	400,781		95,470		19,815		42,936		32,248		16,297		761,489		1,369,036
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		1,499		—		250		1,749
Classified
Substandard	—		84		267		194		27		984		8,890		10,446
Doubtful	—		—		—		3		—		—		—		3
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total commercial Loans	400,781		95,554		20,082		43,133		33,774		17,281		770,629		1,381,234
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	—		—		—		—		—		13,292		—		13,292
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		13,292		—		13,292
Consumer loans
Credit Risk Rating:
Nonclassified
Pass	338,744		121,011		29,053		68		54		—		115,300		604,230
Special Mention	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Classified
Substandard	98		128		—		—		—		4		—		230
Doubtful	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Loss	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Total consumer loans	338,842		121,139		29,053		68		54		4		115,300		604,460
Total loans held for investment, gross	$	1,751,231	$	1,660,779	$	227,850	$	367,450	$	182,525	$	762,176	$	1,905,183	$	6,857,194

The following tables present gross charge-offs by year of origination for the periods presented:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	90	$	—	$	90
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Commercial loans	108		534		46		4,868		1,814		1,918		—		9,288
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	193		3,527		2,365		185		9		162		—		6,441
Total Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	301	$	4,061	$	2,411	$	5,053	$	1,823	$	2,170	$	—	$	15,819

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2023		2022		2021		2020		2019		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Year-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	90	$	—	$	90
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		90		—		90
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		39		—		39
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		129		—		129
Commercial loans	108		9,308		216		5,026		1,814		2,243		—		18,715
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	592		9,589		8,608		1,031		22		547		—		20,389
Total Year-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	700	$	18,897	$	8,824	$	6,057	$	1,836	$	2,919	$	—	$	39,233

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—				—		—
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Commercial loans	—		—		—		—		—		99		—		99
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	622		785		305		—		—				—		1,712
Total Quarter-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	622	$	785	$	305	$	—	$	—	$	99	$	—	$	1,811

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Term Loans Charge-offs by Origination Year
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2020		2019		2018		Prior		Revolving Loans Charge-Offs		Total
Year-To-Date Gross Charge-offs
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Multi-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Land development and construction loans	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Single-family residential	—		—		—		—		—		14		—		14
Owner occupied	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
	—		—		—		—		—		14		—		14
Commercial loans	2,523		—		4,429		541		—		486		—		7,979
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances	—		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Consumer loans and overdrafts	665		2,008		986		—		—		1		—		3,660
Total Year-To-Date Gross Charge-Offs	$	3,188	$	2,008	$	5,415	$	541	$	—	$	501	$	—	$	11,653

The following tables present the amortized cost basis of collateral dependent loans related to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty by type of collateral as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	As of September 30, 2023
	Collateral Type
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Residential Real Estate		Other		Total		Specific Reserves
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Multi-family residential	$	23,344	—		—		$	23,344	8,567
Single-family residential (1)	—		797		—		797		—
Owner occupied (2)	1,951		—		—		1,951		—
Commercial loans	—		—		3,620		3,620		—
Total	$	25,295	$	797	$	3,620	$	29,712	$	8,567

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(1)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 66.8% at September 30, 2023.

(2)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 58.1% at September 30, 2023.

	As of December 31, 2022
	Collateral Type
(in thousands)	Commercial Real Estate		Residential Real Estate		Other		Total		Specific Reserves
Real estate loans
Commercial real estate
Nonowner occupied (1)	$	20,121	$	—	$	—	$	20,121	$	—
Owner occupied (2)	5,934		—		—		5,934		—
	26,055		—		—		26,055		—
Commercial loans (3)	1,998		—		6,401		8,399		5,179
Total	$	28,053	$	—	$	6,401	$	34,454	$	5,179

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(1)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 92.7% at December 31, 2022.

(2)Weighted-average loan-to-value was approximately 62.7% at December 31, 2022.

(3)Includes loans with no specific reserves totaling $0.5 million with a weighted-average loan-to-value of approximately 42.0% at December 31, 2022.

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Time Deposits (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Time Deposits Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Time Deposit Maturities

The following table sets forth the maturities of our time deposits with individual balances equal to or greater than $100,000 as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands, except percentages)
Less than 3 months	$	394,866	30.1	%	$	140,292	15.1	%
3 to 6 months	151,991		11.6	%	148,137		16.0	%
6 to 12 months	598,763		45.7	%	497,436		53.6	%
1 to 3 years	157,740		12.0	%	135,663		14.6	%
Over 3 years	8,215		0.6	%	6,889		0.7	%
Total	$	1,311,575	100.0	%	$	928,417	100.0	%

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Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Advance from Federal Home Loan Bank [Abstract]

Schedule of Outstanding Advances from the FHLB

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had outstanding advances from the FHLB as follows:

			Outstanding Balance
Year of Maturity	Interest Rate	Interest Rate Type	At September 30, 2023		At December 31, 2022
			(in thousands)
2023	0.61% to 4.84%	Fixed	—		304,821
2024	1.68%	Fixed	—		100,000
2025	1.40% to 3.07%	Fixed	—		451,665
2026	4.25% to 4.90%	Fixed	110,000		—
2027 and after (1)	1.82% to 4.40%	Fixed	485,000		50,000
			$	595,000	$	906,486

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(1)There were no callable advances from the FHLB as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

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Junior Subordinated Debentures Held by Trust Subsidiaries (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities

The following tables provide information on the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities issued by, and the junior subordinated debentures issued to, each of the statutory trust subsidiaries as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust		Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust		Year of Issuance	Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	Year of Maturity
Commercebank Capital Trust VI	$	9,250	$	9,537	2002	3-M SOFR + 3.61%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VII	8,000		8,248		2003	3-M SOFR + 3.51%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VIII	5,000		5,155		2004	3-M SOFR + 3.11%	2034
Commercebank Capital Trust IX	25,000		25,774		2006	3-M SOFR + 2.01%	2038
Commercebank Capital Trust X	15,000		15,464		2006	3-M SOFR + 2.04%	2036
	$	62,250	$	64,178

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust		Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust		Year of Issuance	Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	Year of Maturity
Commercebank Capital Trust VI	$	9,250	$	9,537	2002	3-M LIBOR + 3.35%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VII	8,000		8,248		2003	3-M LIBOR + 3.25%	2033
Commercebank Capital Trust VIII	5,000		5,155		2004	3-M LIBOR + 2.85%	2034
Commercebank Capital Trust IX	25,000		25,774		2006	3-M LIBOR + 1.75%	2038
Commercebank Capital Trust X	15,000		15,464		2006	3-M LIBOR + 1.78%	2036
	$	62,250	$	64,178

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Derivative Instruments (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Derivative Instruments

At September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the fair values of the Company’s derivative instruments were as follows:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Other Assets		Other Liabilities		Other Assets		Other Liabilities
Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges	$	1,199	$	919	$	167	$	45
Interest rate swaps not designated as hedging instruments:
Customers	62		76,173		603		66,439
Third party broker	76,173		62		66,439		603
	76,235		76,235		67,042		67,042
Interest rate caps not designated as hedging instruments:
Customers	—		8,374		—		10,002
Third party broker	8,715		—		10,207		—
	8,715		8,374		10,207		10,002
Mortgage derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate lock commitments	708		—		727		—
Forward contracts	287		90		107		71
	995		90		834		71
	$	87,144	$	85,618	$	78,250	$	77,160

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Leases (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Leases [Abstract]

Schedule of Lease Cost

Lease costs for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:

(in thousands)	Three months ended September 30,				Nine months ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost	$	5,248	$	4,278	$	13,866	$	13,008
Short-term lease cost	24		18		24		62
Variable lease cost	588		414		1,675		1,304
Sublease income (1)	(857)		(527)		(2,582)		(2,164)
Total lease cost, net	$	5,003	$	4,183	$	12,983	$	12,210

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(1)Primarily in connection with the subleasing of portions of the Company’s headquarters building and, to a lesser extent, the sublease of the New York office space.

The following table provides supplemental information to leases as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended Ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
(in thousands, except weighted average data)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	4,267		3,499		11,908		10,811
Weighted average remaining lease term for operating leases	17.0 years		18.3 years		17.0 years		18.3 years
Weighted average discount rate for operating leases	9.66	%	5.94	%	9.66	%	5.94	%

Schedule of Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, Maturity

The following table presents a maturity analysis and reconciliation of the undiscounted cash flows to the total operating lease liabilities as of September 30, 2023 for the remaining 3 months of 2023 and thereafter:

(in thousands)
For the remaining three months of 2023	$	3,585
2024	14,579
2025	14,659
2026	14,905
2027	15,216
Thereafter	199,817
Total minimum payments required	262,761
Less: implied interest	(138,689)
Total lease obligations	$	124,072

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Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

Schedule of Restricted Stock Activity

The following table shows the activity of restricted stock awards during the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Number of restricted shares	Weighted-average grant date fair value
Non-vested shares, beginning of year	295,076	$	25.83
Granted	10,440	27.42
Vested	(103,118)	24.22
Forfeited	(36,691)	23.87
Non-vested shares at September 30, 2023	165,707	$	27.37

Schedule of Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units

The following table shows the activity of RSUs and PSUs during the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

	Stock-settled RSUs			Stock-settled PSUs
	Number of RSUs	Weighted-average grant date fair value		Number of PSUs	Weighted-average grant date fair value
Non-vested, beginning of year	123,970	$	22.83	137,199	$	17.43
Granted	231,976	24.18		53,420	25.09
Vested	(64,820)	22.71		(10,442)	19.00
Forfeited	(12,081)	27.08		(2,867)	33.63
Non-vested, at September 30, 2023	279,045	$	23.80	177,310	$	19.38

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”) (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Equity [Abstract]

Schedule of Components of AOCL/AOCI

The components of AOCL/AOCI are summarized as follows using applicable blended average federal and state tax rates for each period:

	September 30, 2023						December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale	$	(144,634)	$	36,907	$	(107,727)	$	(111,957)	$	28,605	$	(83,352)
Net unrealized holding gains on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges	2,818		(725)		2,093		3,659		(942)		2,717
Total (AOCL) AOCI	$	(141,816)	$	36,182	$	(105,634)	$	(108,298)	$	27,663	$	(80,635)

Schedule of Components of Other Comprehensive Loss

The components of other comprehensive loss for the periods presented are summarized as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Change in fair value arising during the period	$	(25,007)	$	6,438	$	(18,569)	$	(47,015)	$	12,056	$	(34,959)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses included in net income	—		—		—		(22)		5		(17)
	(25,007)		6,438		(18,569)		(47,037)		12,061		(34,976)
Net unrealized holding losses (gains) on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Change in fair value arising during the period	174		(45)		129		(22)		6		(16)
Reclassification adjustment for net interest income included in net income	(360)		92		(268)		(345)		88		(257)
	(186)		47		(139)		(367)		94		(273)
Total other comprehensive loss	$	(25,193)	$	6,485	$	(18,708)	$	(47,404)	$	12,155	$	(35,249)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023						2022
(in thousands)	Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount		Before Tax Amount		Tax Effect		Net of Tax Amount
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Change in fair value arising during the period	$	(34,775)	$	8,836	$	(25,939)	$	(135,554)	$	34,516	$	(101,038)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income	2,098		(534)		1,564		(71)		18		(53)
	(32,677)		8,302		(24,375)		(135,625)		34,534		(101,091)
Net unrealized holding losses on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Change in fair value arising during the period	288		(71)		217		295		(133)		162
Reclassification adjustment for net interest income included in net income	(1,129)		288		(841)		(667)		171		(496)
	(841)		217		(624)		(372)		38		(334)
Total other comprehensive loss	$	(33,518)	$	8,519	$	(24,999)	$	(135,997)	$	34,572	$	(101,425)

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Contingencies (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Financial Instruments whose Contract Amount Represents Off-Balance Sheet Credit Risk

Financial instruments whose contract amount represents off-balance sheet credit risk at September 30, 2023 are generally short-term and are as follows:

(in thousands)	Approximate Contract Amount
Commitments to extend credit	$	1,238,080
Standby letters of credit	32,300
Commercial letters of credit	64
	$	1,270,444

Schedule of Changes in the Allowance for Credit Losses for Off-Balance Sheet

The following table summarizes the changes in the allowance for credit losses for off-balance sheet credit risk exposures for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:

(in thousands)	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022
Balances at beginning of the period	$	2,002	$	1,702	$	1,702	$	1,702
Provision for credit losses - off balance sheet exposures	600		—		900		—
Balances at end of period	$	2,602	$	1,702	$	2,602	$	1,702

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Fair Value Measurements (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]

Schedule of Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are summarized below:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)		Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)		Total Carrying Value in the Consolidated Balance Sheet
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Other short-term investments	$	—	$	6,024	$	—	$	6,024
Securities
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	—		414,635		—		414,635
Corporate debt securities	—		252,578		—		252,578
U.S. government agency debt securities	—		355,987		—		355,987
Collateralized loan obligations	—		5,005		—		5,005
Municipal bonds	—		1,640		—		1,640
U.S treasury securities	—		3,952		—		3,952
	—		1,033,797		—		1,033,797
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading	2,438		—		—		2,438
	2,438		1,033,797		—		1,036,235
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	—		25,952		—		25,952
Bank owned life insurance	—		232,736		—		232,736
Other assets
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	—		—		1,306		1,306
Derivative instruments	—		87,144		—		87,144
	$	2,438	$	1,385,653	$	1,306	$	1,389,397
Liabilities
Other liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	85,618	$	—	$	85,618

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)		Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)		Total Carrying Value in the Consolidated Balance Sheet
Assets
Securities
Debt securities available for sale
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities	$	—	$	437,674	$	—	$	437,674
Corporate debt securities	—		280,700		—		280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities	—		330,821		—		330,821
Collateralized loan obligations	—		4,774		—		4,774
U.S treasury securities	—		1,996		—		1,996
Municipal bonds	—		1,656		—		1,656
	—		1,057,621		—		1,057,621
Equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading	11,383		—		—		11,383
	11,383		1,057,621		—		1,069,004
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	—		62,438		—		62,438
Bank owned life insurance	—		228,412		—		228,412
Other assets
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	—		—		1,307		1,307
Derivative instruments	—		78,250		—		78,250
	$	11,383	$	1,426,721	$	1,307	$	1,439,411
Liabilities
Other liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	77,160	$	—	$	77,160

Schedule of Major Categories of Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

The following tables present the major categories of assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022:

	September 30, 2023
(in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total Write Downs
Description
Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost	$	43,257	$	—	$	—	$	43,257	$	5,562
Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral (1)	24,146		—		—		24,146		4,371
Other Real Estate Owned (2)	20,181		—		—		20,181		—
	$	87,584	$	—	$	—	$	87,584	$	9,933

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(1)Include loans with specific reserves of $8.6 million and total write downs of $4.4 million at September 30, 2023.

(2)Consists of commercial real estate property.

	December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Carrying Amount		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)		Total Write Downs
Description
Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral (1)	$	30,158	$	—	$	—	$	30,158	$	3,851

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(1)Include loans with specific reserves of $5.2 million and total write downs of $3.9 million at December 31, 2022.

Schedule of Fair Value Measurement Inputs and Valuation Techniques

The following table presents the significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) used in the valuation of assets measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis.

Financial Instrument	Unobservable Inputs	Valuation Methods	Discount Range	Typical Discount
Collateral dependent loans	Discount to fair value	Appraisal value, as adjusted	0-30%	6-7%
		Inventory	0-100%	30-50%
		Accounts receivables	0-100%	20-30%
		Equipment	0-100%	20-30%
Other Real Estate Owned	Discount to fair value	Appraisal value, as adjusted	N/A	6-7%

Schedule of Estimated Fair Value of Financial Instruments where Fair Value Differs from Carrying Value

The estimated fair value of financial instruments where fair value differs from carrying value are as follows:

	September 30, 2023				December 31, 2022
(in thousands)	Carrying Value		Estimated Fair Value		Carrying Value		Estimated Fair Value
Financial assets:
Debt securities held to maturity	$	230,254	$	195,165	$	242,101	$	217,609
Loans	3,319,421		3,145,042		3,314,553		3,181,696
Financial liabilities:
Time deposits	1,579,458		1,569,852		1,119,510		1,099,294
Advances from the FHLB	595,000		588,604		906,486		873,852
Senior notes	59,447		56,293		59,210		58,755
Subordinated notes	29,412		28,481		29,284		28,481
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178		63,237		64,178		64,182

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Earnings Per Share (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of Earnings Per Share

The following table shows the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands, except share data and per share amounts)	2023		2022 (1)		2023		2022 (1)
Numerator:
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest (1)	$	21,741	$	17,490	$	48,729	$	40,145
Noncontrolling interest	(378)		(44)		(884)		(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc. (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Net income available to common stockholders (1)	$	22,119	$	17,534	$	49,613	$	41,337
Denominator:
Basic weighted average shares outstanding	33,489,560		33,476,418		33,537,759		33,985,856
Dilutive effect of share-based compensation awards	207,060		270,460		218,756		267,706
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding	33,696,620		33,746,878		33,756,515		34,253,562
Basic earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.48	$	1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (1)	$	0.66	$	0.52	$	1.47	$	1.21

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(1)Amounts reflect the impact of the adoption of CECL effective as of January 1, 2022. See Note 1 “Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for additional information.

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Narrative (Details)									1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended						9 Months Ended
	Oct. 18, 2023 $ / shares	Jul. 20, 2023 $ / shares	Jul. 19, 2023 $ / shares	Apr. 19, 2023 $ / shares	Jan. 18, 2023 $ / shares	Jan. 13, 2023 USD ($)	Apr. 13, 2022 $ / shares	Jan. 19, 2022 $ / shares	Jan. 31, 2022 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($) shares	Jun. 30, 2022 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2022 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) subsidiary $ / shares shares	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Aug. 03, 2023 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) $ / shares	Dec. 19, 2022 USD ($)
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Number of subsidiaries | subsidiary																3
Professional and other services fees										$ 5,325,000			$ 5,045,000			$ 20,368,000	$ 15,918,000
Repurchase of common stock - Class A																(4,933,000)	(72,060,000)
Dividends declared (in dollars per share) | $ / shares		$ 0.09	$ 0.09	$ 0.09	$ 0.09		$ 0.09	$ 0.09
Goodwill										20,525,000						20,525,000			$ 19,506,000
Impairment on investment carried at cost																1,963,000	0
Employee Stock
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Share-based compensation expense										100,000			300,000			400,000	300,000
F&B Acquisition Group LLC
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Payments to acquire businesses						$ 2,000,000
Loans held for sale at fair value						1,000,000
Goodwill						$ 1,000,000
Subsequent Event
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Dividends declared (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 0.09
Multi-Year Outsourcing Agreement
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Severance expense										500,000			400,000			2,900,000	1,800,000
Professional and other services fees													1,100,000				2,400,000
Impairments of operating lease ROU asset																	1,600,000
Contract Termination | Multi-Year Outsourcing Agreement
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Restructuring costs										0			$ 300,000			1,600,000	$ 7,100,000
Facility Closing | Multi-Year Outsourcing Agreement
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Restructuring costs										300,000						2,300,000
Professional and other services fees										0						4,800,000
Capitalized computer software, impairments										$ 0						$ 1,400,000
Class A Common Stock
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares										$ 0.10						$ 0.10		$ 0.10	$ 0.10
Repurchase of common stock										$ 2,708,000	$ 1,659,000	$ 566,000		$ 17,240,000	$ 54,820,000
Treasury stock (in shares) | shares										0			0			0	0
Class A Common Stock | Common Stock
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Repurchase of Class A common stock (in shares) | shares										(142,188)	(95,262)	(22,403)		(611,525)	(1,643,480)	(259,853)
Treasury stock acquired (in dollars per share) | $ / shares										$ 19.05						$ 18.98
Repurchase of common stock - Class A																$ (4,900,000)
Stock issued for employee stock purchase plan (in shares) | shares																30,557
Class A Common Stock | Treasury Stock
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Repurchase of common stock										$ (2,708,000)	$ 1,659,000	$ 566,000		$ 17,240,000	$ 54,820,000
Class A Common Stock | 2023 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program Member
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Stock repurchase program, authorized amount																				$ 25,000,000
Class A Common Stock | 2021 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Stock repurchase program, authorized amount									$ 50,000,000
Treasury stock, acquired (in shares) | shares									652,118
Treasury stock acquired									$ 22,100,000
Class A Common Stock | 2022 Class A Common Stock Repurchase Program
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Stock repurchase program, authorized amount									$ 50,000,000
Treasury stock acquired (in dollars per share) | $ / shares																	$ 31.14
Treasury stock, acquired (in shares) | shares													0				1,602,887
Treasury stock acquired																$ 49,900,000
Amerant Bank, N.A
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Ownership percentage of subsidiary										100.00%						100.00%

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Dividends Declared (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands													3 Months Ended
	Aug. 31, 2023	Jul. 20, 2023	Jul. 19, 2023	May 31, 2023	Apr. 19, 2023	Feb. 28, 2023	Jan. 18, 2023	Aug. 31, 2022	May 31, 2022	Apr. 13, 2022	Feb. 28, 2022	Jan. 19, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Dividend Per Share (in dollars per share)		$ 0.09	$ 0.09		$ 0.09		$ 0.09			$ 0.09		$ 0.09
Dividend Amount	$ 3,000			$ 3,000		$ 3,000		$ 3,000	$ 3,000		$ 3,200		$ 3,015	$ 3,023	$ 3,017	$ 3,013	$ 3,049	$ 3,154

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Schedule of Impact of Adopting CECL (Consolidated Balance Sheet) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Sep. 30, 2022
Assets
Deferred tax assets, net	$ 63,501	$ 48,703
Stockholder’s Equity
Retained earnings	$ 630,933	$ 590,375
As Reported
Assets
Allowance for credit losses			$ 53,711
Deferred tax assets, net			45,791
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities			181,693
Stockholder’s Equity
Retained earnings			588,495
As Recast
Assets
Allowance for credit losses			76,473
Deferred tax assets, net			51,644
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities			181,863
Stockholder’s Equity
Retained earnings			571,416
Changes
Assets
Allowance for credit losses			22,762
Deferred tax assets, net			5,853
Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities			170
Stockholder’s Equity
Retained earnings			$ (17,079)

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Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Schedule of Impact of Adopting CECL (Consolidated Statements of Operations) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands							3 Months Ended							9 Months Ended
	Jul. 20, 2023	Jul. 19, 2023	Apr. 19, 2023	Jan. 18, 2023	Apr. 13, 2022	Jan. 19, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Sep. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Total interest income							$ 139,383				$ 89,137			$ 403,010	$ 225,402
Total interest expense							60,806				19,240			158,223	40,915
Net interest income							78,577				69,897			244,787	184,487
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses							8,000				7,314			48,777	(2,912)
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses							70,577				62,583			196,010	187,399
Total noninterest income							21,921				15,956			67,883	42,912
Total noninterest expense							64,420				56,113			201,653	179,172
Income before income tax expense							28,078				22,426			62,240	51,139
Income tax expense							(6,337)				(4,936)			(13,511)	(10,994)
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest							21,741				17,490			48,729	40,145
Noncontrolling interest							(378)	$ (262)	$ (244)		(44)	$ (72)	$ (1,076)	(884)	(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.							$ 22,119	$ 7,308	$ 20,186		$ 17,534	$ 8,424	$ 15,379	$ 49,613	$ 41,337
Basic earnings per common share (in dollars per share)							$ 0.66				$ 0.52			$ 1.48	$ 1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (in dollars per share)							$ 0.66				$ 0.52			$ 1.47	$ 1.21
Dividend Per Share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.09	$ 0.09	$ 0.09	$ 0.09	$ 0.09	$ 0.09
Provision for credit losses										$ 20,900
Cumulative Effect, Period of Adoption, Adjusted Balance
Provision for credit losses										$ 11,100
As Reported
Total interest income											$ 89,137				$ 225,402
Total interest expense											19,240				40,915
Net interest income											69,897				184,487
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses											3,000				(7,000)
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses											66,897				191,487
Total noninterest income											15,956				42,912
Total noninterest expense											56,113				179,172
Income before income tax expense											26,740				55,227
Income tax expense											(5,864)				(11,875)
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest											20,876				43,352
Noncontrolling interest											(44)				(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.											$ 20,920				$ 44,544
Basic earnings per common share (in dollars per share)											$ 0.62				$ 1.31
Diluted earnings per common share (in dollars per share)											0.62				1.30
Dividend Per Share (in dollars per share)											$ 0.09				$ 0.27
As Recast
Total interest income											$ 89,137				$ 225,402
Total interest expense											19,240				40,915
Net interest income											69,897				184,487
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses											7,314				(2,912)
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses											62,583				187,399
Total noninterest income											15,956				42,912
Total noninterest expense											56,113				179,172
Income before income tax expense											22,426				51,139
Income tax expense											(4,936)				(10,994)
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest											17,490				40,145
Noncontrolling interest											(44)				(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.											$ 17,534				$ 41,337
Basic earnings per common share (in dollars per share)											$ 0.52				$ 1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (in dollars per share)											0.52				1.21
Dividend Per Share (in dollars per share)											$ 0.09				$ 0.27
Changes
Total interest income											$ 0				$ 0
Total interest expense											0				0
Net interest income											0				0
Provision for (reversal of) credit losses											4,314				4,088
Net interest income after provision for (reversal of) credit losses											(4,314)				(4,088)
Total noninterest income											0				0
Total noninterest expense											0				0
Income before income tax expense											(4,314)				(4,088)
Income tax expense											928				881
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest											(3,386)				(3,207)
Noncontrolling interest											0				0
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.											$ (3,386)				$ (3,207)
Basic earnings per common share (in dollars per share)											$ (0.10)				$ (0.09)
Diluted earnings per common share (in dollars per share)											(0.10)				(0.09)
Dividend Per Share (in dollars per share)											$ 0				$ 0

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Interest Earning Deposits with Banks, Other Short-Term Investments and Restricted Cash (Details) - USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Capital Requirements on Foreign Financial Institutions [Line Items]
Interest earning deposits with banks	$ 202,946,000	$ 228,955,000
Average interest rate on deposits with banks	5.58%	1.79%
Other short-term investments	$ 6,024,000	$ 0
Debt securities, available-for-sale, weighted average yield	4.65%
Restricted cash	$ 51,837,000	42,160,000
Obligation to repay	51,200,000	$ 41,600,000
Letter of Credit
Capital Requirements on Foreign Financial Institutions [Line Items]
Restricted cash	$ 600,000

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Securities - Schedule of Available for Sale Securities from Amortized Cost to Fair Value (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	$ 1,178,431	$ 1,169,578
Gross unrealized gains	92	1,024
Gross unrealized losses	(144,726)	(112,981)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	1,033,797	1,057,621
Debt securities available for sale accrued interest	6,300	5,600
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	473,047	480,359
Gross unrealized gains	26	981
Gross unrealized losses	(58,438)	(43,666)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	414,635	437,674
Corporate debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	285,370	306,898
Gross unrealized gains	0	1
Gross unrealized losses	(32,792)	(26,199)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	252,578	280,700
U.S. government agency debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	409,306	373,593
Gross unrealized gains	61	42
Gross unrealized losses	(53,380)	(42,814)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	355,987	330,821
Collateralized loan obligations
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	5,000	5,000
Gross unrealized gains	5	0
Gross unrealized losses	0	(226)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	5,005	4,774
Municipal bonds
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	1,732	1,731
Gross unrealized gains	0	0
Gross unrealized losses	(92)	(75)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	1,640	1,656
U.S. treasury securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	3,976	1,997
Gross unrealized gains	0	0
Gross unrealized losses	(24)	(1)
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Estimated Fair Value	3,952	1,996
Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	769,400	743,000
Estimated Fair Value	668,700	666,500
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	101,100	91,000
Estimated Fair Value	$ 88,800	$ 80,900

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Securities - Narrative (Details)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	May 31, 2023 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) contract
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Securities		$ 1,314,367,000			$ 1,314,367,000		$ 1,366,680,000
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value		1,033,797,000			1,033,797,000		1,057,621,000
Allowance for credit losses		0			0		0
Total unrealized loss		1,008,906,000			1,008,906,000		1,002,437,000
Equity securities, unrealized loss		100,000			100,000
Pre-tax loss		0		$ 0	10,760,000	$ 0
Equity securities, original costs		2,500,000			2,500,000
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading		2,438,000			2,438,000		11,383,000
Unrealized gains				$ 1,500,000		$ 400,000
Foreign Corporate Debt Securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value		0			0		0
Corporate debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value		252,578,000			252,578,000		280,700,000
Allowance for credit losses		0			0		0
Total unrealized loss		252,578,000			252,578,000		275,706,000
Proceeds from sale of debt securities, available-for-sale	$ 800,000
Pre-tax loss	$ 1,200,000
Investment-Grade
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value		182,200,000			182,200,000		206,300,000
Unrealized loss					22,900,000		16,600,000
Equity Securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Debt securities available for sale, at fair value			$ 11,200,000
Realized loss			$ 200,000
Pledged as Collateral
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Securities pledged as collateral		159,500,000			159,500,000		314,500,000
Foreign Corporate Debt Securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Securities		9,800,000			9,800,000		9,700,000
US Government
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Allowance for credit losses		0			0		0
Investment-Grade
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Securities		229,700,000			229,700,000		258,800,000
Allowance for credit losses		0			0		0
Total unrealized loss		28,700,000			28,700,000		24,100,000
Non-Investment-Grade
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Securities		22,900,000			22,900,000		16,900,000
Total unrealized loss		$ 4,100,000			4,100,000		2,100,000
Signature Bond
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Total unrealized loss							$ 9,100,000
Number of instruments held-for-sale | contract							1
Equity securities, unrealized loss							$ 900,000
Realized loss					$ 9,500,000
Mutual funds
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Equity securities, original costs							$ 12,700,000

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Securities - Schedule of Realized Gains (Losses) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]
Proceeds from sales, redemptions and calls of debt securities available for sale	$ 0	$ 12,154	$ 1,240	$ 26,312
Gross realized gains	0	22	0	71
Gross realized losses	0	0	(10,760)	0
Realized (loss) gain, net	$ 0	$ 22	$ (10,760)	$ 71

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Securities - Schedule of Available for Sale Securities with Unrealized Losses (Details) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) contract	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) contract
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	90	397
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value	$ 140,277	$ 592,593
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss	$ (4,701)	$ (40,967)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	560	226
12 months or more, estimated fair value	$ 868,629	$ 409,844
12 months or more, unrealized loss	(140,025)	(72,014)
Total, estimated fair value	1,008,906	1,002,437
Total, unrealized loss	$ (144,726)	$ (112,981)
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	52	250
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value	$ 79,491	$ 292,595
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss	$ (3,063)	$ (22,315)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	335	108
12 months or more, estimated fair value	$ 333,171	$ 96,986
12 months or more, unrealized loss	(55,375)	(21,351)
Total, estimated fair value	412,662	389,581
Total, unrealized loss	$ (58,438)	$ (43,666)
Corporate debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	6	50
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value	$ 13,242	$ 203,516
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss	$ (673)	$ (13,374)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	55	14
12 months or more, estimated fair value	$ 239,336	$ 72,190
12 months or more, unrealized loss	(32,119)	(12,825)
Total, estimated fair value	252,578	275,706
Total, unrealized loss	$ (32,792)	$ (26,199)
U.S. government agency debt securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	30	92
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value	$ 43,592	$ 88,056
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss	$ (941)	$ (4,976)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	167	104
12 months or more, estimated fair value	$ 294,482	$ 240,668
12 months or more, unrealized loss	(52,439)	(37,838)
Total, estimated fair value	338,074	328,724
Total, unrealized loss	$ (53,380)	$ (42,814)
Municipal bonds
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	0	3
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value	$ 0	$ 1,656
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss	$ 0	$ (75)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	3	0
12 months or more, estimated fair value	$ 1,640	$ 0
12 months or more, unrealized loss	(92)	0
Total, estimated fair value	1,640	1,656
Total, unrealized loss	$ (92)	$ (75)
U.S. treasury securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	2	1
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value	$ 3,952	$ 1,996
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss	$ (24)	$ (1)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	0	0
12 months or more, estimated fair value	$ 0	$ 0
12 months or more, unrealized loss	0	0
Total, estimated fair value	3,952	1,996
Total, unrealized loss	$ (24)	$ (1)
Collateralized loan obligations
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract		1
Less than 12 months, estimated fair value		$ 4,774
Less than 12 months, unrealized loss		$ (226)
12 months or more, number of securities | contract		0
12 months or more, estimated fair value		$ 0
12 months or more, unrealized loss		0
Total, estimated fair value		4,774
Total, unrealized loss		$ (226)

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Securities - Schedule of Held to Maturity Securities - Amortized Cost (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Schedule of Held-to-maturity Securities [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	$ 230,254	$ 242,101
Gross unrealized gains	0	109
Gross unrealized losses	(35,089)	(24,601)
Estimated Fair Value	195,165	217,609
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Debt securities held to maturity accrued interest	700	800
U.S. government agency debt securities
Schedule of Held-to-maturity Securities [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	65,002	68,556
Gross unrealized gains	0	109
Gross unrealized losses	(10,338)	(7,778)
Estimated Fair Value	54,664	60,887
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities
Schedule of Held-to-maturity Securities [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	165,252	173,545
Gross unrealized gains	0	0
Gross unrealized losses	(24,751)	(16,823)
Estimated Fair Value	140,501	156,722
Allowance for Credit Losses	0	0
Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
Schedule of Held-to-maturity Securities [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	202,600	213,900
Estimated Fair Value	170,600	191,400
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
Schedule of Held-to-maturity Securities [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	27,600	28,200
Estimated Fair Value	$ 24,500	$ 26,200

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Securities - Schedule of Held to Maturity Securities - Unrealized Losses (Details) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) contract	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) contract
Number of Securities
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	1	31
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	46	15
Estimated Fair Value
less than 12 months	$ 9,425	$ 142,033
12 months or more	185,740	65,444
Total	195,165	207,477
Unrealized Loss
Less than 12 months	(500)	(9,085)
12 months or more	(34,589)	(15,516)
Total	$ (35,089)	$ (24,601)
U.S. government agency debt securities
Number of Securities
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	1	0
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	12	12
Estimated Fair Value
less than 12 months	$ 9,425	$ 0
12 months or more	45,239	50,755
Total	54,664	50,755
Unrealized Loss
Less than 12 months	(500)	0
12 months or more	(9,838)	(7,778)
Total	$ (10,338)	$ (7,778)
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities
Number of Securities
Less than 12 months, number of securities | contract	0	31
12 months or more, number of securities | contract	34	3
Estimated Fair Value
less than 12 months	$ 0	$ 142,033
12 months or more	140,501	14,689
Total	140,501	156,722
Unrealized Loss
Less than 12 months	0	(9,085)
12 months or more	(24,751)	(7,738)
Total	$ (24,751)	$ (16,823)

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Securities - Schedule of Contractual Maturities of Securities (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Available for Sale, Amortized Cost
Within 1 year	$ 2,705
After 1 year through 5 years	125,842
After 5 years through 10 years	228,020
After 10 years	821,864
Amortized Cost	1,178,431	$ 1,169,578
Available for Sale, Estimated Fair Value
Within 1 year	2,682
After 1 year through 5 years	118,742
After 5 years through 10 years	199,276
After 10 years	713,097
Estimated Fair Value	1,033,797	1,057,621
Held to Maturity, Amortized Cost
Within 1 year	0
After 1 year through 5 years	6,603
After 5 years through 10 years	14,634
After 10 years	209,017
Amortized Cost	230,254	242,101
Held to Maturity, Estimated Fair Value
Within 1 year	0
After 1 year through 5 years	3,247
After 5 years through 10 years	13,358
After 10 years	178,560
Estimated Fair Value	$ 195,165	$ 217,609

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Loans - Schedule of Loan Portfolio by Classes (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 7,073,387	$ 6,857,194
Real estate loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	5,168,278	4,858,208
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,593,571	1,615,716
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	771,654	820,023
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	301,938	273,174
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	2,667,163	2,708,913
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,371,194	1,102,845
Real estate loans | Owner occupied
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,129,921	1,046,450
Commercial loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,452,759	1,381,234
Commercial loans | Equipment Financing
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	49,300	45,300
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	13,353	13,292
Consumer loans and overdrafts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 438,997	$ 604,460

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Loans - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2022
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 7,073,387,000		$ 7,073,387,000		$ 6,857,194,000
Syndication facilities included in loans	312,000,000		312,000,000		367,000,000
Collateral of cash, cash equivalents or other financial instruments	6,600,000		6,600,000		6,300,000
Interest income on nonaccrual loans	0	$ 0	0	$ 0
Interest receivable	33,000,000		33,000,000		27,700,000
Reversal of interest receivable	100,000		500,000
International
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	103,300,000		103,300,000		99,200,000
Consumer loans and overdrafts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	438,997,000		438,997,000		604,460,000
Reversal of interest receivable		300,000
Real estate loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	5,168,278,000		5,168,278,000		4,858,208,000
Real estate loans | Indirect Consumer Loans Purchased
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Payments to acquire loans held-for-investment		91,000,000		345,000,000
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,371,194,000		1,371,194,000		1,102,845,000
Payments to acquire loans held-for-investment	10,300,000	$ 110,300,000	17,500,000	132,100,000
Commercial loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,452,759,000		1,452,759,000		1,381,234,000
Commercial loans | Indirect Consumer Loans Purchased
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Payments to acquire loans held-for-investment	0		0
Indirect Consumer Loans Purchased | Consumer loans and overdrafts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	254,700,000		254,700,000		433,300,000
Under Non-Accrual Status
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Reversal of interest receivable				600,000
Under Non-Accrual Status | Consumer loans and overdrafts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Reversal of interest receivable				500,000
Under Non-Accrual Status | Real estate loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Reversal of interest receivable				$ 100,000
Pledged as Collateral
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 2,500,000,000		$ 2,500,000,000		$ 1,200,000,000

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Loans - Schedule of Loan Portfolio Delinquencies (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	$ 7,073,387	$ 6,857,194
Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	7,026,877	6,833,777
Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	46,510	23,417
30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	7,848	8,661
60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	9,841	6,943
Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	28,821	7,813
Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	5,168,278	4,858,208
Real estate loans | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	5,137,165	4,845,522
Real estate loans | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	31,113	12,686
Real estate loans | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,628	4,699
Real estate loans | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	3,074	6,406
Real estate loans | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	26,411	1,581
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,593,571	1,615,716
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,593,571	1,615,716
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	771,654	820,023
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	748,075	818,394
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	23,579	1,629
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	235	1,387
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	242
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	23,344	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	301,938	273,174
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	301,938	273,174
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,667,163	2,708,913
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,643,584	2,707,284
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	23,579	1,629
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	235	1,387
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	242
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	23,344	0
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,371,194	1,102,845
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,369,078	1,098,310
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,116	4,535
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	3,140
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,845	150
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	271	1,245
Real estate loans | Owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,129,921	1,046,450
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,124,503	1,039,928
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	5,418	6,522
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,393	172
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,229	6,014
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,796	336
Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,452,759	1,381,234
Commercial loans | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	1,442,915	1,373,042
Commercial loans | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	9,844	8,192
Commercial loans | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	3,225	1,523
Commercial loans | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	4,209	475
Commercial loans | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,410	6,194
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	13,353	13,292
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	13,353	13,292
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	0	0
Consumer loans and overdrafts
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	438,997	604,460
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Current
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	433,444	601,921
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Total Past Due
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	5,553	2,539
Consumer loans and overdrafts | 30-59 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,995	2,439
Consumer loans and overdrafts | 60-89 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	2,558	62
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Greater than 90 Days
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Total Loans, Net of Unearned Income	$ 0	$ 38

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Loans - Schedule of Nonaccrual Status and Loans Past Due (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	$ 3,754	$ 26,475
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	28,937	10,653
Total Nonaccrual Loans	32,691	37,128
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	504	471
Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	2,794	25,993
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	25,183	1,860
Total Nonaccrual Loans	27,977	27,853
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	0	253
Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	959	482
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	3,754	8,789
Total Nonaccrual Loans	4,713	9,271
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	504	183
Consumer loans and overdrafts
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	1	0
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	0	4
Total Nonaccrual Loans	1	4
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	0	35
Non-owner occupied | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	0	20,057
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	0	0
Total Nonaccrual Loans	0	20,057
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	0	0
Multi-family residential | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	0	0
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	23,344	0
Total Nonaccrual Loans	23,344	0
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	0	0
Commercial real estate | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	0	20,057
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	23,344	0
Total Nonaccrual Loans	23,344	20,057
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	0	0
Single-family residential | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	843	0
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	1,690	1,526
Total Nonaccrual Loans	2,533	1,526
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	0	253
Owner occupied | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Nonaccrual Loans With No Related Allowance	1,951	5,936
Nonaccrual Loans With Related Allowance	149	334
Total Nonaccrual Loans	2,100	6,270
Loans Past Due Over 90 Days and Still Accruing	$ 0	$ 0

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Loans - Schedule of Loans Held for Sale (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2022
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Total loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost	$ 43,257		$ 0
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	95,674	$ 51,640
Real estate loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Total loans held for sale at the lower of fair value or cost	43,256		0
Total loans held for sale at fair value	25,953		62,438
Total loans held for sale	69,209		62,438
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	5,600
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Non-owner occupied	43,256		0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Total loans held for sale at fair value	6,931		9,424
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	14,000
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Total loans held for sale at fair value	19,022		$ 53,014
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value) transferred to loans held for investment	$ 81,000

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule of Allowance for Loan Losses (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period	$ 105,956	$ 70,475	$ 83,500	$ 69,899
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	7,400		48,177
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	8,000	7,314	48,777	(2,912)
Loans charged-off	(15,819)	(1,811)	(39,233)	(11,653)
Recoveries	1,236	495	6,329	2,465
Balance at end of the period	98,773	76,473	98,773	76,473
Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period				18,674
Real Estate
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period	42,238	20,459	25,237	17,952
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	(3,067)		13,655
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans		2,869		(12,056)
Loans charged-off	(90)	0	(90)	0
Recoveries	10	12	289	26
Balance at end of the period	39,091	23,340	39,091	23,340
Real Estate | Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period				17,418
Commercial
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period	36,626	21,152	25,888	38,979
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	4,852		20,639
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans		927		(2,435)
Loans charged-off	(9,288)	(99)	(18,715)	(7,979)
Recoveries	736	443	5,114	2,139
Balance at end of the period	32,926	22,423	32,926	22,423
Commercial | Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period				(8,281)
Financial Institutions
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period	0	0	0	42
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	0		0
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans		0		0
Loans charged-off	0	0	0	0
Recoveries	0	0	0	0
Balance at end of the period	0	0	0	0
Financial Institutions | Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period				(42)
Consumer and Others
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period	27,092	28,864	32,375	12,926
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans	5,615		13,883
(Reversal of ) provision for credit losses - loans		3,518		11,579
Loans charged-off	(6,441)	(1,712)	(20,428)	(3,674)
Recoveries	490	40	926	300
Balance at end of the period	$ 26,756	$ 30,710	$ 26,756	30,710
Consumer and Others | Cumulative effect of adoption of accounting principle
Allowance for Credit Losses
Balance at beginning of the period				$ 9,579

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Allowance for credit loss, increase		$ 15.3
Allowance for credit loss, increase, percent		18.30%
Allowance for credit loss, percent of total loans	1.40%	1.40%	1.22%
Additional reserve requirements for charge-offs and credit quality	$ 7.6	$ 36.3
Additional reserve requirements due to loan composition and volume changes	1.4
Updated economic factors	0.4	9.6
Release due to recoveries	$ 1.2
Account for loan growth		2.3
Commercial Real Estate And Commercial Portfolio Segments Member
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Internal risk ratings, loan balance, minimum		3.0
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Internal risk ratings, loan balance, minimum		$ 3.0
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Commercial Real Estate | Collateralized Loan Obligations
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Decrease in weighted-average loan-to-values		2.00%

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule of Recorded Investment of Loan Sales (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Amount of loan sales	$ 27,409	$ 6,483	$ 41,871	$ 19,362
Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Amount of loan sales	20,500	0	34,075	11,566
Commercial
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Amount of loan sales	6,909	6,483	7,796	6,483
Financial Institutions
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Amount of loan sales	0	0	0	0
Consumer and Others
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Amount of loan sales	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 1,313

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule of TDR Loans (Details)	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2022 contract	Sep. 30, 2022 contract	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($)
Receivables [Abstract]
Troubled debt restructuring | $			$ 0
Troubled debt restructuring, number of contracts	0	0
TDRs subsequently defaulted	0	0

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule of Master Risk Categories and Associated Loan Risk Ratings (Details)	Sep. 30, 2023
Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	3
Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	2
Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	1
Minimum | Nonclassified
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	4
Minimum | Classified
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	1
Maximum | Nonclassified
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	10
Maximum | Classified
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Loan Risk Rating	3

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule of Loans Held For Investment by Credit Quality Indicators (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	$ 911,166	$ 1,751,231
2022	1,497,417	1,660,779
2021	1,490,143	227,850
2020	204,518	367,450
2019	323,714	182,525
Prior	861,220	762,176
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	1,785,209	1,905,183
Total	7,073,387	6,857,194
Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Total	5,168,278	4,858,208
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	99,056	177,852
2022	191,221	637,015
2021	597,265	34,525
2020	35,803	112,054
2019	90,311	82,385
Prior	402,213	350,552
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	177,702	221,333
Total	1,593,571	1,615,716
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	99,056	177,852
2022	191,221	637,015
2021	597,265	34,525
2020	35,803	91,941
2019	90,311	82,385
Prior	402,213	342,174
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	177,702	221,333
Total	1,593,571	1,587,225
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	8,378
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	8,378
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	20,113
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	20,113
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	1,801	85,670
2022	70,396	110,943
2021	105,857	26,881
2020	26,605	126,724
2019	117,535	27,242
Prior	144,313	124,433
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	305,147	318,130
Total	771,654	820,023
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	1,801	85,670
2022	70,396	110,943
2021	105,857	26,881
2020	26,605	126,724
2019	117,535	27,242
Prior	120,969	124,433
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	305,147	318,130
Total	748,310	820,023
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	23,344	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	23,344	0
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	42,384	8,846
2022	9,735	27,746
2021	28,911	23,459
2020	21,945	188
2019	0	0
Prior	26,928	26,930
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	172,035	186,005
Total	301,938	273,174
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	42,384	8,846
2022	9,735	27,746
2021	28,911	23,459
2020	21,945	188
2019	0	0
Prior	26,928	26,930
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	172,035	186,005
Total	301,938	273,174
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	286,064	480,328
2022	460,287	186,790
2021	181,306	70,853
2020	65,722	21,654
2019	21,041	16,630
Prior	72,306	65,990
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	284,468	260,600
Total	1,371,194	1,102,845
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	286,064	480,328
2022	460,287	186,790
2021	181,306	70,853
2020	65,722	21,654
2019	21,041	16,630
Prior	71,615	65,249
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	282,074	259,411
Total	1,368,109	1,100,915
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	691	741
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	2,394	1,189
Total	3,085	1,930
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Single-family residential | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	143,861	258,912
2022	262,104	481,592
2021	435,936	22,997
2020	20,904	63,629
2019	58,112	22,440
Prior	163,058	163,694
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	45,946	33,186
Total	1,129,921	1,046,450
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	143,861	256,816
2022	262,104	479,961
2021	434,620	22,341
2020	20,904	63,629
2019	58,112	21,790
Prior	161,840	162,411
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	44,066	33,146
Total	1,125,507	1,040,094
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	354	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	1,880	0
Total	2,234	0
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	2,096
2022	0	1,631
2021	1,316	656
2020	0	0
2019	0	650
Prior	864	1,283
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	40
Total	2,180	6,356
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Real estate loans | Owner occupied | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	309,417	400,781
2022	292,647	95,554
2021	79,482	20,082
2020	12,233	43,133
2019	36,680	33,774
Prior	39,038	17,281
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	683,262	770,629
Total	1,452,759	1,381,234
Commercial loans | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	302,410	400,781
2022	292,024	95,470
2021	79,465	19,815
2020	12,127	42,936
2019	34,900	32,248
Prior	38,184	16,297
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	660,939	761,489
Total	1,420,049	1,369,036
Commercial loans | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	7,007	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	1,499
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	19,968	250
Total	26,975	1,749
Commercial loans | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	623	84
2021	17	267
2020	106	194
2019	1,777	27
Prior	854	984
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	2,355	8,890
Total	5,732	10,446
Commercial loans | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	3
2019	3	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	3	3
Commercial loans | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	13,353	13,292
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	13,353	13,292
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	13,353	13,292
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	13,353	13,292
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Consumer loans and overdrafts
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	28,583	338,842
2022	211,027	121,139
2021	61,386	29,053
2020	21,306	68
2019	35	54
Prior	11	4
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	116,649	115,300
Total	438,997	604,460
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Pass
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	28,583	338,744
2022	211,027	121,011
2021	61,386	29,053
2020	21,306	68
2019	35	54
Prior	10	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	116,649	115,300
Total	438,996	604,230
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Special Mention
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Substandard
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	98
2022	0	128
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	1	4
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	1	230
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Doubtful
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	0	0
Consumer loans and overdrafts | Loss
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
2023	0	0
2022	0	0
2021	0	0
2020	0	0
2019	0	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	0
Total	$ 0	$ 0

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule of Gross Charge-Offs (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	$ 301	$ 622	$ 700	$ 3,188
2022	4,061	785	18,897	2,008
2021	2,411	305	8,824	5,415
2020	5,053	0	6,057	541
2019	1,823	0	1,836	0
Prior	2,170	99	2,919	501
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	15,819	1,811	39,233	11,653
Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	90	0	129	14
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	90	0	129	14
Real estate loans | Non-owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	90	0	90	0
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	90	0	90	0
Real estate loans | Multi-family residential
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	0	0	0	0
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0
Real estate loans | Land development and construction loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	0	0	0	0
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0
Real estate loans | Commercial real estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	90	0	90	0
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	90	0	90	0
Real estate loans | Single-family residential
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	0		39	14
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	39	14
Real estate loans | Owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	0	0	0	0
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0
Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	108	0	108	2,523
2022	534	0	9,308	0
2021	46	0	216	4,429
2020	4,868	0	5,026	541
2019	1,814	0	1,814	0
Prior	1,918	99	2,243	486
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	9,288	99	18,715	7,979
Loans to financial institutions and acceptances
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0	0
Prior	0	0	0	0
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0
Consumer loans and overdrafts
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
2023	193	622	592	665
2022	3,527	785	9,589	2,008
2021	2,365	305	8,608	986
2020	185	0	1,031	0
2019	9	0	22	0
Prior	162		547	1
Revolving Loans Charge-Offs	0	0	0	0
Total	$ 6,441	$ 1,712	$ 20,389	$ 3,660

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Allowance for Credit Losses - Schedule Of Financing Receivables By Type Of Collateral (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	$ 7,073,387	$ 6,857,194
Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	5,168,278	4,858,208
Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	1,452,759	1,381,234
Collateralized Loan Obligations
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	29,712	34,454
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	25,295	28,053
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	797	0
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	3,620	6,401
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	8,567	5,179
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		26,055
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		26,055
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		0
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		0
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		0
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	3,620	8,399
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Commercial loans | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0	$ 1,998
Weighted-average loan-to-value		42.00%
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Commercial loans | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0	$ 0
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Commercial loans | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	3,620	6,401
Collateralized Loan Obligations | Commercial loans | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0	5,179
Loans, no specific reserve		500
Non-owner occupied | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	1,593,571	1,615,716
Non-owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		20,121
Non-owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		$ 20,121
Weighted-average loan-to-value		92.70%
Non-owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		$ 0
Non-owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		0
Non-owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans		0
Multi-family residential | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	771,654	820,023
Multi-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	23,344
Multi-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	23,344
Multi-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0
Multi-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0
Multi-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	8,567
Single-family residential | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	1,371,194	1,102,845
Single-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	797
Single-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	$ 0
Weighted-average loan-to-value	66.80%
Single-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	$ 797
Single-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0
Single-family residential | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0
Owner occupied | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	1,129,921	1,046,450
Owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	1,951	5,934
Owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	$ 1,951	$ 5,934
Weighted-average loan-to-value	58.10%	62.70%
Owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Residential Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	$ 0	$ 0
Owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Other
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	0	0
Owner occupied | Collateralized Loan Obligations | Real estate loans | Specific Reserves
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loans	$ 0	$ 0

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Time Deposits - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Time Deposits Disclosure [Abstract]
Time deposits, $100,000 or more	$ 1,311,575	$ 928,417
Time deposits, $250,000 or more	700,000	486,000
Brokered time deposits	$ 723,000	$ 609,000

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Time Deposits - Schedule of Time Deposit Maturities (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Time Deposits, $100,000 or More [Abstract]
Less than 3 months	$ 394,866	$ 140,292
3 to 6 months	151,991	148,137
6 to 12 months	598,763	497,436
1 to 3 years	157,740	135,663
Over 3 years	8,215	6,889
Total	$ 1,311,575	$ 928,417
Weighted Average Interest Rate of Time Deposits, $100,000 or More [Abstract]
Less than 3 months	30.10%	15.10%
3 to 6 months	11.60%	16.00%
6 to 12 months	45.70%	53.60%
1 to 3 years	12.00%	14.60%
Over 3 years	0.60%	0.70%
Total	100.00%	100.00%

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Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
2023	$ 0			$ 304,821,000
Interest rate 2024	1.68%
2024	$ 0			100,000,000
2025	0			451,665,000
2026	110,000,000			0
2027 and after	485,000,000			50,000,000
Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	595,000,000			906,486,000
Gain on early extinguishment of advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank, net	7,000,000	$ 13,400,000	$ 13,200,000
Repayments	225,000,000	$ 355,000,000	$ 565,000,000
Callable Option
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
Advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank	$ 0			$ 0
Minimum
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
Interest Rate 2023	0.61%
Interest rate 2025	1.40%
Interest rate 2026	4.25%
Interest rate 2027 and after	1.82%
Maximum
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
Interest Rate 2023	4.84%
Interest rate 2025	3.07%
Interest rate 2026	4.90%
Interest rate 2027 and after	4.40%

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Senior Notes (Details) - Senior notes - 5.75% Senior Notes due 2025 - USD ($)		9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 23, 2020	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Face amount	$ 60,000,000
Interest rate, stated percentage	5.75%
Debt issuance costs	$ 1,600,000	$ 600,000	$ 800,000
Proceeds from issuance of debt	$ 58,400,000	$ 59,400,000	$ 59,200,000
Debt issuance costs, amortization period	5 years

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Subordinated Notes (Details) - USD ($)	Mar. 09, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Jun. 21, 2022
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Subordinated notes		$ 29,412,000	$ 29,284,000
Subordinated notes | 4.50% Fixed-to-Floating Rate and Due in March 15, 2032
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Face amount	$ 30,000,000
Effective percentage	4.25%			4.25%
Proceeds from issuance of debt	$ 29,100,000
Debt issuance costs	$ 900,000	600,000	700,000
Amortization period	10 years
Subordinated notes		$ 29,400,000	$ 29,300,000
Interest rate, stated percentage	4.25%
Variable rate	2.51%

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Junior Subordinated Debentures Held by Trust Subsidiaries (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2022
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust	$ 62,250		$ 62,250
Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust	64,178		64,178
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VI
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust	$ 9,537		$ 9,537
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VI | SOFR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	3.61%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VI | LIBOR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures			3.35%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VII
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust	$ 8,248		$ 8,248
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VII | SOFR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	3.51%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VII | LIBOR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures		3.25%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Commercebank Capital Trust VI
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust	$ 9,250		9,250
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2033 | Commercebank Capital Trust VII
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust	8,000		8,000
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2034 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VIII
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust	$ 5,155		5,155
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2034 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VIII | SOFR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	3.11%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2034 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust VIII | LIBOR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures		2.85%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2034 | Commercebank Capital Trust VIII
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust	$ 5,000		5,000
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2038 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust IX
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust	$ 25,774		25,774
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2038 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust IX | SOFR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	2.01%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2038 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust IX | LIBOR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures		1.75%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2038 | Commercebank Capital Trust IX
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust	$ 25,000		25,000
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2036 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust X
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Principal Amount of Debenture Issued to Trust	$ 15,464		15,464
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2036 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust X | SOFR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures	2.04%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2036 | Junior Subordinated Debt | Commercebank Capital Trust X | LIBOR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Annual Rate of Trust Preferred Securities and Debentures		1.78%
Junior Subordinated Notes, Maturing 2036 | Commercebank Capital Trust X
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Amount of Trust Preferred Securities Issued by Trust	$ 15,000		$ 15,000

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Derivative Instruments - Schedule of Derivative Instruments (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	$ 87,144	$ 78,250
Other Liabilities	85,618	77,160
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	1,199	167
Other Liabilities	919	45
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	76,235	67,042
Other Liabilities	76,235	67,042
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Customers
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	62	603
Other Liabilities	76,173	66,439
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Third party broker
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	76,173	66,439
Other Liabilities	62	603
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Cap Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	8,715	10,207
Other Liabilities	8,374	10,002
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Cap Contracts | Customers
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	0	0
Other Liabilities	8,374	10,002
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Cap Contracts | Third party broker
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	8,715	10,207
Other Liabilities	0	0
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Mortgage Derivatives
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	995	834
Other Liabilities	90	71
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Mortgage Derivatives | Interest rate lock commitments
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	708	727
Other Liabilities	0	0
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Mortgage Derivatives | Forward contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Other Assets	287	107
Other Liabilities	$ 90	$ 71

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Derivative Instruments - Narrative (Details)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) instrument	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) instrument	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) contract	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) instrument	Apr. 30, 2022 USD ($) instrument
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Net unrealized losses in accumulated other comprehensive expected to be reclassified into expense in the next twelve months	$ 300,000		$ 300,000
Interest Rate Swap Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Notional amount						$ 50,000,000
Unrealized gain (loss)	(200,000)		(200,000)
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Net unrealized losses in accumulated other comprehensive expected to be reclassified into expense in the next twelve months	700,000		700,000
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Federal Home Loan Bank Advances
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments terminated | contract					16
Gain on termination of cash flow hedge					$ 8,900,000
FHLB, advances, reduction of interest expense	$ 300,000	$ 300,000	$ 1,000,000.0	$ 1,000,000.0
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Federal Home Loan Bank Advances | Minimum
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Average remaining maturity					1 month
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Federal Home Loan Bank Advances | Maximum
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Average remaining maturity					7 years
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Junior subordinated debentures
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments held | instrument	5		5				5
Notional amount	$ 64,200,000		$ 64,200,000				$ 64,200,000
Amount of hedged item	64,200,000		64,200,000				$ 64,200,000
Unrealized gain (loss)	200,000	8,000	300,000	(300,000)
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments | Variable Interest Rate
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Notional amount						$ 50,000,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Customers
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments held | instrument							143
Notional amount	$ 969,400,000		$ 969,400,000				$ 925,400,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Credit Risk Contract
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments held | instrument	4		4				4
Notional amount	$ 72,600,000		$ 72,600,000				$ 74,000,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Cap Contracts | Customers
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments held | instrument	15		15				19
Notional amount	$ 353,400,000		$ 353,400,000				$ 448,800,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Cap Contracts | Third party broker
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments held | instrument	14		14				16
Notional amount	$ 332,400,000		$ 332,400,000				$ 371,900,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest Rate Cap Contract | Third party broker
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Number of instruments held | instrument	1		1				4	4
Notional amount	$ 35,000,000		$ 35,000,000				$ 140,000,000	$ 140,000,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Interest rate lock commitments
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Notional amount	92,400,000		92,400,000				77,000,000
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | Forward contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]
Notional amount	36,500,000		36,500,000				$ 17,000,000
Gain due to change in fair value	$ 100,000	$ 100,000	$ 100,000	$ 300,000

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Derivative Instruments - Credit Risk (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Derivative [Line Items]
Other Liabilities	$ 85,618	$ 77,160
Obligation to repay	51,200	41,600
Interest Rate Swap Contracts
Derivative [Line Items]
Fair value of derivative contracts	77,200	67,100
Interest Rate Swap Contracts | Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments
Derivative [Line Items]
Securities pledged	0	500
Other Liabilities	$ 919	$ 45

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Leases - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2022
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Variable lease cost	$ 588	$ 414	$ 1,675	$ 1,304
Operating lease right-of-use assets	116,763		116,763		$ 139,987
Total lease obligations	124,072		124,072		145,300
Short-term lease liability	3,400		3,400		5,200
Direct or sale type finance leases	2,500		2,500		13,600
Premises and equipment, net	43,004		43,004		$ 41,772
Operating Leases
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Premises and equipment, net	$ 3,100		$ 3,100
Minimum
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Term of contract	1 year		1 year
Maximum
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Term of contract	42 years		42 years
Florida
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Impairments of operating lease ROU asset			$ 1,100	$ 1,600

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Leases - Schedule of Lease Cost (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost	$ 5,248	$ 4,278	$ 13,866	$ 13,008
Short-term lease cost	24	18	24	62
Variable lease cost	588	414	1,675	1,304
Sublease income	(857)	(527)	(2,582)	(2,164)
Total lease cost, net	$ 5,003	$ 4,183	$ 12,983	$ 12,210

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Leases - Schedule of Supplemental Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Leases [Abstract]
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities	$ 4,267	$ 3,499	$ 11,908	$ 10,811
Weighted average remaining lease term for operating leases	17 years	18 years 3 months 18 days	17 years	18 years 3 months 18 days
Weighted average discount rate for operating leases	9.66%	5.94%	9.66%	5.94%

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Leases - Schedule of Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, Maturity (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Leases [Abstract]
For the remaining three months of 2023	$ 3,585
2024	14,579
2025	14,659
2026	14,905
2027	15,216
Thereafter	199,817
Total minimum payments required	262,761
Less: implied interest	(138,689)
Total lease obligations	$ 124,072	$ 145,300

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Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan - Schedule of Restricted Stock Activity (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023 $ / shares shares
Number of restricted shares (in shares)
Non-vested shares, end of year (in shares)	577,511
Restricted Stock
Number of restricted shares (in shares)
Non-vested shares, beginning of year (in shares)	295,076
Grants (in shares)	10,440
Vested (in shares)	(103,118)
Forfeited (in shares)	(36,691)
Non-vested shares, end of year (in shares)	165,707
Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)
Non-vested shares, beginning of year, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 25.83
Granted, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	27.42
Vested, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	24.22
Forfeited, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	23.87
Non-vested shares, end of year, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 27.37

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Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions			3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	Jun. 07, 2023	Feb. 16, 2023	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Restricted Stock
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Grants (in shares)						10,440
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)						$ 27.42
Vested (in shares)						103,118
Restricted Stock | Class A Common Stock
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Share-based compensation expense			$ 0.3		$ 0.9	$ 1.8	$ 2.4
Nonvested awards, compensation not yet recognized			$ 1.5			$ 1.5
Nonvested awards, period of recognition						1 year 2 months 12 days
Restricted Stock | LTI Plan | Class A Common Stock
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Grants (in shares)						10,440
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)						$ 27.42
Award vesting period						3 years
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Grants (in shares)				65,759
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)				$ 19.04
Award vesting period				3 years
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) | Executive Officers
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Grants (in shares)		113,297	24,000
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)		$ 28.93	$ 19.96
Award vesting period		3 years
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) | Executive Officers | Vesting in Two Years
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Award vesting period			2 years
Vested (in shares)			16,111
Vesting percentage			40.00%
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) | Executive Officers | Vesting in Three Years
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Award vesting period			3 years
Vested (in shares)			7,889
Vesting percentage			60.00%
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) | Director
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Grants (in shares)	28,920
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)	$ 20.74
Award vesting period	1 year
PSUs | Executive Officers
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Grants (in shares)		38,049		15,371
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)				$ 15.60
Award vesting period				3 years
PSUs | Class A Common Stock | Executive Officers
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)		$ 29.11
Award vesting period		3 years
RSUs and PSUs
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Share-based compensation expense			$ 1.3		$ 0.7	$ 3.2	$ 1.7
Nonvested awards, compensation not yet recognized			$ 5.6			$ 5.6
Nonvested awards, period of recognition						1 year 10 months 24 days

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Stock-based Incentive Compensation Plan - Schedule of Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023 $ / shares shares
Number of RSUs (in shares)
Non-vested shares, end of year (in shares)	577,511
Stock-settled RSUs
Number of RSUs (in shares)
Non-vested shares, beginning of year (in shares)	123,970
Grants (in shares)	231,976
Vested (in shares)	(64,820)
Forfeited (in shares)	(12,081)
Non-vested shares, end of year (in shares)	279,045
Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)
Non-vested shares, beginning of year, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 22.83
Granted, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	24.18
Vested, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	22.71
Forfeited, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	27.08
Non-vested shares, end of year, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 23.80
Stock-settled PSUs
Number of RSUs (in shares)
Non-vested shares, beginning of year (in shares)	137,199
Grants (in shares)	53,420
Vested (in shares)	(10,442)
Forfeited (in shares)	(2,867)
Non-vested shares, end of year (in shares)	177,310
Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share)
Non-vested shares, beginning of year, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 17.43
Granted, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	25.09
Vested, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	19.00
Forfeited, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	33.63
Non-vested shares, end of year, Weighted-average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares	$ 19.38

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Income Taxes (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Effective income tax rate	21.71%	21.50%

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”) - Schedule of Components of AOCI (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Before Tax Amount	$ (141,816)	$ (108,298)
Tax Effect	36,182	27,663
Net of Tax Amount	(105,634)	(80,635)
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Before Tax Amount	(144,634)	(111,957)
Tax Effect	36,907	28,605
Net of Tax Amount	(107,727)	(83,352)
Net unrealized holding losses (gains) on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Before Tax Amount	2,818	3,659
Tax Effect	(725)	(942)
Net of Tax Amount	$ 2,093	$ 2,717

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive (loss) Income (“AOCL/AOCI”) - Schedule of Components of Other Comprehensive Loss (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended						9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Before Tax Amount
Total other comprehensive loss	$ (25,193)			$ (47,404)			$ (33,518)	$ (135,997)
Tax Effect
Total other comprehensive loss	6,485			12,155			8,519	34,572
Net of Tax Amount
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, net of tax amount	(268)			(274)			723	(549)
Other comprehensive loss	(18,708)	$ (12,607)	$ 6,316	(35,249)	$ (26,535)	$ (39,641)	(24,999)	(101,425)
Net unrealized holding losses on debt securities available for sale:
Before Tax Amount
Change in fair value arising during the period, before tax amount	(25,007)			(47,015)			(34,775)	(135,554)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, before tax amount	0			(22)			2,098	(71)
Total other comprehensive loss	(25,007)			(47,037)			(32,677)	(135,625)
Tax Effect
Change in fair value arising during the period, tax effect	6,438			12,056			8,836	34,516
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, tax effect	0			5			(534)	18
Total other comprehensive loss	6,438			12,061			8,302	34,534
Net of Tax Amount
Change in fair value arising during the period, net of tax amount	(18,569)			(34,959)			(25,939)	(101,038)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, net of tax amount	0			(17)			1,564	(53)
Other comprehensive loss	(18,569)			(34,976)			(24,375)	(101,091)
Net unrealized holding losses (gains) on interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges:
Before Tax Amount
Change in fair value arising during the period, before tax amount	174			(22)			288	295
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, before tax amount	(360)			(345)			(1,129)	(667)
Total other comprehensive loss	(186)			(367)			(841)	(372)
Tax Effect
Change in fair value arising during the period, tax effect	(45)			6			(71)	(133)
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, tax effect	92			88			288	171
Total other comprehensive loss	47			94			217	38
Net of Tax Amount
Change in fair value arising during the period, net of tax amount	129			(16)			217	162
Reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income, net of tax amount	(268)			(257)			(841)	(496)
Other comprehensive loss	$ (139)			$ (273)			$ (624)	$ (334)

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Contingencies - Schedule of Financial Instruments whose Contract Amount Represents Off-Balance Sheet Credit Risk (Details) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($)
Fair Value, Off-balance Sheet Risks, Disclosure Information [Line Items]
Approximate Contract Amount	$ 1,270,444
Commitments to extend credit
Fair Value, Off-balance Sheet Risks, Disclosure Information [Line Items]
Approximate Contract Amount	1,238,080
Standby letters of credit
Fair Value, Off-balance Sheet Risks, Disclosure Information [Line Items]
Approximate Contract Amount	32,300
Commercial letters of credit
Fair Value, Off-balance Sheet Risks, Disclosure Information [Line Items]
Approximate Contract Amount	$ 64

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Contingencies - Schedule of Changes in the Allowance for Credit Losses for Off-Balance Sheet (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Off-Balance-Sheet, Credit Loss, Liability [Roll Forward]
Beginning balance	$ 2,002	$ 1,702	$ 1,702	$ 1,702
Provision for credit losses - off balance sheet exposures	600	0	900	0
Ending balance	$ 2,602	$ 1,702	$ 2,602	$ 1,702

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Fair Value Measurements - Schedule of Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis (Details) - USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Assets
Other short-term investments	$ 6,024,000	$ 0
Debt securities available for sale
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,438,000	11,383,000
Securities	1,314,367,000	1,366,680,000
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	25,952,000	62,438,000
Derivative instruments	87,144,000	78,250,000
Liabilities
Derivative instruments	85,618,000	77,160,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Assets
Other short-term investments	6,024,000
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	1,033,797,000	1,057,621,000
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,438,000	11,383,000
Securities	1,036,235,000	1,069,004,000
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	25,952,000	62,438,000
Bank owned life insurance	232,736,000	228,412,000
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	1,306,000	1,307,000
Derivative instruments	87,144,000	78,250,000
Assets measured at fair value	1,389,397,000	1,439,411,000
Liabilities
Derivative instruments	85,618,000	77,160,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Assets
Other short-term investments	0
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	2,438,000	11,383,000
Securities	2,438,000	11,383,000
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	0	0
Bank owned life insurance	0	0
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	0	0
Derivative instruments	0	0
Assets measured at fair value	2,438,000	11,383,000
Liabilities
Derivative instruments	0	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Assets
Other short-term investments	6,024,000
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	1,033,797,000	1,057,621,000
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	0	0
Securities	1,033,797,000	1,057,621,000
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	25,952,000	62,438,000
Bank owned life insurance	232,736,000	228,412,000
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	0	0
Derivative instruments	87,144,000	78,250,000
Assets measured at fair value	1,385,653,000	1,426,721,000
Liabilities
Derivative instruments	85,618,000	77,160,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Assets
Other short-term investments	0
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Equity securities with readily determinable fair value not held for trading	0	0
Securities	0	0
Mortgage loans held for sale (at fair value)	0	0
Bank owned life insurance	0	0
Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	1,306,000	1,307,000
Derivative instruments	0	0
Assets measured at fair value	1,306,000	1,307,000
Liabilities
Derivative instruments	0	0
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	414,635,000	437,674,000
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	414,635,000	437,674,000
U.S. government-sponsored enterprise debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Corporate debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	252,578,000	280,700,000
Corporate debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Corporate debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	252,578,000	280,700,000
Corporate debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
U.S. government agency debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	355,987,000	330,821,000
U.S. government agency debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
U.S. government agency debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	355,987,000	330,821,000
U.S. government agency debt securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Collateralized loan obligations | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	5,005,000	4,774,000
Collateralized loan obligations | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Collateralized loan obligations | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	5,005,000	4,774,000
Collateralized loan obligations | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Municipal bonds | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	1,640,000	1,656,000
Municipal bonds | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
Municipal bonds | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	1,640,000	1,656,000
Municipal bonds | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
U.S treasury securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	3,952,000	1,996,000
U.S treasury securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	0	0
U.S treasury securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Third-Party Models with Observable Market Inputs (Level 2)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	3,952,000	1,996,000
U.S treasury securities | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring | Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)
Debt securities available for sale
Debt securities available for sale	$ 0	$ 0

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Fair Value Measurements - Schedule of Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Loans	$ 7,073,387	$ 6,857,194
Collateralized Loan Obligations
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Loans	29,712	34,454
Specific Reserves | Collateralized Loan Obligations
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Loans	8,567	5,179
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	87,584
Total Write Downs	9,933	3,900
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	43,257
Total Write Downs	5,562
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	24,146	30,158
Total Write Downs	4,371	3,851
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Other Real Estate Owned
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	20,181
Total Write Downs	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) | Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) | Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) | Other Real Estate Owned
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) | Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) | Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) | Other Real Estate Owned
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	0
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	87,584
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) | Loans held for sale, at lower of fair value or cost
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	43,257
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) | Loans held for investment measured for impairments using the fair value of the collateral
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	24,146	$ 30,158
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring | Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) | Other Real Estate Owned
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value	$ 20,181

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Fair Value Measurements - Schedule of Fair Value Measurement Inputs and Valuation Techniques (Details) - Internal Models with Unobservable Market Inputs (Level 3)	Sep. 30, 2023
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Discount Range | Appraisal value, as adjusted
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Discount Range | Inventory
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Discount Range | Accounts receivables
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Discount Range | Equipment
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Typical Discount | Appraisal value, as adjusted
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.06
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Typical Discount | Inventory
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.30
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Typical Discount | Accounts receivables
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.20
Collateral dependent loans | Minimum | Typical Discount | Equipment
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.20
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Discount Range | Appraisal value, as adjusted
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.30
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Discount Range | Inventory
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	1
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Discount Range | Accounts receivables
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	1
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Discount Range | Equipment
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	1
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Typical Discount | Appraisal value, as adjusted
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.07
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Typical Discount | Inventory
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.50
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Typical Discount | Accounts receivables
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.30
Collateral dependent loans | Maximum | Typical Discount | Equipment
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.30
OREO and other repossessed assets | Minimum | Typical Discount | Appraisal value, as adjusted
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.06
OREO and other repossessed assets | Maximum | Typical Discount | Appraisal value, as adjusted
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Unobservable input	0.07

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Fair Value Measurements - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]
Minimum outstanding balance of loans for third party appraisal	$ 1,000,000
Other repossessed assets			$ 6,400,000
Loss on sale of other repossessed assets	$ 2,649,000	$ 0
Repossessed asset				$ 0

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Fair Value Measurements - Schedule of Estimated Fair Value of Financial Instruments where Fair Value Differs from Carrying Value (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Financial assets:
Debt securities held to maturity, carrying value	$ 230,254	$ 242,101
Debt securities held to maturity, fair value	195,165	217,609
Carrying Value
Financial assets:
Loans	3,319,421	3,314,553
Financial liabilities:
Time deposits	1,579,458	1,119,510
Advances from the FHLB	595,000	906,486
Carrying Value | Senior notes
Financial liabilities:
Senior notes	59,447	59,210
Carrying Value | Subordinated notes
Financial liabilities:
Junior subordinated debentures	29,412	29,284
Carrying Value | Junior subordinated debentures
Financial liabilities:
Junior subordinated debentures	64,178	64,178
Estimated Fair Value
Financial assets:
Loans	3,145,042	3,181,696
Financial liabilities:
Time deposits	1,569,852	1,099,294
Advances from the FHLB	588,604	873,852
Estimated Fair Value | Senior notes
Financial liabilities:
Senior notes	56,293	58,755
Estimated Fair Value | Subordinated notes
Financial liabilities:
Junior subordinated debentures	28,481	28,481
Estimated Fair Value | Junior subordinated debentures
Financial liabilities:
Junior subordinated debentures	$ 63,237	$ 64,182

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Earnings Per Share (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended						9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Jun. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Earnings Per Share [Abstract]
Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interest	$ 21,741			$ 17,490			$ 48,729	$ 40,145
Noncontrolling interest	(378)	$ (262)	$ (244)	(44)	$ (72)	$ (1,076)	(884)	(1,192)
Net income attributable to Amerant Bancorp Inc.	$ 22,119	$ 7,308	$ 20,186	$ 17,534	$ 8,424	$ 15,379	$ 49,613	$ 41,337
Basic weighted average shares outstanding (in shares)	33,489,560			33,476,418			33,537,759	33,985,856
Dilutive effect of share-based compensation awards (in shares)	207,060			270,460			218,756	267,706
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding (in shares)	33,696,620			33,746,878			33,756,515	34,253,562
Basic earnings per common share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.66			$ 0.52			$ 1.48	$ 1.22
Diluted earnings per common share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.66			$ 0.52			$ 1.47	$ 1.21
Non-vested shares (in shares)	577,511			532,867			577,511	532,867