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Regulatory capital requirements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Regulatory Capital Requirements  
Regulatory Capital Requirments
Note 21 – Regulatory capital requirements
The Corporation,
 
BPPR and
 
PB are
 
subject to
 
various regulatory
 
capital requirements
 
imposed by
 
the federal
 
banking agencies.
Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can
 
lead to certain mandatory and additional
 
discretionary actions by regulators that,
if undertaken,
 
could have
 
a direct
 
material effect
 
on the
 
Corporation’s consolidated financial
 
statements. Popular,
 
Inc., BPPR
 
and
PB are
 
subject to
 
Basel III
 
capital requirements,
 
including minimum
 
and well
 
capitalized regulatory
 
capital ratios
 
and compliance
with the standardized approach for determining
 
risk-weighted assets.
 
The Basel III Capital
 
Rules established a Common Equity
 
Tier I (“CET1”) capital
 
measure and related regulatory capital ratio
 
CET1
to risk-weighted assets.
 
The Basel III Capital Rules provide that a
 
depository institution will be deemed to be well capitalized if
 
it maintained a leverage ratio
of at
 
least
5
%, a
 
CET1 ratio of
 
at least
6.5
%, a Tier
 
1 risk-based capital
 
ratio of at
 
least
8
% and
 
a total risk-based
 
ratio of
 
at least
10
%.
 
Management
 
has
 
determined
 
that
 
at
 
December
 
31,
 
2022
 
and
 
2021,
 
the
 
Corporation
 
exceeded
 
all
 
capital
 
adequacy
requirements to which it is subject.
The Corporation
 
has
 
been designated
 
by the
 
Federal Reserve
 
Board as
 
a Financial
 
Holding Company
 
(“FHC”) and
 
is eligible
 
to
engage in certain financial activities permitted under
 
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999.
Pursuant to the adoption of the CECL accounting standard on
 
January 1, 2020, the Corporation elected to use a five-year
 
transition
period
 
option
 
as
 
permitted
 
in
 
the
 
final
 
interim
 
regulatory
 
capital
 
rules
 
effective
 
March
 
31,
 
2020.
 
The
 
five-year
 
transition
 
period
provision delays for two years the estimated impact of the adoption of the CECL accounting standard on regulatory capital, followed
by a three-year transition period to phase out
 
the aggregate amount of the capital benefit provided
 
during the initial two-year delay.
On
 
August
 
26,
 
2020,
 
federal
 
banking
 
regulators
 
issued
 
a
 
final
 
rule
 
to
 
modify
 
the
 
Basel
 
III
 
regulatory
 
capital
 
rules
 
applicable
 
to
banking organizations to allow
 
those organizations participating in
 
the Paycheck Protection Program
 
(“PPP”) established under the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief
 
and Economic Security
 
Act (the
 
“CARES Act”) to
 
neutralize the regulatory
 
capital effects
 
of participating in
the
 
program.
 
Specifically,
 
the
 
agencies
 
have
 
clarified
 
that
 
banking
 
organizations,
 
including
 
the
 
Corporation
 
and
 
its
 
Bank
subsidiaries, are permitted to
 
assign a zero
 
percent risk weight to
 
PPP loans for
 
purposes of determining risk-weighted
 
assets and
risk-based
 
capital
 
ratios.
 
Additionally,
 
in
 
order
 
to
 
facilitate
 
use
 
of
 
the
 
Paycheck
 
Protection
 
Program
 
Liquidity
 
Facility
 
(the
 
“PPPL
Facility”), which provides Federal Reserve Bank loans to eligible financial institutions such as the Corporation’s Bank subsidiaries to
fund PPP loans, the
 
agencies further clarified that,
 
for purposes of determining
 
leverage ratios, a banking
 
organization is permitted
to exclude from total average assets PPP loans that have been pledged as collateral for a
 
PPPL Facility. As of December 31,
 
2022,
the Corporation has $
38
 
million in PPP loans and
no
 
loans were pledged as collateral for PPPL
 
Facilities.
At December 31, 2022 and 2021, BPPR and
 
PB were well-capitalized under the regulatory
 
framework for prompt corrective action.
 
The following
 
tables present
 
the Corporation’s
 
risk-based capital
 
and leverage
 
ratios at
 
December 31,
 
2022 and
 
2021 under
 
the
Basel III regulatory guidance.
Actual
 
Capital adequacy minimum
requirement (including
conservation capital buffer) [1]
(Dollars in thousands)
Amount
 
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
2022
Total Capital (to Risk-Weighted
 
Assets):
Corporation
$
6,285,648
18.26
%
$
3,613,668
10.500
%
BPPR
4,541,915
18.34
2,599,872
10.500
PB
1,463,511
15.59
985,510
10.500
Common Equity Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted
 
Assets):
Corporation
$
5,639,686
16.39
%
$
2,409,112
7.000
%
BPPR
4,230,820
17.09
1,733,248
7.000
PB
1,395,272
14.87
657,007
7.000
Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets):
Corporation
$
5,661,829
16.45
%
$
2,925,351
8.500
%
BPPR
4,230,820
17.09
2,104,658
8.500
PB
1,395,272
14.87
797,794
8.500
Tier I Capital (to Average Assets):
Corporation
 
$
5,661,829
8.06
%
$
2,811,504
4
%
 
BPPR
4,230,820
7.10
2,383,478
4
PB
1,395,272
13.08
426,832
4
[1] The conservation capital buffer included for these
 
ratios is
2.5
%, except for the Tier I to Average
 
Asset ratio for which the buffer is not applicable
and therefore the capital adequacy minimum of
4
% is presented.
Actual
 
Capital adequacy minimum
requirement (including
conservation capital buffer)
(Dollars in thousands)
Amount
 
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
2021
Total Capital (to Risk-Weighted
 
Assets):
Corporation
$
6,084,105
19.35
%
$
3,301,329
10.500
%
BPPR
4,281,930
18.92
2,376,184
10.500
PB
1,361,911
16.78
852,032
10.500
Common Equity Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted
 
Assets):
Corporation
$
5,476,031
17.42
%
$
2,200,886
7.000
%
BPPR
3,998,102
17.67
1,584,123
7.000
PB
1,309,398
16.14
568,021
7.000
Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets):
Corporation
$
5,498,174
17.49
%
$
2,672,504
8.500
%
BPPR
3,998,102
17.67
1,923,577
8.500
PB
1,309,398
16.14
689,740
8.500
Tier I Capital (to Average Assets):
Corporation
 
$
5,498,174
7.41
%
$
2,969,535
4
%
BPPR
3,998,102
6.24
2,561,003
4
PB
1,309,398
13.44
389,736
4
The following table presents the minimum amounts
 
and ratios for the Corporation’s banks to be
 
categorized as well-capitalized.
2022
2021
(Dollars in thousands)
Amount
 
Ratio
 
Amount
 
Ratio
Total Capital (to Risk-Weighted
 
Assets):
BPPR
$
2,476,068
10
%
$
2,263,032
10
%
PB
938,581
10
811,459
10
Common Equity Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted
 
Assets):
BPPR
$
1,609,444
6.5
%
$
1,470,971
6.5
%
PB
610,078
6.5
527,448
6.5
Tier I Capital (to Risk-Weighted Assets):
BPPR
$
1,980,855
8
%
$
1,810,426
8
%
PB
750,865
8
649,167
8
Tier I Capital (to Average Assets):
BPPR
$
2,979,348
5
%
$
3,201,254
5
%
PB
533,540
5
487,171
5