Regulatory Capital

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Regulatory Capital Requirements [Abstract]

Regulatory Capital

18.  Regulatory Capital

A significant measure of the strength of a financial institution is its capital base.  Federal regulators have classified and defined capital into the following components: (1) tier 1 capital, which includes tangible shareholders’ equity for common stock, qualifying preferred stock and certain qualifying hybrid instruments, and (2) tier 2 capital, which includes a portion of the allowance for loan losses, subject to limitations, certain qualifying long-term debt, preferred stock and hybrid instruments, which do not qualify for tier 1 capital.  The parent company and its subsidiary bank are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by banking regulators.  Quantitative measures of capital adequacy include the leverage ratio (tier 1 capital as a percentage of tangible assets), tier 1 risk-based capital ratio (tier 1 capital as a percent of risk-weighted assets) and total risk-based capital ratio (total risk-based capital as a percent of total risk-weighted assets).

Minimum capital levels are regulated by risk-based capital adequacy guidelines, which require the Company and the Bank to maintain certain capital as a percentage of assets and certain off-balance sheet items adjusted for predefined credit risk factors (risk-weighted assets).  Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possibly discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Company’s financial statements.  Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Company and the Bank must meet specific capital guidelines.  However, prompt corrective action provisions are not applicable to bank holding companies. At a minimum, tier 1 capital as a percentage of risk-weighted assets of 4 percent and combined tier 1 and tier 2 capital as a percentage of risk-weighted assets of 8 percent must be maintained.  

In addition to the risk-based guidelines, regulators require that a bank or holding company, which meets the regulator’s highest performance and operation standards, maintain a minimum leverage ratio of 3 percent.  For those institutions with higher levels of risk or that are experiencing or anticipating significant growth, the minimum leverage ratio will be proportionately increased.  Minimum leverage ratios for each institution are evaluated through the ongoing regulatory examination process.

During 2013, the Company repurchased the $20.6 million in preferred stock issued in connection with the CPP, and completed the $2.7 million repurchase of the warrant to purchase 764,788 shares of the Company’s common stock issued to the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a part of the CPP.  The Company’s capital amounts and ratios reflect these capital decreases and are presented in the following table. 

											To be well-capitalized
						For capital					under prompt corrective
	Actual					adequacy purposes					action provisions
(In thousands)	Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio
As of December 31, 2013
Leverage ratio	$	70,852		8.08	%	≥ $	35,084		4.00	%		N/A		N/A
Tier I risk-based capital ratio		70,852		10.74			26,400		4.00			N/A		N/A
Total risk-based capital ratio		79,164		11.99			52,800		8.00			N/A		N/A
As of December 31, 2012
Leverage ratio	$	89,841		11.14	%	≥ $	32,251		4.00	%		N/A		N/A
Tier I risk-based capital ratio		89,841		14.85			24,193		4.00			N/A		N/A
Total risk-based capital ratio		97,492		16.12			48,387		8.00			N/A		N/A

The Bank’s capital amounts and ratios for the last two years are presented in the following table:

											To be well-capitalized
						For capital					under prompt corrective
	Actual					adequacy purposes					action provisions
(In thousands)	Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio			Amount		Ratio
As of December 31, 2013
Leverage ratio	$	61,493		7.02	%	≥ $	35,058		4.00	%	≥ $	43,823		5.00	%
Tier I risk-based capital ratio		61,493		9.33			26,373		4.00			39,560		6.00
Total risk-based capital ratio		78,296		11.88			52,747		8.00			65,933		10.00
As of December 31, 2012
Leverage ratio	$	69,544		8.63	%	≥ $	32,225		4.00	%	≥ $	40,282		5.00	%
Tier I risk-based capital ratio		69,544		11.51			24,170		4.00			36,254		6.00
Total risk-based capital ratio		85,687		14.18			48,339		8.00			60,424		10.00

The Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, adopted Basel III in September 2010, which constitutes a set of capital reform measures designed to strengthen the regulation, supervision and risk management of banking organizations worldwide. In order to implement Basel III and certain additional capital changes required by the Dodd-Frank Act, on July 9, 2013, the FDIC approved, as an interim final rule, the regulatory capital requirements for U.S. state nonmember banks, such as us, substantially similar to final rules issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Federal Reserve”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The interim final rule includes new risk-based capital and leverage ratios that will be phased-in from 2015 to 2019 for most state nonmember banks, including us. The rule includes a new common equity Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of 4.5% and a common equity Tier 1 capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, which is in addition to the Tier 1 and Total risk-based capital requirements.  The interim final rule also raises the minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets from 4.0% to 6.0% and requires a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%.  The required minimum ratio of total capital to risk-weighted assets will remain 8.0%.  The new risk-based capital requirements (except for the capital conservation buffer) will become effective for the Bank on January 1, 2015.  The capital conservation buffer will be phased in over four years beginning on January 1, 2016, with a maximum buffer of 0.625% of risk-weighted assets for 2016, 1.25% for 2017, 1.875% for 2018, and 2.5% for 2019 and thereafter.  Failure to maintain the required capital conservation buffer will result in limitations on capital distributions and on discretionary bonuses to executive officers.

The following chart compares the risk-based capital required under existing rules to those prescribed under the interim final rule under the phase-in period described above:

	Current Treatment		Treatment in Final Rule
Leverage ratio	4.00	%	4.00	%
Common equity tier 1 capital (CET1) ratio	N/A		4.50	%
Additional tier 1	N/A		1.50	%
Tier 1 capital ratio	4.00	%	6.00	%
Tier 2	4.00	%	2.00	%
Total capital ratio	8.00	%	8.00	%
Capital conservation buffer	N/A		2.50	%

The interim final rule also implements revisions and clarifications consistent with Basel III regarding the various components of Tier 1 capital, including common equity, unrealized gains and losses and instruments that will no longer qualify as Tier 1 capital.  The interim final rule also sets forth certain changes for the calculation of risk-weighted assets that the Bank will be required to implement beginning January 1, 2015.  Management is currently evaluating the provisions of the interim final rule and its expected impact.  Based on our current capital composition and levels, management does not presently anticipate that the interim final rule presents a material risk to our financial condition or results of operations.