Basis of Presentation

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Basis of Presentation

1. Basis of Presentation

First Defiance Financial Corp. (“First Defiance” or the “Company”) is a financial holding company that conducts business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, First Federal Bank of the Midwest (“First Federal” or the “Bank”), First Insurance Group of the Midwest, Inc. (“First Insurance”), First Defiance Risk Management Inc. (“First Defiance Risk Management”), HSB Capital, LLC (“HSB Capital”), and HSB Insurance, Inc. (“HSB Insurance”). All significant intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated in consolidation.

On January 31, 2020, First Defiance completed its previously announced acquisition of United Community Financial Corp., an Ohio corporation (“UCFC”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of September 9, 2019, by and between First Defiance and UCFC. At the effective time of the merger (the “Merger”), UCFC merged with and into First Defiance, with First Defiance surviving the Merger.  Simultaneously with the completion of the Merger, First Defiance converted from a unitary thrift holding company to a bank holding company, making an election to be a financial holding company.

Immediately following the Merger, First Federal, acquired UCFC’s wholly owned bank subsidiary, Home Savings Bank (“Home Savings”).  Immediately prior to the merger of the banks, First Federal converted from a federal thrift into an Ohio state-chartered bank. In addition, immediately following the merger of the banks, UCFC’s wholly-owned insurance subsidiaries, HSB Insurance, LLC and United American Financial Services, Inc., each merged into First Insurance, with First Insurance surviving the mergers. First Defiance acquired two additional subsidiaries in the Merger, HSB Capital, LLC and HSB Insurance, Inc.

The Bank is primarily engaged in community banking. It attracts deposits from the general public through its offices and website, and uses those and other available sources of funds to originate residential real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, home improvement and home equity loans and consumer loans. In addition, the Bank invests in U.S. Treasury and federal government agency obligations, obligations of states and political subdivisions, mortgage-backed securities that are issued by federal agencies, collateralized mortgage obligations (“CMOs”), and corporate bonds. The Bank’s deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). The Bank is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) System.

HSB Capital was formed as an Ohio limited liability company by UCFC during 2016 for the purpose of providing mezzanine funding for customers of Home Savings. Mezzanine loans are offered by HSB Capital to customers in the Company’s market area and are expected to be repaid from the cash flow from operations of the business.  

First Insurance is an insurance agency that conducts business throughout First Federal’s markets. The Maumee and Oregon, Ohio, offices were consolidated into a new office in Sylvania, Ohio, in January 2018.  First Insurance offers property and casualty insurance, life insurance and group health insurance.

First Defiance Risk Management is a wholly-owned insurance company subsidiary of the Company that insures the Company and its subsidiaries against certain risks unique to the operations of the Company and for which insurance may not be currently available or economically feasible in today’s insurance marketplace.  First Defiance Risk Management pools resources with several other similar insurance company subsidiaries of financial institutions to help minimize the risk allocable to each participating insurer.

HSB Insurance, Inc. was formed on June 1, 2017 as a Delaware-based captive insurance company that insures against certain risks that are unique to the operations of the Company and its subsidiaries and for which insurance may not be currently available or economically feasible; by pooling resources with several other insurance company subsidiaries of financial institutions to spread a limited amount of risk among themselves.  HSB Insurance, Inc. is subject to regulations of the State of Delaware and undergoes periodic examinations by the Delaware Division of Insurance.

The consolidated condensed statement of financial condition at December 31, 2019, has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date, which were included in First Defiance’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 (the “2019 Form 10-K”).

The accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements as of March 31, 2020, and for the three month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 have been prepared by the Company without audit and do not include information or footnotes necessary for the complete presentation of financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). These consolidated condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the 2019 Form 10-K. However, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring items, necessary for the fair presentation of the financial statements have been made. The results for the three month period ended March 31, 2020, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire year.