Exhibit 23.1
To the Board of Directors
HCSB Financial Corporation
Loris, South Carolina
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-1 of HCSB Financial Corporation of our report dated September 30, 2016, relating to our audits of the consolidated financial statements which appears in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015.
We also consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in such Prospectus.
/s/ Elliott Davis Decosimo, LLC
Columbia, South Carolina
November 7, 2016