Compensation expense for restricted stock grants is recognized over the vesting period of the awards based on the fair value of the Company’s voting common stock at issue date. The fair value of the stock was determined using the closing stock price on the day of grant. The restricted stock grants vest over two to five years. The Company awarded 500 restricted stock grants during the six months ended June 30, 2022.
Share-based compensation expense applicable to the Company’s share-based compensation plans for restricted stock grants was $137 thousand and $130 thousand for the three months ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022, respectively. The total fair value of the shares, which vested during the three months ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022, was $46 thousand and $65 thousand, respectively.
Share-based compensation expense applicable to the Company’s share-based compensation plans for restricted stock grants was $334 thousand and $269 thousand for the six months ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022, respectively. The total fair value of the shares, which vested during the six months ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022, was $210 thousand and $371 thousand, respectively.
Unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to nonvested restricted stock grants amounted to $762 thousand as of June 30, 2023. This amount is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.5 years.
Note 11— Regulatory Capital
The Company is a bank holding company with less than $3 billion in assets and does not (i) have significant off balance sheet exposure, (ii) engage in significant non-banking activities, or (iii) have a material amount of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”). As a result, the Company qualifies as a small bank holding company under the Federal Reserve’s Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement and is currently not subject to consolidated regulatory capital requirements.
The Bank is subject to capital adequacy standards adopted by the Federal Reserve, including the capital rules that implemented the Basel III regulatory capital reforms developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory – possibly additional discretionary – actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines, the Bank must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance-sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings, and other factors. Management believes that the Bank met all capital adequacy requirements to which it was subject as of June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.
Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Bank to maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth in the table below) of total and Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets, common equity Tier 1 to risk-weighted assets, and Tier 1 capital to average assets.
In addition to the minimum regulatory capital required for capital adequacy purposes, the Bank is required to maintain a minimum capital conservation buffer above those minimums in the form of common equity. The capital conservation buffer, which was phased in ratably over a four year period beginning January 1, 2016, is designed to absorb losses during periods of economic stress. Banking institutions with a ratio of common equity Tier 1 to risk-weighted assets above the minimum but below the conservation buffer will face constraints on dividends, equity repurchases, and discretionary compensation paid to certain officers, based on the amount of the shortfall. The capital conservation buffer was 2.5% at June 30, 2023, and is applicable for the common equity Tier 1, Tier 1, and total capital ratios.
On January 1, 2023, the Company adopted ASC 326, which replaced the incurred loss methodology with the CECL methodology for estimating credit losses and generally applies to financial assets measured at amortized cost. The Federal Reserve and FDIC have adopted rules to identify which credit loss allowances under the CECL model are eligible for inclusion in regulatory capital and to provide banking organizations the option to phase in over a three-year transition period ending January 1, 2026 the day-one impact on regulatory capital that may result from the adoption of the CECL model. The Company implemented the CECL model on January 1, 2023 and elected to apply the provisions of the CECL deferral transition in the determination of its risk based capital ratios. The impact of the application of this deferral transition on the ratios was not significant.
As of June 30, 2023, the most recent notification from the Reserve Bank categorized the Bank as “well capitalized” under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. To be categorized as well capitalized, the institution must maintain minimum total risk-based,