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range of
financial products
and services
and supports
numerous community
organizations,
including
the Greater
Miami Chamber
of
Commerce, the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and ChamberSouth. For more information about us
or to find a banking
center near you, please call (305) 715-5200 or visit www.uscentury.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This earnings release
may contain statements
that are not
historical in nature
and are intended
to be, and
are hereby identified
as, forward-
looking
statements
for
purposes
of
the
safe
harbor
provided
by
Section
21E
of
the
Securities
Exchange
Act
of
1934,
as
amended.
Forward-looking statements are
those that are
not historical facts.
The words “may,”
“will,” “anticipate,” “could,”
“should,” “would,”
“believe,” “contemplate,” “expect,” “aim,” “plan,” “estimate,”
“seek,”“continue,” and “intend,”, the negative of these
terms, as well as
other similar words
and expressions of
the future, are
intended to identify
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements
include, but are not limited
to, statements related to our
projected growth, anticipated future
financial performance, and management’s
long-term performance goals, as well as statements
relating to the anticipated effects on our results of
operations and financial condition
from expected or potential developments or events, or business and
growth strategies, including anticipated internal growth and balance
sheet restructuring.
These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual
results to differ materially from
those anticipated in such statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include,
but are not limited to:
•
the strength of the United States economy in general and the strength of the local
economies in which we conduct operations;
•
our ability to successfully manage interest rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk,
and other risks inherent to our industry;
•
the
accuracy
of
our
financial
statement
estimates
and
assumptions,
including
the
estimates
used
for
our
credit
loss
reserve
and
deferred tax asset valuation allowance;
•
the efficiency and effectiveness of our internal
control procedures and processes;
•
our ability to comply with
the extensive laws and
regulations to which we are
subject, including the laws for
each jurisdiction where
we operate;
•
adverse changes or conditions in capital and financial markets, including
actual or potential stresses in the banking industry;
•
deposit attrition and the level of our uninsured deposits;
•
legislative
or
regulatory
changes and
changes
in
accounting
principles,
policies,
practices or
guidelines,
including
the on-going
effects of the implementation of the Current Expected Credit Losses (“CECL”)
standard;
•
the
lack
of
a
significantly
diversified
loan
portfolio
and
the
concentration
in
the
South
Florida
market,
including
the
risks
of
geographic,
depositor,
and
industry
concentrations,
including
our
concentration
in
loans
secured
by
real
estate,
in
particular,
commercial real estate;
•
the effects of climate change;
•
the concentration of ownership of our common stock;
•
fluctuations in the price of our common stock;
•
our ability to
fund or access
the capital markets
at attractive rates
and terms and
manage our growth,
both organic
growth as well
as growth through other means, such as future acquisitions;
•
inflation, interest rate, unemployment rate, and market
and monetary fluctuations;
•
impacts of international hostilities and geopolitical events;
•
increased competition
and its effect
on the pricing
of our products
and services as
well as our
interest rate spread
and net interest
margin;
•
the loss of key employees;
•
the effectiveness
of our risk management
strategies, including operational
risks, including, but
not limited to, client,
employee, or
third-party fraud and security breaches; and
•
other risks described in this earnings release and other filings we make with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
All forward-looking
statements are
necessarily only
estimates of
future results,
and there
can be
no assurance
that actual
results will
not differ
materially from
expectations. Therefore,
you are
cautioned not
to place
undue reliance
on any
forward-looking statements.
Further, forward-looking statements included in this
earnings release are
made only as
of the date
hereof, and we
undertake no obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events
or circumstances after the date on which the statements are made
or
to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events, unless required to do
so under the federal securities laws.
You
should also review the
risk factors described in the reports the Company filed or will file with the SEC.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This earnings release
includes financial information determined
by methods other
than in accordance
with generally accepted
accounting
principles (“GAAP”). This financial
information includes certain
operating performance measures. Management
has included these
non-
GAAP
measures
because
it
believes
these
measures
may
provide
useful
supplemental
information
for
evaluating
the
Company’s
operations and
underlying performance
trends. Further,
management uses these
measures in
managing and
evaluating the Company’s
business and intends to refer to
them in discussions about our operations
and performance. Operating performance
measures should be
viewed
in
addition
to,
and
not
as
an
alternative
to
or
substitute
for,
measures
determined
in
accordance
with
GAAP,
and
are
not