DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
Overview
Assets
At June 30, 2023, total assets were $20.6 billion, an increase of $141.2 million or approximately 1.4% (annualized) from December 31, 2022. The increase in total assets was primarily due to an increase in LHFI, net of deferred fees and costs, of $617.8 million driven primarily by increases in the commercial and industrial and commercial real estate non-owner occupied portfolios, partially offset by a decline in the investment securities portfolio of $566.5 million, primarily due to the sale of AFS securities as part of the Company’s balance sheet repositioning strategy executed during the first quarter of 2023.
LHFI, net of deferred fees and costs, were $15.1 billion at June 30, 2023, an increase of $617.8 million or 8.6% (annualized) from December 31, 2022. At June 30, 2023, quarterly average LHFI, net of deferred fees and costs, increased $1.2 billion or 9.0% from the same period in the prior year. Refer to "Loan Portfolio" within this Item 2 and Note 3 "Loans and Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses" in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report for additional information on our loan activity.
At June 30, 2023, total investments were $3.1 billion, a decrease of $566.5 million from December 31, 2022. AFS securities totaled $2.2 billion at June 30, 2023, a $559.4 million decrease from December 31, 2022. At June 30, 2023, total net unrealized losses on the AFS securities portfolio were $450.1 million, an improvement of $12.5 million from total net unrealized losses on AFS securities of $462.6 million at December 31, 2022. HTM securities totaled $849.6 million at June 30, 2023, a $1.9 million increase from December 31, 2022, with net unrealized losses of $41.8 million at June 30, 2023, an improvement of $4.0 million from net unrealized losses of $45.8 million at December 31, 2022.
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
At June 30, 2023, total liabilities were $18.2 billion, an increase of $89.5 million or approximately 1.0% (annualized) from $18.1 billion at December 31, 2022, which was primarily driven by an increase in deposits of $480.3 million, partially offset by a decrease in borrowings of $388.4 million.
Total deposits at June 30, 2023 were $16.4 billion, an increase of $480.3 million or approximately 6.1% (annualized) from December 31, 2022. For the quarter ended June 30, 2023, quarterly average deposits increased $89.1 million or 0.6% from the same period in the prior year. Total deposits at June 30, 2023 increased from December 31, 2022 due to a $1.1 billion increase in interest-bearing deposits, which includes approximately $485.7 million in brokered deposits, partially offset by a $572.9 million decrease in demand deposits, as customers have moved funds from lower to higher yielding products. Refer to “Deposits” within this Item 2 for additional information on this topic.
Total short-term and long-term borrowings at June 30, 2023 were $1.3 billion, a decrease of $388.4 million or 22.7% when compared to $1.7 billion at December 31, 2022 as a result of the Company’s execution of the balance sheet repositioning strategy during the first quarter of 2023, which allowed the Company to reduce its short-term borrowings exposure. Refer to Note 6 “Borrowings” in Part I, Item 1, and “Executive Overview” within this Item 2 of this Quarterly Report for additional information on our borrowing activity.
At June 30, 2023, stockholders’ equity was $2.4 billion, an increase of $51.7 million from December 31, 2022, primarily due to lower unrealized losses within the AFS securities portfolio. Our consolidated regulatory capital ratios continue to exceed the minimum capital requirements and are considered “well-capitalized” for regulatory purposes. Refer to “Capital Resources” within this Item 2, as well as Note 9 "Stockholders’ Equity" in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report for additional information on our capital resources.
During the second quarter of 2023, the Company declared and paid a quarterly dividend on the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock of $171.88 per share (equivalent to $0.43 per outstanding depositary share), consistent with the fourth quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2022. During the second quarter of 2023, the Company also declared and paid cash dividends of $0.30 per common share, consistent with the fourth quarter of 2022 and an increase of $0.02 or approximately 7.1% from the second quarter of 2022.