| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On March 23, 2023, New York Community Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) made available and posted on its website an updated investor presentation (the “Updated Investor Presentation”) regarding the assumption by Flagstar Bank, N.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, of substantially all of the deposits and certain identified liabilities, and acquisition of certain assets and lines of business, of Signature Bridge Bank, N.A. (“Signature Bank”) from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as receiver for Signature Bank, on March 19, 2023 (the “Acquisition”). The Updated Investor Presentation includes additional information regarding the Acquisition on slide 11. The original investor presentation was filed by the Company in a Current Report on Form 8-K on March 20, 2023 and has been superseded by the Updated Investor Presentation. Pursuant to Regulation FD, the Updated Investor Presentation is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This Current Report may include forward-looking statements by the Company and our authorized officers pertaining to such matters as our goals, intentions, and expectations regarding revenues, earnings, loan production, asset quality, capital levels, and acquisitions, among other matters; our estimates of future costs and benefits of the actions we may take; our assessments of probable losses on loans; our assessments of interest rate and other market risks; and our ability to achieve our financial and other strategic goals, including those related to our merger with Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., which was completed on December 1, 2022, our ongoing strategic relationship with Figure Technologies, Inc., and the Acquisition.
Forward-looking statements are typically identified by such words as “will,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “outlook,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “should,” and other similar words and expressions, and are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties, which change over time. Additionally, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made; the Company does not assume any duty, and does not undertake, to update our forward-looking statements. Furthermore, because forward-looking statements are subject to assumptions and uncertainties, actual results or future events could differ, possibly materially, from those anticipated in our statements, and our future performance could differ materially from our historical results.
Our forward-looking statements are subject to the following principal risks and uncertainties: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the length of time that the pandemic continues, the potential imposition of future shelter in place orders or additional restrictions on travel in the future, the effect of the pandemic on the general economy and on the businesses of our borrowers and their ability to make payments on their obligations, the remedial actions and stimulus measures adopted by federal, state, and local governments; the inability of employees to work due to illness, quarantine, or government mandates; general economic conditions and trends, either nationally or locally; conditions in the securities markets; changes in interest rates; changes in deposit flows, and in the demand for deposit, loan, and investment products and other financial services; changes in real estate values; changes in the quality or composition of our loan or investment portfolios; changes in competitive pressures among financial institutions or from non-financial institutions; changes in legislation, regulations, and policies; and a variety of other matters which, by their nature, are subject to significant uncertainties and/or are beyond our control. Our forward-looking statements are also subject to the following principal risks and uncertainties with respect to our merger with Flagstar Bancorp, which was completed on December 1, 2022, our ongoing restructuring of our mortgage business, our ongoing strategic relationship with Figure Technologies, Inc., and the Acquisition; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company or any other party to the Flagstar Bancorp or Figure Technologies, Inc. transactions; the possibility that the anticipated benefits of the transactions, including the Acquisition, will not be realized when expected or at all; diversion of management’s attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities; the possibility that the Company may be unable to achieve expected synergies and operating efficiencies in or as a result of the transactions within the expected timeframes or at all; revenues following the transactions may be lower than expected, and the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the right of any of the parties to the Figure Technologies, Inc. strategic relationship to terminate
