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UNITED STATES
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
 
 
WASHINGTON,
 
D.C. 20549
 
FORM
10-Q
 
QUARTERLY REPORT
 
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
 
For the Quarterly Period Ended
September 30, 2020
 
Commission file number
000-50448
 
 
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
 
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
Pennsylvania
 
38-3686388
 
(State of incorporation) (I.R.S.
 
Employer Identification Number)
 
 
300 Fellowship Road
,
Mount Laurel
,
NJ
08054
 
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip code)
 
 
(
888
)
479-9111
 
(Registrant’s telephone number,
 
including area code)
 
 
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $.01 per share
MRLN
NASDAQ
 
Global Select Market
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports
 
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or
 
for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports),
and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past
 
90 days.
Yes
 
 
No
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically
 
every Interactive Data File required to be submitted
pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter)
 
during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period
 
that
registrant was required to submit such files.)
 
Yes
No
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large
 
accelerated filer, an accelerated filer,
 
a non-accelerated filer, a smaller
reporting company or an emerging growth company.
 
See the definitions of "large accelerated
 
filer,”
 
“accelerated filer", “smaller
reporting company” and “emerging growth company”
 
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
 
Large accelerated filer
 
Accelerated filer
 
Non-accelerated filer
 
Smaller reporting company
 
Emerging growth company
 
 
If an emerging growth company,
 
indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to
 
use the extended transition period for
complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards
 
provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of
the Exchange Act
.
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as
 
defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).
Yes
No
 
 
At October 23, 2020,
11,974,548
 
shares of Registrant’s common stock,
 
$.01 par value, were outstanding.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
 
AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2020
 
 
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-3-
 
PART
 
I. Financial Information
 
Item 1. Consolidated
 
Financial Statements
 
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Unaudited)
 
 
 
September 30,
December 31,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands, except per-share data)
ASSETS
Cash and due from banks
$
5,436
$
4,701
Interest-earning deposits with banks
 
189,696
118,395
 
Total cash and cash equivalents
195,132
123,096
Time deposits with banks
8,456
12,927
Restricted interest-earning deposits related to consolidated VIEs
5,771
6,931
Investment securities (amortized cost of $
10.6
 
million and $
11.1
 
million at
 
September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively)
10,761
11,076
Net investment in leases and loans:
 
Leases
357,500
426,608
 
Loans
550,553
601,607
Net investment in leases and loans, excluding allowance for credit losses (includes $
39.3
 
million and
$
76.1
 
million at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, related to consolidated
VIEs)
908,053
1,028,215
Allowance for credit losses
(61,325)
(21,695)
 
Total net investment in leases and loans
846,728
1,006,520
Intangible assets
5,846
7,461
Goodwill
6,735
Operating lease right-of-use assets
7,729
8,863
Property and equipment, net
8,422
7,888
Property tax receivables, net of allowance
8,580
5,493
Other assets
8,526
10,453
 
Total assets
$
1,105,951
$
1,207,443
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Deposits
$
823,707
$
839,132
Long-term borrowings related to consolidated VIEs
39,833
76,091
Operating lease liabilities
8,790
9,730
Other liabilities:
 
Sales and property taxes payable
5,706
2,678
 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
25,533
34,028
 
Net deferred income tax liability
20,032
30,828
 
Total liabilities
923,601
992,487
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred Stock, $
0.01
 
par value;
5,000,000
 
shares authorized; none issued
Common Stock, $
0.01
 
par value;
75,000,000
 
shares authorized;
11,974,651
 
and
12,113,585
 
shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively
120
121
 
Additional paid-in capital
75,893
79,665
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income
93
58
 
Retained earnings
106,244
135,112
 
Total stockholders’ equity
182,350
214,956
 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
$
1,105,951
$
1,207,443
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements.
 
-4-
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands, except per-share data)
Interest income
$
22,398
$
27,708
$
73,111
$
80,673
Fee income
2,803
3,869
8,019
11,418
Interest and fee income
25,201
31,577
81,130
92,091
Interest expense
4,694
6,561
15,802
18,931
Net interest and fee income
20,507
25,016
65,328
73,160
Provision for credit losses
7,204
7,662
51,160
17,781
Net interest and fee income after provision for credit losses
13,303
17,354
14,168
55,379
Non-interest income:
 
Gain on leases and loans sold
87
6,456
2,426
13,400
 
Insurance premiums written and earned
2,082
2,230
6,612
6,538
 
Other income
 
2,044
1,676
11,172
10,573
 
Non-interest income
 
4,213
10,362
20,210
30,511
Non-interest expense:
 
Salaries and benefits
8,515
10,897
25,702
34,817
 
General and administrative
4,717
6,092
24,169
25,514
 
Goodwill impairment
6,735
 
Intangible assets impairment
1,016
1,016
 
Non-interest expense
14,248
16,989
57,622
60,331
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
3,268
10,727
(23,244)
25,559
Income tax expense (benefit)
525
3,281
(8,284)
6,857
 
Net income (loss)
$
2,743
$
7,446
$
(14,960)
$
18,702
Basic earnings (loss) per share
$
0.23
$
0.61
$
(1.27)
$
1.52
Diluted earnings (loss) per share
$
0.23
$
0.60
$
(1.27)
$
1.51
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements.
 
-5-
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
 
(Unaudited)
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
2020
2019
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Net income (loss)
$
2,743
$
7,446
$
(14,960)
$
18,702
Other comprehensive income:
 
Increase in fair value of debt securities available for sale
10
55
47
179
 
Tax effect
(3)
(14)
(12)
(46)
Total other comprehensive income
7
41
35
133
 
Comprehensive income (loss)
$
2,750
$
7,487
$
(14,925)
$
18,835
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements.
 
-6-
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
(Unaudited)
 
 
Accumulated
 
Common
Additional
Other
Total
 
Common
Stock
Paid-In
Comprehensive
Retained
Stockholders’
Shares
Amount
 
Capital
 
Income (Loss)
Earnings
 
Equity
 
(Dollars in thousands)
Balance, December 31, 2019
12,113,585
$
121
$
79,665
$
58
$
135,112
$
214,956
 
Repurchase of common stock
(285,593)
(3)
(4,535)
(4,538)
 
Stock issued in connection with restricted
 
stock and RSUs, net of forfeitures
56,481
1
(1)
 
Stock-based compensation recognized
518
518
 
Net change in unrealized gain/loss on
 
 
securities available for sale, net of tax
(38)
(38)
 
Net loss
(11,821)
(11,821)
 
Impact of adoption of new accounting
 
standards
(1)
(8,877)
(8,877)
Cash dividends paid ($
0.14
 
per share)
(1,710)
(1,710)
Balance, March 31, 2020
11,884,473
119
75,647
20
112,704
188,490
 
Issuance of common stock
14,891
120
120
 
Repurchase of common stock
(1,897)
(12)
(12)
 
Stock issued in connection with restricted
 
stock and RSUs, net of forfeitures
44,780
 
Stock-based compensation recognized
(149)
(149)
 
Net change in unrealized gain/loss on
 
 
securities available for sale, net of tax
66
66
 
Net loss
(5,882)
(5,882)
Cash dividends paid ($
0.14
 
per share)
(1,629)
(1,629)
Balance, June 30, 2020
11,942,247
119
75,606
86
105,193
181,004
 
Repurchase of common stock
(18,446)
(149)
(149)
 
Stock issued in connection with restricted
 
stock and RSUs, net of forfeitures
50,850
1
(1)
 
Stock-based compensation recognized
437
437
 
Net change in unrealized gain/loss on
 
 
securities available for sale, net of tax
7
7
 
Net income
2,743
2,743
Cash dividends paid ($
0.14
 
per share)
(1,692)
(1,692)
Balance, September 30, 2020
11,974,651
$
120
$
75,893
$
93
$
106,244
$
182,350
(1)
 
Represents the impact of Accounting Standards Update ("ASU")
 
2016-13 and related ASUs collectively referred to as "CECL".
 
See Note 2.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements.
 
-7-
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
(Unaudited)
 
 
Accumulated
 
Common
Additional
Stock
Other
Total
 
Common
Stock
Paid-In
Subscription
Comprehensive
Retained
Stockholders’
Shares
Amount
 
Capital
 
Receivable
 
Income (Loss)
Earnings
 
Equity
 
(Dollars in thousands)
Balance, December 31, 2018
12,367,724
$
124
$
83,498
$
(2)
$
(44)
$
114,935
$
198,511
 
Repurchase of common stock
(48,857)
(1)
(1,144)
(1,145)
 
Stock issued in connection with restricted
 
stock and RSUs, net of forfeitures
30,209
 
Stock-based compensation recognized
861
861
 
Net change in unrealized gain/loss on
 
 
securities available for sale, net of tax
40
40
 
Net income
5,141
5,141
Cash dividends paid ($
0.14
 
per share)
(1,758)
(1,758)
Balance, March 31, 2019
12,349,076
123
83,215
(2)
(4)
118,318
201,650
 
Issuance of common stock
10,298
240
240
 
Repurchase of common stock
(73,360)
(1,719)
(1,719)
 
Stock issued in connection with restricted
 
stock and RSUs, net of forfeitures
(450)
 
Stock-based compensation recognized
990
990
 
Net change in unrealized gain/loss on
 
 
securities available for sale, net of tax
52
52
 
Net income
6,115
6,115
Cash dividends paid ($
0.14
 
per share)
(1,774)
(1,774)
Balance, June 30, 2019
12,285,564
123
82,726
(2)
48
122,659
205,554
 
Repurchase of common stock
(147,383)
(2)
(3,391)
(3,393)
 
Stock issued in connection with restricted
 
stock and RSUs, net of forfeitures
16,480
1
(1)
 
Stock-based compensation recognized
894
894
 
Net change in unrealized gain/loss on
 
 
securities available for sale, net of tax
41
41
 
Net income
7,446
7,446
Cash dividends paid ($
0.14
 
per share)
(1,755)
(1,755)
Balance, September 30, 2019
12,154,661
$
122
$
80,228
$
(2)
$
89
$
128,350
$
208,787
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements.
 
-8-
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
 
 
Nine Months
 
Ended September 30,
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net (loss) income
$
(14,960)
$
18,702
 
Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided
 
by operating activities:
 
Depreciation and amortization
2,996
3,632
 
Stock-based compensation
806
2,745
 
Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets
7,751
 
Change in fair value of equity securities
(89)
(121)
 
Provision for credit losses
51,160
17,781
 
Change in net deferred income tax liability
(7,777)
6,883
 
Amortization of deferred initial direct costs and fees
9,244
11,008
 
Loss on equipment disposed
116
1,331
 
Gain on leases sold
(2,426)
(13,400)
 
Leases originated for sale
(4,882)
(46,038)
 
Proceeds from sale of leases originated for sale
5,123
47,771
 
Noncash lease expense
1,365
857
 
Adjustment to value of contingent consideration
(1,435)
 
Effect of changes in other operating items:
 
Other assets
(1,642)
(3,465)
 
Other liabilities
(311)
(3,142)
 
Net cash provided by operating activities
45,039
44,544
Cash flows from investing activities:
 
Net change in time deposits with banks
4,471
(5,260)
 
Purchases of equipment for lease contracts and funds used to
 
originate loans
(298,244)
(594,831)
 
Principal collections on leases and loans
356,133
380,345
 
Proceeds from sale of leases originated for investment
25,663
161,566
 
Security deposits collected, net of refunds
(176)
(175)
 
Proceeds from the sale of equipment
1,567
2,065
 
Acquisitions of property and equipment
(2,266)
(3,492)
 
Principal payments received on securities available for sale
432
1,015
 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
 
87,580
(58,767)
Cash flows from financing activities:
 
Net change in deposits
(15,425)
113,481
 
Term securitization repayments
(36,538)
(58,887)
 
Business combinations earn-out consideration payments
(180)
(349)
 
Issuances of common stock
 
120
240
 
Repurchases of common stock
(4,699)
(6,257)
 
Dividends paid
(5,021)
(5,169)
 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities
(61,743)
43,059
Net increase in total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
70,876
28,836
Total cash, cash equivalents
 
and restricted cash, beginning of period
 
130,027
111,201
Total cash, cash equivalents
 
and restricted cash, end of period
$
200,903
$
140,037
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements.
 
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MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
 
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
 
Cash paid for interest on deposits and borrowings
$
17,308
$
17,610
 
Net cash (received)/paid for income taxes
(5,005)
2,736
 
Leases and loans transferred into held for sale from investment
23,460
149,895
Supplemental disclosures of non cash investing activities:
 
Business combinations assets acquired
$
$
146
 
Purchase of equipment for lease contracts and loans originated
2,253
8,432
Reconciliation of Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
 
to
 
the Consolidated Balance Sheets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$
195,132
$
132,461
Restricted interest-earning deposits
5,771
7,576
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period
$
200,903
$
140,037
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-10-
 
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
 
AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED
 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
 
NOTE 1 – The Company
 
 
Marlin Business Services Corp. (the “Company”) is a nationwide provider
 
of credit products and services to small businesses. The
products and services we provide to our customers include loans and
 
leases for the acquisition of commercial equipment (including
Commercial Vehicle
 
Group (“CVG”) assets which now incorporates Transportation
 
Finance Group (“TFG”)) and working capital
loans. The Company was incorporated in the Commonwealth
 
of Pennsylvania on August 5, 2003. In May 2000,
 
we established
AssuranceOne, Ltd., a Bermuda-based, wholly-owned captive
 
insurance subsidiary (“Assurance One”), which enables us to reinsure
the property insurance coverage for the equipment financed by Marlin
 
Leasing Corporation (“MLC”) and Marlin Business Bank
(“MBB”) for our small business customers. Effective
 
March 12, 2008, the Company opened MBB, a commercial
 
bank chartered by
the State of Utah and a member of the Federal Reserve System.
 
MBB serves as the Company’s
 
primary funding source through its
issuance of
 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”)-insured
 
deposits.
 
In January 2017, we completed the acquisition of
Horizon Keystone Financial (“HKF”), an equipment leasing company which
 
primarily identifies and sources lease and loan contracts
for investor partners for a fee.
 
On September 19, 2018, the Company completed the acquisition of Fleet
 
Financing Resources
(“FFR”), a leading provider of equipment finance credit products specializing
 
in the leasing and financing of both new and used
commercial vehicles, with an emphasis on livery equipment and
 
other types of commercial vehicles used by small businesses.
 
 
References to the “Company,”
 
“Marlin,” “Registrant,” “we,” “us” and “our” herein refer to
 
Marlin Business Services Corp. and its
wholly-owned subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires.
 
 
NOTE 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
 
 
Basis of financial statement presentation.
 
The unaudited consolidated financial statements include
 
the accounts of the Company and
its wholly-owned subsidiaries. MLC and MBB are managed together
 
as a single business segment and are aggregated for financial
reporting purposes as they exhibit similar economic characteristics,
 
share the same leasing and loan portfolio and have a single
consolidated product offering platform. All intercompany
 
accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements present
 
the Company’s financial position
 
at September 30, 2020 and
the results of operations for the three- and nine -month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
 
and cash flows for the nine-
month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.
 
In management’s opinion, the unaudited
 
consolidated financial statements
contain all adjustments, which include normal and recurring adjustments,
 
necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position and
results of operations for the interim periods presented.
 
These unaudited consolidated financial statements should be
 
read in
conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and note
 
disclosures included in the Company’s
 
Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2019, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
 
(“SEC”) on March 13,
 
2020. The consolidated results and
statements of cash flows for these interim financial statements
 
are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations or
 
cash flows
for the respective full years or any other period.
 
 
Use of Estimates.
 
These unaudited consolidated financial statements
 
require management to make estimates and assumptions that
affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
 
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of
 
the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expense
 
s
 
during the reporting period. Estimates are used when accounting
 
for
income recognition, the residual values of leased equipment,
 
the allowance for credit losses, deferred initial direct costs and fees, late
fee receivables, the fair value of financial instruments, estimated
 
losses from insurance program, and income taxes. Actual results
could differ from those estimates.
 
 
Income taxes.
 
 
Our statutory tax rate was
25.4
% for the three months ended September 30, 2020.
 
For the three-month period ended September 30,
2020, the effective tax rate was
16.1
%, driven by partial recognition of the prior quarter’s
 
interim reporting limitation on the amount
of tax benefits that can be recognized under Accounting Standards
 
Codification (“ASC”) 740,
Income Taxes
.
 
 
For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020, the effective
 
tax rate in recognizing our benefit was
35.6
%, driven by a $
3.2
million discrete benefit, resulting from certain provisions in the Coronavirus
 
Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”)
that allow for a remeasurement of our federal net operating losses.
 
The Company filed for a refund of carryback net operating
 
losses
 
 
 
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as permitted under the CARES act and that refund was received
 
in July 2020.
 
The impact to our effective rate from that benefit was
partially offset by the limitation on interim tax benefits,
 
as discussed above.
 
For the three and nine-month periods ended September 30,
 
2019, our effective tax rates were
30.6
% and
26.8
%, respectively.
 
The Company is currently under examination by the IRS for tax years
 
ending December 31, 2013 to 2018, and the Company
 
remains
subject to examination for the year ended December 31,
 
2019.
 
Significant Accounting Policies.
 
There have been no significant changes to our Significant
 
Accounting Policies as described in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
 
31, 2019, other than the adoption of ASU 2016-13 as described
 
below.
 
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
.
 
 
Credit Losses.
 
In June 2016, the FASB
 
issued ASU 2016-13,
Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic
 
326): Measurement of
Credit Losses on Financial Instruments
, which changes the methodology for evaluating impairment
 
of most financial instruments.
This guidance was subsequently amended by ASU 2018-19,
Codification Improvements,
 
ASU 2019-04,
Codification Improvements
,
ASU 2019-05,
Targeted
 
Transition Relief,
ASU 2019-10,
Effective Dates,
and ASU 2019-11,
Codification Improvements
.
 
These
ASUs are referred to collectively as “CECL”.
 
CECL replaces the probable, incurred loss model with a measurement
 
of expected credit losses for the contractual term of the
Company’s current portfolio of loans
 
and leases.
 
Under CECL, an
 
allowance, or estimate of credit losses, is recognized immediately
upon the origination of a loan or lease and will be adjusted in
 
each subsequent reporting period.
 
This estimate of credit losses takes
into consideration all cashflows the Company expects to receive or
 
derive from the pools of contracts, including recoveries after
charge-off, amounts related to initial direct cost
 
and origination costs net of fees deferred, accrued interest receivable
 
and certain
future cashflows from residual assets. The Company had previously
 
recognized residual income within Fee Income in its Consolidated
Statements
 
of Operations; the adoption of CECL results in such residual income
 
being captured as a component of the activity of the
allowance. The Company’s policy for
 
charging off contracts against the allowance, and
 
non-accrual policy are not impacted by the
adoption of CECL.
 
 
The provision for credit losses recognized in the Consolidated
 
Statements of Operations under CECL will be primarily driven by
originations, offset by the reversal of the allowance
 
for any contracts sold, plus any amounts of realized cashflows,
 
such as charge-
offs, above or below our modeled estimates, plus adjustments
 
for changes in estimate each subsequent reporting period.
 
 
Estimating an allowance under CECL requires the Company to
 
develop and maintain a consistent systematic methodology to
 
measure
the estimated credit losses inherent in its current portfolio,
 
over the entire life of the contracts.
 
The Company assesses the appropriate
collective, or pool, basis to use to aggregate its portfolio based
 
on the existence of similar risk characteristics and determined that its
measurement begins by separately considering segments of financing
 
receivables, which is similar to how it has historically analyzed
its allowance for credit losses: (i) equipment finance lease and loan;
 
(ii) working capital loans; (iii) commercial vehicles “CVG”;
 
and
(iv) Community Reinvestment Act and Paycheck Protection loans.
 
However, these classes of receivables are
 
further disaggregated
into pools of loans based on risk characteristics that may include:
 
lease or loan type, origination channel, and internal credit
 
score
(which is a measurement that combines many risk characteristics,
 
including loan size, external credit scores, existence of
 
a guarantee,
and various characteristics of the borrower’s business).
 
 
As part of our analysis of expected credit losses, we may analyze
 
contracts on an individual basis, or create additional pools of
contracts, in situations where such loans exhibit unique risk characteristics
 
and are no longer expected to experience similar losses to
the rest of their pool.
 
 
As part of its estimate of expected credit losses, specific to each
 
measurement date, management considers relevant qualitative and
quantitative factors to assess whether the historical loss experience
 
being referenced should be adjusted to better reflect the risk
characteristics of the current portfolio and the expected future
 
loss experience for the life of these contracts.
 
This assessment
incorporates all available information relevant to considering the collectability
 
of its current portfolio, including considering economic
and business conditions, default trends, changes in its portfolio
 
composition, changes in its lending policies and practices, among
 
other
internal and external factors.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Company adopted the guidance in these ASUs, effective
 
January 1, 2020, applying changes resulting from the application
 
of the
new standard’s provisions as a
 
cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of
 
the beginning of the first reporting period in
which the guidance is effective (i.e., modified retrospective
 
approach).
 
 
The adoption of this standard resulted in the following adjustment
 
to the Company’s Consolidated
 
Balance Sheets:
 
 
 
Balance as of
Balance as of
December 31,
Adoption
January 1,
 
2019
Impact
2020
(Dollars in thousands)
Assets:
Net investment in leases and loans
$
1,028,215
$
$
1,028,215
Allowance for credit losses
(21,695)
(11,908)
(33,603)
Total net investment in leases
 
and loans
1,006,520
994,612
Liabilities:
Net deferred income tax liability
30,828
(3,031)
27,797
Stockholders' Equity:
Retained Earnings
135,112
(8,877)
126,235
 
See Note 6 – Allowance for Credit Losses, for further discussion of the
 
January 1, 2020 measurement of allowance under CECL, as
well as discussion of the Company’s
 
new Accounting Policy governing its Allowance.
 
 
See Note 13 – Stockholders’ Equity,
 
for discussion of the Company’s
 
election to delay for two-years the effect of CECL
 
on regulatory
capital, followed by a three-year phase-in for a five-year total
 
transition.
 
 
In addition, as a result of adoption this standard, future measurements of
 
the impairment of our investment securities will
 
incorporate
the guidance in these ASUs, including analyzing any decline
 
in fair value between credit quality-driven factors versus other factors.
 
There was no impact as of the adoption date to our investment
 
securities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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NOTE 3 – Non-Interest Income
 
The following table summarizes non-interest income for the periods
 
presented:
 
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
 
September 30,
September 30,
(Dollars in thousands)
2020
2019
2020
2019
Insurance premiums written and earned
$
2,082
$
2,230
$
6,612
$
6,538
Property tax (loss) income
123
(42)
5,247
5,680
Servicing income
462
395
1,517
1,021
Gain on sale of leases and loans
87
6,456
2,426
13,400
Net gains recognized during the period on equity securities
 
27
89
121
Non-interest income - other than from contracts with customers
2,754
9,066
15,891
26,760
Insurance policy fees
819
688
2,610
2,021
Property tax administrative fees on leases
243
272
713
801
ACH payment fees
35
78
143
238
Referral fees
15
129
123
448
Other
347
129
730
243
Non-interest income from contracts with customers
1,459
1,296
4,319
3,751
Total non-interest income
$
4,213
$
10,362
$
20,210
$
30,511
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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NOTE 4 - Investment Securities
 
 
The Company had the following investment securities as of the
 
dates presented:
 
September 30,
December 31,
(Dollars in thousands)
2020
2019
Equity Securities
Mutual fund
$
3,756
$
3,615
Debt Securities, Available
 
for Sale:
Asset-backed securities ("ABS")
3,836
4,332
Municipal securities
 
3,169
 
3,129
 
Total investment securities
$
10,761
$
11,076
 
The following schedule summarizes changes in fair value of equity securities
 
and the portion of unrealized gains and losses for each
period presented:
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Dollars in thousands)
2020
2019
2020
2019
Net gains recognized during the period on equity securities
 
$
$
27
$
89
$
121
Less: Net gains recognized during the period
 
on equity securities sold during the period
 
 
Unrealized gains recognized during the reporting period
 
on equity securities still held at the reporting date
$
$
27
$
89
$
121
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-15-
 
Available for
 
Sale
The following schedule is a summary of available for sale investments
 
as of the dates presented:
 
September 30, 2020
Gross
 
Gross
Amortized
Unrealized
 
Unrealized
Estimated
Cost
Gains
Losses
Fair Value
(Dollars in thousands)
ABS
$
3,776
$
60
$
$
3,836
Municipal securities
3,082
88
(1)
3,169
 
Total Debt
 
Securities, Available for Sale
$
6,858
$
148
$
(1)
$
7,005
December 31, 2019
Gross
 
Gross
Amortized
Unrealized
 
Unrealized
Estimated
Cost
Gains
Losses
Fair Value
(Dollars in thousands)
ABS
$
4,302
$
33
$
(3)
$
4,332
Municipal securities
3,058
71
3,129
 
Total Debt
 
Securities, Available for Sale
$
7,360
$
104
$
(3)
$
7,461
 
The Company evaluates its available for sale securities in an unrealized
 
loss position for other than temporary impairment on at least a
quarterly basis. The Company did not recognize any other than temporary
 
impairment to earnings for each of the periods ended
September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019.
The following tables present the aggregate amount of unrealized
 
losses on available for sale securities in the Company’s
 
investment
securities classified according to the amount of time those securities
 
have been in a continuous loss position as of September
 
30, 2020
and December 31, 2019:
September 30, 2020
Less than 12 months
12 months or longer
Total
Gross
 
Gross
Gross
Unrealized
 
Fair
Unrealized
Fair
Unrealized
Fair
Losses
Value
Losses
Value
Losses
Value
(Dollars in thousands)
Municipal securities
(1)
$
$
142
$
$
$
$
142
Total available
 
for sale investment
securities
$
$
142
$
$
$
$
142
(1) The unrealized loss is immaterial
December 31, 2019
Less than 12 months
12 months or longer
Total
Gross
 
Gross
Gross
Unrealized
 
Fair
Unrealized
Fair
Unrealized
Fair
Losses
Value
Losses
Value
Losses
Value
(Dollars in thousands)
ABS
$
$
$
(3)
$
430
$
(3)
$
430
Total available
 
for sale investment
securities
$
$
$
(3)
$
430
$
(3)
$
430
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-16-
 
The following table presents the amortized cost, fair value, and
 
weighted average yield of available for sale investments at September
30, 2020,
 
based on estimated average life. Receipt of cash flows may differ
 
from those estimated maturities because borrowers may
have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without penalties:
 
Distribution of Maturities
1 Year
 
 
Over 1 to
 
Over 5 to
Over 10
or Less
5 Years
10 Years
Years
Total
(Dollars in thousands)
Amortized Cost:
ABS
$
$
2,271
$
1,505
$
$
3,776
Municipal securities
 
15
 
302
 
2,623
 
142
 
3,082
Total available
 
for sale investments
$
15
$
2,573
$
4,128
$
142
$
6,858
Estimated fair value
$
15
$
2,625
$
4,223
$
142
$
7,005
Weighted-average
 
yield, GAAP basis
4.75%
1.98%
1.99%
2.10%
1.99%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-17-
 
NOTE 5 – Net Investment in Leases and Loans
 
 
Net investment in leases and loans consists of the following:
 
 
September 30, 2020
December 31, 2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Minimum lease payments receivable
$
376,649
$
457,602
Estimated residual value of equipment
27,974
29,342
Unearned lease income, net of initial direct costs and fees deferred
(46,708)
(59,746)
Security deposits
(415)
(590)
Total leases
357,500
426,608
Commercial loans, net of origination costs and fees deferred
Working Capital
 
Loans
26,472
60,942
CRA
(1)
1,114
1,398
Equipment loans
(2)
457,627
464,655
CVG
65,340
74,612
Total commercial loans
550,553
601,607
Net investment in leases and loans, excluding allowance
908,053
1,028,215
Allowance for credit losses
(61,325)
(21,695)
Total net investment in leases
 
and loans
$
846,728
$
1,006,520
________________________
 
(1)
 
CRA loans are comprised of loans originated under a line of credit to satisfy its obligations under the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
(“CRA”).
(2)
 
Equipment loans are comprised of Equipment Finance Agreements, Installment Purchase Agreements and other loans.
 
In response to COVID-19, starting in mid-March 2020,
 
the Company instituted a payment deferral contract modification
 
program in
order to assist our small-business customers.
 
See Note 6, “Allowance for Credit Losses” for discussion of that program.
 
At September 30, 2020, $
42.8
 
million in net investment in leases were pledged as collateral for
 
the Company’s outstanding asset-
backed securitization balance and $
55.0
 
million in net investment in leases were pledged as collateral for the secured
 
borrowing
capacity at the Federal Reserve Discount Window.
 
 
The amount of deferred initial direct costs and origination costs
 
net of fees deferred were $
16.1
 
million and $
20.5
 
million as of
September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
 
respectively. Initial direct costs are
 
netted in unearned income and are amortized to
income using the effective interest method. ASU 2016
 
-02 limited the types of costs that qualify for deferral as initial direct costs for
leases, which reduced the deferral of unit lease costs and resulted
 
in an increase in current period expense. Origination costs are
 
netted
in commercial loans and are amortized to income using the effective
 
interest method. At September 30, 2020 and
 
December 31, 2019,
$
22.2
 
million and $
23.4
 
million, respectively, of the
 
estimated residual value of equipment retained on our Consolidated
 
Balance
Sheets was related to copiers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-18-
 
Maturities of lease receivables
 
under lease contracts and the amortization of unearned lease income, including
 
initial direct costs and
fees deferred, were as follows as of September 30, 2020:
 
 
 
Minimum Lease
 
Payments
Net Income
Receivable
(1)
Amortization
(2)
(Dollars in thousands)
Period Ending December 31,
Remainder of 2020
$
40,682
$
7,503
2021
144,561
20,557
2022
98,671
11,212
2023
57,414
5,177
2024
27,063
1,749
Thereafter
8,258
510
$
376,649
$
46,708
________________________
 
 
(1)
 
Represents the undiscounted cash flows of the lease payments receivable.
(2)
 
Represents the difference between the undiscounted cash flows and the discounted cash flows.
 
 
Portfolio Sales
The Company originates certain lease and loans for sale to
 
third parties, based on their underwriting criteria and specifications.
 
In
addition, the Company may periodically enter into agreements to sell certain
 
leases and loans that were originated for investment to
third parties.
 
For agreements that qualify as a sale where the Company has
 
continuing involvement through servicing, the Company recognizes
 
a
servicing liability at its initial fair value, and then amortizes the liability
 
over the expected servicing period based on the effective yield
method, within Other income in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
 
The Company’s sale agreements
 
typically do not contain
a stated servicing fee, so the initial value recognized as a servicing
 
liability is a reduction of the proceeds received and is based
 
on an
estimate of the fair value attributable to that obligation.
 
The Company’s servicing liability
 
was $
1.5
 
million and $
2.5
 
million as of
September 30, 2020,
 
and December 31, 2019, respectively,
 
and is recognized within Accounts payable and accrued
 
expenses in the
Consolidated Balance Sheets.
 
As of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the portfolio
 
of leases and loans serviced for others
was $
261
 
million and $
340
 
million, respectively.
 
In addition, the Company may have continuing involvement in contracts
 
sold through any recourse obligations that may include
customary representations and warranties or specific recourse
 
provisions. The Company’s reserve
 
for expected losses from recourse
obligations was $
0.9
 
million as of September 30, 2020 and $
0.4
 
million as of December 31, 2019.
 
In 2020, the Company was a participating lender,
 
offering loans to its customers that are guaranteed under
 
the Small Business
Administration’s (SBA’s)
 
Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”).
 
In the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company sold
its PPP receivable portfolio and recognized an insignificant gain on
 
sale; the Company will have no continuing involvement with
those receivables.
 
The following table summarizes information related to portfolio
 
sales for the periods presented:
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
2020
2019
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Sales of leases and loans
 
$
4,286
$
85,425
$
28,342
$
195,932
Gain on sale of leases and loans
87
6,456
2,426
13,400
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-19-
 
NOTE 6 – Allowance for Credit Losses
 
 
For 2019 and prior, we maintained an allowance
 
for credit losses at an amount sufficient to absorb
 
losses inherent in our existing lease
and loan portfolios as of the reporting dates based on our estimate of probable
 
incurred net credit losses in accordance with the
Contingencies Topic
 
of the FASB ASC.
 
 
Effective January 1, 2020, we
 
adopted
ASU 2016-13,
Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic
 
326): Measurement of Credit
Losses on Financial Instruments
 
(“CECL”)
,
 
which changed our accounting policy and estimated allowance.
 
CECL replaces the
probable, incurred loss model with a measurement of expected
 
credit losses for the contractual term of the Company’s
 
current
portfolio of loans and leases.
 
After the adoption of CECL, an allowance, or estimate of credit
 
losses, is recognized immediately upon
the origination of a loan or lease and will be adjusted in each
 
subsequent reporting period.
 
See further discussion of the adoption of
this accounting standard and a summary of the Company’s
 
revised Accounting Policy for Allowance for Credit Losses
 
in Note 2,
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.
 
Detailed discussion of our measurement of allowance under CECL
 
as of the adoption
date and September 30, 2020 is below.
 
The following tables summarize activity in the allowance for
 
credit losses
:
 
Three Months Ended September 30, 2020
(Dollars in thousands)
Equipment
Finance
Working
Capital
Loans
CVG
CRA
Total
Allowance for credit losses, beginning of period
$
48,550
$
7,962
$
7,132
$
$
63,644
 
Charge-offs
(10,509)
(633)
(524)
(11,666)
 
Recoveries
983
101
94
1,178
Net charge-offs
(9,526)
(532)
(430)
(10,488)
Realized cashflows from Residual Income
965
965
 
Provision for credit losses
7,226
(3,974)
3,952
7,204
Allowance for credit losses, end of period
$
47,215
$
3,456
$
10,654
$
$
61,325
Net investment in leases and loans, before allowance
$
803,689
$
26,472
$
76,778
$
1,114
$
908,053
 
Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Equipment
Finance
Working
Capital
Loans
CVG
CRA
Total
Allowance for credit losses, beginning of period
$
13,416
$
1,940
$
1,421
$
$
16,777
 
Charge-offs
(5,023)
(417)
(526)
(5,966)
 
Recoveries
457
227
54
738
 
Net charge-offs
(4,566)
(190)
(472)
(5,228)
 
Provision for credit losses
6,799
346
517
7,662
Allowance for credit losses, end of period
$
15,649
$
2,096
$
1,466
$
$
19,211
Net investment in leases and loans, before allowance
$
910,046
$
55,794
$
86,415
$
1,454
$
1,053,709
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-20-
 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
(Dollars in thousands)
Equipment
Finance
Working
Capital
Loans
CVG
CRA
Total
Allowance for credit losses, December 31, 2019
$
18,334
$
1,899
$
1,462
$
$
21,695
Adoption of ASU 2016-13 (CECL)
(1)
9,264
(3)
2,647
11,908
Allowance for credit losses, January 1, 2020
$
27,598
$
1,896
$
4,109
$
$
33,603
 
Charge-offs
(24,723)
(2,598)
(2,157)
(29,478)
 
Recoveries
2,237
156
257
2,650
Net charge-offs
(22,486)
(2,442)
(1,900)
(26,828)
Realized cashflows from Residual Income
3,390
3,390
 
Provision for credit losses
38,713
4,002
8,445
51,160
Allowance for credit losses, end of period
$
47,215
$
3,456
$
10,654
$
$
61,325
Net investment in leases and loans, before allowance
$
803,689
$
26,472
$
76,778
$
1,114
$
908,053
 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Equipment
Finance
Working
Capital
Loans
CVG
CRA
Total
Allowance for credit losses, beginning of period
$
13,531
$
1,467
$
1,102
$
$
16,100
 
Charge-offs
(13,863)
(1,692)
(1,200)
(16,755)
 
Recoveries
1,671
298
116
2,085
 
Net charge-offs
(12,192)
(1,394)
(1,084)
(14,670)
 
Provision for credit losses
14,310
2,023
1,448
17,781
Allowance for credit losses, end of period
$
15,649
$
2,096
$
1,466
$
$
19,211
Net investment in leases and loans, before allowance
$
910,046
$
55,794
$
86,415
$
1,454
$
1,053,709
__________________
 
(1)
 
The Company adopted ASU 2016-13,
Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic
 
326): Measurement of Credit
 
Losses on
Financial Instruments
, which changed our accounting policy and estimated allowance,
 
effective January 1, 2020.
 
See further
discussion in Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”,
 
and below.
 
Estimate of Current Expected Credit Losses
 
(CECL)
Starting with the January 1, 2020 adoption of CECL, the Company recognizes
 
an allowance, or estimate of credit losses, immediately
upon the origination of a loan or lease, and that estimate will
 
be reassessed in each subsequent reporting period.
 
This estimate of
credit losses takes into consideration all cashflows the Company
 
expects to receive or derive from the pools of contracts, including
recoveries after charge-off, amounts related to
 
initial direct cost and origination costs net of fees deferred,
 
accrued interest receivable
and certain future cashflows from residual assets.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-21-
 
As part of its estimate of expected credit losses, specific to each
 
measurement date, management considers relevant qualitative and
quantitative factors to assess whether the historical loss experience
 
being referenced should be adjusted to better reflect the risk
characteristics of the current portfolio and the expected future
 
loss experience for the life of these contracts.
 
This assessment
incorporates all available information relevant to considering the collectability
 
of its current portfolio, including considering economic
and business conditions, default trends, changes in its portfolio
 
composition, changes in its lending policies and practices, among
 
other
internal and external factors. As part of the analysis of expected
 
credit losses, we may analyze contracts on an individual basis,
 
or
create additional pools of contracts, in situations where such loans
 
exhibit unique risk characteristics and are no longer expected
 
to
experience similar losses to the rest of their pool.
Current Measurement
 
The Company selected a vintage loss model as the approach to
 
estimate and measure its expected credit losses for all portfolio
segments and for all pools, primarily because the timing of the losses
 
realized has been consistent across historical vintages, such
 
that
the company is able to develop a predictable and reliable
 
loss curve for each separate portfolio segment.
 
The vintage model assigns
loans to vintages by origination date, measures our historical
 
average actual loss and recovery experience within that vintage, develops
a loss curve based on the averages of all vintages, and predicts (or
 
forecasts) the remaining expected net losses of the current portfolio
by applying the expected net loss rates to the remaining life of each open
 
vintage.
Additional detail specific to the measurement of each portfolio
 
segment under CECL as of January 1, 2020 and September
 
30, 2020,
 
is
summarized below.
 
Equipment Finance:
 
Equipment Finance consists of Equipment Finance Agreements, Installment
 
Purchase Agreements and other leases and loans.
 
The risk characteristics referenced to develop pools of Equip
 
ment Finance leases and loans are based on internally developed
credit score ratings, which is a measurement that combines many risk
 
characteristics, including loan size, external credit
scores, existence of a guarantee, and various characteristics of the borrower’s
 
business.
 
In addition, the Company separately
measured a pool of true leases so that any future cashflows from residuals
 
could be used to partially offset the allowance for
that pool.
 
The Company’s measurement of
 
Equipment Finance pools is based on its own historical loss experience.
 
The Company
analyzed the correlation of its own loss data from 2004 to 2019
 
against various economic variables in order to determine an
approach for reasonable and supportable forecast.
 
The Company then selected certain economic variables to
 
reference for its
forecast about the future, specifically the unemployment rate
 
and growth in business bankruptcy.
 
The Company’s
methodology reverts from the forecast data to its own loss data
 
adjusted for the long-term average of the referenced economic
variables, on a straight-line basis.
At each reporting date, the Company considers current conditions, including
 
changes in portfolio composition or the business
environment, when determining the appropriate measurement
 
of current expected credit losses for the remaining life of its
portfolio.
 
As of the January 1, 2020 adoption date, the Company utilized a 12
 
-month forecast period and 12-month straight-
line reversion period, based on its initial assessment of the appropriate
 
timing.
 
However, starting with the March 31,
 
2020 measurement, the Company adjusted its model to reference
 
a 6-month forecast
period and 12-month straight line reversion period.
 
The change in the length of the reasonable and supportable
 
forecast was
based on observed market volatility in late March,
 
and the Company continues to reference a 6-month forecast
 
period at
September 30, 2020 due to continuing uncertainty of the duration and
 
level of impact of the COVID-19 virus on the
macroeconomic environment and the Company’s
 
portfolio, including uncertainty about the forecasted impact of COVID
 
-19
that was underlying its economic forecasted variables beyond
 
a 6-month period.
 
The forecast adjustment to the Equipment
Finance portfolio segment resulted in the recognition of provision
 
of $
1.2
 
million and $
22.2
 
million for the three- and nine -
months ended September 30, 2020,
 
respectively.
 
After completing the forecast adjustment, the Company assessed
 
the output of the Equipment Finance reserve estimate and
increased the reserve for a $
0.9
 
million qualitative adjustment as of September 30, 2020,
 
primarily based on an analysis that
incorporates the current forecasted peak levels of unemployment and
 
business bankruptcy.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-22-
 
Working Capital:
 
The risk characteristics referenced to develop pools of Working
 
Capital loans is based on origination channel, separately
considering an estimation of loss for direct-sourced loans versus loans
 
that were sourced from a broker.
 
The Company’s
historical relationship with its direct-sourced customers typically
 
results in a lower level of credit risk than loans sourced
from brokers where the Company has no prior credit relationship
 
with the customer.
 
The Company’s measurement of
 
Working Capital
 
pools is based on its own historical loss experience.
 
The Company’s
Working Capital loans
 
typically range from 6 – 12 months of duration. For this portfolio
 
segment, due to the short contract
duration, the Company did not define a standard methodology to
 
adjust its loss estimate based on a forecast of economic
conditions.
 
However, the Company will continually
 
assess through a qualitative adjustment whether there are changes in
conditions and the environment that will impact the performance
 
of these loans that should be considered for qualitative
adjustment.
At each reporting date, the Company considers current conditions, inclu
 
ding changes in portfolio composition or the business
environment, when determining the appropriate measurement
 
of current expected credit losses for the remaining life of its
portfolio.
 
As of the January 1, 2020 adoption date, there was no qualitative adjustment to
 
the Working
 
Capital portfolio.
 
However, starting with its March 31,
 
2020 measurement, driven by the elevated risk of credit loss driven by market
conditions due to COVID-19, the Company developed alternate
 
scenarios for credit loss based on an analysis of the
characteristics of its portfolio,
 
considering different timing and magnitudes of potential
 
exposures.
 
During the third quarter, the Company updated
 
its expectation for credit losses for the Working
 
Capital segment based on the
favorable actual portfolio performance during the quarter and
 
a revised forecast based on its current assessment of risks in the
portfolio.
 
Based on that analysis, the Company recognized a reserve reduction of $
3.9
 
million for the three months ended
September 30, 2020, bringing the provision associated with qualitative
 
adjustments to $
3.1
 
million for the nine months ended
September 30, 2020.
Commercial Vehicle
 
Group (CVG):
 
Transportation-related equipment leases and
 
loans are analyzed as a single pool, as the Company did not consider
 
any risk
characteristics to be significant enough to warrant disaggregating this
 
population.
 
The Company’s measurement of
 
CVG is based on a combination of its own historical loss experience
 
and industry loss data
from an external source. The Company has limited history of this product,
 
and therefore the Company determined it was
appropriate to develop an estimate based on a combination of
 
internal and industry data.
 
Due to the Company’s limited
history of performance of this segment, and the limited size of
 
the portfolio, the Company did not develop a standard
methodology to adjust its loss estimate based on a forecast of economic
 
conditions.
 
However, the Company will continually
assess through a qualitative adjustment whether there are changes
 
in conditions and the environment that will impact the
performance of these loans that should be considered for
 
qualitative adjustment.
At each reporting date, the Company considers current conditions, including
 
changes in portfolio composition or the business
environment, when determining the appropriate measurement
 
for the remaining life of the current portfolio.
 
As of the
January 1, 2020 adoption date, there were no qualitative adjustment to
 
the CVG portfolio.
 
However, starting with the March
31, 2020 measurement, driven by the elevated risk of credit loss driven
 
by market conditions due to COVID-19, the
Company developed alternate scenarios for expected credit
 
loss for this segment, considering different timing
 
and
magnitudes of potential exposures.
 
During the third quarter, the Company updated
 
its expectation for credit losses for the CVG segment, including separately
assessing the elevated risks of a population of motor coach industry
 
contracts that are facing prolonged impacts from
COVID-19.
 
Primarily driven by that population, the Company recognized provision
 
related to CVG for the third quarter of
$
3.8
 
million, which increased the year to date qualitative adjustments for COVID-19
 
related risks to $
7.0
 
million for this
portfolio segment.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-23-
 
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Loans:
 
CRA loans are comprised of loans originated under a line of
 
credit to satisfy the Company’s obligations
 
under the CRA.
 
The
Company does not measure an allowance specific to this
 
population because the exposure to credit loss is nominal.
For the three- and nine - months ended September 30,
 
2020, the Company has recognized $
1.9
 
million and $
36.6
 
million of provision,
respectively, driven by increasing
 
the allowance for qualitative and forecast adjustments as
 
a result of conditions driven by the
COVID-19 pandemic.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic, business shutdowns and impacts to our
 
customers, is still ongoing, and the extent of
the effects of the pandemic on our portfolio
 
depends on future developments, which are highly uncertain and
 
are difficult to predict.
 
Further, the Company instituted a
 
Loan modification payment deferral program, as discussed further
 
below, to give payment
 
relief to
customers during this period.
 
As of September 30, 2020,
 
the ultimate performance of loans modified under that program remains
uncertain, due to the timing of the modified loans resuming payment.
 
Our reserve as of September 30, 2020,
 
and the qualitative and economic adjustments discussed above, were calculated
 
referencing our
historical loss experience, including loss experience through the 2008
 
economic cycle, and our adjustments to that experience based
on our judgements about the extent of the impact of the COVID
 
-19 pandemic.
 
Those judgements include certain expectations for the
extent and timing of impacts from COVID-19 on unemployment rates
 
and business bankruptcies and are based on our current
expectations of the performance of our portfolio in the current environment.
 
We may recognize
 
credit losses in excess of our reserve,
or revise our estimate of credit losses in the future, and such
 
amounts may be significant, based on (i) the actual performance of our
portfolio, including the performance of the modified portfolio,
 
(ii) any further changes in the economic environment, or (iii) other
developments or unforeseen circumstances that impact our portfolio.
Loan Modification Program:
 
In response to COVID-19, starting in mid-March 2020,
 
the Company instituted a payment deferral program in order
 
to assist its small-
business customers that requested relief and were current under
 
their existing agreement.
 
The payment deferral program allows for up
to 6 months of fully deferred or reduced payments.
 
The below table outlines certain data on the modified population
 
with details of count and net investment balance, with all information
as of September 30, 2020.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-24-
 
Equipment
Working
(Dollars in thousands)
Finance
CVG
Capital
Total
Modified leases and loans receivable
4,437
431
369
5,237
Resolved
 
(payoff, chargeoff)
(1)
230
20
122
372
Total Program, number of contracts
4,667
451
491
5,609
Current Quarter Population Changes:
Q3 - New modification
$
6,689
$
2,468
$
286
$
9,443
Q3 - Extended modification
5,547
8,412
2,458
16,417
Last Modified in Q2 or Q1
79,664
14,892
9,466
104,022
Total Modifications, Net investment
 
receivable
$
91,900
$
25,772
$
12,210
$
129,882
% of total segment receivables
11.4%
33.6%
46.1%
14.3%
Deferral Status:
Out of deferral
$
82,978
$
16,649
$
9,489
$
109,116
In deferral period - partial payment during deferral
6,372
3,163
2,721
12,256
In deferral period - full deferral of payment
2,550
5,960
8,510
Total Modifications, Net investment
 
receivable
(2)
$
91,900
$
25,772
$
12,210
$
129,882
Modifications 30+ Days Delinquent:
Out of deferral
$
3,352
$
1,367
$
320
$
5,039
In deferral period, with partial payment during
deferral
639
462
99
1,200
 
_________________
(1)
 
Total resolved modifications
 
include
41
 
contracts charged off where $
574
 
thousand credit loss was realized, and
331
contracts that paid in full.
(2)
 
Out of the deferral period represents the month in which the contract
 
returns to its regular contract schedule for the entire
month.
 
For loans in deferral period, the deferral may either be full, with zero
 
payment owed during the deferral period, or
partial, with reduced payments during deferral that are primarily
25
%-
50
% of schedule, or the deferral period payment may
be a nominal amount. In all cases, information is presented with respect
 
to the contracts’ current deferral terms as of
September 30, 2020.
 
As of September 30, 2020, $
109.1
 
million, or
84
% of our total modified contracts are out of the deferral period,
 
and the current
deferral period will expire for substantially all of the remaining modified
 
contracts before December 31, 2020.
 
We are closely
monitoring the performance of the modified contracts as their
 
deferral period expires.
 
As of the end of the third quarter we have
stopped taking new applications for modifications, although
 
we may consider offering extensions in select cases as part of our
 
loss
mitigation strategies.
 
 
TDRs are restructurings of leases and loans in which, due to the borrower's
 
financial difficulties, a lender grants a concession that
 
it
would not otherwise consider for borrowers of similar credit
 
quality.
 
In accordance with the interagency guidance as updated
 
in April
2020, that the FASB
 
concurred with, loans modified under the Company’s
 
payment deferral program are not considered TDRs. As of
September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company did
no
t have any TDRs.
 
 
 
-25-
 
 
Credit Quality
 
 
At origination, the Company utilizes an internally developed
 
credit score ratings as part of its underwriting assessment and
 
pricing
decisions for new contracts.
 
The internal credit score is a measurement that combines
 
many risk characteristics, including loan size,
external credit scores, existence of a guarantee, and various characteristics
 
of the borrower’s business.
 
The internal credit score is
used to create pools of loans for analysis in the Company’s
 
Equipment Finance portfolio segment, as discussed further above.
 
We
believe this segmentation allows our loss modeling to properly
 
reflect changes in portfolio mix driven by sales activity and
adjustments to underwriting standards.
 
However, this score is not updated after origination
 
date for analyzing the Company’s
provision.
 
On an ongoing basis, to monitor the credit quality of its portfolio,
 
the Company primarily reviews the current delinquency of the
portfolio and delinquency migration to monitor risk and default trends. We
 
believe that delinquency is the best factor to use to monitor
the credit quality of our portfolio on an ongoing basis because
 
it reflects the current condition of the portfolio, and is a good
 
predictor
of near term charge-offs and can help with identifying
 
trends and emerging risks to the portfolio.
 
 
The following tables provide information about delinquent leases
 
and loans in the Company’s
 
portfolio based on the contract’s
 
status
as-of the dates presented. In particular, contracts
 
that are part of the Loan Modification Program discussed
 
above are presented in the
below delinquency table and the non-accrual information for
 
September 30, 2020 based on their status with respect to the
 
modified
terms. See Loan Modification section above for delinquency data
 
specific to the modified portfolio.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-26-
 
Portfolio by Origination Year as of
 
September 30, 2020
Total
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
Prior
Receivables
(Dollars in thousands)
Equipment Finance
30-59
$
837
$
2,103
$
1,387
$
740
$
316
$
71
$
5,454
60-89
520
1,692
1,182
748
315
39
4,496
90+
334
2,789
1,444
1,220
294
42
6,123
Total Past Due
1,691
6,584
4,013
2,708
925
152
16,073
Current
214,104
306,024
158,593
79,064
26,424
3,407
787,616
Total
215,795
312,608
162,606
81,772
27,349
3,559
803,689
Working Capital
30-59
71
328
399
60-89
133
18
151
90+
6
222
228
Total Past Due
210
568
778
Current
11,521
13,996
139
38
25,694
Total
11,731
14,564
139
38
26,472
CVG
30-59
90
467
73
92
26
748
60-89
588
307
336
1,231
90+
56
584
50
11
701
Total Past Due
678
830
993
142
37
2,680
Current
13,971
34,922
15,342
7,447
2,364
52
74,098
Total
14,649
35,752
16,335
7,589
2,401
52
76,778
CRA
Total Past Due
Current
1,114
1,114
Total
1,114
1,114
Net investment in leases
and loans, before allowance
$
243,289
$
362,924
$
179,080
$
89,399
$
29,750
$
3,611
$
908,053
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-27-
 
Portfolio by Origination Year as of
 
December 31, 2019
Total
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Prior
Receivables
(Dollars in thousands)
Equipment Finance
30-59
$
1,420
$
1,755
$
935
$
454
$
169
$
17
$
4,750
60-89
1,023
1,055
685
366
80
4
3,213
90+
947
1,522
1,090
527
163
7
4,256
Total Past Due
3,390
4,332
2,710
1,347
412
28
12,219
Current
424,559
236,068
135,419
55,119
16,461
1,407
869,033
Total
427,949
240,400
138,129
56,466
16,873
1,435
881,252
Working Capital
30-59
566
18
584
60-89
16
52
68
90+
203
203
Total Past Due
785
70
855
Current
57,706
2,343
38
60,087
Total
58,491
2,413
38
60,942
CVG
30-59
50
126
90
99
365
60-89
5
15
188
46
254
90+
178
158
53
389
Total Past Due
55
319
436
198
1,008
Current
42,536
22,531
13,442
4,976
130
83,615
Total
42,591
22,850
13,878
5,174
130
84,623
CRA
Total Past Due
Current
1,398
1,398
Total
1,398
1,398
Net investment in leases
and loans, before allowance
$
530,429
$
265,663
$
152,045
$
61,640
$
17,003
$
1,435
$
1,028,215
 
Net investments in Equipment Finance and CVG leases and
 
loans are generally charged-off when they are contractually
 
past due for
120 days or more.
 
Income recognition is discontinued when a default on monthly payment
 
exists for a period of 90 days or more.
Income recognition resumes when a lease or loan becomes less
 
than 90 days delinquent.
 
At September 30, 2020 and December 31,
2019, there were
no
 
finance receivables past due 90 days or more and still accruing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-28-
 
Working Capital Loans
 
are generally placed in non-accrual status when they are
 
30 days past due and generally charged-off
 
at 60 days
past due. The loan is removed from non-accrual status once sufficient
 
payments are made to bring the loan current and reviewed
 
by
management. At September 30, 2020 and December 31,
 
2019, there were
no
 
Working Capital
 
Loans past due 30 days or more and still
accruing.
 
The following tables provide information about non-accrual leases and
 
loans:
 
September 30,
December 31,
(Dollars in thousands)
2020
2019
Equipment Finance
$
6,345
$
4,256
Working Capital Loans
1,144
946
CVG
886
389
Total
 
Non-Accrual
$
8,375
$
5,591
 
 
NOTE 7 - Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
The Company’s goodwill balance of $
6.7
 
million at December 31, 2019 included $
1.2
 
million from the Company’s acquisition of
HKF, in January 2017,
 
and $
5.5
 
million from the September 2018 acquisition of FFR.
 
The goodwill balance represents the excess
purchase price over the Company’s
 
fair value of the assets acquired and is not amortizable but is deductible
 
for tax purposes.
 
The Company assigns its goodwill to a single, consolidated reporting
 
unit, Marlin Business Services Corp. In the first quarter
 
of 2020,
events or circumstances indicated that it was more likely than
 
not that the fair value of its reporting unit was less than its carrying
amount, driven in part by market capitalization of the Company falling
 
below its book value, and negative current events that impact
the Company related to the COVID-19 economic shutdown.
 
The Company calculated the fair value of the reporting unit,
 
by taking
the average stock price over a reasonable period of time multiplied
 
by shares outstanding as of March 31, 2020 and then further
applying a control premium, and compared it to its carrying amount,
 
including goodwill.
 
The Company concluded that the implied
fair value of goodwill was less than its carrying amount, and
 
recognized impairment equal to the $
6.7
 
million balance in the
Consolidated Statements of Operations.
 
The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020 are as follows:
(Dollars in thousands)
Total Company
Balance at December 31, 2019
$
6,735
Impairment of Goodwill
(6,735)
Balance at September 30, 2020
$
 
Intangible assets
The following table presents details of the Company’s
 
intangible assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-29-
 
(Dollars in thousands)
Gross Carrying
Accumulated
Net
Amount
Amortization
Value
As of September 30, 2020
Vendor
 
relationships
$
7,290
$
1,472
$
5,818
Corporate trade name
60
32
28
 
Total
$
7,350
$
1,504
$
5,846
As of December 31, 2019
Useful Life
Lender relationships
3
 
to
 
10
years
$
1,630
$
519
$
1,111
Vendor
 
relationships
11
years
7,290
974
6,316
Corporate trade name
7
years
60
26
34
 
Total
$
8,980
$
1,519
$
7,461
 
 
(Dollars in thousands)
FFR
HKF
Total
Beginning Balance, December 31, 2019
$
6,758
$
703
$
7,461
Amortization Expense
(530)
(69)
(599)
Impairment
(1,016)
(1,016)
Ending Balance, September 30, 2020
$
5,212
$
634
$
5,846
 
The Company’s intangible assets consist
 
of definite-lived assets in connection with the January 2017
 
acquisition of HKF,
 
and definite-
lived intangible assets in connection with the September 2018
 
acquisition of FFR. The Company has
no
 
indefinite-lived intangible
assets.
 
 
In the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company determined
 
that a decrease in projected volumes for its FFR business
and a decrease in the sales team that supports that business resulted
 
in a triggering event that warranted a review of the recoverability
of the related vendor relationship and lender relationship intangible
 
assets.
 
Those assets were evaluated as separate asset groups, as
they generate independent cashflows, such that the vendor
 
relationships relate to the origination of contracts and the lend
 
er
relationships relate to the sale or syndication of contracts.
 
The estimate of fair value was modeled based on an expected
 
cashflow
analysis.
 
As a result of those analyses, there was no impairment related
 
to the FFR vendor relationship intangible, and the Company
recognized $
1.0
 
million of impairment for the FFR lender relationship intangible. This
 
impairment is reflected in Intangible
impairment in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
 
Amortization related to the Company’s
 
definite lived intangible assets was $
0.6
 
million and $
0.7
 
million for the nine-month periods
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, respectively.
The Company expects the amortization expense for the next
 
five years will be as follows:
Amortization
(Dollars in thousands)
Expense
Remainder of 2020
$
168
2021
671
2022
671
2023
671
2024
663
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-30-
 
NOTE 8 – Other Assets
 
Other assets are comprised of the following:
 
 
September 30,
December 31,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Accrued fees receivable
$
2,816
$
3,509
Prepaid expenses
2,393
2,872
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
1,711
1,711
Other
 
1,606
2,361
$
8,526
$
10,453
 
 
NOTE 9 – Deposits
 
MBB serves as the Company’s
 
primary funding source. MBB issues fixed-rate FDIC-insured
 
certificates of deposit raised nationally
through various brokered deposit relationships and fixed-rate
 
FDIC-insured deposits received from direct sources. MBB offers
 
FDIC-
insured money market deposit accounts (the “MMDA Product”)
 
through participation in a partner bank’s
 
insured savings account
product. This brokered deposit product has a variable rate,
 
no maturity date and is offered to the clients of the partner bank and
recorded as a single deposit account at MBB. As of September
 
30, 2020, money market deposit accounts totaled $
52.7
 
million.
 
As of September 30, 2020, the scheduled maturities of certificates
 
of deposits are as follows:
 
 
Scheduled
Dollars in thousands
Maturities
Period Ending December 31,
Remainder of 2020
$
166,820
2021
312,968
2022
154,949
2023
76,924
2024
42,181
Thereafter
17,934
Total
$
771,776
 
Certificates of deposits issued by MBB are time deposits and are
 
generally issued in denominations of $
250,000
 
or less. The MMDA
Product is also issued to customers in amounts less than $
250,000
. The FDIC insures deposits up to $
250,000
 
per depositor. The
weighted average all-in interest rate of deposits at September
 
30, 2020 was
1.92
%.
 
 
NOTE 10 – Debt and Financing Arrangements
 
Short-Term
 
Borrowings
 
The Company had a secured, variable rate revolving line of credit
 
in the amount of $
5.0
 
million that was scheduled to expire on
November 20, 2020
. The line of credit was terminated by mutual agreement with the line of
 
credit provider in July 2020.
 
 
Long-term Borrowings
 
On July 27, 2018, the Company completed a $
201.7
 
million asset-backed term securitization. Each tranche of the term note
securitization has a fixed term, fixed interest rate and fixed principal
 
amount. At September 30, 2020,
 
outstanding term securitizations
amounted to $
40.0
 
million and are collateralized by $
42.8
 
million of minimum lease and loan payments receivable and
 
$
5.8
 
million of
restricted interest-earning deposits. The Company’s
 
term note securitizations are classified as long-term borrowings.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-31-
 
The balance of long-term borrowings consisted of the following:
 
September 30,
December 31,
 
2020
2019
 
(Dollars in thousands)
Term securitization 2018
 
-1
$
40,031
$
76,563
Unamortized debt issuance costs
(198)
(472)
$
39,833
$
76,091
 
The term note securitization is summarized below:
Outstanding Balance as of
Notes
Final
Original
 
September 30,
December 31,
Originally
 
Maturity
 
Coupon
 
2020
2019
Issued
Date
Rate
(Dollars in thousands)
2018 — 1
 
Class A-1
 
$
$
$
77,400
July, 2019
2.55
%
 
Class A-2
 
8,013
55,700
October, 2020
3.05
 
Class A-3
 
8,391
36,910
36,910
April, 2023
3.36
 
Class B
10,400
10,400
10,400
May, 2023
3.54
 
Class C
11,390
11,390
11,390
June, 2023
3.70
 
Class D
5,470
5,470
5,470
July, 2023
3.99
 
Class E
4,380
4,380
4,380
May, 2025
5.02
Total Term
 
Note Securitizations
$
40,031
$
76,563
$
201,650
3.05
%
(1)(2)
__________________
(1)
Represents the original weighted average initial coupon rate for
 
all tranches of the securitization. In addition to this coupon
interest, term note securitizations have other transaction costs which are
 
amortized over the life of the borrowings as additional
interest expense.
 
(2)
The weighted average coupon rate of the 2018-1 term note securitization
 
will approximate
3.77
% over the remaining term of the
borrowing.
 
 
 
 
 
Scheduled principal and interest payments on outstanding borrowings
 
as of September 30, 2020 are as follows:
Principal
Interest
(Dollars in thousands)
Period Ending December 31,
Remainder of 2020
$
7,820
$
358
2021
23,629
813
2022
8,582
159
$
40,031
$
1,330
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-32-
 
NOTE 11 – Fair Value
 
Measurements and Disclosures about
 
the Fair Value
 
of Financial Instruments
 
Fair Value
 
Measurements
 
Fair value is defined in GAAP as the price that would be received
 
to sell an asset or the price that would be paid to transfer a
 
liability
on the measurement date. GAAP focuses on the exit price in
 
the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in
 
an
orderly transaction between market participants. A three-level
 
valuation hierarchy is required for disclosure of fair value
measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of
 
an asset or liability as of the measurement date. The fair value
hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices (unadjusted)
 
in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and
 
the
lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). The level in the fair
 
value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement in its
entirety falls is determined based on the lowest level input that
 
is significant to the measurement in its entirety.
 
 
The Company’s balances measured
 
at fair value on a recurring basis include the following
 
as of September 30, 2020 and December
31, 2019:
 
September 30, 2020
December 31, 2019
Fair Value Measurements Using
Fair Value Measurements Using
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
(Dollars in thousands)
Assets
ABS
$
$
3,836
$
$
$
4,332
$
Municipal securities
3,169
3,129
Mutual fund
3,756
3,615
 
At this time, the Company has not elected to report any assets
 
and liabilities using the fair value option. There have been
 
no transfers
between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy for
 
any of the periods presented.
 
Non-Recurring Measurements
 
Non-recurring fair value measurements include assets and liabilities
 
that are periodically remeasured or assessed for impairment
 
using
Fair value measurements. Non-recurring measurements include
 
the Company’s evaluation of goodwill
 
and residual assets for
impairment, and the Company’s remeasurement
 
of contingent consideration and assessment of the carrying amount
 
of its servicing
liability.
 
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized
 
$
6.7
 
million for the impairment of goodwill and in the three-
and nine-months ended September 30, 2020, $
1.0
 
million for the impairment of intangible assets, as discussed further
 
in Note 7,
Goodwill and Intangible Assets.
 
In addition, in the three-and nine-months ended September
 
30, 2020 the Company updated its fair
value measurement of contingent consideration liability in connection
 
with the 2018 FFR acquisition due to lower forecasted volumes
for that business, resulting in a $
1.4
 
million reduction in that liability which was recognized as a reduction in General
 
and
administrative expense.
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, there were no significant
 
amounts recognized in the Consolidated Statements of
Operations in connection with non-recurring fair value measurements.
 
Fair Value
 
of Other Financial Instruments
 
 
The following summarizes the carrying amount and estimated
 
fair value of the Company’s other financial
 
instruments, including those
not measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-33-
 
September 30, 2020
December 31, 2019
Carrying
Fair
Carrying
Fair
Amount
Value
Amount
Value
(Dollars in thousands)
Financial Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$
195,132
$
195,132
$
123,096
$
123,096
Time deposits with banks
8,456
8,515
12,927
12,970
Restricted interest-earning deposits with banks
5,771
5,771
6,931
6,931
Loans, net of allowance
509,936
517,269
588,688
593,406
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
1,711
1,711
1,711
1,711
Financial Liabilities
 
Deposits
$
823,707
$
787,478
$
839,132
$
846,304
 
Long-term borrowings
39,833
40,344
76,091
76,781
 
There have been no significant changes in the methods and assumptions
 
used in estimating the fair values of financial instruments, as
outlined in our consolidated financial statements and note disclosures
 
in the Company’s Form 10-K for
 
the year ended December 31,
2019.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-34-
 
NOTE 12 – Earnings Per Share
 
 
The Company’s restricted stock
 
awards are paid non-forfeitable common stock dividends and
 
thus meet the criteria of participating
securities. Accordingly, earnings
 
per share (“EPS”) has been calculated using the two-class method,
 
under which earnings are
allocated to both common stock and participating securities.
 
 
Basic EPS has been computed by dividing net income or loss allocated
 
to common stock by the weighted average common shares
used in computing basic EPS. For the computation of basic EPS,
 
all shares of restricted stock have been deducted from the weighted
average shares outstanding.
 
 
Diluted EPS has been computed by dividing net income or loss
 
allocated to common stock by the weighted average number
 
of
common shares used in computing basic EPS, further adjusted
 
by including the dilutive impact of the exercise or conversion of
common stock equivalents, such as stock options, into shares
 
of common stock as if those securities were exercised or
 
converted.
 
The following table provides net income and shares used in computing basic
 
and diluted EPS:
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
2020
2019
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands, except per-share data)
Basic EPS
Net income (loss)
$
2,743
$
7,446
$
(14,960)
$
18,702
Less: net income allocated to participating securities
(36)
(89)
 
(237)
Net income (loss) allocated to common stock
$
2,707
$
7,357
$
(14,960)
$
18,465
Weighted average common
 
shares outstanding
 
11,946,549
12,203,086
11,951,375
12,290,906
Less: Unvested restricted stock awards considered participating
securities
(155,408)
(148,142)
(142,186)
(156,116)
Adjusted weighted average common shares used in computing
basic EPS
11,791,141
12,054,944
11,809,189
12,134,790
Basic EPS
$
0.23
$
0.61
$
(1.27)
$
1.52
Diluted EPS
Net income (loss) allocated to common stock
$
2,707
$
7,357
$
(14,960)
$
18,465
Adjusted weighted average common shares used in computing
basic EPS
11,791,141
12,054,944
11,809,189
12,134,790
Add: Effect of dilutive stock-based compensation awards
41,272
113,018
 
94,186
Adjusted weighted average common shares used in computing
diluted EPS
11,832,413
12,167,962
11,809,189
12,228,976
Diluted EPS
$
0.23
$
0.60
$
(1.27)
$
1.51
 
For the three-month periods ended September 30,
 
2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
weighted average outstanding stock-based
compensation awards in the amount of
230,428
 
and
157,952
, respectively, were considered
 
antidilutive and therefore were not
considered in the computation of potential common shares for
 
purposes of diluted EPS.
 
 
For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020
 
and September 30, 2019, weighted average outstanding stock-based
compensation awards in the amount of
286,349
 
and
172,473
, respectively, were considered
 
antidilutive and therefore were not
considered in the computation of potential common shares for
 
purposes of diluted EPS.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-35-
 
 
NOTE 13 – Stockholders’ Equity
 
Share Repurchases
During the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2020, the Company did
no
t purchase any shares of its common stock under any
stock repurchase plan. During the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020, the Company purchased
264,470
 
shares of its
common stock under a stock repurchase plan approved by the
 
Company’s Board of Directors
 
on August 1, 2019 (the “2019
Repurchase Plan”) at an average cost of $
16.09
 
per share.
During the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2019, the Company purchased
144,729
 
shares of its common stock in the open
market under a stock repurchase plan approved by the Company’s
 
Board of Directors on May 30, 2017 (the “2017 Repurchase Plan”)
at an average cost of $
23.00
 
per share. During the nine-month period ended September 30,
 
2019, the Company purchased
247,500
shares of its common stock under the 2017 Repurchase Plan at
 
an average cost of $
23.24
 
per share.
At September 30, 2020, the Company had $
4.7
 
million of remaining authorizations under the 2019 Repurchase Plan.
 
In addition to the repurchases described above, participants in
 
the Company’s 2014 Equity Compensation
 
Plan (approved by the
Company’s shareholders on June 3,
 
2014) (the “2014 Plan”) may have shares withheld to cover
 
income taxes. During the three-month
periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30,
 
2019, there were
18,446
 
shares and
2,654
 
shares repurchased to cover income
tax withholding under the 2014 Plan at an average cost of $
8.06
 
per share and $
23.80
 
per share, respectively. During
 
the nine-month
periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30,
 
2019, there were
41,466
 
and
22,100
 
shares repurchased to cover income tax
withholding in connection with shares granted under the 2014
 
Plan at average per-share costs of $
10.70
 
and $
22.87
, respectively.
 
Regulatory Capital Requirements
 
Through its issuance of FDIC-insured deposits, MBB serves as the Company’s
 
primary funding source. Over time, MBB may offer
other products and services to the Company’s
 
customer base. MBB operates as a Utah state-chartered, Federal
 
Reserve member
commercial bank, insured by the FDIC. As a state-chartered Federal
 
Reserve member bank, MBB is supervised by both the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Utah Department of Financial
 
Institutions.
 
The Company and MBB are subject to capital adequacy regulations
 
issued jointly by the federal bank regulatory agencies. These
 
risk-
based capital and leverage guidelines make regulatory capital requirements
 
more sensitive to differences in risk profiles among
banking organizations and consider off
 
-balance sheet exposures in determining capital adequacy.
 
The federal bank regulatory agencies
and/or the U.S. Congress may determine to increase capital requirements
 
in the future due to the current economic environment.
Under the capital adequacy regulation, at least half of a banking organization’s
 
total capital is required to be "Tier
 
1 Capital" as
defined in the regulations, comprised of common equity,
 
retained earnings and a limited amount of non-cumulative
 
perpetual
preferred stock. The remaining capital, "Tier
 
2 Capital," as defined in the regulations, may consist of other preferred
 
stock, a limited
amount of term subordinated debt or a limited amount of the
 
reserve for possible credit losses. The regulations establish
 
minimum
leverage ratios for banking organizations, which are
 
calculated by dividing Tier 1 Capital
 
by total average assets. Recognizing that the
risk-based capital standards principally address credit risk rather than interest
 
rate, liquidity, operational
 
or other risks, many banking
organizations are expected to maintain capital in excess
 
of the minimum standards.
 
The Company and MBB operate under the Basel III capital
 
adequacy standards. These standards require a minimum for Tier
 
1
leverage ratio of
4
%, minimum Tier 1 risk-based ratio
 
of
6
%, and a total risk-based capital ratio of
8
%.
 
The Basel III capital adequacy
standards established a new common equity Tier
 
1 risk-based capital ratio with a required
4.5
% minimum (
6.5
% to be considered
well-capitalized). The Company is required to have a level of
 
regulatory capital in excess of the regulatory minimum and
 
to have a
capital buffer above
2.5
%. If a banking organization does not maintain capital above
 
the minimum plus the capital conservation buffer
it may be subject to restrictions on dividends, share buybacks, and
 
certain discretionary payments such as bonus payments.
 
CMLA Agreement.
 
On March 25, 2020, MBB received notice from the FDIC that
 
it had approved MBB’s request
 
to rescind certain
nonstandard conditions in the FDIC’s
 
order granting federal deposit insurance issued on March 20,
 
2007. Furthermore, effective
March 26, 2020, the FDIC, the Company and certain of the Company’s
 
subsidiaries terminated the Capital Maintenance and Liquidity
Agreement (the “CMLA Agreement”) and the Parent Company
 
Agreement, each entered into by and among the Company,
 
certain of
its subsidiaries and the FDIC in conjunction with the opening of
 
MBB.
 
As
 
a result of these actions, MBB is no longer required
 
 
 
 
 
 
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pursuant to the CMLA Agreement to maintain a total risk-based
 
capital ratio above
15
%. Rather, MBB must continue to maintain a
total risk-based capital ratio above 10% in order to maintain
 
“well-capitalized” status as defined by banking regulations, while the
Company must continue to maintain a total risk-based capital
 
ratio as discussed in the immediately preceding paragraph.
 
The
additional capital released by the termination of the CMLA Agreement
 
is held at MBB and is subject to the restrictions outlined in
Title 12 part 208 of the Code of Federal Regulations
 
(12 CFR 208.5), which places limitations on bank dividends,
 
including restricting
dividends for any year to the earnings from the current and prior
 
two calendar years.
 
Any dividends declared above that amount and
any return
 
of permanent capital would require prior approval of the Federal
 
Reserve Board of Governors. As of September 30,
 
2020,
MBB does not have the capacity to pay dividends to the Company
 
without explicit approval from the Federal Reserve Board
 
of
Governors because of the current period losses and the amount of
 
cumulative dividends paid over the past two years.
MBB’s Tier
 
1 Capital balance at September 30, 2020 was $
139.4
 
million, which met all capital requirements to which MBB is subject
and qualified MBB for “well-capitalized” status. At September
 
30, 2020,
 
the Company also exceeded its regulatory capital
requirements and was considered “well-capitalized” as defined
 
by federal banking regulations and as required by the FDIC
Agreement.
 
CECL Capital Transition.
 
The Company adopted CECL, or a new measurement methodology for
 
the allowance estimate, on January
1, 2020, as discussed further in Note 2—Summary of Significant Accounting
 
Policies.
 
Rules governing the Company’s regulatory
capital requirements give entities the option of delaying for two years
 
the estimated impact of CECL on regulatory capital, followed
by a three-year transition period to phase out the aggregate amount
 
of capital benefit, or a five-year transition in total. The Company
has elected to avail itself of the five-year transition.
 
For measurements of regulatory capital in 2020 and 2021
 
,
 
under the two year
delay the Company shall prepare: (i) a measurement of its estimated
 
allowance for credit losses under CECL, as reported in its balance
sheets; and (ii) a measurement of its estimated allowance under
 
the historical incurred loss methodology,
 
as prescribed by the
regulatory calculation.
 
Any amount of provisions under CECL that is in excess of the incurred
 
estimate will be an adjustment the
Company’s capital during the two-year
 
delay.
 
The three-year transition, starting in 2022, will phase in that
 
adjustment straight-line,
such that
25
 
percent of the transitional amounts will be included in the first year,
 
and an additional
25
% over each of the next two
years, such that we will have phased in
75
% of the adjustment during year three.
 
At the beginning of year 6 (2025) the Company will
have completely reflected the effects of CECL in its regulatory
 
capital.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The following table sets forth the Tier
 
1 leverage ratio, common equity Tier 1
 
risk-based capital ratio, Tier 1 risk-based capital
 
ratio
and total risk-based capital ratio for Marlin Business Services Corp.
 
and MBB at September 30, 2020.
 
Minimum Capital
Well-Capitalized Capital
Actual
Requirement
Requirement
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
Amount
Ratio
Amount
(Dollars in thousands)
Tier 1 Leverage Capital
 
Marlin Business Services Corp.
16.92%
$
192,218
4.00%
$
45,443
5.00%
$
56,804
 
Marlin Business Bank
13.26%
$
139,365
4.00%
$
42,053
5.00%
$
52,566
Common Equity Tier 1 Risk-Based Capital
 
Marlin Business Services Corp.
21.17%
$
192,218
4.50%
$
40,860
6.50%
$
59,019
 
Marlin Business Bank
16.88%
$
139,365
4.50%
$
37,147
6.50%
$
53,657
Tier 1 Risk-based Capital
 
Marlin Business Services Corp.
21.17%
$
192,218
6.00%
$
54,479
8.00%
$
72,639
 
Marlin Business Bank
16.88%
$
139,365
6.00%
$
49,530
8.00%
$
66,040
Total
 
Risk-based Capital
 
Marlin Business Services Corp.
22.49%
$
204,185
8.00%
$
72,639
10.00%
$
90,799
 
Marlin Business Bank
18.21%
$
150,285
8.00%
$
66,040
10.00%
$
82,550
 
Prompt Corrective Action
.
 
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of
 
1991 (“FDICIA”) requires the federal
regulators to take prompt corrective action against any undercapitalized
 
institution.
 
Five capital categories have been established
under federal banking regulations:
 
well-capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized,
 
significantly undercapitalized and
critically undercapitalized.
 
Well-capitalized
 
institutions significantly exceed the required minimum level
 
for each relevant capital
measure.
 
Adequately capitalized institutions include depository institutions
 
that meet but do not significantly exceed the required
minimum level for each relevant capital measure. Undercapitalized
 
institutions consist of those that fail to meet the required
 
minimum
level for one or more relevant capital measures.
 
Significantly undercapitalized characterizes depository institutions with
 
capital levels
significantly below the minimum requirements for any relevant capital
 
measure.
 
Critically undercapitalized refers to depository
institutions with minimal capital and at serious risk for government
 
seizure.
 
Under certain circumstances, a well-capitalized, adequately capitalized
 
or undercapitalized institution may be treated as if the
institution were in the next lower capital category.
 
A depository institution is generally prohibited from making
 
capital distributions,
including paying dividends, or paying management fees to a holding
 
company if the institution would thereafter be undercapitalized.
 
Institutions that are adequately capitalized but not well-capitalized
 
cannot accept, renew or roll over brokered deposits except with a
waiver from the FDIC and are subject to restrictions on the interest
 
rates that can be paid on such deposits. Undercapitalized
institutions may not accept, renew or roll over brokered deposits.
 
The federal bank regulatory agencies are permitted or,
 
in certain cases, required to take certain actions with respect to
 
institutions
falling within one of the three undercapitalized categories.
 
Depending on the level of an institution’s
 
capital, the agency’s corrective
powers include, among other things:
 
 
• prohibiting
 
the payment of principal and interest on subordinated
 
debt;
• prohibiting
 
the holding company from making distributions without
 
prior regulatory approval;
• placing
 
limits on asset growth and restrictions on activities;
• placing
 
additional restrictions on transactions with affiliates;
• restricting
 
the interest rate the institution may pay on deposits;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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• prohibiting the institution from accepting
 
deposits from correspondent banks; and
• in the most severe cases, appointing a
 
conservator or receiver for the institution.
A banking institution that is undercapitalized is required to
 
submit a capital restoration plan, and such a plan will not be accepted
unless, among other things, the banking institution’s
 
holding company guarantees the plan up to a certain specified amount.
 
Any such
guarantee from a depository institution’s
 
holding company is entitled to a priority of payment in bankruptcy.
 
 
MBB’s total risk-based capital
 
ratio of
18.21
% at September 30, 2020 exceeded the threshold for “well capitalized”
 
status under the
applicable laws and regulations.
 
Dividends
.
 
The Federal Reserve Board has issued policy statements requiring
 
insured banks and bank holding companies to have an
established assessment process for maintaining capital comm
 
ensurate with their overall risk profile. Such assessment process
 
may
affect the ability of the organizations to pay
 
dividends. Although generally organizations may pay dividends
 
only out of current
operating earnings, dividends may be paid if the distribution is prudent
 
relative to the organization’s
 
financial position and risk profile,
after consideration of current and prospective economic conditions.
 
As mentioned above, MBB’s ability to
 
pay dividends to the
Company is subject to various regulatory requirements, including
 
Title 12 part 208 of the Code of Federal
 
Regulations (12 CFR
208.5), which places limitations on bank dividends. Furthermore, as
 
a bank holding company,
 
the Company’s ability to
 
pay dividends
to its shareholders is also subject to various regulatory requirements,
 
including Supervisory Letter SR 09-4,
Applying Supervisory
Guidance and Regulations on the Payment of Dividends,
 
Stock Redemptions and Stock Repurchases
 
at Bank Holding Companies
.
 
 
 
NOTE 14 – Stock-Based Compensation
 
 
Awards for
 
Stock-Based Compensation are governed by the Company’s
 
2003 Equity Compensation Plan, as amended (the “2003
Plan”), the Company’s 2014
 
Equity Compensation Plan (approved by the Company’s
 
shareholders on June 3, 2014) (the “2014 Plan”)
and the Company’s 2019
 
Equity Compensation Plan (approved by the Company’s
 
shareholders on May 30, 2019) (the “2019 Plan”
and, together with the 2014 Plan and the 2003 Plan, the “Equity Compensation
 
Plans”). Under the terms of the Equity Compensation
Plans, employees, certain consultants and advisors and non-employee
 
members of the Company’s Board
 
of Directors have the
opportunity to receive incentive and nonqualified grants of stock options,
 
stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and other equity-
based awards as approved by the Company’s
 
Board of Directors.
 
These award programs are used to attract, retain and motivate
employees and to encourage individuals in key management
 
roles to retain stock.
 
The Company has a policy of issuing new shares to
satisfy awards under the Equity Compensation Plans. The aggregate number
 
of shares under the 2019 Plan that may be issued for
Grants is
826,036
. There were
546,070
 
shares available for future awards under the 2019 Plan as of September 30,
 
2020.
 
Total stock-based compensation
 
expense was $
0.4
 
million and $
0.9
 
million for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and
September 30, 2019, respectively.
 
Total stock-based compensation
 
expense was $
0.8
 
million and $
2.8
 
million for the nine-month
periods ended September 30, 2020
 
and September 30, 2019, respectively. Excess
 
tax deficits from stock-based payment arrangements
were $
0.6
 
million and
 
$
0.1
 
million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020
 
and 2019, respectively.
 
Stock Options
 
Option awards are generally granted with an exercise price equal
 
to the market price of the Company’s
 
stock at the date of the grant
and have
7
 
year contractual terms.
 
All options issued contain service conditions based on the participant’s
 
continued service with the
Company and provide for accelerated vesting if there is a change in control
 
as defined in the Equity Compensation Plans.
 
Employee
stock options generally vest over
three
 
to
four years
.
There were
no
 
stock options granted during the three-month and nine periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
respectively.
The expected life for options is estimated based on their vesting and
 
contractual terms and was determined by applying the simplified
method as defined by the SEC’s Staff
 
Accounting Bulletin No. 107 (“SAB 107”). The risk-free interest rate
 
reflected the yield on
zero-coupon Treasury securities with a term
 
approximating the expected life of the stock options. The
 
expected volatility was
determined using historical volatilities based on historical stock
 
prices
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
A summary of option activity for the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020 follows:
 
Weighted
 
Average
 
Number of
Exercise Price
Options
Shares
Per Share
Outstanding, December 31, 2019
135,159
$
26.79
 
Granted
 
Exercised
 
Forfeited
(3,929)
27.31
 
Expired
(16,648)
26.19
Outstanding, September 30, 2020
114,582
26.87
 
The Company recognized $
0.1
 
million of compensation expense related to options during the three and
 
nine-month periods ended
September 30, 2020.
 
The Company recognized $
0.1
 
million and $
0.3
 
million of compensation expense related to options during the
three and nine-month periods ended September 30,
 
2019.
 
There were
no
 
stock options exercised during the three or nine-month periods ended
 
September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019.
 
 
 
The following table summarizes information about the stock
 
options outstanding and exercisable as of September 30, 2020:
Options Outstanding
 
Options Exercisable
Weighted
Weighted
Aggregate
Weighted
Weighted
 
Aggregate
Average
Average
Intrinsic
Average
Average
 
Intrinsic
Range of
 
Number
Remaining
 
Exercise
Value
Number
 
Remaining
 
Exercise
 
Value
Exercise Prices
 
Outstanding
 
Life (Years
)
Price
(In thousands)
Exercisable
 
Life (Years
)
Price
(In thousands)
$
25.75
 
63,440
3.5
$
25.75
$
63,440
3.5
$
25.75
$
28.25
 
51,142
4.5
$
28.25
$
34,092
4.5
$
28.25
$
114,582
3.9
$
26.87
$
97,532
3.8
$
26.62
$
 
The aggregate intrinsic value in the preceding table represents
 
the total pretax intrinsic value, based on the Company’s
 
closing stock
price of $
7.05
 
as of September 30, 2020, which would have been received by the option
 
holders had all option holders exercised their
options as of that date.
 
As of September 30, 2020, there was $
0.1
 
million of unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock options
 
not yet
recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations scheduled
 
to be recognized over a weighted average period of
0.5
 
year.
 
 
Restricted Stock Awards
 
The Company’s restricted stock
 
awards provide that, during the applicable vesting periods,
 
the shares awarded may not be sold or
transferred by the participant. The vesting period for restricted
 
stock awards generally ranges from
three
 
to
seven years
. All awards
issued contain service conditions based on the participant’s
 
continued service with the Company and may provide for accelerated
vesting if there is a change in control as defined in the Equity Compensation
 
Plans.
 
 
The vesting of certain restricted shares may be accelerated to
 
a minimum of
three years
 
based on achievement of various individual
performance measures. Acceleration of expense for awards based
 
on individual performance factors occurs when the achievement of
the performance criteria is determined.
 
Vesting
 
was accelerated in 2019 on certain awards based on the achievement
 
of certain performance criteria determined annually,
 
as
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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described below.
 
 
The Company also issues restricted stock to non-employee independent
 
directors.
 
These shares generally vest in
seven years
 
from the
grant date or
six months
 
following the director’s termination from Board
 
of Directors service.
 
 
The following table summarizes the activity of non-vested restricted
 
stock for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020:
 
 
Weighted
Average
Grant-Date
Non-vested restricted stock
Shares
 
 
Fair Value
Outstanding at December 31, 2019
143,935
$
21.88
 
Granted
45,830
8.64
 
Vested
(37,734)
23.04
 
Forfeited
(2,750)
25.84
Outstanding at September 30, 2020
149,281
17.45
 
During the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2020, the Company did
no
t grant any restricted stock awards. During the three-
month period ended September 30, 2019, the Company granted
 
restricted stock awards with grant-date fair values totaling $
0.4
million. During the nine-month periods ended September 30,
 
2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
the Company granted restricted stock
awards with grant-date fair values totaling $
0.4
 
million and $
0.4
 
million, respectively.
 
 
As vesting occurs, or is deemed likely to occur,
 
compensation expense is recognized over the requisite service
 
period and additional
paid-in capital is increased. The Company recognized $
0.1
 
million and $
0.2
 
million of compensation expense related to restricted
stock for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020
 
and September 30, 2019, respectively.
 
The Company recognized $
0.3
million and $
0.7
 
million of compensation expense related to restricted stock for the nine-month
 
periods ended September 30, 2020 and
September 30, 2019,
 
respectively.
 
Of the $
0.3
 
million total compensation expense related to restricted stock for the nine-month
 
period ended September 30, 2020,
no
expense was related to accelerated vesting based on achievement
 
of certain performance criteria determined annually.
 
Of the $
0.7
million total compensation expense related to restricted stock for
 
the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019
 
,
 
approximately
$
0.1
 
million related to accelerated vesting during the first quarter of 2019,
 
which was also based on the achievement of certain
performance criteria determined annually.
 
As of September 30, 2020, there was $
1.4
 
million of unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested restricted
 
stock
compensation scheduled to be recognized over a weighted average
 
period of
4.8
 
years.
 
 
The fair value of shares that vested during the three-month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019 was $
0.1
million and $
0.2
 
million, respectively. The
 
fair value of shares that vested during the nine-month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020
and September 30, 2019 was $
0.4
 
million and $
1.3
 
million, respectively.
 
 
Restricted Stock Units
Restricted stock units (“RSUs”) are granted with vesting conditions
 
based on fulfillment of a service condition (generally three to
 
four
years from the grant date), and may also require achievement
 
of certain operating performance criteria,
 
achievement of certain market-
based targets associated with the Company’s
 
stock price or relative total shareholder return, or a
 
combination of both performance
criteria and market-based targets.
For those awards subject to achievement of certain market
 
performance criteria, the market-based
target measurement period begins
one year
 
from the grant date and ends
three years
 
from the grant date. Expense for equity-based
 
awards with market and performance conditions is recognized
 
over the performance period based on the grant-date fair value of the
award for those awards which are expected to be
 
earned.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The following tables summarize restricted stock unit activity for
 
the
 
nine-month period ended September 30, 2020:
 
 
Weighted
Average
Number of
Grant-Date
Performance-based & market-based RSUs
RSUs
 
Fair Value
Outstanding at December 31, 2019
257,476
$
18.00
Granted
95,758
17.55
Forfeited
(5,081)
23.99
Converted
(65,810)
12.89
Cancelled due to non-achievement of market condition
(56,390)
18.19
Outstanding at September 30, 2020
225,953
19.12
Service-based RSUs
Outstanding at December 31, 2019
99,951
$
23.59
Granted
69,422
20.43
Forfeited
(24,016)
22.07
Converted
(39,879)
24.30
Outstanding at September 30, 2020
105,478
21.59
 
There were
no
 
RSUs with vesting conditions based solely on market conditions granted
 
during the nine-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
respectively.
 
The weighted average grant-date fair value of RSUs with both performance
 
and market-based vesting conditions granted during the
nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and September
 
30, 2019
 
was $
12.90
 
and $
12.91
 
per unit, respectively. The weighted
average grant date fair value of these performance and market-based
 
RSUs was estimated using a Monte Carlo simulation valuation
model with the following assumptions:
Nine Months Ended September 30,
2020
2019
Grant date stock price
$
20.43
$
21.50
Risk-free interest rate
1.40
%
2.16
Expected volatility
26.18
%
26.68
Dividend yield
 
The risk free interest rate reflected the yield on zero coupon Treasury
 
securities with a term approximating the expected life of the
RSUs. The expected volatility was based on historical volatility
 
of the Company’s common
 
stock. Dividend yield was assumed at zero
as the grant assumes dividends distributed during the performance period
 
are reinvested.
 
When valuing the grant, we have assumed a
dividend yield of zero, which is mathematically equivalent to
 
reinvesting dividends in the issuing entity.
There were
no
 
RSUs granted during the three-month periods ended September 30,
 
2020 and September 30, 2019, respectively.
 
During the nine-month periods ended September 30,
 
2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
the Company granted RSUs with grant-date fair
values totaling $
3.1
 
million and $
3.4
 
million, respectively.
 
The fair value of restricted stock units that converted to shares
 
of common
stock during the nine-month periods ended September 30,
 
2020 and September 30, 2019 was $
1.1
 
million and $
0.8
 
million,
respectively.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Company recognized $
0.3
 
million and $
0.6
 
million of compensation expense related to RSUs for the three-month
 
periods ended
September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, respectively.
 
The Company recognized $
0.3
 
million and $
1.7
 
million of compensation
expense related to RSUs for the nine-month periods
 
September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
respectively. During the nine-month
period ended September 30, 2020 the Company reversed $
0.7
 
million of previously recognized compensation expense related
 
to RSUs
based on the adjustment of the most probable performance assumptions
 
related to certain non-market performance awards.
 
As of
September 30, 2020, there was $
1.7
 
million of unrecognized compensation cost related to RSUs scheduled
 
to be recognized over a
weighted average period of
1.4
 
years based on the most probable performance assumptions.
 
In the event maximum performance
targets are achieved, an additional $
8.1
 
million of compensation cost would be recognized over a weighted
 
average period of
1.5
years.
 
As of September 30, 2020,
3,960
 
performance units are expected to convert to shares of common stock based
 
on the most
probable performance assumptions. In the event maximum performance targets
 
are achieved,
428,917
 
performance units would
convert to shares of common stock.
 
 
NOTE 15 – Subsequent Events
 
 
The Company declared a dividend of $
0.14
 
per share on October 29, 2020. The quarterly dividend, which is expected
 
to result in a
dividend payment of approximately $
1.7
 
million, is scheduled to be paid on
November 19, 2020
 
to shareholders of record on the close
of business on
November 9, 2020
. It represents the Company’s thirty-seventh
 
consecutive quarterly cash dividend. The payment of
future dividends
 
will be subject to satisfaction of regulatory requirements applicable
 
to bank holding companies and approval by the
Company’s Board of Directors.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-43-
 
Item 2. Management’s Discussion And Analysis Of Financial Condition And Results Of Operations
 
 
The following discussion and analysis of our financial
 
condition and results of operations should
 
be read in conjunction with our
Consolidated Financial Statements and the related
 
notes thereto in our Form 10-K for the year
 
ended December 31, 2019 filed with
the SEC.
 
This discussion contains certain statements of a forward
 
-looking nature that involve risks and
 
uncertainties.
 
 
F
ORWARD
-L
OOKING
S
TATEMENTS
 
Certain statements in this document may include the words or
 
phrases “can be,” “expects,” “plans,” “may,”
 
“may affect,” “may
depend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “intend,” “could,” “should,” “would,”
 
“if” and similar words and phrases that constitute “forward-
looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the
 
Securities Act of 1933,
 
as amended (the “1933 Act”), and Section 21E
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
 
as amended (the “1934 Act”). Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance
 
on these
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are
 
subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties and
 
the
Company cautions that any forward-looking information provided
 
by or on its behalf is not a guarantee of future performance.
Statements regarding the following subjects are forward-looking by their
 
nature: (a) our business strategy; (b) our projected
 
operating
results; (c) our ability to obtain external deposits or financing; (d)
 
our understanding of our competition; and (e) industry and market
trends. The Company’s actual results
 
could differ materially from those anticipated
 
by such forward-looking statements due to a
number of factors, some of which are beyond the Company’s
 
control, including, without limitation:
 
 
 
availability, terms and deployment
 
of funding and capital;
 
 
changes in our industry, interest
 
rates, the regulatory environment or the general economy resulting
 
in changes to our
business strategy;
 
the degree and nature of our competition;
 
availability and retention of qualified personnel;
 
general volatility of the capital markets;
 
the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
 
the factors set forth in the section captioned “Risk Factors” in
 
Item 1 of our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2019 and in Part II—Item 1A of this Form 10-Q.
 
Forward-looking statements apply only as of the date made and
 
the Company is not required to update forward-looking statements for
subsequent or unanticipated events or circumstances.
 
For any forward-looking statements contained in any document,
 
we claim the
protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements
 
contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
 
As
used herein, the terms “Company,”
 
“Marlin,” “Registrant,” “we,” “us” or “our” refer to Marlin Business
 
Services Corp. and its
subsidiaries.
 
 
O
VERVIEW
 
Founded in 1997, we are a nationwide provider of credit
 
products and services to small and mid-sized businesses. The products
 
and
services we provide to our customers include loans and leases for the acquisition
 
of commercial equipment (including Commercial
Vehicle
 
Group (“CVG”) assets) and working capital loans. In May 2000,
 
we established AssuranceOne, Ltd., a Bermuda-based,
wholly-owned captive insurance subsidiary (“Assurance One”),
 
which enables us to reinsure the property insurance coverage for the
equipment financed by Marlin Leasing Corporation (“MLC”) and
 
Marlin Business Bank (“MBB”) for our small business customers.
In 2008, we opened MBB, a commercial bank chartered by the State
 
of Utah and a member of the Federal Reserve System. MBB
serves as the Company’s primary
 
funding source through its issuance of Federal Deposit Insurance
 
Corporation (“FDIC”)-insured
deposits.
 
In January 2017, we completed the acquisition of Horizon Keystone Financial
 
(“HKF”), an equipment leasing company
which primarily identifies and sources lease and loan contracts
 
for investor partners for a fee, and in September 2018,
 
we completed
the acquisition of Fleet Financing Resources (“FFR”), an company
 
specializing in the leasing and financing of both new and used
commercial vehicles, with an emphasis on livery equipment and
 
other types of commercial vehicles used by small businesses.
We access our
 
end user customers primarily through origination sources consisting
 
of independent commercial equipment dealers,
various national account programs, through direct solicitation of our
 
end user customers and through relationships with select
 
lease
and loan brokers. We
 
use both a telephonic direct sales model and, for strategic larger
 
accounts, outside sales executives to market to
our origination sources and end user customers. Through these origination
 
sources, we are able to cost-effectively access end
 
user
customers while also helping our origination sources obtain financing
 
for their customers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-44-
 
We fund our
 
business primarily through the issuance of fixed and variable-rate
 
FDIC-insured deposits and money market demand
accounts raised nationally by MBB, sales of pools of leases or
 
loans, as well as, from time to time, fixed-rate asset backed
securitization transactions.
 
 
E
XECUTIVE
S
UMMARY
 
Through the third quarter, the impacts of the
 
COVID-19 pandemic continued to be experienced by our business.
 
We recognized $
 
2.7
million Net income for the third quarter,
 
returning to profitability after Net losses of $11.8
 
million and $5.9 million in the first and
second quarters of 2020, respectively.
 
For the third quarter, our provision for credit
 
losses related to the changing economic
conditions was $1.9 million, whereas we had significant reserve
 
building in the first and second quarters of 2020 related
 
to changing
economic conditions primarily resulting from the effects
 
of COVID-19 of $19.2 million and $15.5 million,
 
respectively.
 
Our third
quarter results also reflected the positive effects of
 
our cost reduction efforts, as we reduced Salary and benefits
 
expense by $2.4
million and General and administrative expenses by $1.4
 
million as compared to the third quarter of 2019.
 
We continue to
 
assess all
other aspects of our expense base in order to stabilize our
 
operations and minimize the negative impacts of the ongoing pandemic.
As has been the case since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis,
 
one primary operational priority has been working with existing
customers to protect the value of our portfolio and limiting the
 
erosion of shareholder capital. As such, we have been intentionally
operating out of a more defensive position since the pandemic
 
began. As anticipated, third quarter total sourced origination volume of
$68.5 million was well below our volume from last year due
 
to a variety of factors, which include:
 
(i) the
 
purposeful actions we took
in the second and third quarters to reduce our workforce and re-position
 
the frontend of our business; (ii) the continuing soft demand
for financing by the small business community due to challenges
 
facing many industries resulting from the continued
 
economic fallout
of COVID-19 across much of the United States;
 
and (iii) lower approval rates stemming from our tighter underwriting
 
criteria.
 
We
expect our origination volumes for the remainder of 2020
 
will be negatively impacted as the effects of the pandemic continue
 
and this
period of uncertainty continues to impact the macroeconomic
 
environment.
 
Given the ongoing health crisis in the United States, any
return to pre-pandemic levels of activity remains uncertain.
As of September 30, 2020,
 
$129.9 million of net investment, or 14.3%, have been part of our payment
 
deferral contract modification
program that was instituted in March to assist our customers who
 
have experienced difficulty from the economic impacts
 
of COVID-
19.
 
In the third quarter, we completed new modifications or
 
extended modified terms for 725 contracts totaling $25.9
 
million net
investment, bringing our total modified portfolio to $129.8
 
million, or 14.3% of our net investment at the end of the third
 
quarter.
 
As
of the end of the third quarter we have stopped taking new applications
 
for modifications, although we may consider offering
extensions in select cases as part of our loss mitigation strategies.
As of September 30, 2020 84% of our modified contracts are
 
out of the deferral period, and the current deferral period will expire
 
for
substantially all of the remaining modified contracts before
 
December 31, 2020. We
 
are closely monitoring the payment performance
of our customers as their post-deferral obligations become due.
 
Our allowance as a percent of receivables has increased for Equipment
 
Finance to 6.57% from 2.09% at December 31, 2019,
 
and
increased for Working
 
Capital to 13.06% from 3.14% at December 31,
 
2019.
 
Our total Allowance of $ 61.3 million as of September
30, 2020 incorporates all of our current judgments about the impact
 
of the COVID-19 pandemic on our portfolio.
 
We remain very
confident in the strength of our balance sheet and capital position,
 
as well as our ability to withstand any future potential losses, should
they occur. We
 
will continue to closely monitor and evaluate our capital position and potential
 
liquidity requirements as economic
conditions continue to change.
 
See further information about this estimate in “—Portfolio and
 
Asset Quality” below.
 
Through the third quarter, our employees continue
 
to work remotely, and
 
we have not experienced any significant interruption to our
operations from that transition.
 
We continue to assess how
 
to best evolve our operations and how to best serve our customers
 
in this
changing environment.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-45-
 
F
INANCE
R
ECEIVABLES
 
AND
A
SSET
Q
UALITY
 
 
The following table summarizes certain portfolio statistics for
 
the periods presented:
September 30,
June 30,
December 31,
September 30,
 
2020
2020
2019
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Finance receivables:
End of period
$
908,053
$
974,679
$
1,007,706
(1)
$
1,032,868
(1)
Average for the quarter
(1)
924,635
979,313
1,034,464
1,048,798
Origination Volume
 
- three months
(6)
67,117
65,419
218,161
181,028
Origination Volume
 
- nine months, through Sept. 30
284,117
583,785
Assets Sold - three months
4,286
1,127
114,483
85,425
Assets Sold - nine months, through Sept. 30
28,342
195,932
Leases and Loans Modified:
(3)
Payment deferral program
(2)
End of period
$
129,882
$
133,817
As a % of end of period receivables
(1)
14.3%
13.7%
Other Restructured leases and loans, end of period
$
1,035
$
1,751
$
2,668
$
2,323
Allowance for credit losses :
(4)
End of period
$
61,325
$
63,644
$
21,695
$
19,211
As a % of end of period receivables
(1)
6.75%
6.53%
2.15%
1.86%
Annualized net charge-offs
 
 
to average total finance receivables
 
(quarter)
(1)
4.54%
3.47%
3.00%
1.99%
Delinquencies, end of period:
(3)(5)
Equipment Finance and CVG:
Greater than 60 days past due, $
$
12,551
$
23,353
$
8,112
$
8,515
Greater than 60 days past due, %
1.43%
2.52%
0.86%
0.87%
Working Capital:
 
Greater than 30 days past due, $
$
777
$
1,130
$
855
$
740
Greater than 30 days past due, %
2.94%
2.68%
1.42%
1.34%
__________________
(1)
For purposes of
 
asset quality and
 
allowance calculations, the
 
effects of (i)
 
the allowance for
 
credit losses and
 
(ii) initial direct
 
costs and fees
deferred are excluded.
 
(2)
Contracts that are
 
part of our
 
Payment-deferral modification program
 
,
 
that allows for
 
either full or
 
partial payment deferral,
 
will appear in
 
our
Delinquency and Non-Accrual measures
 
based on their performance
 
against their modified terms.
 
See further discussion of
 
our Loan modification
program below.
 
(3)
No renegotiated leases
 
or loans met
 
the definition of
 
a Troubled
 
Debt Restructuring for
 
any period presented,
 
including our payment
 
deferral
modifications, as discussed further below.
(4)
The December 31, 2019 end of period allowance and %
 
of receivables were $33,603 and 3.27% after
 
the January 1, 2020 adoption of CECL.
 
See
further discussion below.
(5)
Calculated as a percentage of net investment in leases and loans.
 
(6)
Amount of originations for the three months
 
ended September 30, 2020 and June 30,
 
2020 presented above exclude $0.2 million and $4.2
 
million,
respectively, of loans originated under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
 
In the third quarter of 2020, the Company sold the PPP portfolio
and will have no continuing involvement with those receivables.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-46-
 
For three and nine-months ended September 30, 2020,
 
we have recognized $ 7.2 and $ 51.2 of provision for credit
 
losses, respectively,
primarily driven by qualitative and forecast adjustments to
 
the allowance for credit losses as a result of the economic impact
 
of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic, business shutdowns and impacts to our
 
customers, are still ongoing, and the extent
of the effects of the pandemic on our portfolio
 
depends on future developments, which are highly uncertain and are
 
difficult to predict.
 
Further, we instituted a Loan modification
 
payment deferral program, as discussed further below,
 
to give payment relief to customers
during this period.
 
Our reserve as of September 30, 2020,
 
and the qualitative and economic adjustments outlined below in our Provision
 
discussion, were
calculated referencing our historical loss experience, including loss
 
experience through the 2008 economic cycle, and our adjustments
to that experience based on our judgements about the expected
 
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Those judgements include certain
expectations
 
for the extent and timing of impacts from COVID-19 on unemployment
 
rates and business bankruptcies and are based on
our current expectations of the performance of our portfolio in
 
the current environment.
 
We may recognize
 
credit losses in excess of
our reserve, or revise our estimate of expected credit losses in
 
the future, and such amounts may be significant, based
 
on: (i) the actual
performance of our portfolio, including the performance of the modified
 
portfolio;
 
(ii) any further changes in the economic
environment; or (iii) other developments or unforeseen circumstances
 
that impact our portfolio.
Loan Modification Program.
 
In response to COVID-19, starting in mid-March 2020,
 
we instituted a payment deferral program in order to assist our small
 
-business
customers that request relief who are current under their existing
 
obligations.
 
Our COVID-19 modification program allows for up to 6
months of deferred payments.
 
The below table outlines certain data on the modified population
 
based on the net investment balance and status as of September
 
30,
2020.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-47-
 
Equip.Fin
Working
and CVG
Capital
Total
(Dollars in thousands)
Number of Modifications:
Modified leases and loans receivable
4,868
369
5,237
Resolved modifications
(2)
250
122
372
Total Program, number of contracts
5,118
491
5,609
Current Quarter Population Changes:
Q3 - New modification
$
9,157
$
286
$
9,443
Q3 - Extended modification
13,959
2,458
16,417
Last Modified in Q1 or Q2
94,556
9,466
104,022
Total Modifications, Net investment
 
receivable
$
117,672
$
12,210
$
129,882
% of total segment receivables
13.0%
46.1%
14.3%
Deferral Status:
Out of deferral
$
99,627
$
9,489
$
109,116
In deferral period - partial payment during deferral
9,535
2,721
12,256
In deferral period - full deferral of payment
8,510
8,510
Total Modifications, Net investment
 
receivable
(3)
$
117,672
$
12,210
$
129,882
Total
 
Interest income recognized on modified loans:
Third quarter of 2020
(1)
$
2,588
$
1,190
$
3,778
Second and third quarters of 2020
4,883
2,823
7,706
_________________
(1)
 
We did not account for these modifications as TDR, as allowed by interagency guidance issued in April 2020.
 
As such these loans were
not put on non-accrual upon modification.
 
The amount presented for interest income reflects total income recognized for the three months,
for any loan that was modified in the quarter.
 
(2)
 
Resolved population through September 30, 2020 includes:
 
for Equipment Finance, 230 loans paid in full and 20 charge-offs
 
with $91
thousand realized loss, and for Working Capital, 101 loans paid in full and 21 charge-offs with
 
$483 thousand realized loss.
(3)
 
Out of the deferral period represents the month in which the contract returns to its regular contract schedule for the entire month.
 
For loans
in deferral period, the deferral may either be full, with zero payment owed during the deferral period, or partial, with reduced payments
during deferral that are primarily 25%-50% of schedule, or the payment during deferral may be a nominal amount. In all cases, information
is presented with respect to the contracts’ current deferral terms as of September 30, 2020.
 
 
As of September 30, 2020, $109.1 million, or 84%,
 
of our total modified contracts are out of the deferral period,
 
and the current
deferral period will expire for substantially all of the remaining modified
 
contracts before December 31, 2020.
 
We are closely
monitoring the performance of the modified contracts as thei
 
r
 
deferral period expires.
 
As of September 30, 2020, the Company is not actively taking
 
new applications for modifications under its COVID deferral
 
program.
 
However, the Company is continuing to assess a
 
population of receivables that have prolonged industry
 
-
 
specific risk resulting from
COVID.
 
As part of our loss mitigation strategies, we may process select deferrals
 
beyond 6 months, which may be categorized as
TDRs.
 
The total receivables that are currently part of that risk assessment are
 
approximately $13
 
million net investment, and the
Company evaluated the estimate of credit loss for the population
 
separately when establishing its allowance at the end of the third
quarter.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-48-
 
Portfolio Trends
 
 
During the three months ended September 30, 2020
 
,
 
we generated 3,410 new Equipment Finance leases and loans with equipment
costs of $65.8 million, compared to 6,836 new Equipment Finance leases
 
and loans with equipment costs of $154.8
 
million generated
for the three months ended September 30, 2019. Working
 
Capital loan originations were $1.3
 
million during the three-month period
ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to $26.2 million for the three-month period ended September
 
30, 2019.
 
 
Overall, our average net investment in total finance receivables
 
for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020
 
decreased
11.8% to $924.6 million, compared
 
to $1,048.8 million for the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2019.
 
Our origination
volumes in the three months ended September 30, 2020
 
were lower than our historical norms, primarily driven by
 
decreased demand
attributable to COVID-19 related business shutdowns and other
 
macroeconomic factors, as well as our actions to reduce the workforce
in the second and third quarters of this year.
 
We expect our
 
origination volumes for the fourth quarter of 2020 will continue to
 
be
negatively impacted by these factors, and our portfolio of
 
receivables may continue to decline as long as our origination volumes
 
are
less than portfolio runoff.
 
Given the ongoing health crisis in the United States, any returns
 
to pre-pandemic levels of activity remains
uncertain.
 
The following table outlines the delinquency status of the Company’s
 
portfolio as of September 30, 2020,
 
including information on
the population of restructured contracts, and contracts with restructure
 
requests:
 
Net Investment (in thousands)
Delinquency Rate by population
30
60
90+
Current
Total
30
60
90+
Current
Total
Equipment Finance
Out of deferral period
(1)
$1,402
$1,646
$1,672
$94,905
$99,625
1.41%
1.65%
1.68%
95.26%
100%
In deferral period
371
733
16,943
18,047
2.06%
4.06%
93.88%
100%
Restructured Portfolio
1,773
2,379
1,672
111,848
117,672
1.51%
2.02%
1.42%
95.05%
100%
Non-Restructured
4,430
3,348
5,148
749,869
762,795
0.58%
0.44%
0.67%
98.31%
100%
Total
 
Equipment Finance
$6,203
$5,727
$6,820
$861,717
$880,467
0.70%
0.65%
0.77%
97.87%
100%
 
Net Investment (in thousands)
Delinquency Rate by population
15
30
60+
Current
Total
15
30
60+
Current
Total
Working Capital
 
Out of deferral period
(1)
$185
$207
$276
$8,820
$9,488
1.95%
2.18%
2.91%
92.96%
100%
In deferral period
(1)
38
65
34
2,585
2,722
1.40%
2.39%
1.25%
94.96%
100%
Restructured Portfolio
223
272
310
11,405
12,210
1.83%
2.23%
2.54%
93.40%
100%
Non-Restructured
41
127
68
14,026
14,262
0.29%
0.89%
0.48%
98.34%
100%
Total
 
Working Capital
$264
$399
$378
$25,431
$26,472
1.00%
1.51%
1.43%
96.06%
100%
_________________
(1)
 
Out of modification period represents loans that have resumed their regular payment schedule for at least 1 month prior to September 30,
2020.
 
Contracts that are part of the payment deferral modification program
 
will be reflected in our Delinquency and Non-Accrual measures
based on their performance against their modified terms.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-49-
 
Equipment Finance receivables over 30 days delinquent were
 
213 basis points as of September 30, 2020, down 177 basis points from
June 30,
 
2020, but up 86 basis points from September 30, 2019.
 
Working Capital receivables
 
over 15 days delinquent were 393 basis
points as of September 30, 2020, down 45 basis points from
 
June 30,
 
2020,
 
but up 204 basis points from September 30, 2019.
 
 
Equipment Finance leases and loans are generally charged
 
-off when they are contractually past due for 120 days or
 
more.
 
Working
Capital loans are generally charged-off at 60
 
days past due. Annualized second quarter total net charge
 
-offs were 4.54%
 
of average
total finance receivables versus 3.47%
 
in the second quarter of 2020 and 1.99%
 
a year ago.
 
 
In accordance with interagency guidance as amended in April
 
2020, as affirmed by the FASB,
 
we are not accounting for our payment-
deferral modified loans as TDRs, and we are continuing to accrue
 
interest on those loans.
 
For the three months ended September 30,
2020, we recognized total Interest income of $3.8 million on loans in our
 
COVID-19 loan modification program.
 
 
The following table summarizes non-accrual leases and loans
 
in the Company’s portfolio:
September 30,
June 30,
December 31
September 30,
2020
2020
2019
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
 
Equipment finance
$
6,345
$
9,205
$
4,256
$
3,494
 
Working capital
1,144
1,189
946
284
 
CVG
886
637
389
199
 
Total non-accrual leases
 
and loans
$
8,375
$
11,031
$
5,591
$
3,977
 
Through September 30, 2020,
 
the increase in leases and loans on non-accrual reflects the growth
 
in delinquencies in our portfolio.
 
Income recognition is discontinued on Equipment Finance leases or
 
loans, including CVG loans, when a default on monthly payment
exists for a period of 90 days or more. Income recognition resumes when
 
the lease or loan becomes less than 90 days delinquent.
 
Working Capital Loans
 
are generally placed in non-accrual status when they are
 
30 days
 
past due. The loan is removed from non-
accrual status once sufficient payments are made
 
to bring the loan current and evidence of a sustained performance
 
period as reviewed
by management.
 
The Company has no loans 90 days or more past
 
due that were still accruing interest for any of the periods
presented.
 
Portfolio Concentration.
 
 
The following table summarizes the concentrations of our portfolio
 
of net investment in leases and loans as of September 30,
 
2020 by
state and industry:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-50-
 
Top 10 Industries, by Borrower
 
SIC Code
Top 10 States
Equipment
Equipment
Finance
Working
Finance
Working
and CVG
Capital
and CVG
Capital
Medical
13.5
%
8.6
%
CA
14.1
%
10.5
%
Misc. Services
12.0
8.2
TX
11.6
11.3
Retail
10.2
13.6
FL
9.5
8.7
Construction
8.7
11.2
NY
6.9
5.8
Restaurants
7.1
7.8
NJ
4.6
7.1
Professional Services
6.6
6.3
PA
3.5
5.4
Manufacturing
5.9
9.9
GA
3.4
4.2
Transportation
5.4
3.2
IL
3.3
4.6
Trucking
4.3
2.3
NC
3.1
2.3
Automotive
3.3
6.1
MA
3.1
2.1
All Other
23.0
22.8
All Other
36.9
38.0
Total
100
%
100
%
Total
100
%
100
%
 
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been continually
 
assessing the risks to our portfolio, including consideration
 
of high-
risk industries and geographic locations that are being more significantly
 
impacted by the spread of COVID-19.
 
While we are attempting to mitigate the impact of the COVID
 
-19 pandemic on our portfolio, by tightening underwriting standards
 
for
areas of elevated risk and by assisting borrowers that have been negative
 
ly impacted, the extent of the impacts of COVID-19 on our
portfolio remains uncertain.
 
Allowance for credit losses.
 
The following table provides a rollforward of our Allowance
 
for credit loss:
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
September 30,
September 30,
 
2020
2019
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Allowance for credit losses, December 31, 2019
$
21,695
Adoption of ASU 2016-13 (CECL)
11,908
Allowance for credit losses, beginning of period
$
63,644
$
16,777
33,603
$
16,100
Provision for credit losses
7,204
7,662
51,160
17,781
Net Charge-offs:
Equipment Finance
(9,526)
(4,566)
(22,486)
(12,192)
Working Capital
(532)
(190)
(2,442)
(1,394)
CVG
(430)
(472)
(1,900)
(1,084)
 
Net Charge-offs
(10,488)
(5,228)
(26,828)
(14,670)
Realized cashflows from Residual Income
965
3,390
Allowance for credit losses, end of period
$
61,325
$
19,211
$
61,325
$
19,211
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-51-
 
The allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total finance
 
receivables increased to 6.75% as of September 30, 2020
 
,
 
from 2.15%
as of December 31, 2019.
 
This increase in reserve coverage is primarily driven by an $11.9
 
million increase from the January 1, 2020
adoption of CECL, and $36.6 million of Provision for credit
 
losses recognized as a result of qualitative and forecast adjustments
 
in the
nine-months ended September 30, 2020 as a result of the estimated
 
impact to the portfolio from the COVID-19 pandemic,
 
as discussed
further below.
 
Provision for credit
 
losses
.
 
 
The provision for credit losses recognized after the adoption
 
of CECL is primarily driven by origination volumes, offset
 
by the
reversal of the allowance for any contracts sold, plus adjustments for
 
changes in estimate each subsequent reporting period.
 
For
2020, given the wide changes in the macroeconomic environment
 
driven by COVID-19, the changes in estimate is the most
significant driver of provision.
 
In contrast, the allowance estimate recognized in 2019 under
 
the probable, incurred model was
based on the current estimate of probable net credit
 
losses inherent in the portfolio.
For the three months ended September 30, 2020 the $ 7.2
 
million provision for credit losses recognized was $ 0.5 million less
than the $ 7.7 million provision recognized for the three months ended
 
September 30, 2019.
 
Provision for the three months ended
September 30, 2020 includes $2.0 million related to COVID from updates
 
to both the economic forecast and qualitative
adjustments to incorporate timing adjustments, $4.2 million from originations,
 
and $1.0 million for other updates, primarily
driven by updating
 
the model loss curves.
 
For the nine-months ended September 30, 2020, the $ 51.2
 
million provision for credit losses recognized was $ 33.4
 
million
greater than the $ 17.8 million provision recognized for same
 
period of 2019.
 
Provision for the nine-months ended September
30, 2020 includes $36.6 million related to COVID from updates to
 
both the economic forecast and qualitative adjustments to
incorporate timing adjustments, $13.0 million from originations, and $1.
 
6
 
million for other updates, primarily driven by updating
the model loss curves.
For the Equipment Finance portfolio, our estimate of elevated
 
COVID-related losses is primarily driven by updates to a
reasonable and supportable forecast based on the modeled correlation
 
of changes in the loss experience of the our portfolio to
certain economic statistics, specifically changes in the unemployment
 
rate and changes in the number of business bankruptcies.
 
Starting in the first quarter, we are
 
using a 6-month period for applying the economic statistics due to
 
the uncertainty in the
current economic environment.
 
For Equipment Finance, we recognized forecast and qualitative adjustments
 
for the three and
nine-months ended September 30, 2020 of $2.1 million and
 
$26.5 million, respectively, related
 
to COVID based on applying the
economic forecast adjustment, and from incorporating timing
 
adjustments.
For the CVG and Working
 
Capital portfolio segments, our estimate of increased losses is based
 
on qualitative adjustments, taking
into consideration alternative scenarios to determine the Company’s
 
estimate of the probable impact of the economic shutdown.
 
For CVG, we recognized qualitative provision for the three and
 
nine-months ended September 30, 2020 of $3.7
 
million and $7.0
million, respectively.
 
For the third quarter, qualitative adjustments
 
primarily are driven by sub-segmenting a population of
 
motor
coach receivables that have prolonged industry-specific risks.
 
For both periods of 2020, the reserve includes adjustments to
incorporate economic risk. For Working
 
Capital, we recognized qualitative provision based on
 
our risk assessment of the
expected performance of this segment in the current economic
 
environment.
 
For the three ended September 30, 2020 that
includes a credit, or provision reversal, of $3.9 million related
 
to refining our risk assessment of this portfolio segment due
 
to
positive performance in the third quarter.
 
That credit brings the Working
 
Capital qualitative provision for the nine-months ended
September 30, 2020 to $3.1 million.
The qualitative and economic adjustments to our allowance take into
 
consideration information and our judgments as of
September 30, 2020,
 
and are based in part on an expectation for the extent and timing of impacts
 
from COVID-19 on
unemployment rates and business bankruptcies, and are based
 
on our current expectations of the performance of our portfolio in
the current environment.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic, and related business shutdowns, is
 
still ongoing, and the extent of the effects
of the pandemic on our portfolio depends on future developments,
 
which are highly uncertain and are difficult to predict.
 
We
may recognize credit losses in excess of our reserve, or increases to our
 
credit loss estimate, in the future, and such increases may
be significant, based on future developments.
Net Charge-offs.
 
 
Equipment Finance and TFG receivables are generally charged
 
-off when they are contractually past due for 120
 
days or more.
 
Working Capital receivables
 
are generally charged-off at 60 days past
 
due.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-52-
 
Total portfolio
 
net charge-offs for the three months ended September
 
30, 2020 were $10.5 million (4.54%)
 
of average total
finance receivables on an annualized basis), compared to
 
$8.5 million (3.47%)
 
for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, and $5.2
million (1.99%)
 
for the three months ended September 30, 2019.
 
Compared to the same quarter of the prior year,
 
the Company is
experiencing elevated net charge-offs, due
 
primarily to the economic impacts resulting from the COVID
 
-19 pandemic.
As of
 
September 30, 2020,
 
our portfolio delinquency rates have improved to 2.15% for 30+ past
 
due, compared to 3.83% at June
30, 2020, but still elevated compared to 1.27% in the same quarter
 
of 2019.
 
A large portion of our portfolio was part of the payment deferral
 
modification program, as discussed above.
 
While 84%
 
of those
contracts are back to full scheduled payment levels by September 30,
 
2020, the performance of the modified portfolio remains
uncertain.
 
We are
 
continually monitoring the performance of our portfolio and assessing
 
all related risks to ensure that our
allowance estimate is sufficient to cover the expected
 
losses from COVID-19.
 
See further discussion with the Provision above
about the risks to our reserve estimate, and discussion with Portfolio
 
Trends above about current delinquency levels.
Residual Income.
 
 
Residual income includes income from lease renewals and
 
gains and losses on the realization of residual values of leased
equipment disposed at the end of term
 
In 2019 and prior years, t
he Company had previously recognized residual income within
Fee Income in its Consolidated Statements of Operations; the
 
adoption of CECL results in any realized amounts of residual
income being captured as a component of the activity of the allowance
 
because the Company’s
 
estimate of credit losses under
CECL takes into consideration all cashflows the Company expects
 
to receive or derive from the pools of contracts.
 
 
Adoption of ASU 2016-13 / CECL.
 
 
Effective January 1, 2020, we adopted
 
new guidance for accounting for our allowance, or ASU 2016-13,
 
Financial Instruments -
Credit Losses (Topic
 
326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“CECL”).
 
CECL replaces the probable/
incurred loss model that we historically used to measure our allowance,
 
with a measurement of expected credit losses for the
contractual term of our current portfolio of loans and leases.
 
Under CECL, an allowance, or estimate of credit losses, will be
recognized immediately upon the origination of a loan or lease,
 
and will be adjusted in each subsequent reporting period.
 
This
estimate of credit losses takes into consideration all remaining cashflows
 
the Company expects to receive or derive from the pools
of contracts, including recoveries after charge-off,
 
accrued interest receivable and certain future cashflows from residual
 
assets.
 
The provision for credit losses recognized in our Consolidated
 
Statements of Operations under CECL, starting in 2020,
 
will be
primarily driven by origination volumes, offset by the reversal
 
of the allowance for any contracts sold, plus adjustments for
changes in estimate each subsequent reporting period, including adjustments
 
for economic forecasts within a reasonable and
supportable time period.
The impact of adopting CECL effective January 1,
 
2020 included a $11.9 million increase
 
to the allowance, an $8.9 million
decrease to Retained earnings and $3.0 million impact to our
 
Net deferred income tax liability.
 
See Note 2 –
Summary of
Significant Accounting Policies
, for further discussion of the adoption of this accounting standard,
 
and see Note 6 –
Allowance for
Credit Losses
, for further discussion of the Company’s
 
methodology for measuring its allowance as of the adoption
 
date.
 
Also,
see –
Executive Summary
 
and Note 13 –
Stockholders’ Equity
, for discussion of our election to delay for two-years the effect
 
of
CECL on regulatory capital, followed by a three-year phase
 
-in, or a five-year total transition.
 
Our recorded allowance reflects our current estimate of the expected
 
credit losses of all contracts currently in portfolio based on our
current assessment of information regarding the risks of our current
 
portfolio, default and collection trends, a reasonable and
supportable forecast of economic factors, qualitative adjustments based
 
on our best estimate of expected losses for certain portfolio
segments, among other internal and external factors.
 
Our allowance measurement is an estimate, is inherently uncertain,
 
and is
reassessed at each measurement date.
 
Actual performance of our portfolio and updates to other information
 
involved in our
assessment may drive changes in modeled assumptions, may
 
cause management to adjust the allowance estimate through
 
qualitative
adjustments and/or may result in actual losses that vary significantly from
 
of our current estimate.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-53-
 
R
ESULTS
 
OF
O
PERATIONS
 
 
Comparison of the Three-Month Periods Ended September
 
30, 2020 and September 30, 2019
 
 
Net income.
 
Net income of $2.7 million was reported for the three-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020,
 
resulting in diluted EPS per share of
$0.23,
 
compared to net income of $7.4 million and diluted EPS of $0.60
 
for the three-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
This
$4.7 million decrease in Net income was primarily driven by:
-
 
$6.4 million decrease in Interest and fee income, driven primarily by
 
a decline in the size of our finance receivable portfolio
;
 
 
-
 
$6.4 million decrease in gains
 
on leases and loans sold due to a decrease in assets sold resulting from
 
disruptions in the
capital markets during this current economic environment;
 
-
 
$1.9 million decrease in interest expense due to a decline in the deposit
 
balance as well as continuing reduction of long-term
debt;
 
-
 
$2.4 million decrease in Salaries and benefits, driven primarily by lower
 
Commissions, Incentives and the Company’s
proactive cost reduction measures.
 
 
Average balances
 
and net interest margin.
The following table summarizes the Company’s
 
average balances, interest income,
interest expense and average yields and rates on major
 
categories of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities
 
for the three-
month periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30,
 
2019.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-54-
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Average
Average
Average
Yields/
Average
Yields/
Balance
(1)
Interest
Rates
(2)
Balance
(1)
Interest
Rates
(2)
Interest-earning assets:
Interest-earning deposits with banks
$
165,257
$
30
0.07
%
$
135,262
$
793
2.35
%
Time Deposits
10,069
42
1.72
12,815
83
2.59
Restricted interest-earning deposits with banks
6,487
-
0.01
9,898
23
0.91
Securities available for sale
10,755
50
1.85
10,405
65
2.48
Net investment in leases
(3)
851,683
19,010
8.93
951,309
21,513
9.05
Loans receivable
(3)
72,952
3,266
17.91
97,490
5,231
21.46
 
Total
 
interest-earning assets
1,117,203
22,398
8.02
1,217,179
27,708
9.11
Non-interest-earning assets:
Cash and due from banks
5,515
5,592
Allowance for loan and lease losses
(61,470)
(17,567)
Intangible assets
6,982
7,841
Goodwill
-
6,735
Operating lease right-of-use assets
8,070
8,834
Property and equipment, net
8,580
5,006
Property tax receivables
8,949
6,924
Other assets
(4)
28,390
31,754
 
Total
 
non-interest-earning assets
5,016
55,120
 
Total
 
assets
$
1,122,219
$
1,272,299
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Certificate of Deposits
(5)
$
784,056
$
4,149
2.12
%
875,904
$
5,398
2.47
%
Money Market Deposits
(5)
51,563
38
0.30
21,664
126
2.33
Long-term borrowings
(5)
45,594
507
4.45
101,594
1,037
4.08
 
Total
 
interest-bearing liabilities
881,213
4,694
2.13
999,162
6,561
2.63
Non-interest-bearing liabilities:
Sales and property taxes payable
6,340
6,912
Operating lease liabilities
9,015
9,373
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
20,893
24,864
Net deferred income tax liability
21,865
27,711
 
Total
 
non-interest-bearing liabilities
58,113
68,860
 
Total
 
liabilities
939,326
1,068,022
Stockholders’ equity
182,893
204,277
 
Total
 
liabilities and stockholders’ equity
$
1,122,219
$
1,272,299
Net interest income
$
17,705
$
21,147
Interest rate spread
(6)
5.89
%
6.48
%
Net interest margin
(7)
6.34
%
6.95
%
Ratio of average interest-earning assets to
 
average interest-bearing liabilities
126.78
%
121.82
%
__________________
(1)
Average balances were calculated using average daily balances.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-55-
 
(2)
Annualized.
 
(3)
Average balances of
 
leases and loans
 
include non-accrual leases and
 
loans, and are presented
 
net of unearned income.
 
The average balances of
leases and loans do not include the effects of (i) the allowance for credit losses and (ii) initial direct costs and fees deferred.
 
 
(4)
Includes operating leases.
(5)
 
Includes effect of transaction
 
costs. Amortization of transaction costs
 
is on a straight-line basis,
 
resulting in an increased average
 
rate whenever
average portfolio balances are at reduced levels.
(6)
Interest rate spread represents
 
the difference between the
 
average yield on interest-earning
 
assets and the
 
average rate on interest-bearing
 
liabilities.
(7)
Net interest margin represents net interest income as an annualized percentage of average interest-earning assets.
 
 
 
 
Changes due to volume and rate.
 
The following table presents the components of the changes in net
 
interest income by volume and
rate.
 
Three Months Ended September 30, 2020 Compared To
Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
Increase (Decrease) Due To:
 
Volume
(1)
Rate
(1)
Total
(Dollars in thousands)
Interest income:
Interest-earning deposits with banks
$
144
$
(907)
$
(763)
Time Deposits
(15)
(25)
(40)
Restricted interest-earning deposits with banks
(6)
(17)
(23)
Securities available for sale
2
(17)
(15)
Net investment in leases
(2,227)
(276)
(2,503)
Loans receivable
(1,185)
(780)
(1,965)
 
Total
 
interest income
(2,165)
(3,144)
(5,309)
Interest expense:
Certificate of Deposits
(532)
(717)
(1,249)
Money Market Deposits
81
(169)
(88)
Long-term borrowings
(615)
85
(530)
 
Total
 
interest expense
(718)
(1,149)
(1,867)
Net interest income
(1,663)
(1,779)
(3,442)
 
__________________
(1)
 
Changes due to volume and rate are calculated independently for each line item presented rather than presenting vertical subtotals for the
individual volume and rate columns.
 
Changes attributable to changes in volume represent changes in average balances multiplied by the
prior period’s average rates. Changes attributable to changes in rate represent changes in average rates multiplied by the prior year’s
average balances. Changes attributable
 
to the combined impact of volume and rate have been allocated proportionately to the change due to
volume and the change due to rate.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-56-
 
Net interest and fee margin.
The following table summarizes the Company’s
 
net interest and fee income as an annualized percentage
of average total finance receivables for the three-month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019.
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Interest income
 
$
22,398
$
27,708
Fee income
 
2,803
3,869
 
Interest and fee income
 
25,201
31,577
Interest expense
 
4,694
6,561
 
Net interest and fee income
 
$
20,507
$
25,016
Average total finance receivables
(1)
$
924,635
$
1,048,798
Annualized percent of average total finance
 
receivables:
Interest income
 
9.69
%
10.57
%
Fee income
 
1.21
1.48
 
Interest and fee income
 
10.90
12.05
Interest expense
 
2.03
2.50
 
Net interest and fee margin
 
8.87
%
9.55
%
 
__________________
 
 
(1)
Total finance receivables include net investment in leases and loans.
 
For the calculations above, the effects of (i) the allowance for credit losses
and (ii) initial direct costs and fees deferred are excluded.
 
 
Net interest and fee income decreased $4.5 million, or 18.0%,
 
to $20.5 million for the three months ended September 30,
 
2020 from
$25.0 million for the three months ended September 30,
 
2019. The annualized net interest and fee margin decreased
 
68 basis points to
8.87% in the three-month period ended September 30, 2020
 
from 9.55% for the corresponding period in 2019.
 
 
Interest income, net of amortized initial direct costs and fees,
 
was $22.4 million and $27.7 million for the three-month periods
 
ended
September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
respectively. Average
 
total finance receivables decreased $124.2 million, or
 
11.8%,
 
to
$924.6 million at September 30, 2020 from $1,048.8
 
million at September 30, 2019.
 
The decrease in average total finance receivables
was primarily due to lower origination volume along with the
 
customary loan repayments and charge-offs.
 
The average yield on the
portfolio decreased 88 basis points to 9.69% from 10.57%
 
in the prior year quarter.
 
The weighted average implicit interest rate on
new finance receivables originated decreased 404 basis points
 
to 9.34% for the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2020
compared to 13.38% for the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2019.
 
That decrease was primarily driven by a shift in the mix
of originations as higher-yield Working
 
Capital originations comprised 2% of our originations for the three months
 
ended September
30, 2020, compared to 15% in 2019.
 
The reduction in Working
 
Capital volume is driven by our tightening of underwriting standards
in the third quarter in response to the uncertain macroeconomic environment
 
.
 
Given the ongoing health crisis in the United States,
especially the COVID-19 flare-ups in the south and west, any returns
 
to pre-pandemic levels of origination activity,
 
and our ability to
replenish or grow our portfolio, remains uncertain.
 
Fee income was $2.8 million and $3.9 million for the three-month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
respectively. Fee income included
 
approximately $1.0 million of net residual income for the three-month period
 
ended September 30,
2019.
 
For 2020, after the adoption of CECL, all future cashflows from the
 
Company’s pools of loans are
 
included in the measurement
of the allowance, including future cashflows from net residual
 
income.
 
Amounts of residual income are presented within the
rollforward of the Allowance, as discussed further in “—Finance
 
Receivables and Asset Quality”
 
 
Fee income also included approximately $1.7 million and $2.0
 
million in late fee income for the three-month periods ended
 
September
30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
respectively. Late fees remained
 
the largest component of fee income at 0.68% as an annualized
percentage of average total finance receivables for the three-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to 0.81% for the
three-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-57-
 
Interest expense decreased $1.9 million to $4.7 million for the
 
three-month period ended September 30, 2020 from $6.6 million
 
for the
corresponding period in 2019, primarily due to a decrease
 
of $1.2 million on lower deposit balances as well as a decrease
 
of $0.5
million due to the continuing reduction of long-term debt.
 
Interest expense, as an annualized percentage of average total finance
receivables, decreased 47 basis points to 2.03% for the three
 
-month period ended September 30, 2020,
 
from 2.50% for the
corresponding period in 2019.
 
The average balance of deposits was $835.6 million and $897.6
 
million for the three-month periods
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
respectively.
 
For the three-month period ended September 30, 2020
 
,
 
average term securitization borrowings outstanding were $45.6
 
million at a
weighted average coupon of 4.45%.
 
For the three-month period ended September 30, 2019, average term securitization
 
borrowings
outstanding were $101.6 million at a weighted average coupon
 
of 4.08%.
 
Our wholly-owned subsidiary,
 
MBB, serves as our primary funding source. MBB raises fixed
 
-rate and variable-rate FDIC-insured
deposits via the brokered certificates of deposit market, on a direct
 
basis, and through the brokered MMDA Product. At September
 
30,
2020,
 
brokered certificates of deposit represented approximately 53% of total
 
deposits, while approximately 41% of total deposits
were obtained from direct channels, and 6% were in the brokered
 
MMDA Product.
 
 
 
Gain on Sale of Leases and Loans.
 
Gain on sale of leases and loans was $ 0.1 million for the three
 
-month period ended September
30, 2020,
 
compared to $ 6.5 million for the three-month period ended
 
September 30, 2019.
 
Assets sold decreased to $4.3 million for
the three months ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to $85.4 million for the three months ended September
 
30, 2019. In the third
quarter of 2020, we continue to see a lack of buyer demand in the syndication
 
market and we retained substantially all of our
origination volume on our balance sheet.
 
Our sales for the three months ended September 30,
 
2020 consisted primarily of our PPP
Loan portfolio; we will not have continuing involvement in servicing those
 
receivables.
 
 
Our sales execution decisions, including the timing, volume and
 
frequency of such sales, depend on many factors including our
origination volumes, the characteristics of our contracts versus
 
market requirements, our current assessment of our balance
 
sheet
composition and capital levels, and current market conditions,
 
among other factors.
 
In the current slowing economy resulting from the
COVID-19 pandemic, we may have difficulty accessing
 
the capital market and may find decreased interest and ability
 
of
counterparties to purchase our contracts, or we may be unable
 
to negotiate terms acceptable to us.
 
 
Insurance premiums written and earned.
Insurance premiums written declined slightly to $ 2.1 million for the three
 
-month period
ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to $ 2.2 million for the three-month period ended September
 
30, 2019.
 
 
Other income.
 
Other income was $ 2.0 million and $ 1.7 million for the three-month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and
September 30, 2019,
 
respectively. The increase in other
 
income was primarily driven by increased insurance policy and
 
other
miscellaneous fees.
 
 
Salaries and benefits expense.
 
The following table summarizes the Company's Salary and benefits expense:
Three Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Salary, benefits and payroll
 
taxes
$
6,825
$
7,204
Incentive compensation
1,632
2,144
Commissions
58
1,549
 
Total
$
8,515
$
10,897
 
Salaries and benefits expense decreased $ 2.4 million, or
 
21.9%, to $ 8.5 million for the three-month period ended
 
September 30, 2020
from $ 10.9 million for the corresponding period in 2019
 
.
 
In June and July 2020, as part of our efforts to tighten our
 
expense base in
response COVID-19, we took steps to permanently reduce our work
 
force by approximately 80 employees, which reduced our
headcount to approximately 250 employees at the end of September,
 
down from approximately 350 employees as of September 30,
2019.
 
As such, our salary, benefits and
 
payroll tax expense was $ 0.4 million lower than the three months
 
ended September 30, 2019,
primarily driven by reduced headcount, partially offset
 
by $0.8
 
million of additional severance recognized in the third quarter of 202
 
0.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Incentive compensation decreased $ 0.5 million, driven by lower
 
recognized bonus and share-based compensation amounts driven
 
by
the Company’s operating results.
 
The decrease in Commissions for the three months ended
 
September 30, 2020 reflects a lower
amount of commission earned driven by 63% lower origination
 
volumes, along with a reduction in Commission driven by an
 
update
to our commission program structure.
 
General and administrative expense.
 
The following table summarizes General and administrative expense:
Three Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Occupancy and depreciation
$
1,483
$
1,405
Professional fees
910
861
Information technology
972
909
Marketing
162
280
Acquisition-related contingent payment fair value adjustment
(1,435)
Other G&A
2,625
2,637
 
Total
$
4,717
$
6,092
 
General and administrative expense decreased $ 1.4 million,
 
or 22.6%, to $ 4.7 million for the three months ended September 30,
 
2020
from $ 6.1 million for the corresponding period in 2019
 
.
 
The primary driver of the change was a $1.4 million reduction to
 
the fair
value of the contingent consideration earn out liability related
 
to our 2018 acquisition of the FFR business, driven by a forecasted
decrease in projected volumes, which decreases the liability for
 
estimated payments.
 
In addition, the Company recognized $0.2
million in Occupancy expense in the three months ended September
 
30, 2020 in connection with a planned facility exit.
 
General and administrative expense as an annualized percentage of average
 
total finance receivables was 2.04% for the three-month
period ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to 2.32% for the three-month period ended September 30,
 
2019.
 
balance.
 
Intangible impairment.
 
In the third quarter of 2020, driven by an update to forecasted volumes of its
 
FFR business, combined with
reductions in headcount in its salesforce, we determined we had
 
a triggering event that required us to compare the book value of
 
FFR
vendor and lender intangibles against their current fair value.
 
As a result of that analysis, we fully impaired the lender intangibles,
recognizing $1.0 million of expense.
 
The vendor intangibles were not impaired.
 
Provision for income taxes.
Income tax expense of $0.5 million was recorded for the three-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020,
compared to expense of $3.3 million for the three-month period
 
ended September 30, 2019. Our effective tax rate was 16.1
 
%
 
for the
three-month period ended September 30, 2020,
 
driven by partial recognition of prior quarter’s interim reporting
 
limitation on the
amount of tax benefits that can be recognized under Accounting Standards
 
Codification (“ASC”) 740,
Income Taxes
.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Comparison of the Nine-Month Periods Ended September
 
30, 2020 and September 30, 2019
 
 
Net income/loss.
Net loss of $15.0 million was reported for the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020, resulting in diluted loss per share of
$1.27,
 
compared to net income of $18.7 million and diluted EPS of $1.51
 
for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
This
$33.7 million decrease in Net income was primarily driven by:
 
-
 
($33.4 million) increase in Provision for credit losses, primarily driven
 
by updates to the Company’s
 
estimate, reflecting
forecasted economic conditions from COVID-19 pandemic.
 
The Company adopted CECL on January 1, 2020 which
substantially changed its methodology for measuring the estimate of credit
 
loss.
 
See further discussion of the Provision and
the change in measurement in the prior section “—
Finance Receivables and Asset Quality”;
 
 
-
 
($6.7 million)
 
impairment of Goodwill, driven by declines in the fair value of its
 
reporting unit;
 
-
 
$11.0 million decrease in gains on leases and
 
loans sold due to a decrease in assets sold resulting from the negative
 
impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on capital markets activity;
 
-
 
3.2 million benefit recognized in Income tax (benefit) from the remeasurement
 
of the federal net operating losses driven by
provisions of the CARES Act;
 
-
 
$9.1 million decrease in Salaries and benefits, driven primarily by lower
 
Commissions, Incentives and the Company’s
proactive cost reduction measures.
 
Average balances
 
and net interest margin.
The following table summarizes the Company’s
 
average balances, interest income,
interest expense and average yields and rates on major
 
categories of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities
 
for the nine-
month periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30,
 
2019.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Nine Months Ended September 30,
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Average
Average
Average
Yields/
Average
Yields/
Balance
(1)
Interest
Rates
(2)
Balance
(1)
Interest
Rates
(2)
Interest-earning assets:
Interest-earning deposits with banks
$
161,528
$
388
0.32
%
$
129,144
$
2,318
2.39
%
Time Deposits
11,942
167
1.87
11,665
216
2.47
Restricted interest-earning deposits with banks
7,189
9
0.17
13,396
81
0.81
Securities available for sale
10,671
159
1.99
10,600
207
2.60
Net investment in leases
(3)
880,571
58,515
8.86
937,494
64,004
9.10
Loans receivable
(3)
90,353
13,873
20.47
89,174
13,847
20.70
 
Total
 
interest-earning assets
1,162,254
73,111
8.39
1,191,473
80,673
9.02
Non-interest-earning assets:
Cash and due from banks
5,547
5,503
Allowance for loan and lease losses
(47,253)
(17,031)
Intangible assets
7,189
7,921
Goodwill
2,221
6,937
Operating lease right-of-use assets
8,459
6,557
Property and equipment, net
8,387
4,428
Property tax receivables
9,270
7,339
Other assets
(4)
31,276
33,137
 
Total
 
non-interest-earning assets
25,096
54,791
 
Total
 
assets
$
1,187,350
$
1,246,264
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Certificate of Deposits
(5)
$
829,792
$
13,747
2.21
%
$
834,727
$
14,887
2.38
%
Money Market Deposits
(5)
42,883
196
0.61
22,842
425
2.48
Long-term borrowings
(5)
57,434
1,859
4.32
120,834
3,619
3.99
 
Total
 
interest-bearing liabilities
930,109
15,802
2.27
978,402
18,931
2.58
Non-interest-bearing liabilities:
Sales and property taxes payable
6,435
6,835
Operating lease liabilities
9,354
8,119
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
22,079
26,452
Net deferred income tax liability
25,959
25,088
 
Total
 
non-interest-bearing liabilities
63,827
66,494
 
Total
 
liabilities
993,936
1,044,897
Stockholders’ equity
193,414
201,367
 
Total
 
liabilities and stockholders’ equity
$
1,187,350
$
1,246,264
Net interest income
$
57,309
$
61,742
Interest rate spread
(6)
6.12
%
6.44
%
Net interest margin
(7)
6.57
%
6.91
%
Ratio of average interest-earning assets to
 
average interest-bearing liabilities
124.96
%
121.78
%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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_________________
(1)
Average balances were calculated using average daily balances.
 
(2)
Annualized.
 
(3)
Average balances of leases and loans include non-accrual leases and loans, and are presented net of unearned income. The average balances of leases and
loans do not include the effects of (i) the allowance for credit losses and (ii) initial direct costs and fees deferred.
 
 
(4)
Includes operating leases.
(5)
 
Includes effect of transaction costs. Amortization
 
of transaction costs is on a
 
straight-line basis, resulting in an increased
 
average rate whenever average
portfolio balances are at reduced levels.
(6)
Interest rate spread represents the difference between the average yield on interest-earning assets and the average rate on interest-bearing liabilities.
(7)
Net interest margin represents net interest income as an annualized percentage of average interest-earning assets.
 
 
 
 
The following table presents the components of the changes in net interest
 
income by volume and rate.
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020 Compared To
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
Increase (Decrease) Due To:
 
Volume
(1)
Rate
(1)
Total
(Dollars in thousands)
Interest income:
Interest-earning deposits with banks
$
468
$
(2,398)
$
(1,930)
Time Deposits
5
(54)
(49)
Restricted interest-earning deposits with banks
(27)
(45)
(72)
Securities available for sale
1
(49)
(48)
Net investment in leases
(3,814)
(1,675)
(5,489)
Loans receivable
182
(156)
26
 
Total
 
interest income
(1,942)
(5,620)
(7,562)
Interest expense:
Certificate of Deposits
(88)
(1,052)
(1,140)
Money Market Deposits
222
(451)
(229)
Long-term borrowings
(2,032)
272
(1,760)
 
Total
 
interest expense
(902)
(2,227)
(3,129)
Net interest income
(1,489)
(2,944)
(4,433)
 
__________________
(1)
 
Changes due to volume and rate are calculated independently for each line item presented rather than presenting vertical subtotals for the individual
volume and rate columns.
 
Changes attributable to changes in volume represent changes in average balances multiplied by the prior period’s average
rates. Changes attributable to changes in rate represent changes in average rates multiplied by the prior year’s average balances. Changes attributable to
the combined impact of volume and rate have been allocated proportionately to the change due to volume and the change
 
due to rate.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Net interest and fee margin.
The following table summarizes the Company’s
 
net interest and fee income as an annualized percentage
of average total finance receivables for the nine-month periods
 
ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Interest income
 
$
73,111
$
80,673
Fee income
 
8,019
11,418
 
Interest and fee income
 
81,130
92,091
Interest expense
 
15,802
18,931
 
Net interest and fee income
 
$
65,328
$
73,160
Average total finance receivables
(1)
$
970,924
$
1,026,668
Percent of average total finance receivables:
Interest income
 
10.04
%
10.48
%
Fee income
 
1.10
1.48
 
Interest and fee income
 
11.14
11.96
Interest expense
 
2.17
2.46
 
Net interest and fee margin
 
8.97
%
9.50
%
 
__________________
 
 
(1)
Total finance receivables include net investment in leases and loans.
 
For the calculations above, the effects of (i) the allowance for credit losses and (ii)
initial direct costs and fees deferred are excluded.
 
 
Net interest and fee income decreased $7.9 million, or 10.8%,
 
to $65.3 million for the nine-month period ended September
 
30, 2020
from $73.2 million for the nine-month period ended September
 
30, 2019. The annualized net interest and fee margin decreased
 
53
basis points to 8.97% in the nine-month period ended September 30,
 
2020 from 9.50% for the corresponding period in 2019
 
.
 
 
Interest income, net of amortized initial direct costs and fees,
 
decreased $7.6 million, or 9.4%, to $73.1 million for the nine
 
-month
period ended September 30, 2020 from $80.7 million for the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2019.
 
The decrease in interest
income was principally due to a
 
decrease in average yield of 44 basis points and by a 5.4% decrease
 
in average total finance
receivables, which decreased $55.8 million to $970.9
 
million for the nine-months ended September 30, 2020 from $1,026.7
 
million for
the nine-months ended September 30, 2019.
 
The decrease in average total finance receivables was primarily due
 
to lower origination
volume along with the customary loan repayments and charge
 
-offs.
 
The weighted average implicit interest rate on new finance
receivables originated decreased 206 basis points to 10.96%
 
for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020
 
,
 
compared to
13.02% for the nine-month period ended September 30,
 
2019. That decrease was primarily driven by a shift in the mix of originations
as higher-yield Working
 
Capital originations comprised 9% of our originations for
 
the nine months ended September 30, 2020,
compared to 13% in 2019.
 
As our origination volumes have been negatively impacted by the COVID
 
-19 pandemic, our portfolio of
finance receivables and related incomes may continue to decline.
 
Any returns to normal levels of origination activity,
 
and our ability
to replenish or grow our portfolio, remains uncertain.
 
Fee income was $8.0 million and $11.4
 
for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30,
 
2019,
 
respectively.
Fee income included approximately $2.9 million of residual
 
income for the nine-month period ended September 30,
 
2019. For 2020,
after the adoption of CECL, all future cashflows from the Company’s
 
pools of loans are included in the measurement of the
allowance, including future cashflows from net residual income.
 
Amounts of residual income are presented within the rollforward of
the Allowance, as discussed further in “—Finance Receivables
 
and Asset Quality”.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Fee income also included approximately $5.6 million in late fee income
 
for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020
 
,
 
which
decreased 11.1% from $6.3 million for the nine
 
-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
Late fees remained the largest component of
fee income at 0.74% as an annualized percentage of average total
 
finance receivables for the nine-month period ended September
 
30,
2020,
 
compared to 0.85% for the nine-month period ended September 30,
 
2019.
 
Interest expense decreased $3.1 million to $15.8 million for the nine
 
-month period ended September 30, 2020 from $18.9 for the
corresponding period in 2019.
 
The decrease of $3.1 million was primarily due to a $1.5
 
million decrease in term securitization interest,
and
 
a $1.1 million decrease in interest on lower deposit balances. Interest
 
expense, as an annualized percentage of average total
finance receivables, decreased 29 basis points to 2.17%
 
for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020, from 2.46% for the
corresponding period in 2019.
 
The average balance of deposits was $872.7 million and $857.6
 
million for the nine-month periods
ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019,
 
respectively.
 
For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020,
 
average term securitization borrowings outstanding were $57.4 million at a
weighted average coupon of 4.32%.
 
For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019,
 
average term securitization borrowings
outstanding were $120.8 million at a weighted average coupon
 
of 3.99%
 
Our wholly-owned subsidiary,
 
MBB, serves as our primary funding source. MBB raises fixed
 
-rate and variable-rate FDIC-insured
deposits via the brokered certificates of deposit market, on a direct
 
basis, and through the brokered MMDA Product. At September
 
30,
2020,
 
brokered certificates of deposit represented approximately 53% of total
 
deposits, while approximately 41% of total deposits
were obtained from direct channels, and 6% were in the brokered
 
MMDA Product.
 
 
Gain on Sale of Leases and Loans.
 
Gain on sale of leases and loans was $ 2.4 million for the nine
 
-month period ended September
30, 2020,
 
compared to $ 13.4 million for the nine-month period ended
 
September 30, 2019, due to a decline in assets sold to $28.3
 
million for the nine-month period ended September 30,
 
2020 from $195.9
 
million for the same period of 2019.
 
Our sales in 2020
primarily occurred in the first quarter; for the second and third
 
quarters, we have experienced a lack of buyer demand in the
syndication market and we retained substantially all of our origination volume
 
on our balance sheet.
 
Our sales execution decisions,
including the timing, volume and frequency of such sales, depend
 
on many factors including our origination volumes, the
characteristics of our contracts versus market requirements, our
 
current assessment of our balance sheet composition and
 
capital
levels, and current market conditions, among other factors.
 
In the current slowing economy resulting from the COVID-19
 
pandemic,
we may have difficulty accessing the capital market and
 
may find decreased interest and ability of counterparties to purchase our
contracts, or we may be unable to negotiate terms acceptable
 
to us.
 
 
Insurance premiums written and earned.
Insurance premiums written and earned remained relatively consistent, at $
 
6.6 million for
the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020,
 
from $ 6.5 million for the same period of 2019.
 
 
Other income.
 
Other income was $ 11.2 million and $ 10.6
 
million for the nine-month periods ended September 30,
 
2020 and
September 30, 2019,
 
respectively. The increase in other
 
income was driven by $0.6
 
million increase in insurance policy fees.
 
 
Salaries and benefits expense.
 
The following table summarizes the Company's Salary and benefits expense:
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Salary, benefits and payroll
 
taxes
$
21,248
$
22,196
Incentive compensation
3,343
7,365
Commissions
1,111
5,256
 
Total
$
25,702
$
34,817
 
Salaries and benefits expense decreased $ 9.1 million, or
 
26.2%, to $ 25.7 million for the nine-month period ended
 
September 30,
2020 from $ 34.8 million for the corresponding period in 2019
 
.
 
In mid-April 2020, we began efforts to tighten our expense
 
base in
response COVID-19, putting approximately 120 employees on furlough.
 
In June and July 2020, we took steps to permanently reduce
our work force by approximately 80 employees, which reduced
 
our headcount to approximately 250 employees at the end of
September, down from approximately 350
 
employees as of September 30, 2019.
 
Our salary, benefits and payroll tax
 
expense was $
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-64-
 
1.0 million lower for the nine-months ended September 30,
 
2020 than for the same period
 
of 2019,
 
primarily driven by reduced
headcount from the furlough and headcount reductions,
 
partially offset by $1.3
 
million higher severance recognized in 2020 as
compared to 2019.
 
Incentive compensation decreased $ 4.1 million, driven by lower
 
recognized bonus and share-based compensation amounts driven
 
by
the Company’s operating results,
 
including reversing $0.7 million of expense associated with performance
 
-based RSU awards that are
now assessed as not probable of achievement.
 
Commissions decreased $ 4.2 million primarily driven by a 51
 
%
 
decrease in
origination volume.
 
General and administrative expense.
 
The following table summarizes General and administrative expense:
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
2020
2019
(Dollars in thousands)
Property taxes
$
6,178
$
6,273
Occupancy and depreciation
4,218
3,860
Professional fees
2,994
3,092
Information technology
2,953
2,869
Marketing
870
1,375
FDIC Insurance
1,089
380
Acquisition-related contingent payment fair value adjustment
(1,435)
Other G&A
7,302
7,665
 
Total
$
24,169
$
25,514
 
General and administrative expense of $ 24.2 million for the nine-months
 
ended September 30, 2020 was a decrease of $
 
1.3 million
from the same period in 2019. In 2020, the Company recognized
 
a $1.4 million reduction to the fair value of the contingent
consideration earn out liability related to our 2018 acquisition
 
of the FFR business, driven by a forecasted decrease in projected
volumes, which decreases the liability for estimated payments.
 
In addition, the Company recognized $0.4 million in Occupancy
expense in the nine-months ended September 30, 2020
 
in connection the planned exits of two facilities.
 
FDIC Insurance was $0.7
million lower for the nine-months ended September 30,
 
2019 due to a one-time adjustment to true-up that balance.
 
Goodwill impairment.
 
In the first quarter of 2020, driven by negative current events related
 
to the COVID-19 economic shutdown,
our market capitalization falling below book value and other
 
related impacts, we analyzed goodwill for impairment.
 
We concluded
that the implied fair value of goodwill was less than it’s
 
carrying amount, and recognized impairment equal to the entire $6.7
 
million
balance in the nine-months ended September 30, 2020
 
.
 
Intangible impairment.
 
In the third quarter of 2020, driven by an update to forecasted volumes of its
 
FFR business, combined with
reductions in headcount in its salesforce, we determined we had
 
a triggering event that required us to check the book value of FFR
vendor and lender intangibles against their current fair value.
 
As a result of that analysis, we fully impaired the lender intangibles,
recognizing $1.0 million of expense.
 
The vendor intangibles were not impaired.
 
Provision for income taxes.
Income tax benefit of 8.3 million was recorded for the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2020,
compared to expense of $6.9 million for the nine-month period
 
ended September 30, 2019.
 
 
Our effective tax rate from measuring our benefit for
 
the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was 35.6%,
 
driven by a $3.2 million
discrete benefit from certain provisions in the CARES Act that
 
allowed for remeasuring our federal net operating losses.
 
The impact to
our effective rate from that benefit was partially offset
 
by a limitation on the amount of tax benefits that can be recognized
 
in an
interim period under ASC 740.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-65-
 
L
IQUIDITY AND
C
APITAL
R
ESOURCES
 
 
Our business requires a substantial amount of liquidity and capital
 
to operate and grow. Our
 
primary liquidity need is to fund new
originations; however, we also utilize liquidity
 
for our financing needs (including our deposits and long term deposits),
 
to fund
infrastructure and technology investment, to pay dividends and
 
to pay administrative and other non-interest expenses.
 
 
As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the actual and potential impacts
 
of COVID-19 on our business and financial condition, in
the first quarter of 2020 we raised additional liquidity through the issua
 
nce of FDIC-insured deposits and we increased our borrowing
capacity at the Federal Reserve Discount Window.
 
 
We are
 
dependent upon the availability of financing from a variety of funding
 
sources to satisfy these liquidity needs. Historically,
 
we
have relied upon five principal types of external funding sources
 
for our operations:
 
 
 
FDIC-insured deposits issued by our wholly-owned subsidiary,
 
MBB;
 
 
 
borrowings under various bank facilities;
 
 
 
financing of leases and loans in various warehouse facilities (all
 
of which have since been repaid in full);
 
 
financing of leases through term note securitizations; and
 
• sale of leases and loans through our capital markets capabilities.
 
Deposits issued by MBB represent our primary funding source
 
for new originations, primarily through the issuance of FDIC insured
deposits.
 
 
MBB also offers an FDIC-insured MMDA Product
 
as another source of deposit funding. This product is offered
 
through participation
in a partner bank’s insured savings
 
account product to clients of that bank.
 
It is a brokered account with a variable interest rate,
recorded as a single deposit account at MBB. Over time, MBB
 
may offer other products and services to the Company’s
 
customer base.
MBB is a Utah state-chartered, Federal Reserve member commercial
 
bank. As such, MBB is supervised by both the Federal
 
Reserve
Bank of San Francisco and the Utah Department of Financial
 
Institutions.
 
We declared
 
a dividend of $0.14 per share on July 30, 2020.
 
The quarterly dividend was paid on August 20, 2020 to
 
shareholders of
record on the close of business on August 10, 2020
 
,
 
which resulted in a dividend payment of approximately $1.7 million.
 
It
represented the Company’s thirty
 
-sixth consecutive quarterly cash dividend.
 
 
At September 30, 2020,
 
we had approximately $25.0 million of available borrowing capacity from a federal
 
funds line of credit with a
correspondent bank in addition to available cash and cash equivalents
 
of $195.1 million. This amount excludes additional liquidity that
may be provided by the issuance of insured deposits through
 
MBB.
 
Our debt to equity ratio was 4.74 to 1 at September 30, 2020
 
and 4.26 to 1 at December 31, 2019.
 
Net cash provided by investing activities was $87.6 million for
 
the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to net
cash used in investing activities of $58.8 million for the nine
 
-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
The increase in cash from
investing activities is primarily due to a decrease of $296.6
 
million for purchases of equipment for lease contracts partially offset
 
by a
reduction of $135.9 million in proceeds from sales of leases originated
 
for investment.
 
The decrease in purchases of equipment was
driven by lower origination volumes for the nine months ended
 
September 30, 2020 compared to the corresponding period of 2019,
and the reduction in proceeds from sales was driven by lower
 
volumes of sales.
 
Net cash used financing activities was $61.7 million for the nine-month
 
period ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to net cash
provided by financing activities of $43.1 million for the nine
 
-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
The decrease in cash flows
from financing activities is primarily due to a decrease of $128.9
 
million in deposits partially offset by a decrease of $22.3
 
million of
term securitization repayments.
 
Financing activities also include transactions related to the
 
Company’s payment of dividends.
 
 
Net cash provided by operating activities was $45.0 million for
 
the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020,
 
compared to net
cash provided by operating activities of $44.5 million for
 
the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019.
 
Adjustments to reconcile
net income or loss to net cash provided by operating activities
 
including goodwill impairment, provision for credit
 
losses, changes in
deferred income tax liability and leases originated for sale and proceeds
 
thereof are discussed in detail in the notes to the Consolidated
Financial Statements.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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We expect
 
cash from operations, additional borrowings on existing and future
 
credit facilities and funds from deposits issued through
brokers, direct deposit sources,
 
and the MMDA Product to be adequate to support our operations and
 
projected growth for the next 12
months and the foreseeable future.
 
 
Total
 
Cash and Cash Equivalents.
Our objective is to maintain an adequate level of cash, investing
 
any free cash in leases and loans.
We primarily fund
 
our originations and growth using FDIC-insured deposits issued
 
through MBB. Total
 
cash and cash equivalents
available as of September 30, 2020 totaled $195.1 million, compared
 
to $123.1 million at December 31, 2019.
 
 
Time Deposits with Banks.
 
Time deposits with banks are primarily composed
 
of FDIC-insured certificates of deposits that have
original maturity dates of greater than 90 days. Generally,
 
the certificates of deposits have the ability to redeem early,
 
however, early
redemption penalties may be incurred. Total
 
time deposits as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019
 
totaled $8.5 million and
$12.9 million, respectively.
 
Restricted Interest-Earning Deposits with Banks
. As of September 30, 2020 and December 31,
 
2019,
 
we had $5.8 million and $6.9
million, respectively,
 
of cash that was classified as restricted interest-earning deposits
 
with banks. Restricted interest-earning deposits
with banks consist primarily of various trust accounts related
 
to our secured debt facilities. Therefore, these balances generally
 
decline
as the term securitization borrowings are repaid.
 
 
Borrowings.
Our primary borrowing relationship requires the pledging of
 
eligible lease and loan receivables to secure amounts
advanced. Our secured borrowings amounted to $40.0
 
million at September 30, 2020 and $76.6 million at December 31,
 
2019.
 
Information pertaining to our borrowing facilities is as follows:
 
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
As of September 30, 2020
Maximum
Maximum
Month End
Average
Weighted
Weighted
Facility
Amount
Amount
Average
Amount
Average
Unused
Amount
 
Outstanding
 
Outstanding
 
Rate
(3)
Outstanding
 
Rate
(2)
Capacity
(1)
(Dollars in thousands)
Federal funds purchased
$
25,000
$
$
%
$
%
$
25,000
Term note securitizations
(4)
71,721
69,751
4.24
%
40,031
3.77
%
Revolving line of credit
(5)
%
%
$
25,000
$
71,721
$
69,751
4.24
%
$
40,031
3.77
%
$
25,000
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(1) Does not include MBB’s
 
access to the Federal Reserve Discount Window, which is based on the amount of assets MBB chooses
 
to pledge.
Based on assets pledged at September 30, 2020, MBB had $49.3 million in unused, secured borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve Discount
Window. Additional
 
liquidity that may be provided by the issuance of insured deposits is also excluded from this table.
 
(2) Does not include transaction costs.
 
(3) Includes transaction costs.
 
(4) Our term note securitizations are one-time fundings that pay down over time without any ability for us to draw down additional amounts.
 
(5)
 
The revolving line of credit was terminated by mutual agreement with the line of credit provider in July 2020.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Federal Funds Line of Credit with Correspondent Bank
 
MBB has established a federal funds line of credit with a correspondent
 
bank. This line allows for both selling and purchasing of
federal funds. The amount that can be drawn against the line
 
is limited to $25.0 million.
 
 
Federal Reserve Discount Window
 
 
In addition, MBB has received approval to borrow from the
 
Federal Reserve Discount Window based on the
 
amount of assets MBB
chooses to pledge. MBB had $49.3 million in unused, secured
 
borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve Discount Window
 
,
 
based on
$55.0 million of net investment in leases pledged at September
 
30, 2020.
 
Term
 
Note Securitizations
On July 27, 2018 we completed a $201.7 million asset-backed
 
term securitization. It provides the company with fixed-cost borrowing
with the objective of diversifying its funding sources and is recorded
 
in long-term borrowings in the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
 
In connection with this securitization transaction, we transferred
 
leases to our bankruptcy remote special purpose wholly-owned
subsidiary (“SPE”) and issued term debt collateralized
 
by such commercial leases to institutional investors in a private securities
offering. The SPE is considered variable interest entit
 
y
 
(“VIE”) under U.S. GAAP.
 
We continue to
 
service the assets of our VIE and
retain equity and/or residual interests. Accordingly,
 
assets and related debt of the VIE is included in the accompanying
 
Consolidated
Balance Sheets.
 
At September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019
 
outstanding term securitizations amounted to $ 39.8 million and $
76.1 million, respectively and the Company was in compliance
 
with terms of the term note securitization agreement. See Note
 
10 –
Debt and Financing Arrangements in the accompanying Consolidated
 
Financial Statements for detailed information regarding of our
term note securitization
 
Bank Capital and Regulatory Oversight
 
 
We are
 
subject to regulation under the Bank Holding Company Act and we and
 
all of our subsidiaries may be subject to examination
by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank even if
 
not otherwise regulated by the Federal Reserve Board.
 
We and
MBB are also subject to comprehensive federal and state regulations dealing
 
with a wide variety of subjects, including minimum
capital standards, reserve requirements, terms on which a bank may engage
 
in transactions with its affiliates, restrictions as
 
to dividend
payments and numerous other aspects of operations.
 
These regulations generally have been adopted to protect
 
depositors and
creditors rather than shareholders.
 
 
At September 30, 2020,
 
Marlin Business Service Corp and MBB’s
 
Tier 1 leverage ratio, common equity Tier
 
1 risk-based ratio, Tier 1
risk-based capital ratio and total risk-based capital ratios exceeded
 
the requirements for well-capitalized status.
See “Management’s
 
Discussion and Analysis
 
of Financial Condition
 
and Results of Operations
 
—Executive Summary”
 
for discussion
of updates to our capital requirements driven by the termination of the CMLA Agreement
 
and driven by our election to utilize the five-
year transition related to
 
the adoption of the
 
CECL accounting standard.
 
In addition, see Note
 
13—Stockholders’ Equity in the
 
Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information
 
regarding these ratios and our levels at September 30,
 
2020.
 
Information on Stock Repurchases
 
Information on Stock Repurchases is provided in “Part II.
 
Other Information, Item 2, Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use
of Proceeds” herein.
 
Items Subsequent to September 30, 2020
 
The Company declared a dividend of 0.14 per share on October
 
29, 2020. The quarterly dividend, which is expected to result in a
dividend payment of approximately 1.7 million, is scheduled
 
to be paid on November 19, 2020 to shareholders of record on the close
of business on November 9, 2020.
 
It represents the Company’s thirty
 
-seventh consecutive quarterly cash dividend. The
 
payment of
future dividends will be subject to satisfaction of regulatory requirements
 
applicable to bank holding companies and approval by the
Company’s Board of Directors.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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MARKET INTEREST RATE
 
RISK AND SENSITIVITY
 
 
Market risk is the risk of losses arising from changes in values of financial
 
instruments. We
 
engage in transactions in the normal
course of business that expose us to market risks. We
 
attempt to mitigate such risks through prudent management practices
 
and
strategies such as attempting to match the expected cash flows of
 
our assets and liabilities.
 
We are
 
exposed to market risks associated with changes in interest rates and
 
our earnings may fluctuate with changes in interest rates.
 
The lease and loan assets we originate are almost entirely fixed
 
-rate. Accordingly, we generally
 
seek to finance these assets primarily
with fixed interest certificates of deposit issued by MBB,
 
and to a lesser extent through the variable rate MMDA Product
 
at MBB.
 
 
C
RITICAL
A
CCOUNTING
P
OLICIES
 
 
There have been no significant changes to our Critical Accounting Policies
 
as described in our Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2019,
 
other than as discussed below.
Allowance for credit losses.
 
For 2019 and prior, we maintained an allowance
 
for credit losses at an amount sufficient to absorb
 
losses inherent in our existing lease
and loan portfolios as of the reporting dates based on our estimate of probable
 
incurred net credit losses in accordance with the
Contingencies Topic
 
of the FASB ASC.
 
See further discussion of our policy under the incurred
 
model in the “Critical Accounting
Policy” section of our 2019 Form 10-K.
Effective January 1, 2020, we adopted ASU 2016
 
-13, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic
 
326): Measurement of Credit
Losses on Financial Instruments (“CECL”), which changed our
 
accounting policy and estimated allowance.
 
CECL replaces the
probable, incurred loss model with a measurement of expected
 
credit losses for the contractual term
 
of the Company’s current
portfolio of loans and leases.
 
After the adoption of CECL, an allowance, or estimate of credit
 
losses, will be recognized immediately
upon the origination of a loan or lease, and will be adjusted in each subsequent
 
reporting period
We maintain an
 
allowance for credit losses at an amount that takes into consideration
 
all future cashflows that we expect to receive or
derive from the pools of contracts, including recoveries after
 
charge-off, amounts related to initial direct cost
 
and origination costs net
of fees deferred, and certain future cashflows from residual assets.
 
A provision is charged against earnings to maintain the
 
allowance
for credit losses at the appropriate level.
 
We developed
 
a consistent, systematic methodology to measure our estimate of the credit
 
losses inherent in our current portfolio, over
the entire life of the contracts.
 
We made certain key decisions
 
that underlie our methodology,
 
including our decisions of how to
aggregate our portfolio into pools for analysis based on similar
 
risk characteristics, the selection of appropriate historical loss data
 
to
reference in the model, our selection of a model to calculate the
 
estimate, a reasonable and supportable forecast, and the length of
 
our
forecast and approach to reverting to historical loss data.
 
For our Equipment Finance segment, we determine our reasonable
 
and supportable forecast based on certain economic variables
 
that
were selected based on a statistical analysis of our own historical
 
loss experience, going back to 2004. We
 
selected unemployment rate
and changes in the number of business bankruptcies as our economic variables
 
,
 
based on an analysis of the correlation of changes in
those variables to our loss experience over time.
 
As part of our estimate of expected credit losses, specific to each
 
measurement date, management considers relevant qualitative and
quantitative factors to assess whether the historical loss experience
 
being referenced should be adjusted to better reflect the risk
characteristics of the current portfolio and the expected future
 
loss experience for the life of these contracts.
 
This assessment
incorporates all available information relevant to considering the collectability
 
of our current portfolio, including considering
economic and business conditions, default trends, changes in
 
portfolio composition, changes in lending policies and practices,
 
among
other internal and external factors.
 
Further, each measurement period we determine
 
whether to separate any loans from their current
pool for individual analysis based on their unique risk characteristics.
 
Our approach to estimating qualitative adjustments takes into
consideration all significant current information we believe appropriate
 
to reflect the changes and risks in the portfolio or environment
and involves significant judgment.
 
 
 
 
 
-69-
 
Our estimates of expected net credit losses are inherently uncertain,
 
and as a result we cannot predict with certainty the amount of
such losses. We
 
may recognize credit losses in excess of our reserve, or a significant increa
 
se to our credit loss estimate, in the future,
driven by the update of assumptions and information underlying our
 
estimate and/or driven by the actual amount of realized
 
losses.
 
Our estimate of credit losses will be revised each period
 
to reflect current information, including current forecasts of economic
conditions, changes in the risk characteristics and composition of the portfolio,
 
and emerging trends in our portfolio, among other
factors, and these updates for current information could drive
 
a significant adjustment to our reserve.
 
Further, actual credit losses may
exceed our estimated reserve, and such excess may be significant,
 
if the actual performance of our portfolio differs significantly
 
from
the current assumptions and judgements, including those underlying our
 
forecast and qualitative adjustments, as of any given
measurement date.
 
 
R
ECENTLY
I
SSUED
A
CCOUNTING
S
TANDARDS
 
 
Information on recently issued accounting pronouncements and
 
the expected impact on our financial statements is provided
 
in Note 2,
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the accompanying
 
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
 
R
ECENTLY
A
DOPTED
A
CCOUNTING
S
TANDARDS
 
 
Information on recently adopted accounting pronouncements and the expected
 
impact on our financial statements is provided in Note
2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the accompanying Notes
 
to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
 
 
 
 
 
-70-
 
Item 3. Quantitative
 
and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
 
 
The information appearing in the section captioned “Management’s
 
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
 
Results of
Operations – Market Interest Rate Risk and Sensitivity” under
 
Item 2 of Part I of this Form 10-Q is incorporated herein by reference.
 
 
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
 
 
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
 
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer
 
(“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”),
 
evaluated the
effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures
 
as of the end of the period covered by this report.
 
 
Based on that evaluation, the CEO and CFO concluded that our
 
disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period
 
covered
by this report are designed and operating effectively to
 
provide reasonable assurance that the information required
 
to be disclosed by
us in reports filed under the 1934 Act is (i) recorded, processed,
 
summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the
SEC's rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated
 
to our management, including the CEO and CFO, as appropriate
 
to
allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.
 
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
 
There were no changes in the Company’s
 
internal control over financial reporting identified
 
in connection with management’s
evaluation that occurred during the Company's third fiscal quarter
 
of 2020 that have materially affected, or
 
are reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s
 
internal control over financial reporting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
PART
 
II. Other Information
 
 
 
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
 
 
We are
 
party to various legal proceedings, which include claims and litigation arising
 
in the ordinary course of business.
 
In the
opinion of management, these actions will not have a material impact on
 
our business, financial condition,
 
results of operations or
cash flows.
 
 
 
Item 1A. Risk Factors
 
There have been no material changes in the risk factors disclosed
 
in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year
 
ended December 31, 2019,
other than as discussed below.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and measures intended to
 
prevent its spread could have a material adverse effect
 
on our
business, results of operations and financial condition, and
 
such effects will depend on future developments, which are
 
highly
uncertain and are difficult to predict.
Global health concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and
 
related government actions taken to reduce the spread of
 
the virus
have been weighing on the macroeconomic environment, and
 
the outbreak has significantly increased economic uncertainty and
 
 
 
-71-
 
reduced economic activity. The
 
pandemic has resulted in authorities implementing numerous measures
 
to try to contain the virus, such
as travel bans
 
and restrictions, quarantines, shelter in place or total
 
lock-down orders and business limitations and shutdowns. Such
measures have significantly contributed to rising unemployment
 
and negatively impacted consumer and business spending. The
United States
 
government has taken steps to attempt to mitigate some of the more
 
severe anticipated economic effects of the virus,
including the passage of the CARES Act, but there can be no
 
assurance that such steps will be effective or achieve their
 
desired results
in a timely fashion.
 
We continue to monitor
 
and evaluate newly enacted and proposed government and banking
 
regulations issued in
response to the COVID-19 pandemic; further changes in regulation that
 
impact our business or that impact our customers could
 
have a
significant impact on our future operations and business strategies.
Our operations and financial results have already been negatively
 
impacted as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, as discussed
 
further in
“Part I – Item 2. Management’s
 
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
 
Operations —Overview” and ”—
Results of Operations”.
 
The pandemic, reduction in economic activity,
 
and current business limitations and shutdowns have increased
risks to our business that include, but are not limited to:
 
Credit Risk.
 
We extend
 
credit primarily to small and mid-sized businesses, and many of
 
our customers may be particularly
susceptible to business limitations, shutdowns and possible recessions
 
and may be unable to make scheduled lease or loan
payments during these periods and may be at risk of discontinuing
 
their operations.
 
As a result, our delinquencies and credit
losses may substantially increase.
 
Our risk and exposure to future losses may be amplified to
 
the extent economic activity
remains shutdown for an extended period, or to the extent businesses
 
have limited operations or are unable to return to
normal levels of activity after the restrictions are lifted.
Our estimate of expected future credit losses recognized within our
 
allowance as of September 30, 2020 is based
 
on certain
assumptions, forecasts and estimates about the impact of current
 
economic conditions on our portfolio of receivables based
on information known as of September 30,
 
2020, including certain expectations about the extent and timing of
 
impacts from
COVID-19.
 
If those assumptions, forecasts or estimates underlying our financial statements
 
are incorrect, we may
experience significant losses as the ultimate realization of value, or
 
revisions to our estimates, may be materially different
than the amounts reflected in our consolidated statement of financial
 
position as of any particular date.
 
 
Portfolio Risk.
 
We are
 
currently experiencing a significant decrease in demand for our lease and
 
loan products as a result of
the COVID-19 pandemic, and we have limited visibility to the future
 
recovery of such demand.
 
We have shifted
 
the focus of portions of our operations and certain personnel
 
to implement specific programs and new
products in response to the pandemic.
 
In particular, we have focused efforts
 
on loan modifications and a payment deferral
program, implemented a new PPP loan product, and increased
 
customer service efforts to respond to our borrower’s
 
needs.
There can be no assurances that such efforts will be
 
successful in mitigating any risk of credit loss.
 
 
Liquidity and Capital Risk.
 
As of September 30,
 
2020, all of our capital ratios, and our subsidiary bank’s
 
capital ratios,
were in excess of all regulatory requirements.
 
While we currently have sufficient capital, our reported
 
and regulatory capital
ratios could be adversely impacted by further credit losses and
 
other COVID-19 related impacts on our operations.
 
We are
managing the evolving risks of our business while closely monitoring
 
and forecasting the potential impacts of COVID-19 on
our future operations and financial position, including capital levels.
 
However, given the uncertainty about
 
future
developments and the extent and duration of the impacts of COVID
 
-19 on our business and future operations, we face
elevated risks to our ability to forecast and estimate future capital
 
levels.
 
If we fail to meet capital requirements in the future,
our business, financial condition or results of operations may be
 
adversely affected.
 
We have historically returned
 
capital to shareholders through normal dividends, special dividends and
 
share repurchases.
There can be no assurances that these forms of capital returns are
 
the optimal use of our capital or that they will continue in
the future.
 
Operational Risk.
 
The spread of COVID-19 has caused us to modify our business practices
 
(including implementing certain
business continuity plans, and developing work from home and
 
social distancing plans for our employees), and we may take
further actions as may be required by government authorities
 
or as we determine are in the best interests of our employees,
customers and business partners.
 
We face increased
 
risk of any operational or procedural failures due to changes in our
normal business practices necessitated by the pandemic.
These factors may remain prevalent for a significant period of
 
time and may continue to adversely affect our business,
 
results of
operations and financial condition even after the COVID-19 pandemic
 
has subsided.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-72-
 
The extent to which the coronavirus pandemic impacts our business,
 
results of operations and financial condition will depend on
future developments, which are highly uncertain and are difficult
 
to predict, including, but not limited to, the duration and
 
spread of
the outbreak, its severity, the
 
actions to contain the virus or treat its impact, and how quickly
 
and to what extent normal economic and
operating conditions can resume. Even after the COVID-19
 
pandemic has subsided, we may continue to experience materially
 
adverse
impacts to our business as a result of the virus’s
 
global economic impact, including the availability of credit, adverse
 
impacts on our
liquidity and any recession that has occurred or may occur in
 
the future.
 
There are no comparable recent events that provide guidance as to
 
the effect the spread of COVID-19 as a global pandemic may
 
have,
and, as a result, the ultimate impact of the outbreak is highly
 
uncertain and subject to change. We
 
do not yet know the full extent of
the impacts on our business, our operations or the global economy
 
as a whole. However, the effects
 
could have a material impact on
our results of operations and heighten many of our known risks described
 
in the “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on
 
Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.
 
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity
 
Securities and Use of Proceeds
 
 
Information on Stock Repurchases
 
On August 1, 2019, the Company’s
 
Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase plan (the “2019
 
Repurchase Plan”) under which
the Company is authorized to repurchase up to $10 million in value of its
 
outstanding shares of common stock. This authority may be
exercised from time to time and in such amounts as market conditions
 
warrant. Any shares purchased under this plan are returned to
the status of authorized but unissued shares of common stock. The
 
repurchases may be made on the open market, in block trades or
otherwise. The stock repurchase program does not obligate the Company
 
to acquire any particular amount of common stock, and
 
it
may be suspended at any time at the Company's discretion. The repurchases
 
are funded using the Company’s
 
working capital.
 
 
The Company did not repurchase any of its common stock during the
 
three months ended September 30, 2020.
 
As of September 30,
2020,
 
the Company had $4.7 million remaining in the 2019 Repurchase Plan.
 
Pursuant to the 2014 Equity Compensation Plan, participants
 
may have shares withheld to cover income taxes. There were 18,446
shares repurchased to cover income tax withholding in connection
 
with the shares granted under the 2014 Equity Compensation Plan
during the three-month period ended September 30, 2020
 
,
 
at an average cost of $8.06 per share.
 
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
 
 
None.
 
Item 4. Mine
 
Safety Disclosures
None.
 
Item 5. Other Information
 
 
None
 
 
 
 
-73-
 
 
Item 6.
 
Exhibits
 
 
Exhibit
 
Number
 
Description
 
 
3.1
 
(1)
3.2
 
(2)
3.3
 
(3)
31.1
 
 
 
(Filed herewith)
 
31.2
 
 
 
(Filed herewith)
32.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Furnished herewith)
 
101 Financial
 
statements from
 
the Quarterly
 
Report on
 
Form 10-Q of
 
Marlin Business
 
Services Corp.
 
for the period
 
ended
September 30,
 
2020,
 
formatted in
 
XBRL: (i)
 
the Consolidated
 
Balance Sheets,
 
(ii) the Consolidated
 
Statements of
Operations, (iii)
 
the Consolidated
 
Statements of
 
Comprehensive Income,
 
(iv) the
 
Consolidated Statements
 
of
Stockholders’ Equity,
 
(v) the Consolidated
 
Statements of
 
Cash Flows
 
and (vi)
 
the Notes
 
to Unaudi
 
ted Consolidated
Financial Statements. (Submitted electronically with this report)
 
 
 
__________________
 
(1)
 
Previo
usly filed with the SEC as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 filed
on March 5, 2008, and incorporated by reference herein.
(2)
 
Previously filed with the SEC as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 20, 2016, and incorporated by
reference herein.
(3)
 
Previously filed with the SEC as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 24, 2020, and incorporated by
reference herein.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the
 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant
 
has duly caused this report to be
 
signed on its behalf
by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
MARLIN BUSINESS SERVICES CORP.
 
(Registrant)
 
By: /s/
 
Jeff Hilzinger
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
Jeff Hilzinger
 
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
 
 
By:
 
/s/ Michael R. Bogansky
 
Michael R. Bogansky
 
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice
 
 
President
 
 
(Principal Financial Officer)
 
 
 
Date:
 
October 30, 2020