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“In response to inflation and its effects on U.S. business and consumers, the Federal Reserve Board implemented a series of eleven interest rate increases beginning in March 2022. However, in response to recent slowing inflation, beginning in September 2024, the Federal Reserve Board reduced interest rates six times through December 2025. Future economic developments and the Federal Reserve Board’s policies in response, however, cannot be predicted with certainty. At this time, it is unknown how future action by the Federal Reserve Board involving monetary policies will affect our business and …”

“The impacts of public health crises, including national or international pandemics, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.”

“Our operations and those of our customers and third-party service providers may be adversely affected by the widespread outbreak of contagious disease and other public health emergencies. Such events can disrupt U.S. and global supply chains and alter business and economic conditions; lower equity market valuations; create significant volatility and disruption in financial markets; influence interest-rate and yields on U.S. Treasury securities; result in ratings downgrades, credit deterioration, and defaults in many industries; increase demands on capital and liquidity; elevate unemployment le…”

“The extent to which any future outbreaks of contagious disease or other public health emergencies may impact general economic and business conditions is highly uncertain and unpredictable. As part of these uncertainties, we could be subject to a number of risks, any of which could have a material, adverse effect on our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations, and ability to execute our growth strategy. These risks include, but are not limited to, increased loan losses or other impairments in our loan portfolios and increases in our allowance for loan losses; further vol…”

“If our assumptions are incorrect, our current allowance may be insufficient to absorb future loan losses, and we may determine that increased loan loss reserves may be needed to respond to different economic conditions or adverse developments in our loan portfolio. When there is an economic downturn, it is more difficult for us to estimate the losses that we will experience in our loan portfolio. In addition, federal and state regulators periodically review our allowance for credit losses and may require us to increase our allowance for credit losses or recognize further loan charge-offs based…”