OHIO VALLEY BANC CORP

LIQUIDITY

Liquidity relates to the Company’s ability to meet the cash demands and credit needs of its customers and is provided by the ability to readily convert assets to cash and raise funds in the marketplace. The Company manages funding and liquidity based on point-in-time metrics as well as forward-looking projections, which incorporate different sources and uses of funds under base and stress scenarios. Liquidity risk is monitored and managed by the Asset Liability Committee using a series of policy limits and key risk indicators are established to ensure risks are managed within the Company’s risk tolerance. The Company maintains a contingency funding plan that provides for liquidity stress testing, which assesses the liquidity needs under varying market conditions, time horizons and other events. The stress testing provides for ongoing monitoring of unused borrowing capacity and available sources of contingent liquidity to prepare for unexpected liquidity needs and to cover unanticipated events that could affect liquidity.

Total cash and cash equivalents, HTM securities maturing within one year, and AFS securities, which totaled $290,781, represented 21.5% of total assets at December 31, 2023 compared to $230,853 and 19.1% of total assets at December 31, 2022. This growth in liquid funds came primarily from increases in deposits, as well as increases in borrowings and net proceeds from maturities and paydowns of securities. A large portion of these dollars were used to fund the 9.8% growth in loans. Increases in deposits were largely impacted by growth in time deposits, which increased 149.6% from year-end 2022.

In addition to the on-balance sheet liquidity discussed above, the Bank has established multiple sources of funding to further enhance the Bank’s ability to meet liquidity demands. The Bank has pledged collateral to the FHLB and the FRB to establish committed borrowing lines. At December 31, 2023, the Bank could borrow an additional $88,183 from the FHLB and the borrowing line with the FRB had availability of $62,371. For each of these sources, the Bank has established an internal limit of 85% of our borrowing capacity. In addition to the committed borrowing lines, the Bank has access to several wholesale funding sources, such as, brokered CDs, a $20 million federal funds purchase limit with a correspondent bank, and the ability to bid on available funds from select deposit placement services. The Bank has established limits for each respective funding source and a collective limit on all wholesale funding sources. During 2023, the Bank mostly utilized brokered CDs and the FHLB to assist with funding loan growth. The Bank’s internal limit on brokered CDs is 10% of total assets. At December 31, 2023, the amount of brokered CDs outstanding was 4.86% of total assets, as compared to .33% at December 31, 2022. At December 31, 2023, the Bank had utilized 51.74% of our FHLB capacity, an increase from 49.58% at December 31, 2022. The collective internal limit on all wholesale funding sources is 40% of total assets. At December 31, 2023, the Bank’s total wholesale funding sources represented 14.02% of total assets. Based on the collective internal wholesale funding limit, the Bank had the capacity to borrow an additional $347 million in wholesale funds and the available funding from the respective wholesale funding sources exceeded this amount, which provides the flexibility to utilize one source more than another due to pricing or availability.

As part of performing liquidity stress tests, the Bank monitors and evaluates the exposure to uninsured deposits. Of the Company’s $1,127,136 in total deposit balances at December 31, 2023, only 32.5%, or $366,649, were deemed uninsured as per the $250 FDIC threshold. A portion of these deposits would be related to public entities, which require the Bank to pledge securities or FHLB letters of credit to cover the amount of the deposit balance that is deemed uninsured. To the extent these deposits left the Bank, the level of unpledged securities and the borrowing capacity at the FHLB would increase or could be utilized to fund the deposit outflow. The sum of current on-balance sheet liquidity and available wholesale funding sources exceeded the balance of uninsured deposits at December 31, 2023. Included in on-balance sheet liquidity are AFS securities in an unrealized loss position. Although management does not intend to sell the securities before the recovery of its cost basis, they are a contingent resource from a liquidity perspective.