← Back to HOPE filing summaryOriginal filing text · Part I
Item 3 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Hope Bancorp, Inc. · 10-Q · Q2 FY2026 · Period ended Jun 30, 2026
View complete filing on SEC EDGAR ↗This is the extracted source text from the SEC filing. Formatting may differ from the original document.
Market risk is the risk that movements in market risk factors, including interest rates, foreign exchange rates, equity prices, commodity prices, credit spreads, and volatilities, will negatively impact the Company’s income and the value of its portfolios. The Company is exposed to market risk as a result of its core business of extending loans and acquiring deposits, and secondarily through its asset and liability management activities. The Company’s asset and liability management activities are intended to optimize earnings while maintaining safety and soundness through proper risk management.
Interest Rate Risk
Interest rate risk is the most significant market risk impacting the Company. Interest rate risk, which is inherent in the banking industry, is measured by potential changes in net interest income (“NII”) and the economic value of equity (“EVE”). The primary forms of interest rate risk consist of repricing risk, basis risk, yield curve risk, and options risk.
•Repricing Risk: The risk that interest rate sensitive assets and liabilities do not reprice simultaneously and/or in equal volumes.
•Basis Risk: The risk that different indices with the same repricing frequency do not move in unison due to asymmetrical changes in interest rate indices.
•Yield Curve Risk: The risk from non-parallel changes in the slope of the yield curve.
•Options Risk: The risk that cash flows change due to embedded options (e.g., prepayment / extension, call options, deposit runoff, time deposit early withdrawal).
The Company’s interest rate risk management is governed by policies reviewed and approved annually by the Board of Directors. The Board delegates responsibility for interest rate risk management to the Board Risk Committee and to the Asset and Liability Management Committee (“ALM”), which is composed of the Bank’s senior executives and other designated officers.
The fundamental objective of the ALM is to manage exposure to interest rate fluctuations while maintaining adequate levels of liquidity and capital. ALM meets regularly to monitor the Company’s interest rate risk, balance sheet activities, on- and off-balance sheet composition, earnings, capital, and market trends. Overall, the Company aims to reduce the sensitivity of earnings to interest rate fluctuations. Certain assets and liabilities, however, may react in different degrees to changes in market interest rates. Furthermore, interest rates on certain types of assets and liabilities may fluctuate prior to changes in market interest rates, while interest rates on other types of assets and liabilities may lag behind changes in market interest rates. The expected maturities of various assets or liabilities may shorten or lengthen as interest rates change. Management considers the anticipated effects of these factors when implementing interest rate risk management objectives.
The Company’s interest rate risk sensitivity simulations apply various behavior models and assumptions to account for customer tendencies stemming from interest rate risk changes. The key behavior models and assumptions incorporated in the EVE and NII simulations impact deposit pricing, deposit runoff, time deposit early withdrawal, and prepayments on loans and investments. The deposit pricing model is one of the most significant of these assumptions and determines to what degree our deposit rates change when benchmark interest rates change. The deposit runoff model reflects the increased attrition rate observed in noninterest bearing deposits in higher rate scenarios as customers migrate to interest bearing deposits and/or alternative investments. The time deposit early withdrawal model incorporates the customer’s ability to terminate time deposits early and reinvest at higher rates. The prepayment models applied to loans and investments reflect the incentive borrowers have to refinance when market rates are low while conversely slowing down their payments in higher rate environments. Each of the models and assumptions are tailored to the specific interest rate environment and validated on a regular basis. However, assumptions and models are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ from those derived in simulation analysis for multiple reasons, which may include actual balance sheet composition differences, timing, magnitude and frequency of interest rate changes, deviations from projected customer behavioral assumptions, and changes in market conditions or management strategies.
84
Net Interest Income Sensitivity Simulation
Net interest income sensitivity simulations are used by management to measure the risk and impact to earnings over various time horizons, using a variety of interest rate scenarios. The following table presents the Company’s net interest income sensitivity profile over a gradual 12-month “ramp” scenario applied to the base implied forward curve. The “ramp” scenario is a parallel shift applied gradually over the 12 months of the forecast on a pro rata basis. The scenarios are applied to an adjusted balance sheet that incorporates assumptions related to asset prepayments, time deposit withdrawal speeds, noninterest bearing deposit migration, and estimated deposit betas; these assumptions differ in rising or falling interest rate scenarios and are anchored in historical performance. Deposit betas represent the change in the rates paid on deposits against a change in benchmark interest indices. The net interest income simulation model does not represent a forecast of the Company’s net interest income but is a tool utilized to assess the impact of changing market interest rates across a range of market interest rate environments.
The following table presents the Company’s net interest income sensitivity related to a 12-month parallel ramp of 100, 200 and 300 bps applied in year 1 on implied forward market interest rates as of June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2025, on a balance sheet assuming static balances on assets and liabilities with deposit balances modeled to migrate from noninterest bearing deposits to interest bearing deposits as rates move.
Net Interest Income Sensitivity Interest Rate Change (basis points)
(300) (200) (100) + 100 + 200 + 300
June 30, 2026 (8.3)% (5.8)% (3.1)% 3.3% 6.5% 9.9%
June 30, 2025 (5.7)% (4.0)% (2.0)% 1.9% 4.0% 5.8%
The year-over-year changes in the modeled net interest income sensitivity profile are primarily driven by more stable projected DDA balances along with changes in the mix of CRE loans (more floating rate loans) partially offset by the termination of the receive float interest rate swap portfolio during the second quarter of 2026.
Economic Value of Equity Sensitivity
EVE is used by management to measure the impact of interest rate changes on the net present value of assets and liabilities, including off-balance sheet instruments. EVE estimates the risk exposure for a longer time horizon, or more specifically, the expected life of the current balance sheet, complementing net interest income sensitivity simulations. EVE does not incorporate any assumptions related to new originations or renewal activities used in the net interest income sensitivity analysis. The following table presents the Company’s EVE profile applied to immediate parallel shock scenarios.
Economic Value of Equity Sensitivity Interest Rate Change (basis points)
(300) (200) (100) + 100 + 200 + 300
June 30, 2026 2.6% 3.9% 2.8% (3.5)% (7.6)% (12.2)%
June 30, 2025 6.7% 6.6% 4.2% (5.0)% (10.6)% (16.6)%
The year-over-year changes in the EVE profile were primarily driven by the reduction of the investment portfolio, along with the shortening of the duration of the CRE and mortgage loans due to an increase in floating-rate and hybrid-rate loan originations. These changes were partially offset by the termination of the receive float interest rate swap portfolio during the second quarter of 2026.
85