Cadence Bancorporation (Exact Name of Registrant As Specified in Its Charter)
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Section 1: 10-K (10-K) UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K ☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 ☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission file number 001-38058 Cadence Bancorporation (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 47-1329858 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 2800 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 3800, Houston, Texas 77056 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (713) 871-4000 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Trading Symbol Name of each exchange on which registered Class A Common Stock CADE New York Stock Exchange Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☒ 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 the 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 Act). Yes ☐ No ☒ As of June 28, 2019, the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the voting shares of common stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant was approximately $2.6 billion. This figure is based on the closing sale price of $20.80 per share of the Registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class A common stock”) on June 28, 2019. For purposes of this calculation, the term “affiliate” refers to all executive officers and directors of the Registrant and all shareholders beneficially owning more than 10% of the Registrant’s common stock. Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date. Class A Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value 125,817,545 Class Outstanding as of February 27, 2020 DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE Portions of the Company’s Proxy Statement relating to the 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be filed within 120 days after December 31, 2019, are incorporated by reference into Part II, Item 5 and Part III, Items 10-14 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. CADENCE BANCORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES 2019 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I 3 Item 1. Business 3 Item 1A. Risk Factors 16 Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 40 Item 2. Properties 40 Item 3. Legal Proceedings 40 Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 40 PART II 41 Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities 41 Item 6. Selected Consolidated Financial Data 43 Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 47 Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 96 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 97 Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure 171 Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 171 Item 9B. Other Information 171 PART III 172 Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 172 Item 11. Executive Compensation 172 Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters 172 Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence 172 Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 172 PART IV 172 Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 172 Signatures 175 2 PART I ITEM 1. BUSINESS Company Overview Cadence Bancorporation is a financial holding company and a Delaware corporation headquartered in Houston, Texas, and is the parent company of Cadence Bank, National Association (“Cadence Bank”). Formed in 2009 by banking industry veterans, we secured $1.0 billion of capital commitments in 2010 and built our franchise on the foundation established from three successful acquisitions: Cadence Bank, in March 2011, the franchise of Superior Bank in April 2011, and Encore Bank, N.A. in July 2012. On January 1, 2019, we completed our merger with State Bank Financial Corporation (“State Bank”), the holding company for State Bank and Trust Company. Today, we are a middle-market focused commercial relationship bank providing a broad range of banking and wealth management services to businesses, high net worth individuals, business owners and retail customers through a network of 98 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. We completed our initial public offering and listing on the NYSE in April 2017 with the ticker “CADE.” As of December 31, 2019, we had $17.8 billion of assets, $13.0 billion of gross loans, $14.8 billion in deposits and $2.5 billion in shareholders’ equity. We generated $202.0 million and $166.3 million of net income for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Our Strategy Our strategy is to build a premier commercial bank primarily through organically growing our client base, using mergers and acquisitions as an opportunistic complement to our strategy. We focus on middle-market commercial lending (generally characterized as lending to businesses with annual revenues of $10 million to $500 million) and provide a broad range of banking services to businesses, high net worth individuals, business owners and retail customers. Through our experienced and motivated team of commercial relationship managers and our integrated, client-centric approach to banking, we have successfully grown our businesses. Our management team and experienced relationship managers have long-standing client relationships and operating experience in the markets we serve, and we believe these attributes will continue to position us to build market share. Further, we believe our franchise is positioned for continued growth as a result of (i) our attractive geographic footprint, (ii) our focus and ability to provide differentiated, personalized service to a wide variety of industries and clients, (iii) our stable and customer-driven deposit funding base, (iv) our veteran board of directors, management team and relationship managers, (v) our ability to realize economies of scale, (vi) our capital position and (vii) our credit and risk management processes. Leverage our Relationships and Service Capabilities to Drive Organic Growth We have previously demonstrated meaningful loan growth in our markets, driven by our client relationships and client development efforts. We believe our loan growth has been a direct result of our people and our strategy, which focuses on a client-centered, service-oriented approach. Further, we believe our relationship managers’ entrepreneurial spirit, decision-making autonomy, flexibility and market expertise offer us unique growth opportunities not available to many of our peers. We intend to leverage the quality of our team, our existing relationships and our institutional approach to building tailored banking solutions to drive deeper relationships and increase penetration in our markets. Additionally, we are dedicated to investing in our team to ensure they continue to meet our high standard of excellence, while attracting and developing early career talent that embodies our entrepreneurial spirit and drives incremental relationships and loan growth. Grow our Core Deposit Franchise The strength of our deposit franchise is derived from the relationships we have with our clients and the strong ties we have to the markets we serve. Our deposit footprint has provided, and we believe will continue to provide, primary support for our loan growth. Deposits comprise over 98% of our total funding as of December 31, 2019. Our deposit growth and funding opportunities to support our loan growth come from our commercial and public-sector relationships, in addition to our retail deposit base. An additional part of our strategy is to continue to enhance our funding sources by expanding the ways in which we serve our customers, including ongoing optimization of our product offerings, treasury management services and client service capabilities, and increased adoption of mobile and digital platforms. 3 Prudently Invest in our Business to Drive Operating Leverage and Support our Risk Management Framework We believe it is critical to prudently invest in our business in order to provide the best possible customer experience and build a scalable infrastructure that can support our growth while driving operating leverage.