Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO) risk factors, FY2025 10-K

Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, lists 26 risk factors. Against the prior year's 16: 10 new, 8 substantially reworded.

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Risk factors listed
261 groups
New this year
10vs 16 last year
Dropped
0since the prior 10-K
Substantially reworded
8of those kept
Section length
7k wordsItem 1A

What the changes say

  • The company added numerous risk factors covering quantitative modeling, regulatory compliance, emerging financial technologies, and agricultural disease outbreaks.
  • Regional reliance on agriculture and exposure to the poultry industry in Indiana and Ohio remain prominent.
  • Regulatory scrutiny regarding fee practices, consumer compliance, and debanking has expanded significantly.

What changed since the prior 10-K

New

  • New

    Quantitative Modeling Risk

    Quantitative models used to measure risk, estimate expected lifetime credit losses, and plan capital have inherent limitations and assumptions that could cause losses during market distress.

  • New

    Compliance Obligations of Bank Holding Companies and Insured Depositories

    Compliance obligations under the Bank Holding Company Act, anti-money laundering laws, and consumer protection regulations impose significant costs and restrict our growth strategies.

  • New

    Emerging Financial Technologies

    Advances in payment technologies and non-bank financial service providers could reduce demand for our traditional banking products and compress net interest margins.

  • New

    “Debanking,” Fair Access and Supervisory Expectations

    Scrutiny over account onboarding and offboarding known as debanking increases our compliance, legal, and reputational risks.

  • New

    Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Information Security Compliance

    Expanding state privacy regimes and vendor-oversight standards increase the complexity and cost of safeguarding customer information.

  • New

    Consumer Compliance, CRA Modernization, and Fair Lending

    CRA modernization and evolving fair-lending expectations may require costly operational changes and increase fair-lending risk in underwriting models.

  • New

    Payments, Fee Practices, and Operational Risk

    Regulatory scrutiny of overdraft and service charges could reduce noninterest income, while faster payment systems heighten operational and fraud risks.

  • New

    Consumer Credit Normalization and Portfolio Risk

    Normalization of consumer credit performance due to higher interest rates and inflation could increase delinquencies and charge-offs in our retail loan portfolios.

  • NewOperational Risks

    affect our business, operations and partners, consumer and business spending, including consumer spending patterns and business investment, and demand for credit

    Commercial borrowers in agriculture, food processing, and manufacturing are vulnerable to trade policies, tariffs, and supply chain disruptions.

  • NewOperational Risks

    Future widespread health emergencies, pandemics, or agricultural disease outbreaks could adversely affect economic activity, disrupt supply chains, or impair the financial condition of industries operating in our markets

    An outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu in Indiana and Ohio counties could impair the ability of our poultry industry loan customers to repay their loans.

Reworded

  • 87% rewritten

    Attraction and Retention of Key Personnel

    Removed a sentence referencing specific employee incentive programs used by the Company and the Bank.

  • 73% rewrittenOperational Risks

    Global Economic and Geopolitical Instability Trade Policy, and Inflationary Risks

    No substantive changes were made to the text of this geopolitical risk factor.

    Was: Global Economic and Geopolitical Instability and Inflationary Risks

  • 70% rewritten

    Susceptibility to Changes in Regulation

    No substantive changes were made to the text regarding susceptibility to regulation and monetary policies.

  • 67% rewritten

    Significant Competition from an Array of Financial Service Providers

    No substantive changes were made to the text regarding competition from non-bank financial service providers.

  • 59% rewritten

    Maintaining Compliance with Regulatory Capital Requirements

    Removed a sentence noting that the Company may need to raise additional capital to maintain its well-capitalized status.

  • 35% rewritten

    Interest Rate Risk with Respect to the Value of Our Securities Portfolio

    No substantive changes were made to the text regarding unrealized losses in the securities portfolio.

  • 30% rewritten

    Climate Change and Agricultural Sector Risk

    No substantive changes were made to the text regarding climate change and agricultural sector risks.

  • 26% rewrittenOperational Risks

    Potential Inadequacy of our Allowance for Credit Losses

    No substantive changes were made to the text regarding the allowance for credit losses.

All 26 risk factors

Headings as the filing states them, in filing order.

Other

  1. 01Dependence upon the Accuracy and Completeness of Information
  2. 02Our Loan Portfolio has a Large Concentration of Real Estate Loans
  3. 03Commercial Loans Make Up a Significant Portion of our Loan Portfolio
  4. 04Susceptibility to Changes in Regulation70% rewritten
  5. 05Quantitative Modeling RiskNew
  6. 06Interest Rate Risk with Respect to the Value of Our Securities Portfolio35% rewritten
  7. 07Attraction and Retention of Key Personnel87% rewritten
  8. 08Dividend Payout Restrictions
  9. 09Maintaining Compliance with Regulatory Capital Requirements59% rewritten
  10. 10Compliance Obligations of Bank Holding Companies and Insured DepositoriesNew
  11. 11Compliance with Environmental Laws
  12. 12Climate Change and Agricultural Sector Risk30% rewritten
  13. 13Significant Competition from an Array of Financial Service Providers67% rewritten
  14. 14Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing on Our Operations and Competitiveness
  15. 15Emerging Financial TechnologiesNew
  16. 16“Debanking,” Fair Access and Supervisory ExpectationsNew
  17. 17Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Information Security ComplianceNew
  18. 18Consumer Compliance, CRA Modernization, and Fair LendingNew
  19. 19Payments, Fee Practices, and Operational RiskNew
  20. 20Consumer Credit Normalization and Portfolio RiskNew

Operational Risks

  1. 21Risk of Increased Losses from Fraud
  2. 22Potential Inadequacy of our Allowance for Credit Losses26% rewritten
  3. 23Attraction of Deposits and other Short-term Funding
  4. 24Global Economic and Geopolitical Instability Trade Policy, and Inflationary Risks73% rewritten
  5. 25affect our business, operations and partners, consumer and business spending, including consumer spending patterns and business investment, and demand for creditNew
  6. 26Future widespread health emergencies, pandemics, or agricultural disease outbreaks could adversely affect economic activity, disrupt supply chains, or impair the financial condition of industries operating in our marketsNew

Other Farmers & Merchants Bancorp 10-Ks

  • FY2024 10-K risk factors
    16 risks

    Portfolio concentration in real estate and agricultural loans across Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan creates regional economic exposure. Rapid interest rate increases over the prior two fiscal years have significantly reduced the trading value of previously issued fixed-income securities. Dependence on customer deposits for short-term funding creates liquidity and interest rate risks.

    Filed Feb 26, 2025

About this page

The headings are the filing's own. The one-line readings and the overview are automated and can be wrong: read Item 1A of the 10-K for the exact wording.