FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This presentation
may contain statements that are not historical in nature and are
intended to be, and are hereby identified as, forward-looking statements
for purposes of the safe harbor provided by Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Forward-looking statements are those that are not historical facts.
The words “may,” “will,” “anticipate,” “should,” “would,”
“believe,” “contemplate,” “expect,” “aim,” “plan,” “estimate,”
“continue,” and “intend,” as well as other similar words and expressions
of the future, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to,
statements related to our projected growth, anticipated future financial
performance, and management’s long-term performance
goals, as well as statements relating to the anticipated effects
on results of operations and financial condition from expected developments
or events, or business and growth strategies, including anticipated
internal growth and balance sheet restructuring. These forward
-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause
our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated
in such statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but
are not limited to: the strength of the United States economy
in general and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct
operations; our ability to successfully manage interest rate
risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, and other risks inherent to our
industry; the accuracy of our financial statement estimates and assumptions,
including the estimates used for our credit loss reserve and deferred
tax asset valuation allowance; the efficiency and effectiveness
of our internal control procedures and processes; our ability to comply with
the extensive laws and regulations to which we are subject, including
the laws for each jurisdiction
where we operate; adverse changes or conditions in capital and financial
markets, including actual or potential stresses in the banking
industry; deposit attrition and the level of our uninsured deposits;
legislative or regulatory changes and changes in accounting principles,
policies, practices or guidelines, including the on-going effects
of the implementation of the Current Expected Credit Losses (“CECL”)
standard; the effects of our lack of a diversified loan portfolio and concentration
in the South Florida market, including the risks of geographic, depositor,
and industry concentrations, including our concentration in loans secured
by real estate; effects of climate change; the concentration of
ownership of our common stock; fluctuations in the price of our common
stock; our ability to fund or access the capital markets at attractive
rates and terms and manage our growth, both organic growth as
well as growth through other means, such as future acquisitions; inflation,
interest rate, unemployment rate, market, and monetary fluctuations;
impacts of international hostilities and geopolitical events; increased
competition and its effect on the pricing of our products and services
as well as our margin; the effectiveness of our risk management
strategies, including operational risks, including, but not limited
to, client, employee, or third-party fraud and security breaches;
and other risks described in this presentation and other filings we
make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
All forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of
future results, and there can be no assurance that actual results will not
differ materially from expectations. Therefore, you are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.
Further, forward-looking statements included in this presentation
are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to
update or revise any
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after
the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence
of unanticipated events, unless required to do so under the federal securities
laws. You
should also review the risk factors described in the reports USCB
Financial Holdings, Inc. filed or will file with the SEC. Non-GAAP
Financial Measures This presentation includes financial information
determined by methods other than in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). This financial information
includes certain operating performance measures. Management
has included these non-GAAP measures because it believes these
measures may provide useful supplemental information for evaluating
the Company’s expectations and underlying performance
trends. Further, management uses these measures in managing and evaluating
the Company’s business and intends to refer to them in discussions
about our operations and performance. Operating performance
measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative to
or substitute for, measures determined in accordance
with GAAP, and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP measures
that may be presented by other companies. Reconciliations of these
non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP
measures can be found in the ‘Non-GAAP Reconciliation Tables’
included in the presentation. All numbers included in this presentation
are unaudited unless otherwise noted. 2