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,” “could,” “ should,” “would,” “believe,” “contemplate,”
“expect,” “aim,” “plan,” “estimate,” “continue,” “seek,” and
“intend,” the negative of these terms, 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 our results of operations and financial condition from expected or potential
developments or events, or business and growth strategies, including
anticipated internal growth and potential balance sheet
restructuring. All numbers included in this presentation are unaudited
unless otherwise noted. 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 allowance for credit losses 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 the 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,
including the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill, in accounting
principles, policies, practices or guidelines, including the on-going
effects of the implementation of the Current Expected
Credit Losses (“CECL”) standard; the lack of a significantly diversified
loan portfolio and our concentration in the South Florida market,
including the risks of geographic, depositor, and industry
concentrations, including our concentration in loans secured
by real estate, in particular, commercial real estate; the 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, and market and monetary fluctuations; the
effects of potential new or increased tariffs, retaliation tariffs
and trade restrictions; the impact of international hostilities and
geopolitical events; increased competition and its effect on the pricing
of our products and services as well as our net interest rate
spread and net interest margin; the loss of key employees; 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 occurring 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. has 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 financial 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 financial measures reconciliation
tables included in this presentation. 2