Correspondence 0001213900-24-037588 from DELHI BANK CORP (DWNX) (CIK 0000927719) (DWNX)
DELHI BANK CORP (DWNX) (CIK 0000927719)
Date: April 30, 2024 · CIK: 0000927719 · Accession: 0001213900-24-037588
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File numbers found in text: 024-10818
Referenced dates: April 9, 2024
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124
Main St ∙ PO Box 508
Delhi,
New York 13753
(855)
413-3544
April
30, 2024
VIA
EDGAR
Division
of Corporation Finance
Office
of Finance (“Staff”)
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
100
F Street, NE
Washington,
DC 20549
Re: Delhi
Bank Corp. (the “Company”)
Post-Qualification
Amendment No. 6 to
Offering
Statement on Form 1-A (the “Post-Qualification Amendment”)
Filed
March 13, 2024
File
No. 024-10818
SEC
Letter dated April 9, 2024
Dear
Staff:
On
behalf of the Company, we submit this letter in response to comments from the Staff in its letter dated April 9, 2024 relating to the
Company’s above-captioned Post-Qualification Amendment. As noted below, we have revised the accompanying draft Offering Circular
which we plan to file as Post-Qualification Amendment No. 7 (to be dated as of the filing date) when the Staff indicates such responses
satisfy your comments. For ease of reference, we have repeated each of your comments in bold below, with our response beneath.
Risk
Factors
Our
business is subject to interest rate risk, page 3
1. Revise
this risk factor to discuss how recent changes in interest rates have impacted your business. For instance, we note that you have experienced
a significant outflow of deposits, particularly non-interest bearing deposits, which has impacted your net interest margin. We also note
that you identified an unrecognized loss on your securities portfolio.
Our
outflow in deposits in 2023 was driven primarily by the loss of a large municipal deposit and a large commercial deposit. The loss of
each deposit was related to liquidity needs of the applicable borrower and not interest rate fluctuations. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
we have added disclosure to our interest rate risk factor addressing deposit account fluctuations and impacts to our securities portfolio
related to recent changes in interest rates.
Our
Business
Lending
Activity, page 23
2. We
note your disclosure on page 24 that you engage in multi-family lending. If a material percentage
of your multi-family loans are secured by properties covered by rent-stabilization or other
provisions, revise your disclosure to provide a disaggregation of your multi-family portfolio
and the portion secured by rent-stabilized properties. Consider revising your risk factor
disclosure depending on your response.
We
acknowledge the Staff’s comment and confirm that we do not have multi-family loans secured by properties covered by rent-stabilization
or similar provisions in our loan portfolio. Therefore, we respectfully submit that revisions to our disclosures related to this topic
are not necessary.
Liquidity
Management, page 40
3. We
note your disclosure on page 33 stating that the Bank experienced a significant increase
in overnight borrowings due to the decrease in deposit balances during 2023, as well as your
disclosure on page 40 that you have an Asset/Liability Committee. Please revise your disclosures
for the following:
● Further
describe the Bank’s processes for monitoring liquidity and/or interest rate risk, including
a description of how the Bank’s corporate governance policies and procedures seek to
manage risk. For example, discuss the information provided to the Asset/Liability Committee
to manage the Bank’s interest rate risk and how it is used.
In
the “Interest Rate Management” subsection of the Management’s Discuss and Analysis (“MD&A”) section
of our Offering Circular, we disclose that the Bank has an Asset/Liability Committee. This is a management committee, which coordinates
all aspects involving Bank asset/liability management. We believe the Company’s and the Bank’s corporate governance policies
and procedures to manage risk addresses interest rate risk and liquidity management at the Bank and is appropriately tailored to the
size of the Bank from an asset, human resources and leadership perspective. Senior management continuously monitors Bank assets and liabilities,
market conditions and relevant industry reports to effectuate and benchmark the strategic and risk management plans of the Bank. We have
added disclosure to this effect to the “Interest Rate Management” subsection of the MD&A section of our Offering Circular.
● Provide
clear disclosure of the Bank’s overnight borrowings, including any terms and the interest
rate paid on the borrowings, as part of your liquidity management and their related impact
on your net interest margin.
We
acknowledge the Staff’s comment and have added the requested disclosure to the “Borrowings” subsection of the MD&A
section of the Offering Circular.
● In
regards to the decrease in deposit balances, discuss the factors driving the change and the
effects such deposit changes have on the bank’s liquidity and funding costs. For example,
disclose the types of deposits where the decrease was impacted and discuss any changes in
the overall composition (e.g., decrease in savings, increase in time, etc.) of your deposits
and how it impacts your liquidity, funding costs and net interest margin.
Please
see the disclosure added to the “Deposit Accounts” subsection of the “Business” section and the “Deposits,”
“Borrowings” and “Net Interest Income” subsections of the MD&A section of the Offering Circular.
4. Please
revise your disclosure to provide a complete discussion, including quantitative information,
of the Bank’s available sources of liquidity. As an example, consider including tabular disclosure
summarizing the total borrowing capacity by type (e.g., Federal Home Loan bank borrowings,
etc.) less borrowings outstanding to arrive at remaining capacity, and then adding in others
sources of liquidity, such as cash, securities, etc. to arrive at total available liquidity.
We
had repeated the disclosure concerning our Federal Home Loan Bank overnight borrowings in our sources of liquidity. We do not have long-term
borrowings or borrowings with correspondent banks at December 31, 2023. Disclosure about our cash and securities are available in our
financial statements and other tables in the MD&A. As an issuer that is not a public reporting company, we are not aware of a SEC
requirement for a bank holding company to aggregate all sources of liquidity on a quantitative basis in one tabular disclosure. We have
provided narrative disclosure of our sources of liquidity.
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If
a participant in your offering is required to clear its compensation arrangements with FINRA, please have FINRA advise us that it has
no objections to the compensation arrangements prior to qualification.
There
is no participant in our offering required to clear compensation arrangements with FINRA.
Please contact Abby E. Brown of Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP at (202)
457-5668 or the undersigned if you have any questions regarding this matter.
Sincerely,
/s/ Peter V. Gioffe
Peter V. Gioffe
President
cc: Abby
E. Brown, Esq., Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
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