Fiscal period ending 2025-12-31 versus 2024-12-31
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Liquidity and technology risks have materially escalated across multiple fronts, with new disclosures on deposit competition from stablecoins and non-banks, AI model risk, and cryptocurrency disruption collectively broadening the threat profile for this bank. Funding cost pressures are compounded by credit rating agency capital constraints and a commercial loan concentration that has ticked up to 72%. No meaningful easing offsets these additions, leaving the overall risk picture substantively worse across two to three core themes.
3 company-specific
· 4 common-mode
Company-specific changes
Revised
Added credit rating agency capital/liquidity requirements as binding constraint potentially exceeding regulatory requirements and reducing profitability. Also clarified liquidity mix shift toward lower-yielding securities reduces profitability.
Capital and liquidity requirements imposed by banking regulators and the credit rating agencies may require banks and BHCs to maintain more and higher quality capital and more and higher quality…
Revised
Concentration in higher-risk commercial loans increased from 69% to 72%, escalating credit risk exposure and potential loss severity.
I. Credit Risk We have concentrated credit exposure in commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans, and commercial leases. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 72% of our loan…
Revised
Fed rate cuts now attributed to weakening labor market, not recession prevention. FHLB haircut risk newly disclosed. Special assessment timing shifted to 2023-2024 from 2024 only.
Federal agencies’ actions to ensure stability of the U.S. economy and financial system may have costly or disruptive effects on us. The federal government’s actions can impact financial markets.…
Also disclosed — common-mode (Debt leverage refinancing ×2, AI regulatory compliance, Generative AI competition disruption)
Debt leverage refinancing
New
New disclosure of deposit competition from non-banks and stablecoins, deposit outflow risk, and funding cost pressures directly threaten liquidity and net interest margin—material for a bank.
A loss of customer deposits or an adverse change in deposit mix could increase our funding costs and/or impair our liquidity. We rely on customer deposits as a low-cost and stable source of funding.…
AI regulatory compliance
New
New disclosure of material AI risks: model flaws, regulatory uncertainty, competitive disadvantage, operational and compliance failures, reputational harm. Substantive emerging risk for financial institution.
Our development and use of AI, including through third parties, exposes us to inherent risks that may adversely impact KeyCorp. We use, and will increasingly use AI, including through third party…
Debt leverage refinancing
Revised
New deposit risk disclosure added: "loss of customer deposits or adverse change in deposit mix could increase funding costs/impair liquidity." Material for bank.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS Summary of Risk Factors The following is a summary of some of the material risks and uncertainties that could have an adverse effect on our business. • Credit Risk ◦ We have…
Generative AI competition disruption
Revised
New disclosure of cryptocurrency and distributed ledger disruption risk to core banking products and deposits—a substantive escalation of technology threat beyond prior disintermediation language.
Maintaining or increasing our market share depends upon our ability to adapt our products and services to evolving industry standards and consumer preferences, while maintaining competitive products…