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 future additional 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,
retaliatory 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 fourth-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