NAUGATUCK, Conn., June 28, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Naugatuck Valley Savings and Loan (the "Bank"), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Naugatuck Valley Financial Corporation (the "Company") (Nasdaq:NVSL), announced today that the Bank's primary federal banking regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC"), has imposed individual minimum capital requirements ("IMCRs") on the Bank effective June 4, 2013.
The IMCRs require the Bank to maintain a Tier 1 leverage capital to adjusted total assets ratio of at least 9.00% and a total risk-based capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of at least 13.00%. Before the establishment of the IMCRs, the Bank had been operating under these capital parameters by self-imposing these capital levels as part of the capital plan the Bank was required to implement under the terms of the previously disclosed January 2012 Formal Agreement between the Bank and the OCC. The Bank exceeded the IMCRs at March 31, 2013, with a Tier 1 leverage ratio of 9.85% and a total risk-based capital ratio of 16.09%.
As a source of strength to its subsidiary bank, the Company has liquid assets which the Company could contribute to the Bank to enhance the Bank's capital levels. The Company's liquid assets totaled approximately $12.6 million at March 31, 2013. If the Company had contributed those assets to the Bank as of March 31, 2013, the Bank would have had a Tier 1 leverage ratio of approximately 12.71% and a consolidated total risk-based capital ratio of approximately 20.26% at March 31, 2013.
Naugatuck Valley Financial Corporation is the holding company for Naugatuck Valley Savings and Loan. In addition to its main office in Naugatuck, the Bank operates nine other branch offices in Southwestern Connecticut. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution dedicated to serving the financial services needs of consumers and businesses within its market area.
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