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Affordable Housing Partnership, Tax Credit and Community Reinvestment Act Investments, Net (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Investments in Qualified Affordable Housing Partnerships, Tax Credit and Other Investments, Net and Variable Interest Entities [Abstract] |
Schedule of Affordable Housing, Tax Credit and CRA Investments, Net and Related Unfunded Commitments | The following table presents the investments and unfunded commitments of the Company’s affordable housing partnership, tax credit, and CRA investments, net as of December 31, 2025 and 2024:
|  | December 31,
|  | 2025 |  | 2024
($ in thousands) |  | Assets |  | Liabilities - Unfunded Commitments (1) |  | Assets |  | Liabilities - Unfunded Commitments (1)
PAM: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Affordable housing partnership investments |  | $ | 483,021 |  |  | $ | 172,343 |  |  | $ | 500,217 |  |  | $ | 280,919 |
Tax credit and CRA investments |  | 140,723 |  |  | 43,878 |  |  | 160,429 |  |  | 21,202 |
Equity method of accounting and other: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tax credits and CRA investments |  | 345,748 |  | (2) | 121,275 |  |  | 265,994 |  | (2) | 105,743 |
Total |  | $ | 969,492 |  |  | $ | 337,496 |  |  | $ | 926,640 |  |  | $ | 407,864 |
(1)Included in Accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheet. (2)Includes $37 million and $29 million of equity securities without readily determinable fair values as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Schedule of Additional Information related to the Affordable Housing, Tax Credit and CRA Investments, Net | The following table presents additional information related to the investments in affordable housing partnership, tax credit and CRA investments for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |  |  |
($ in thousands) |  | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  |  |  |  |
Tax credits and benefits (1): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
PAM: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Affordable housing partnership investments |  | $ | 87,214 |  |  | $ | 70,335 |  |  | $ | 60,939 |  |  |  |  |  |
Tax credit and CRA investments |  | 111,906 |  |  | 110,260 |  |  | — |  |  |  |  |  |
Equity method of accounting and other: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tax credit and CRA investments |  | 119,098 |  |  | 64,720 |  |  | 124,433 |  |  |  |  |  |
Total tax credits and benefits |  | $ | 318,218 |  |  | $ | 245,315 |  |  | $ | 185,372 |  |  |  |  |  |
Amortization (2): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
PAM: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Affordable housing partnership investments (3) |  | $ | 60,078 |  |  | $ | 46,113 |  |  | $ | 43,041 |  |  |  |  |  |
Tax credit and CRA investments (4) |  | 88,883 |  |  | 90,113 |  |  | — |  |  |  |  |  |
Equity method of accounting and other: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tax credit and CRA investments (5) (6) |  | 74,795 |  |  | 54,242 |  |  | 120,299 |  |  |  |  |  |
Total amortization |  | $ | 223,756 |  |  | $ | 190,468 |  |  | $ | 163,340 |  |  |  |  |  |
(1)Include s purchased tax credits and was recorded in Income tax expense on the Consolidated Statement of Income for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. (2)Amortization of investments in affordable housing partnership, tax credit and CRA investments is included in Depreciation, amortization, and accretion, net on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. (3)Amortization related to investments in qualified affordable housing partnerships under PAM was recorded in Income tax expense on the Consolidated Statement of Income for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. (4)Following the adoption of ASU 2023-02 on January 1, 2024, amortization related to qualifying tax credit investments under PAM was recorded in Income tax expense on the Consolidated Statement of Income for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. (5)Amortization related to tax credit and CRA investments was recognized in Amortization of tax credit and CRA investments as part of noninterest expense on the Consolidated Statement Income for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. (6)Includes impairment charges of $1 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, and net impairment recoveries of $1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The activity was primarily related to historic tax credits.
Schedule of Unfunded Commitments Related to Investments in Qualified Affordable Housing Partnerships, Tax Credit and Other Investments, Estimated to be Funded | As of December 31, 2025, the Company’s unfunded commitments related to investments in affordable housing partnership, tax credit and CRA investments, net are estimated to be funded as follows:
($ in thousands) |  | Amount
2026 |  | $ | 279,856 |
2027 |  | 43,982 |
2028 |  | 6,034 |
2029 |  | 1,440 |
2030 |  | 1,931 |
Thereafter |  | 4,253 |
Total |  | $ | 337,496 |

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