The company has earlier received preliminary approval to participate in the capital purchase program (CPP) and obtain a capital investment of up to $25.5 million from the US Treasury.
Raymond Dellerba, president and CEO of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp, said: "In deciding not to participate in the troubled asset relief program (TARP), our board of directors considered a number of factors, including the belief that the costs of capital obtainable under that program are relatively high and concerns that the Treasury Department or Congress may impose new operational requirements or restrictions, retroactively, on TARP participants that could adversely affect the company in ways that are not foreseeable or measurable, creating uncertainties that make planning for the future more difficult.
"For those reasons, a growing number of banking institutions that took TARP funds have announced that they now want to return those funds. Without acceptance of the TARP funds we continue to be a well-capitalized banking institution under federal regulatory guidelines."
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