Business Description

Our Company We are a bank holding company headquartered in Coral Gables, FL, with $9.8 billion in assets, $6.6 billion in loans held for investment, $7.8 billion in deposits, $938.8 million of shareholders’ equity, and $3.3 billion in assets under management and custody (“AUM”) as of December 31, 2025. We provide individuals and businesses with a comprehensive array of deposit, credit, investment, wealth management, retail banking, mortgage services and fiduciary services. We serve customers in our United States markets and select international customers. These services are offered through our main subsidiary, Amerant Bank, N.A., or the Bank, which is also headquartered in Coral Gables, FL, as well as the Bank’s securities broker-dealer, Amerant Investments Inc., or Amerant Investments. Fiduciary, investment, wealth management and mortgage services are provided by the Bank and Amerant Investments. The Bank was founded in 1979. We currently operate 23 banking centers where we offer personal and commercial banking services. The Bank’s primary markets are South Florida, where we are headquartered and operate 21 banking centers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. The Bank also operates two banking centers, and a regional headquarter office in Tampa, FL. We opened our new regional headquarters office and our new banking center in West Palm Beach, FL in April 2025, a banking center in Miami Beach, FL in September 2025, followed by the opening of our second banking center in Tampa, FL in October 2025. In July 2025, we received regulatory approval for the opening of a new banking center in St. Petersburg, FL which we currently expect to open in 2026. We also opened a new banking center in Bay Harbor Islands, FL, in January 2026. Amerant Investments is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) and a registered investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. Amerant Investments provides introductory brokerage, investment and transactions services primarily for customers of the Bank. Elant Bank & Trust Ltd. is a bank and trust company domiciled in George Town, Grand Cayman (the "Cayman Bank"). The Cayman Bank operates under a Cayman Islands Offshore Bank license, or B license, and a Trust license and is supervised by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, or CIMA. The Cayman Bank has no staff and its fiduciary services and general administration are provided by the staff of the Bank. We have no foreign offices. The Cayman Bank does not maintain any physical offices in the Cayman Islands and has a registered agent in Grand Cayman as required by applicable regulations. The Company is executing a plan for the dissolution of the Cayman Bank and, as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the Cayman Bank no longer had any trust relationships, many of which were transferred to the Bank. The dissolution of the Cayman Bank is expected to be completed in 2026 once regulatory approval from the applicable regulatory agency is received. The Company is also executing a plan to wind down Amerant Mortgage. See ‘Business Developments” for further details. Through the Bank’s subsidiary, CB Reit Holding Corporation, or REIT Hold Co., we maintain a real estate investment trust, CB Real Estate Investments, or REIT, which is taxed as a real estate investment trust. The REIT holds various of the Bank’s real estate loans, and allows the Bank to better manage the Bank’s real estate portfolio. 4 Table of Contents Our History From 1987 through December 31, 2017, we were a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mercantil Servicios Financieros, C.A., which we refer to as the “Former Parent”. On August 10, 2018, we completed our spin-off from the Former Parent, or the Spin-off. Our shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) on August 13, 2018. On December 21, 2018, we completed an initial public offering, the IPO, of 6,300,000 shares of Class A common stock. In January 2019, we sold additional shares of our Class A common stock when the underwriters in the IPO completed the partial exercise of their over-allotment option which was granted in connection with the IPO.…