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| Our credit quality remains strong |
| And most importantly, we continue to streamline delivery of customer services to provide a consistently better customer experience |
| Our asset quality continues to remain strong in the current environment |
| Despite this pressure on revenue, we remain focused on expense management and maintaining our robust capital base, strong liquidity and stable asset quality |
| While the prospective credit environment remains uncertain, we continue to be pleased with the resilience of our existing lending portfolio |
| We have reduced staff by 10% this year and our investment in technology has allowed our employees to be more productive than ever |
| We were – if you think about where we were in the second quarter and the volume within the market, we were able to take advantage of that, the volume at that point |
| And although our allowance methodology placed greater weighting on the baseline and adverse forecast, our favorable credit metrics and composition of our loan portfolio, coupled with a slight decline in our loan portfolio and a decline in our unused credit line led to a reduction of our current expected credit loss reserve |
| Despite the competition for deposits, we were able to grow the number of business accounts by 2% during the third quarter |
| Their efforts resulted in increased productivity for a reduction in redundant tasks and cost saves |
| All of our capital ratios are more than 2x higher than the regulatory defined well-capitalized levels |
| The Board and management believe that the purchase of our shares is a good investment |
| This improvement was largely driven by lower operating expenses and the release of the provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower net interest income due to the funding pressures from the competitive rate environment |
| Both our bank and holding company have capital levels that are among the highest in the banking industry |
| Our nonperforming loans remain at historically favorable levels and our underwriting standards on new production remain conservative |
| The products are working well |
| It seems like you guys have also been able to do a decent job just trimming costs around the margin |
| We were able to increase retail time deposits by $51 million |
| Our expenses have steadily declined during the course of the year |
| The number of business accounts were up 7% this year |
| Thanks and have a great day |
| Great |
| Great |
| Maintaining significant liquidity and reducing liquidity risk remain paramount when operating in the current environment |
| My management team and I have been diligent in exploring opportunities to reduce our expense base to offset some of the top line pressure |
| We continue to increase the deposit base |
| Yields on loans increased by 3 basis points to 4.21% and yield on all interest-bearing assets increased by 4 basis points to 3.97% |
| We do have one new branch coming on in the fourth quarter, which will have additional expense, but we continue to look at opportunities to reduce our expense base |
| It was nice to see this continue to come down in the quarter |
| Good morning, again |
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| The highly competitive Northern New Jersey market, coupled with sustained higher short-term interest rates has had an adverse impact on our margin and cost of funds |
| Earlier this year, we challenged our employees to further optimize our operations and we are appreciative of their contributions |
| We still expect pressure on our margin to continue due to the competition for deposits, the current rate environment and the liability-sensitive nature of our balance sheet |
| As we headed into Q3, we saw volumes kind of trend downward |
| Nonperforming assets to total assets decreased 4 basis points to 33 basis points, primarily driven by a decline in non-accrual loans |
| However, our allowance to non-accrual loans increased to 226% from 186% in the prior quarter, also due to the decline in non-accrual loans |
| I saw balances decline again |
| We expect operating expenses for the fourth quarter to be below $13 million |
| Gross loans declined by $10.8 million as amortization and payoffs outpaced new loan funding |
| The net loss for the third quarter was $1.4 million compared to net loss of $1.8 million during the prior quarter |
| Just curious, your thoughts there? Kelly Pecoraro So Justin, I think, yes, we did see a reduction in our loan balances |
| And just taking a step back, I mean in order – do you have any idea of in the current rate environment and if that kind of persists as it is right now with the inverted yield curve, which I know makes things difficult |
| We do have a little bit of additional expense |
| Quarter-over-quarter, our operating expenses declined $574,000 or 4.2% |
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