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| Our improved third quarter results reflect meaningful progress that we made to reposition our balance sheet out of borrowings and securities and into deposits and cash to expand our net interest margin, increase our liquidity diversification and improve our interest-free risk position |
| We generated 16% sequential growth in net income while maintaining comparable loan balances, strong credit quality and well-managed expenses |
| We further strengthened our core deposit franchise during the quarter by engaging new customers and deepening ties with existing clients through exceptional service and our local market expertise |
| These efforts led to strong deposit growth for the second consecutive quarter, including growth and non-interest-bearing deposits which continue to represent 48% of our total deposits |
| We continue to work hard at improving our net interest margin by executing on our balance sheet initiatives, which not only include raising deposits and building our loan pipeline, but also reallocating part of our investment portfolio to cash and applying fair value hedges to other securities |
| Those actions enabled us to expand net interest margin by 3 basis points from the second quarter |
| We've been successful in paying down those borrowings |
| So, it's been very encouraging |
| However, our loan pipelines have expanded meaningfully and fourth-quarter loan production is shaping up to be strong, particularly in the area of commercial and industrial where we are seeing a nice diversity of attractive opportunities |
| We generate a momentum in the third quarter that has continued into the fourth quarter and since quarter end have funded or approved for funding amounts exceeding Q3 total originations |
| And so, we continue to benefit from that |
| We believe his growing team is well positioned to drive further momentum late this year and moving into the new year |
| We've benefited across the bank and the different divisions from some of the disruption in the market and been able to hire some really good people |
| We believe that this will help the bank generate improved profitability, continue robust earnings-generated capital and strong returns on behalf of our shareholders |
| Critically, as we pursue growth, we remain focused on prudent risk management and strong credit quality that reflects our consistent underwriting standards and customer selection across cycles |
| I mean, it was another good quarter of deposit growth |
| This is enabling our lending teams to build a strong pipeline that we believe will lead to loan growth, increased interest income and ongoing margin and earnings improvement |
| In summary, we made important progress on both sides of our balance sheet in the third quarter and continue to make headway as we position the bank for improved profitability in the quarters ahead |
| We also proactively managed our balance sheet enabling us to expand our net interest margin in the quarter |
| We continue to believe that our emphasis on the fundamentals of relationship banking and risk management, combined with our strong liquidity and capital will continue to serve our customers and shareholders well across all interest rate and economic cycles |
| All capital levels remain strong and meaningfully above well-capitalized regulatory requirements |
| Importantly, with new commercial-client relationships comes the potential for fee-based opportunities and new deposits |
| And so, if we get that loan growth on top of what Tani mentioned, we're optimistic we can continue to show that expansion barring any unforeseen circumstances there |
| And you guys have been, you've done a great job managing the balance sheet |
| The efficiency ratio improved to 72.96% from 76.91% in the prior quarter due to both higher net interest income and lower non-interest expenses |
| But I think - the behavioral attributes that have allowed us to be successful should continue, and that ultimately leads to treasury management fee income growth that adds to lending opportunities, its behavior we want to continue I just think it will continue to decelerate |
| We are continuing to benefit from what happened with some of the banks that were taken over, but we're also getting accounts from just other large banks |
| But all those deals got good sponsorship and decent loan to values in some cases, excellent loan to values, which gives us flexibility for time |
| Our total risk-based capital improved to 16.6% and 16.1% for Bancorp and the Bank respectively during the quarter |
| Very good |
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| We're actually seeing some - there is weakness in the market |
| Non-interest income totaled $2.6 million for the third quarter down $141,000 from the second quarter |
| There's other factors out there that slowed our process down |
| But also the third quarter, what we did observe was sort of during the months of late July and August, we saw the activity go down a bit, because of vacations, not only people here but customers being on vacation |
| If you net that from borrowings, we were negative $10 million for a while |
| But as San Francisco is still a weak market right now for leasing up newer empty space |
| Non-interest expenses of $19.7 million in the quarter were down $918,000 from $20.7 million last quarter |
| But we continue to be reluctant to throw a lot of money at people that we can't really map out a road to return on that, meaning big team hires, et cetera |
| Bancorp's quarter end tangible common equity was down 1 basis point to 8.63% |
| But that goes back to the softness in San Francisco |
| The modest decline was primarily due to a decrease in debit card interchange income |
| That being said, that investment has been slower this year |
| We are being very cautious |
| We expect our funding cost increases to remain moderate in coming quarters, given expectations that Fed rate hikes and customer migration of funds from operating accounts to interest bearing accounts will continue to slow |
| I think - sorry, can continue or should continue I think like a lot of these trends will decelerate |
| And it sounds like you expect things to moderate |
| Similar to my I answered, I think, David, on security sales and having ongoing conversations with different stakeholders, including the regulators about their appetite, given fears around potential credit losses |
| It's really the seasonality, I think, that's going to - that we see in the large depositor operating account fluctuations where we might see upward or downward trends affecting the results |
| Those balances went up at quarter end, they came down a little bit after quarter end |
| And so, I really unload to predict a run rate Woody based on that trend, because we are seeing a softening, people not renewing leases |
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