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| So these are the really compelling opportunities that are driving our marketing levels and we continue to see great traction pretty much across the boards, and we continue to lean into these opportunities and it's an important part of the creation of long-term value for our shareholders |
| We're able to take advantage of powerful machine learning models, create customized better experiences for consumers |
| So as we've been talking about really for a couple of years now, we -- in our originations and overall in our credit policy, we were trimming around the edges for things that we saw or risks that we anticipated, and this has contributed, I think, to strength and stability and performance that's now contributing to what we see here |
| We remain well positioned to deliver compelling long-term shareholder value and to thrive in a broad range of possible economic scenarios |
| Obviously, there's been very strong growth this year in the consumer banking franchise, particularly on the deposit side |
| At our tech engine drives growth, efficiency improvement and enduring value creation over the long term |
| We are driving improvements in underwriting, modeling and marketing as we increasingly leverage machine learning at scale |
| Pulling way up, our modern technology capabilities are generating an expanding set of opportunities across our businesses |
| The third quarter operating efficiency ratio was particularly strong |
| And we added liquidity and capital to further strengthen our already strong and resilient balance sheet |
| I do want to say, though, at the same time, we continue to really see great opportunities in the business |
| So we continue to believe, over the long term that our technology transformation offers a lot of promise for operating efficiencies and delivering operating efficiency is an important part of, I think, the value creation equation for investors |
| So the net result of these two things has been -- we've been able to really make tremendous strides forward in technology and also get some efficiencies along the way |
| We certainly are pleased with the progress that we've made over time in operating efficiency ratio even as we've continued to really invest in the business and we're starting to see -- we have these two competing things going on inside Capital One, both a real investment in technology and also at the same time, generating a bunch of benefits and efficiencies from that technology |
| The domestic card business posted another strong quarter of year-over-year top line growth |
| We posted another quarter of strong top line growth in domestic card revenue, purchase volume and loans |
| Ending loan balances increased $19 billion or about 16% year-over-year and third quarter revenue was up 15% year-over-year, driven by the growth in purchase volume and loans |
| In closing, we continued to deliver solid results in the third quarter |
| Compared to the linked quarter, the charge-off rate was up 37 basis points, while the 30 plus delinquency rate was up 26 basis points, both of these linked quarter increases were better than typical seasonal expectations |
| And our sustained investment at the top of the market has helped drive momentum in -- overall in our spender business, but we've grown even faster with the heaviest of spenders and we very much like this business |
| So we've certainly had in the last five or six years, tremendous growth and traction in the auto business |
| Powered by our modern technology and leading digital capabilities, our digital-first national direct banking strategy continues to deliver strong results |
| In addition to the obvious spend growth we're enjoying, it generates strong revenues, has very low losses, low attrition and lifts the entire brand of the company |
| And we -- then as we have built this, we have then leveraged the big customer base we have, the national brand that we have and really added to our marketing and everywhere in our strategy, the build-out of this national bank, and we're getting a lot of traction, nice growth and a lot of traction on the brand side as consumers realize that Capital One, even though the branches across the nation really is a full service National Bank |
| It looked like September charge-off performance was better than we would have expected |
| We posted another strong quarter in year-over-year retail deposit growth |
| As a result, we are leaning into marketing to drive resilient growth and enhance our domestic card franchise |
| We continue to see attractive growth opportunities in our Domestic Card business |
| Our opportunities are enhanced by our technology transformation and our marketing continues to deliver strong new account growth across the domestic card business |
| Revenue in the linked quarter increased 4%, driven by both higher net interest and noninterest income |
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| However, we continue to assume several key economic variables worsened from today's levels |
| Consumer Banking revenue for the quarter was down about 7% year-over-year driven by the higher rate paid on deposits and lower auto loan balances and margins |
| Over the last couple of years, we were concerned at what was happening with margins as they were pressured by interest rate increases in 2022 and early 2023, some competitors were slow to adjust their pricing |
| In our outlook, we still expect the unemployment rate to worsen over the coming year |
| In the third quarter, auto originations declined 10% year-over-year, driven by the decline in auto originations, consumer banking ending loans decreased about $4.4 billion or 5.4% year-over-year |
| But I think for us and for a lot of players in the industry, these loan numbers have blown past prior levels |
| Our recovery rate had been falling for several years because of the low level of charge-offs through the pandemic |
| So looking ahead, the economy is, as always a source of uncertainty |
| And we -- just as we did in the card business, probably actually more proactively and more significantly in auto, we trimmed back around the edges in anticipation of certain worsening and with concerns about score drift in, with respect to the data [indiscernible] from consumers |
| So let's -- first of all, one of the things that makes this already challenging business for everyone studying it, including those of us who live it every day, is the seasonality -- in the volatility, which a big element of that is seasonality |
| So at the core of your question, even in a period where projected losses in future quarters may be lower than today and might otherwise indicate a release |
| Both ending deposits and average deposits were down about 2% from the linked quarter, consistent with the general trend we've seen for several quarters as we continue to manage down selected less attractive commercial deposit balances |
| We didn't have before the pandemic pretty much everywhere else across our branded book revolve rates are a little bit generally speaking a little bit to quite a bit lower than they were before |
| Average loans were down about 2% |
| Interestingly, they have come down quite a bit |
| So I would lump all of those three things together as potential headwinds |
| The trend of normalization in our credit metrics appears to be slowing |
| We expect 2023 annual operating efficiency ratio net of adjustments will be modestly down compared to 2022 |
| And then on the marketing, it looks like it was down just slightly year-over-year, still almost double where it was from a pre-pandemic perspective |
| The decline is largely the result of choices we made earlier in the year to tighten credit |
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