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| With these initiatives, I'm excited about the future of EagleBank's ability to grow and improve the deposit mix |
| My sense is that we have a very solid base of non-interest-bearing deposits here, I would expect us to maintain around where we are |
| Adding Eric to our finance team gives us more talent and a deeper bench and enables us to accomplish our long-term goals to continue to serve and support our customers and build value for our shareholders |
| I am pleased that our third quarter performance continued to build on the progress we are making in an uncertain operating environment |
| During the third quarter, we saw a stabilization of both earnings and margins and an improvement in the funding mix with deposit inflows and pay downs of short-term debt |
| Lastly, capital remains a core strength of the company |
| And in terms of liquidity, we improved our aggregate borrowing capacity to $2.26 billion, which gives us the financial flexibility to provide the support and services our customers expect |
| I think we've been pretty successful in moving forward with that |
| We have demonstrated our ability to improve the balance sheet and stabilize both earnings and margin |
| This stabilization of earnings is a result of our targeted efforts to improve the balance sheet mix, reduce the rate of expense growth and maintain our strong asset quality metrics, which are reflected in the provision for credit losses |
| The largest one is part of the Wharf complex, and that's performing well, it's actually done very well this year |
| We also continue to meet our commitment to a relationship first culture, strong conservative underwriting and peer-leading efficiency |
| We have a proven history of superior asset quality and conservative underwriting that has worked well for us in times of market stress |
| This was another good quarter and that we were able to improve our funding mix, one of our strategic goals |
| We are confident that the approach our teams are taking will put EagleBank and our borrowers in the best position in light of a difficult operating and interest rate environment |
| So we are all excited about EagleBank's future |
| And last but certainly not least, the recent additions to our leadership team gives us added depth and expertise to meet and succeed at meeting today's challenges |
| This strength in the Washington area market can be seen in our asset quality metrics |
| Before turning it over to Jan, I want to add that I'm excited about the hiring of Karen Buck, our new Chief Administrative Officer, who will be instrumental in providing leadership and guidance through the execution of these strategies |
| The Washington DC market area continues to be a source of economic strength |
| Next, we are working to enhance our digital banking platform allowing us to leverage our in-footprint brand and increase our market share of deposits in the DMV region, as well as develop opportunities to augment deposit growth outside of our footprint |
| During the quarter, our efforts to gather deposits organically met with success as deposits increased by $658 million |
| But my expectation is we're in a pretty happy place with where those are in terms of the baseline |
| First, enhancing our treasury management program and product suite will assist us in building and maintaining C&I relationships |
| But that's been a pretty successful project in the D.C |
| On the deposit front, we are working diligently to build capabilities to drive growth in our core deposit base |
| This will continue to -- this will contribute to the progress we've made in repositioning our balance sheet to meet the challenges of today's high rate environment |
| And we also have a piece of a deal that is casino-related in New England, and that's doing quite well and is in the past portfolio |
| Before moving on to the income statement, we experienced loan growth this quarter with loans up $150 million |
| In regards to expenses, we have always prided ourselves on being highly efficient and we aim to continue to operate in that manner |
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| This quarter net interest income was down $1.1 million and the net interest margin was 2.43%, down 6 basis points |
| Interest income was adversely impacted by a reversal of $1.6 million because of the one multifamily loan in the District of Columbia entering nonperforming status in the quarter |
| Other items impacting the quarter-over-quarter earnings were noninterest income, which was down primarily because the prior quarter included non-recurring income of $2.8 million from an SBIC fund |
| This reversal reduced our margin by 6 basis points and accounts for all the change from the prior quarter |
| Overall in terms of credit underwriting, we remain cautious and we will continue to exercise selectivity and to apply our customary strong underwriting standards |
| Even with the increase in loans, the strong growth in deposits drove our loan to deposit ratio down to 95% from 101% the prior quarter |
| The increase in qualitative reserves was driven by increases in early stage past dues and overall perceived weakness in the commercial real estate market |
| These loans where $950 million or 12% of the loan portfolio at quarter end, down $26 million from the prior quarter |
| The increase in quantitative reserve was primarily due to loan growth during the quarter, particularly in longer life categories that carry corresponding higher reserves, as well as slowing prepayment speeds in certain loan categories, due to higher interest rates, partly offset by modest improvements in the unemployment forecast |
| At the same time broker deposits declined by $38 million and were down to 29.6% of deposits |
| This is a much lower increase than the prior quarter's increase of 58 basis points |
| We recognize that we will need to invest in the company over the next several quarters to achieve our strategic goals |
| That doesn't mean that we won't have more nonperforming loans in the future |
| And some of the disintermediation that we've seen over the last 18 months or so has been just that these folks not wanting to sit on idle cash and have that cash earning for them |
| For the quarter, average non-interest bearing deposits were 25% of deposits down from 30% the prior quarter |
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