Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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We have a history of strong client selection being consistent and conservative in our underwriting and staying on top of our services
That being said, I do feel as both Bryan and Hope has indicated very good about the portfolio
We are well-positioned to capitalize on the opportunities of our diversified business model, highly attractive franchise, and asset-sensitive balance sheet
And because we believe the way that our franchise will excel and succeed is to bring these clients in with their first product and then sell them and make them long, deep relationships that are with us for 5, 10, 15, 20 years
We updated our loan growth expectations from 3% to 5% to 7% to 9%, as our success in raising deposits has enabled us to organically deploy excess capital into meeting our clients' borrowing needs and strategically acquiring new clients
On slide 15, you can see that we continue to have exceptionally strong capital levels
Over time, margin will also benefit from the continued repricing of fixed rate cash flows and widening credit spread
Our footprint and our team give me tremendous confidence in our ability to generate strong returns for our shareholders
While 2024 economic conditions are likely to soften somewhat, I expect that we will grow revenue, control expenses, and record positive operating leverage next year
With our experienced bankers focus on excellent customer service and our ability to deploy capital through loan and deposit growth, we're seeing solid momentum in our businesses right now
As Bryan and I have talked about earlier, we are looking to create positive operating leverage
We do think that we can use our balance sheet to support customers and communities and it's one of the benefits of having a strong capital base and being in a position to compete effectively for new relationships when we see, as Susan described, generational opportunities or otherwise to strengthen our customer pool across the entire franchise we serve
Otherwise, the balance sheet continues to perform very well
Period end deposits are up $1.6 billion or 2.4% from last quarter as we continue to have success in acquiring customers throughout our deposit franchising campaigns
Higher interest cost is going to have impact and so when you see those things happening as Susan said, we not only are continuing what we typically do in terms of credit monitoring, we do some focused reviews and we expect this credit will soften some, but we think we start in an extraordinarily good place with strong borrower selection strong underwriting and credit structure and ultimately strong collateral value
So we have and as Susan said an effort that we undertook to understand what happened with this one individual idiosyncratic credit and we will learn from that but we believe the fundamentals of our credit selection underwriting and delivery process will position us very well for our economy that's likely to soften some over the course of the next year or so
I'm very optimistic in our ability to continue to drive loan growth and particularly wider spreads on our lending portfolios
At the end of the day, though, I think we can still generate with even slightly higher expenses positive operating leverage
But is that is that actually baked into at least preliminary expectations? Hope Dmuchowski In the current rate scenario yes, we believe [Indiscernible] is strong for us
As two thirds of our loan portfolio is floating rate, we remain well positioned to benefit in a rising rate environment
Our experienced team has a proven track record of delivering high-quality service to meet our clients' and communities' needs
This yields long tenure, deep relationships, and enables us to produce top quartile returns over the cycle
So I think we're in a good spot to see positive momentum in our deposit base
Period end deposits were up 2.4% from last quarter, demonstrating our ability to expand market share
So we're going to, this will be, we're going to be able to increase margin in future quarters
NII of $609 million and net interest margin of 3.17 remains strong despite moderating from cyclical highs
In fourth quarter, we will have the opportunity to reprice the promotional money market accounts acquired in second quarter, as well as the full benefit of July's rate hike, giving us the ability to improve our NII and margin from third quarter's level
We feel really good about the trajectory we're on, which is why we believe that we will improve our margin in the coming quarters
Our success in continuing to grow customer deposits enabled the payoff of all remaining FHLB borrowings this quarter
Over the past five months, I've become increasingly confident in our ability to serve our customers and communities and deliver strong shareholder returns
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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The main driver was a $26 million decline in net interest income driven by higher deposit costs
On slide eight, we outline a couple of notable items in the quarter which reduced our results by $0.04 per quarter
We saw a modest decrease of $2 million in fixed income with average daily revenues down due to the challenging market conditions
Organic growth has slowed
We generated PPNR of $318 million down modestly from second quarter
We in any given quarter will lose a few as well
Inflation and labor supply continue to be a challenge
So it's not to say that that's completely off the table, but as we sit here today, it still feels like 2024 in terms of rate and economic outlook is still a little more uncertain than we would like
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We don't see it as extremely negative
And it does look like fixed income will be under continued pressure under a higher for longer scenario
Bryan Jordan I would add to Susan's comments that the economy has started to tighten financial conditions and slow down to some extent
In the middle of this quarter it started to feel a little more like really in the back half this board started to feel like I'm starting to slow down in customer demand customer activity
Overall, sentiment of our bankers and clients remains cautious but positive
Our results were impacted by an idiosyncratic charge off of $72 million that we communicated earlier this quarter
We just see it as more uncertain than we think
I think that's something that we're all struggling with
Loans to mortgage companies declined $454 million due to seasonality and the impact on volumes from higher mortgage rates
It feels like it would have to come in below that, unless..
ACL coverage ratio increased one basis point to 1.36, reflecting loan growth and continued caution around the macroeconomic outlook
   

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