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| While 2023 has certainly been a challenging environment for capital markets activities, in both advisory and several credit-driven products, forward pipelines within advisory are solid, and we continue to foresee this as a primary contributor to fee revenue growth over the moderate term |
| In wealth management, we see a great opportunity to increase the penetration of the offering across our customers, leveraging our number one ranking for trust as we grow advisory relationships and drive higher managed assets with recurring revenue streams |
| Over the medium term, we expect that noninterest income has the potential to grow at a rate more quickly than both loans and spread revenues, given the opportunities for these fee businesses |
| In closing, we're pleased with the third quarter results as we dynamically manage through this environment |
| Our colleagues, again, demonstrated that we make people's lives better, help businesses thrive and strengthen the communities we serve |
| First, Huntington is extraordinarily well positioned to manage through the evolving landscape for banks |
| We have confidence in its credit and spreads are very attractive |
| Our market position, digital leadership, and momentum in core growth strategies put us in the top of the peer set |
| This focused on sustained efficiencies, including operation accelerate, business process offshoring, and the other actions, will yield multi-year benefits |
| And auto has performed very, very well for us |
| Third, we benefit from a cultivated, granular deposit franchise and have delivered consistent core deposit growth |
| Our balanced deposit base forms the foundation of our robust liquidity framework and has been a driving factor in our well-managed beta over the rate cycle today |
| Fourth, credit quality remains strong across our portfolios, driven by our disciplined customer selection, underwriting, and rigorous portfolio management |
| We've greatly benefited from their experiences |
| And very importantly, we are remaining steadfast in our commitment to drive operating efficiency over time with continued execution of proactive expense management programs |
| However, these investments will also be accompanied by sustained revenue growth, and the net result will be a Huntington that continues to be a strong regional bank with significant growth opportunities ahead |
| Finally, to close, we believe we are exceptionally well positioned to proactively stay ahead of the evolving environment |
| Our adjusted CET1 ratio is strong and near the top of the peer group |
| We're bearing what we believe we're very well positioned for times such as leased with strong credit quality, improving capital ratios and robust liquidity and it’s supported by consistent efforts from about 20,000 colleagues across the bank to deliver these results |
| This plan extends our position of strength, supports continued execution of core growth strategies, and puts us well ahead of the proposed Basel III endgame and other requirements |
| On Slide 21, credit quality continues to perform very well, with normalization of metrics consistent with our expectations |
| And over time, we believe this will result in opportunities to benefit substantially in the coming years |
| But also in the medium term, we see significant growth opportunities over time for Huntington |
| And as we look at the 2024, to your question, we're seeing the opportunity for incremental revenue upside, particularly in the really strong performance we've seen in our NIM management program, which is higher than our prior outlook, and good momentum in the fee businesses as we look forward |
| I think by the time we get there, I expect that -- we have significant confidence in being able to do that, by the way, over time |
| It all goes back to the goal of maintaining our vibrancy, our momentum, and really ensuring that Huntington continues to be in the position of strength to go forward |
| We're investing in the businesses, we're going to do a number of things that I think will position us really well for the medium term, like 2025, 2026 in terms of further growth |
| We'll have good growth |
| Our distribution finance is a powerful engine |
| Our payments businesses represent one of the biggest opportunities for both relationship deepening and revenue growth across both treasury management and card categories |
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| The near-term environment includes higher for longer interest rates and uncertain economic outlook, expected new capital regulations, as well as heightened regulatory requirements |
| As rates remain higher, the potential for economic activity to be negatively impacted has increased |
| But there's an overall more cautious outlook within our customer base, just that will have some moderate impact on, I think, on overall loan demand next year |
| They're using their liquidity, but the uncertain economic outlook and where rates are going, all sort of are headwinds to the next round of growth |
| We expect a level of uncertainty in the near term and some level of higher expenses to manage through the realities of the current operating environment |
| Core net interest income for the fourth quarter is expected to decline between 4% and 5% from Q3 before expanding throughout 2024 from that level |
| Rates fall, you would see a loss in them |
| I believe there's a growing cautiousness in what’s going on in Israel and the Middle East, what's going on in Washington |
| So if you think back to Q2, our NPA level was at 46 basis points, which was the lowest level we've had since the GFC, and we've had eight consecutive quarters of declines, totaling over $450 million since then |
| Sequential increases in beta are slowing quarter-over-quarter as we have forecasted as the interest rate cycle nears or hits its peak |
| As I noted, average loan balances decreased one-half of 1% from Q2, driven primarily by lower commercial loan balances, which decreased by $1.2 billion, or 1.7%, from the prior quarter |
| It seasonally reduced this quarter |
| Loan balances decreased by $561 million or one-half of 1% from Q2, driven both by seasonality and our continued optimization |
| Steve, I know you talked about generally a little bit of softening demand out there |
| You see that gain run back through as a negative through fee income if they largely closed out, and we will be dynamic in continuing to watch the interest rate outlook with a primary focus on protection capital |
| Distribution finance decreased $434 million due to normal seasonality with lower dealer inventory levels in the third quarter before the expected inventory build in the fourth quarter |
| Based on the trends we're seeing in earning assets, I expect the dollars of NII in Q4 will be down around 4% to 5% from Q3 and informing a trough both in NIM ratio and the NIM and net interest income dollars in the fourth quarter then trending higher from there |
| Turning to Slide 14, our level of cash and securities was down slightly from the prior quarter as we lowered some of the elevated cash we've been holding in Q2 |
| The non-interest-bearing percentage decreased by 120 basis points from the second quarter, and we continue to expect this mix shift to moderate and stabilize during 2024 |
| Asset finance decreased by $271 million |
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