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| We are confident that our consistent and disciplined approach, to credit underwriting will continue to serve us well, should the economy show any material deterioration in the coming quarters |
| So, we're pleased with the outlook as well as the performance, and we are seeing disruption in that market from, as you mentioned, First Republic and the Columbia and Umpqua combo |
| I'm pleased to report that credit quality remained strong and stable through, the first nine months of the year |
| Overall, our commercial real estate portfolio continues to perform well and has been stable, through the first nine months of the year |
| We're pleased to report another solid quarter with earnings per share exceeding consensus |
| Our relatively low loan-to-deposit ratio positions us well to continue to support our existing customers, as well as pursuing new high-quality relationships |
| Obviously, we're getting a lot of strong opportunities |
| Overall, we believe we are well positioned to navigate the challenges ahead and to take advantage, of any potential dislocation in our markets that may occur |
| And then the outlook is pretty favorable as well |
| And it's not just from the new team, we're also seeing it positively benefit, on our other branches and other commercial teams in the market |
| These recoveries are further evidence of our strong risk management practices and how they continue to benefit us |
| As I mentioned earlier, we're pleased with our performance in the third quarter |
| Overall, we continue to focus on growing a strong balance sheet with ample liquidity and capital that, will serve us well in the present and in the future |
| So we expect to continue to see the pricing move up over the next few quarters, again, both spreads and indexes benefiting us at this point |
| So it's strong in that category |
| In general, the health of the local economy and the customer base is really good |
| This quarter's performance was enhanced by loan recoveries |
| While we continue to experience the challenges of this rate environment and our deposit franchise, we are confident that the strength of our franchise will continue to benefit us over the long-term |
| The deposits and the loans that we're bringing on and fleshing out those geographic locations, I think it's a great way for us to grow the organization |
| We've got a nice customer base and prospect base we've been going after |
| Liquidity levels are strong |
| In addition, with a loan deposit ratio of approximately 76% and cash balances over $200 million, we have plenty of liquidity to keep - to grow our loan portfolio |
| Page 25 of the investor presentation reflects the significant improvement, we've experienced in our nonaccrual loans since the end of 2020 |
| On Page 27 of the investor presentation, is a new slide that we believe demonstrates that by proactively identifying criticized assets within our portfolio, we've been able to keep our net charge-off levels lower than our peers |
| So, I think we're fine |
| If you fast forward to today, the pricing is good on the investor real estate on the request that we're seeing coming in |
| It is estimated that the annualized income improvement, from these transactions will be $1.4 million, resulting in an earn-back period of 1.4 years |
| Yields on the loan portfolio were 5.30% for the quarter, which was 11 basis points higher than Q2 and contributed to a 12 basis point increase in yield earning assets |
| But if we do, we'll have benefits from it in future quarters |
| As our cost deposits as well as deposit balances level off, we expect to experience margin stabilization due to the repricing of adjustable rate loans in addition to higher origination rates on new loans |
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| Obviously, the pipeline decline - sounds like it's kind of a combination of maybe less appetite for credit from your standpoint, especially on the NOOCRE side, as well as weaker demand |
| But with the rates higher and especially if the Fed increases another time where there's a lot out there on the short end of the curve, that could cause more problems and hurt us at least in the short run |
| We continue to see pressure on deposit pricing in Q3, which is impacting our net interest margin |
| But again, we are - I would say some things are lower right now, because of because profitability is down this quarter, compared to what was expected |
| Loan growth slowed in Q3, increasing $15.5 million for the quarter |
| I will say there's probably a little bit more weakness in the C&I space right now just |
| Loan growth was below last quarter at $15 million despite the higher volume of new loans originated, due to a combination of higher prepays and payoffs, lower net advances on loans and lower principal balance on loans originated in the quarter |
| The volume has gone down in the market |
| And if you look at the chart above on Slide 10 and the Seattle MSA, we're actually down a little bit more 15%, just due to the amount of excess deposits - some of our customers had in that market |
| We expect NIM to decrease further in Q4 since the NIM for the month of September was five basis points lower than it was for the quarter |
| It's just been slower than I expected over the last several quarters |
| Our heavy filtering of nonowner-occupied real estate loan request since March is the primary driver of the pipeline decline, although loan demand has also been softening as interest rates have moved higher |
| The NIM decreased to 3.47% for Q3 from 3.56% in the prior quarter |
| It can't get better than zero |
| So it will be a challenge |
| And our numbers were a bit impacted by the recovery on the large deal this quarter |
| As expected, due mostly to the rate environment, loan growth slowed in Q3 compared to the first two quarters of the year, although year-to-date, we are still reporting low single-digit loan growth |
| Yes, I think that we're going to continue to have some pressure as again, you mentioned how September was lower than NIM than for the quarter |
| We're just - we are seeing a dip in demand, again, primarily based on rates |
| Net interest income decreased $206,000 due to a decrease in net interest margin, partially offset by an increase in average earning assets |
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