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| Our extend healthcare affiliate has strong credentials to navigate the increasing complexity of claims processing while providing clients with lower costs and increased cash flows |
| I think, and said in my remarks, I think we have a strong set of capabilities and I think there is an opportunity for us in this market |
| This segment’s growing organically with very low capital requirements |
| Our credit performed as expected as charge-off rates improved to 1.66% from 2.01% from a year ago with stable late-stage delinquencies and forbearances |
| We received consistent net interest margins and credit performance, generated strong revenue growth in traditional business processing services and lowered our operating expense |
| We believe that we can grow steadily and sustainably with margins and credit quality that deliver appropriate returns |
| We remain confident about the strength of our case |
| To close out my remarks, we’ve achieved strong results this past quarter |
| We have confidence in our capabilities and in the opportunities in the in-school market |
| Our business processing solutions segment had a strong quarter |
| I’m pleased to report that this important work is well underway and we’re making substantial progress |
| The trends we’re seeing in many of our target markets are encouraging and our pipeline of potential new business is promising |
| Our EBITDA margin was 15% in the quarter and has steadily increased since the beginning of the year as we benefit from ongoing efficiency initiatives and the on boarding of new government services contracts |
| We also adjusted our pricing in the marketplace during the third quarter to improve our margins |
| I would, repeat what we’ve said, which is we’re very confident in the strength of our case |
| Our results for the quarter reflect our strong foundation of assets and capabilities as well as initial actions we are taking to deliver more value to shareholders |
| While continuing to execute well against our plans for the year, we also have taken initial actions resulting from the review of our businesses and we’re making great progress on ways in which we can deliver more |
| We’re pleased with the progress we’ve made in identifying and evaluating alternatives, and in certain instances, beginning to take actions |
| So above our guidance |
| We achieved an efficiency ratio of 49% in the quarter and are currently at 52% for the year, better than our original four-year guidance of 55% to 58% |
| Adjusting for this benefit, we saw a net interest margin of 296 basis points, which is above our expectations of 280 to 290 basis points for the year |
| And I’m confident that we’re doing that |
| Within government services, we’ve grown by achieving a high percentage of contract renewals, winning new business, and applying our capabilities to new types of clients |
| Turning to allowance for loan losses and related coverage on slide six, we remain confident that we are adequately reserved for the expected life of loan losses given the well-seasoned and high credit quality of our portfolio |
| And so I think the team did a nice job of doing that |
| We’re confident in our ability to deliver for the remainder of the year and are updating our full year core EPS guidance to a range of $2.92 to $3.02, which includes the impact of the significant items highlighted in the quarter |
| In closing, the third quarter’s results of $0.84 per share and taking into account the significant items I highlighted earlier in my remarks reflect the steps we have taken to efficiently manage our loan portfolio, achieve profitable growth, and maintain strong capital levels |
| Revenue from traditional services increased 33% year-over-year |
| Our focus on generating high-quality loans at traditional four-year not-for-profit institutions with efficient acquisition costs and targeted margins |
| You did see us grow undergraduate volume by 22% year-on-year |
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| These updates slightly reduced our overall results |
| While early indicators are positive, we continue to remain cautious in our outlook as borrowers with over $1.5 trillion in education loan balances that are not on our balance sheet but held by the U.S |
| And that rate environment played a role in our graduate volume, which is down 15%, 16% compared to last year |
| That certainly impacted our volume |
| There was a much smaller difference this year compared to last year, in the rate of a federal graduate loan compared to a private loan, which was another contributing factor to our graduate volume being down |
| At the same time, our graduate volume, which represents a higher percentage than the overall in-school market, was down |
| And I’m kind of curious what’s kind of changed in that because initially there may have been some concern and that’s obviously dissipated |
| While we experienced a modest increase in interest in refinancing from federal borrowers as the government payment resumption date approached, we continue to view the opportunity in refi originations to remain more limited than in prior years until rates declined significantly |
| These actions impacted our volume |
| We are seeing a slowdown in prepayment speeds in our private education refinance portfolio as borrowers with fixed interest rates have less of an incentive to refinance in the current higher rate environment |
| Another significant item was a reduction in our expected recovery rate on previously charged off loans |
| But I guess on the slowing of the in-school origination, I’m a little bit confused to tell you the truth |
| I would characterize this as a pause in the substantial capital commitment that was associated with the plan for the year to double origination volume |
| Key highlights from the quarter beginning on slide three include third quarter GAAP EPS of $0.65 and core EPS of $0.47, which contains significant items that reduced earnings by $58 million for $0.37 that I will discuss in greater detail as I review our segment results |
| I would say while the curve is somewhat downward sloping at this point, couldn’t put some pressure on the FFELP NIM |
| I mean, it overcomes the seasonal growth issue |
| The first part of your question, I would say over the last year, we obviously saw slower prepayments than we have had in the past two years and more on a normalized or below normalized levels |
| So part of that is my reason for my confidence of our ability to operate in the market is we had a rate differential this year that made it much more challenging in the graduate market |
| We’re not capital constrained |
| Partially offsetting the benefit to NIM from the extension of the FFELP portfolio was an increase in provision of $36 million as a greater amount of loan premium will need to be charged off in the future |
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