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| These developments, both digital and physical, continue to better position us to serve our customers and communities and grow our businesses |
| During the third quarter, we opened a new branch in Dorado, an area with good commercial and retail opportunities |
| Highlights include increased loan balances, stable core deposits with low cumulative beta, increased operating leverage and strong credit and performance metrics |
| The efficiency ratio was 52.36%, reflected continuous growth, strong operating leverage |
| So as you saw this quarter and you've seen so far this year, we have pretty good loan growth and we expect that to continue to build throughout the next year |
| market, and that gives us a different -- a very positive landscape to operate in |
| All our businesses performed well, and we continue to generate steady year-over-year revenue and earnings growth |
| To sum up, during the third quarter, we saw a steady revenue growth from higher yields on higher loan and security balances, good originations driven by auto, commercial and consumer lending |
| But again, we're very happy and excited about the innovations that we're bringing in and how our customers are adopting them, and we're going to continue to do so, because that's the way we can differentiate from our competitors in the island |
| Results benefited first and foremost, from our efforts over the years to grow our commercial and consumer business capabilities, which are helping us gain market share and increase capital; second, from our stable, low-cost core deposit base; and third, from our new Oriental Servicing portal and other technology investments, which have increased the use of customer self-service channels, allowing our teams to spend more time on new business development activities |
| Now turning to OFG and to sum up on my end, we had another excellent quarter confirming our operational and financial strategies |
| Externally, we benefited from the positive and more resilient economic environment in Puerto Rico |
| All this translates into a strong commercial lending pipeline for us into the fourth quarter and into 2024, and our ability to continue to deploy innovations to better service the banking and financial needs of our customers |
| We see good opportunities on the commercial side as well as on the retail side |
| In Puerto Rico, consumer liquidity is sound and the economy is doing well |
| Against a higher base, this should result in continued growth across most of our businesses next year |
| All in all, we remain optimistic about Puerto Rico's strength and its continued doubling from mainland economic uncertainties |
| We are very pleased to report our third quarter results |
| The economy continues to do well, supported by the flow of federal funds to rebuild the island infrastructure as well as additional federal funding from the inflation reduction on the CHIPS Act |
| As I have mentioned before, they help us provide more value-added service, increase our efficiency and assign more staff for new business development activities |
| This has been driven by 11% growth in digital enrollment, 14% growth in digital loan payments, 5% growth in kiosk usage and the success of our recently deployed Oriental Servicing portal |
| You're seeing really nice loan growth, and I think you picked away a little bit at the buyback this quarter |
| Overall, credit continues to be strong |
| Other performance metrics remained high |
| We already have a 9% market share there, and we think we can grow further |
| We're not a significant participant by no stretch of imagination, but we are certainly a solid participant for our size and our appetite |
| But we are early indicators are that we're going to be in a pretty good shape with regards to NIM in 2024 |
| Pre-provision net revenues totaled $82.3 million, up 18% year-over-year |
| Switching to capital levels remain very strong |
| That's good |
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| We can help but be concerned about the possible global economic ramifications as well |
| Also, and while it's unlikely to affect Puerto Rico directly, the recent incursions in Israel and the mounting events in the Middle East region leave us with a heavy heart, and our wishes for an early end to the fighting and for pace |
| In terms of the latter parts of the third quarter, we started to see a little bit of a slowdown |
| This compared to a loss of about $800,000 in the second quarter due to the early sales of our $200 million treasury loans |
| And every quarter, I say, well, I'm happily surprised that loan auto loan growth continue to remain, right? I think we're starting to see that plateauing |
| But again, based on our forecast and our expectations of second half of next year, interest rates starting to go down, we will have -- our cost of borrowings would be declining in that scenario |
| But the way we're looking at this is that on the short term, NIM might be trending slightly lower from these levels |
| So in the near term, we are seeing the plateau and a slight downturn on the NIM |
| The nonperforming loan rate at 1.33% was in the lower ranges seen over the last 5 quarters |
| So yes, we might have, right now, a lower trending NIM, but that does not necessarily mean it will be a lower trending net interest income because we expect loan growth to compensate for that |
| But we're monitoring it and we're probably going to see not a significant drop, but it's starting to plateau at these levels and trickle down into 2024 |
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