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| Our financials continue to be favorably impacted by elevated market interest rates with a $7.5 million or 13.4% increase in net interest income in the third quarter compared to the prior year late quarter due to manageable funding cost increases along with significant expansion in asset yields across the balance sheet |
| I believe our results indicate that we are doing a pretty darn good job at this so far |
| So we’re doing pretty well |
| We believe our underwriting has remained disciplined, and our funding position is strong |
| In closing, we remain confident in our balance sheet and the opportunities that are ahead for us |
| We had previously expected to report a linked quarter improvement in credit metrics with workout plans in place for a few credits we had downgraded in prior quarters |
| The good news is the portfolio trends remain well behaved on an overall basis and the stress testing at renewal rates has not raised any new red flags for us |
| And we’ve got ample opportunities to continue to optimize the earning asset mix coming at us over the next 12 months |
| I think investors should know that we remain confident in the strength of our portfolios and the credits driving the reduction in the allowance of the same credits we’ve talked about previously and which we continue to monitor and work towards remediation or sale |
| I still don’t see much opportunity to hedge away asset sensitivity, but balance sheet positioning and flexibility at this point is excellent, in my opinion |
| Expense discipline continues to be strong and our efficiency ratio continues to be excellent |
| As we sit here today, we have approximately $700 million in undrawn borrowing capacity and an additional $420 million in unpledged securities and short liquidity at the bank is excellent, and the holding company is in a strong position as well |
| Old Second originated portfolio remains very strong |
| The net result is that Old Second should continue to build capital very quickly as evidenced by the 50 basis point improvement in the TCE ratio over the linked quarter, even without a tailwind from AOCI, which combined with the 93 basis points in the first 6 months means we’ve added 143 basis points of TCE this year |
| The end result was a 2 basis point increase in the taxable equivalent NIM from last quarter to 466, which we believe continues to be exceptional margin performance |
| The margin has benefited year-over-year from balance sheet mix improvement, the impact of rising rates on the variable portion of the loan portfolio and continuing loan growth in 2023 |
| It can continue, and I believe we can potentially grow earnings absent balance sheet growth |
| So things feel pretty good on that front |
| Noninterest income continued to perform well, and excluding losses on security sales discussed earlier, noninterest income increased $1 million compared to the second quarter of 2023 driven by gains on BOLI income due to restructuring, MSR gains and other income |
| It’s tough, right? You try and tell people that you’re in a good position in terms of what maturities you’ve got rolling off win, but we’ve done a nice job |
| I’m very happy with where we are |
| Loan yields continued to expand modestly during the quarter increasing by 9 basis points over the linked quarter and 127 basis points year-over-year |
| When you look at the securities portfolio, obviously, running off, and you guys have – I’ve said it before, you have done one of the best jobs in managing that portfolio through the pandemic |
| We have the balance sheet and flexibility to excel at a higher rate environment |
| The net interest margin expanded slightly this quarter, driven by increased loan yields, partially offset by the higher cost of deposits |
| But the positioning and loss content, you feel pretty good about |
| This redemption provided a net interest margin cost savings of approximately 3 basis points net of alternative funding costs |
| The third quarter of 2023 reflected loan growth of $14 million for the linked period and expanded $160.2 million or 4.1% over the same period last year |
| The bid has come back a bit on variable rate issues, as I said, and that has allowed us to move out of our excess positioning here quite effectively |
| So I think our investors are well protected by us raising that floor |
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| Unfortunately, these plans designed to improve cash flow metrics fail to materialize this quarter |
| The two health care credits, both are just struggling from a cash flow perspective as they’re dealing with the aftermaths of COVID, higher labor cost and just weaker occupancy |
| Third quarter earnings were negatively impacted by $924,000 in pretax securities losses on strategic security sales as well as $629,000 in net deconversion and liquidation costs related to the Visa credit card portfolio sale last year |
| And then I didn’t say it on the prior list of questions, but all of these new classified are still paying, and they still have sponsors behind it that are supporting the credits, but we just felt the overall cash flow was weak enough and necessitated downgrade |
| What we’ve seen so far in terms of weakness in downgrades, and we are downgrading realistically even without loss content is that the bulk of our problems, the overwhelming majority of our problems are poorly rated credits do come from acquisitions |
| I’m a little surprised that expectations for us as pessimistic as they are |
| One, both downtown Chicago that had just been struggling as a result of COVID |
| Our outlook has not changed, though, although the speed of resolution will be slower than hoped |
| However, origination activity has slowed significantly over the last 6 months |
| Tough to keep the margin if that’s your incremental funding cost |
| Pretax losses of $924,000 on security sales in the third quarter were incurred related to strategic repositioning within certain types in the portfolio |
| So we do have some inflationary headwinds that we do have to be mindful of |
| And certainly, the weakness within the last one was on the asset generation side and they basically purchased syndicated loans within that deal |
| It sounds like while kind of frustrated by the pace in some of these |
| So Old Second saw significantly less fair value deterioration than perhaps some peers experienced |
| Deposit flow this quarter showed modest leakage on the high end, along with typical seasonal decline in the third quarter, we always see based on tax payments for personal and business customers and commercial customers rolling out new activities throughout the summer |
| Brian Martin Hey, Brad, just you talked last quarter, I think, maybe before that, if we did see – going to their comment about the pessimism on people’s outlook, I mean, I guess, as far as the margin goes, I think you talked about if rates went lower, the margin could kind of bottom in that 4 to 4.25 range |
| Net interest income decreased slightly to $63 million for the quarter relative to the prior quarter of $63.6 million, but increased $7.5 million or 13.4% from the year ago quarter |
| Clearly our focus remains on monitoring potential weakness in commercial real estate and office and health care specifically |
| The combined impact of these 2 items reduced diluted earnings per share by $0.03 in the third quarter |
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