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| Our asset quality continues to remain strong |
| We think our emphasis on deposit growth over current liquidity will set the stage for improved profitability in 2024 |
| Our liquidity position we think gives us a significant competitive advantage in the industry |
| We expect continued improvement over the balance of the year |
| These community banking offices do produce good, granular, and sticky deposits and have improved margins |
| We've seen really fantastic results |
| We were pleased with the total deposit growth of $854 million in the quarter |
| We're very pleased with the progress the Bank has made in the third quarter with deposit growth, liquidity, capital, and improving loan pipelines |
| We continue to feel very good about our diverse and granular loan portfolio and outperformance in the third quarter |
| You know, if we made a list of the 20 most important metrics [indiscernible] buying, we are performing extremely well on almost all of those, except for the one that's the most important, which is earnings per share |
| Cumulative effects of this repricing will improve margin and EPS over time |
| So, we think our performance in all those other metrics will lead to improved earnings per share in the future |
| Our teams are performing quite well and have grown new accounts 90% year-over-year |
| So, very pleased with the deposit situation |
| Loan repricing is the best opportunity to improve profitability combined with loan growth |
| We have seen increased activity in the past 30 days, and we also -- as loans grew $87 million in the month of September, we are seeing increased confidence by borrowers, both C&I and CRE |
| ServisFirst had a very strong third quarter, and we're pleased with the Bank's results |
| The key to improving EPS is loan growth and our team is focused on a more balanced approach to loan and deposit growth going forward |
| Correspondent Deposits and Fundings in summary; correspondent balances stabilized in the early second quarter and we had impressive strong growth, as you can see, for the third quarter |
| We saw improvement in core non-interest income in the quarter with improvements in both credit card and mortgage |
| Correspondent banking had a strong deposit rebound, closing the quarter with total fundings just over $2 billion |
| And we think -- again, we think having all this excess liquidity is a significant competitive advantage with our -- in the industry |
| On the funding side, you had a very successful quarter growing deposits and building up that liquidity |
| Correspondent participation loans and new relationship pipelines are strong for the remainder of the year and also into 2024 |
| He said, that's the best way for me to improve my earnings |
| Our capital continues to be a strength |
| The recent disinversion of the yield curve will be helpful to us as we move towards a normal yield curve and really the higher for longer rate environment we think benefits us, our future earnings for the bank |
| Then it will take a couple years to mark some of it off and we will replace it by the end with other -- with other deposits, but right now we feel good about where we are -- we just again are actively looking for the right |
| Our people have done an outstanding job, they've done what we've asked them to do |
| So, we've already started doing that, because they have -- we have been wildly successful at raising deposits and they've done -- they done what we asked them to do |
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| We have seen a slowdown in demand for credit, both CRE and C&I |
| Our deposit pipeline is down a bit from the record level last quarter |
| This represents 45% reduction from the second quarter and a 50% drop from the first quarter |
| But it does appear we are headed for more of a soft landing than we envisioned a few months ago |
| Now, I'm pleased to say, non-performing assets to total assets decreased from 16 basis points in the second quarter to only 15 basis points in the third quarter |
| Past due loans to total loans were down to only 8 basis points |
| Charge-offs for the quarter were 15 basis points when annualized and year-to-date annualized charge-offs were only 11 basis points |
| Unfortunately, there's a limit on what you can, -- I think bankers by nature would have a much higher loan loss reserve if we were left to our own desires |
| From a headcount standpoint, we were down three for the quarter |
| I know those are items of interest and impacted the charge-offs at some of our peer banks |
| A bunch of that outlook was due to -- we'd seen rapid escalation in interest rates, we've seen bank deposits disintermediation for over close to a year at that point |
| Going back to late spring, the conventional wisdom, which included mine, was that we were pretty much headed for a hard economic landing |
| It's probably a combination of borrower caution and higher interest rates |
| Both of these figures are down from when we started 2023 |
| We just had to be more creative in finding the loan demand out there, than you do when times are really good |
| But do you guys feel like that, it sounds like you're overshot -- not overshot, but I mean, it's never -- you can never have too much of it |
| So, that's why you haven't seen the margin improve, yes, because of that |
| Of course, the other question is, when do you start buying securities and we got about securities again someday, but given we've got so much -- we don't -- we want little bit more floating rate assets on the book, so we're hesitant to move into longer term, when I say longer-term, I say two to five-year treasuries |
| It just depends on kind of the key drivers being unemployment and GDP are going to impact the model and the outlook on those |
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