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| I will say this, I believe that yesterday's announcement is going to be a real shot of adrenaline in the arm for our teammates in terms of our ability to get people excited about coming to work and serving clients and growing their business and also letting people know who are eager to work for a company that wants to expand and do business and has the financial strength to go win |
| So, if you think about how Bill talked about the transaction yesterday morning, it was really initially, a, improving and strengthening our financial conditioning broadly |
| Especially if you see an improvement in demand, we think leaning into that demand should give us an outsized opportunity to win |
| And so, I feel like we're really well positioned there |
| We -- we've -- the net asset flows in that business, which is another good indicator of its health, have been positive, I think, nine out of the 10 last quarters or so, some market dependency on how it performs, of course |
| That has been a sort of a continuously improving business for us in terms of its quality, its size |
| So, we just think all those factors are now options and good opportunities for the company moving forward as a result of this transaction |
| And by the way, also make sure that we're doing a good job leveraging those capabilities across the rest of our wholesale businesses |
| So, we're really proud of the work that's being done there |
| And by the way, it's also been a really nice catalyst around some of the efficiency work that we've been doing |
| That's a real opportunity for us just to do a better job developing the right products and experiences, putting the right sort of offense together to effectively more broadly serve those clients |
| This transaction in a possible reposition, we think, affords us an opportunity to improve our profile there as well |
| But I think most importantly, as we think about the opportunity for Truist in our core markets, in our -- what will now be our wholesale and consumer segments going forward, having that capacity to lean into relationships, better serve more fully served clients, add invite new clients to Truist, we think is going to be a real competitive advantage having access to that capital |
| But I think lastly, and I say, for last on purpose is, we're still really optimistic about what we can do to improve the penetration rates across our payments businesses, right? So, if you think about in wholesale, again, across whether it be small business up to larger corporates, having that core money movement payments business, is really important to us |
| not hasn't been historically as high growth as, for example, what the Investment Bank has been able to achieve or even the insurance business, but we're pleased with how it's performing as well |
| We attract great talent's, we've got great clients |
| Our wealth business as well is a really nice fee business |
| We're -- I think we're a great company |
| So, we're going to continue to invest in that business and are very pleased with it |
| And so, we've got a great leader in place who's been adding talent for us in our broader enterprise payments in our wholesale payments business |
| And again, is True success generally, our playbook, and again, this was true for both of our predecessor companies, too, was never to be sort of the biggest bank in the country, but it was to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest bank in our market |
| So, I think just generally broadly, like we're seeing would expect to see a good backdrop in these markets |
| And -- but we do have other businesses, as you say, that we're really fond of and that are performing really well |
| C&I has been great |
| But look, I mean, 1 of the benefits of having a really high-quality deposit franchise is you do have a lot |
| I think we're unavoidably like better positioned |
| And I think what we're really excited about is even in today's market conditions where maybe demand is a little muted, us leaning into that market |
| It was initially that as we thought about the opportunity to continue to support and grow the insurance business, given its capital demands, given the consolidation that was happening in the industry, creating more flexibility to support that business over time was important to us as well the opportunity to at the time, modestly improve our capital position as well |
| We've got, I think, a more productive, more accountability, again, better glue sort of clear offense at the company |
| And now going forward, once we complete our transaction here, we're going to have financial profile that across the board, capital, liquidity, ALM, capacity to grow is all significantly improved |
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| There's been some market share loss |
| But as a result of sort of capital constraints, we've been a little bit more cautious around those businesses |
| We think expectations for liquidity management also continue to heighten |
| I know that it was about a year ago today that we had to miss this conference for similar reason |
| I think scenarios where you significantly delay cuts or you don't get any cut at all, that's going to be -- would be a headwind for us |
| But I think what you're hearing increasingly is there is an oversupply in the Sunbelt states that's running on meat Austin, Raleigh, et cetera |
| So, you've got some stress like on cash flow |
| If you think about the minority stake transaction that we announced actually last February, so before a lot of the turmoil that impacted the industry, you'll recall that we headlined that transaction really on a number of points |
| I think that potentially puts a little more stress |
| As you think about that's on a relative basis, broadly speaking on the deposit side, we still -- Fed balances still are declining with Q2 |
| But over time, you just recognize that they're tough, right, whether it be culturally, whether it be systems conversions, the planning, you name it |
| I think that's more broadly and you're starting to see a little bit of stress on guys, probably with just higher rates for longer, but very manageable |
| That's driven primarily by -- and again, no secret, and a lot of the industry is talking about it, but the losses that we would expect in our CRE office portfolio |
| If you think like the company throughout the course of '23 and analyzing our relative capital position, especially with all the analysis that was being done around unrealized losses and adjustments and future rules, we certainly didn't feel like we were as well positioned as maybe others along those lines |
| So, for our teammates, who, over the last three months, six months, nine months have been guided to be more cautious, to be more disciplined, to really place emphasis on our core relationships and perhaps to deemphasize other opportunities, that, broadly speaking, sort of just impacts sort of the culture of our offense |
| So, we had five of the last six meetings of the year resulting in a cut |
| It doesn't mean it's not a good business |
| And so, you wonder if every day that we stay high |
| It doesn't mean it's not a profitable business |
| With the efficiency work, you obviously, it's hard work, but we reduced headcount |
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