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| I firmly believe in the long-term growth prospects we are building for our customers, communities, employees and shareholders |
| We remain well-capitalized with solid liquidity and a strong balance sheet with capacity to fund loan growth and focus on strengthening our diversified earnings streams for long-term success with new capabilities and strategies |
| Key takeaways from the call today are: Solid financial performance with deposit and loan growth and stable fee income trends; maintain strong capital levels and key credit quality measures, which have remained at low levels and favorable to peer bank averages |
| During the third quarter, we generated solid deposit and loan growth, and maintained strong capital levels and credit quality |
| For the third quarter of 2023, we returned deposit balances to year-end 2022 levels and delivered another quarter of year-over-year loan growth at 10%, while maintaining strong credit quality metrics |
| Our solid financial results for the quarter reflect the strength of our franchise and the competitiveness of our growth strategies and teams in the current environment |
| And so we do believe that, that should give us some nice deposit lift next year |
| The key story for the third quarter was the continuation of solid deposit and loan growth while maintaining our strong credit standards |
| We are very bullish about the treasury management products |
| Once again, we remain in very good shape, better than our peers and feel really good |
| These strong efforts are demonstrated by September 30th deposit levels increasing 1.8% quarter-over-quarter to $13.1 billion |
| Manuel Navas And the loan growth that you're getting and the pipeline is nice and strong |
| So, we really feel good about growing deposits going forward as we showed this quarter |
| I would say, Manuel, approximately 75% of deposit growth has come from the commercial side, particularly that market product has been incredibly successful |
| I would just also add, as you saw, we had pretty good success growing our deposits, and funding our loan growth along with, as you know, we get about $100 million a quarter off our securities |
| We are really proud of our success in the LPOs |
| We anticipate rolling out new products such as integrated payables and receivables and related cards in the coming months, providing a lift to 2024 fee income |
| I am proud of the hard work of all our teams as they help our customers meet their financial goals |
| Our efforts to enhance our treasury management services continue progress well |
| Trust fees and securities brokerage revenue should continue to benefit modestly from organic growth and will be impacted by equity and fixed income market trends |
| Total commercial loan growth increased 8% year-over-year and 6% sequentially annualized, which continues to be driven by our strong lending teams and loan production offices |
| As demonstrated by regulatory ratios, they are above the applicable well-capitalized standards and favorable tangible equity levels compared to peers |
| Our capital position has remained strong |
| Excluding this prior year gain on sale, non-interest income would have been industry 0.5% year-over-year primarily reflecting the strength in commercial swap fees |
| Further, the growth opportunities of our loan production office and lender hiring initiatives, we expect to continue to improve as they gain additional traction |
| And with a loan-to-deposit ratio of 87%, we have ample lending capacity to continue to support our customers |
| Total portfolio loans grew nearly 8% year-to-date annualized, reflecting the strength of our markets and lending teams combined with our strategic lending initiatives |
| I am pleased to say that we have seen great adoption by both existing and new customers |
| Our third quarter results continued to demonstrate the strength of our franchise and successful execution of our strategic initiatives, reflecting both solid loan and deposit growth as well as strong capital levels and credit quality |
| We continue to believe that we are well-positioned for any operating environment as we actively manage our liquidity risk to ensure adequate funds to meet changes in loan demand, unexpected outflows in deposits and other borrowings, as well as take advantage of market opportunities as they arise |
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| The net interest margin of 3.03% for the third quarter decreased 15 basis points sequentially, primarily due to higher funding costs from increasing deposit costs and continued remix from non-interest bearing deposits into higher tiered money market and certificate of deposit accounts, partially offset by the deployment of excess cash into higher yielding loans, and the pay down of higher cost to wholesale borrowings |
| Residential mortgage originations, which were down 30% year-over-year, totaled approximately $165 million in the third quarter, with roughly 55% of the originations sold into the secondary market |
| So I would say, as I mentioned in kind of my prepared commentary, we certainly do expect some slight margin contraction here in the fourth quarter, probably at about half of what we experienced here in between second quarter, third quarter of 15 basis points |
| And it has really struggled since COVID |
| Further, total loans past due, criticized and classified loans, non-performing loans and non-performing assets as percentages of the loan portfolio and total assets have remained low from a historical perspective, and within consistent range over the last several quarters |
| We continued to experience some shift in the mix of our deposits with non-interest bearing demand deposits down 2.7% from the second quarter |
| But regarding our current outlook for the remainder of 2023, we are modeling Fed funds to remain unchanged at 5.5% with a couple of rate cuts in the back half of 2024, reflecting the current operating environment of higher funding costs and some deposit mix shift in the higher yielding deposit products, we continue to model some contraction in the fourth quarter net interest margin, but at a lesser rate than the last couple of quarters before beginning to stabilize in 2024 |
| Commercial real estate loan payoffs returned to a more historical quarterly level during the third quarter, totaling approximately $94 million, while C&I line utilization as of the end of the quarter declined 490 basis points year-over-year to 31% |
| For the third quarter of 2023, non-interest income of $30.9 million decreased $1.4 million year-over-year, due to a $1.5 million gain on the sale of an underlying equity investment held by WesBanco Community Development Corporation in the prior year period |
| Dave Bishop In terms of going back to loan growth, obviously year-over-year in that double-digit range 10%, ticked down this quarter, I think 6% and change |
| Operating expenses continue to reflect nationwide deflationary pressures as well as long-term growth investments including previously completed elements of our strategic loan production office and lender hiring initiatives |
| Daniel Cardenas So I noticed your securities portfolio has kind of been declining here over the last several quarters |
| Mortgage banking will reflect seasonality and be impacted by industry-wide lower production trends in the current residential lending environment |
| We've also, as I believe, I've mentioned, really retooled our treasury team, turning them more into a sales function, before I think it was a little bit more of a support function |
| Depending on deposit loan growth, that could go probably down |
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