Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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I think we've been very successful in getting new dollars in the door and growing our deposit base like I mentioned, in my lead off -- lead off to my comments, but it also reprices our own loan book and that's going to continue next year
And our retention rate on the CDs that we have been bringing in in our money market specials, the retention rates were very good
I mean our community PA we call it the bread basket of our company is $3.5 billion of our deposits, and this great clients deep relationships
And so that's why, it's better from a margin perspective for us
And we still have a very strong transaction account base and we've got a nice savings book
Just we do feel confident that we have a good depository and we just -- they could surprise us as Jim suggested, but we feel like we're well positioned
And so -- and we just have a terrific team that we did a lift out a few years ago and we're just pretty bullish on the business in some of our commercial categories
That gives me a lot of confidence
So, we feel good
It's a good position to be in
So, I feel very good about our deposit positioning
We ended the quarter with solid credit metrics
If I could jump back in just because Jane mentioned, it our CD retention rate has been really remarkable
And that also gives us confidence in the margin
You can never have too many transaction accounts, but we feel good
We have been able to produce solid deposit growth all year to fund our loan growth
We now have 30,000 users taking advantage of this robust financial wellness tool we believe is a best-in-class solution
In closing, we've built enough strong revenue engines and have sufficient risk appetite to grow constructively provided we fund the asset growth with organic deposit growth
But the retention rate has been really strong
So the NIM is marginally better by about 5 basis points
Overall consumer delinquencies are up as the categories you mentioned but somewhere down as well I think, right? Brian Karrip Yes, the HELOC category improved and we think our portfolio is in good shape entering into this credit cycle
We're a good partner quite frankly and we tend to do right by the people that partner with us and they do well and we do well
It's a $2.2 million loan and we feel pretty good about that one
And we talk to everybody and people in the past have come to us a couple of times first and that's been nice
On the digital front, adoption of credit score manager, a credit score manager tool and online banking has grown faster than expectations since launched in late April
I would just add and Jane is on the phone, I think her and the team have done a terrific job pivoting to deposits, bringing deposits in
New loans came on the books at an average rate of 7.43% in the third quarter, up nicely from 7.01% in the second quarter and 6.61% in the first quarter
And so those are key categories for us, but there's good volume there and that volume doesn't evaporate and even our indirect business has got up almost 7%, 6.85%
So you get some of the benefit of the loan portfolio the rate increases that have happened this year-to-date, and a positive replacement have been experiencing
And if you look at our track record over the last 11 or 12 years, we're pretty close or good at that
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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Fortunately, the overall pace of deposit cost increases continued to slow in the third quarter
And there are – we do feel there'll be some strain but probably on things in retrospect that we knew we should have done at the time
But as we think about the third quarter, there's really been some not so savory data points from many credit card delinquencies, auto delinquencies obviously, Discover was pretty bearish on their earnings call
That was a 5.8% decline in those categories
That was a 3.6% decline in those categories
And I know the comment was I think slowing deposit pressures
The NIM compressed nine basis points quarter-to-quarter to 3.76%
The result as Mike said was 9 basis points of margin compression to 3.76%, a level which we still believe compares relatively well with peers
We slowed share repurchases somewhat late in the second quarter to conserve capital
Jane, any color you want to add? Jane Grebenc Only that we have seen the request for deposit exceptions decline a bit, which tells us that competitors are slowing down a bit
But on a macro level, I'm watching the numbers and I've seen it slow down
Matthew Breese Jim in the press release you noted that because of some excess liquidity this quarter it impacted the NIM by I think eight basis points
But then rates -- if the Fed funds rate falls that much by the end of next year there's pressure in the variable rate portfolio that brings the overall NIM down a bit, so it trails off towards the end of next year and it ends next year and that projection actually exactly where it is right now in the system effect
And if we miss, it's not by much
Our procedure is to get an annual appraisal and the appraisal value that came in most recently showed a significant decrease in value, so we add a specific reserve of $4.1 million
The rate of deposit cost increases is slowing and we believe that the NIM will stabilize going into the end of the year and continue to hold up in 2024
So how do you guys kind of approach the credit piece here? I mean obviously, you're calling your portfolio and stressing it and looking at it, but there are starting to become somewhat obvious signs of deterioration
Please refer to the forward-looking statements disclaimer on Page 3 of the slide presentation for a description of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements
There's been some more recent headlines I think it's sub-prime auto delinquencies are starting to go higher
We're down to 11% securities to assets
   

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