Q2 2025 National Bank of Canada Earnings Call
And the head of Investor Relations.
Please go ahead, Matt young.
Matt Young: Yeah, Yeah and welcome everyone.
I'll begin the call with remarks from the Australia, President and CEO and I can start answering com, yes, and so I'll say that I think as a chief risk officer.
Also present for the Q&A session session, our leasing last year EBIT personal banking does it mean.
Key commercial and private banking, Michael denim it depend vice chair responsible for the integration of CW week now.
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Before we begin please refer to slide two of our presentation for information on forward looking statements.
Speaker Change: The bank uses non-GAAP measures such as adjusted results to assess its performance management will be referring to adjusted results unless otherwise noted I will now turn the call over to law.
Speaker Change: Yes.
Speaker Change: Thank you everyone for joining us. This morning, we reported second quarter results, which include CW B G.
Speaker Change: We generated earnings per share of $2 85.
Speaker Change: 12% year over year.
Speaker Change: Turn on equity of 15, 6%.
Our performance reflects organic growth.
Our business segments, including an excellent performance from financial markets, driven by strong client activity and volatile markets.
Speaker Change: And as well early momentum in cost and funding synergies from the <unk> acquisition.
Speaker Change: We ended the quarter with the CET one ratio of 13, 4% inline with expectations. Our capital position is strong, allowing us to support business growth and we also raised our quarterly dividend by <unk> <unk> effective next quarter.
Speaker Change: Turning to the macroeconomic context.
The uncertainty related to global trade tensions and ongoing negotiations continues to be an overhang on the economy.
Speaker Change: Increasing geopolitical and economic instability and projected fiscal deficits in major economies are making the path of growth.
Speaker Change: And inflation difficult to forecast.
Speaker Change: This in turn is bringing instability to capital markets and is keeping long term interest rates high.
Speaker Change: That being said the latest developments regarding global trade negotiations seems to be progressing in the right direction.
The effective tariff rate being absorbed by Canada is lower than initially anticipated.
Speaker Change: Canadian businesses have been quick to initiate U S MCA compliance and as a result, the share of covered products.
As increased significantly.
Speaker Change: Despite the uncertainty Canadian consumers and businesses are demonstrating resilience.
Speaker Change: As always we will continue to support our clients providing advice in these challenging times.
Speaker Change: And we will support investments in domestic projects across.
Speaker Change: But countries.
Speaker Change: Before turning to our results I would like to say a few words on our acquisition of C. WB.
Speaker Change: We are off to a strong start.
Speaker Change: And we are excited about the opportunities ahead.
Speaker Change: I am very pleased with the integration momentum as well as the positive reception from clients.
Speaker Change: Employees have all been on boarded and our teams across the country are working towards a smooth integration for our clients.
Speaker Change: Funding and cost synergies are progressing ahead of schedule.
Speaker Change: And with the first wave of client migrations.
Speaker Change: Starting this summer this sets the table for revenue synergies starting towards the end of the year.
Speaker Change: Looking now at our business segment performance P&C banking generated net income of $316 million, including $45 million from the CW transaction.
Speaker Change: Excluding CW be P&C delivered 4% revenue growth year over year as we continued to grow our balance sheet.
Speaker Change: Our commercial book grew 14% with sustained opportunities and insured residential real estate and broad based growth across our industries and geographies.
Speaker Change: Personal mortgages grew 4% year over year with strong origination levels and pointing to similar growth levels in the second half of 2025.
Speaker Change: Wealth management grew net income by 15% year over year on the back strong organic growth net sales and our channel combined with market levels generated double digit fee based revenue growth.
Speaker Change: While our strong deposit base supported solid growth in net interest income.
Speaker Change: This quarter operating leverage was negative for this segment because of the integration of <unk> wealth business How's.
Speaker Change: However, cost synergies will support our attractive efficiency ratio, which came in under 60% again this quarter.
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Speaker Change: Financial markets generated net income of more than $500 million this quarter with net income growth in the first half of the year well ahead of the expectations, we had coming into 2025.
Speaker Change: Global markets benefited from volatility and higher than usual volumes in our trading businesses in the second quarter.
Speaker Change: Client activity remained robust despite macro uncertainty.
Speaker Change: Corporate and investment banking delivered resilient performance with revenues up 2% year over year clients remain active but prudent in the current context.
Speaker Change: Turning to the U S credit you delivered net income of $40 million. This quarter credits. We grew net interest income, 4% year over year with underlying growth of 2% and average assets.
Speaker Change: We expect the market to remain competitive for the rest of the year I was always strategy will continue to be opportunistic as conditions evolve while maintaining discipline on new investments.
Speaker Change: At a bank, we had a great quarter.
Speaker Change: Our clients and deposit base grew 33% and 21%, respectively and loan growth came in at 7% year over year.
Maricopa: I will now pass the call to Maricopa.
Maricopa: Thank you and good morning, everyone.
Speaker Change: My comments will begin on slide eight.
Speaker Change: Bang delivering strong performance in the second quarter.
Speaker Change: I'll, let results in our business segments were complemented by decidedly. The addition.
Speaker Change: On an all bank basis.
Speaker Change: <unk> increased by 33% and PTP rose by 45% year over year.
Speaker Change: Excluding <unk> revenue grew by 22% year over here at.
Speaker Change: All segments contributed to this growth.
Speaker Change: Article our strength in financial markets.
Speaker Change: <unk> increased by 34% year over year and operating leverage was positive at 10%.
Speaker Change: Also excluding C WB.
Speaker Change: Expenses increased by 12% year over year.
Speaker Change: Mainly driven by variable compensation in line with the strong financial markets performing.
Speaker Change: This was partly offset by a $22 million reversal of a property tax furnish it.
Speaker Change: Apart from these two items.
Speaker Change: <unk> growth was 9%.
Speaker Change: Additionally, technology costs reflect the continued evolution of our infrastructure and increased support our business growth.
Speaker Change: Turning to the impact of the CW transaction.
Speaker Change: It contributed $298 million to revenues.
Speaker Change: And I did $155 million to expenses.
Speaker Change: As we completed our first quarter together, our focus remains on executing effectively and with impact.
Speaker Change: As we pursue our integration plan.
Speaker Change: We are pleased with the cost and finding synergies that are materializing already as we continue to build the foundation to.
Speaker Change: Fully realize targeted synergies.
Speaker Change: To this end PWB employees are actively learning our products processes and systems.
Speaker Change: And we opened our customer contact center in Atlanta.
Speaker Change: We are engaging with our clients providing information on the full suite of National Bank, offering and providing a base and then migration timeline.
Speaker Change: Moving to slide nine.
Speaker Change: Non trading net interest income in Q2 increased by 11% sequentially on an all bank basis.
Speaker Change: PWB transaction significantly contributed to NII, adding $251 million.
Speaker Change: Excluding CW me NII was relatively stable sequentially after adjusting for the fewer number of days in the quarter and the $11 million annual dividend recorded in U S. S. EFI in Q1.
Speaker Change: The all bank NIM, excluding trading was 223%.
Speaker Change: <unk> was accretive to NIM, adding four basis points.
Speaker Change: Excluding the CW be NIM was 219% down seven basis points sequentially, reflecting a lower GNC NIM lower commission fees and corporate banking and the Q1 U S. S. If I get it.
Speaker Change: The P&C NIM was impacted by the balance sheet mix as loan growth exceeded deposit growth.
Speaker Change: I expect this trend to continue in Q3.
Speaker Change: Turning to slide 10.
Speaker Change: We continue to see solid expansion across the balance sheet.
Speaker Change: Total loans reached $286 million.
Speaker Change: Up 22% year over year, including approximately 37 billion from the acquisition.
Speaker Change: Excluding <unk> loans grew 6% compared to last year.
Speaker Change: The commercial loan book was most impacted site. The addition of the <unk> portfolio.
Speaker Change: Excluding C WB commercial loan growth was a solid 14% year over year.
Speaker Change: Deposits, excluding wholesale funding group to reach $294 million up 23% compared to last year.
Speaker Change: Excluding C WB.
Speaker Change: <unk> increased by 10% year over year and were stable sequentially.
We all think NIM, excluding trading was $2 23 per cent.
Speaker Change: Personal deposits rose by 9% driven by continued growth in demand deposits and non retail deposits were up 11%.
C WB was accretive to NIM, adding four basis points.
Excluding PWB NIM was 219% down seven basis points sequentially, reflecting a lower G and seen them lower commission fees and corporate banking and the Q1 U S. S. If I did it.
Speaker Change: While deposit pricing continues to be competitive.
Speaker Change: <unk> funding strategy remains disciplined and client centric prioritizing stable relationship based deposits over rate sensitive flows.
The P&C NIM was impacted by the balance sheet mix as loan growth exceeded deposit growth.
Speaker Change: The acquisition of Cedar Bayou be meaningfully diversify our deposit base, adding scale and expanding our reach across client segments.
We expect this trend to continue.
Speaker Change: Now turning to capital on Slide 11.
Speaker Change: We ended the quarter after closing the CW you'd be transaction with a robust CET one ratio at 13, 4%.
Speaker Change: The day, one impact of the transaction on capital was nine basis points.
Speaker Change: Internal capital generation was strong, adding 41 basis points to citywide.
Marianne Ratté: to Marianne Ratte, Vice President and Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Marianne. Merci and welcome everyone.
Despite the addition of the CW B portfolio.
Speaker Change: Excluding the day one impact.
Excluding C WB commercial loan growth was a solid 14% year over year.
Unknown Executive: We will begin the call with remarks from Laurent Ferreira, President and CEO, Marius Fontaine-Gingras, CFO and also Vincent Griset, Chief Risk Officer. Also present for the Q&A session are Lucie Blanchet, EVP, Personal Bank. Visit Minna, EVP Commercial and Private Banking, Michael Denham, EVP and Vice Chair, Responsible for the Integration of CW. Nancy Paquet, EVP Wealth Management, Etienne Dubuc, EVP Financial Markets, and Bill Bonnet, EVP International, responsible for ABE Bank.
Speaker Change: <unk> utilized 23 basis points at CET one.
Speaker Change: Consistent with solid balance sheet growth, while market risk arguably you eight accounted for nine basis points, primarily driven by business growth and underlying market volatility.
Deposits, excluding wholesale funding group to reach $294 million up 23% compared to last year.
Excluding C WB deposits increased by 10% year over year and were stable sequentially.
Speaker Change: During the quarter, we migrated one small CW b portfolio to a RMB contributing three basis points to 61.
Personal deposits rose by 9% driven by continued growth in demand deposits.
Speaker Change: Majority of the capital benefit is still expected to be realized in 2026, as we migrate the client portfolios to our platform.
And non retail deposits were up 11%.
While deposit pricing continues to be competitive there.
Speaker Change: In the meantime, we are very pleased with the strength of our CET one ratio.
Unknown Executive: Before we begin, please refer to Slide 2 of our presentation for information on forward-looking programs. Thank you.
Banks funding strategy remains disciplined and client centric prioritizing stable relationship based deposits over rate sensitive close.
Speaker Change: Slide 12 shows that we're tracking ahead of our plan to deliver approximately $270 million pretax of costs and funding synergies by the end of fiscal 2027.
Unknown Executive: The Bank uses non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted results, to assess its performance. Management will be referring to adjusted results on this otherwise.
The acquisition of suitable you'd be meaningfully diversify our deposit base, adding scale and expanding our reach across client segments.
Unknown Executive: I will now turn the call over to Laura. Merci, Marianne, and thank you, everyone, for joining us.
Speaker Change: We expect over $135 million by the end of Q1 2026.
Laurent Ferreira: This morning, we reported second-order results, which include CWB. Generated Earnings Per Share of $2.85, up 12% year-over-year, and return on equity of $15.6 million. Our performance reflects organic growth in our business segments, including an excellent performance from financial markets driven by strong client activity and volatile markets. and as well early momentum in cost and funding synergies from the CWEB acquisition. We ended the quarter with a CT1 ratio of 13.4% in line with expectations.
Now turning to capital on Slide 11.
Speaker Change: In the second quarter, we realized 14 million in funding synergies with $9 million through NII and five.
We ended the quarter after closing the CW bee transaction with a robust CET one ratio at 13, 4%.
Speaker Change: Lowered preferred share dividends and equity.
The day, one impact of the transaction on capital was nine basis points.
Speaker Change: Instrument distributions.
Internal capital generation was strong, adding 41 basis points just C T y.
Speaker Change: This was accomplished by leveraging our ratings profile and optimizing the capital structure.
Excluding that they want them.
Speaker Change: We have also realized $13 million in cost synergies.
Credit risk <unk> utilized 23 basis points of CP one.
Speaker Change: Mostly through the reduction of the it infrastructure costs.
Consistent with solid balance sheet growth, while market risks arguably you wait accounted for nine basis points, primarily driven by business growth and underlying market volatility.
Speaker Change: And consolidation of centralized functions.
Laurent Ferreira: Our capital position is strong, allowing us to support business growth, and we also raised our quarterly dividend by 4 cents, effective next quarter.
Speaker Change: The realized cost and funding synergies of $27 million in Q2 represents $115 million on an annual basis, when she equate to approximately 43% of our three year target.
Laurent Ferreira: Turning to the macroeconomic context. The uncertainty related to global trade tensions and ongoing negotiations continues to be an overhead on the economy. Increasing geopolitical and geoeconomic instability and projected fiscal deficits in major economies are making the path of growth and inflation difficult to forecast. This, in turn, is bringing instability to capital markets and is keeping long-term interest rates high.
During the quarter, we migrated one small city, though would you be portfolio to a RMB contributing three basis points to 61.
Speaker Change: Cost synergies will continue to materialize and accelerate I C. WB clients are on BARDA recall that the platform migration will be done in waves.
The majority of the capital benefit is still expected to be realized in 2026.
As we migrate the client portfolios to our platform.
Speaker Change: Beginning this summer and continuing into early calendar 2020.
In the meantime, we are very pleased with the strength of our CET one ratio.
Speaker Change: In Q1, we highlighted areas, where we see significant opportunities for revenue upside both in NII and fee income.
Slide 12 shows that we're tracking ahead of our plan to deliver approximately $270 million pre tax of costs and funding synergies by the end of fiscal 2027.
Laurent Ferreira: That being said, the latest developments regarding global trade negotiations seem to be progressing in the right direction. effective tariff rate being absorbed by Canada is lower than initially anticipated. Canadian businesses have been quick to initiate USMCA compliance, and as a result, the share of covered products has increased significantly. Despite the uncertainty, Canadian consumers and businesses are demonstrating resilience.
Speaker Change: We are executing our strategy to achieve our targeted revenue synergies.
We expect over $135 million by the end of Q1 'twenty 'twenty six.
Speaker Change: We continue to expect revenue opportunities to accelerate in 2026.
In the second quarter, we realized 14 million in funding synergies with 9 million through NII and five.
Speaker Change: Following the completion of site migration.
Speaker Change: With the full benefit to materialize in 2027 and beyond.
Speaker Change: Moving to slide 13.
Million lowered briefer shared dividends and equity.
Speaker Change: Our outlook, including C. WB remains unchanged from last quarter.
Laurent Ferreira: As always, we will continue to support our clients providing advice in these challenging times. And we will support investments in domestic projects across the country.
Instrument distributions.
This was accomplished by leveraging our rating profile and optimizing the capital structure.
Speaker Change: Adjusted EPS growth will continue to be impacted by the amortization of the fair value and a larger share count.
We have also realized $13 million in cost synergies.
Speaker Change: However, excluding this amortization and supported by our strong first half performance, we remain confident in delivering mid single digit EPS growth and adjusted ROE of approximately 15%.
Laurent Ferreira: Before turning to our results, I would like to say a few words on our acquisition of CWP. We are off to a strong start. and we are excited about the opportunities ahead. I am very pleased with the integration momentum, as well as the positive reception from clients. Employees have all been on boarded and our teams across the country are working towards a smooth integration for our clients. funding and cost synergies are progressing ahead of schedule. And with the first wave of client migration Starting this summer, this sets the table for revenue synergies starting towards the end of the year.
Mostly through the reduction of the IP infrastructure costs.
And consolidation of centralized functions.
The realized cost and funding synergies of $27 million in Q2 represents $115 million on an annual basis when she points to approximately 43% of our three year targets.
Speaker Change: We also maintain our targets for positive operating leverage in 2025.
Speaker Change: To conclude we remain focused on driving sustained and profitable growth going forward.
Cost synergies will continue to materialize and accelerate I C. WB clients are on boarded recall that the platform migration will be done in white.
Speaker Change: <unk> will serve as a tailwind for our businesses for many years to come.
Speaker Change: While it is still early days I am pleased with our progress and excited about opportunities that lie ahead.
Beginning this summer and continuing into early calendar 2020.
Jonathan: I will now turn the call over to Jonathan.
Laurent Ferreira: Looking now at our business segment performance, PNC Banking generated net income of $316 million, including $45 million from the CWV transaction. excluding CWB, PNC delivered 4% revenue growth year over year as we continue to grow our balance. A commercial book from 14% with sustained opportunities in insured residential real estate and broad-based growth across our industries and geographies. Personal mortgages grew 4% year over year with strong origination levels and pointing to similar growth levels in the second half of 2025. Wealth management grew net income by 15% year over year on the back strong organic growth. Net sales in our channels combined with market levels generated double digit fee based revenue growth, while our strong deposit base supported solid growth in net interest income.
In Q1, we highlighted areas, where we see significant opportunities for revenue upside.
Speaker Change: It seemed like a shutdown and good morning, everyone.
Jonathan: I'll start with slide 15.
Jonathan: Since our last call the Canadian economy has faced heightened uncertainty largely driven by tariffs and global trade tension.
<unk> and NII and fee income.
We are executing our strategy to achieve our targeted revenue synergies.
Jonathan: These challenges add complexity to an economy already showing signs of softening.
We continue to expect revenue unfortunately to accelerate in 'twenty 'twenty six.
Jonathan: While our recent progress on several trusts trade discussions with the U S is encouraging.
Following the completion of five migration.
When the full benefits to materialize in 2027 and beyond.
Jonathan: The environment continues to be fluid.
Jonathan: As such we are maintaining our cautious approach and remain prudently provision.
Moving to slide 13.
Our outlook, including C. WB remains unchanged from last quarter.
Jonathan: In this context, our credit portfolios continue to perform in line with our expectation.
Adjusted EPS growth will continue to be impacted by the amortization of the fair value and a larger share count.
Jonathan: Supported by our defensive positioning resilient mix and disciplined risk management.
However, excluding the summarization and supported by our strong first half performance, we remain confident in delivering mid single digit EPS growth and adjusted ROA of approximately 15%.
Jonathan: Now turning to the second quarter results.
Jonathan: Total PCL were $545 million or 79 basis points.
Jonathan: Which reflected the initial provision on performing loans of $230 million related to the C WB transaction.
Laurent Ferreira: This quarter, operating leverage was negative for this segment because of the integration of DWB's Wealth Business. However, cost synergies will support our attractive efficiency ratio, which came in under 60% again this fourth. Financial markets generated net income of more than $500 million this quarter, with net income growth in the first half of the year well ahead of the expectations we had coming into 2025. Global markets benefited from volatility Client activity remain robust despite macro uncertainty. Corporate and investment banking delivered resilient performance with revenues up 2% year-over-year, clients remain active but prudent in the current context.
We also maintained our targets for positive operating leverage in 2025.
Jonathan: Adjusted total PCL were $315 million or 45 basis points, which was four basis points higher quarter over quarter.
To conclude we remain focused on driving sustained and profitable growth going forward.
Neither will you be will serve as a tailwind for our businesses for many years to come.
Jonathan: We added 12 basis points of adjusted performing provisions in Q2, driven by model calibration.
While it is still early days I am pleased with our progress and excited about opportunities that lie ahead.
Jonathan: Macro economic outlook and tariff uncertainties.
Jonathan: This is in addition to the nine basis points, we took last quarter.
Jonathan: I will now turn the call over to Jonathan.
Jonathan: It seemed like you Sean and good morning, everyone.
Jonathan: PCL on impaired loans were $219 million or 32 basis points, which was stable quarter over quarter.
Speaker Change: I'll start with slide 15.
Jonathan: Since our last call the Canadian economy has faced heightened uncertainty largely driven by tariffs and global trade tension.
Jonathan: Excluding CW vision impaired provision declined slightly to $192 million from $196 million last quarter.
Jonathan: These challenges are complexity to an economy already showing signs of softening.
Jonathan: While recent progress on several trusts trade discussions with the U S is encouraging.
Jonathan: Looking at impaired PCL by segment.
Laurent Ferreira: Turning to the U.S. Credigee delivered net income of $40 million this quarter. Credigee grew net interest income 4% year-over-year, with underlying growth of 2% in average assets.
Jonathan: Personal banking provisions decreased sequentially to 53 million.
Jonathan: The environment continues to be fluid.
Jonathan: As such we're maintaining a cautious approach.
Jonathan: Mostly driven by uninsured mortgages.
Jonathan: Commercial banking provisions were $71 million.
Jonathan: And remain prudently provision.
Laurent Ferreira: We expect the market to remain competitive for the rest of the year. As always, strategy will continue to be opportunistic as conditions evolve while maintaining discipline on new investments.
Jonathan: In this context, our credit portfolios continue to perform in line with our expectation.
Jonathan: Afflicting at two five.
Jonathan: Additionally, the CW B portfolio is performing in line with our expectations.
Jonathan: Supported by our defensive positioning resilient.
Jonathan: And financial markets.
Jonathan: Brazilian mix.
Jonathan: And disciplined risk management.
Laurent Ferreira: At ABA Bank, we have a great board. Our client and deposit base grew 32% and 21% respectively, and loan growth came in at 7% year over year.
Jonathan: Third PCL at $55 million or eight basis points were related to a single file in the manufacturing sector.
Jonathan: Total PCL were $545 million or 79 basis points.
Jonathan: At <unk>, we continued to see a normal seasoning of portfolios.
Marie Chantal: I will now pass the call to Marie Chantal. Thank you all and good morning everyone. My comments will begin on slide 8. The bank delivered strong performance in the second quarter. Solid results in our business segment were complemented by the CWB addition. On an all-bank basis, revenue increased by 33% and PPP rose by 45% year-over-year. Excluding CWB, revenue grew by 22% year-over-year. All segments contributed to this growth with particular strength in financial markets. PPP increased by 34% year-over-year and operating leverage was positive at 10%.
Jonathan: Which reflected the initial provision on performing loans of $230 million related to the C WB transaction.
Jonathan: And at <unk>.
Jonathan: Impaired provisions decreased to $14 million U S.
Jonathan: Turning to slide 16.
Jonathan: Adjusted total PCL were $315 million or 45 basis points, which was four basis points higher quarter over quarter.
Jonathan: Our total allowances for credit losses reached $2 2 billion.
Jonathan: Representing five seven times coverage of our net charge offs.
Jonathan: Our performing allowance reached one 5 billion.
Jonathan: We added 12 basis points of adjusted performing provisions in Q2, driven by model calibration.
Jonathan: Representing a strong performing ECL coverage ratio of two times.
Jonathan: Acro economic outlook and tariff uncertainties.
Jonathan: We have been building allowances for the past 12 quarters and remain comfortable with our prudent provisioning levels.
Jonathan: This is in addition to the nine basis points, we took last quarter.
Jonathan: PCL on impaired loans were $219 million or 32 basis points, which was stable quarter over quarter.
Jonathan: Additional metrics on our allowances are provided in appendix tense.
Jonathan: Turning to slide 17.
Jonathan: Excluding C WB impaired provision declined slightly to $192 million from $196 million last quarter.
Jonathan: Our gross impaired loan ratio increased to 98 basis points, mainly driven by the <unk> transaction and in line with our expectations.
Marie Chantal: Also excluding CWB. Expenses increased by 12% year-over-year, mainly driven by variable compensation, in line with the strong financial markets performance. This was partly offset by a $22 million dollar reversal of a property tax for the Apart from these two items, expense growth was 9%. Additionally, technology costs reflect the continued evolution of our infrastructure and increased support for business growth.
Jonathan: Looking at impaired PCL bicycle.
Jonathan: Excluding C WB and U S S F&I.
Jonathan: Personal banking provisions decreased sequentially to $53 million.
Jonathan: The ratio was 54 basis points five basis points higher than last quarter.
Jonathan: Mostly driven by uninsured mortgages.
Jonathan: Formations this quarter reflect the CW transaction.
Jonathan: Commercial banking provisions were $71 million.
Jonathan: Reflecting a two five.
Jonathan: Removing this impact total formations would have been down quarter over quarter.
Jonathan: Additionally, the CW B portfolio is performing in line with our expectations.
Jonathan: At 88 net formations declined for the second consecutive quarter and remained below the peak observed at the end of 2024.
Jonathan: And financial markets.
Jonathan: <unk> D C L a $55 million or eight basis points were related to a single file in the manufacturing sector.
Marie Chantal: Turning to the impact of the CWB transaction. It contributed $298 million to revenue and added $155 million to expenses. As we completed our first quarter together, our focus remains on executing effectively and with impact as we pursue our integration plan. We are pleased with the cost and funding synergies that are materializing already as we continue to build the foundation to fully realize the targeted. To this end, CWB employees are actively learning our products, processes, and systems, and we opened a customer contact center in a month. We are engaging with our clients, providing information on the full suite of national bank offerings, and providing updates on the migration timeline.
Speaker Change: On slide 18 and 19.
Jonathan: <unk>, we continued to see a normal seasoning of portfolios.
Speaker Change: Highlight our Canadian reservoir portfolio.
Speaker Change: Quebec now accounts for 51% of the portfolio.
Jonathan: And at a D a.
Jonathan: Impaired provisions decreased to $14 million U S.
Speaker Change: And insured mortgages account for 27% of total Russell.
Speaker Change: Average ltvs for our helix and uninsured mortgages remain in the fifties and higher risk uninsured borrowers represent less than 1% of the total rental portfolio.
Jonathan: Turning to slide 16.
Jonathan: Our total allowances for credit losses reached $2 2 billion, representing five seven times coverage of our net charge offs.
Jonathan: Our performing allowance reached one 5 billion.
Speaker Change: Furthermore, approximately 75% of the portfolio has now been repriced at higher interest rates.
Jonathan: Representing a strong performing ECL coverage ratio of two times.
Speaker Change: 90 day mortgage delinquencies remain below the pre pandemic level with our clients continuing to demonstrate resilience in managing higher refinancing costs.
Jonathan: We have been building allowances for the past 12 quarters and remain comfortable with our prudent provisioning levels.
Jonathan: Additional metrics on or allowances are provided in appendix stuff.
Speaker Change: Appendix eight provides an overview of our portfolio following the CW transaction.
Jonathan: Turning to slide 17.
Speaker Change: Along with an update on tariff sensitive sectors.
Jonathan: Gross impaired loan ratio increased to 98 basis points, mainly driven by the <unk> transaction and in line with our expectations.
Marie Chantal: Moving to slide nine. Non-trading net interest income in Q2 increased by 11% sequentially on an all-bank basis. DWB transaction significantly contributed to NII, adding $251 million.
Speaker Change: Our exposure to these sectors remains limited.
Speaker Change: With the most sensitive borrowers accounting for less than 1% of the bank's total loan.
Jonathan: Excluding C WB and U S S F&I.
Speaker Change: Looking forward.
Speaker Change: Uncertainty remains around the outlook for economic growth and unemployment.
Jonathan: The ratio was 54 basis points five basis points higher than last quarter.
Marie Chantal: Excluding CWB, NII was relatively stable sequentially after adjusting for the fewer number of days in the quarter and the $11 million annual dividend recorded in USSFI in Q1. The All Bank NIM excluding trading was 2.23%. CWB was a creative to them, adding four basis. Excluding CWB, NIM was 2.19%, down 7 basis points sequentially, reflecting a lower PNC NIM, lower commission fees in corporate banking, and the Q1 USSFI dividend. The PNC-NIM was impacted by the balance sheet mix, as loan growth exceeded deposit growth. We expect this trend to continue in Q3.
Speaker Change: The impact of tariffs is still difficult to quantify and the range of potential outcomes remains wide.
Jonathan: Formations this quarter reflect the pseudo would be transaction.
Jonathan: Removing this impact total formations would've been down quarter over quarter.
Speaker Change: That said, we continue to expect impaired PCL to be within the 25% to 35 basis point range for the full year.
Jonathan: At 88 net formations declined for the second consecutive quarter and remained below the peak observed.
Speaker Change: In conclusion, we are well positioned to navigate the ongoing volatility and uncertainty given our defensive attributes resilient mix and prudent level of allowances.
Jonathan: At the end of 2024.
Jonathan: On slide 18 and 19.
Jonathan: Highlight our Canadian reservoir portfolio.
Jonathan: Quebec now accounts for 51% of the portfolio.
Speaker Change: And with that I will now turn the call back to the operator for the Q&A.
Jonathan: And insured mortgages accounted for 27% of total Russell.
Jonathan: Average ltvs for our Helocs and uninsured mortgages remain in the fifties and higher risks uninsured borrowers represent less than 1% of the total rental portfolio.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: We will now take questions from the telephone lines did you have a question.
Speaker Change: Please press star one on your devices ski pause you maybe canceled your question at any time by pressing star too so.
Jonathan: Furthermore, approximately 75% of the portfolio has now been repriced at higher interest rates.
Speaker Change: So please press star one at this time, if you have a question it will be a brief pause while the participants register.
Jonathan: 90 day mortgage delinquencies remain below the pre pandemic level with our clients continuing to demonstrate resilience in managing higher refinancing costs.
Marie Chantal: Turning to slide 10. We continue to see solid expansion across the boundaries. Total loans reach $286 billion, up 22% year-over-year, including approximately $37 billion from the acquisition.
Speaker Change: Thank you for your patience.
Matthew Lee: The first question is from Matthew Lee from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Jonathan: Appendix eight provides an overview of our portfolio following the CW transaction.
Matthew Lee: Good morning, Thanks for taking my question maybe.
Jonathan: Along with an update on tariff sensitive sectors.
Marie Chantal: excluding CWB loans grew 6% compared to last Commercial Loan Book was most impacted by the addition of the CWB portfolio. Excluding CWB, commercial loan growth was a solid 14% year-over-year. Deposits, excluding wholesale funding, grew to reach $294 billion, up 23% compared to last Excluding CWB, deposits increased by 10% year-over-year and were stable sequentially. personal deposits rose by 9% driven by continued growth in demand deposits and non retail deposits were up 11%. While deposit pricing continues to be competitive, the bank's funding strategy remains disciplined and time-centric, prioritizing stable relationship-based deposits over rate-sensitive flows.
Matthew Lee: Maybe one on guidance Q2 numbers I'm going to assume a better than you could have expected, but trading revenue is doing really well so.
Jonathan: Our exposure to these sectors remains limited.
Jonathan: With the most sensitive borrowers accounting for less than 1% of the bank's total loan.
Matthew Lee: Just a bit surprised you didnt update earnings guidance for the year are there any mitigating factors for us to consider in the back half or just maybe some conservatism built into the mid single digit growth expectation.
Jonathan: Looking forward.
Jonathan: Uncertainty remains around the outlook for economic growth and unemployment.
Jonathan: The impact of tariffs is still difficult to quantify and the range of potential outcomes remains wide.
Speaker Change: Thanks, Matthew for the question and Spanish opt out here.
Matthew Lee: We are very confident in delivering our mid single digit EPS growth for fiscal 2025.
Jonathan: That said, we continue to expect impaired PCL to be within the 25 to 35 basis point range for the full year.
Matthew Lee: That said, we do see upside dependent on market conditions, obviously were starting with a record first half so we're on solid footing.
Jonathan: In conclusion, we are well positioned to navigate the ongoing volatility and uncertainty, giving our defensive attributes resilient mix and prudent level of allowances.
Matthew Lee: And also remember we're facing a tough comp in.
Matthew Lee: In Q3 this year.
Jonathan: And with that I'll.
Matthew Lee: And I think most importantly, what's important is our I think Houston on the CW integration is going very well and it's creating tremendous upside for growth across our across the across Canada.
Jonathan: I'll now turn the call back to the operator for the Q&A.
Jonathan: Thank you.
Jonathan: We will now take questions from the telephone lines did you have a question.
Matthew Lee: You can expect us to continue demonstrating strong discipline to navigate the evolving landscape and deliver robust pro forma maybe on the market condition. It's Andy.
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Marie Chantal: The acquisition of CWB meaningfully diversifies our deposit base, adding scale and expanding our reach across client sectors.
Jonathan: So please press star one at this time, if you have a question it will be a brief pause while the participants register.
Speaker Change: Do you Wanna against a few words, yeah, Thanks, Mike Schall, President Hi, Matthew It's Tim.
Jonathan: Thank you for your patience.
Matthew Lee: So I think maybe it's it's probably good to talk a bit about the trading performance in Q2.
Marie Chantal: Now turning to Capital Non-Slide 11. We ended the quarter after closing the CWB transaction with a robust CT1 ratio at 13.4%. The day one impact of the transaction on capital was nine basis points. Internal Capital Generation was strong, adding 41 basis points to CT1. Excluding the Day 1 impact, credit risk RWA utilized 23 basis points of CP1, consistent with solid balance sheet growth, while market risk RWA accounted for 9 basis points, primarily driven by business growth and underlying market volatility. During the quarter, we migrated one small CWB portfolio to AIRB, contributing three basis points to CT1.
Jonathan: Yeah.
Jonathan: The first question is from Matthew Li from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Matthew Lee: Obviously, we delivered an outstanding performance over what we felt was already a great quarter in Q1.
Matthew Li: Hi morning, Thanks for taking my question maybe.
Speaker Change: Maybe one on guidance, our Q2 numbers I'm going to assume a better than you could have expected, but trading revenue is doing really well so.
Matthew Lee: Uh huh.
Matthew Lee: When you look at the market conditions in Q2, we probably have close to an ideal trading environment, especially for three groups specifically in equities, that's operated really above trend I am referring to structured products issuance and trading.
Speaker Change: Just a bit surprised you didnt update earnings guidance for the year are there any mitigating factors for us to consider in the back half or just maybe some conservatism built into the mid single digit growth expectation.
Matthew Lee: Equity finance, an option in ETF market, making.
Speaker Change: Thanks, Matthew for the question and Spanish sounds out here. So we are very confident in delivering our mid single digit EPS growth for fiscal 'twenty 'twenty five.
Matthew Lee: So all three strategies benefited from market conditions, where you saw intense but short volatility events typically triggered by tariffs announcements and that created large but short lived moves that we were able to capture but these dislocations we're not persist.
Speaker Change: That said, we do see upside dependent on market conditions, obviously were starting with a record first half so we're on solid footing.
Speaker Change: And also remember we're facing a tough comp in.
Marie Chantal: The majority of the capital benefit is still expected to be realized in 2026 as we migrate the client portfolios to our platform. In the meantime, we are very pleased with the strength of our CT1 race.
Matthew Lee: Enough to disrupt the fundamentals of these markets, which means that the markets were functional world.
Speaker Change: In Q3 this year.
Speaker Change: And I think most importantly, what's important is already think Houston on the CW integration is going very well and it's creating tremendous upside for growth across our across the across Canada.
Matthew Lee: <unk> volumes were strong funding spreads remained elevated and product issuance sleep robust we were actually surprised by how well issuance activity held steady.
Marie Chantal: Slide 12 shows that we're tracking ahead of our plan to deliver approximately $270 million pre-tax of cost and funding synergies by the end of fiscal 2027. We expect over $135 million by the end of Q1 2026. In the second quarter, we realized $14 million in funding synergies with $9 million through NII and $5 million lowered prefer shared dividends and equity Instrument Distribution. This was accomplished by leveraging our rating profile and optimizing the capital. We have also realized $13 million in cost-intervene Mostly through the reduction of the IT infrastructure cost and consolidation of centralized funding. The realized cost and funding synergies of $27 million in Q2 represents $115 million on an annual basis, which equates to approximately 43% of our three-year target.
Speaker Change: You can expect us to continue demonstrating strong discipline to navigate the evolving landscape and deliver robust pro forma maybe on the market condition. It's Anne do you want to give a few words, yeah. Thanks, Shaun cousins, Hi, Matthew It's Tim.
Matthew Lee: And then also really pleased with our trading in rates and our market share. There. It was a volatile environment and we have strong client activity and strong results and it was also busy on the effect size weight and the rise of volatility and again a lot of active clients.
Matthew Lee: So when you consider that resilience looking at the rest of fiscal 2025, what we anticipate is trading performance that is still solid, but lower sequentially and more aligned to long term trend because.
Speaker Change: So I picked maybe it's it's probably good to talk a bit about the trading performance in Q2.
Speaker Change: Obviously, we delivered an outstanding performance over what we felt was already a great quarter in Q1.
Matthew Lee: On one hand, I think we can expect more volatility episodes, but that probably will come with lower issuance volumes and lower trading volumes because of seasonality.
Speaker Change: When you look at market conditions in Q2, we probably have close to him ideal trading environment, especially for three groups specifically in equities. So that's all created really above trend I'm, referring to structured products issuance and trading.
Matthew Lee: But then if we look at our other businesses that will pick up I look on the corporate and investment banking side.
Speaker Change: Equity finance, an option in ETF market, making so.
Matthew Lee: What we see for Q3 and the rest of the year is fairly positive there you could see sequential growth.
Speaker Change: 003 strategies benefited from market conditions, where you saw intense but short volatility events typically triggered by terrorists announcements and that creates a large but short lived moves that we were able to capture.
Matthew Lee: The lending pipeline remains encouraging there is strong demand in areas like renewable energy infrastructure, where we are.
Matthew Lee: Well positioned.
Matthew Lee: <unk>.
Matthew Lee: Paris, uncertainties slowing down transaction closings, but deals are getting done and client.
Speaker Change: But these dislocations, we're not persistent enough to disrupt the fundamentals of these markets, which means that the markets were functional well.
Marie Chantal: Cost synergies will continue to materialize and accelerate as CWB clients are onboarded.
Matthew Lee: Dialogue is axes.
Matthew Lee: DCM, we anticipate.
Matthew Lee: L. P issuance early in the second half, especially from governments.
Marie Chantal: Recall that the platform migration will be done in waves beginning this summer and continuing into early calendar 2020.
Speaker Change: Trading volumes were strong funding spreads remained elevated and product issuance speed robust, we were actually surprised by how well issuance activity held steady.
Matthew Lee: And then followed probably by a seasonal.
Matthew Lee: Slow down a bit later in the summer months.
Matthew Lee: Equity new issue, that's still slow although.
Marie Chantal: In Q1, we highlighted areas where we see significant opportunities for revenue upsides, both in NII and FIINC.
Matthew Lee: That's really tied to uncertainty, but that could accelerate really quickly.
Speaker Change: And then also really pleased with our trading and the rates in our market share. There. It was a volatile environment and we have strong client activity and strong results and it was also busy on the effect size weight and the rise of volatility and again a lot of active clients.
Matthew Lee: So against this backdrop for financial markets overall, we feel really constructive about our ability to achieve year over year growth.
Marie Chantal: We are executing our strategy to achieve our targeted revenue center. We continue to expect revenue opportunities to accelerate in 2020.
Matthew Lee: And revenues for the second half of the year.
Speaker Change: So when you considered that resilience looking at the rest of fiscal 2025, what we anticipate is it trading performance that is still solid, but lower sequentially and more aligned to long term trend because.
Speaker Change: Is that helpful desktop, yes, that's very helpful. I'll pass the line.
Marie Chantal: following the completion of site migration with the full benefit to materialize in 2027 and Moving to slide 13. Our Outlook, including CWB, remains unchanged from last quarter. Adjusted EPS growth will continue to be impacted by the amortization of the fair value and a larger share cap. However, excluding desamortization and supported by our strong first half performance. We remain confident in delivering mid-single-digit EPS growth and adjusted ROE of approximately 15% for the year. We also maintain our target for positive operating leverage in 2025.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: The next question is from John Aiken from Jefferies. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: On one hand, I think we can expect more volatility episodes, but that probably will come with lower issuance volumes and lower trading volumes because of seasonality.
John Aiken: Good morning.
Speaker Change: In terms of the.
Speaker Change: Transition are happy to see that there was a small portfolio of this this quarter can.
Speaker Change: Can you provide us any measure of quantum in terms of what the potential risk weighted assets could be and whether or not this is going to be a slow burn into the latter part of 2026, where are we actually going to see incremental step function more linear.
Speaker Change: But then.
Speaker Change: If we look at our other businesses that will pick up I look on the corporate and investment banking side.
Speaker Change: What we see for Q3 and the rest of the year is fairly positive there you could see sequential growth.
Max: Yeah, Hi, it's Max at that thanks for the question.
Speaker Change: The lending pipeline remains encouraging there is strong demand in areas like renewable energy infrastructure, where we are.
Speaker Change: So yeah. We're aware we're happy you know to migrate one software for yoga.
Speaker Change: It's really indicative of where we're going.
Speaker Change: Well positioned advisory.
Speaker Change: Every from certain people slowing down transaction closings, but deals are getting done and client.
Speaker Change: However, as I said the majority of that benefit is coming in in 2026. So therefore, we still are planning to give them full capital plan update strategy later in the year to almost be at Q4, so stay tuned.
Marie Chantal: To conclude, we remain focused on driving sustained and profitable growth going forward. DWB will serve as a tailwind for our businesses for many years to come.
Speaker Change: Dialogue is active.
Speaker Change: DCM, we anticipate.
Speaker Change: <unk> issuance early in the second half, especially from governments.
Marie Chantal: While it is still early days, I am pleased with our progress and excited about opportunities that lie ahead.
Speaker Change: Then followed probably by a seasonal.
Speaker Change: Slow down a bit later in the summer months.
Speaker Change: But our plan is in terms of that capital update.
Speaker Change: Equity new issue, that's still slow, although and that's really tied to uncertainty, but that could accelerate really quickly.
Marie Chantal: I will now turn the call over to Jeanette. Merci Marie Chantal and good morning everyone.
Speaker Change: Understood. Thank you.
Speaker Change: Thank you Duncan.
Unknown Executive: I'll start with Blanchet. Since our last call, the Canadian economy has faced heightened uncertainty, largely driven by tariffs and global trade tensions. These challenges add complexity to an economy already showing signs of suffering. while recent progress on several trade discussions with the U.S. is encouraging. The environment continues to be fluid.
Speaker Change: So.
Speaker Change: Yes. Thank you and the next question is from Doug Young from <unk> Capital markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: Against this backdrop for financial markets overall, we feel really constructive about our ability to achieve year over year growth.
Doug Young: Hi, good morning.
Speaker Change: And revenues for the second half of the year.
Speaker Change: Just staying on capital 13, 4% set one ratio.
Speaker Change: Is that helpful. That's all very.
Speaker Change: Very helpful I'll pass the line.
Speaker Change: In constant than maybe some of the T. W. B.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: Portfolio over there being getting a pick up in 2026.
Speaker Change: The next question is from John Aiken from Jefferies. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Unknown Executive: As such, we are maintaining our cautious approach and remain prudently provisioned. In this context, our credit portfolios continue to perform in line with our expectations. supported by our defensive positioning, resilient mix, and disciplined risk management.
Speaker Change: But why not put them in CIB in place might not be active on buybacks and I know you're talking about.
John Aiken: Good morning.
John Aiken: In terms of the.
John Aiken: Transition are happy to see that there was a small portfolio of this this quarter can.
Speaker Change: And putting that capital plan later this year, what kind of stopping you from.
John Aiken: Can you provide us any measure of quantum in terms of what the potential risk weighted assets could be and whether or not this is gonna be a slow burn into the latter part of 2026, where are we actually going to see.
Speaker Change: Maybe doing so earlier.
Speaker Change: Hey, Doug its lohan I will take that question.
Unknown Executive: Now turning to the second quarter. Total PCLs were $545 million or $79 billion. which reflected the initial provision on performing loans of $230 million related to the CWB transaction. Adjusted total PCLs were $315 million or $45 billion. which was four basis points higher quarter over quarter. We added 12 basis points of adjusted performing provisions in Q2, driven by model calibration, macroeconomic outlook, and tariff uncertainty. This is in addition to the nine basis points we took last quarter. PCLs on impaired loans were $219 million or $32 billion. which was stable quarter over quarter. Excluding CWB, the impaired provision declined slightly to $192 million from $196 million last quarter.
Speaker Change: We think it's a bit early to talk about buybacks at this point in time when there is uncertainty in the market.
John Aiken: I'll step function more linear.
John Aiken: Yeah, Hi, it's Max at that thanks for the question. So yeah. We're aware we're happy you know to migrate one fall portfolio. This is is really indicative of where we're going.
Speaker Change: And we do have a sort of a prudent stance in general wondering one when it comes to macroeconomics.
Speaker Change: But having said that.
Speaker Change: Our focus is organic growth our focus is to grow our business out west.
John Aiken: However, as I said majority of that benefit is coming in in 2020 six. So therefore, we still are planning to give them full capital plan update strategy later in the year. So most of the Q4. So stay tuned this is but our plan is in terms of that.
Speaker Change: We're gonna be integrating portfolios.
Speaker Change: You know starting this summer and we're engaging with a lot of those clients and so we want to see.
Speaker Change: How that flows through and the impact on organic growth as well.
Speaker Change: But maybe talk about just mentioned, we're going to provide a capital plan in Q4.
John Aiken: Capital update.
Speaker Change: Understood. Thank you.
Speaker Change: And go over.
Speaker Change: Thank you Duncan.
Speaker Change: The full impact of AARP.
John Aiken: Yes. Thank you.
Speaker Change: At that point in time and we'll.
Speaker Change: The next question is from Doug Young from <unk> Capital markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: Talking about buybacks, obviously so.
Doug Young: Hi, good morning.
Speaker Change: We're going to ask for a bit of patience on that but where our focus is really on growing our balance sheet.
Doug Young: And on capital 13, 4% debt ratio.
Unknown Executive: Looking at impaired PCL by sex. Personal banking provisions decreased sequentially to $53 million. Mostly driven by uninsured mortgages. Commercial banking provisions were $71 million, reflecting a two-file. Additionally, the CWB portfolio is performing in line with our expectations. In financial markets, impaired PCL of $55 million, or 8 basis points, were related to a single file in the manufacturing system. At Credigy, we continue to see a normal seasoning of portfolio.
Speaker Change: Does that help.
Doug Young: In constant than maybe some of the T. W. B.
Speaker Change: Yes, it does.
Speaker Change: Do you feel that you organically, but.
Doug Young: Portfolio over there being getting a pick up in 2026.
Speaker Change: The capital that gets freed up by moving TWD over the air B like to work organically again, it's early but.
Doug Young: Why not put them then it would be in place by not be active on buybacks and I know you talked about being.
Doug Young: Putting that capital plan later this year.
Speaker Change: The discussions that we're having with our clients and our new clients are joining us.
Speaker Change: What's kind of stopping you from.
Speaker Change: From maybe doing so earlier.
Speaker Change: Are very encouraging.
Lohan: Hey, Doug its lohan I will take that question.
Speaker Change: So just just GWB client joining us.
Speaker Change: There is growth from that end.
Speaker Change: We think it's a bit early to talk about buybacks at this point in time when there is uncertainty in the market.
Speaker Change: Given our footprint now with.
Speaker Change: We know that there's going to be opportunities for us to grow so yes.
Speaker Change: And we do have.
Unknown Executive: And at ADA, impaired provisions decreased to $14 million U.S.
Speaker Change: Sort of a prudent stance in general wondering one when it comes to the macroeconomics.
Speaker Change: Having said that we.
Speaker Change: We are also in the middle of an integration. So what we want to focus on that we want to focus on on making sure that the first wave of clients that are coming onto our systems.
Unknown Executive: Turning to slide 16. Our total allowances for credit losses reached 2.2 billion dollars, representing 5.7 times coverage of our net charges. Our performing allowance reached $1.5 billion, representing a strong performing ACL coverage ratio of two times.
Speaker Change: But having said that.
Speaker Change: Our focus is organic growth our focus is to grow our business out west.
Speaker Change: And with that we will be able to.
Speaker Change: We're gonna be integrating portfolios.
Speaker Change: To provide with it.
Speaker Change: You know starting this summer and we're engaging with a lot of those clients and so we want to see.
Speaker Change: A good capital update.
Speaker Change: By the end of the year.
Speaker Change: And our plans for 2026.
Speaker Change: How that flows through on and the impact on organic growth as well.
Speaker Change: Okay that makes sense and Laura and while I have you, maybe I'm chomping at the bit and asking stuff that's going to come later in the year, but.
Unknown Executive: We have been building allowances for the past 12 quarters and remain comfortable with our prudent provisioning level. Additional metrics on our allowances are provided in Appendix 10.
Speaker Change: But if you're talking about just mentioned, we're going to provide a capital plan in Q4.
Speaker Change: You said you know set.
Speaker Change: Set the stage for revenue synergies by the end of the year can you kind of flesh out what you need to see or what needs to happen to kind of start to get some line of sight and revenue synergies.
Speaker Change: And go over our.
Speaker Change: You know the full impact of AARP.
Speaker Change: At that point in time and we'll.
Unknown Executive: Turning to slide 17. Our Gross Impaired Loan Ratio increased to 98%. mainly driven by the CWB transaction and in line with our expectations.
Speaker Change: Talk about buybacks, obviously so.
Speaker Change: But for them to start to come through and I assume its migration system and getting people up to speed.
Speaker Change: We're going to ask for a bit of patience on that but where our focus is really on growing our balance sheet.
Speaker Change: But just hoping to be flush that out a little bit what that what you meant by that.
Unknown Executive: Excluding CWB and U.S.S.F.N.I., the ratio was 54 basis points, 5 basis points higher than last quarter. Formations this quarter reflect the TWB transaction. Removing this impact, total formations would have been down quarter over quarter.
Speaker Change: Does that help.
Speaker Change: Yeah. It does I mean, do you feel that you organically, but.
Speaker Change: Yes, Doug it's Michael Donovan.
Speaker Change: Good luck.
Speaker Change: So what's happening now is the teams are.
Speaker Change: The capital that gets freed up by moving GWB over the air B like to work organically again, it's early but the discussions that we're having with our clients and our new clients are joining us.
Speaker Change: We're working together in the field.
Speaker Change: There.
Speaker Change: Bringing some new opportunities in terms of our risk management services derivatives.
Speaker Change: We have a bigger balance sheet just room for increased full so stuff happening in the field, but to your point the real change takes place around revenue synergies once we get into the migrations and once we migrated them doing this as a series of steps and whats clients migrate into our systems, you're at a point where the.
Unknown Executive: At 88, net formations declined for the second consecutive quarter and remained below the peak observed at the end of 2024.
Speaker Change: Are very encouraging.
Speaker Change: So just you know GWB client joining us.
Speaker Change: There's there's growth from that and.
Unknown Executive: On slide 18 and 19, we highlight our Canadian Resolve portfolio. Quebec now accounts for 51% of their portfolio, and insured mortgages account for 27% of total reserves. Average LTVs for HELOCs and uninsured mortgages remain in the 50s. And high-risk uninsured borrowers represent less than 1% of the total RESO portfolio. Furthermore, approximately 75% of the portfolio has now been repriced at higher interest rates. 90-day mortgage delinquencies remained below the pre-pandemic level, with our clients continuing to demonstrate resilience in managing higher refinancing costs.
Speaker Change: Given our footprint no worse, we know that there's going to be opportunities for us to grow so yes.
Speaker Change: You shouldn't be folks who got fully trained at all things National Bank and the clients are able to access the full range of National Bank products and services and that happens post migration. So that's when the real revenue synergy momentum will begin and that'll happen in a serious series of steps beginning in the center.
Speaker Change: Having said that we.
Speaker Change: We are also in the middle of an integration. So what we want to focus on that we want to focus on on making sure that you know the first wave of fines are coming onto our systems.
Speaker Change: Okay, and and Mendes P&C banking and wind as well.
Speaker Change: And with that we'll be able to you know two to provide with it.
Speaker Change: Of those migrations occur in.
Speaker Change: A good capital update.
Speaker Change: So we are banking the P&C banking.
Speaker Change: By the end of the year.
Speaker Change: Personal and commercial banking transition takes place at the same time over the course of the beginning of the summer.
Speaker Change: And our plans for 2026.
Speaker Change: Okay that makes sense and Laura and while I have you maybe on chomping at the bit and asking stuff that's going to come later in the year, but you said you know.
Speaker Change: Vince you talked about well, yeah and per well that we're aiming at.
Speaker Change: Late the late fall to migrate the three businesses that are now becoming wealth, which is the trust business.
Speaker Change: Set the stage for revenue synergies by the end of the year can you kind of flesh out what you need to see or what needs to happen to kind of start to get some line of sight on revenue synergies or refer them to start to come through and I assume its migration system and getting people up to speed.
Unknown Executive: Appendix 8 provides an overview of our portfolio following the TWB transaction, along with an update on tariff-sensitive sectors. Our exposure to these sectors remains limited. with the most sensitive borrowers accounting for less than 1% of the bank's total loan.
Speaker Change: The investment and deposit business and as well as what they used to call their wealth businesses.
Speaker Change: And this will come in waves as well from the fall until the early 2026.
Speaker Change: But just hoping maybe flesh that out a little bit what that what you meant by that.
Speaker Change: Okay appreciate the color.
Unknown Executive: Looking forward, uncertainty remains around the outlook for economic growth and unemployment.
Michael: Yeah, Doug, it's Michael doesn't care of yourself.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Michael: So what's happening now is the teams are.
Speaker Change: Next question is from Sohrab.
Speaker Change: More of a headwind from BMO capital markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Unknown Executive: The impact of tariffs is still difficult to quantify, and the range of potential outcomes remains wide. That said, we continue to expect impaired PCL to be within the 25 to 35 basis point range for the full year.
Michael: Working together in the field and their bringing some new opportunities lie in terms of our risk management services derivatives.
Sohrab: Thank you I wanted to start with you always good to see excellent results.
Michael: We have a bigger balance sheet just room for increased full so stuff happening in the field, but to your point the real change takes place around revenue synergies once we get into the migrations and once we migrated them doing this as a series of steps and whats clients migrate into our systems, you're at a point, where you shouldn't be folks who got fully trained at all things National Bank and the classroom.
Speaker Change: Were you surprised by how well you did it in the trading or how well the franchise was able to deliver.
Unknown Executive: In conclusion, we are well positioned to navigate the ongoing volatility and uncertainty, giving our defensive attributes Resilient Mix and Prudent Level of Allowance.
Speaker Change: I guess in their environment and.
Sohrab: Okay. This cut both ways could there also be quarters, where.
Speaker Change: You may be surprised negatively to the extent you were surprised positively here.
Unknown Executive: And with that, I will now turn the call back to the operator for the Q&A. Thank you.
Michael: <unk> is a full range of national Bank products and services and that happens post migration. So that's when the real revenue synergy momentum will begin and that'll happen in the serious series of steps beginning in the summer.
Speaker Change: Yeah. Thanks, Sara that's a good question.
Sohrab: Like I gave them my previous sensor.
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Michael: Okay, and and Mendes P&C banking and lend as well.
Sohrab: These were.
Sohrab: Very very good trading conditions.
Michael: One of those migrations occur in.
Sohrab: Where are we expecting.
Michael: So we're banking the P&C banking.
Sohrab: What happened around liberation they know that that was not and we these were a couple of the most to them.
Michael: Personal and commercial banking transition takes place at the same time over the course of the beginning of the summer Linda you talk about well, yeah and per well that we're aiming at.
Sohrab: Profitable days in the history of the franchise following deliberation D. You.
Michael: Late the late fall to migrate the three businesses that are now becoming wealth, which is the truck business.
Sohrab: You had markets going down 4%.
Matthew Lee: The first question is from Matthew Lee from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead, your line is open. Good morning. Thanks for taking my question.
Sohrab: On the day after and the 6%.
Sohrab: The two days after those announcements.
Michael: Yeah investment and deposit business and as well as what they used to call their wealth businesses.
Matthew Lee: Maybe one on guidance. Q2 numbers I'm going to assume are better than you could have expected with trading revenues doing really well. So, I'm just a bit surprised you didn't update earnings guidance for the year.
Sohrab: Obviously with the volatility positions, we had on the book and the very defensive approach we had prior to this service.
Michael: And this will come in waves as well from the fall until the early 2026.
Speaker Change: Okay appreciate the color.
Marie Chantal: Are there any mitigating factors for us to consider in the back half or just maybe some conservatism built into the mid-term digital Thanks, Matthew, for the question.
Sohrab: Service announcements that was.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: Next question is from Sohrab <unk> from BMO capital markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Sohrab: That was pretty much ideal positioning now could we.
Sohrab: What's the downside that I think that's a fair question.
Marie Chantal: It's Van Chantal here. So we are very confident in delivering our mid single digit DPS growth for fiscal 2025. That said, we do see upside dependent on market conditions. Obviously, we're starting with a record first half, so we're on solid footing. And also remember, we're facing a tough camp in Q3 this year. And I think most importantly, what's important is our execution on the CWE integration is going very well. And it's creating tremendous upside for growth across Canada. You can expect us to continue demonstrating strong discipline to navigate the evolving landscape and deliver robust performance.
Sohrab: Thank you I wanted to start with you always good to see excellent results.
Speaker Change: You remember Sarah.
Speaker Change: Our Q3 in 2023 that was a social quarter for us the reason for it was low volatility low client activity.
Sohrab: Were you surprised by how well you did it in the trading or how well the franchise was able to deliver.
Speaker Change: We are a franchise thats about providing liquidity, providing structuring solutions trading with clients, providing hedging solutions when that dies down.
Sohrab: Send their environment and.
Sohrab: This cut both ways could there also be quarters, where.
Sohrab: You may be surprised negatively to the extent you were surprised positively here.
Speaker Change: The downside.
Speaker Change: That could happen typically what happens in the summer.
Sara: Yeah. Thanks, Sara that's a good question.
Sohrab: Like I gave them my previous sensor.
Speaker Change: I don't see it happening this year, because we still have a lot of.
Sara: These were.
Speaker Change: Paris announcements and tariffs are being pushed back. So so I think the downside for US this year is limited.
Sara: Very good trading conditions.
Sara: Where are we expecting.
Sara: What happens around liberation they know that that was not and we are these were a couple of the most.
Etienne Dubuc: Maybe on the market condition, Etienne, do you want to give a few words? Yeah. Thanks, Marie-Chantale.
Speaker Change: But if you look at the long term trends of where our performance should be I think if we're able to deliver year over year growth.
Etienne Dubuc: Hi, Matthew. It's Etienne. So I think maybe it's...
Sara: Profitable days in the history of the franchise following deliberation D. You had markets going down 4%.
Etienne Dubuc: It's probably good to talk a bit about the trading performance in Q2. Obviously, we delivered an outstanding performance over what we felt was already a great quarter in Q1. When you look at market conditions in Q2, we probably had close to an ideal trading environment, especially for three groups, specifically in equities, that operated really above trend. I'm referring to structured products, issuance and trading, equity finance, and option and ETF market making. So, all three strategies benefited from market conditions where you saw intense but short volatility events, typically triggered by tariff announcements, and that created large but short-lived moves that we were able to capture.
Speaker Change: For the next two quarters that still means that our long term positive trend to our business is in place.
Speaker Change: Hum the day after and the 6%.
Speaker Change: The two days after those announcements.
Speaker Change: Is that helpful.
Speaker Change: Of you see with the volatility positions, we had on the books.
Speaker Change: That's very helpful. Maybe just crystal clarity when I look at your daily trading.
Speaker Change: And the very defensive approach we had prior to two two this terrorists.
Speaker Change: Revenues in Bar chart, there is a particularly strong day.
Speaker Change: That I assume is liberation day and can you just clarify you it's not one single trade it would've been broad based.
Speaker Change: This service announcements that was.
Speaker Change: That was pretty much ideal positioning now could we.
Speaker Change: Yeah. It would have been broad based and that's the that's April 4th So there's not the day after liberation they booked one day after that so S&P was down 6%.
Speaker Change: What's the downside that I think that's a fair question and you remember Sarah.
Speaker Change: Our Q3 in 2023 that was a social quarter for us the reason for it was low volatility low client activity.
Speaker Change: PSX was around five.
Speaker Change: So that strength came from rates came from FX came from structured products, where we have a big core volatility position and came from markets, where he can market, making both in options in Etfs because volumes exploded and you've had a lot of dislocations bid ask spreads widened and so that's a really good environment for our trade.
Speaker Change: We are a franchise, that's about providing liquidity, providing structuring solutions trading with clients, providing hedging solutions when that dies down.
Etienne Dubuc: But these dislocations were not persistent enough to disrupt the fundamentals of these markets, which means that markets were functional well, trade volumes were strong, funding spreads remained elevated, and product issuance stayed robust. We were actually surprised by how well issuance activity held steady. And also really pleased with our trading and rates and our market share there. It was a volatile environment and we had strong client activity and strong results. And it was also busy on the FX side with a rise of volatility and again, a lot of active clients.
Speaker Change: The downside.
Speaker Change: That could happen typically it happens in the summer.
Speaker Change: <unk> businesses, especially as our.
Speaker Change: I don't see it happening this year, because we still have a lot of.
Speaker Change: Our technology can continue to perform.
Speaker Change: Really admirably during that volatility.
Speaker Change: Paris announcements and tariffs are being pushed back. So so I think the downside for US this year is limited.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thank you and I, just maybe just for John Sebastian I mean, yes.
Speaker Change: Gross impaired excluding credit G.
Speaker Change: But if you look at the long term trends of where our performance should be I think if we're able to deliver year over year growth.
Speaker Change: Yeah.
Speaker Change: Okay low to me.
Speaker Change: Trends are.
Etienne Dubuc: So when you consider that resilience, looking at the rest of fiscal 2025, what we anticipate is a trading performance that is still solid, but lower sequentially and more aligned to long term trend because on one hand, I think we can expect more volatility episodes, but that probably will come with lower issuance volumes and lower trading volumes because of seasonality.
Speaker Change: The trends are not necessarily comfort taking care.
Speaker Change: They continue to kind of trend higher.
Speaker Change: For the next two quarters that still means that our long term positive trend to our business is in place.
Speaker Change: With or without <unk>.
Speaker Change: Why do you feel.
Speaker Change: With these trends here John Smith here.
Speaker Change: Is that helpful.
Speaker Change: So I think firstly. Thank you. Thank you Sarah for your question and as you correctly pointed out.
Speaker Change: That's very helpful. Maybe just a crystal clarity when I look at your daily trading.
Speaker Change: The gross impaired loans increased this quarter is really driven by the <unk> transaction and also the effects of the formations of GWB during the quarter and of National Bank during the quarter.
Speaker Change: Our revenues in Bar chart, there is a particularly strong day.
Etienne Dubuc: But then, if we look at other businesses that will pick up, I look on the corporate and investment banking side. What we see for Q3 and the rest of the year is fairly positive. There you could see sequential growth. The lending pipeline remains encouraging. There is strong demand in areas like renewable energy infrastructure, where we are well positioned. Advisory, the tariff uncertainty is slowing down, transaction closings, but deals are getting done, and client dialogue is active. BCM will anticipate healthy issuance early in the second half, especially from governments. and then followed probably by a seasonal slowdown a bit later in the summer months.
Speaker Change: That I assume is liberation day and can you just clarify you it's not one single trade it would've been broad based yeah.
Speaker Change: And we've seen.
Speaker Change: Yeah. It would have been broad based and that's the that's April 4th so the not the day after liberation they booked one day after that so S&P was down 6%.
Speaker Change: One of the largest drivers of total Gail being a VA for for a while and this quarter. We've seen a continued reduction in the level of the formations.
Speaker Change: PSX was one five.
Speaker Change: The books that we also bought from Sidoti B is secured and when you look at our gills. Most of our deals are on secured transactions and secured transaction tend to stay in gills longer before they are written off contrary to credit cards for example, which will not.
Speaker Change: So that strength came from rates came from FX came from structured products, where we have a big core volatility position and came from market waking market, making both in options on Etfs because volumes exploded and you had a lot of dislocations bid ask spreads widened and so that's a really good environment for our trade.
Speaker Change: Not sure on Gill's at all and I'll give you. Another example, sohrab if we had a commercial real estate insured.
Speaker Change: <unk> businesses, especially as our.
Matthew Lee: And equity new issue that's still slow, although, and that's really tied to uncertainty, but that could accelerate really quickly. So against this backdrop for financial markets overall, we feel really constructive about our ability to achieve year-over-year growth. in revenues for the second half of the year. Is that helpful? Does that help? Yeah, it's very helpful. I'll pass.
Speaker Change: Our technology can continue to perform.
Speaker Change: Really admirably during that volatility.
Speaker Change: Transaction. It would also show in our Gil Gil levels, So Gil levels do not necessarily translate in credit quality.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thank you and I, just maybe just for John Sebastian I mean, yes.
Speaker Change: Gross impaired excluding credit G.
Speaker Change: So what I look at is really Hauser Lincoln C doing and our delinquencies trending fine I'm also looking at how our impaired loans performing and you've seen a stabilization in the performance and you've actually seen some improvements in our retail portfolios and if you had excluded the CW beat P C.
Speaker Change: Yeah.
Speaker Change:
Speaker Change: Okay low to me.
Speaker Change: Trends are.
Speaker Change: You know what the trends are not necessarily comfort taking care.
Speaker Change: They continue to kind of trend higher waste.
Unknown Executive: Thank you.
Speaker Change: With or without C WB well.
John Aiken: The next question is from John Aiken from Jeffreys. Please go ahead, your line is open. Good morning. In terms of the ARB transition, I'm happy to see that there was a small portfolio this this quarter.
Speaker Change: Well why do you feel okay with these trends here John Sebastian.
Speaker Change: In commercial this quarter would have been down also so I'm comfortable with the with the with where we are right now.
Speaker Change: So I think first thank you. Thank you Sarah for your question and as you correctly pointed out.
Speaker Change: Okay very helpful. Thank you very much.
Speaker Change: The gross impaired loans increased this quarter is really driven by the CW transaction and also the effects of the formations ups GWB during the quarter and of National Bank during the quarter.
John Aiken: Can you provide us any measure of quantum in terms of what the potential risk-weighted asset relief could be? And whether or not this is going to be a slow burn into the latter part of 2026? Or are we actually going to see incremental step function? Yeah, I have to stop that.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Mario Mendonca: Next question is from Mario Mendonca from TD Securities. Please go ahead.
Mario Mendonca: Sorry about that can you hear me okay.
Mario Mendonca: Yes, yes, sorry, just dropped the phone.
Speaker Change: And we've seen.
Speaker Change: One one sort of quick.
Speaker Change: One of the largest drivers of total Gail being a be a for for a while and this quarter. We've seen a continued reduction in the level of the formations.
Speaker Change: Quick model question, the tax rate does seem a bit higher than it used to sing for for your bank is it.
Unknown Executive: Thanks for the question. So yeah, we're we're happy, you know, to migrate one fall for you. This is really indicative of where we're going. However, as I said, majority of the benefit is coming in in 2026.
Speaker Change: The addition of city V V or is it more about the mix of revenue the elevated trading in the quarter.
Speaker Change: The book that we also bought from Sidoti B is secured and when you look at our guilds. Most of our deals are on secured transactions and secure transaction tend to stay in gills longer before they are written off contrary to credit cards for example, which will not.
Mario Mendonca: Thanks, Mario so tax rate when you look at it on a year over year basis, obviously is the impact of pillar two and as we explore.
Unknown Executive: So therefore, we still are planning to give full capital plan update strategy later in the year. So mostly at Q4. So stay tuned. This is what our plan is in terms of capital Understood.
Speaker Change: Explained in the past couple of quarters, we were expecting a little bit around 2% and back end and that's what you're seeing and in terms of the CW be impact won't happen.
Speaker Change: Not sure on Gill's at all and I'll give you. Another example, sohrab if we had a commercial real estate insured.
Unknown Executive: Thank you. You're welcome.
Speaker Change: The material impact on our results and if you look at them.
Speaker Change: Transaction. It would also show in our Gil Gil levels, So Gil levels do not necessarily translate in credit quality.
Speaker Change: The P&C segment, probably wondering.
Unknown Executive: Yes, thank you.
Doug Young: And now the next question is from Doug Young from Desjardins Capital Markets.
Speaker Change: When you looked at the model I'm sure you saw the impact in.
Speaker Change: So what I look at is really Hauser, Lincolnshire doing and our delinquencies trending fine I'm also looking at how our impaired loans performing and you've seen a stabilization in the performance and you've actually seen some improvements in our retail portfolios and if you had excluded the CW B P C.
Doug Young: Please go ahead. Your line is open. Hi, good morning.
Speaker Change: In Q2 for P&C, and that's really something related to the provisions that were higher this quarter for the P&C group. So you can expect that to come back to regular tax rate for the next couple of quarters. Okay. And then just if we could go to a be a for a moment looking at some of what you. What you guys called the a b a bank key metrics.
Doug Young: Just going to expand on capital, 13.4% to that fund ratio, you know, you gain confidence and maybe some of the CWD. Portfolio over the IRB and getting a pickup in 2026. So why not put an NCIRB in place? Why not be active on buybacks?
Speaker Change: In commercial this quarter would have been down also so I'm I'm I'm comfortable with the with the with where we are right now.
Speaker Change: The formation in the quarter. It says here I'll just touch it formations of $47 million in the quarter. This is formations and gross impaired loans at a V. A.
Doug Young: And I know you talked about putting, you know, putting out the capital plan later this year, you know, what's kind of stopping you from from maybe doing so earlier.
Speaker Change: Okay very helpful. Thank you very much.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: But gross impaired.
Speaker Change: Next question is from Mario Mendonca from TD Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: <unk> loans as well were up.
Laurent Ferreira: Hey, Doug, it's Laurent. I'll take that question. We think it's a bit early to talk about buybacks at this point in time.
Speaker Change: It could be.
Speaker Change: Mostly coincidence, but a very similar amount.
Mario Mendonca: Sorry about that can you hear me okay.
Mario Mendonca: Yes, yes, sorry, just dropped the phone.
Speaker Change: In the quarter like it almost exactly actually $47 million increase in gross impaired loans, how do I interpret that do I interpret that as there were no resolutions in the quarter or are there other moving parts I don't know them.
Laurent Ferreira: One, there's uncertainty in the market and we do have, you know, sort of a prudent stance in general when it comes to macroeconomics. But having said that, our focus is organic growth. Our focus is to grow our business out west. We're going to be integrating portfolios, you know, starting this summer. We're engaging with a lot of those clients. And so we want to see how that flows through and the impact on organic growth as well.
Mario Mendonca: One one sort of quick.
Speaker Change: Quick model question, the tax rate does seem a bit higher than I'm used to seeing for for your bank is it.
Speaker Change: The addition of city V V or is it more about the mix of revenue the elevated trading in the quarter.
Speaker Change: Yeah. So so the resolutions are remaining low so the formations are really the largest driver of deals and those also effects.
Speaker Change: Thanks, Mario so tax rate when you look at it on a year over year basis, obviously is the impact of pillar two and as we explore.
Speaker Change: But does that mean there were no resolutions in the quarter was that the windows.
Speaker Change: No there, whereas resolutions and as you know our level of write offs as at a at a b remains remains low.
Speaker Change: Explained in the past couple of quarters, and we were expecting a little bit around 2% and back end and that's what you're seeing and in terms of the CW be impact won't happen.
Speaker Change: So typically when you continue.
Speaker Change: Let me back it off so when you look at the new formations.
Laurent Ferreira: We're going to provide a capital plan at Q4. and go over, you know, the full impact of AIRB at that point in time. And we'll, we'll talk about buybacks, obviously. So We're going to ask for a bit of patience on that, but where our focus is really on growing our balance sheet. Does that help? Yeah, it does.
Speaker Change: The material impact on our results and if you look at them.
Speaker Change: There's three things you look at the first is how are the newly impaired loan.
Speaker Change: The P&C segment, probably wondering when you looked at the model I'm sure you saw the impact.
Speaker Change: And these were down.
Speaker Change: When you look at the recoveries there.
Speaker Change: In Q2 for P&C, and that's really something related to the the provisions that were higher this quarter for in our P&C group. So you can expect that to come back to regular tax rate for the next couple of quarters. Okay. And then just if we could go to a be a for about looking at some of what you. What you guys called the a b a bank key metrics.
Speaker Change: These were down too.
Speaker Change: Not the recoveries, but the returned to performing these were these were better and when you look at the resolutions there were still low and our write off were still low that's why the fee increase matches.
Laurent Ferreira: I mean, do you feel that you organically can put The Capital that Gets Freed Up by Moving PWB Over To ARB to Work Organically? Again, it's early, but the discussions that we are having with our clients and our new clients are joining us and are very encouraging. So just, you know, TWB clients joining us, there's growth from that and, you know, given our footprint now out west, we know that there's going to be opportunities for us to grow.
Speaker Change: Maybe we can take it offline if you have more detailed questions on that one I think I follow it but is there something in your supplement that actually shows that reconciliation that I mean, there's a lot of paper in front right now is it probably will take it offline alright. Thank you.
Speaker Change: The formations in the quarter. It says here I'll just touch it.
Speaker Change: The 47 million in the quarter. This is formations and gross impaired loans at a V. A.
Speaker Change: Gross impaired.
Speaker Change: Yeah.
Speaker Change: Loans as well were up I mean, it could be.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: Next question is from Paul Holden from CIBC. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: Mostly coincidence, but a very similar amount.
Speaker Change: In the quarter.
Paul Holden: Good morning, I, just wanted to ask about your outlook for organic loan growth, particularly in commercial loans and just wondering how it might be impacted by the focus on the CW be integration.
Speaker Change: Almost exactly actually $47 million increase in gross impaired loans, how do I interpret that do I interpret that as there were no resolutions in the quarter or are there other moving parts I don't know them.
Laurent Ferreira: So yes, having said that, you know, we are also in the middle of an integration. So we want to focus on that. We want to focus on making sure that, you know, the first wave of clients are coming on to our systems. And with that, we'll be able to, you know, to provide with a, you know, a good capital update by the end of the year. and our plans for That makes sense.
Speaker Change: Yeah. So so the resolutions are remaining low so the formations are really the largest driver of yields in those also effects.
Speaker Change: Yes, if at all or if you slow organic loan growth, while you Digest CW D.
Speaker Change: And then second part of that is.
Speaker Change: What does that mean, there were no resolutions in the quarter itself the weighted none.
Speaker Change: How does organic loan growth got impacted by.
Speaker Change: No there wasn't resolutions and as you know our level of write offs as at a at a b remains remains low so.
Speaker Change: The macro uncertainty do you believe it will remain for the industry low or do you think the you know theres a little bit of signs of stability and improved market conditions for the back half of the year.
Michael Denham: And Lauren, while I have you, and maybe I'm chomping at the bit and asking stuff that's going to come later in the year, but, you know, you said, you know, set the stage for revenue synergies by the end of the year, can you kind of flesh out what you need to see or what needs to happen to kind of start to get some line of sight on revenue synergies or, or for them to start to come through? And I assume it's migration systems and getting people up to speed. But just hoping that you can flesh that out a little bit, what that what you meant by that.
Speaker Change: So typically when you continue.
Speaker Change: Let me back it off so when you look at the new formations.
Speaker Change: So I'll take this one it's Julian thanks, Paul so on.
Speaker Change: You know there's there's three things you look at the first is how are the newly impaired loan.
Speaker Change: On our outlook on growth, we see growth in the low teens, mainly driven by insurance real estate as it happened like many quarters back and diversified with large commercial clients across Canada. So this is on the national side. We've seen it will you be and this is not a surprise that growth is very soft during the integration, we do expect to grow.
Speaker Change: And these were down when.
Speaker Change: When you look at the recoveries.
Speaker Change: These were down too.
Speaker Change: Not the recoveries, but the return to performing these were these were better and when you look at the resolutions there were.
Michael Denham: Doug, it's Michael Denham here. Your assumption is a good one. So what's happening now is the teams are kind of working together in the field, and they're bringing some new opportunities to clients in terms of risk management services derivatives. We have a bigger balance sheet, so there's room for increase.
Speaker Change: Still low and our write off were still low that's why D. The increase matches.
Speaker Change: <unk> to pick up once client starts migrating.
Speaker Change: Integration is really what we're focusing on as Michael said at the beginning of the call.
Speaker Change: Maybe we can take it offline if you have more detailed questions on that one I think I follow that.
Speaker Change: Concerning our economy concerted T. So we still see that uncertainties, but with the growth that we've been seeing with our insured real estate is less affected I would say so.
Speaker Change: Is there something in your supplement that actually shows that reconciliation that I mean, there's a lot of paper if I'm right now so probably we'll take it offline alright. Thank you.
Michael Denham: So stuff's happening in the field, but to your point, the real change takes place around revenue synergies once we get into the migrations. And once we've migrated, and we're doing this in a series of steps, and once clients migrate into our systems, you're at a point where the CWB folks are kind of fully trained at all things National Bank, and the clients are able to access the full range of National Bank products and services, and that happens post-migration. So that's when the real revenue synergy momentum will begin, and that will happen in a series of steps beginning in And when does PNC Banking and when does Wealth, when do those migrations occur?
Speaker Change: Yeah.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: So we still are we're still confident that our growth is going to continue.
Speaker Change: Next question is from Paul Holden from CIBC. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Good morning first wanted to ask about your outlook for organic loan growth, particularly in commercial loans I'm, just wondering how it might be impacted by the focus on the CW be integration.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thanks for that and then second question was going back to our chairman and just looking at the regulatory capital supplemental just noticed that the amount of capital required for FX risk have increased.
Speaker Change: And increased quite significantly since the end of 2024. So I'm just wondering if that's just a product of market conditions and opportunities or if there is some kind of intentional build out.
Speaker Change: I guess, if at all or if you slow organic loan growth, while you Digest C. W. B.
Speaker Change: And then second part of that is.
Speaker Change: You know how does organic loan growth got impacted by.
Unknown Executive: The PNC banking, the personal and the commercial banking transition takes place at the same time over the course of the beginning of the summer.
Speaker Change: The macro uncertainty do you believe it will remain so.
Speaker Change: FX trading platform.
Speaker Change: Alright to Q you nailed it both.
Speaker Change: For the industry low or do you think the you know theres, a little bit of signs of stability and improved market conditions for the back half of the year.
Speaker Change: Mostly.
Unknown Executive: Lynne, Nancy, talk about wealth. Yeah, and for wealth, we're aiming at late fall to migrate the three businesses that are now becoming wealth, which is the trust business, the investment and deposit business, and as well as what they used to call their wealth business. and this will come in waves as well from the fall till early 2020. Okay, great.
Speaker Change:
Speaker Change: Increased volatility tends to increase market risk exposures I think that's really the most of the answer there both on the fixed side and on the.
Speaker Change: So I'll take this one it's Julian thanks, Paul So on on are also can growth, we see growth in the low teens, mainly driven by insurance real estate as it happened like many quarters back and diversified with large commercial clients across Canada sits on the national side, which seem to be and this is.
Speaker Change: Equity volatility side.
Speaker Change: Got it.
Speaker Change: Maybe as a follow up it would be helpful to understand that.
Speaker Change: If you could lift on a two or three or four things that help us better understand sort of the long term.
Speaker Change: Not a surprise that growth is very soft during the integration, we do expect the growth to pick up once client starts migrating them.
Unknown Executive: We appreciate the call. Thank you.
Speaker Change: Growth trajectory for the trading business, obviously, there's a lot of volatility from quarter to quarter.
Sohrab Movahedi: The next question is from Sohrab Movahedi from BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead, your line is open. Thank you.
Speaker Change: And integration is really what we're focusing on as Michael said at the beginning of the call bulk concerning our economy uncertainties. So we still see that uncertainties, but with the growth that we've been seeing with our insured real estate is less affected I would say.
Speaker Change: And this quarter being good volatility but.
Speaker Change: How do we think about sort of the longer term underlying.
Sohrab Movahedi: Etienne, I wanted to start with you. Always good to see excellent results. Were you surprised by how well you did in the trading or how well the franchise was able to deliver, I guess, in the environment? You know, can this cut both ways? Could there also be quarters where... You may be surprised negatively to the extent you were surprised positively here. Yeah, thanks, Sohrab. That's a good question. And like I gave in my previous answer, these were very, very good trading conditions. Were we expecting what happened around Liberation Day? No, these were a couple of the most profitable days in the history of the franchise following the Liberation Day.
Speaker Change: Both trends in the major drivers behind that.
Speaker Change: Well.
Speaker Change: So.
Speaker Change: We will have to take a step back and look at the strategy if we focus on trading.
Speaker Change: So we still are we're still confident that our growth is going to continue.
Speaker Change: What are we right where a domestically focused.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thanks for that and then second question was going back to our chairman and just looking at the regulatory capital supplemental just noticed that the amount of capital required for <unk>.
Speaker Change: Operation that focuses on structuring liquidity, providing being leaders in the different underlying is in Canada. If something is trading in Canada I wanted to be the lead market maker on it we want to trade or an algorithm making.
Speaker Change: Fax risk have increased.
Speaker Change: And increased quite significantly since the end of 2024. So I'm just wondering if that's just a product of market conditions and opportunities or if there is some kind of intentional build out of the FX trading platforms.
Speaker Change: Making a market providing liquidity.
Speaker Change: Same thing for structured products, we want to lead with deep expertise.
Speaker Change: And then we want to cover clients through cycle, which means that.
Speaker Change: We wanted to adopt a defensive position.
Speaker Change: Alright. Thank you you nailed it bowl it's mostly.
Speaker Change: So that we're able to cover clients even during the tougher times.
Speaker Change: Increased volatility tends to increase market risk exposures I think that's really the most of the answer there both on the fixed side and on the.
Speaker Change: Markets get dislocated and volatile which is why we have this core defensive position.
Etienne Dubuc: You had markets going down 4% on the day after and 2% two days after those announcements. Obviously, with the volatility positions we had on the book and the very defensive approach we had prior to this tariff This tariff announcement, that was. that was pretty much ideal positioning. Now, could we What's the downside? I think that's a fair question.
Speaker Change: We won't deviate from and I don't want to see another thing that I think is.
Speaker Change: Equity volatility side.
Speaker Change: Got it.
Speaker Change: As a feature of our strategy is innovation in terms of trading technology in terms of pricing technology in terms of operations, we won't hesitate to build in house.
Speaker Change: Maybe as a follow up it would be helpful to understand at him.
Speaker Change: If you could lift on a two or three or four things that help us better understand sort of the long term.
Speaker Change: Two when we see that technology can be a differentiator I don't think you can hope to compete with with vendor solutions and capital markets. In 2025, So we don't hesitate to build technology ourselves to generate scale and I think that's what you're seeing in quarters like this it's really.
Speaker Change: Growth trajectory for the trading business, obviously, there's a lot of volatility from quarter to quarter.
Speaker Change: And is curbing good volatility but.
Speaker Change: How do we think about sort of longer term underlying.
Speaker Change: Those trends in the major drivers behind that.
Etienne Dubuc: And you remember Sohrab Q3 in 2023, that was a social quarter for us. The reason for it was low volatility, low client activity. We are a franchise that's about providing liquidity, providing structuring solutions, trading with clients, providing hedging solutions. When that dies down, that's the downside. That could happen. Typically it happens in the summer. I don't see it happening this year because we still have a lot of Tariff announcements and tariffs being pushed back, so I think the downside for us this year is limited. But if you look at the long-term trend of where our performance should be, I think if we're able to deliver year-over-year growth for the next two quarters, that still means that our long-term positive trend to our business is in place.
Speaker Change: Well so.
Speaker Change: Scale.
Speaker Change: We'll have to take a step back and look at the strategy if we focus on trading.
Speaker Change: Being delivered by the trading businesses.
Speaker Change: And so youre going to see it more and more.
Speaker Change: What are we right where a domestically focused.
Speaker Change: Central stack of technology being reused across asset classes and it can be and the effects. It can be in race, who can be in securities lending for example look for a lot more automation on the securities lending side. So.
Speaker Change: Operation that focuses on structuring liquidity, providing being leaders in the different underlying is in Canada. If something is trading in Canada I wanted to be the lead market maker on if we want to trade or an algorithm making.
Speaker Change: Everywhere look for us to add for.
Speaker Change: Process power and add scale to our operation and another feature of that is we took our op steam coal and we brought it back really closer to the businesses. So ops is really part of the financial markets operation because we also see operational excellence as a potential differentiator, so thats really how.
Speaker Change: Making a market on its providing liquidity.
Speaker Change: Same thing for structured products, we want to lead with deep expertise.
Speaker Change: And then we want to cover clients true cycle, which means that.
Speaker Change: We wanted to adopt a defensive position.
Speaker Change: So that we're able to cover clients even during the tougher times when markets became dislocated and volatile which is why we have this core defensive position, which we won't deviate from and I don't want to see another thing that I think is a is a feature of our strategy is innovation.
Speaker Change: Do we think about how we want to build our trading operations going forward.
Speaker Change: Alright, that's great I will leave it there thank you.
Speaker Change: Okay.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: The next question is from Lamar peso from <unk> Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Etienne Dubuc: Is that helpful? Yeah, that's very helpful, Etienne.
Etienne Dubuc: Maybe just for crystal clarity, when I look at your daily trading... Revenues and VAR chart, there is a particularly strong day that I assume is Liberation Day. And can you just clarify, it's not one single trade, it would have been broad-based? Yeah, it would have been broad-based. And that's April 4th, so not the day after Liberation Day, but one day after that. So S&P was down 6%, TSX was down 5%. So that strength came from rates, came from FX, came from structured products where we have a big core volatility position, and came from market making both in options and ETFs because volumes exploded and you had a lot of dislocations, bid-ask spreads widened.
Speaker Change: In terms of trading technology in terms of pricing technology in terms of operations, we won't hesitate to build in house.
Speaker Change: Yeah. Thanks, Andrew I'll start off with that I can hear you obviously, another big quarter for trading and you can get by the nature of the questions on the call. So far that we're all trying to really figure out.
Speaker Change: Two when we see that technology can be a differentiator I don't think you can hope to compete with with vendor solutions.
Speaker Change: What's kind of driving that is there let me ask it more specifically is there something that's changed structurally in your business that suggests we have to think about national is running at a higher <unk>.
Speaker Change: In capital markets in 2025, so we don't hesitate to build technology ourselves to generate scale and I think that that's what you're seeing in quarters like this it's really scale.
Speaker Change: Trading level going forward.
Speaker Change: Is there something special going on in some of your maybe non Canadian geographies, that's really driving this big uplift in the equities equities business.
Speaker Change: Being delivered by the trading businesses.
Speaker Change: And so you're going to see it more and more.
Lamar: Thanks, Lamar that's a good question.
Speaker Change: Central stack of technology being reused across asset classes and it can be and the effects. It can be in race, who can be in securities lending. For example look for a lot more automation on the securities lending side, So everywhere look for us to add.
Speaker Change: I don't think there is.
Speaker Change: Something fundamental that is going on for sure.
Speaker Change: And maybe to follow up on the question I gave Paul is look for international to take a pause.
Etienne Dubuc: And so that's a really good environment for our trading businesses, especially as our technology can continue to perform. really admirably during that volatility. Okay, thank you.
Speaker Change: Growing place in what we do but we will do it organically and we will do it from a position of strength. Once we have built what we feel is a niche in a certain activity or product we will support that.
Speaker Change: Process power and add scale to our operation and another feature of that is we took our op steam coal and we brought it back really closer to the businesses. So ops is really part of the financial markets operation because we also see operational excellence as a potential differentiator. So that's really.
John Sebastian: And I just maybe just for John Sebastian, I mean, It grows in carrots, excluding credit G. You know, the trends are not necessarily comforting here, you know, they continue to kind of trend higher with or without CWB. Well, why do you feel okay with these trends here?
Speaker Change: That knowledge to some other jurisdictions, but what we won't do is go to another country and try to be everything for everybody. We are we wanted a specialized in the products. We're good at but I think that this creates opportunity to be leaders in some niches in the U S and Europe.
Speaker Change: How we think about how we want to build our trading operations going forward.
Speaker Change: That's great I will leave it there thank you.
Speaker Change: Yeah.
Speaker Change: Thank you.
Speaker Change: The next question is from Lamar pencil from <unk> Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: In Asia as we move forward so look for growth there.
John Sebastian: So I think first, thank you, thank you Sohrab for your question. And as you correctly pointed out, you know, the gross impaired loan increase this quarter is really driven by the CWB transaction and also the effects of the formations of CWB during the quarter and of National Bank during the quarter. And we've seen, you know, one of the largest drivers of total gill being ABA for a while and this quarter we've seen a continued reduction in the level of formation. The book that we also bought from CWB is secured and when you look at our GILs, most of our GILs are on secured transactions and secured transactions tend to stay in GILs longer before they are written off, contrary to credit cards, for example, which will not show on GILs at all.
Speaker Change: Yeah. Thanks, Andrew I'll start off with I can hear you all obviously, another big quarter for trading and you can get by the nature of the questions on the call. So far that you know, we're all trying to really figure out what.
Speaker Change: But as something funded it fundamentally changed in our strategy or the way that we operate no.
Speaker Change: I still think that treating.
Speaker Change: What's kind of driving that is there let me ask it more specifically is there something that's changed structurally in your business that suggests we have to think about national was running at a higher trading level going forward or is there something special going on in some of your maybe non Canadian geographies, that's really driving that big.
Speaker Change: Trading will not probably grow sequentially. The next two quarters, but if I look at where we were five years ago, and where we're going.
Speaker Change: It's a really interesting CAGR and look for more growth in the coming years.
Speaker Change: Uplift in the equities equities business.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thanks, and then maybe moving on to a different type of question probably for marathon tell here.
Speaker Change: Thanks, Lamar that's a good question.
Speaker Change: The amortization of the fair value Mark was kind of lighter than I would expect just based on I guess.
Speaker Change: I don't think there is.
Speaker Change: Something fundamental that that is going on for sure.
Speaker Change: You guys disclosed last quarter that <unk> quarterly impact.
Speaker Change: And maybe to follow up on the question I gave full is.
Speaker Change: Based on my math it looks like it was around a third of that do I have that right and then.
Speaker Change: Look for international to take a pause.
John Sebastian: And I'll give you another example, Sohrab. If we had a commercial real estate insured transaction, it would also show in our GIL levels. So GIL levels do not necessarily translate in credit quality. So what I look at is really how is our delinquency doing and are delinquencies trending fine. I'm also looking at how are impaired loans performing and you've seen a stabilization in the performance and you've actually seen some improvements in our retail portfolios and if you had excluded the CWB, PCLs and commercial this quarter, we would have been down also. So I'm comfortable with where we are right now.
Speaker Change: Secondly, maybe you can kind of talk about how you see P&C nims evolving relative to the two 3% in Q2, and then also comment on all bank.
Speaker Change: A growing place in what we do but we will do it organically and we will do it from a position of strength. Once we have built what we feel is a niche in a certain activity or product we will support that.
Speaker Change: NIM expectations that'd be helpful.
Speaker Change: Yeah. Thanks for the question, so you're right amortization was a bit low.
Speaker Change: That knowledge to some other jurisdictions, but what we won't do is go to another country and try to be everything for everybody. We are we wanted a specialized in the products we're good at but.
Speaker Change: In Q3 and in Q2, that's primarily attributed to a modest write down on assets that we then will it relatively short maturities.
Speaker Change: So the reduction is largely driven by specific segment, when CWT and mortgages and retail leases and if you look at the.
Speaker Change: I think that this creates a pretty shouldn't be to be leaders in some niches in the U S in Europe and Asia as we move forward so look for growth there.
Speaker Change: The end of our material Youll see the appendix showing the future.
John Sebastian: Okay, very helpful. Thank you very much.
Speaker Change: But as something fund and it fundamentally changed in our strategy or our the way that we operate no.
Unknown Executive: Thank you.
Mario Mendonca: The next question is from Mario Mendonca from TD Securities. Please go ahead, your line is open. Sorry about that. Can you hear me okay? Yes, sorry, I just dropped the phone. One sort of quick model question. The tax rate does seem a bit higher than it needs to be for your bank, is it? The addition of CDBV or is it more about the mix of revenue, the elevated trading?
Speaker Change: Estimated amortization impacts and we've updated for you guys.
Speaker Change: I still think that treating trading.
Speaker Change: And on the PMC and you wanted to start on things.
Speaker Change: Trading will not probably grow sequentially. The next two quarters, but if I look at where we were five years ago, and where we're going.
Speaker Change: Historically, our bank and NIM and then I'll pass it over to D C for a little bit of.
Speaker Change: The deep dive on underpin seen him so.
Speaker Change: Yes.
Speaker Change: It's a really interesting CAGR and look for more growth in the coming years.
Speaker Change: The all bank basis.
Speaker Change: Obviously, you see that maybe continues to be accretive to NIM bear in mind, though that because it like we just discussed the impact of the amortization.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thanks, and then maybe moving on to a different type of question probably for marathon tell here.
Mario Mendonca: Thanks, Mario. So tax rate, when you look at it on a year over year basis, obviously is the impact of failure to and as we explained in the past couple of quarters, we were expecting a little bit around 2% impact. And that's what you're seeing. And in terms of the CWB impact, it won't have an material impact on our results. And if you look at the The PNC segment, probably wondering when you looked at the model, I'm sure you saw the impact in Q2 for PNC, and that's really something related to the provisions that were higher this quarter for the PNC group.
Speaker Change: The amortization of the fair value Mark was kind of lighter than I would expect just based on I guess.
Speaker Change: Increase on the fair value in Q3.
Speaker Change: You guys disclosed last quarter that 910 quarterly impact.
Speaker Change: And the factor to consider NPL bank NIM going forward. There are many elements, obviously to consider and as I said in my remarks.
Speaker Change: Just on my math it looks like it was around a third of that do I have that right and then.
Speaker Change: Secondly, maybe you can kind of talk about how you see PMC nims evolving relative to the two 3% in Q2, and then also comment on all bank.
Speaker Change: Mick I could continue to impact the NIM going going forward.
Speaker Change: And different moving parts will also be dependent on market.
Speaker Change: NIM expectations that'd be helpful.
Speaker Change: <unk>.
Speaker Change: Yeah. Thanks for the question, so you're right amortization was a bit lower in Q3 and in Q2 and is primarily attributed to a modest write down on assets that we then will it right that's relatively short maturities.
Speaker Change: So I think what's most important to remember is that we continue to be focused on growing NII growing the balance sheet the balance sheet and growing that franchise I think that's the important message is that you see do you want to add anything on the P&C yeah. If we unpack some of the needs are there.
Mario Mendonca: So you can expect that to come back to regular tax rates for the next couple of quarters.
Speaker Change: So the reduction is largely driven by specific segment and then DWP.
Mario Mendonca: And then, just, if we could go to ABA for a moment, looking at some of what you guys call the ABA Bank Key Metrics. The formations in the corridor, it says here. Formations of $47 million in the quarter. This is Formations Gross Pair Loans at APA. But gross impaired loans as well, we're up. Thank you. Quarter Chicken Almost exactly, actually, 47.
Speaker Change: The directions, if we look at the asset spreads they've been mainly neutral this quarter and we expect them to continue to be neutral we do as good a diversified asset mix between the retail and commercial products.
Speaker Change: And mortgages and retail leases and if you look at.
Speaker Change: And of our material Youll see the appendix showing the future.
Speaker Change: Estimated amortization impact and we've updated for you guys.
Speaker Change: That said at our analyst friends, who remain.
Speaker Change: And on the deposit brand the patent drone that trees that inferred and I'd say for example in 2014% demand deposit growth. This quarter is expected to continue to be strong and that's in the deposit mix.
Speaker Change: And on the P&C and wanted to start on things I talked when you all think.
D C: Thank God NIM, and then I'll pass it over to D C for a little bit of.
Mario Mendonca: How do I interpret that? Do I interpret that as there were no resolutions in the quarter or are there other moving parts? Yeah, so so the resolutions are remaining low. So the formations are really the largest driver of yields and those also affect But does that mean there were no resolutions in the quarter, is that the way to look at it? No, there were resolutions, and as you know, our level of write-offs at ABA, you know, remains low. So, typically when you continue, you, let me back it up. So, when you look at the new formation, You know, there's there's three things you look at.
D C: Deep dive on underpin seen him Tom the outlying basis.
Speaker Change: But it's expected to be offset by the pressure on the term deposit that we see out there in the market is very competitive for term deposits. So at the end of that the direction of the NIM and then pnc's immediate like nation. Since then.
D C: Obviously, you see that maybe continues to be accretive to them bear in mind, though that because of what we just discussed the impact of amortization and increase on the bad that you in Q3.
Speaker Change: In our sector.
D C: And the factor to consider NPL bank NIM going forward.
Speaker Change: Good answer for you on retail and commercial loan growth.
Speaker Change: Combined with an environment that is not conducive to term deposit growth.
D C: There are many elements, obviously to consider and as I said in my remarks.
Speaker Change: That's what we'll continue to put pressure on the NIM the.
D C: Nick I could continue to impact the NIM going going forward.
Speaker Change: Next quarter, we expect.
D C: And different moving parts will also be dependent on market.
Speaker Change: That's very comprehensive thank you so much.
Mario Mendonca: The first is, how are the newly impaired loans? And these were down. When you look at the recoveries. These were down two. And when you look at the resolutions, they were still low, and our write-up was still low. That's why the increase matched.
Speaker Change: Thank you. The next question is from Mike <unk> from Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
D C: Yeah.
D C: So I think what's most important to remember is that we continue to be focused on growing NII growing the balance sheet.
Speaker Change: Hi, a quick one for John Sebastian just maybe going back to <unk>, just trying to get an understanding of if anything's changed in terms of I think the previous guidance being that two thirds of what gets resolved does not come with the write off.
Speaker Change: The balance sheet and growing that franchise I think that's what are the important message is are you seeing do you want to add anything on the P&C, yes, we unpack some of the leverage there.
Speaker Change: And I think youre right offs jumped a bit in the quarter I think it's the highest we've seen in the $9 million I get it's still de Minimis, but.
Speaker Change: Directions, if we look at the asset spread it's been mainly neutral this quarter and we expect them to continue to be neutral, we do and are doing.
Mario Mendonca: Maybe we can take it offline if you have more detailed questions on that one. I think I follow, but is there something in your supplement that actually shows that reconciliation? I mean, there's a lot of paper from right now, so perhaps we'll take it offline.
Speaker Change: In terms of that prior guidance has anything changed and then a second part to the question is what's the reasonable timeline as you learn more about the backlog and the court is this something that could last for another couple of years plus or is this something like so you see some acceleration in work out maybe in the next few quarters I'm just trying to understand that.
Speaker Change: Good you know a diversified asset mix between the retail and commercial products.
Speaker Change: And send out as friends, who remain a resilience and on the deposit brand the bonding drone that trees that inferred and I'd say for example, 14% demand deposit growth. This quarter is expected to continue to be strong and that should add the deposit mix.
Paul Holden: The next question is from Paul Holden from CIBC. Please go ahead. The line is open. Thank you.
Paul Holden: Good morning.
Judith: First, I want to ask about your outlook for organic loan growth, particularly in commercial loans, and just wondering how it might be impacted by the focus on the CWB integration, I guess, if at all, or if you slow organic loan growth while you digest CWB. And then second part of that is, you know, how does organic loan growth get impacted by the macro uncertainty? Do you believe it will remain for the industry low? Or do you think that, you know, there's a little bit of signs of stability and improved market conditions for the back office?
Speaker Change: Trajectory do you have a better sense of the city.
Speaker Change: Good so.
Mike: Thank you Mike for your questions for the first part.
Speaker Change: But it's expected to be mainly offset by the pressure on the term deposit that we see out there in the market is very competitive for term deposits.
Speaker Change: Obviously, the recovery rates on file vary a little bit from from quarter to quarter.
Speaker Change: But the guidance that we had provided that formations in Q4 would be at the higher end of what we expected going forward is proving to be true.
Speaker Change: So and then they would be the direction of the NIM and then Pnc's United Nations Since then.
Speaker Change: And in fact, a good answer for me I'm going to read that in commercial loan growth.
Speaker Change: We're absolutely maintaining it.
Speaker Change: As for your other question is a bit is a bit kind of peak Gil type of question. So for this I won't venture into predicting when the peak will be but we are seeing a flattening of the curve and we have seen two consecutive quarters of formations declined which we view positively.
Speaker Change: And combined with an environment that is not conducive to term deposit growth. So that's what we'll continue to put pressure on the NIM.
Judith: So, I'll take this one. It's Judith. Thanks, Paul. So, on our outlook on growth, we see growth in the low teens, mainly driven by insured real estate, as it happened like many quarters back, and diversified with large commercial clients across Canada. So, this is on the national side.
Speaker Change: Next quarter, we expect.
Speaker Change: That's very comprehensive thank you so much.
Speaker Change: Thank you. The next question is from Mike <unk> from Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker Change: And looking at the formations, there really driven by a reduction in newly impaired and some return to performing.
Speaker Change: A quick one for going through that stage, just maybe going back to a be a just trying to get an understanding of if anything's changed in terms of I think the previous guidance mean that two thirds of what gets resolved does not come with the write off.
Judith: With CWB, this is not a surprise that growth is very soft during the integration. We do expect growth to pick up once clients start migrating, and integration is really what we're focusing on, as Michael said at the beginning of the call. For concerning economic uncertainty, so we still see that uncertainty, but with the growth that we've been seeing with our insured real estate, it's less affected, I would say. So, we're still confident that our growth is going to continue. Okay, thanks for that.
Speaker Change: We're maintaining our guidance to what we said before but we are also continuing to build.
Speaker Change: Impaired allowances and you've also seen us this quarter build 33 bps performing allowances to make sure we're well positioned going forward.
Speaker Change: And I think youre right offs, they jumped a bit in the quarter. I think is the highest we've seen in $9 million I get it's still de minimis, but.
Speaker Change: In terms of that prior guidance has anything changed and then a second part to the question is what's the reasonable timeline as you learn more about the backlog and the court is this something that could last for another couple of years or is this something like should you see some acceleration in work out maybe in the next few quarters I'm just trying to understand.
Speaker Change: Okay, so low teens in the trajectory and the potential of seeing a bit of acceleration in that backlog you don't really have a better sense today than you did last quarter is that fair.
Speaker Change: I would say it's accurate.
Speaker Change: Okay, and then quick one for Luke just on the mortgage growth I think you did suggest 4% year over year ex GWB.
Etienne Dubuc: And then second question was going back to Etienne and just looking at the regulatory capital supplemental, just notice that the amount of capital required for FX risk has increased. and increased quite significantly since the end of 2024.
Speaker Change: The trajectory if you have a better sense of it.
Speaker Change: I don't know if you disclose or sorry, if I missed it but what was it quarter over quarter, just trying to get a sense of what youre seeing in the market in terms of spread any differentials in distribution channels.
Speaker Change: Good so thank you Mike for your questions for the first part.
Speaker Change: Obviously, the recovery rates on file vary a little bit from from quarter to quarter.
Speaker Change: Specifically the broker channel are you seeing any pressure there we did have one of your peers.
Speaker Change: But the guidance that we had provided duck formations in Q4 would be at the higher end of what we expected going forward is proving to be true and we're absolutely maintaining it.
Etienne Dubuc: So just wondering if that's just a product of market conditions and opportunities, or if there is some kind of intentional build out of the FX trading platform. No, I think you nailed it, Paul. It's mostly Increased volatility tends to increase market risk exposures. I think that's really the most of the answer there, both on the FX side and on the equity volatility side. Okay, got it.
Speaker Change: That theyre seeing a bit of a competitive dynamic.
Speaker Change: Releasing spreads in the broker channel specifically any thoughts on that.
Speaker Change: Yes.
Speaker Change: The broker channel is always a competitive channel that's for sure.
Speaker Change: As for your other question is a bit is a bit kind of a peak Gil type of question. So for this I won't venture into predicting when the peak will be but we are seeing a flattening of the curve and we have seen two consecutive quarters of formations decline, which we view positively.
Speaker Change: And what we've seen this quarter and the mortgage spreads have been neutral for us sequentially sequentially definitely there has been pressure on the competitive side and the cost of fund side, but for US It was completely offset by the excellent momentum we have in cellular origination and in.
Speaker Change: And looking at the formations there really driven by a reduction in newly impaired and some returned to performing.
Etienne Dubuc: Maybe as a follow-up, it'd be helpful to understand, Etienne, sort of, if you could list out two, three or four things that help us better understand sort of the long-term Growth Trajectory Transcription by CastingWords Well, so We'll have to take a step back and look at the strategy. If we focus on trading, what are we, right? We're domestically focused. a operation that focuses on structuring, liquidity providing, being leaders in the different underlyings in Canada. If something is trading in Canada, I want to be the lead market maker on it. We want a trader or an algorithm making a market on it, providing liquidity.
Speaker Change: Very good performance in venue.
Speaker Change: Definitely there is.
Speaker Change: Sure out there.
Speaker Change: We're maintaining our guidance to what we said before but we are also continuing to build.
Speaker Change: I'm not arguing performance one thing I've said that.
Speaker Change: That answer your question, Yes, that's helpful. And then just kind of extrapolate from that 4% year over year growth ex GWB.
Speaker Change: Impaired allowances and you've also seen us this quarter build 33 weeks are performing allowances to make sure we're well positioned going forward.
Speaker Change: In mortgages that that would imply a relatively flat results quarter to quarter is that fair.
Speaker Change: Okay, so low teens in the trajectory and the potential of seeing a bit of acceleration in that backlog you don't really have a better sense today than you did last quarter is that fair.
Speaker Change: And I would say, yes, but.
Speaker Change: So that's my fault over quarter quarter over quarter is also there is out there still.
Speaker Change: I would say it's accurate.
Speaker Change: Still very strong origination year over year, and even quarter to quarter as we get into the season and so our teams are very much focused right now and.
Speaker Change: Okay, and then quick one for Luke just on the mortgage growth I think you did suggest 4% year over year ex U W. B.
Speaker Change: I don't know if you disclose or sorry, if I missed it but what was the quarter over quarter, just trying to get a sense of what youre seeing in the market in terms of spread any differentials in distribution channels.
Speaker Change: And responding to the demands out there because definitely we see the real estate market and very differently across the country and different in terms of region and also different in terms of single dwelling enzymes of dwelling and where our strength is.
Speaker Change: Specifically the broker channel or are you seeing any pressure there we did have one of your peers.
Speaker Change: Just that theyre seeing a bit of a competitive dynamic.
Etienne Dubuc: Same thing for structured products. We want to lead with deep expertise. And then we want to cover clients through a cycle, which means that we want to adopt a defensive position. So that we're able to cover clients even during the tougher times when markets get dislocated and volatile, which is why we have this core defensive position, which we won't deviate from.
Speaker Change: Releasing spreads in the broker channel specifically any thoughts on that.
Speaker Change: Is where the market remains active so so we're still very very positive on the outlook on the mortgage front.
Speaker Change: Yes.
Speaker Change: The broker channel is always a competitive channel that's for sure and what we've seen this quarter and the mortgage spreads have been neutral for us sequentially sequentially definitely there has been pressure on the competitive side and the cost of fund side, but for US It was crazy.
Speaker Change: Okay, but youre cutting your confirming that it was roughly flat sequentially on the balance side.
Speaker Change: Yes.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thank you for the insight.
Speaker Change: Thank you. The next question is from Ebrahim <unk> from Bank of America. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Etienne Dubuc: And I want to say another thing that I think is a feature of our strategy is innovation in terms of trading technology, in terms of pricing technology, in terms of operations. We won't hesitate to build in-house. And so you're going to see it more and more.
Speaker Change: That might be excellent momentum, we have in volume origination and in a very good performance in the new world.
Speaker Change: Hey.
Speaker Change: Good afternoon now but.
Speaker Change: Just had a quick quick follow up on credit looking at the slide 36.
Speaker Change: So definitely keep their it and it's especially out there.
Speaker Change: I'm not arguing for from us when they look at that.
Speaker Change: You lay out the unemployment assumptions I think about seven 1% for this year and next year.
Speaker Change: That answered your question.
Speaker Change: Yeah. That's helpful. And then just kind of extrapolate from that 4% year over year growth ex PWB.
Speaker Change: $6 nine today, just talk to us when we think about the reserves at the end of the quarter.
Speaker Change: And mortgages that that would imply a relatively flat results quarter over quarter is that fair.
Speaker Change: How should we think about the peak that you haven't been at $9 six versus the average of seven one.
Speaker Change: And I would say, yes, that's true.
Speaker Change: Does that suggest that.
Speaker Change: That's that's myself over quarter quarter over quarter is also there right now.
Speaker Change: If unemployment moved to $7 three or four over the coming months.
Speaker Change: Still very strong origination.
Speaker Change: There is no requirement would have to go up by a lot.
Speaker Change: A year and even quarter to quarter as we get into this season.
Etienne Dubuc: Thank you. process power, and add scale to our operation.
Speaker Change: What is the framework in which how we should look at these numbers and think about the CNS.
Speaker Change: And so our teams are very much focused right now and you know them.
Speaker Change: <unk> today.
Speaker Change: Responding to the demands out there because definitely we see the real estate market.
Ebrahim: Thank you Ebrahim.
Ebrahim: I'll take the question and I'll I'll give you a long answer on this one because there's a lot of factors to consider and when assessing your build the starting point of the allow US Alex is as important as this is the starting point of the macroeconomic factors that you have now as I pointed out in my prepared remarks, we've had 12 consecutive.
Speaker Change: <unk> very differently across the country and different in terms of region and also different in terms of single dwelling and and find something dwelling and where our strengths are are is where the market remains active. So so we're still very very positive on the outlook on the mortgage front.
Etienne Dubuc: And another feature of that is we took our Ops team, Paul, and we brought it back really closer to the businesses. So Ops is really part of the financial markets operation because we also see operational excellence as a potential differentiator. So that's really how we think about how we want to build our trading operations going forward.
Ebrahim: Quarters are build including nine bps last quarter.
Speaker Change: Okay, but you couldn't you're confirming that it was roughly flat sequentially on the balance side.
Ebrahim: When you look specifically at the build this quarter the impact of the macroeconomic factors, we're very limited given our already pessimistic assumptions and weights.
Speaker Change: Yes.
Speaker Change: Okay. Thank you for the insight.
Unknown Executive: All right, that's great.
Unknown Executive: I will leave it there. Thank you.
Speaker Change: Thank you. The next question is from Ebrahim <unk> from Bank of America. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Ebrahim: When you go look at our scenarios in our pessimistic scenarios they already called for a peak GDP decrease of minus five 4% unemployment that minus nine 6% HPA down at 20% and S. N P. T S X at minus 26% and we're already weighted towards.
Lemar Persaud: The next question is from Lemar Persaud from Cormark Securities.
Lemar Persaud: Please go ahead. Your line is open. Yeah, thanks.
Ebrahim: Hey, good.
Speaker Change: Good afternoon now but.
Lemar Persaud: I'm going to start off with Etienne here. Obviously, another big quarter for trading and you can guess by the nature of the questions on the call so far that, you know, we're all trying to really figure out what's kind of driving that. Is there, let me ask it more specifically, is there something that's changed structurally in your business that suggests we have to think about national as running at a higher trading level going forward? Or is there something special that's going on in some of your maybe non-Canadian geographies that's really driving this big uplift in the equities?
Speaker Change: I had a quick quick follow up on credit and looking at the slide 36.
Speaker Change: You lay out the unemployment assumptions I think about seven 1% this year and next year versus the $6 nine today, just talk to us when we think about the reserve.
Ebrahim: Pessimistic.
Ebrahim: What we did this quarter to affect our performing PCL. It was really taking management actions. The first one was recalibrating the model and more precisely.
Speaker Change: At the end of the quarter.
Speaker Change: How should we think about the peak that you haven't been at $9 six versus the average of 7.1.
Ebrahim: <unk> increased the PD calibrations on our models and second we added a tariff uncertainty management overly using two approaches. The first one is a global trade war scenario and second as we stimulated further downgrades of clients exposed to sub sectors.
Speaker Change: Does that suggest that you.
Speaker Change: If unemployment moved to seven point to your four over the coming months.
Etienne Dubuc: Thanks, Lemar. That's a good question. I don't think there is... something fundamental that is going on for sure. And maybe to follow up on the question I gave Paul is look for international to take a growing place in what we do, but we'll do it organically and we'll do it from a position of strength. Once we have built what we feel is an edge in a certain activity or product, we will support that. that knowledge to some other jurisdictions. But what we won't do is go to another country and try to be everything for everybody.
Speaker Change: Is there a requirement would have to go up by a lot.
Speaker Change: What is the framework in which how we should look at these numbers and think about the way they are E. C N N sedan.
Ebrahim: And these impacts created around 70% of our built in.
Ebrahim: In our non retail book.
Speaker Change: Thank you Ebrahim I'll.
Ebrahim: And our.
Speaker Change: I'll I'll take the question.
Ebrahim: Our credit card book, which is where typically the macroeconomic factors are the most sensitive we now have a total ACL coverage ratio of over eight 2%. So we feel very comfortable with where we are right now.
Speaker Change: And I'll I'll give you a long answer on this one because there's a lot of factors to consider and when assessing your build the starting point of the allow US Alan says is important as it is the starting point of the macroeconomic factors that you have now as I pointed out in my prepared remarks, we've had 12 consecutive quarters of build including <unk>.
Speaker Change: Got it thanks for running through that and I guess, maybe just one.
Ebrahim: Quick one for you you will they will pull ahead of the elections in terms of the policies.
Speaker Change: Nine bps last quarter.
Speaker Change: When you look specifically at the build this quarter the impact of the macroeconomic factors, we're very limited given our already pessimistic assumptions and weights.
Ebrahim: Hugo mentioned peak to sort of.
Ebrahim: <unk> business good activity going early days, but just give us your view around.
Etienne Dubuc: We want to specialize in the products we're good at. But I think that this creates opportunity to be leaders in some niches in the US, in Europe, in Asia, as we move forward. So look for growth there. But as something fundamentally change in our strategy or the way that we operate, no. I still think that trading will not probably grow sequentially the next two quarters.
Ebrahim: Based on what you've seen today are you optimistic what are you paying attention to as we think about data points that could make us optimistic about private sector investment job growth in Canada.
Speaker Change: When you go look at our scenarios in our pessimistic scenarios they already called for a P. G. D. P decrease of minus five 4%.
Speaker Change: Thank you for your question and Brian I am very optimistic everything that we're hearing right now from.
Speaker Change: Unemployment at minus nine 6% H P I down at 20% and S. N P. T S X at minus 26% and we're already waited towards the pessimistic. So what we did this quarter to affect our performing PCL. It was really taking management actions. The first one was recalibrate.
Speaker Change: Federal also provincial government in terms of working together and making the economy. Our priority is very encouraging. So yes. It is early days and you just mentioned it but.
Etienne Dubuc: But if I look at where we were five years ago, and where we're going, it's a really interesting cager and look for more growth in the coming years. Okay, thanks.
Ebrahim:
Speaker Change: No model and more precisely we increased the P. D calibrations on our models and second we added a tariff uncertainty management overly using two approaches. The first one is a global trade war scenario and second as we stimulated further downgrades of clients exposed to sub sectors.
Ebrahim: I can tell you that from our standpoint from also talking to our clients.
Ebrahim: They are.
Ebrahim: Engaging with the business community.
Ebrahim: And figuring out.
Marie Chantal: And then maybe moving on to a different type of question, probably for Mary Chantelle here. The amortization of this fair value mark was kind of lighter than I would expect, just based on I guess, what you guys disclosed last quarter, that nine, 10 quarterly impact. Based on my math, it looks like it was around a third of that. Do I have that right?
Ebrahim: What are the.
Ebrahim: The various paths that we should be taking.
Ebrahim: In order to rejuvenate growth and our country and I'm also encouraged with.
Speaker Change: And these impacts created around 70% of our built in in our non retail book.
Ebrahim: I think.
Ebrahim: The early discussions that our government is having with the U S administration I do believe that.
Speaker Change: And our in our credit card book, which is where typically the macroeconomic factors are the most sensitive we know hobby total ACL coverage ratio of over eight 2%. So we feel very comfortable with where we are right now.
Marie Chantal: And then Secondly, maybe you can kind of talk about how you see PNC NIMS evolving relative to the 2.3% in Q2 and then also comment on All Bank NIMS expectations. That'd be helpful. Yeah, thanks, Lemar, for the question. So you're right, amortization was a bit lower in Q2. It's primarily attributed to a modest markdown on assets that we did relatively to short maturities. So the reduction is largely driven by specific segments within CWB, mortgages and retail leases. And if you look at the end of our material, you'll see the appendix showing the future estimated amortization impacts that we've updated for you guys.
Ebrahim: We will have stronger ties once we sit down and figure out.
Ebrahim: Where do we land.
Ebrahim: With what's going on in the World.
Ebrahim: So overall.
Ebrahim: It's positive to see Brian.
Speaker Change: Got it thanks for running through that and I guess, maybe just one.
Ebrahim: That's good to hear thank you.
Speaker Change: Quick one on they're all for you are you available ahead of the elections in terms of the policies.
Speaker Change: Thank you. The last question is from Darko <unk>.
Speaker Change: New government, you got to sort of be.
Speaker Change: RBC capital markets. Please go ahead your line is open.
Speaker Change: April business good activity going early days, but just give us your view around.
Speaker Change: Hey, Thank you for squeezing me in I appreciate that I wanted to go back to again, just for a little bit here.
Speaker Change: Based on what you've seen today are you optimistic what are you paying attention to what do we think about data points that could make us optimistic about private sector investment job growth in Canada.
Speaker Change: Trading because it is so different from your peers and when I look at what your peers have done.
Speaker Change: Thank you for your question Ebrahim I am very optimistic everything that we're hearing right now from a.
Speaker Change: Quarter over quarter.
Speaker Change: 44% drop it below 30% at Scotia, Europe, 48% quarter over quarter, I won't compare to TD, because they had the schwab sale in the quarter, which obviously helps them. So.
Speaker Change: Federal also provincial government in terms of working together and making the economy, our priority is very encouraging.
Marie Chantal: And on the PNC, Nim, do you want to start? I can start with you. I'll thank Nim and then I'll pass it over to Lucie for a little bit of So on the all-bank basis, obviously, CWB continues to be accretive to them. Bear in mind, though, that because of what we just discussed, the impact of the amortization increase on the fair value in Q3. is a factor to consider in the L Bank NIM going forward. There are many elements obviously to consider and as I said in my remarks, business could continue to impact the NIM going forward and Different moving parts will also be dependent on market conditions.
Speaker Change: I wanted to connect this with some of your earlier commentary because you kept saying I think a couple of places that you have sort of a defensive position and it brings to mind the thought that you know.
Speaker Change: Yes. It is early days and you just mentioned it but.
Speaker Change: I can tell you that from our standpoint from also talking to our clients.
Speaker Change: They are.
Speaker Change: Perhaps what you happen and essences is a put option on equity markets.
Speaker Change: Engaging with the business community.
Speaker Change: And figuring out.
Speaker Change: And so the question is really threefold around that in my correct in thinking that your your base position is essentially a.
Speaker Change: What are the.
Speaker Change: Various paths that we should be taking in order to rejuvenate growth and our country and I'm also encouraged with.
Speaker Change: A bit of a put option on equity markets and if so where is that coming from.
Speaker Change: I think.
Speaker Change: The early discussions that our government is having with the U S administration I do believe that we.
Speaker Change: And is there an element of proprietary trading in here that we may or may not be seeing from other banks.
Speaker Change: We will have stronger ties once we sit down and figure out.
Darko: Yes, thanks for the question Darko.
Speaker Change: Where do we land.
Speaker Change: With what's going on in the World.
Darko: So first of all no theres no proprietary trading.
Speaker Change: So overall it's.
Darko: Everything there is client driven that said because we structured it.
Speaker Change: It's positive to Brian.
Marie Chantal: So, I think what's most important to remember is that we continue to be focused on growing NII, growing the balance sheet, and growing the franchise. I think that's what the important messages are.
Speaker Change: That's good to hear thank you.
Darko: Products, where sometimes you don't have the perfect hedge you you need states views on the market. So that you don't cross the bid ask spread all the time to rehash. Some of these more illiquid exposures that we sell to clients things like long term volatilities long term correlations.
Speaker Change: Thank you. The last question is from Darko village.
Speaker Change: From RBC capital markets. Please go ahead your line is open.
Speaker Change: Hey, Thank you for squeezing me in I appreciate that I wanted to go back to again, just for a little bit here.
Lucie Blanchet: Lucie, do you want to add anything on the PNC? Yes, we unpacked some of the levers there of the directions. If we look at the asset spread, they've been mainly neutral this quarter, and we expect them to continue to be neutral. We do have a good, diversified asset mix between the retail and commercial products that should allow asset spread to remain resilient. And on the deposit spread, the deposit growth that we've delivered, let's say, for example, 14% demand deposit growth this quarter is expected to continue to be strong, and that should help the deposit mix.
Speaker Change: On trading because it is so different from your peers and when I look at what your peers have done.
Darko: So sometimes and that's a big part of the defensive positioning.
Speaker Change: Quarter over quarter.
Darko: We really bias the book towards being defensive.
Speaker Change: 44% drop at BMO, 30% at Scotia, Europe, 48% quarter over quarter, I won't compare to two D. Because they had the schwab's bill in the quarter, which obviously help them. So.
Darko: Well, we know what can happen right, we and most of US have lived through the great financial crisis, we've lived through Covid Muddles Ken.
Speaker Change: I wanted to connect this with some of your earlier commentary because you kept saying I think a couple of places that you have sort of a defensive position and it brings to mind the thought that you know.
Darko: Describe risk at a given point, but when markets go down everything that happens at the same time and so suddenly we had a lot of bad things happen once markets are down 23% and experienced traders and we have a lot of those they know that in there.
Speaker Change: Perhaps what you happen.
Lucie Blanchet: but it's expected to be mainly offset by the pressure on the term deposit that we see out there. The market is very competitive for term deposits. So at the end of the day, the direction of the NIM in the PNC is really like Marie-Chantaine said, a factor of the good outlook we have on retail and commercial loan growth, and combined with an environment that is not conducive to term deposit growth. So that's what will continue to put pressure on the NIM next quarter week.
Speaker Change: Since it is a put option on equity markets.
Speaker Change: And so the question is really threefold around that in my correct in thinking that your your base position is essentially a.
Darko: Know how to.
Darko: Orient their book Accordingly that said your question is is there downside put option yes.
Speaker Change: A bit of a put option on the equity markets and if so where is that coming from.
Darko: And in our structured products business.
Speaker Change: And is there an element of proprietary trading in here that we may or may not be seeing from other banks.
Darko: Some of the products. We so do have essentially may cause long downside volatility because we we can so soft protection to clients. So the clients are protected maybe for the first 30% down move but after that.
Speaker Change: Yeah. Thanks for the questions are cool.
Speaker Change: So first of all no there's no proprietary trading.
Unknown Executive: That's very comprehensive. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker Change: Everything there is client driven that said because we structure.
Mike Rizvanovic: The next question is from Mike Rizvanovic from Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Darko: They are not protected any more so so you could see that as a dumb site put that.
Speaker Change: Products, where sometimes you don't have the perfect hedge you you need state views on the market. So that you don't cross the bid ask spread all the time to rehash. Some of these more illiquid exposures that we sell to clients things like long term volatilities long term correlations.
Mike Rizvanovic: Hi, a quick one for John Sebastian. Just maybe going back to ABA, just trying to get an understanding of if anything's changed in terms of I think the previous guidance being that two-thirds of what gets resolved does not come with a write-off. And I think your write-off, they jumped a bit in the quarter. I think the highest we've seen is nine million. I get it, but in terms of that prior guidance, has anything changed? And then a second part to the question is what's the reasonable timeline as you learn more about the backlog in the court?
Darko: Clients tell us when they buy those products also another thing is that and I touched on the market, making operation that we have and in equities Etfs options rates. We have a lot of in house technology that is a very fast and so when markets get volatile and that tends to <unk>.
Speaker Change: So sometimes and that's a big part of the defensive positioning.
Darko: And when markets go down.
Darko: It's become more volatile bid ask spreads widen if you have good technology, you can be first to market in a lot more opportunities as the slower players have to widen their strategy because they're getting picked off the markets are going too fast so.
Speaker Change: We really bias the book towards being defensive.
Speaker Change: Cuz.
Mike Rizvanovic: Is this something that could last for another couple years plus? Or is this something like should you see some acceleration in workouts maybe in the next few quarters? I'm just trying to understand the trajectory if you have a better sense of it today.
Speaker Change: We know what can happen right, we and most of US have lived through the great financial crisis, we lived through Covid Muddles Ken.
Speaker Change: Describe risk at a given point, but when markets go down everything bad happens at the same time and so suddenly we had a lot of bad things happen once markets are down 23% and experienced traders and we have a lot of those they know that in there.
Darko: And every trading business, we have we want to install these optionality is where it will make more money when things get.
John Sebastian: Good. So thank you, Mike, for your questions. For the first part, obviously, the recovery rates on file vary a little bit from quarter to quarter, but the guidance that we had provided that formations in Q4 would be at the higher end of what we expected going forward is proving to be true, and we're absolutely maintaining it. As for, your other question is a bit, is a bit kind of a peak gill type of question. So for this, I won't venture into predicting when the peak will be, but we are seeing a flattening of the curve.
Darko: Really out of normal condition, we really want to be anti fragile in the way that our trading businesses operate and so technology defensive and that means start code that we leave money on the table in the good times right. Nothing is free so when markets are slowly going up for a very quiet.
Speaker Change: Know how to Oh.
Speaker Change: Orient their book Accordingly that said your question is is there downside put option yes.
Speaker Change: And in our structured products business.
Speaker Change: Some of the products. We so do have essentially make us long downside volatility because we we can so soft protection to climb so the clients are protected maybe for the first 30% down move but after that.
Darko: We're not going to be the top performer and we accept that because we we want to manage this through a cycle and be there.
Darko: For clients when it counts so that's really the philosophy around.
John Sebastian: And we have seen two consecutive quarters of formations decline, which we view positively. And looking at the formations, they're really driven by a reduction in newly impaired and some return to performing. And we're maintaining our guidance to what we said before, but we are also continuing to build impaired allowances. And you've also seen us this quarter build 33 weeks of performing allowances to make sure we're well positioned going forward. Okay, so no change in the trajectory in the potential of seeing a bit of acceleration in that backlog. You don't really have a better sense today than you did last quarter.
Darko: We think about the trading businesses.
Speaker Change: Okay. That's very helpful. I appreciate that answer in that granularity and it does help me think about sort of upward moving equity markets and just as a last follow on to that it's you and when I look at the.
Speaker Change: They're not protected any more so so you could see that as a dumb site put that.
Speaker Change: Clients tell us when the buy those products.
Speaker Change: And another thing is that.
Speaker Change: And I touched on the market, making operation that we have in equities Etfs options rates, we have a lot of in house technology that is a very fast and so when markets get volatile and that tends to happen when markets go down.
Speaker Change: I mean again $542 million of equities is a big number and it's really up from last year.
Speaker Change: And yet I don't see a change in the bar.
Speaker Change: So so is there something that I'm missing.
Speaker Change: You know some sort of need to put that kind of number oh, what did not require.
Speaker Change: Markets become more volatile bid ask spreads widening if you have good technology, you can be first to market in a lot more opportunities as the slower players have to widen their strategy because they're they're getting picked off the markets are going too fast.
Speaker Change: Some higher element of risk or balance sheet or how should I think of it.
John Sebastian: Is that fair? I would say it's accurate.
Lucie Blanchet: Okay, and then quick one for Lucie, just on the mortgage growth, I think you did suggest 4% year-over-year ex-CWB.
Darko: You know you mentioned that Theres, nothing really structural or fundamentally different so I'm just trying to put it in perspective.
Speaker Change: And every trading business, we have we want to install these optionality piece, where we will make more money when things get.
Lucie Blanchet: I don't know if you disclosed, or sorry if I missed it, but what was it quarter-over-quarter? Just trying to get a sense of what you're seeing in the market in terms of spread. Any differentials in distribution channels, specifically the broker channel? Are you seeing any pressure there? We did have one of your peers suggest that they're seeing a bit of competitive dynamics, reducing spreads in the broker channel specifically. Any thoughts on that?
Darko: You know typically when I think of this kind of volatility helping you out so much with the same bar I'm a bit confused by it.
Speaker Change: Really out of normal condition, we really wanna be anti fragile in the way that our trading businesses operate and so technology defensive and that means circle that we leave money on the table in the good times right. There's nothing is free so when markets are slowly going up for a very quiet.
Darko: Yeah, that's a that's a complex question Darko.
Darko: Sure.
Darko: One thing I'll say is that sometimes because of our risk profile that is very good.
Darko: Geared towards making money on the downside the vars scenarios that generate losses will be rally scenario sharp rally scenarios, so that can flip depending on which position we have on it.
Lucie Blanchet: Yes, the broker channel is always a competitive channel, that's for sure. What we've seen this quarter, the mortgage spreads have been neutral for us sequentially. Definitely, there's been pressure on the competitive side and the customer side, but for us, it was completely offset by the excellent momentum we had in volume origination and in our very good performance in renewal. So definitely, there is competitive pressure out there, but our good performance was able to offset that. Does that answer your question?
Speaker Change: We're not going to be the top performer and we accept that because we we want to manage this through a cycle and be there.
Darko: And.
Speaker Change: For clients when it counts.
Darko: Yeah.
Darko: Then it becomes it truly varies with the size of the positions and that's also.
Speaker Change: So that's really the philosophy around.
Speaker Change: Are we pick them up the trading businesses.
Darko: Affected a lot by client activity social these folks are not static they are.
Speaker Change: Okay. That's very helpful. I appreciate that answer in that granularity and it does help me think about sort of upward moving equity markets and just as a last follow on to that as Jim when I look at the.
Darko: They are very active clients as we trade against clients constantly so far.
Darko: It can be affected by by many different things.
Speaker Change: You know.
Speaker Change: Again $542 million in equities is a big number and it's really up from last year.
Darko: Okay, great. Thank you very much for the insights.
Lucie Blanchet: Yeah, that's helpful. And then I'm just trying to extrapolate from that 4% year-over-year growth XCWB in mortgages, that that would imply a relatively flat result core recorder. Is that fair? I would say yes, but keeping that result over quarter over quarter is also the result of still very strong origination year over year and even quarter to quarter as we get into the season. And so our teams are very much focused right now in, you know, responding to the demands out there because definitely we see the real estate market very differently across the country and different in terms of region and also different in terms of single dwelling and types of dwelling.
Darko: Thank you there are no further questions registered at this time I will turn the call back to Mr. Ferraro. Thank.
Speaker Change: And yet I don't see a change in the bar.
Speaker Change: So so it is I is there something that I'm missing.
Speaker Change: Thank you operator, I want to recognize all employees, including employees newly joined from PWB and want to thank you for your dedication hard work on the integration and the support you are bringing to our clients.
Speaker Change: Some sort of to put that kind of number oh would it not require.
Speaker Change: Some higher element of risk or balance sheet or how should I think of it.
Speaker Change: You know you mentioned that there's nothing really structural or fundamentally different so I'm just trying to put it in perspective you.
Darko: The path we're on it gives me great confidence at this point in time finally, I would also like to thank our shareholders for their continued support have a great summer.
Speaker Change: You know typically when I think of this kind of volatility helping you out so much with the same bar I'm a bit confused by it.
Speaker Change: Thank you the conference has now ended please.
Speaker Change: Please disconnect your lines at this time.
Speaker Change: Yeah, that's a that's a complex questions are cool.
Speaker Change: Thank you for your participation.
Speaker Change: One thing I'll say is that sometimes because of our risk profile that is very geared towards making money on the downside the adverse scenarios that generate losses will be rally scenario sharp rally scenarios, so that can flip depending on which position we have on.
Lucie Blanchet: And where our strengths are is where the market remains active. So we're still very, very positive on the outlook on the market. Okay, but you're confirming that it was roughly flat sequentially on the balance side?
Unknown Executive: Okay, thank you for your time.
Speaker Change: And yeah, I mean, and then it becomes it really varies with the size of the positions and that's also.
Unknown Executive: Thank you.
Ibrahim Poonawalla: Your next question is from Ibrahim Poonawalla from Bank of America. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Hey, it is good afternoon now.
Speaker Change: It affected a lot by client activity social these folks are not static they are.
Ibrahim Poonawalla: But just a quick follow up on credit, looking at the slide 36, where you lay out the unemployment assumptions, I think about 7.1% for this year and next year, versus the 6.9% today. Just talk to us, when we think about the reserves at the end of the quarter, How should we think about the peak that you have in there at 9.6 versus the average of 7.1? Does that suggest that if unemployment moved to 7.3 or 4 over the coming months, the reserve requirement would have to go up by a lot? What's the framework in which how we should look at these numbers and think about where the ACL is today?
Speaker Change: They are very active that's client as we trade against clients constantly so.
Speaker Change: Or it can be affected by by many different things.
Speaker Change: Okay, great. Thank you very much for the insights.
Speaker Change: Thank you there are no further questions registered at this time I will turn the call back to Mr. Ferraro. Thank.
Speaker Change: Thank you operator, I want to recognize all employees, including employees newly joined from DWP and want to thank you for your dedication hard work on the integration and the support you are bringing to our clients.
Speaker Change: The path we're on a it gives me great confidence at this point in time finally, I would also like to thank our shareholders for their continued support have a great summer.
Speaker Change: Thank you the conference has now ended please.
Speaker Change: Please disconnect your lines at this time.
Speaker Change: Thank you for your participation.
Speaker Change: Yeah.
Ibrahim Poonawalla: When you look specifically at the bill this quarter, the impacts of the macroeconomic factors were very limited given our already pessimistic assumptions and weight. When you go look at our scenarios and our pessimistic scenarios, they already called for a peak GDP decrease of minus 5.4%, unemployment at minus 9.6%, HPI down at 20%, and S&PTSX at minus 26%. And we're already weighted towards the pessimistic.
Ibrahim Poonawalla: So what we did this quarter to affect our performing PCL, it was really taking management actions. The first one was recalibrating the model. And more precisely, we increased the PD calibrations on our models.
Ibrahim Poonawalla: And second, we added a tariff uncertainty management overlay using two approaches. The first one is a global trade war scenario, and second is we simulated further downgrades of clients exposed to subsets. And these impacts created around 70% of our bills in in our non-retail book. And in our credit card book, which is where typically the macroeconomic factors are the most sensitive, we now have a total ACL coverage ratio of over 8.2%, so we feel very comfortable with where we are right now. Got it. Thanks for running through that.
Laurent Ferreira: And I guess maybe just one quick one Laurent for you. You're very vocal ahead of the elections in terms of the policies the new government should take to sort of be pro-business, get activity going early days, but just give us your view around based on what you've seen today. Are you optimistic? What are you paying attention to as we think about data points that would make us optimistic about private sector investment, job growth in Canada?
Laurent Ferreira: Thank you for your question Ibrahim. I am very optimistic. Everything that we're hearing right now from federal, also provincial government in terms of working together and making the economy a priority is very encouraging. So yes, it is early days as you just mentioned it, but I can tell you that from our standpoint, from also talking to our clients, they are engaging with the business community and figuring out what are the various paths that we should be taking in order to rejuvenate growth in our country. And I'm also encouraged with, I think, the early discussions that our government is having with the US administration.
Laurent Ferreira: I do believe that we will have stronger ties once we sit down and figure out where do we land with what's going on in the world. So overall, it's positive, Ibrahim. That's good to hear. Thank you.
Darko Mihelic: The last question is from Darko Mihelic from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Hey, thank you for squeezing me in. I appreciate that.
Darko Mihelic: I wanted to go back to Etienne just for a little bit here on trading because it is so different from your peers. And when I look at what your peers have done, quarter over quarter. Of Canada. And I wanted to connect this with some of your earlier commentary, because you kept saying, I think, a couple of places that you have sort of this defensive position. And it brings to mind the thought that, you know, perhaps what you have in essence is a put option on equity markets. And so the question is really threefold around that, am I correct in thinking that your base position is essentially a bit of a put option on equity market?
Darko Mihelic: And if so, where is that coming from? And is there an... Proprietary Trading in here that we may or may not be seeing from other banks.
Etienne Dubuc: Yeah, thanks for the question, Darko. So first of all, no, there's no proprietary trading. Everything there is client-driven. That said, because we structure products where sometimes you don't have the perfect hedge, you need to take views on the market so that you don't cross the bid-ask spread all the time to re-hedge some of these more illiquid exposures that we sell to clients, things like long-term volatilities, long-term correlations. So sometimes, and that's a big part of the defensive positioning. We really bias the book towards being defensive. Because, well, we know what can happen, right? We, most of us have lived through the Great Financial Crisis.
Etienne Dubuc: We've lived through COVID. Models can describe risk. at a given point. But when markets go down, everything bad happens at the same time. And so suddenly, a lot of bad things happen once markets are down 20-30%. And experienced traders, and we have a lot of those, they know that and they know how to orient their book accordingly. That said, your question is, is there a downside put option? Yes. In our structured products business, Some of the products we sell do have essentially make us long downside volatility because we can sell self-protection to clients. So the clients are protected maybe for the first 30% down move, but after that, they're not protected anymore.
Etienne Dubuc: So you could see that as a downside put that clients sell us when they buy those products. I'll say another thing is that, and I touched on the market making operation that we have in equities, ETFs, options, rates. We have a lot of in-house technology that is very fast. And so when markets get volatile, and that tends to happen when markets go down, markets become more volatile, bid-ask spreads widen. If you have good technology, you can be first to market and a lot more opportunities as the slower players have to widen their strategy because they're getting picked off.
Etienne Dubuc: The markets are going too fast. So in every trading business we have, we want to install these optionalities where we'll make more money when things get really out of normal condition. We really want to be anti-fragile in the way that our trading businesses operate. So technology, defensive, and that means our code that we leave money on the table in the good times, right? Nothing is free. So when markets are slowly going up or are very quiet, we're not going to be the top performer. And we accept that because we want to manage this through a cycle and be there for clients when it counts.
Darko Mihelic: So that's really the philosophy around how we think about the trading business. Okay, that's very helpful. I appreciate that answer and that granularity. And it does help me think about sort of upward moving equity markets. And just as a last follow on to that, Etienne, when I look at the You know, again, 542 million in equities is a big number and it's really up from last year. And yet I don't see a change in the bar. So, so am I, is there something that I'm missing? Like, like you know, some sort of, to put that kind of number out, would it not require some higher element of risk or balance sheet or how should I think of it?
Darko Mihelic: You know, you mentioned that there's nothing really structural or fundamentally different. So I'm just trying to put it in perspective of, you know, typically when I think of this kind of volatility, helping you out so much with the same bar, I'm a bit confused.
Darko Mihelic: Yeah, that's, that's a complex question, Darko. One thing I'll say is that sometimes because of our risk profile that is very geared towards making money on the downside, the various scenarios that generate losses will be rally scenarios, sharp rally scenarios, so that can flip depending on which position we have on. And, yeah, I mean, and then it becomes, it really varies with the size of the positions and that's also affected a lot by client activity. So these folks are not static. They are, they are very active as client, as we trade against clients constantly. So VAR can be affected by many different things.
Unknown Executive: Great, thank you very much for the Thank you.
Operator: There are no further questions registered at this time.
Laurent Ferreira: I will turn the call back to Mr. Ferreira.
Laurent Ferreira: Thank you, operator. I want to recognize all employees, including employees newly joined from PWB. I want to thank you for your dedication, hard work on the integration, and the support you are bringing to our clients. The path we're on gives me great confidence at this point in time.
Laurent Ferreira: Finally, I would also like to thank our shareholders for their continued support.
Unknown Executive: Have a great summer. Thank you.
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