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Welcome to the M and T Bank First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on a listen only mode for the and the floor will be open for your questions following the presentation. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. And I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Windelbaugh, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Margo, and good morning. I'd like to thank everyone for participating in M and T's first quarter twenty twenty five earnings call, both by telephone and through the webcast. If you have not read through the earnings release we issued this morning, you may access it along with the financial tables and schedules by going to our website at mtb.com. Once there, you can click on the Investor Relations link and then on the Events and Presentations link. Closed captioning has been provided for webcast participants.

Also, before we start, I'd like to mention that today's presentation may contain forward looking information. Cautionary statements about this information are included in today's earnings release materials and in the investor presentation, as well as our SEC filings and other investor materials. The presentation also includes non GAAP measures, as identified in the earnings release and investor presentation. The appropriate reconciliations to GAAP are included in the appendix. Joining me on the call today is M and T's Senior Executive Vice President and CFO, Daryl Bybold.

Now I'd like to turn the call over to Darrell.

Thank you, Steve, and good morning, everyone. First, I will begin with our purpose on slide three. Our purpose is to make a difference in people's lives. We are committed to serving not only our customers, but also supporting communities where we live and work, inspiring our 22,000 employees and delivering for our shareholders. In Renee's annual shareholder letter, he notes that we operate in an environment in which change is the only constant.

In these uncertain times, M and T starts from a position of strength with strong liquidity, capital levels, and capital generation. This position of strength reflects our consistent adherence to the fundamentals of liquidity management, capital allocation, and transparency. The strength of this operating model allows M and T to continue to perform through the peaks and valleys of the macroeconomic cycles and support our customers and communities in the moments that matter most. As highlighted on slide four, we continue to receive notable recognition, including 13 Greenwich Coalition Awards for our small business and middle market segments. And we were included in Fortune's most admired and most innovative company list.

Turn to slide six, which shows the results for the first quarter. Our first quarter results represent a strong start to the year with several successes to highlight. Net interest margin increased eight basis points, reflecting our efficient balance sheet and the strength of our deposit franchise. We executed $662,000,000 in share repurchases as we continue toward an 11% CET1 ratio in 2025, while also growing tangible book value per share by 2%. Fee income grew 5% since the first quarter of twenty four or 10% if you exclude last year's BLG distribution.

Asset quality continued to improve with a $516,000,000 reduction in commercial criticized balances and a $150,000,000 reduction in non accrual loans. Our net charge offs of 34 basis points were below our full year expectations of 40 basis points. Now, let's look at the specifics for the first quarter. Diluted GAAP earnings per share were $3.32 down from $3.86 from the prior quarter. Net income was $584,000,000 compared to $681,000,000 in the linked quarter.

MIT's first quarter results produced an ROA and ROCE of 1.148.36% respectively. Slide seven includes supplemental reporting of M and T's results on a net operating or tangible basis. M and T's net operating income was $594,000,000 compared to $691,000,000 in the linked quarter. Diluted net operating earnings per share were $3.38 down from $3.92 in the prior quarter. Net operating income yielded an ROTA and ROTCE of 1.2112.53%.

Next, let's look a little deeper into the underlying trends that generated our first quarter results. Please turn to slide eight. Taxable equivalent net interest income was $1,710,000,000 a decrease of $33,000,000 or 2% from linked quarter. The lower NII was primarily driven by two fewer days and lower average earning assets, partially offset by favorable deposit costs. Net interest margin was 3.66%, an increase of eight basis points from the prior quarter.

The primary drivers of the increase to margin include continued securities growth and lower wholesale, funding and time deposits, And favorable deposit pricing with interest bearing deposit costs declining 27 basis points. Turn to slide 10 to talk about average loans. Average loans and leases decreased 900,000,000.0 to $134,800,000,000 Lower CRE balances were partially offset by the growth in C and I, consumer and residential mortgage. C and I loans grew 1% to 61,000,000,000 driven by continued strength in the corporate institutional and fund banking. CRE loans declined 6% to $26,300,000,000 reflecting payoffs and paydowns and muted origination activity with increased market competition.

Residential mortgage loans were relatively unchanged at 23,200,000,000.0 Consumer loans grew 1% to $24,300,000,000 reflecting increases in recreational finance and indirect auto loans. Loan yields decreased 11 basis points to 6.06%, as lower rates on variable loans and lower non accrual interest was partially offset by fixed rate loan repricing and a smaller drag on our cash flow hedges. Turning to slide 11, our liquidity remains strong. At the end of the first quarter, investment securities and cash, including cash held at the Fed, totaled $57,900,000,000 representing 28% of total assets. Average investment securities increased $800,000,000 The yield on the investment securities increased 12 basis points to 4%, as the yield for new purchases exceeded the yield on maturing securities.

In the first quarter, we purchased $2,600,000,000 in debt securities at an average yield of 4.9%. The duration of the portfolio at the end of the quarter was three point six years and the unrealized pretax loss on the available for sale portfolio was $8,000,000 or less than one basis point CET1 drag if included in regulatory capital. Turning to slide 12. Average total deposits declined 3,400,000,000 or 2% to 161,200,000,000.0 The sequential decline included $700,000,000 decline in broker deposits, while the remainder of the decline was concentrated in commercial and business banking, partially reflecting seasonal lower balances. Average non interest bearing deposits declined $1,100,000,000 to $45,400,000,000 Excluding broker deposits, average non interest bearing deposit mix in the first quarter was relatively unchanged at 30.2%.

Interest bearing deposit costs decreased 27 basis points to 2.37. We saw favorable deposit declines across business lines. Higher level of broker and retail time deposit maturities in the quarter also contributed to the deposit cost decline. Continuing on slide 13, non interest income was $611,000,000 compared to $657,000,000 in the linked quarter. We saw continued strength across fee income categories, with increases in mortgage banking, service charges, trusts, and brokerage fee income.

Recall that the fourth quarter included an $18,000,000 net gain from the sale of non core securities and a $23,000,000 BOG distribution. Excluding these items from the prior quarter, non interest income declined by $5,000,000 sequentially. Mortgage banking revenues were $118,000,000 compared to $117,000,000 in the fourth quarter. Residential mortgage banking revenues increased $6,000,000 sequentially to $82,000,000 reflecting the partial quarter benefit from new subservicing. We expect to reach the full run rate on this subservicing in the second quarter.

Commercial mortgage banking revenues decreased $5,000,000 to $36,000,000 reflecting lower gains on the sale of commercial mortgage loans. Other revenues from operations decreased $34,000,000 to $142,000,000 mostly reflecting the fourth quarter '20 '3 million dollars VOD distribution. Turning to slide 14, we continue to execute on our expense plans. Non interest expenses were $1,420,000,000 an increase of 52,000,000 from the prior quarter. Last year's fourth quarter included $35,000,000 in notable expenses related to the redemption of certain M and T Trust preferred obligations, expenses associated with corporate real estate optimization, partially offset by pension related credit.

Salary and benefits increased 97,000,000 to $887,000,000 mostly reflecting $110,000,000 of seasonally higher compensation expense related to stock based compensation, payroll related taxes, and other employee benefit expenses. As usual, we expect those seasonal factors to decline significantly as we enter the second quarter. Other costs of operations decreased $50,000,000 to $118,000,000 primarily reflecting the previously mentioned fourth quarter notable items. The efficiency ratio was 60.5% compared to 56.8% in the linked quarter. Next, let's turn to slide 15 for credit.

Net charge offs for the quarter totaled $114,000,000 or 34 basis points, decreasing from 47 basis points in the linked quarter. Charge offs were relatively granular in the first quarter, with the five largest charges amounting to less than $30,000,000 in total, representing both C and I and CRE credits. Non accrual loans decreased $150,000,000 or 9% to $1,500,000,000 The non accrual ratio decreased 11 basis points to 1.14%, driven largely by payoffs, charge offs and upgrades out of non accrual. In the fourth quarter, we reported a provision of $130,000,000 compared to the net charge offs of 114,000,000 The allowance to loan ratio increased two basis points to 1.63%, reflecting growth in certain consumer loan portfolios, as well as a modest deterioration in the macroeconomic forecast. The increase was not related to changes in the underlying credit performance, which is mostly in line with expectations.

Please turn to slide 16. We estimate that the level of criticized loans will be 9,400,000,000 compared to $9,900,000,000 at the December. The improvement from the linked quarter was driven by $667,000,000 decline in CRE criticized balances, partially offset by $150,000,000 increase in C and I. Within C and I, the increase in criticize was concentrated in the motor vehicle and recreational finance dealers. The CRE criticize decline was primarily within multifamily, office, healthcare, construction, and was driven by payoffs, paydowns, and upgrades to past status.

Improved leasing, occupancy, and cash flows in healthcare and multifamily helped drive the improvement in the CRE criticized. Turning to slide 19 for capital. M and T's CET1 ratio at the end of the first quarter was an estimated 11.5% compared to 11.68% at the end of the fourth quarter. The decline in the CET1 ratio reflects increased capital distributions, including $662,000,000 in share repurchases, partially offset by continued strong capital generation. AOCI impact on the CET1 ratio from available for sale securities and pension related components combined would be approximately a positive six basis points if included in regulatory capital.

Now turning to slide 20 for the outlook. First, let's begin with the economic backdrop. The economic backdrop remains dynamic in light of the developments over the past several weeks. Recent economic data is mixed, with strong job gains but moderating wage growth. Our recent readings show weakening business and consumer sentiment and easing inflation.

The ultimate impact on tariffs on the broader economy remains unknown at this point. That uncertainty is reflected in recent equity market and rate volatility. We ended the first quarter well positioned for a dynamic economic environment with strong liquidity, strong capital generation, and a CET1 ratio at 11.5%. With that economic backdrop, let's review our net interest income outlook. We expect taxable equivalent net interest income to be 7,050,000,000.00 to $7,150,000,000 with net interest margin increasing through the year and averaging in the mid to high 360s.

We expect the full year average loan and lease balances to be $135,000,000,000 to $137,000,000,000 The lower loan outlook reflects lower CRE balances with elevated payoffs and paydowns and muted originations. Full year average deposit balances are expected to be 162,000,000,000 to $164,000,000,000 We remain focused on growing customer deposits at a reasonable cost, while also considering loan growth. Turning to fee income. We expect noninterest income to be at the high end of the 2,500,000,000.0 to $2,600,000,000 range. The environment remains dynamic.

However, our diversified product set should help provide relative stability from our fee income businesses. Continuing with expenses, we anticipate total non interest expense, including intangible amortization, to be 5,400,000,000 to $5,500,000,000 Our business lines remain focused on closely managing their expenses, allowing the bank to continue to target investments in projects and business opportunities that support our enterprise priorities. Regarding credit, we continue to expect net charge offs for the full year to be near 40 basis points. We also expect criticized loans to continue to decline in 2025. As it relates to capital, we expect the CET1 ratio to reach 11% in 2025, but we'll monitor the economic backdrop and adjust as needed.

The level of share repurchases will vary with RWA growth. As shown on slide 21, we remain committed to our four priorities, including growing our New England and Long Island markets, optimizing our resources through simplification, making our systems resilient and scalable, and continuing to scale and develop our risk management capabilities. To conclude on slide 22, our results underscore an optimistic investment thesis. M and T has always been a purpose driven organization with a successful business model that benefits all including shareholders. We have a long track record of credit outperforming through all economic cycles while growing within the markets we serve.

We remain focused on shareholder returns and consistent dividend growth. Finally, we are a disciplined acquirer and prudent steward of our shareholder capital. Now let's open the call up to questions before which Marco will briefly review the instructions.

We'll take our first question from Ken Houston with Autonomous Research. Please go ahead.

So one question just on the NII, you mentioned that the environment's meaningfully changed and we see a smaller balance sheet here offset by a little bit better of a NIM output. Are you noticing anything in terms of the deposit flow activity more specifically in terms of how much more mix shift you might expect and how much more you might be able to also continuing to work down that higher cost liability side? Thanks.

Yeah, Ken, we are definitely, we did lower the guidance on deposits, but I think we feel pretty comfortable that we'll probably be at the higher end of the deposit range. Still having really good growth of our businesses across the board, whether it's commercial, small business, consumer, our ICS business kind of grows as activity in the marketplace is growing. So I think we feel pretty positive on the deposit growth. And we'll use those additional deposits if we don't have loan growth to either pay off higher liabilities in the marketplace that we have on the balance sheet, cheaper funding, or we'll put it at the Fed and just have more liquidity on hand, one or the other. But we feel good about on the deposit side.

Okay, and second one on fees. The first quarter six eleven or so, but you're still talking about the high end of 02/2006. I noticed there, I don't believe, was there a Bayview distribution in the first quarter? Was that pushed? And can you just talk about the ramp that you get from here going forward and your confidence in getting towards that higher end on fees?

Yeah, so you're all right. Bayview, we did not get a distribution first quarter. We kind of took it out for the rest of the year. We may or may not get distribution from Bayview. They're working on some things internally.

So we will do but if you look at all of our other businesses that we're having, we're having really good growth across, you know, I would expect our fee businesses to grow from where we are in the first quarter, think significantly in the second, third and fourth quarters. We have a lot of momentum across all of our businesses. Our trust businesses are strong. If you look at ICS, you know, they're doing really well in their structured loan agency businesses and activity also bringing in deposits from activity. So that's really positive.

Our service charges are actually performing really well right now. From mortgage banking perspective, you know, if rates come down, and then who knows which way the yield curve is going to go, but we are positioned to have really good mortgage revenues both on the commercial and residential side from originations. You did see the increase in our numbers now in this quarter from additional sub servicing that could have other opportunities for growth, potentially as that kind of continues to grow. Workery services are strong. So I think net net overall, I think we're pretty positive on our fees.

Thank you. We'll take our next question from Ebrahim Poonawala with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

I guess in your remarks you mentioned tariff uncertainties were reflected in the stock markets and interest rates. Just if you don't mind, talk to us about any anecdotal sort of feedback from your customers over the last week or two around tariffs? Are you seeing CapEx decisions being pulled back? Just would love any color there. And then how is that informing your outlook on C and I growth?

Yeah, all that's fair. So I think if you look at it overall, you saw the sentiment numbers were both weak on the consumer and on the business side. If you start with the consumer, from just looking at our debit card activity, our spending patterns are still pretty much intact there. So I think we're pretty consistent. We are seeing, and it could just be short lived, but in our indirect channels on the consumer side, a lot of loan volume coming in auto, marine and RV, maybe people rushing before higher prices, but that's really good volume there.

And the bottom 20% consumer has been struggling for the last several years and will continue to probably continue to struggle. Business wise, our customers actually really wanted to make a lot of investments, they want to do acquisitions, but they are just really on pause right now. I think it's just lack of confidence. They don't know what the rules of the road are right now. Things keep changing in the DC and until that settles out a little bit, I think they're gonna be on hold until they come through.

That said, we've been able to grow our C and I business, we grew nicely. If you look at it in our middle market space, we had good growth there. We had growth in fund banking, corporate institutional, our dealer commercial services grew. So we're growing really well in that space. It's really our CRE portfolio is really where the challenges are.

And that's really the portfolio that's having us shrink and lower our loan guidance for the most part.

That's helpful. And I guess maybe the other thing on capital, you mentioned CET1 to 11% depending on RWA growth. Just give us how price sensitive you are? Mean, I think the stocks come down a fair bit relative to where you repurchased during the first quarter. Like how quickly could we see if customers remain on pause that M and T gets to 11%?

Yeah. And you mentioned also opportunistic buyer as regards to capital. Like, are there any deals to be done given just all the macro uncertainties right now? Thanks.

So with the volatility in the marketplace, I emphasized in the prepared remarks, we really do have strong capital and liquidity. Our capital is the real capital. Our AOCI actually is a positive six basis points, So we feel good about that. We will monitor market conditions. We still plan to start our share repurchase back on Wednesday when we come out of blackout, and we'll just monitor and if we see the economy go into a negative spin down, we might slow down or pause, but until we see that right now the trends for the most part are pretty uneventful and we're just kind of playing it as we go.

I know it's not good guidance for you, but we kind of just have to see how things play out, but we're prepared to start with share repurchases on Wednesday and just monitor economic conditions.

We'll take our next question from Gerard Cassidy with RBC. Please go ahead.

Good, thank you. Can you give us some color on your insights regarding the regulatory environment? We're reading a lot about the regulators look to ease up, if you will, on some of the regulatory requirements. There's a lot of talk about the supplementary leverage ratio and the leverage ratio, but they seem to pertain to our biggest banks, the trillionaire banks. Are you seeing anything on the horizon that would be very beneficial to the regional banks like yourself from the regulatory stuff that you're hearing and seeing?

Yeah, yeah, I just wanna start with, it really doesn't matter to us who's actually in DC in the administration, Republican, Democrat, we perform and do well. You look at our people's acquisition that was done under the Biden administration. So we can do business either way. From a regulatory perspective, I would tell you, the people that are getting in the seats tend to be much more focused on having our industry help grow the economy and really have an impact positively to it. You're seeing that with acting chair in the FDIC, he actually came out this past week, he actually is pulling back on some of the RRP stuff.

We're in the first wave, so we actually had this stuff already prepared and completed and we're pulling back on that. That's a positive, but head of supervision Bowman is really looking at tailoring, I think that's a really good positive for us, I think that would be good. OCC and CFPB are also I think very positive. So I think generally there are more pro business, more trying to grow the economy. And you could see some tweaks around the tier one leverage ratio, the SLR, stress testing, Basel III, LCR, long term debt, RRP, and hopefully maybe they pull back on all our regulatory reporting.

We've produced thousands of reports to the government officials, and I'm sure we can weed out some of that information as well. But I think it's an opportunity rich environment to actually make some improvements and be more efficient.

Very good, thank you. And then as a follow-up to your comment about loan growth and how the commercial real estate portfolio is making it more challenging, can you dive into that a little further? Is it your choice to kind of continue to shrink it or is it just not your customers are paying you off and you can't grow it? What's some of the color behind the challenges within the commercial real estate portfolio?

So what we've seen in the last quarter or two is that there's a lot more active lenders in this space. So you have a lot more people providing loan capital. And if look at it, it's very competitive. So people are already being very aggressive on pricing and on structure. And at M and T, we are very disciplined in how we make loans and put things on our balance sheet, we're doing our best to support our customers and all that, but at the end of the day, we aren't gonna put loans on that aren't structured properly from that perspective.

In the first quarter, and you look at the payoffs that we received, it was a much higher amount than what we expected. About half of them were known maturities that were coming through in the first quarter, another 10% was just pulling forward maturities in later twenty five. But 40% was really pulling in maturities from '26 and beyond. And that's really where there's a lot of impact going on from that perspective. And given that that down crease, it's not all bad.

We've been able remix our portfolio. So we're actually have a lot less office exposure, which is good. We're also reducing a lot of the smaller credits, less than 5,000,000, and we're actually growing areas that we wanna grow like multifamily and industrial. So it's not all bad. I would say the pipeline is building and we feel good that it will kind of level out over the next couple quarters and start to grow.

And we'll just continue to do that. I mean, at the end of the day, we'll have a smaller balance sheet and probably just repurchase back more stock.

And Darrell, just quickly on those maturities that were being pulled forward in 'twenty five and 'twenty six that were paid off, Was that due to that competition that you referenced?

A lot of it was competition. You know, some of it was some of our REIT customers decided to prepay early and all that. It was mixed.

We'll next go to Matt O'Connor with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Good morning. You guys added a little bit to the loan loss reserves even though the loans were down and the credit metrics were better. Can you just talk about how you tweak your macro outlook to support the higher reserves?

Yeah, we did tweak it just because of what's going on in the marketplace, Matt. I think that that's correct. Our provision probably would have been close to 110 if we did not have the tweaks, but we just wanted to wait the lower, we have three scenarios, the scenario that has the downward pressure, we just increased that proportionately more so that you have higher unemployment rates and you have lower GDP rates. We didn't have it go into a recession, but we had it close just above that, it's at point 1% positive. So we were reflecting it.

Obviously, if we do go into a recession, you know, we'll probably would continue to add to the reserves appropriately as needed. But we just felt comfortable that that was the right thing to do, given everything that's going on and uncertainty in the marketplace.

Okay, that's helpful. And then separately, maybe I missed it, but what are the interest rate assumptions that you have within your net interest income guide? And then just remind us your sensitivity to rate changes on both the short and long end of the curve? Thank you.

Yeah, so our ALCO team and treasury has been working hard because rates keep changing, the curve keeps changing, so it's a very dynamic environment for sure. You know, what we have as our baseline with our forecast has four drops, the last one being in December, which isn't very significant, and we have the yield curve that we had on April 7, which is a relatively lower yield curve from that. The way I would look at it, there's a lot of puts and takes here. From a net interest margin perspective, just high level, if rates on the curve continue to flatten out, if they go down, that would be a negative for margin. As we get more deposits like Ken asked earlier, that could be good for NII, but maybe lower for margin if we deploy that in our liquidity portfolio.

For higher margin, I'd say, obviously a steeper curve would be helpful, and if we can continue to maybe start to grow our loan book again, and once CRE starts to come online, I think that would be possible and all that. So there's a lot of puts and takes there. That said, overall, I feel really good with margin trajectory, mid to high three sixties. I think overall profitability and the company is gonna be really strong, really strong capital generation. So I think we feel really good and we can weather whatever the economy gives us, I think very well.

Okay. And then just to summarize that though, like, as we think about the net interest income dollars, are you asset sensitive? Are you relatively neutral? Again, all things else being equal, but if rates are a little bit lower than you expect, has that impact the dollars? Just call it a parallel shift down to keep it simple.

Yeah, so our short end, we are definitely pretty neutral. It really does not impact us much one way or the other, what direction the Fed does on rates, think we're relatively good. And you saw our deposit betas, 50 plus percent, so they're reacting like we thought they would react. So all that is coming in really well. With the yield curve flattening, we still have positive roll on, so like in the consumer loan portfolio, it's probably repricing right now maybe 100 to 150 basis points more.

The rates flatten down, it's going to still reprice positive, but maybe only 50 basis points better. So we still get the benefit, it's just less of a benefit. I think the thing to really emphasize though is we have a lot of unknowns in our balance sheet, which kind of gives us the comfort, we're going to have strong margin and strong NII. We know for a fact that we have 4,000,000,000 of securities coming off at a yield of three and a half. Depending on what the yield curve looks like, it's going to reprice higher, maybe four and a half, maybe five and a half, but it's going up.

Consumer loans, I just talked about, that's going to continue to reprice higher. Strong beta, deposit beta is good. And then on the swap book, we know for a fact that our swap book is going to go up and accrete more over time, up to 30 basis points. We should be in the 370s by the end of the year and early twenty six. So all those are known and all those are gonna happen, and that's baked into our and all that.

So it gives us confidence that we're gonna perform well and then tweak it on the edges either way if we're gonna outperform or maybe be a little bit less, but net net overall earnings will be strong.

We'll next go to Manan Gosala with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning, Daryl. Just to follow-up on your point on the security side, just given that the long end of the curve has been so volatile, how are you thinking about putting on more securities here and what kind of duration would you be willing to take?

Yeah, so we are very disciplined in how we're doing this. We're in it for the long term, it's kind of how we approach it. So our strategies really haven't changed. We are investing, obviously we cleansed our portfolio last year, so all we have is government backed securities in our portfolio. Whether they're treasuries, agencies, or municipalities, we don't have any non agency stuff in the portfolio, so it's all liquid at 35,000,000,000.

We've been buying about half of our purchases are basically non convex, so we're buying treasuries and CMBS in the marketplace. Obviously, we don't have the attractive yields that you do in the CMBS, but you know you're gonna keep them over the whole maturity. And then the other half is by going into shorter CMOs and seasoned MBS. Our average duration, if you go back maybe two years ago, we were four, we're now in the 3.5 range and we stayed in the 3.5 range and feel really good about how we're positioned. It's a portfolio for liquidity and we're going to continue to use it for that if we need it.

Got it. Maybe on loan growth, or actually, the other side of the loan growth question is credit. And you've had some nice loan growth in C and I over the past few quarters. I think C and I is up 7% year on year, and that's clearly well above peers. So how are you thinking about the credit performance of that book if we get a weakening macro environment from here?

And I ask because I noticed that declines in CRE criticized were actually in line with last quarter, but then you had some offsets in the C and I side.

Yeah, our CRE portfolio has been performing really well. We've stress tested, looked at it backwards and forwards and feel really good on the trajectory of that portfolio. Now that said, we have maybe a little bit of exposure in the greater DC area, a couple hundred million, nothing significant, But things to watch out for in certain areas, but net net overall, we feel CRE is gonna perform and continue to perform very, very well from that perspective. Our C and I went up, it was really just idiosyncratic, one customer, a large credit, a couple hundred million, basically had some issues with a roll up strategy for the big trucks that you see on the road and all that. We think that's gonna play out positively as the year goes, so we don't think there's any losses there.

So net net overall, we still think that we will continue to lower our criticized throughout the year, not at the pace that we did in '24, but still at a measured pace. If things get really bad in the economy, which I don't think is gonna happen, but if they do, then we can adjust accordingly. But right now, I think we're just seeing a slowdown for the most part.

And next we'll go to John Pocari with Evercore ISI. Please go ahead.

Just back to the loan growth. I know you gave some good color on the commercial real estate balances that are coming down and also seeing some growth selectively in C and I. Within that average loan guidance of 135,000,000 to 137,000,000 can you talk to us maybe can you break down the incremental CRE decline that you expect and where you expect that could bottom just given what you're seeing right now? And then perhaps maybe help us with how we should think about the pace of C and I loan growth as we look out through the remainder of the year? Thanks.

Yeah, so we expect right now our CRE portfolio to bottom out on an average basis probably by the fourth quarter. We think that our pipeline is gonna start to build it's building now, and it just has to go through and basically get on the books. A lot of the new production of the pipeline is construction, so our construction loans won't actually start to fund up meaningfully for probably twelve to fifteen months from that standpoint. But CRE is, I think, going to work its way through and start to grow momentum and grow positively. For us, it's all about making sure we're serving client selection, the best customers out in the marketplace, making sure that the loans are structured really well, that helped us through some down periods, we won't lose that.

So structure is really important to us, and we will compete on price if everything else falls into place from that perspective. So we'll just see, but our C and I book portfolio, I think is gaining momentum. Consumer is going really well, and we're actually going to try to grow a little bit in residential mortgage as well to help offset it. That said, portfolio, we'll just see how it plays out overall, but we're doing everything we can, but we're going to make sure we emphasize and really put loans on our books that we know won't be issues in the next couple of years. They're gonna be good long term assets for us.

Okay, great. And then it sounds like it's probably not the case, but are you seeing on that loan topic, are you seeing any line utilization or line drawdowns out of precautionary concerns by borrowers given the recessionary environment? Any evidence of that at this point?

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