Please stand by. We are about to begin. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to J.F. First Quarter 2023 earning call. This call is being recorded. Your line will be muted for the duration of the call. We will now go live to the presentation. Please stand by.
At this time, I would like to turn the call over to J.F. Morgan Chase's Chairman and CEO, Jamie Diamond and Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum. Mr. Barnum, please go ahead.
Thanks and good morning, everyone. The presentation is available on our website and please refer to the disclaimer in the back. Starting on page 1, the firm reported net income of $12.6 billion, EPS of $4.10 on revenue of $39.3 billion, and delivered an ROTCE of 23%. These results included 868 million of net investment securities losses and corporate.
Before reviewing our results for the quarter, let's talk about the recent bank failures. Jamie has addressed a number of the important themes in a shareholder letter and a recent televised interview, so I will go straight to the specific impacts on the firm. As you would expect, we saw significant new account opening activity and meaningful deposit and money market fund inflows, most significantly in the commercial bank, business banking and AWM.
Regarding the deposit inflows at the firm wide level, average deposits were down 3% quarter on quarter, while end of period deposits were up 2% quarter on quarter, implying an intra quarter reversal of the recent outflow trend as a consequence of the March events. We estimate that we have retained approximately $50 billion of these deposit inflows at quarter end. It's important to note that while the sequential period and deposit increase is higher than we would have otherwise expected, our current full year NII outflow, which I will address at the end, still assumes modest deposit outflows from here. We expect these outflows to be driven by the same factors as last quarter, as well as the expectation that we will not retain all of this quarter's inflows.
Now back to the quarter, touching on a few highlights. We grew our IVV wallet share. Consumer spending remained solid, with combined debit and credit card spend up 10% year on year, and credit continues to normalize, but actual performance remains strong across the company. On page 2, we have some more detail. Revenue of $39.3 billion was up $7.7 billion or 25% year on year. NII X Markets was up $9.2 billion or $78% proven by higher rates partially offset by lower deposit balances. NIR X Markets was down $1.1 billion or $10% driven by the securities losses previously mentioned, as well as lower IVVs and lower auto leasing come on lower volume. And Markets revenue was down $371 million or $4% year on year.
现在回到季度报告,简要谈一下几个亮点。我们提高了IVV钱包的份额。消费支出保持稳定,借记卡和信用卡的综合支出同比增长了10%,信用卡的表现继续正常化,但公司的实际表现仍然强劲。在第二页上,我们有更多的细节。营业收入为393亿美元,同比增长77亿美元或25%。 NII X Markets同比上涨92亿美元或78%,部分抵消了较低的存款余额,其因高利率而成。NIR X Markets下降了11亿美元或10%,既由先前提到的证券损失所引起,也由于较低的IVV和较低的汽车租赁,以及较低的交易量。市场收入同比下降了3.71亿美元或4%。
Expenses of $20.1 billion or up $916 million or 5% year on year, driven by compensation-related costs reflecting the annualization of last year's headcount growth and wage inflation. These results include the impact of the higher FDIC assessment I mentioned last quarter, which, of course, is unrollated to recent events. And credit costs of $2.3 billion included net chargeoffs of $1.1 billion, predominantly in card. The net-reverb bill of $1.1 billion was largely driven by deterioration in our weighted average economic outlook.
On devalancy, didn't capital on page 3. We ended the quarter with a C-T-1 ratio of 13.8% up about 60 basis points, which was primarily driven by the benefit of net income, less distributions, and AOCI gains. And in line with what we previously said, we resumed stock buybacks this quarter and distributed a total of $1.9 billion in net repurchases back to shareholders.
Now, let's go to our businesses starting with CCB on page 4. Touching quickly on the health of US consumers and small businesses based on our data. Both continue to show resilience and remain on the path normalization, as expected, but we continue to monitor their activity closely. Spend remains solid, and we have not observed any notable pullback throughout the quarter.
Moving to financial results, CCB reported net income of $5.2 billion on revenue of $16.5 billion, which was up 35% year on year. In banking and wealth management, revenue was up 67% year on year, driven by higher NII on higher rates. Hiverts' deposits were down 2% quarter on quarter in line with recent trends. Throughout the quarter, we continued to see customer flows to higher yielding products, as you would expect, but were encouraged by what we are capturing in CDs and our wealth management offerings. Fine investment assets were down 1% year on year, but up 7% quarter on quarter, driven by market performance, as well as strong net inflows.
In a home lending, revenue was down 38% year on year, largely driven by lower net interest income from tighter loans spread and lower production revenue.
Moving to card services in auto, revenue was up 14% year on year, largely driven by higher card services in NII on higher revolving balances, partially offset by lower auto lease income. Credit card spend was up 13% year on year, card outstanding was up 21% driven by strong new account growth and revolve normalization, and in auto, originations were 9.2 billion up 10% year on year.
Expenses of 8.1 billion were up 5% year on year, reflecting the impact of wage inflation in a higher headcount. In terms of credit performance this quarter, credit costs were 1.4 billion, reflecting reserve bills of 300 million in card and 15 million in home lending. That charge off for 1.1 billion up about 500 million year on year, in line with expectations as the link to the levels continue to normalize across portfolios.
Next, the CIV on page 5. CIV reported net income of 4.4 billion on revenue of 13.6 billion. Investment banking revenue of 1.6 billion was down 24% year on year. IB fees were down 19%, we ranked number one with first quarter of all at share of 8.7%. In advisory fees were down 6%, compared to a strong first quarter last year. Our underwriting businesses continued to be affected by market conditions with fees down 34% for debt and 6% for equity. In terms of the outlook, the dynamics remained the same. Our pipeline is relatively robust, but conversion is sensitive to market conditions and the economic outlook. We expect the second quarter and the rest of the year to remain challenging.
Moving to markets, total revenue was 8.4 billion down 4% year on year. Ex income was flat. Rates was strong during the rally early in the quarter, as well as through the elevated volatility in March. Credit was up on the back of higher client flows and current user-merching markets was down relative to a very strong first quarter in the prior year. Equity markets was down 12%, driven by lower revenues and derivatives relative to a strong first quarter in the prior year, and lower client activity in cash. Payments revenue was 2.4 billion up 26% year on year. Excluding the net impact of equity investments, primarily again in the prior year, it was up 55% with the growth driven by higher rates partially offset by lower deposit balances. Security services revenue of 1.1 billion was up 7% year on year driven by higher rates, partially offset by lower deposit balances and market levels. Expenses of 7.5 billion were up 2% year on year, as higher headcount and wage inflation were largely offset by lower revenue-related compensation.
Moving to the commercial bank on page 6. Commercial banking reported net income of 1.3 billion. Revenue of 3.5 billion was up 46% year on year driven by higher deposit margins. Payments revenue of 2 billion was up 98% year on year driven by higher rates and gross investment banking revenue of 881 million was up 21% year on year. I increased M&A and bond underwriting from large deal activity. Expenses of 1.3 billion were up 16% year on year largely driven by higher compensation expense, including front office hiring and technology investments, as well as higher volume-related expense.
I averaged deposits were down 16% year on year and 5% quarter on quarter, predominantly driven by continued attrition and non-operating deposits, as well as seasonally lower balances.
Lones were up 13% year on year and 1% sequentially. CNI loans were up 1% quarter on quarter with somewhat different dynamics based on client size. In middle-market banking, higher rates and recession concerns have decreased new loan demand and utilization, which is also leading to weakness in cab backspending.
In corporate client banking, utilization rates increased modestly quarter on quarter, as capital market conditions led more clients to opt for bank debt. CNI loans were also up 1% sequentially, with higher rates creating headwinds for both originations and prepayments. And given the recent focus on commercial real estate, whether or not let me remind you that our office sector exposure is less than 10% of our portfolio and is focused in urban-dunced markets, and nearly two-thirds of our loan to our multifamily primarily in supply constrained markets.
Finally, credit costs of 417 million included in net reserve build of 379 million, predominantly driven by what I mentioned up front. Then, to complete our lines of business, AWM on page 7. Asset and the multi-management reported net income of 1.4 billion, three tax margin of 35%. Revenue of 4.8 billion was up 11% year on year, driven by higher deposit margins on lower balances and evaluation gain on our initial investment, triggered by taking full ownership of our asset management joint venture in China, partially offset by the impact of lower average market levels on management fees and lower performance fees. Expenses of 3.1 billion were up 8% year on year, predominantly driven by compensation, reflecting growth in our private banking advisor teams, higher revenue-related compensation, and the run rate impact of acquisitions. But the quarter net long-term inflows were 47 billion led by fixed income inequities. Then liquidity, we saw an inflow of 93 billion inclusive or of our ongoing deposit migration. AWM of 3 trillion was up 2% year on year, and overall fine assets of 4.3 trillion were up 6%, driven by continued net inflows into liquidity and long-term products. And finally, loans were down 1% quarter on quarter, driven by lower securities based lending, while average deposits were down 5%.
Running to corporate on page 8, corporate reported net income of 244 million. Revenue was 985 million compared to a net loss of 881 million last year. NII was 1.7 billion, up 2.3 billion year on year, due to the impact of higher rates. NII was a loss of 755 million compared with a loss of 345 million in the prior year, and included in that investment securities losses I mentioned earlier. Expenses of 160 million were down 24 million year on year. And credit costs of 370 million were driven by reserve builds on a couple of single-name exposures.
Next, the Outlook on page 9. We now expect 20, 23, NII and NII X markets to be approximately 81 billion. This increase in guidance is primarily driven by lower rate paid assumptions across both consumer and wholesale in light of the expectation of FedCubs later in the year, as well as slightly higher card revolving balances. Note that in line with my comments at the outset, recent deposit balance increases are not a meaningful contributor to the upper division in the NII Outlook, given that we expect a meaningful portion of the recent inflows to reverse later in the year. I would point out that this Outlook still embeds significant reprise lags.
We think a more sustainable NII X markets run rate in the medium term is well below this quarter's 84 billion, as well as below the 80 billion that is implied for the rest of the year by our full year guidance. And while we don't know exactly when this lower run rate will be reached, when it happens, we believe it will be around the mid-70s. And of course, as we mentioned last quarter, this NII Outlook remains highly sensitive to the uncertainty associated with the timing and the extent of deposit reprise, investment portfolio decisions, the dynamics of QT and RRP, the trajectory of Fed funds, as well as the broader macroeconomic environment, including its impact on long growth. Separately, toward noting that markets and NII may start to trend slightly positive towards the end of the year as a function of mix and rate effects.
Moving to expenses, our Outlook for 2023 continues to be about 81 billion. Importantly, this does not currently include the impact of the pending FDIC special assessment. And on credit, we continue to expect the 2023 card net charge off rate to be approximately 2.6%.
But a wrap-up, our strong results this quarter once again highlight the earnings power of this diversified franchise. We have benefited from our four-trust principles and commitment to invest what we will continue to do as we head into an increasingly uncertain environment.
Hey, good morning. Jamie, I was actually hoping to get your perspective on how you see the recent developments with SVB impacting the regulatory landscape for the big banks. In your letter, you spent the fair amount of time highlighting the consequences of overly stringent capital requirements, the risk of skeering more activities to the less regulated non-banks, order some of the changes that you're scenario planning for, whether a higher capital increase in FDIC assessment fees, and along those same lines, how you're thinking about the buyback given continued strong capital build, but a lot of macro uncertainty at the moment.
I think you were already kind of complete with the answer in your own question there. We're hoping that everyone just takes a deep breath and looks at what happened and the breadth and depth of regulation is already in place. Obviously, when something happens like this, you should adjust thinking about it. I think down the road there may be some limitations on health and maturity, maybe more T-lack for certain type side banks and more scrutiny on insuride expoers and stuff like that, but it doesn't have to be a revamp of the whole system. It's just weak calibrating things the right way. I think it should be done knowing what you want the outcome to be.
The outcome you should want is very strong community and regional banks, and you know, certain actions are taken which are drastic. It could actually make them weaker. So that's all it is. We do expect higher capital from Basel IV effectively, and obviously, this is going to be FDI assessment. That'll be what it is.
And just in terms of appetite for the buyback, just given some of the elevated macro uncertainty. Well, I think we've told you that we're kind of potentially in 12 billion for this year. Obviously, capital is more than that, but and we did a little bit of buyback this quarter. We're going to wait and see. We don't mind keeping our powder dry. You've seen us do that with investment portfolios, and we're also going to do it with capital. That's great.
Hey, thanks. Good morning. Hey, Jeremy, I was just wondering if you can just give us a little bit more detail on those lower funding expectation points that you made just in terms of, you know, is it is it because of like what you can offer the client that might allow you to kind of keep that bait a lower and maybe you can just kind of wrap it into what your your overall beta expectations are in that revised update. Thank you.
Yeah, sure. So let me just summarize the drivers of the change in the outlook. So the primary driver really is lower deposit rate paid expectations across both consumer and wholesale, which as you mentioned is driven by a couple factor. So the change in the rate environment, you know, with cuts coming sooner in the outlook, all else equal does take some pressure off the reprise. And as you said, we're getting a lot of positive feedback from the field on our product offerings. The short term CD in particular is really getting a lot of positive feedback from our folks in the branches. It's been very attractive to you. It's seeking customers. So that's kind of working well. And then on the asset side, we are seeing a little bit higher car removal, which is helping. And I'll just remind you that at a conference in February, I suggested that we were already starting to feel like some of the uncertainties we mentioned when giving the guidance had started all moving in the same direction. And that was that was one of the things that contributed to the upper division, like all the uncertainty kind of went the same way. But as Jamie pointed out, like, you know, that those uncertainties are all still there. We highlight them on the page. And as we look forward to this year and the next year and the medium term, we remain very focused on those.
Yeah. And as a follow-up on the point about rate expectations coming now in and potentially getting cut sooner, how do you take a look at what that might mean just for the broader economy? Is that do you think it's more just because inflation is coming down? Do you think it's because the feds just got to react to an even tougher economy and still some of those storm clouds that might be out there? Just kind of, you know, just your general thinking about the other read-throughs of what, you know, lower rates quicker, you know, will mean for the broader economy.
Well, I was, first of all, I don't quite believe it. So, you know, the rate curve, the Fed has the rate curve, the forward short to rate curve, you know, almost a 1% higher than what the market has. So, you know, one of the things you've got to always prepare for is it could be anything. We don't know if the rate curve is going to be in a year. And so, you know, we're quite cautious in that and quite thoughtful about that.
You know, obviously the shorter read is higher recessionary risk, you know, but, you know, and then inflation coming down. So, I think your facial come down a little bit. It could easily be stickier than people think and therefore the rate curve will have to go up a little bit.
Hi, thanks. Jeremy wanted to follow up again on the drivers of the NII revision and the lower rates paid assumption. You mentioned the Fed cuts coming sooner and positive feedback on the customer offers. What about the March events? Do the bank failures there that happened in March? In your view, do they slow the reprice intensity because folks are moving other than price reasons or they intensify it industry-wide because smaller banks have to reprice to keep their deposits. How do those events influence your view of the reprice?
Yeah, John, it's a really good question and we obviously thought about that, but as we said here today, I guess I have two answers that one is it doesn't, it's not meaningfully affecting our current outlook. We don't see a dozen major drivers. And I think in terms of the larger dynamics that you lay out, it's just a little too early to tell, but from where we are right now, the base case is no real impact.
Okay, and then I wanted to ask Jamie, there's a narrative out there that the industry could see a credit crunch. Banks are going to stop lending, even Jay Powell mentioned that as a risk. Do you see that in terms of anything you look at in terms of lending? Is that a reaction that makes sense that banks might be re-reaching a lot here? Do you worry about that for the economy in terms of credit crunch? Thanks.
Hi, I wouldn't use the word credit crunch if I were to you. Obviously, there's going to be a little bit of tightening. And most of that will be around certain real estate things. You've heard it from real estate investors already. So, I just look at that as a kind of a thumb on the scale. It just makes the fans condition a little bit tighter, increases the odds of a recession. That's what that is. It's not like a credit crunch.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Erica Najarian with UBS. You may proceed.
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Hi, good morning. My first question is you mentioned that your reserve bill was driven mostly by worse economic assumptions. I'm wondering if you could update us on what unemployment rate you're assuming in your reserve?
Yes, Erica. As you know, we take, I'm going to go into a lot of detail here, but we take the outlook from our economists. We've gone to a bunch of different scenarios, and we probably weighed those. The central case outlook from our research team hasn't actually changed, but we felt that in line with what Jamie just said in terms of a little bit of tightening, as a result of the events of March, it made sense to add a little bit of weight to our relative adverse case. We did that, which changed the weighted average expectation. I think that weighted average peak unemployment that we're using now is something like 5.8%.
As you think about all of what you've just told us, 81 billion of NII this year, and who knows when medium term is going to happen in mid-70s. The clear strength of the franchise producing 23% roti in a quarter where you're C-21 of 13.8%. And a reserve that already reflects 5.8% unemployment. As we think about recession and what JP Morgan can earn in a recession, do you think you can hit 17% roti even in 2024 assuming we do have a recession in 2024, everybody's expecting, given all these revenue dynamics and how prepared you are on the reserve?
Yeah, I mean that's an interesting question, Erica. I guess I'll say a couple things. It's a great question, so Jeremy Edgess it. Okay, let's take a crack. Let's see what the past things.
I think number one, we believe, have said and continue to believe that this is fundamentally a 17% of the cycle roti franchise. So number one.
我认为,我们相信并坚信,这基本上是一个占周期旋转烤饼连锁餐厅17%的份额。所以,第一。
Number two, as Jamie O. says, we run this company for all different scenarios and to have it be as resilient as possible across all different scenarios. On the particular question of roti expectations in 2024, contingent on the particular economic outlook, obviously it depends a lot on the nature of the recession. I think we feel really good about how the company is positioned for a recession, but we're back. A very serious recession is of course going to be a headline aheadwind for returns, but we think even in a fairly severe recession we'll deliver very good returns. Whether that's 17% or not is too much detail for now. Thank you.
Hey, good morning. Maybe just a little bit on the deposit, your thought process there, you've seen some inflows. Why do you think they lose them going forward and just maybe talk a little bit about the dynamic and pricing? Do you feel like given the inflows, do you see some pricing power for the larger banks?
Yeah, a couple of things there. So first of all, we don't know, right? The deposits just came in. We don't know. We're guessing. Number two, the deposits just came in. So by definition these are somewhat flighty deposits because they just came into us. So it's prudent and appropriate for us to assume that they won't be particularly stable. Number three, there's a natural amount of interal migration of deposits to money funds. So you have to overlay that and that's embedded in our assumptions. And number four, it's a competitive market and you know, it's entirely possible that people temporarily come to us and then over time decide to go elsewhere. So for all those reasons, we're just being realistic about the stickiness of the market. I would say category, there's no pricing power that the bigger banks have. Because if you look at the pricing and we look at pricing sheets all the time, every bank is in a slightly different position and every bank is competing in three months, six months, nine months, savings rates. And then you have the online banks. You got treasury bills. You got money market funds. There's no pricing power for the bank, but obviously we'll have different franchises and roll into slightly different position.
Now fair, all fair points. And maybe just follow up on John's question on the lending environment. You talked about the industry likely pulling back. Are you changing your underwriting standards in any way? Just trying to think through as their potential for the market share gains given your strengths, capital and liquidity or how are you thinking about the loan environment?
We look at that all the time. Yeah, and we always say, right, we underwrite through the cycle. And I think notably, we didn't lose center underwriting standards when all the numbers looked crazy good during the pandemic. And we're not going to like, you know, over-react now and tighten them reasonably. Some of that correction happens naturally, you know, credit metrics to cheer rate for borrower, for their income to more wholesale. And that might make them leave our pre-existing risk appetite. But we're not running around aggressively tightening standards right now.
Okay, great. Thanks. The next question comes from the line of Gerard Caterpity with RBC Capital Market. You might proceed.
好的,非常好。谢谢。下一个问题来自RBC资本市场的杰拉德·凯特皮蒂。请继续提问。
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Thank you. Hi, Jeremy. In your comments about your CET-1 ratio, obviously, came in strong at 13.8%. You've got the G-Cit buffers, obviously, going up next year. And we have the stress test coming this summer or in June, the results, which maybe will lead to banks, including yours having a higher stress capital buffer. Wait, should we think about that CET-1 ratio being by the end of the year, do you think?
Yeah, so a few things in their Gerard. So, you know, we've previously said that we were targeting 13.5 in the first quarter of 24 as a function of assuming an unchanged SDB, the increased G-Cit step in operating with a 50 basis point buffer. So the point that Jeremy made a second ago, in light of the environment, Bussel 4, Drive Powder, you know, who knows how we'll tweak that, you know, going forward. But that's still our base case assumption.
Specifically on the stress test, you know, I'll contraight what I've heard some people argue, our ability to predict the SDB ahead of time from running our own processes actually quite limited. And you'll remember last year that even though we did predict an increase, we were off by almost a factor of two in terms of how big it lined up being. And that was a big surprise for the whole industry. So we want to be quite humble about our ability to predict the SDB, but having said that for right now, we are assuming it will be unchanged. There are some tailwinds in there through the OCI, but we believe there will likely be some offsets in harsher credit shocks in the number. So for planning purposes right now, we're assuming flat for SDB and we'll know soon or not, you know, what the actual number is.
Sure. And then just as a follow-up, if I heard you correctly, can you give us a little more color? I think you mentioned in building the Lone Loss Reserve this quarter, you identified some one-off credits, I don't know if that's how you said it, there's some larger credits, were they commercial real estate orientated with a commercial, any more color there? No, it wasn't commercial real estate. It was just a couple of single name items in the corporate segment. Leverage loan type items are just regular corporate credits. Regular corporate credits, I'd rather not get into too much. Okay, okay. Very good. Thank you.
The next question comes from the line of Ibrahim Kunowala with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. You may proceed. Good morning. I guess maybe one question, Jeremy, you reminded us of the relatively low office exposure for JPM, but obviously your big players in the CRE market. Give us a sense of when you look at the two pressure points on CRE, one, how much is oversupply, and that probably goes beyond office and to apartments, how much of a issue is oversupply in the market as we think about the next few years going into a weakening economy, and how much of a risk is higher for longer rates in that if the central bank's current credits in the next year or two, we will see a ton of more pain because of the DeFi wall that's coming up.
Yes, we were in mummy to respond narrowly in connection with our portfolio and our exposure, right? So really the large majority of our commercial real estate exposure is multi-family lending in supply constrained markets. And I think it's quite important to recognize the difference between that and higher price point, non-run controlled, not supply constrained markets. So our space is really quite different in that respect. And I think that's a big part of the reason the performance has been so good for so long. So of course we watch it very carefully and we don't assume that customer performance predicts future results here, but I think our multi-family lending portfolio is quite low risk in the scheme of things. There's also housing is in short supply in America, but it's not massively oversupplied like you saw in 2008. Yeah, in terms of the office spaces, our exposure is quite small. Yes, Jamie has also mentioned all the refi dynamics that you mentioned too, or something that the office space is processing one way or the other. Our office exposure is quite modest, very concentrated in class A, buildings in sort of dense urban locations where the return to the office narrative is one of the drivers is generally in favor of high occupancy. So again, watching it, there are obviously specific things here and there to pay attention to, but in the scheme of things for us, not a big issue.
And just as a follow-up, I think the other risk from higher for longer rates, I think is the ability of the economy, the financial markets to sustain a 5% plus Fed fund for a long period of time. Like, what are the other areas you're watching? If duration mismatch and bank balance sheet being one, CRE, market being one, are you worrying about non-banks that have grown exponentially over the last decade in terms of risks at the non-banks if rates don't get cut? And if you can talk to the transmission mechanism of that coming back and hitting banks, given the leverage that banks provide to the non-banks.
Yeah, so this is like the answer to, there is a risk of higher rates for longer and don't just think of just the Fed funds rate, because I think you should, you know, for our planning, I'd be thinking more about it could be sex and then think about the 5 and 10-year rate, it could be 5. And I think if those things happen, I'm not saying they're going to happen. I just think people should prepare for them. They saw what just happened when rates went up beyond people's expectations. You had the guilt problem in London, you had some of the banks here. People need to be prepared for the potential of higher rates for longer. If and when that happens, it will undress problems in the economy for those who were too exposed to floating rates or those who were too exposed to refi risk. Those exposures will be in multiple parts of the economy. So now that I say to all our clients, now would be the time to fix it. Do not put yourself in a position where that risk is excessive for your company, your business, your investment pools, etc. That's answer number one.
Number two is it will not come back to JP Morgan. Okay, while we do provide credit to what you call shadow banks, it is very, we think it's very, very secure. It does not mean it won't come back to other credit providers. So, very helpful. Thank you.
The next question comes from the line of Mike Mayo with Wells Fargo Securities. You may proceed.
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Hey, Jeremy, you mentioned a degree of reintermediation to the lending markets. You said capital markets activity has gone to bank lending. I'm just wondering, as part of your $7 billion increase in eye guide, are you assuming better loan spreads? And on the topic of loan pricing, why aren't your credit card yields going higher than where they are today? Thanks.
Yeah, Mike. So, I think, yeah, you're referring to my comments that I made in the commercial bank about the fact that the larger corporate segment within the commercial bank that would generally have access to capital markets, but also access to bank lending, at the margin is choosing to draw down revolvers right now rather than access the capital markets. That is not a particularly meaningful driver of the increase in an eye guidance. There's a lot of odds and ends in there, but the major drivers are the ones that I called out. And to be honest, I haven't actually specifically checked what's happening with card yields. I would imagine that they've gone up a little bit in line with rates, but I don't know. We should follow up.
All right. And then one for you, Jamie, I guess, taking the 10,000-foot level, I guess, when you look at asset liability management or ALM, you could call this Nightmare on Alm Street, and you've seen some big problems at banks. And I guess, how would you evaluate yourself? I guess with this $7 billion high, and eye guide, probably is good. To what degree are you willing to sacrifice JPM, Sherah Holder, money to help rescue problem banks that do not get their asset liability management correctly?
There's two really different questions. We've been quite cautious of interest rates for quite a while. How we invest our portfolio, what our expectations are, our stress testing. The stress test, the seat car stress test, as you know, had rates going down. I always looked at rates going up and being prepared. I wonder if the United States is going to happen. So we've been quite conservative ourselves, and we don't mind continuing to do that, because you know, I remind people that having excess capital, you're having lost its kind of earnings and store. You get to deploy it later, and maybe at a more opportune time when the time comes. And we're not, you know, we're in a, we'd like to help the system when it needs help if we can reasonably. And we're not the only ones. You saw a lot of banks do that. And you know, I was proud of them. I was proud of them. I think all of us did the right thing, whether, you know, ultimately it works out and not well, you know, you can check and guess that when it happens. But the fact is, you know, I think people want to help the system. And this whole banking theme is bad for banks. And you know, I knew that the second I saw the headline, you know, when you have credit suites, we want healthy community banks. We want healthy, the regional banks. We want to help them get through this. We have, you know, remember, Mike, as you pointed out, we have the best financial system world's ever seen. That does not mean it won't have problems. It doesn't mean there shouldn't be changes made. But I think it's reasonable for people to help each other in times of need. And we've got, we know, we all did that during COVID. All of us did that, where if you could, those you could did it during, you know, the great financial crisis. And I would expect, you know, people do that going forward.
Hey Jamie, your CEO letter said the banking crisis isn't over. So what do you mean by that? Or was that dated two weeks later, like, talking contagion or what?
So it's just the number of banks off sides you can count on your hands. In terms of like too much insured exposure, too much ATM, too much uninsured deposits. And so there may be additional bank deposits, I mean, bank failures, I'm like that, which we don't know. But you're going to see next week, regional banks are pretty good numbers. A lot of people are going to, you know, have to can take actions to, you know, remediate some of the issues they may have going forward. You've already seen things calm down quite a bit, particularly in deposit flows. More and Buff was on TV talking about that he would bet a million dollars under the stuff that no depositor will lose money in America. He's willing to bet his own money, of course, he knows it's a very bright man. So this crisis is not away. It will pass. And the one thing I pointed out is that when I answered the question just before about interest rates, people need to be prepared. They shouldn't pray that they don't go up. They should prepare for them going up. And if it doesn't happen, serendipity. All right. Thank you.
这是指你可以用手指头数出的犯规银行的数量,主要是因为保险覆盖过多、ATM过多、存款未投保等问题。可能还会出现其他银行倒闭的情况,我们无法预测。但是下周你会看到地区银行表现得非常好。很多人需要采取措施,解决他们未来可能遇到的问题。你已经看到情况已经平稳下来,特别是在存款流动方面。莫尔和巴夫(More and Buff)在电视上谈到,他打赌一百万美元,保证美国没有存款人会亏损。他愿意用自己的钱下注,他知道这是一个非常聪明的人。这场危机没有结束,但它会过去。我在回答关于利率的问题之前指出的一点是,人们需要有所准备。他们不应该祈祷利率不会上涨,而是应该为其上涨做好准备。如果没有上涨,那就是意外惊喜。好的,谢谢。
Yeah. The next question comes from the line of Betsy Graphic with Morning Stanley. You may proceed.
Yeah, you're back now. Okay. So I just wanted to unpack the higher for longer rate possibility as to how it impacts your NII because your NII guide is assuming the forward curve if I understand correctly. So in the event that you get that higher for longer, just how much does that impact the NIIX markets? Because I'm trying to translate here about maybe lose some deposits, but if we have higher for longer, shouldn't we expect the trajectory goes up from this quarter as opposed to down? Is that that's the question? Go ahead, Jeremy.
Sure. So Betsy, your question is very good. And I would say that as the, like if you look at the evolution of our outlook last year, it was pretty clear that we were very as sensitive, certainly in terms of the sort of one year forward EAR type measure. You also obviously know that our current EAR actually shows us like negative numbers of a tiny bit liability sensitive and I won't get into all the nuances about why that may or may not be a great predictor in the short term. But the point is that the level of rates now is of course very different from what it was last year. And at this level of rates, the relationship between our short term and AI evolution and the curve is not always going to be clear in any given moment. It's quite tricky and it can behave in somewhat wonky ways as a function of again, or a little too a couple times on this call, the competitive environment for deposits, which is not in fact a sort of mathematically predictable thing as a function of the rate curve. So that's why we're emphasizing all the different drivers of uncertainty in the NIO. Look, yeah. So I already just had so next quarter we kind of know already. Two quarters out we know a little bit less, three quarters out we know a little bit less, and 24 we know very little. That number you can imagine this is a little inside baseball now, the number that we're talking about for 2024 is not based upon an implied curve. It's based upon our us looking at multiple potential scenarios leveling them kind of out and saying this is kind of a range. And you're absolutely correct. You could have an environment of higher for longer that might be better than that, but remember higher for longer comes with a lot of other things attached to it. You know like maybe a recession is deflation lower than five. So I wouldn't look at that as higher for longer as a positive. It might be a slight positive in that line. It probably would be negative in other lines. Yep, got it. Okay, that's super helpful to understand how you think through that. And then the follow up is just on the buybacks. So do I take your comments to mean that you're on pause now and if that's the case what would be the driver of restarting?
Yeah, no, we're not on pause now. We're doing a little bit now. We obviously have a lot of excess capital. We also like to buy our stock when it's cheap, not just when it's available. And we're also peering ahead. Look at those little bit of storm clouds. So we're going to be kind of cautious. So we're going to make this decision every day. We also don't like to tell the market we're doing just so you know.
Yeah. And then can you give us any sense of what basil for endgame means to you when your RWA is? How much do we be baking in for this?
能给我们一些关于 RWA 状况下,终局时的九层塔对你的重要性的感觉吗?我们需要为此做多少准备?
Yeah, but we really don't have any new information there, right? I mean, I think clearly if you go back like a year we were maybe a little bit more optimistic that it might be across all the different levers and all the different pieces of it closer to capital neutral. I think now it feels like it's likely to be worse than that. Hopefully it's not too much worse than that.
And I would just remind you that there are a lot of different levers. So any when the NPR comes that's only going to be part of it. There's going to be other pieces, the holistic review. And it's going to take a lot of time to phase in and we're going to have time to adjust. So you know, we'll know when we know.
And there were supposed to, I just remember, remind there were supposed to be pauses in there about how they looked at banks relative to the global economy, which are getting small and GCP was supposed to be adjusted for that. So you know, it made very we're expecting to go up, but there are a lot of reasons why it shouldn't go up. And JP Morgan, it's not it. There's so much capital.
I mean, so you know, you can't look at Jayman's able to capital issue. And even the banks by the way, when you look at it, even if it's some of the banks are a trouble, I've plenty of capital. The issue wasn't capital. It was other things. And so, you know, I'm just hoping reggaers are very thoughtful. And the other thing is they should a priori decide what they want in the banking system at this point.
Because you know, I've made it clear, you know, you I couldn't look at the banking system to say and say that no bank should keep alone if possible. That's how much capital is now being required for loans. The loans. Yeah, because the market is pricing, you know, it holds the market would take loans at much lower capital ratio than banks would be forced to hold for them.
I'm talking about just loans only, you know, and which so that's why you're seeing a lot of capital go to I mean, a lot of credit go to non banks. And dramatically, by the way, rapidly and dramatically. And so if you're a regular, if you look at that saying, do I want that, is that a good thing for the system? If you believe it's a good thing for the system, where is the capital and more credit will go out of the system? That's fine. If that's they want, that's fine. But they should do it with a fourth thought, not accidentally.
The next question comes from the line of one shore with Evercore ISI. Your line is now open. Thank you. So you talked about in your letter about regulators avoiding the knee jerk reaction, which you addressed earlier. I'm curious on your thoughts around how customers have reacted and should react.
Now, and my point at my question is consumers can move excess cash balances if they want more insurance. They can do that in a lot of different ways. Move it, treasuries, money market, extra accounts, whatever. The issue, the question I have for you is on the corporate side. Have you seen big changes in how corporate treasures or CFOs are adapting their cash balances and working capital and should they need to?
I appreciate your warm buffer comments. Yeah, Glenn and Shore, we really haven't seen big changes to speak of. And I do think it's just worth saying. I think you're sort of hinting at this a little bit when you talk about the behavior of corporates that when we talk about responses to the reason events through the lens of uninsured deposits, that's obviously very different. If you're talking about large balances of non-operating uninsured deposits from financial institutions or defective financial institutions versus normal large corporate operating balances, which is of course like core banking business for all of us.
Glenn, when you saw it in commercial banking payments, investment banking and custody, you did see money move, or I would call excess cash that moved out, but they have options. What I would call more like operational cash, I think even of small retail, small companies, middle market companies, etc. That tends to be fairly sticky because you have your loans there, you have your money there, you get more and more competitive and rates.
That's why I think you see a lot of regional banks, they've got sticky middle market deposits. If I've lent you $30 million and you have $10 million, you're probably leaving it in my bank. And they also are more competitive on the rate for that.
So I think you shouldn't be looking at a deposit like one class, there's a whole bunch of different types and you know, analytics, you go through each one and try to figure out what the stickiness is and what the stickiness is and etc. But I think they've already, as the Fed has raised rates, you've already seen, that's the reason we expected outflows, both consumers and corporate customers.
Interesting. Just follow up, the other thing that caught my on the letter is you mentioned that you're exploring new capital optimization strategies, including partnerships and securitizations, what different than what you've already been doing to the last 30 years. We've got our smartest people going to figure out every angle to reduce capital requirements for JP Morgan. That's the difference. And we've been doing it, but you know, there's securitizations, there are partnerships. You've seen a lot of the private equity do the life insurance companies and you know, I expect that we're going to come up with a whole bunch of different things over time. Any more sheds or natches too?
Good morning. You guys talked about one of the drivers of the higher net interesting income guide this year is due to likely higher credit card balances. And I just wanted to get the flush out, you know, what change there on the outlook say versus three months ago. And I guess it's a good or bad thing that those balances will be higher than you thought.
Yeah, so this story there is kind of the same story we've been talking about for a while, it's just a matter of degree. So, you know, we had revolving balances, obviously drop a lot during the pandemic period and then we talked about having them recover an absolute dollar terms to the same level as we'd had pre-pandemic. I think happened last quarter. And then the remaining narrative is just the further normalization of the revolve per account because we also have seen some account growth and that continues to happen. And so, and yeah, we know we also took my question earlier we're seeing higher yield there as well. So and on your question of whether it's good or bad, you know, obviously there is a point at which the consumers have too much leverage. We don't see that yet. So normalization has a good thing for us.
Okay, and then just separately the squeeze in. You guys took some security losses again this quarter and in the past you've talked about, you know, really just going security by security looking for kind of pricing opportunities. Is that kind of what drove it again this quarter or is there some kind of a lot of watching?