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Earnings HistoryForecast Triumph Financial EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.19Consensus EPS $0.17Beat/MissBeat by +$0.02One Year Ago EPS$0.51Triumph Financial Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$125.57 millionExpected Revenue$106.29 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$19.28 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ATriumph Financial Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2024Date10/16/2024TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, October 17, 2024Conference Call Time10:30AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Triumph Financial Q3 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrOctober 17, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 11 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Morning. It's 9:30 in Dallas, so let's get started. We'd like to open by thanking you for your interest in Triumph and for joining us this morning to discuss our Q3 results. We appreciate it. With that, let's get to business. Operator00:00:12Aaron's letter last evening discussed the quarter's results and provided more color on the products we have introduced and are introducing to the market, which we believe will create long term shareholder value. We are excited about those opportunities, particularly where we can help America's truckers get immediate access to working capital and allow partners to leverage our transportation technology investments. That quarterly shareholder letter published last evening and our quarterly results will form the basis of our call today. However, before we get started, I would like to remind you that this conversation may include forward looking statements. Those statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual and anticipated results to differ. Operator00:00:48The company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward looking statements. For details, please refer to the Safe Harbor statement in our shareholder letter published last evening. All comments made during today's call are subject to that Safe Harbor statement. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Aaron for a kickoff and to welcome us to Q and A. Aaron? Speaker 100:01:07Thank you, Luke, and welcome everyone to the call. Before I give a few opening thoughts, I want to welcome Kim Fisk to the table. Kim has worked in our factoring business for 12 years and currently serves as its chief operating officer. We gave Tim the morning off so investors could hear from Kim. And having worked alongside Kim as long as I have, I can assure you that she is worth hearing from. Speaker 100:01:34The letter we filed last night covers lots of topics. Among them is the acknowledgement that freight continues to be tough right now. There's no getting around it. I see nothing upon which to hang a reasonable hope of a turnaround in the short term. In the long term, however, I know that it will turn around. Speaker 100:01:54Notwithstanding the market, there are many things to celebrate. C. H. Robinson has gone live with TriumphPay on the network, and we are in a pilot launch of FaaS and LoadPay with C. H. Speaker 100:02:08Robinson. We are also demonstrating the ability to leverage models built with artificial intelligence and machine learning to purchase invoices in our factoring business without human intervention. And not only that, but then attaching that to the ability to fund at a time when every other bank in America would be closed. To my knowledge, there's no one else in the industry who can do that currently. So we do not and and will not sit back impaled about a tough freight market. Speaker 100:02:42We have been planning our work and doing it for years and we will continue to work that plan. And I am as convinced as I've ever been that the rewards of that plan are unfolding right in front of us. We look forward to hearing your questions, so let's get started. Speaker 200:03:04We will now go to the Q and A. Our first question will come from Joe Yanchunis. Joe, please go ahead. Speaker 100:03:26Good morning and thank you Speaker 300:03:27for taking my questions. Speaker 100:03:29Good morning, Joe. Speaker 300:03:30I appreciate the details in the shareholder letter about load pay and the total addressable market, But given market conditions, you note that the independent owner operator base has shrunk as they have either left the industry or moved to work for a larger carrier. Do we expect this trend to continue with, say, the Amazon effect of permanently removing small business? Or do you think the independent truck driver base will either stabilize or recover? If it's the latter, what gives you confidence that'll occur? I guess what I'm just trying to get at, is it possible that the current depressed spot rate could represent the new normal and effectively eliminate the independent driver? Speaker 100:04:06Kim, why don't you go first? Speaker 400:04:08Yes, sure. Thanks, Joe, for the question. I've been in the factoring industry for about 20 years and it's a cyclical business. I don't see a time when the small carrier will ever leave the market. Today, they might be parking their trucks and leasing onto some of our larger carriers, but I don't ever see them leaving the market. Speaker 400:04:27I think the market will change and they'll come back and be independent again. Speaker 100:04:32Yeah. And and I agree. When Kim and I were talking this morning, there's a slide deck from 10 years ago. Just internally, we were doing a business plan in our factoring business and we were and it asked the question about the demise of the small trucker because at that time, the risk was the ELD mandate. And I've just done this long enough to know the small trucker is not going away forever. Speaker 100:05:00And and if you think about it, the way the market is constructed, it wouldn't work if it did. If you look at these large freight brokers and the 100 of 1,000,000, if not 1,000,000,000 of dollars, they have invested in technology. The reason they made those investments, the reason those have worked is because it allowed technology to level the playing field to give access to loads to small truckers so that small truckers didn't have to try to invest to compete with larger fleets. And so that whole ecosystem depends on the small trucker. So we are in a trough of the longest cycle we've been in since deregulation. Speaker 100:05:41That trough will switch. And when the spot market begins to offer greater rewards than these carriers would make working for someone else, they will return to the spot market, and we will start the cycle over again. Speaker 300:05:59I appreciate that. If I could ask one more here. You know, with C. H. Robinson's 10 a half 1000000000 in volumes coming online earlier than expected in 4q, Can you give us a sense for how much annualized payment volume is currently contracted to come online through T Pay as well as the expected cadence? Speaker 300:06:17And then it seems that you continue to add brokers to your network while not having the same success in adding factoring clients. Given this dynamic, I would think that a new factoring client would have enough network volume to immediately reduce overhead on day 1 of joining the network. Can you also talk about the onboarding pipeline for factoring companies? Thank you. Speaker 100:06:36Yeah. Great question, Joe. You said one more, but you asked 2, but that's alright. Speaker 500:06:41So go ahead. Speaker 100:06:42Go ahead. You take the C. H. Robinson. Speaker 500:06:43Okay. I'll take the C. H. Robinson question first. Thank you, Joe. Speaker 500:06:46So we are certainly excited about the onboarding of C. H. Robinson and its volume to the the payments network. As I told you all last quarter, we're very excited and and, you know, about the the status of our pipeline and how healthy it is. Even with the announcement of C. Speaker 500:07:02H. Robinson, starting to do their onboarding process this quarter, which they just this week started with production volume. We still remain very positive about the health of our pipeline. So it continues to be strong, as stronger than it's ever been, which is really exciting for us. To give you exact numbers of what we would be able to tell you would be added in this quarter, I can't do that. Speaker 500:07:25But then that's simply because of, as we've talked before, just how the ramps happen and and how volume scales on it. You can expect, though, that the the majority of C. H. Robinson's truckload volume will be on our platform end of Q4 into Q1 as a measurement there. Speaker 100:07:44Yeah. And of course, the question that I know that follows that one is if that's true, I think you'll start to see the revenue from this strategic relationship with CH Robinson show up in the second half of twenty twenty five. I mean, there'll there'll be incremental revenue along the way, but we're talking about making real money for investors and real money for CH Robinson, frankly. Think that's back half. So you asked the question about factoring. Speaker 100:08:09So let's talk about that. The I think we've spent too much time, frankly, talking about creating, you know, how to invite the factors into our network and us being concerned about the fact that we owned a factoring company and was that the gating issue? And I mean, at the margins, look it is. I'm sure it is. But I think really, if we get down to what we're what really drives these decisions, it's the fact that the factoring industry has many of them used a legacy product, right, for their factor management software and that product, I will say it, is not innovative. Speaker 100:08:58So they've been forced to be innovative on their own. They've built a tremendous amount of technology that sits on top of the legacy solutions they use, and they've been successful doing that. Well, along comes Triumph, and we build a ground up system, and then we build TriumphPay. And it's a little bit, you know, and I've lived it frankly. It's the innovator's dilemma of in the short term, it is probably more profitable, better for the bottom line to do the things you've done the way you've always done them. Speaker 100:09:35Over the long run, it is absolutely clear that grabbing information like I wrote about in the letter on exceptions to invoices, having that information day 1 versus day 30 is a better outcome. There no one could dispute that. It's are you willing to stomach the pain it takes to make the changes to be successful in the long term? And and that's hard. That's really hard. Speaker 100:10:01I mean, I think that factoring companies run their businesses from a rocking chair. That's not how they think. And they're being innovative, but we're asking them to redo everything about the way they do business. And and so I'm empathetic to that. But what we know and what you're going to see as people start using our factoring as a service platform is the ability to have connectivity into the source of truth, which is the broker's transportation management system and to have all the features, including the ability to make instant decisions without human intervention, you can't beat that. Speaker 100:10:39Like, it's just a superior technology and integration experience. And so I think there are going to be new entrants coming into the factoring industry and all of them would be my expectation, we'll use our offerings because you would, you couldn't recreate the scale we have. So it's not much about what the factoring industry is now and how many network factors there are. It's also about where the factoring industry is going and because of what I see there, I am convinced that a 1 quarter drop in network transactions is just noise and it is not a signal that over the long term, and it may even turn next quarter, additional volume will move through the network and therefore network transactions and specifically revenue from network transactions will go up. So I hope that answers the question, the third question you asked, Joe. Speaker 300:11:35I appreciate it. Thank you. Speaker 200:11:40Our next question will come from Matthew Olney of Stephens. Matthew, go ahead. Speaker 600:11:47Hey, thanks. Good morning. I guess, similar to the lines of the previous questions, we've talked about TriumphPay and the step up of potentially monetization of that business in 2025 with the caveat that it would depend upon the health of the overall freight markets. And based on your commentary in the letter, it sounds like you remain relatively cautious on the freight markets. So with that in mind, just any updated thoughts about the monetization of that platform in 2025? Speaker 500:12:20It's a great question. No. You, please. Okay. Perfect. Speaker 100:12:23You got it. Speaker 500:12:24So that's a good question. And we do remain cautious about the freight market and where it's at and empathetic to our clients and the positions that they're in. And so we will make decisions about how we price customers and increase pricing to customers with that in mind. What I would like to point out to you though is that even through this recession that's gone on 33 months, we've continued to be able to increase fee revenue for our portfolio in TriumphPay and have increased it over 30% year over year. And so while we are cautious, while we are empathetic, we are providing value to our clients through additional features and opportunities to serve them that allow us to continue to grow our revenue associated with those services. Speaker 100:13:11Yeah. Melissa took the words that you said them better than me. I mean, Matt, I think we are monetizing it. 30% fee revenue growth period to period in the face of the longest, freight recession in history. I think that's doing it. Speaker 100:13:27I mean, yeah, I get it. We all we've got some lofty long term goals out there, but it is happening. And that's why I said in the opening, I think that this freight recession masks what you're seeing unfold right in front of you. We will eclipse over 50% of touching all of brokered freight. Nobody's ever been close to that before. Speaker 100:13:49We are EBITDA margin positive, notwithstanding a freight recession that's causing many companies to go bankrupt. And it's also important to note, I think that bank investors may not think this way, but the technology investors who follow us, there is a hierarchy of the revenue that comes in to TriumphPay, and it starts with, 1st of all, fees. Right? Because fees are not capital intensive and they're more scalable. And then secondly, float, because there's no associated credit risk with float. Speaker 100:14:18And then finally, financing, which we, you know, will generate and do generate through quick pays and the other things we do with our partners, fee revenue growth, which you would think would be the hardest thing to grow in the face of a freight recession has grown. So it's it's not overnight. It's not parabolic. It's not linear. But I think we are monetizing it. Speaker 100:14:38And if the market turns, returns to normal, I mean, this would all look a lot better. We're out running the treadmill, but the treadmill is running against us. If the treadmill just went to neutral, we would be going forward much faster. Speaker 600:14:58Okay. I'll step back. Thank you, guys. Speaker 100:15:01Thank you, Matt. Speaker 200:15:03Our next question will come from Gary Tenner of DA Davidson. Gary, please go ahead and ask a question. Speaker 700:15:10Thanks. Good morning, everybody. Speaker 100:15:12Good morning. Speaker 700:15:12I wanted to ask a follow-up on the load pay color that you've given previously. The kind of expectation on the gross revenue per owner operator account is pretty specific. But I just want to know, I guess, of the 200,000 owner operators that you think are active in the country today, could you give us any kind of ballpark or range of how many you may have an existing relationship with through the factory business or otherwise? And what are the offsets in terms of kind of the cost versus that gross revenue expectation? Speaker 100:15:49Yeah. So let's talk about the marketing channels, because I think that's a really astute question. I wrote about that in the letter. I I think a lot of Fintechs worry so much about their product, they forget about distribution. So what is our natural distribution for load pay? Speaker 100:16:09Well, the first place you would go is the 8,500 factoring clients we have. Right? If you want to get paid today for free, then use LoadPay. And so that is rolling out as we speak. The second place you would go is the 20,000 plus select carriers who have claimed their profile inside the TriumphPay network. Speaker 100:16:32They don't factor with Triumph. They don't factor with anyone, but they're taking quick pays from TriumphPay enabled brokers. So that's 20,000 plus carriers. We will go there. The 3rd place we would go is our channel market partner relationships. Speaker 100:16:47C. H. Robinson is the first. There are some other names coming behind that. And if you think about the largest brokers and how many carriers they touch, you get to way more than 50%, more like 80% of the industry is touched by these parties. Speaker 100:17:03So the distribution methods we have, I mean, I don't wanna be presumptuous, but it's really hard to compete with all the different ways we would touch the carriers that are out there that you'll see us roll out through 2025. Regarding the unit level economics, if we're gonna go from going to go from Speaker 800:17:28talking about gross revenue to Speaker 100:17:28net margin, that's a little hard because there are 65 truckers today, maybe 66. I don't know. Maybe we signed up someone else overnight, like live this moment. That's gonna jump dramatically when we see you next quarter, and I would hope every quarter thereafter. We're having to make some assumptions. Speaker 100:17:47And so the best I can do for you is is give you the assumptions, like, how we think about them. The first thing I can say is the vast majority of the revenue that constitutes that $750 ball mark is coming from interchange fees. And so how you arrive at that conclusion of what what that's gonna be is just you have to make some assumptions about how much of the spend will that trucker make on the embedded debit card that's tied to the load pay relationship. I don't know yet. We don't know yet. Speaker 100:18:21It would not be it would not be prudent to tell you what 66 carriers have done other than to tell you we are we we would rightfully be conservative when we give you an estimate. And we want to incentivize them to spend on that card. Of course, the second piece is the float. And and to know the float, you need to know what the Fed's gonna do and you need to know what the decay rate is for the balances in those cards. And we just don't have enough history to be able to speak to that. Speaker 100:18:51On the expense side of the equation, we are carrying the expenses of load pay right now. I mean, that lives here right now. Some of it's capitalized, some of it's operating expense. This is not we need to go out and hire a bunch of people. I mean, sure there'll be incremental marketing spend and and ads, but that expense lives here now. Speaker 100:19:11So whatever revenue comes in, much of that will drop, to the bottom line. And that's what's exciting. And and there's other things that can be done with a low if we get our virtual wallet into your hand, there are many other things that can be done. We don't wanna speak to that right now because it's a little early, but it doesn't just stop with interchange fees and float. We have some other ideas. Speaker 100:19:40So I hope that helps, Gary, talk about the distribution and talk about the monetization. Speaker 700:19:47Yeah. I appreciate the color, Aaron. Thank you. And and you'd noted in your shareholder letter that there was a loss of a factor. Can you kind of talk about you talked about decisions made by factors in a tough environment. Speaker 700:20:03So did that factor go out of business? Did they consolidate with somebody else? Or did they just move their relationship off the network? What's the best kind of color there? Speaker 500:20:14Yes. They simply just move their relationship off the network. Speaker 700:20:20Got it. Thank you. Speaker 200:20:24Our next question will come from Timothy Switzer from KBW. Timothy, please go ahead. Speaker 900:20:32Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking my question. I have a quick follow-up on that last one. Was Triumph's factoring business at all a primary reason for that factor leaving the network? And do you guys have what network volume growth would have been excluding that impact? Speaker 100:20:54You take the second one, I'll take the first one. What would network volume have been excluding that impact? I mean, I think it would have gone up. It Speaker 500:21:00would have gone up a couple percentage points over the course of that quarter just as other volume had ramped versus the 5.7%, I believe it was, percent reduction. So you're looking at likely a 10% to 11% swing. Speaker 100:21:12Yeah. So network volumes on the whole, but for that customer went up because the network continues to grow. Again, I would never be so presumptuous as to say why someone left, but I would be presumptuous enough to say they didn't leave because we have a factory business. They knew that. Like, we've done that for 15 years. Speaker 100:21:30That's been around for a long time and we we've never told the market and we'll never tell the market that we're leaving the factoring business. We're not. We think we're part of an ecosystem that adds value and there's room for lots of people and we intend to be valuable. And frankly, and I think this is important. I think that the factoring industry is not a finite high. Speaker 100:21:54It has grown since I've been in the industry, since Tim, since Kim's been in the industry, the percentage of customers who are factored has grown and that's because factoring companies are so much more and so much better than payday lenders. We enable trucking companies to aggregate their purchasing power to save value with vendors with whom they spend money and we save them more money there than they pay us for immediate access to their funds. And so much like the freight brokers have created technology that's allowed small truckers to have the access to capacity that you would have in a larger fleet, the factoring industry has aggregated the purchasing power and instant access to working capital that small truckers need to compete. And so I think the factoring industry, especially with things like load pay coming on board, is going to grow. And that's great for all of us. Speaker 100:22:47We want the pie to grow. I think this customer, they left for their own reasons. And that's one customer out of 63, and I think we have 37 network factors. I would focus less I mean, sure focus you can choose what to focus on. It's less about one customer. Speaker 100:23:05It's more about our network transactions increasing. We're talking about 1 quarter here. I would I would I feel confident you can hold me accountable on this that network transactions will continue to grow q4 and throughout all of 2025. With CH Robinson's volume coming on and others behind it, the net the idea of the network and the transactions associated with it are going are going to absolutely grow. Speaker 900:23:37Okay. Great. Yeah. That makes sense, and we appreciate the color. And, Aaron, you talked about this a little bit in your letter, and I know you might be limited about what you can share due to competitive reasons. Speaker 900:23:47But can you kind of help us understand what exactly you're offering in the next gen audit that enhances the value proposition? And maybe more importantly, how successful has that been on getting legacy clients to upgrade before their current contract is up? And can you provide any kind of parameters on what the pricing difference is, if they do next gen audit versus the legacy audit? Speaker 500:24:13All you. All right. Got it. So, great questions. And I'm glad that you asked it because I wanted to be able to talk about this because it's pretty exciting for our entire team and the work that they put into this. Speaker 500:24:23So we get a lot of requests from our clients about how we can help serve their business more. As you guys know, a few years ago, we acquired Hubtran, who had a top of the line audit solution already in the market. Through that acquisition and in incremental improvements that we've made with that team and that product over the years, we've been able to create more value. Next gen audit is just taking that product to the next level and being able to respond to what our customers have been asking for in different aspects of their business and handling the transaction. So a couple of the things I'd like to highlight that are important to take away here is that we're able to do POD and bill of lading validation. Speaker 500:25:06We're able to help with the indexing, not just extraction, but delivering fully indexed and validated invoices into either the audit product or into their own proprietary system that they're using so that they can make immediate decisions and change their processes to auto approve and auto submit for payment those invoices as they come through. We've been able to speed up the time it takes for a broker to get the POD and documentation from a carrier and have seen in early test cases that we're working through right now, 2 to 3 day DSO improvement for those brokers and being able to get those invoices and those PODs built out to their customers that helps improve their ability to collect. And so these are just a few of the innovations that come with it and the technology enhancements. The accuracy rates obviously using machine learning and AI, we have that embedded in different processes and parts of the system. We just continue to innovate, train the system, learn more and more from our customers every day and deliver new features that bring them more value. Speaker 500:26:18In terms of the pricing difference, again, I go back to our customers had different pricing, depending on when they onboarded, whether they onboarded through Trampe's maturity life cycle or with Hubtran. And so we charge them based on the value that we're able to provide them and what makes sense for for both parties. And so we'll continue to do that. Many of the contracts, that you see with NextGen Audit are existing clients who are upgrading early and allowing us to charge higher rates and that's where you're seeing a lot of that fee revenue income growing year over year is through the ability to leverage those feature sets to upgrade our clients to new solutions. Speaker 900:27:02That's great. Thank you, Melissa. Speaker 200:27:05Our next question will come from Hal Ghosh from B. Riley. Hal, please ask your question. Speaker 800:27:11Great. I got 2 questions. If you can hear me. The first one is on load pay. Is the current revenue model only interchange, or will you venture into other dollar advances that if you have a checking account with a trucker, you're going to have to be able to do cash flow analysis on them. Speaker 800:27:29You can even see the frequency of deposits that they have throughout their daily transactions. There are other fintechs out that are doing small dollar advances 2 to 3 weeks. Can you is that something that you're considering? And then the second question is, on the banking side, deposit franchise looked like they have a terrific quarter with a lot of increase in deposits and quite a few of them that were non interest bearing, which is the good stuff. So I'd like you to comment on that. Speaker 800:28:01Thanks. Speaker 100:28:03So I'll do load pay, and then we we get to talk about, you know, what we're doing. Because I do think people, a 1.57 percent cost of funds should be celebrated. Right? I get Yeah. And we don't talk enough about the bank. Speaker 100:28:15But on the first part, Hal, I mean, you've hit the nail on the head. Look. If you control, or or or have that customer relationship and and and let me just point out one thing and then I'm gonna answer it specifically. But I hope you and everyone who's, you know, read the letter, watching this, understands the power of instant decision. Okay? Speaker 100:28:41Instant decision applies to factored carriers only. We will offer load pay to any carrier and someday we will offer load pay to enterprise carriers, I suspect. But let's just stick with that just for a second because I think it's important to understand. Instant decision means just what it says. We've built a model that ingests data and can make an instant decision without human intervention on whether or not we would purchase this invoice. Speaker 100:29:11Right? And that that's never been done before. So I mean, generally, you're touching it. People are touching it. I I can't speak to what every factoring company does, but I know at scale instant decision, making decisions in less than 30 seconds. Speaker 100:29:23And we're doing that based upon giant data sets. We know what that account debtor has done before. We know what the prior invoices that come from that carrier look like. We know all these factors in our own proprietary risk model that we've built through the school of hard knocks that Kim, I, Tim, others have seen all the different ways in which you can get hurt. But if you make an instant decision on a Saturday and you don't fund until Monday or Tuesday, that's like winning a race and then after you win the race, them telling you that they're gonna mail you their trophy and your winnings. Speaker 100:29:58Like, you lose that instant gratification. Like, what was the value in making an instant decision if you can't fund me instantly? And so the power of load pay and the reason I think adoption will be so strong, because we're offering it to other factors as well. Right? It's not Brandon with Triumph's name on it. Speaker 100:30:15Is the ability to get money instantly sort of this Amazon what Amazon has created for us. This expectation that we get what we order right when we wanted and it doesn't matter. The rules of 9 to 5 don't apply. So now the money sits in the load pay account. It gets there in, you know, in that example I gave you in the shareholder letter in less than a minute on a Saturday of a holiday weekend. Speaker 100:30:39Never been done before. So once the money's there, of course, we would want that carrier to spend money on the embedded debit card. That's great. We get interchange fees. You've already alluded to that. Speaker 100:30:51Of course, we'll generate the float. If they decide to use push to debit and move that money to another account, there's a fee associated with that. That's great. But you alluded to something, I mean, one of the things that freight brokers have not enjoyed doing and factoring companies have solved a little bit of this problem for them and this is over the last decade, is advancing a percentage of the line haul. That's what we call it when, you know, what what the what the carrier is getting paid. Speaker 100:31:17Advancing a percentage of the line haul so that that carrier can buy fuel before they pick up the load. Call it a fuel advance, whatever you wanna call it. That has historically been rife with fraud. Right? It it just there's risk because you the the load hasn't been moved yet. Speaker 100:31:34If you have all the data we have and you have a load pay account in someone's hands, the ability to do in advance whether the broker does it, whether we do it, I mean, you know, all this can be negotiated with our partners, but to be able to do in advance into that account and have the data we have, which tells us frankly far more about the veracity of that carrier than a FICO score ever would, Then now you've got an advanced product embedded in that solution, which now that's, of course, left hand side of the balance sheet revenue, but it's still very, very profitable. And so you should expect that and several other things are in the future feature sets that we intend to roll out for load pay. And I would expect most of that gets rolled out in 2025. Speaker 300:32:20Thank you. Speaker 100:32:21Oh, yeah. Wait. Oh, yeah. I forgot the bank. Speaker 1000:32:25Okay. Yeah. So as it pertains to deposits, I'll make a couple of points related to non interest bearing deposits and then one point related to our interest bearing deposits. When you look at the growth in the non interest bearing deposits, there are really 2 components. The biggest component this quarter was the continued growth in our mortgage warehouse servicing deposits. Speaker 1000:32:45And so, that's very valuable business to us because it comes to us and allows us to self fund the mortgage warehouse at costs lower than wholesale funding. With that said, they're not free. So while they're not non interest bearing, they do result in rebates on loans within the mortgage warehouse. And so there is some cost to those. It's just less than wholesale funding costs. Speaker 1000:33:07We don't have high dependence on wholesale funding. This allows us to lessen that even more. So that's good for us, but it's not completely free. The other component is what we see happening within the broader community bank. And we saw the decline in deposits that every bank experienced coming out of the pandemic occur, then we stabilized, and now we're beginning to grow again. Speaker 1000:33:25And we're pretty excited about that. On the interest bearing side, we were prepared when the Fed lowered rates to begin adjusting rates immediately. So we're already seeing our weighted average price of deposits in the money market accounts and CDs coming down. And so that's also contributing to the cost of funds dynamic that you're seeing. Speaker 700:33:44Thank you. Speaker 200:33:49There are no further questions at this time. Back to management for closing remarks. Thank you. Speaker 100:33:55Thank you all for joining us. 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There are 11 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Morning. It's 9:30 in Dallas, so let's get started. We'd like to open by thanking you for your interest in Triumph and for joining us this morning to discuss our Q3 results. We appreciate it. With that, let's get to business. Operator00:00:12Aaron's letter last evening discussed the quarter's results and provided more color on the products we have introduced and are introducing to the market, which we believe will create long term shareholder value. We are excited about those opportunities, particularly where we can help America's truckers get immediate access to working capital and allow partners to leverage our transportation technology investments. That quarterly shareholder letter published last evening and our quarterly results will form the basis of our call today. However, before we get started, I would like to remind you that this conversation may include forward looking statements. Those statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual and anticipated results to differ. Operator00:00:48The company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward looking statements. For details, please refer to the Safe Harbor statement in our shareholder letter published last evening. All comments made during today's call are subject to that Safe Harbor statement. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Aaron for a kickoff and to welcome us to Q and A. Aaron? Speaker 100:01:07Thank you, Luke, and welcome everyone to the call. Before I give a few opening thoughts, I want to welcome Kim Fisk to the table. Kim has worked in our factoring business for 12 years and currently serves as its chief operating officer. We gave Tim the morning off so investors could hear from Kim. And having worked alongside Kim as long as I have, I can assure you that she is worth hearing from. Speaker 100:01:34The letter we filed last night covers lots of topics. Among them is the acknowledgement that freight continues to be tough right now. There's no getting around it. I see nothing upon which to hang a reasonable hope of a turnaround in the short term. In the long term, however, I know that it will turn around. Speaker 100:01:54Notwithstanding the market, there are many things to celebrate. C. H. Robinson has gone live with TriumphPay on the network, and we are in a pilot launch of FaaS and LoadPay with C. H. Speaker 100:02:08Robinson. We are also demonstrating the ability to leverage models built with artificial intelligence and machine learning to purchase invoices in our factoring business without human intervention. And not only that, but then attaching that to the ability to fund at a time when every other bank in America would be closed. To my knowledge, there's no one else in the industry who can do that currently. So we do not and and will not sit back impaled about a tough freight market. Speaker 100:02:42We have been planning our work and doing it for years and we will continue to work that plan. And I am as convinced as I've ever been that the rewards of that plan are unfolding right in front of us. We look forward to hearing your questions, so let's get started. Speaker 200:03:04We will now go to the Q and A. Our first question will come from Joe Yanchunis. Joe, please go ahead. Speaker 100:03:26Good morning and thank you Speaker 300:03:27for taking my questions. Speaker 100:03:29Good morning, Joe. Speaker 300:03:30I appreciate the details in the shareholder letter about load pay and the total addressable market, But given market conditions, you note that the independent owner operator base has shrunk as they have either left the industry or moved to work for a larger carrier. Do we expect this trend to continue with, say, the Amazon effect of permanently removing small business? Or do you think the independent truck driver base will either stabilize or recover? If it's the latter, what gives you confidence that'll occur? I guess what I'm just trying to get at, is it possible that the current depressed spot rate could represent the new normal and effectively eliminate the independent driver? Speaker 100:04:06Kim, why don't you go first? Speaker 400:04:08Yes, sure. Thanks, Joe, for the question. I've been in the factoring industry for about 20 years and it's a cyclical business. I don't see a time when the small carrier will ever leave the market. Today, they might be parking their trucks and leasing onto some of our larger carriers, but I don't ever see them leaving the market. Speaker 400:04:27I think the market will change and they'll come back and be independent again. Speaker 100:04:32Yeah. And and I agree. When Kim and I were talking this morning, there's a slide deck from 10 years ago. Just internally, we were doing a business plan in our factoring business and we were and it asked the question about the demise of the small trucker because at that time, the risk was the ELD mandate. And I've just done this long enough to know the small trucker is not going away forever. Speaker 100:05:00And and if you think about it, the way the market is constructed, it wouldn't work if it did. If you look at these large freight brokers and the 100 of 1,000,000, if not 1,000,000,000 of dollars, they have invested in technology. The reason they made those investments, the reason those have worked is because it allowed technology to level the playing field to give access to loads to small truckers so that small truckers didn't have to try to invest to compete with larger fleets. And so that whole ecosystem depends on the small trucker. So we are in a trough of the longest cycle we've been in since deregulation. Speaker 100:05:41That trough will switch. And when the spot market begins to offer greater rewards than these carriers would make working for someone else, they will return to the spot market, and we will start the cycle over again. Speaker 300:05:59I appreciate that. If I could ask one more here. You know, with C. H. Robinson's 10 a half 1000000000 in volumes coming online earlier than expected in 4q, Can you give us a sense for how much annualized payment volume is currently contracted to come online through T Pay as well as the expected cadence? Speaker 300:06:17And then it seems that you continue to add brokers to your network while not having the same success in adding factoring clients. Given this dynamic, I would think that a new factoring client would have enough network volume to immediately reduce overhead on day 1 of joining the network. Can you also talk about the onboarding pipeline for factoring companies? Thank you. Speaker 100:06:36Yeah. Great question, Joe. You said one more, but you asked 2, but that's alright. Speaker 500:06:41So go ahead. Speaker 100:06:42Go ahead. You take the C. H. Robinson. Speaker 500:06:43Okay. I'll take the C. H. Robinson question first. Thank you, Joe. Speaker 500:06:46So we are certainly excited about the onboarding of C. H. Robinson and its volume to the the payments network. As I told you all last quarter, we're very excited and and, you know, about the the status of our pipeline and how healthy it is. Even with the announcement of C. Speaker 500:07:02H. Robinson, starting to do their onboarding process this quarter, which they just this week started with production volume. We still remain very positive about the health of our pipeline. So it continues to be strong, as stronger than it's ever been, which is really exciting for us. To give you exact numbers of what we would be able to tell you would be added in this quarter, I can't do that. Speaker 500:07:25But then that's simply because of, as we've talked before, just how the ramps happen and and how volume scales on it. You can expect, though, that the the majority of C. H. Robinson's truckload volume will be on our platform end of Q4 into Q1 as a measurement there. Speaker 100:07:44Yeah. And of course, the question that I know that follows that one is if that's true, I think you'll start to see the revenue from this strategic relationship with CH Robinson show up in the second half of twenty twenty five. I mean, there'll there'll be incremental revenue along the way, but we're talking about making real money for investors and real money for CH Robinson, frankly. Think that's back half. So you asked the question about factoring. Speaker 100:08:09So let's talk about that. The I think we've spent too much time, frankly, talking about creating, you know, how to invite the factors into our network and us being concerned about the fact that we owned a factoring company and was that the gating issue? And I mean, at the margins, look it is. I'm sure it is. But I think really, if we get down to what we're what really drives these decisions, it's the fact that the factoring industry has many of them used a legacy product, right, for their factor management software and that product, I will say it, is not innovative. Speaker 100:08:58So they've been forced to be innovative on their own. They've built a tremendous amount of technology that sits on top of the legacy solutions they use, and they've been successful doing that. Well, along comes Triumph, and we build a ground up system, and then we build TriumphPay. And it's a little bit, you know, and I've lived it frankly. It's the innovator's dilemma of in the short term, it is probably more profitable, better for the bottom line to do the things you've done the way you've always done them. Speaker 100:09:35Over the long run, it is absolutely clear that grabbing information like I wrote about in the letter on exceptions to invoices, having that information day 1 versus day 30 is a better outcome. There no one could dispute that. It's are you willing to stomach the pain it takes to make the changes to be successful in the long term? And and that's hard. That's really hard. Speaker 100:10:01I mean, I think that factoring companies run their businesses from a rocking chair. That's not how they think. And they're being innovative, but we're asking them to redo everything about the way they do business. And and so I'm empathetic to that. But what we know and what you're going to see as people start using our factoring as a service platform is the ability to have connectivity into the source of truth, which is the broker's transportation management system and to have all the features, including the ability to make instant decisions without human intervention, you can't beat that. Speaker 100:10:39Like, it's just a superior technology and integration experience. And so I think there are going to be new entrants coming into the factoring industry and all of them would be my expectation, we'll use our offerings because you would, you couldn't recreate the scale we have. So it's not much about what the factoring industry is now and how many network factors there are. It's also about where the factoring industry is going and because of what I see there, I am convinced that a 1 quarter drop in network transactions is just noise and it is not a signal that over the long term, and it may even turn next quarter, additional volume will move through the network and therefore network transactions and specifically revenue from network transactions will go up. So I hope that answers the question, the third question you asked, Joe. Speaker 300:11:35I appreciate it. Thank you. Speaker 200:11:40Our next question will come from Matthew Olney of Stephens. Matthew, go ahead. Speaker 600:11:47Hey, thanks. Good morning. I guess, similar to the lines of the previous questions, we've talked about TriumphPay and the step up of potentially monetization of that business in 2025 with the caveat that it would depend upon the health of the overall freight markets. And based on your commentary in the letter, it sounds like you remain relatively cautious on the freight markets. So with that in mind, just any updated thoughts about the monetization of that platform in 2025? Speaker 500:12:20It's a great question. No. You, please. Okay. Perfect. Speaker 100:12:23You got it. Speaker 500:12:24So that's a good question. And we do remain cautious about the freight market and where it's at and empathetic to our clients and the positions that they're in. And so we will make decisions about how we price customers and increase pricing to customers with that in mind. What I would like to point out to you though is that even through this recession that's gone on 33 months, we've continued to be able to increase fee revenue for our portfolio in TriumphPay and have increased it over 30% year over year. And so while we are cautious, while we are empathetic, we are providing value to our clients through additional features and opportunities to serve them that allow us to continue to grow our revenue associated with those services. Speaker 100:13:11Yeah. Melissa took the words that you said them better than me. I mean, Matt, I think we are monetizing it. 30% fee revenue growth period to period in the face of the longest, freight recession in history. I think that's doing it. Speaker 100:13:27I mean, yeah, I get it. We all we've got some lofty long term goals out there, but it is happening. And that's why I said in the opening, I think that this freight recession masks what you're seeing unfold right in front of you. We will eclipse over 50% of touching all of brokered freight. Nobody's ever been close to that before. Speaker 100:13:49We are EBITDA margin positive, notwithstanding a freight recession that's causing many companies to go bankrupt. And it's also important to note, I think that bank investors may not think this way, but the technology investors who follow us, there is a hierarchy of the revenue that comes in to TriumphPay, and it starts with, 1st of all, fees. Right? Because fees are not capital intensive and they're more scalable. And then secondly, float, because there's no associated credit risk with float. Speaker 100:14:18And then finally, financing, which we, you know, will generate and do generate through quick pays and the other things we do with our partners, fee revenue growth, which you would think would be the hardest thing to grow in the face of a freight recession has grown. So it's it's not overnight. It's not parabolic. It's not linear. But I think we are monetizing it. Speaker 100:14:38And if the market turns, returns to normal, I mean, this would all look a lot better. We're out running the treadmill, but the treadmill is running against us. If the treadmill just went to neutral, we would be going forward much faster. Speaker 600:14:58Okay. I'll step back. Thank you, guys. Speaker 100:15:01Thank you, Matt. Speaker 200:15:03Our next question will come from Gary Tenner of DA Davidson. Gary, please go ahead and ask a question. Speaker 700:15:10Thanks. Good morning, everybody. Speaker 100:15:12Good morning. Speaker 700:15:12I wanted to ask a follow-up on the load pay color that you've given previously. The kind of expectation on the gross revenue per owner operator account is pretty specific. But I just want to know, I guess, of the 200,000 owner operators that you think are active in the country today, could you give us any kind of ballpark or range of how many you may have an existing relationship with through the factory business or otherwise? And what are the offsets in terms of kind of the cost versus that gross revenue expectation? Speaker 100:15:49Yeah. So let's talk about the marketing channels, because I think that's a really astute question. I wrote about that in the letter. I I think a lot of Fintechs worry so much about their product, they forget about distribution. So what is our natural distribution for load pay? Speaker 100:16:09Well, the first place you would go is the 8,500 factoring clients we have. Right? If you want to get paid today for free, then use LoadPay. And so that is rolling out as we speak. The second place you would go is the 20,000 plus select carriers who have claimed their profile inside the TriumphPay network. Speaker 100:16:32They don't factor with Triumph. They don't factor with anyone, but they're taking quick pays from TriumphPay enabled brokers. So that's 20,000 plus carriers. We will go there. The 3rd place we would go is our channel market partner relationships. Speaker 100:16:47C. H. Robinson is the first. There are some other names coming behind that. And if you think about the largest brokers and how many carriers they touch, you get to way more than 50%, more like 80% of the industry is touched by these parties. Speaker 100:17:03So the distribution methods we have, I mean, I don't wanna be presumptuous, but it's really hard to compete with all the different ways we would touch the carriers that are out there that you'll see us roll out through 2025. Regarding the unit level economics, if we're gonna go from going to go from Speaker 800:17:28talking about gross revenue to Speaker 100:17:28net margin, that's a little hard because there are 65 truckers today, maybe 66. I don't know. Maybe we signed up someone else overnight, like live this moment. That's gonna jump dramatically when we see you next quarter, and I would hope every quarter thereafter. We're having to make some assumptions. Speaker 100:17:47And so the best I can do for you is is give you the assumptions, like, how we think about them. The first thing I can say is the vast majority of the revenue that constitutes that $750 ball mark is coming from interchange fees. And so how you arrive at that conclusion of what what that's gonna be is just you have to make some assumptions about how much of the spend will that trucker make on the embedded debit card that's tied to the load pay relationship. I don't know yet. We don't know yet. Speaker 100:18:21It would not be it would not be prudent to tell you what 66 carriers have done other than to tell you we are we we would rightfully be conservative when we give you an estimate. And we want to incentivize them to spend on that card. Of course, the second piece is the float. And and to know the float, you need to know what the Fed's gonna do and you need to know what the decay rate is for the balances in those cards. And we just don't have enough history to be able to speak to that. Speaker 100:18:51On the expense side of the equation, we are carrying the expenses of load pay right now. I mean, that lives here right now. Some of it's capitalized, some of it's operating expense. This is not we need to go out and hire a bunch of people. I mean, sure there'll be incremental marketing spend and and ads, but that expense lives here now. Speaker 100:19:11So whatever revenue comes in, much of that will drop, to the bottom line. And that's what's exciting. And and there's other things that can be done with a low if we get our virtual wallet into your hand, there are many other things that can be done. We don't wanna speak to that right now because it's a little early, but it doesn't just stop with interchange fees and float. We have some other ideas. Speaker 100:19:40So I hope that helps, Gary, talk about the distribution and talk about the monetization. Speaker 700:19:47Yeah. I appreciate the color, Aaron. Thank you. And and you'd noted in your shareholder letter that there was a loss of a factor. Can you kind of talk about you talked about decisions made by factors in a tough environment. Speaker 700:20:03So did that factor go out of business? Did they consolidate with somebody else? Or did they just move their relationship off the network? What's the best kind of color there? Speaker 500:20:14Yes. They simply just move their relationship off the network. Speaker 700:20:20Got it. Thank you. Speaker 200:20:24Our next question will come from Timothy Switzer from KBW. Timothy, please go ahead. Speaker 900:20:32Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking my question. I have a quick follow-up on that last one. Was Triumph's factoring business at all a primary reason for that factor leaving the network? And do you guys have what network volume growth would have been excluding that impact? Speaker 100:20:54You take the second one, I'll take the first one. What would network volume have been excluding that impact? I mean, I think it would have gone up. It Speaker 500:21:00would have gone up a couple percentage points over the course of that quarter just as other volume had ramped versus the 5.7%, I believe it was, percent reduction. So you're looking at likely a 10% to 11% swing. Speaker 100:21:12Yeah. So network volumes on the whole, but for that customer went up because the network continues to grow. Again, I would never be so presumptuous as to say why someone left, but I would be presumptuous enough to say they didn't leave because we have a factory business. They knew that. Like, we've done that for 15 years. Speaker 100:21:30That's been around for a long time and we we've never told the market and we'll never tell the market that we're leaving the factoring business. We're not. We think we're part of an ecosystem that adds value and there's room for lots of people and we intend to be valuable. And frankly, and I think this is important. I think that the factoring industry is not a finite high. Speaker 100:21:54It has grown since I've been in the industry, since Tim, since Kim's been in the industry, the percentage of customers who are factored has grown and that's because factoring companies are so much more and so much better than payday lenders. We enable trucking companies to aggregate their purchasing power to save value with vendors with whom they spend money and we save them more money there than they pay us for immediate access to their funds. And so much like the freight brokers have created technology that's allowed small truckers to have the access to capacity that you would have in a larger fleet, the factoring industry has aggregated the purchasing power and instant access to working capital that small truckers need to compete. And so I think the factoring industry, especially with things like load pay coming on board, is going to grow. And that's great for all of us. Speaker 100:22:47We want the pie to grow. I think this customer, they left for their own reasons. And that's one customer out of 63, and I think we have 37 network factors. I would focus less I mean, sure focus you can choose what to focus on. It's less about one customer. Speaker 100:23:05It's more about our network transactions increasing. We're talking about 1 quarter here. I would I would I feel confident you can hold me accountable on this that network transactions will continue to grow q4 and throughout all of 2025. With CH Robinson's volume coming on and others behind it, the net the idea of the network and the transactions associated with it are going are going to absolutely grow. Speaker 900:23:37Okay. Great. Yeah. That makes sense, and we appreciate the color. And, Aaron, you talked about this a little bit in your letter, and I know you might be limited about what you can share due to competitive reasons. Speaker 900:23:47But can you kind of help us understand what exactly you're offering in the next gen audit that enhances the value proposition? And maybe more importantly, how successful has that been on getting legacy clients to upgrade before their current contract is up? And can you provide any kind of parameters on what the pricing difference is, if they do next gen audit versus the legacy audit? Speaker 500:24:13All you. All right. Got it. So, great questions. And I'm glad that you asked it because I wanted to be able to talk about this because it's pretty exciting for our entire team and the work that they put into this. Speaker 500:24:23So we get a lot of requests from our clients about how we can help serve their business more. As you guys know, a few years ago, we acquired Hubtran, who had a top of the line audit solution already in the market. Through that acquisition and in incremental improvements that we've made with that team and that product over the years, we've been able to create more value. Next gen audit is just taking that product to the next level and being able to respond to what our customers have been asking for in different aspects of their business and handling the transaction. So a couple of the things I'd like to highlight that are important to take away here is that we're able to do POD and bill of lading validation. Speaker 500:25:06We're able to help with the indexing, not just extraction, but delivering fully indexed and validated invoices into either the audit product or into their own proprietary system that they're using so that they can make immediate decisions and change their processes to auto approve and auto submit for payment those invoices as they come through. We've been able to speed up the time it takes for a broker to get the POD and documentation from a carrier and have seen in early test cases that we're working through right now, 2 to 3 day DSO improvement for those brokers and being able to get those invoices and those PODs built out to their customers that helps improve their ability to collect. And so these are just a few of the innovations that come with it and the technology enhancements. The accuracy rates obviously using machine learning and AI, we have that embedded in different processes and parts of the system. We just continue to innovate, train the system, learn more and more from our customers every day and deliver new features that bring them more value. Speaker 500:26:18In terms of the pricing difference, again, I go back to our customers had different pricing, depending on when they onboarded, whether they onboarded through Trampe's maturity life cycle or with Hubtran. And so we charge them based on the value that we're able to provide them and what makes sense for for both parties. And so we'll continue to do that. Many of the contracts, that you see with NextGen Audit are existing clients who are upgrading early and allowing us to charge higher rates and that's where you're seeing a lot of that fee revenue income growing year over year is through the ability to leverage those feature sets to upgrade our clients to new solutions. Speaker 900:27:02That's great. Thank you, Melissa. Speaker 200:27:05Our next question will come from Hal Ghosh from B. Riley. Hal, please ask your question. Speaker 800:27:11Great. I got 2 questions. If you can hear me. The first one is on load pay. Is the current revenue model only interchange, or will you venture into other dollar advances that if you have a checking account with a trucker, you're going to have to be able to do cash flow analysis on them. Speaker 800:27:29You can even see the frequency of deposits that they have throughout their daily transactions. There are other fintechs out that are doing small dollar advances 2 to 3 weeks. Can you is that something that you're considering? And then the second question is, on the banking side, deposit franchise looked like they have a terrific quarter with a lot of increase in deposits and quite a few of them that were non interest bearing, which is the good stuff. So I'd like you to comment on that. Speaker 800:28:01Thanks. Speaker 100:28:03So I'll do load pay, and then we we get to talk about, you know, what we're doing. Because I do think people, a 1.57 percent cost of funds should be celebrated. Right? I get Yeah. And we don't talk enough about the bank. Speaker 100:28:15But on the first part, Hal, I mean, you've hit the nail on the head. Look. If you control, or or or have that customer relationship and and and let me just point out one thing and then I'm gonna answer it specifically. But I hope you and everyone who's, you know, read the letter, watching this, understands the power of instant decision. Okay? Speaker 100:28:41Instant decision applies to factored carriers only. We will offer load pay to any carrier and someday we will offer load pay to enterprise carriers, I suspect. But let's just stick with that just for a second because I think it's important to understand. Instant decision means just what it says. We've built a model that ingests data and can make an instant decision without human intervention on whether or not we would purchase this invoice. Speaker 100:29:11Right? And that that's never been done before. So I mean, generally, you're touching it. People are touching it. I I can't speak to what every factoring company does, but I know at scale instant decision, making decisions in less than 30 seconds. Speaker 100:29:23And we're doing that based upon giant data sets. We know what that account debtor has done before. We know what the prior invoices that come from that carrier look like. We know all these factors in our own proprietary risk model that we've built through the school of hard knocks that Kim, I, Tim, others have seen all the different ways in which you can get hurt. But if you make an instant decision on a Saturday and you don't fund until Monday or Tuesday, that's like winning a race and then after you win the race, them telling you that they're gonna mail you their trophy and your winnings. Speaker 100:29:58Like, you lose that instant gratification. Like, what was the value in making an instant decision if you can't fund me instantly? And so the power of load pay and the reason I think adoption will be so strong, because we're offering it to other factors as well. Right? It's not Brandon with Triumph's name on it. Speaker 100:30:15Is the ability to get money instantly sort of this Amazon what Amazon has created for us. This expectation that we get what we order right when we wanted and it doesn't matter. The rules of 9 to 5 don't apply. So now the money sits in the load pay account. It gets there in, you know, in that example I gave you in the shareholder letter in less than a minute on a Saturday of a holiday weekend. Speaker 100:30:39Never been done before. So once the money's there, of course, we would want that carrier to spend money on the embedded debit card. That's great. We get interchange fees. You've already alluded to that. Speaker 100:30:51Of course, we'll generate the float. If they decide to use push to debit and move that money to another account, there's a fee associated with that. That's great. But you alluded to something, I mean, one of the things that freight brokers have not enjoyed doing and factoring companies have solved a little bit of this problem for them and this is over the last decade, is advancing a percentage of the line haul. That's what we call it when, you know, what what the what the carrier is getting paid. Speaker 100:31:17Advancing a percentage of the line haul so that that carrier can buy fuel before they pick up the load. Call it a fuel advance, whatever you wanna call it. That has historically been rife with fraud. Right? It it just there's risk because you the the load hasn't been moved yet. Speaker 100:31:34If you have all the data we have and you have a load pay account in someone's hands, the ability to do in advance whether the broker does it, whether we do it, I mean, you know, all this can be negotiated with our partners, but to be able to do in advance into that account and have the data we have, which tells us frankly far more about the veracity of that carrier than a FICO score ever would, Then now you've got an advanced product embedded in that solution, which now that's, of course, left hand side of the balance sheet revenue, but it's still very, very profitable. And so you should expect that and several other things are in the future feature sets that we intend to roll out for load pay. And I would expect most of that gets rolled out in 2025. Speaker 300:32:20Thank you. Speaker 100:32:21Oh, yeah. Wait. Oh, yeah. I forgot the bank. Speaker 1000:32:25Okay. Yeah. So as it pertains to deposits, I'll make a couple of points related to non interest bearing deposits and then one point related to our interest bearing deposits. When you look at the growth in the non interest bearing deposits, there are really 2 components. The biggest component this quarter was the continued growth in our mortgage warehouse servicing deposits. Speaker 1000:32:45And so, that's very valuable business to us because it comes to us and allows us to self fund the mortgage warehouse at costs lower than wholesale funding. With that said, they're not free. So while they're not non interest bearing, they do result in rebates on loans within the mortgage warehouse. And so there is some cost to those. It's just less than wholesale funding costs. Speaker 1000:33:07We don't have high dependence on wholesale funding. This allows us to lessen that even more. So that's good for us, but it's not completely free. The other component is what we see happening within the broader community bank. And we saw the decline in deposits that every bank experienced coming out of the pandemic occur, then we stabilized, and now we're beginning to grow again. Speaker 1000:33:25And we're pretty excited about that. On the interest bearing side, we were prepared when the Fed lowered rates to begin adjusting rates immediately. So we're already seeing our weighted average price of deposits in the money market accounts and CDs coming down. And so that's also contributing to the cost of funds dynamic that you're seeing. Speaker 700:33:44Thank you. Speaker 200:33:49There are no further questions at this time. Back to management for closing remarks. Thank you. Speaker 100:33:55Thank you all for joining us. Have a great day.Read morePowered by