Carlos Torres Vila
Management
Good morning, and thank you, Luisa. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to BBVA’s third quarter 2016 results presentation via webcast. First of all, excuse my voice but I have a quite a cold this morning, so you might notice that along the presentation. Apart from that, we have had a very strong quarter as we had last quarter with €965 million attributable profit, which I think shows very well the strength of our business model and our portfolio which despite the environment, the low rates, the weakness in the markets, the uncertainties in various countries, the Brexit, Spanish political situation, the Turkey events, has shown that strength. We continue to have positive trend in recurring revenue growing at 5.6% in constant euros versus the third quarter of last year with good cost controls. We have registered a one-off charge in the quarter of €94 million, which is a restructuring charge associated with our continued efforts in cost reduction and funded by net trading income. The net trading income in the quarter is partly due to the sale of an additional 0.75% stake in CNCB and we sold that with €75 million capital gain. Risk indicators remain strong with reduction of NPLs of nearly €600 million versus June and low levels of provisioning and cost of risk of 0.9%. Very good news also in capital, outstanding I would say capital generation in the quarter, 29 basis points, which means that we have achieved the 11% target that we have set for ourselves and clearly ahead of schedule on that count. We have a clear priority of optimizing our capital, clear focus on profitable growth, as I have insisted before, and I think that’s showing. So overall, we have had €965 million, which represents 23.1% growth on current euros ex-corporate operations and…