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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2011 Bank of Hawaii Earnings Conference Call. My name is (Fab), and I will be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Cindy Wyrick, the Director of Investor Relations. Please proceed. Cindy Wyrick – Director of Investor Relations: Thank you, Fab, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as we review our financial results for the second quarter of 2011. Joining me this morning is our Chairman, President and CEO, Peter Ho; Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, Kent Lucien; and Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer, Mary Sellers. Comments today will refer to the financial information included in the earnings announcement release this morning. Before we get started, let me remind you that today’s conference call will contain some forward-looking statements and while we believe our assumptions are reasonable, there are a variety of reasons that the actual results may differ materially from those projected. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Peter Ho. Peter Ho – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Cindy. Good morning and aloha everyone. Thanks for joining us today. Bank of Hawaii had strong core operating results in the second quarter of 2011. We were pleased to see loan balances grew during the quarter. Deposit balances remained solid. Revenues continue to be challenged to the interest rate environment and our conservative investment and liquidity posture. Operational expenses remain well controlled. Asset quality remains stable and in line with the recovering Hawaii economy. Our balance sheet remains quite strong with high levels of capital, liquidity and reserves. We increased the amount of shares we purchased during the quarter and our directors have authorized us an additional $120 million in repurchase activity. Now I would like to ask Kent to review some of the factors affecting our financial performance this quarter and then Mary will comment on credit quality measures. Kent? Kent Lucien – Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer: Thank you, Peter. Good morning. Net income for the second quarter was $35.1 million or $0.74 per share, compared to $42.4 million or $0.88 per share in the first quarter and $46.6 million, or $0.96 per share in the second quarter of 2010. Included in this quarter’s results was $9 million charge our legal settlement related to overdraft claims. There were no securities gains this quarter, compared to $6.1 million in the first quarter and $50 million in the second quarter of 2010. Return on assets in the second quarter was 1.09% and return on equity was 13.9%. Year-to-date net income was $77.5 million, or $1.62 per share, compared to $99.3 million, or $2.05 per share in 2010. We realized $6.1 million in securities gains this year-to-date, compared to $35 million last year. Year-to-date the return on assets is 1.21% and return on equity 15.4%. Our net interest margin in the second quarter was 3.16%, compared to 3.24% in the first quarter and 3.51% in the second quarter of 2010. Year-to-date the net interest margin is 3.20%, compared to 3.61% last year. The lower margin is due to lower interest rate environment in a large investment portfolio. The credit provision in the second quarter was $3.6 million compared to $4.7 million in the first quarter and $15.9 million in the second quarter of 2010. The credit provision for the second quarter included net charge-offs of $6 million and a $2.4 million decrease to the allowance. The credit provision in the first quarter equaled net charge-offs and for the second quarter of 2010, included net charge-offs of $14.9 million and a $1 million increase to the allowance. Our allowance for loan and lease losses at the end of the second quarter was $145 million or 2.7% of outstanding loan and leases. Non-performing assets were $34.2 million at the end of the second quarter, down $400,000 million from the end of the first quarter and down $9.1 million from the end of the second quarter of 2010. Included in non-performing loans are $24 million in residential mortgage loans as of June 30th. Non-interest income for the second quarter was $49.5 million, compared to $53.9 million in the first quarter and $68.9 million in the second quarter of 2010. The decreases were primarily due to realized gains of the securities portfolio of $6.1 million in the first quarter and $15 million in the second quarter of 2010. Also contributing to the decrease compared with second quarter of 2010 were lower overdraft fees. Year-to-date, non-interest income was $103.4 million compared to $140.7 million in 2010. The decrease was primarily due to $28.9 million decrease in securities gains and also lower overdraft fees. Non-interest expense totaled $93.8 million in the second quarter, compared to $86.1 million in the first quarter and $85.9 million in the second quarter of 2010. Excluding the legal settlement, non-interest expense would have been $84.8 million. Total salaries and benefits remained flat compared to the first quarter and included an accrual of $2 million for the banks share appreciation program, partially offset by $1.7 million decrease in payroll taxes, due to incentives paid in the first quarter. Included in the second quarter of 2010, was an accrual of $3.3 million for officer cash grants for the purchase of company stock. The effective income tax rate was 29.1% in the second quarter, compared to 32.6% in the first quarter of 2011, and 34.4% in the second quarter of 2010. The lower rate was primarily due to a release of reserves in the second quarter due to the closing of the IRS audit for two tax years. Our investment portfolio now stands at $6.6 billion and we have unrealized gains in the portfolio of $120 million. We continue to invest on a conservative basis, with purchases of U.S. Treasury notes, SPA floating rate securities and corporate bonds this quarter. The average duration of the AFS portfolio is 2.23 years. Loan balances increased $25 million compared to the end of the first quarter. Mary will be commenting on changes in loan balances in a moment. Deposits were $10 billion at the end of the second quarter, up $67 million compared to the end of first quarter, and up $654 million from the end of the second quarter of 2010. We increased our wholesale funding with government entities by $128 million in the second quarter. Our average cost of public repurchase agreements is eight basis points. Our shareholders’ equity remained flat at $1 billion. We paid out $21.4 million in dividends in the second quarter and we continued our share repurchase program in the second quarter, repurchasing 636,000 shares of common stock for $30 million. Last Friday, our board declared a dividend of $0.45 per share for the third quarter. At the end of the quarter, we have $13.1 million remaining under our existing share repurchase program. The board has increased the share repurchase authority by an additional $120 million. The amount of repurchases in the future will depend on many factors including the economy, the credit environment, and the value proposition for our shareholders. We will continue to update you quarterly on our capital management actions. Our capital position remained strong and at the end of the second quarter, our QCE, the risk weighted asset ratio was 19.1%. Now, I will turn the call over to Mary Sellers. Mary Sellers – Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer: Thank you, Kent. Net charge-offs in the second quarter totaled $6 million, up $1.3 million on a linked quarter basis and down $9 million year-over-year. The linked period increase was due to a $1.5 million increase in home equity. The year-over-year decrease reflects reductions of $4.1 million and $4.8 million in the commercial and consumer portfolios respectively. Non-performing assets totaled $34.2 million, down $436,000 from the first quarter and $9.1 million year-over-year. As Kent shared, residential mortgage non-accrual loans totaled $24 million at quarter end. The level of non-performing assets will continue to be impacted in the near-term due to the longer resolution timeframe for residential assets. At quarter end, loans past due more than 90 days and still accruing interest totaled $7.8 million, up $2.2 million on a linked quarter basis and down $5.1 million year-over-year. The linked period increase was due to an increase in residential mortgage largely due to two loans, while the year-over-year decrease was due to reductions across all the consumer portfolios, including a $3.2 million reduction in residential mortgage. Restructured loans not included in non-accrual or loans past due 90 days or more totaled $28.2 million at quarter end, down $1.3 million from the prior quarter due to the pay off of a $3 million commercial loan offset by two residential mortgage loans totaling $1.5 million that will return to accrual status based upon performance. Residential mortgages loans modified to assist our customers in retaining their homes account for $20.5 million of the total. Consistent with the improving Hawaii economy, we continue to see improvement on a linked quarter and year-over-year basis and what we consider to be the higher risk segments of our loan portfolio. Our land loan portfolio totaled $20 million at the end of the second quarter, down $1.6 million on a linked quarter basis and $10.3 million year-over-year. As we have shared previously, in our residential mortgage and home equity portfolios, we consider loans originated after 2004 with current credit monitoring scores less than 600 at loan-to-value ratios greater than 70% to be at higher risk. At the end of the quarter, higher risk in our – exposure in our residential portfolio totaled $23.7 million, down $1.8 million on a linked quarter basis and up $2.4 million year-over-year. In our home equity portfolio, higher risk exposure totaled $21.8 million, down $2 million on a linked quarter basis and $3.2 million year-over-year. At the end of the quarter, residential, mortgage and home equity loans and lines delinquent 30 to 89 days totaled $22.6 million, down $2 million on a linked quarter basis and up $1.4 million year-over-year. Commercial construction loans totaled $80.5 million at the end of the quarter with $35.6 million in residential homebuilding exposure. Higher risk exposure totaled $16.2 million, up $1.5 million from the first quarter and down $2.8 million year-over-year. The provision from loan and lease losses was $3.6 million, which given net charge-offs of $6 million reduced the amounts for loan and lease losses by $2.4 million to $145 million. Absent significant deterioration in the economy, we anticipate that we may require a lower level of allowance going forward. With the improving Hawaii economy, we did see modest loan growth in both our commercial and consumer portfolios this quarter. Commercial loan outstandings were up $19.3 million on a linked period basis driven off a $44 million increase in C&I outstandings related to existing customers making capital investments in their businesses. Commercial mortgage outstandings were down $11.1 million at period end primarily due to substantial expected linked-quarter payoffs. Consumer loan outstandings were up $5.3 million on a linked-quarter basis due to a $22 million increase in residential mortgage portfolio and substantial operating performance in our home equity and in direct auto. I’ll now turn the call back to Peter. Peter Ho – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer: Great. Thank you, Mary. Major economic metrics in Hawaii further improved during the quarter led by a rapidly improving visitor industry. Hotel occupancy, hotel revenue, visitor arrivals and visitor spending all continued to show signs of improvement. As expected, Japanese visitor arrivals decreased from the March natural disasters in Japan. However, this is more than offset by strong visitor arrivals from other markets. It’s interesting to note that 40% of our visitor spending now comes from international travelers. On the international segment, Japan comprises 37% of the international segment while other countries including China, Korea, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand comprised 63% of the international segment and are indeed the fastest growing segment in terms of visitor spending. The Hawaii Tourism Authority is anticipating visitor activity to remain strong for the second half of the year due to increased airlift out of Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the establishment of the China Eastern Airlines service from Honolulu to Shanghai beginning next month. This marks the first regularly scheduled direct lift from the People’s Republic of China and in my estimation is a significant event. Other positive signs at Hawaii include stabilization of the overall job growth of – and the overall job market as well as decreasing unemployment. The housing market on Oahu remains stable, inventory levels remains stable, and although we are seeing a bit of softness into the neighbor island markets. And now, I’d be happy to entertain your questions.