Steven Nell
Analyst · Matt Olney from Stephens. Please proceed with your questions
Thanks, Steve. Turning to slide seven, net interest revenue was $194.2 million, up $6.4 million for the third quarter, and net interest margin was 2.63%, down one basis point. Loan yields were 4 basis points higher this quarter while yields on available for sale securities and interest bearing liabilities remained relatively flat. On a year-over-year basis net interest income was up $12.9 million, and net interest margin was down one basis points due to loan growth, better loan spreads and stability and funding costs. On slide eight, fees and commissions were $162 million for the fourth quarter. We’ve indicated investors that fees and commission revenue can vary from quarter to quarter due to seasonality and other factors and this quarter is an example. While revenue was down 11% in the record third quarter it is a 5.4% year-over-year and 5.5% for the full year, in line with our mid single digit 12 month growth target. Brokerage and trading was down 25% sequentially, in part due to the mark-to-market and value of trading assets that flows through the revenue line which represented 5 million of the decrease. Excluding the mark-to-market and trading assets revenues would have been down 12% compared to the third quarter results. Transaction Card revenue was up 1.7% compared to the third quarter, 6.8% year-over-year and 5.5% for the full year. Transaction card revenue continues to benefit from geographic expansion and expansion of its sales forces, sales channels as well as the transition to chip and PIN security standards. Fiduciary and Asset Management revenue was up 1.4% sequentially, 10.8% year-over-year, and 7.4% for the full year. This business continues to benefit from asset gathering from customers and prospects and the weaver acquisition earlier this year also added 2.1 million to full year revenue. Mortgage banking revenue was down 26.2% sequentially. The decrease was due to lower origination activity in our retail and HomeDirect channels, which should be expected this time of the year. Additionally, the dramatic increase and mortgage rates likely impacted both purchase and refi activity. As noted now in the bottom of the slide, for presentation purposes we reclassed by certain origination expenses against mortgage revenue for the HomeDirect mortgage business for 2015 and 2016. This adjustment had no impact on profitability as it reduced mortgage banking revenue and personal expense by a like amount. Deposit service charges and fees were down 1.3% sequentially but up 2.4% year-over-year, and 1.9% for the full year. This line item has been under pressure for some time and this was the first year deposit service charges and fees posted full year growth since 2012. Turning to slide nine, expenses were $265.5 million in the fourth quarter. Personnel expense was $141.1 million, and other operating expense was $124.4 million. Mobank transaction cost totaled $4.7 million and the reduction and force related expenses totaled $5 million in the fourth quarter. There was also a $1.2 million of ongoing Mobank operating expenses for the month of December. We made a $2 million contribution to the BOKF Foundation as expected. Excluding these items expenses would have been $253 million. Turning to the balance sheet on slide 10, the available-for-sale securities portfolio was $8.7billion at quarter end compared to $8.9 billion at the end of the third quarter. Deposits were $22.7 billion at quarter end with Mobank adding $624 million of deposits. Excluding Mobank, organic deposit growth would have been 4.9% in the fourth quarter due to the high volume of year end activity with our clients. During the fourth quarter, we deployed $102 million of capital for the Mobank acquisition and $49 million for the share buyback as Steve mentioned earlier. Despite this BOK Financial continues to be well capitalized as evidenced by the capital ratios on this slide. Turning to slide 11, our guidance for [2017] is as follows; mid single digit loan growth for the full year we expect commercial real estate growth to taper off midyear and the energy loan growth to pick in the back half of 2017. These two line items should cancel each other out while general C&I personal loans and mortgage loans increase. We expect stable to increasing net interest margin and low single digit net interest income growth. We expect loan loss provision of $20 million to $30 million for the year although our bias is to the low end of that range at this time. We are expecting low single digit growth in fees and commission revenue in 2017. This is down from our original mid single digit forecast as higher long time rates are having a larger impact of mortgage production volume in their early going of 2017. Expenses in 2017 are expected to be essentially flat compared to 2016 full year expenses of just over $1 billion. We expect continued capital deployment to organic growth, the acquisitions, dividends and more limited stock buy backs. Stacy Kymes will now review the loan portfolio in more detail. I’ll turn the call over to Stacy.