Guilherme Marques do Lago
Analyst
Leduc, thanks for the question. Look, I will refer to Slide 16 of our earnings deck, which is -- brings the efficiency ratio evolution. And we have seen, kind of over the past quarters and years, the continuation of the operating leverage potential of the organization. We wanted to highlight very clearly that we may see kind of upward pressure on efficiency ratio in the coming quarters, i.e., in the short term, like the next 4 to 6 quarters. As a result of very deliberate investments, I would bucket them in 3 categories. Number one is we have recently announced a return-to-office policy, right, and which starting on July 1, 2026, employees will start going back up to the office 2 times per week. That means that we're going to have to kind of prepare the offices, increase the leased area to welcome our employees as they prepare to come back to the office. We believe that this will bring enormous benefits to the company, including about kind of ingenuity, kind of innovation, coordination, but it does come with an increase in OpEx in the short term, and we wanted to clarify this. I would say that the return to the office will likely bring kind of our efficiency ratio, all else constant, up by about 80 to 100 basis points. The second bucket, I would say, Leduc, is the -- all of the investments that we are making in AI and new technologies. So that brings new talent that we have to hire, eventually new investments in R&D and research in GPUs that will have kind of a short-term cost, which we believe will be way, way, way more offset by the medium-term gains that we're going to have, but we will not shy away to make investments in talent, R&D and GPU to maximize the impacts of our efforts in AI. And I would say that kind of we have return to the office. You have AI. And the third one is the globalization. So there is a lot of investments that we are making in laying down the foundation for us to go beyond Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. And no, a substantial amount of those expenses are not capitalized and are incurred in 2026, first, to collect revenues and margins in the following years. So that's the direction. I wouldn't be able to provide you, Leduc, at this point in time more kind of a precision on the effect of all of the 3, but we think that they would put some kind of upward pressure in the coming quarters.