Damian Kozlowski
Analyst · Timothy Switzer of KBW
It's hard to give you clarity on that because we haven't announced. There's a bunch of different use cases from wage access to longer-term installment loans. And we intend to do all those things, right? So we intend to provide some on balance sheet, probably not as much as our current relationship with Chime to other partners. We intend to securitize a lot of it, so you'll get incredibly high velocity. And you'll hold those loans from 3 to 30 days probably at the most. Usually, it's only a few days. It will be purchased back by the fintech partner and then securitized. And then there is definitely a situation where we'll be holding pieces of loans at a much higher yield, right? So loans that we like or if it's important to the product for us to hold -- excuse me, partner to hold a strip, we will, but those loans will be very, very high. So if you look at the NIM today, of The Bancorp where it is today, right? We're around 4% if you add back what Dominic was saying, the basis points and the fee that potentially could be viewed as interest, right? So it's not that different. We had some deterioration in our NIM. But if you add back the increased fees from this quarter versus last year, it's 12 basis, 13 basis points different in NIM. Your NIM is going to -- your net interest margin should go up over time, right, if you add back all those fees depending on the programs because you're going to obviously have pressure on deposits going down, right, because of our liquidity. So we'll take more high deposits off the balance sheet. And then when you look at these programs, the Chime situation is the lowest -- probably the lowest NIM situation you would have because all the synergistic revenue. So that, over time, once again, adding back potential fees from the line that we have that third line in our financials around fintech loan fees, plus you look, obviously, the interest is -- if there's any interest on those loans is already in our NIM calculation, that after this initial stage should start moving up, right? And then in many of these cases, because of velocity of loans, you'll be getting fees. And so you'll get effective yields, very short-term loans very quick. Many of them will be backstopped or securitized. So you'll have a conversion on the balance sheet from traditional nontraditional lending. There'll be less of a -- potentially of a traditional bank reserve -- these are the structure of these loans. The velocity will go up very high. And if you add back the fees on these loans, the NIM -- the effective NIM on these loans over time will go up. Now in the near term, they'll go down for the reasons that we stated on the Chime program, but that should turn around as we add new partners.