Good morning ladies and gentlemen. We would like to welcome everyone to Banco Bradesco's 2007 Second Quarter Results Conference Call. This call will be conducted by Mr. Marcio Artur Laurelli Cypriano, Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Milton Vargas, Executive Vice President and Investor Relations Officer; Mr. Domingos Figueriredo de Abreu; Managing Director; Mr. Samuel Monteiro de Santos Jr., Chief Financial Officer of Bradesco Seguros Insurance and Mr. Jean Philippe Leroy, Department Director. This call is being broadcasted simultaneously through the Internet in the website www.bradesco.com.br/ir. In that address, you can also find a banner through which the presentation will be available for download. We inform that all participants will only be able to listen to the conference call during the company's presentation. After the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. At that time, further instructions will be given. [Operator Instructions]. Before proceeding, let me mention that forward-looking statements are being made under the Safe Harbor of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996. Forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of Banco Bradesco's management and on information currently available to the company. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. They involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, because they relate to future events and therefore depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. Investors should understand that general economic conditions, industry conditions and other operating factors could also affect the future results of Banco Bradesco and could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Now I will turn the conference over to Mr. Jean Leroy, Department Director. Mr. Leroy, you may proceed with your statements.

Thank you again. Good morning everyone and welcome to our conference call. First of all, let me say that we are sorry for the delay in this call as we were receiving a lot of questions in the other conference call where the local community was attending. And let me now transfer the floor to Milton Vargas, our CFO and IRO for his comments and Bradesco's highlights, one can follow on slide no. 3 of the PowerPoint presentation. Thank you.

Good Morning and welcome to our conference call. In the first half of 2007, the Brazilian economy had recorded a substantial recovery in terms of business activity and investments. And we see no sign that this trend will be changing in the second half of the year. Despite our lack of infrastructure economic outlook is very strong given that the public accounts are well managed in and the investments are rising and becoming more and more diversified across sectors. Our forecast for the year points to a 4.9% of GDP growth and 3.5% CPI and on the top of that unemployment is expected to be the lowest for the past six years falling to 9.6%. The reserves in foreign core currency are already close to the impact of some up to $150 billion due to a solid inflow of the CDI and our very strong [Indiscernible]. We expected a 1.8 real per dollar FX rate at the year-end. Card operations has been evolving in a significant manner due to interest rate decrease and the expansion of internal, belong to this deterioration is expanding now at 32.3% and should continue to speed up to year-end to 34.3% impacted by some non-recurring events that will recover in representation but [indiscernible] our focused effort has net income of more than 4 billion reais, 28% higher than in the same period of 2006. Insurance, pension plans and savings bonds continue to be one of our major pillars of contribution to pass 1.2 billion reais net income in the first half keeping the leadership in premiums both in Brazil and Latin America. The insurance group closed the first half with 62 billion reais in finance assets and 53 billion reais in the technical provision. But this causes continued improving efficiency. Our 12 month efficiency ratio…

Slide number 4, we will be highlighting the slides, the nominal growth of our quarterly net income which reached 2.3 billion reais in the second quarter of '07, 1.8 billion if adjusted by extraordinary items, a quarter-over-quarter of 5.6% increase. Over the last 12 months EPS stood at 3.62 reais or 3.37 if adjusted. With no particular attention to our efficiency ratio of 42%, this is the 9th consecutive quarter that it has been standing below the 50% mark. We believe this ratio can be improved even more over the coming quarters through the constant optimization of our productivity. Slide number 5, on this slide we show this quarter's extraordinary items. The gains related to the disinvestments in Serasa and Arcelor were partially offset by the goodwill amortization of Lojas Colombo and the constitution of legal provisions relative to previous economic plans. As a result, we recommend a comparison between our adjusted net income, which is what we will be doing in this presentation. Slide number 6, our annualized first half returns totaled 2.5% considering average assets and 31.5% gains in average equity. For this calculation, we are excluding securities classified as available for sale which formed 1.9 billion reais and are marked it actually against equity. By the way this is the 11th consecutive quarter, our annualized average return on equity surpasses the 30% mark. Our capital adequacy ratio indicates plenty room for future growth. To give an idea, the current ratio allows Bradesco to expand its loan book by approximately 108 billion reais considering the same equity. We have also included in this slide a simulation of our DIs ratio considering the changes promoted by the Brazilian Central Bank Circular number 3,353 which increased from 50% to 100% of foreign exchange position in the PIS calculation and it…

Thank you.[Operator Instructions]:

And just using the first question received from Internet, Mr. Hofei [ph], you are asking about the possible IPO of Visanet and what are the numbers, the figures relative to Bradesco in this operation? Basically, we are shareholder of Visanet. We have almost 40% base and actually it's the largest company, in fact the largest acquirer altogether with the other shareholders, we are always analyzing studies to seek what to do in terms of increasing the most shareholder value. There is no definition as if we are going to have an IPO of the company. But obviously if this occurs we will be very quick and proactive to inform the market on what we will be doing.

Excuse me. Our first question comes from Ms. Maria Laura Pessoa with Fator-Doria Atherino.

Hi all, I had a couple of questions. The first one is regarding the provision expenses over average loans that you expect for the end of this year. Also I wonder if you could comment on the small increase in the current account fees in this quarter. Is this something related to the impact of salary accounts creation or is it just punctual, I wonder if you could make your comments on this. Thank you.

And the increase of provisioning as a percentage of the loan book.

Yes. Provision expenses over average loan book.

Okay. Actually you can see in the slides that we have been having a very good performance over the last period and actually the number has been moving down. And we see over the last three quarters a decrease 4.6, 4.5. 4.4, it is very difficult to project exactly to which level we are going to move. But at least the trends of in percentage term having an improvement in terms of, this ratio is something that we continue to believe. So it's difficult to tell you if it is closer to 4 or 4.2, but we are actually seeing in all the different portfolios for individuals and companies, a very good behavior also in terms of the effective allowance between 14 and 60 bps. So the trends for this number which is in this slide of longer period is actually to continue to move down at least to be relatively stable, over the next year. If we look at fees, actually what we have is basically a growth in the number of account holders. So, you see that basically we have the growth in the quarter but you can see the counterpart which is the growth in the number of checking account. Mr. Marcio Cypriano, our CEO established the goal to increase by 2.5 million unit number of checking accounts in this year, and we are ready this year to grow by approximately 1.1 million. So, actually this is already a benefit that we have seen in fees because of the number of growth of account holders.

Thank you.

I would like to respond to Raffle Vermillion [ph], the second question made by him about the... the question relates to insurance provision estimate, what's the bank... you can give me that expectations? I would like to ask you Raffle our expectation is 2007 and through December, there will be only one adjustment in our technical provisions relates to the health, it's the only thing we made it until next December. Other provisions would be made by... it appears, there's written a lot, there is no adjustment there until December of 2007.

Our next question is from Jason Mullen [ph] with Goldman Sachs.

Hello everyone. My question is just a general question based on the guidance for 2007 and then the changes you've highlighted there that raising the expected growth in the insurance premiums to make the 10% to 12 to 14 and raising slightly the loan portfolio growth on the back of greater growth in corporates, how should we interpret that? We have these which seem to be positive events when we are not looking at that, moving to your guidance for an increased net income. We have your guidance for net income going from 4% to 10%... staying flat at 4% to 10%. Should we just assume that there is going to be offsetting factors to this improved outlook?

We choose a little bit of our expectations... somewhere we are speaking, we change our expectation about increasing instantaneous because there is pulls over the market and in VGBL basically and the recent increase in our auto premium and because you know they are de minimus [ph] in profile in auto and has very good performance fee and individual risk and commercial risk would be made to change our expectations in terms of increasing insurance payments, is the only reason because the results until the first semesters would be very, very good in related to all our expectations.

And the second question was relative to the guidance. Actually we raised our loan portfolio expectations for '07 based on the very solid performance that we saw in corporates and even more with SMEs. Actually we didn't change the guidance for net income, net interest income. Because basically what we are seeing is the continuity of our numbers inside to this range. But obviously before allowance [ph] maybe closer to the lower end of this range and now we are closer to the higher end of this range. But we feel comfortable to change the guidance for the loan book but not to change the guidance for the net interest income.

Just to confirm then I think I actually probably assumed that but that line net... it should net interest income, not net income, is that going 4 to 10%, is that correct?

Yes, you're correct.

Okay. You're not giving us guidance for net income then.

No.

Okay, thank you.

Our next question is from Mario Pierry, Deutsche Bank.

Hi. Good Morning. I have a couple of questions. First is on the insurance business. We saw a big increase in claims, the claim ratio I think went from 73% to 79% this quarter. If you could be more specific where you're seeing this increase in claims, what lines in particular. Also related to this increased guidance for the insurance premiums, do you now expect growth of 12 to 14%, is this driven primarily by lower prices or is this... you would expect to maintain prices fairly stable where you've just seen a better market? And then my second question is related to Banco BMC as you said you received the approval to complete the acquisition last week. Can you just remind us what is the goodwill associated with this acquisition? Thank you.

Samuel speaking. I would like to respond to the insurance questions made by you. In terms of claim ratio, claim ratios would be passed from that 79, 70.5, 79. There is only one justification about this, it relates to the health, individual health provisions which made by us, approved by the insurance department. So, it just stands between the price requested by us and the price approved by the government since 1997 and until 2005... until 2004. That's the reason why we have to make this provisions, delaying of this provision correcting, technical correcting is premium provision for premium note issued by the company. This is the reason why the claim ratio increased much more than we would like for the first semester of 2006. If you do not consider that, that provision, our claims ratio goes down to 74 instead of 79.21 [ph]. The second question relates to the premium, increase in premiums for the second semester. I would like to clarify to you, we plan to increase so much of our premiums for the second semester but not related to the reduction of the price. We plan to maintain the price and in our perspective we do no plan to reduce premiums for the second semester.

If I can follow up and sorry before you answer the question on BMC. Yes we do notice that your healthcare provisions have remained higher on the 200 million real per quarter but it seems like you already have a very comfortable level of reserves. So I was just wondering why is there the need to continue the provision or to maintain this healthcare provision high into the end of the year? And then on the pricing also like looking at one of your competitors' results recently it seems like in auto insurance we have seen some pressuring prices and if you could be more specific about you expectations for prices in the auto insurance?

I'd try to especially the second, about the auto insurance, really we have... our experience in profile underwriting is now completely, goes two years, 3-4 months in terms of the insurance industry is a corrective rationalization for, to try to make the correct pricing flowing your portfolio. This is a reason why our pricing some kind of cars in some regions in brazil, we do sell in our bids [ph] related to the past. But this reduction is, real is not affected, our combined ratio and our claims ratio because it is a correct experience there is a underwriting for a basic on profile. For the first in terms of health, the health, I am reluctant to... remember, the health, individual health, the pricing is driven by the growth since 1997. When the government achieved the loss, they lost shares. You have to cover all diseases independent of your policy, independent of your contract needs or insured by the insurer. What happens? Every year the pricing request by insurance industries, they go to leaps [ph] until the yield requires this and this... what happens in this case? You don't have the correct premium to face the risk if you're insured and this reason is the reason why we have to make the provision to cover this part of the premium not insured by us. We plan to close or we plan to close this provision, this specific provision until the end of this year. Of course if you need 2008 to get booked, we will emphasize and we will end up with this deal, or then we have to completely provision in 2008, 2009 independent of the price approved by the government in request by us.

The question relative to BMC basically the goodwill should be of around 600 million reais and we will be fully offset, so, fully amortized in the third quarter because it was approved right now. But it will not affect the bottom line of the bank and on the top of that just reminding you that we are going to raise of around 800 million reais the capital of the bank in order to make this transaction.

Thank you.

Our next question is from Daniel Abut, Citibank.

Hi, good morning. You were showing in slide 4 I believe the improvement in the efficiency ratio of about 2 percentage points over the last 12 months or so. And I think Jean you indicated that you expect further improvement, plenty room for improvement going forward. I wanted to ask you is, do have any specific target, how low this number can get over the next, by the end of the year, by the end of next year? And related to this I wanted to ask you is the integration of American Express operations which you call the success in your remarks. Have you identified any specific cost savings associated with that operations? And if so, have they really been factored in or a big part of that is still to come later on and how much that could be a reason for further improvement in this efficiency ratio?

Okay. Daniel just to give you an idea, the cost income ratio for Bradesco 42% has a space to improve. Maybe over the next 6 to 12 months we should be achieving 40% ratio. And over the long run, over the next years we will be able to reduce it to around 37%. This is based on our own calculation. I didn't get the second question that you asked.

I wanted to know related to this even that you expect further improvement of 2 percentage points over the next 6 to 12 months in spite of that it's coming from cost savings related to American Express operations. I wanted to know is that integration which you call it success, realized gross savings or those gross savings are still to come?

Actually when we talk about the cost income ratio it's looking at revenues and costs if not specifically because of American Express. We always to try to incorporate structures and we still have a potential to incorporate more costs from other companies that we have but also because that, we're expanding the revenues, revenues, and margin and the revenues and fees as well. So altogether it's combined and expected to have cost ratio improvement.

No, that I understand Jean that the ratios, not overall ratio, I wanted to know though if you have done any analysis in relation to American Express, pertaining to the realization of cost savings, after that integration or you have not done that?

No, we already have been incorporating cost of American Express, but some of them for example we have the structure of call center and we keep it separated, because they have a specific understanding of the type of customers and there is an American Express customers. So some costs we may be integrating, some others we try to have fabricated. It's the same for example when you talk about BMC, some costs would be integrated but the structure will continue to be managed by BMC for example because they have the expertise to understand the business.

Understood. Just quick one last question on the goodwill amortization of BMC. I think you indicated 600 million that's a gross amount right? Or next, of that the strength which would stay held [ph] much hitting your driven quarter numbers.

That is around 400 million reais and just to correct myself, actually the dividend of the shareholders will not be impacted by that. But the bottom line could be because of the amount that we are amortizing and it will be in the first quarter.

Thank you very much.

Our next question is from Warren Partida [ph], JP Morgan.

Hi. Good morning. My question has to do with slide 12 statistically the insurance line. I saw... we see that there's an interesting increase in revenue from... in financial revenue from the insurance company despite the falling rate. Is that due to an increase in volumes or what would be the driver behind that? And though my second question is we saw in the quarter a very important growth in private level cards of close to a million cards. Could you explain where that came from? Thanks very much.

Our next question is from Saul Martinez, Bear Stearns.

Just a second please, just a second please.

Samuel Speaking. About the insurance revenues, financing the reason why the amount of the revenue insurance... financial insurance revenues is related to the loan [ph] because that VGBL is a very big amount of the reserves that we have. They are increasing so much or in terms of VGBL we increased more than 26% related to the last year. This is the reason why we are having more, more reserves throughout life and the reserves of loan [ph] increases so much related the last semester, is the reason why we have been increasing more insurance, financial revenues.

In terms of the question relative to credit card you are mentioning slide number 22, I believe and actually we see two components, low ultimately though, the card coming from the lower income classes use our private label agreement. I could not specify exactly right now what is the... which one has been more beneficial to this 1 million growth? And the second part would be in the number of credit cards but then I can say that American Express has begun a major component of growth in base cards to give an idea. When we acquired the American Express they had 1.2 million cards and now they have 1.7 million cards. The number of issuance of American Express has been very strong based on the effects of the agreement and the base of the product line and it's fortunately has been gaining to the American Express customers.

Jean If I could quickly follow up the American Express growth is not really reflected in the credit card launch, right it's mostly charge card?

Exactly... are you talking about slide 22?

Yes but now I am talking about loans that we saw good loan, strong growth in credit cards this quarter but it's not related to AmEx, right?

Right, in terms of the line of fees you are mentioning, fees or loan growth?

Loans.

We have in terms of the growth of loans as we are saying credit cards are becoming more and more a way of financing. So we actually have been seeing a growth in the number of people using the credit card as a way of financing. And normally the American Express opt charge card. You are correct but it's more because of people using more credit cards to finance their acquisitions.

Thank you very much.

You are welcome.

Our next question is from Saul Martinez, Bear Stearns.

Hi. Good morning. I have a couple of follow-up questions for Samuel on the insurance business. First on slide 32 you give your combined ratio both as reported and excluding non-recurring events. Can you just the discrepancy is pretty meaningful. Can you just remind us what those non-recurring events are? I assume part of it is related to the premium deficiency reserves that you mentioned in the individual health business but is there anything else in there? And why should we be confident in that going forward some of those non-recurring events will actually be non-recurring and not impact the combined ratio? And I have a follow-up as well.

The only thing [ph], there is no recurring, and we... exception in already combined ratio, it's only related to the health, individual health only.

And that explains for example in Q2 '07, you have a 94.7% combined ratio...

Yes.

Excluding that, that's 14 percentage points, is that... that's right?

Yes.

So we should expect that, we should expect going into '08 the combined ratio would actually be 14 percentage points lower than or around 13 to 14 percentage points lower than what it's actually been tracking?

Our expectation, when you say go forward, we see forward until December, right?

Okay. Yes, yes right after you catch up with those provisions in the individual health business?

Yes, if you see... if you look for... and through December I would say to you that the combined ratio would be the same as in the first semester.

Okay. And after 2008, after fourth quarter of this year into 2008 we should expect the combined ratio to be 14 percentage points, 13 percentage points lower than what it's been, is that correct?

Excluding this adjustment in health I would say to you is this combined ratio is absolutely comfortable for us.

Okay. So, something close on an international combined basis something close to 80, 85, 86, 87% does that... that's what we should look for it?

I would say to you that in terms of international combined ratio, is calculated by almost 99% of the accountants. So I would say to you 87.7 or 85 as you know is a very good combined ratio for our most line business as you know.

Understood but that's but okay. And that's, so that's... that should be a pretty pickup in your results going into 2008 insurance business.

Yes, yes.

Okay. Second question is a kind of a follow up to one, I wasn't really clear in your response on why the financial results increased so much from the first to second quarter with 906 million versus 636 million in the first quarter, I am looking at slide 27. It's hard for me to believe that VGBL volume growth counted for 42% rise quarter-over-quarter. Was there anything else in that results? Did you have any equity gains in there that, that impacted that because it seems like a pretty big number relative to the results you have been posting in previous quarters.

Relates to the, as it's probably in earnings release [ph] financial results, I would like to clarify to you, that's the increase just supplied by Philippines.

Okay.

Next one is the total reserves increased so much; the second we invested a little bit more in stock in the equities, in the stock market would be particularly the results we can get very good results.

Okay.

But this... we sold the share for Arcelor which represents...

Okay.

Results in terms of its financial results.

Okay, okay. Great, that's very helpful? Thank you.

Our next question is from Victor Galliano, HSBC.

Yes, my main question has been answered but just to follow up on what I think Jean was mentioning about IT investment. And you were talking about 270 million reais being invested in IT. Is that something that's already been accounted for or is that something that's going forward you will be accounting for expenses in the latter part of the year?

Victor, IT investment of 270 million reais that was mentioned in the speech, part of that was already spent and part of that will be deferred over maybe some three years.

Okay. So that's going to be... it's going to be a fairly small impact on expenses going forward?

Yes, but based on... compared with the overall numbers of that, this was a very small impact, very relevant impact.

Okay. Thank you.

Our next question is from Mr. Alcir Freitas from Itaú Toyota [ph].

Good morning. In slide number 7, you disclosed the total amount of unrealized gains. I'd like to know how much of that total is related to available for sale securities? And the second question is this quarter you've increased significantly...

Can you just speak a little bit louder please?

In this quarter you increased significantly the amount of trading gains. I'd like to know if I could infer that these higher gains are related with the sale of AFS securities?

The impact of available for sale would be of around 2.9 million reais vis-à-vis this number you are seeing on slide number 7. And this affects the equity directly. And the net Visa [ph], would be representing 1.9 billion reais approximately.

Okay. And about the trading gains that were required by in this quarter.

Actually this increase in trading gains should be expanding two different ways. The first one is that we had a very good quarter but the second answer is that the first quarter was a little lower of the first, of behavior of the trading gains. And just to give you an idea, when you compare these numbers semester vis-à-vis semester actually the numbers are very close. They are almost the same, a very slight decrease. So basically a better core, second quarter was a little bit better, first quarter was a little bit lower. So when you compare those, a higher change but in the six months comparison of '06 and '07 they were quite comparable.

Okay. Thank you.

You're welcome. Let me respond to a question which was asked by the Internet, about the possible IPO of Bradesco Seguros and if we think that Bradesco Seguros is correctly priced by the market, actually no, we don't intend to make an IPO of Bradesco Seguros. And no, we don't believe that Bradesco Seguros is correctly priced. Actually when we see and compare Bradesco with other companies and also looking at perspectives of other insurance companies that might be proceeding into a IPO we believe that the market does not price correctly Bradesco Seguros. So at the end of the day that it's not priced correctly but [indiscernible] as we think. And because of the event of timing we would like to end the conference call. We will be available in our department, if you want to send follow-up questions or by phone of e-mail please feel free and thank you once again for the patience and sorry for the beginning being a little bit later of this call. Thank you very much. Bye.

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