Richard D. Fairbank - Capital One Financial Corp.
Management
Yeah, exactly. So, and as our front book loss expectations kind beyond – in other words, beyond the effect of the growth in mix, so I'm trying to de-average all these effects. There's a slight upward revision that we made in the quarter for 2017 and a slight downward revision in 2018. And that's driven by a composite of like many multiple vintages across like hundreds of lending programs. And just give you just a little bit more granularity behind this, if you compile them all and pull way up over the patterns that we see, 2015 programs are coming in with slightly higher losses than 2014 programs. And now, 2016 programs are coming in a little bit better than 2015 programs. And so, the higher 2015 origination losses make their way into the late 2016 and 2017 numbers, the lower 2016 origination losses make their way into the later 2017 and 2018 numbers. Now these are all very modest effect is the most important point I want to leave with you. The other thing is our view of the value creation from our lending programs is not only bullish and high, just to put it in perspective, this thing we're calling the front book, which is, basically, everything that – all the growth we've had since the higher growth began. So we're talking about 2014, 2015, 2016. Our view of the value creation for that is that the high end of anything we booked in the last 15 years. So, back to your question about, how we feel about the earnings potential in the business, what you actually have is a Card business, if you kind of pull up on a yearly basis, that has maintained pretty flattish earnings and strong earnings power, while absorbing a whopping increase in, especially front-loaded credit costs, that come in the form of originations that are: A, higher than the back book; B, that have their losses more front loaded; and C, of course, it flows right through allowance. And so this brings a lot of pressure right upfront when we grow at the kind of trajectory that we're talking about. Hopefully, you can see when you look at the numbers and do the math on what we are booking here, this is a coiled spring of a lot of earnings power, and we're – and that's why we continue to work hard to originate and grow what we can very prudently during this window of opportunity. Scott, why don't you comment about the allowance part of this question?