Damian Kozlowski
Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is now open.
Well, I think our year-over-year are double-digit, yes. So I want to grow the balance sheet businesses. Unless you're in an extraordinary situation, you don't want to grow the balance sheet businesses too quickly. Generally, you get 9% or 10% growth is a good year. And 15%, I want to have an explanation of why we're growing so quickly There are some businesses, like SBLOC, where we've invested a lot in automation, but are extremely - it's almost not a lending business because they're so backed, we have almost $6 billion of collateral and $700 million of outstandings with $2 billion of commitments. It's a very low risk business, and it doesn't really affect our capital either. So those businesses - that's really - I could - we could grow that at 20%, 30% a year and have a 16% year-over-year growth like we did on the SBLOC business, and I'm totally comfortable. I'm not sure I want to grow my SBA business at 20% or maybe even my leasing business totally organically 20%, unless we have an initiative to change the way we do business. And that's a hard business to do because you have a lot of - that doesn't mean we won't do that in any one year. But generally, we want to grow the balance sheet in a safe and sound, very controlled way, understanding which segments. We're not - we don't want to get too overly concentrated in any region or any particular type of business. That doesn't mean we don't have segments and verticals and things like that, but we want to understand the concentrations across the portfolio and grow them safely. I believe we do have lower risk businesses. Obviously, this company has struggled with the community banking business in the past. We do not want - that is not the business model that we intend to build out going forward. So 10% to 15% growth year-over-year is, I think, the range that I want to, as - unless there's a real - and we'll be able to explain why unless there's a real reason. That's the kind of envelope. So in the middle point of that, 12% on the core, remember, we have other things like this CMBS, and we have discontinued and stuff. But the core businesses, lending growth, around 10% to 15%, 12%, 12.5%, is kind of the sweet spot. I think we want to grow that. And for this company with a loan - a low loan deposit ratio that's incredibly accretive. So as we trade out of bonds and we manage the balance sheet and increase the loans it obviously has a nice impact on our net interest margin, but also our total revenue. So that's probably too long of an answer, but that's a philosophy answer from a banker, a banker philosophy answer.