Scotiabank continued to intentionally gradual its mortgage lending within the third quarter amid heightened financial threat and as a part of its plan to be extra selective with onboarding new shoppers.
The financial institution’s complete Canadian residential mortgage portfolio fell to $294 billion as of the third quarter, down from about $300 billion in Q2.
“Lending volumes within the quarter mirror a extra cautious setting from each a family confidence and enterprise funding perspective as seen in exercise ranges throughout our numerous segments and geographies,” mentioned President and CEO Scott Thomson in his ready remarks throughout the financial institution’s third-quarter earnings name. “The influence of those macroeconomic realities coupled with a extra selective and deliberate method to new originations has resulted in a moderation of our mortgage development.”
The financial institution introduced earlier this yr that it might deliberately gradual its mortgage e-book and put a higher emphasis on rising deposits to decrease its reliance on wholesale funding from bigger buyers.
Dan Rees, head of Canadian Banking, commented on the technique once more within the newest earnings name.
“So we’re intensely decelerating our mortgage development in favour of shoppers. And we launched in Q3 a extremely essential pilot to deepen the deposit cross-sell off mortgages on the time of origination,” he mentioned. “We’re being very intentional right here as we signalled quite a lot of quarters in the past, and we’re actually happy with the price of that deposit development.”
The technique has resulted in Scotia’s deposit development, which was up 9% year-over-year or $55 billion, outpacing its mortgage development.
“We’re being extra disciplined with reference to buyer choice on the time of origination,” Rees added. “I believe this can be a good time to drive that normal increased right here as a result of it’s a softer, slower housing market…We’re additionally being extra environment friendly with reference to our use of capital and utilizing buyer deselection at renewal as a part of that dialog.”
Rees reiterated that the financial institution remains to be happy with its mortgage enterprise, together with a brand new pilot program that it not too long ago expanded within the dealer channel. Scotia introduced final month it might broaden its bundled mortgage providing, by which it presents below-market charges to shoppers who open a chequing account and one different non-mortgage product, equivalent to a bank card or line of credit score. That program had beforehand solely been out there to pick brokers as a part of the pilot program.
“We’re very happy with the pilot we put in place,” Rees mentioned. “Sequentially, spreads expanded as we anticipated within the mortgage enterprise. New spreads are good. And the deepening that we’ve performed of the mortgages within the final 3, 4 quarters has been actually encouraging.”
Rees additionally mentioned Scotia, like its peer banks, has seen a shift of shopper desire into fixed-rate mortgages.
Scotiabank additionally offered perception into the maturity schedule for its mortgage portfolio, displaying that the majority of loans ($91.1 billion) shall be up for renewal in 2026.
Scotiabank earnings spotlights
Q3 web earnings: $2.21 billion (-15% Y/Y)
Earnings per share: $1.73
| Q3 2022 | Q2 2023 | Q3 2023 | |
| Residential mortgage portfolio | $301B | $300B | $294B |
| Share of mortgage portfolio uninsured | 72% | 73% | 74% |
| Avg. loan-to-value (LTV) of portfolio | 46% | 53% | 47% |
| Portfolio combine: proportion with variable charges | 37% | 36% | 34% |
| 90+ days overdue | 0.15% | 0.12% | 0.14% |
| Mortgage portfolio gross impaired loans | 0.26% | 0.39% | 0.45% |
| Canadian banking web curiosity margin (NIM) | 2.29% | 2.30% | 2.35% |
| Whole provisions for credit score losses | $412M | $709M | $819M |
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- “Though the working setting has stabilized following the Q2 market dislocation, deposit migration to time period merchandise and central financial institution charge will increase proceed to extend our funding prices,” mentioned President and CEO Scott Thomson.
- “By way of our superior information and analytics, we’re carefully monitoring buyer habits and have noticed a really rational and accountable shift in spending as households handle by way of this era of lowered discretionary earnings,” Thomson added.
- “Whereas we proceed to function in an setting of heightened uncertainty, we consider our enterprise is well-positioned to navigate this efficiently,” mentioned Chief Danger Officer Phil Thomas.
- “The advance in NIM within the Canadian Financial institution will proceed. As we identified, this quarter’s enchancment was all deposit pushed, and I believe that may proceed,” mentioned Raj Viswanathan, Chief Monetary Officer. “Asset margin is definitely beginning to present indicators of development…mortgage margin is beginning to go up. So I’m optimistic that it’ll additionally contribute perhaps modestly to subsequent quarter in order that you must see it occur.”
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