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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news joining.

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Speaker 2: Us now after the bank swere a Michael Mayo as well, Mike,

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Speaker 2: let me dovetail in technology into banking. You and I

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Speaker 2: remember E. F. Hutton they didn't keep up in technology. A. G. Edwards,

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Speaker 2: They didn't keep up in technology, and on and on.

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Speaker 2: Which bank is leading in using potential AI and in

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Speaker 2: using present technology?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's an easy first question, Tom that JP Morgan

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Speaker 3: is the in video of banking. They're leading with AI.

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Speaker 3: They have it centralized. They say that, you know, most

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Speaker 3: of their employees use it every day to save a

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Speaker 3: bit more productivity. They seem strategically and operationally ahead of

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Speaker 3: the pack. They do spend a lot of money on

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Speaker 3: technology than eighteen billion dollars this year on technology, and

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Speaker 3: you know, the amount to AI continues to increase, so

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Speaker 3: they think it's real. They're embracing it, and it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it starts more non cumfort facing activities. But they're certainly

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Speaker 3: ahead of the game.

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Speaker 2: Mike Mayo with US folks. Howard Lutnik moving from eight

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Speaker 2: fifteen to eight forty five Secretary of Commerce here in

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Speaker 2: half an hour.

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Speaker 1: Paul Sweeney, Hey, Mike, when we came into this second

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Speaker 1: Trump administration. One of the sectors that was really called

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Speaker 1: out as if a potential beneficiary was the financial services industry,

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Speaker 1: primarily from a perspective of maybe loosening of some of

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Speaker 1: the restrictions on the big banks. What have we seen,

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Speaker 1: what have we learned so far?

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Speaker 3: Well, yesterday was the first ever Better Reserve Conference to

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Speaker 3: overhaul regulations, specifically capital rules, and I had the pleasure

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Speaker 3: to present on one of the panels. I was back

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Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. At the Federal Reserve Board for

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Speaker 3: the first time in thirty three years. Wow, And I

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Speaker 3: would say this was remarkable. This was at their headquarters building.

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Speaker 3: In the front row was Chairman Pale and Vice Charevin

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Speaker 3: Bowman taking notes all day on by different panels. By

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Speaker 3: the way, Sam Altman was the keynote speaker. And they're

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Speaker 3: operating with eyes wide open to modernize bank regulation, to

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Speaker 3: keep up with the times, update some stale parts of it,

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Speaker 3: and to create a more level playing field with more

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Speaker 3: transparency and a more holistic approach. I think that what are.

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Speaker 1: Some of the big items, Mike, that you think may

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Speaker 1: be ripe for change.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the capital rules. I mean, this is

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Speaker 3: really there's an alphabet soup of acronyms. They overlap, they

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Speaker 3: double counts. It's convoluted. So I think they can make it,

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Speaker 3: you know, less complex, less convoluted. You know. In my

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Speaker 3: opening slide yesterday, I said, thank you regulators for a

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Speaker 3: great job you did after the global fancer crisis. But

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Speaker 3: the rules are too confusing, too constraining, and too costly,

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Speaker 3: and so to the extent that you can make them,

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Speaker 3: you know, less complex, that's important. The extent that you

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Speaker 3: can make it less constraining. I mean, banks have been marginalized.

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Speaker 3: I mean, as a percentage of total corporate loans, banks

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Speaker 3: have gone from sixty percent down to forty percent. Loan

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Speaker 3: growth to the last two years of justin for inflation's

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Speaker 3: been negative, and you see a lot of the loan

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Speaker 3: go to the shadow working industry. So those are some

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Speaker 3: of the changes.

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Speaker 2: Mike Mayo with us here with Willis Farger, we continue

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Speaker 2: with mister Mayo. We welcome all of you on your

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Speaker 1: So, Mike, give us a sense of timing here. I

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Speaker 1: know that, you know, the Jamie Diamonds of the world

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Speaker 1: would like these rules kind of relaxed yesterday. Realistically, what's

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Speaker 1: the timing here, Well.

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Speaker 3: This year is about updating the stress test. You saw

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Speaker 3: that last month in terms of a little bit more clarity,

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Speaker 3: a little bit more less harsh, i'd say, and the

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Speaker 3: assumptions are already more harsh than the actual experience during

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Speaker 3: the global pancer phrases. We're not talking about going back

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Speaker 3: to two thousand and seven or those sorts of days.

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Speaker 3: So that's this year. I think next year there's international

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Speaker 3: capital rules that's likely to get modified, and then by

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Speaker 3: the year after that, I think you should start seeing

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Speaker 3: efficiency benefits and this can be win win win. The

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Speaker 3: regulators can win because you cost less money for the oversight.

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Speaker 3: The banks can win for more profitability. But the customers

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Speaker 3: can win because that profitabilities, you know, a bit of

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Speaker 3: that's going to be passed on to them and they'll

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Speaker 3: have more options mic mail.

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Speaker 2: On the banking front, you look at your major overweight

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Speaker 2: view M and t up in Buffalo, maybe a bit

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Speaker 2: of a caution there. Finally you get a hockey stick

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Speaker 2: move in City Group, a really really nice move even

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Speaker 2: after the ten to one reverse split of decades ago.

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Speaker 2: Reaffirm your strung by on City Group.

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Speaker 3: Well, tom As, you know, I've been on your show

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Speaker 3: a few times since last year. It was slow going,

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Speaker 3: you know through parts of last year the tariff sell off,

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Speaker 3: but City Group remained my dominant number one pick by

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Speaker 3: a mile wife and I, well, look what's underappreciated. They've

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Speaker 3: transitioned from fifty years of a global matrix missmashed structure YEP,

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Speaker 3: to five lines of business payments, banking, markets, consumer and well.

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Speaker 3: And each one of those lines of business, you know,

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Speaker 3: has a P and L. They have returns, they have

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Speaker 3: of achieving those targeted returns. Now, you say, Jane Frazer,

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Speaker 3: the CEO does not get a Nobel prize for doing that.

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Speaker 3: But City is now getting operated more like a normal company,

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Speaker 3: and they're only six quarters into this new structure. Short

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Speaker 3: term people are selling the stock inappropriately due to the teriff.

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Speaker 3: City is a tariff beneficiary. They moved five train dollars

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Speaker 3: of money every day around the world. Now it might

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Speaker 3: be moving to different countries. Also, a lot of the

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Speaker 3: customers around the world need trade financie they need more

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Speaker 3: trade financee now or in exchange. So this really fits

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Speaker 3: right into cities right, you know, structural positioning. While they

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Speaker 2: Change, perceive it on price to book using the b

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Speaker 2: Q screen on the Bloomberg, I got JP Morgan two

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Speaker 2: point four to four price to book. City Groups really

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Speaker 2: recovering from a Deutsche Bank disaster, if you will, folks

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Speaker 2: out to point nine. So City Groups at point nine

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Speaker 2: JP Mortgan is a two point four four Mike in

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Speaker 2: your head? How much of that delta can City Group

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Speaker 3: Well, they can. Look which my kids do I love more?

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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I notice the two stocks that

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Speaker 3: best in class, City's worst in class. So I do

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Speaker 3: think that City can re rate on training below book

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Speaker 3: value when it's not a crisis where they're making these

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Speaker 3: the stock has fifty percent upside over the next two

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Speaker 3: And that's there's no analytical gymnastics were doing that. That's

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Speaker 3: get higher stock ranks. So it's there's a line of

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Speaker 3: site for the restructuring. And Tom, you know what you

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Speaker 3: neique for any industry, any industry when you say there's restructuring. Okay,

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen to revenues? Citi's revenues were up

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Speaker 3: eight percent year a year of the second quarter. Here

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Speaker 3: with City have a unique story of restructuring with revenue growth,

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Speaker 2: Paul, get one more in here with mister Mandie.

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Speaker 1: It's got to go work out exactly.

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Speaker 2: So are you doing an upper body or lower body today? Mike?

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Speaker 3: This is a lower body day. Thanks for asking, and

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Speaker 3: I'm doing my deadlifts and squats and I'm still trying

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Speaker 3: to push forward.

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Speaker 2: Michael Barni are as well.

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Speaker 1: Paul, get one more exactly. Hey, Michael, what did you

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Speaker 1: take away from the Big Banks earnings last week?

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Speaker 3: This is an on inflection. This is an on ramp

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Speaker 3: to double digit EPs growth after having negative year of

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Speaker 3: the next ten quarters the end of twenty twenty seven,

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Speaker 3: so after that we'll see

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Speaker 2: Mike Man, thank you so much, with Wells Fargo there

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Speaker 2: in City Group and also on the technology over two

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Speaker 2: seventy Park Avenue