Well if anyone was going to have record investment banking revenues in Q1 it was going to be JP Morgan. Hereâs the bankâs summary:
⢠Generated record firmwide revenue of $26.9 billion and pretax, pre-provision profit of $13.5 billion (on a managed basis 1):
- Record revenue and net income in the Investment Bank; #1 rankings for Global Debt, Equity and Equity-related volumes and Global Investment Banking Fees
- Solid growth in liability balances in Commercial Banking and Treasury & Securities Services
- Washington Mutual integration on track, driving Retail Banking growth in deposits by 62% and in checking accounts by 126%
- Net assets under management inflows of $119 billion over the past year in Asset Management
As for its balance sheet, which we note is a âfortressâ of a balance sheet (moat presumably included to defend the bank from all those hostile toxic assets) they say:
⢠Fortress balance sheet strengthened further:
- Tier 1 Capital of $137.2 billion, 11.3% Tier 1 Capital ratio (9.2% excluding TARP capital)
- $87.2 billion of tangible common equity1, 7.2% of risk-weighted assets
⢠Added $4.2 billion to credit reserves, bringing total to $28.0 billion, and firmwide loan loss coverage ratio to 4.53%2 as of March 31, 2009
⢠Continued lending and ongoing foreclosure prevention efforts:
- Extended approximately $150 billion in new credit to an estimated 4.5 million consumers (through credit cards, mortgages, auto and student loans), and to small and mid-sized businesses and large corporations
- Purchased nearly $34 billion of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities
- Prevented almost 150,000 loan foreclosures since October 2008, bringing the total to over 400,000 since early 2007; opened the remaining 22 of our 24 new Chase Homeownership Centers and added over 650 loan counselors during the quarter /
However, we also note Meredith Whitneyâs credit card predictions are coming true, the bank experiencing what CEO Jamie Dimon called âextremely highâ credit costs of $10bn largely in card services and retail financial services.
Hereâs the relevant par:
The managed provision for credit losses was $10.1 billion, up by $5.0 billion, or 97%, from the prior year. The total consumer-managed provision for credit losses was $8.5 billion, compared with $4.4 billion in the prior year, reflecting higher net charge-offs, as well as increases in the allowance for credit losses primarily related to credit card loans and home lending.
Consumer-managed net charge-offs were $5.7 billion, compared with $2.5 billion in the prior year, resulting in managed net charge-off rates of 4.90%2 and 2.68%, respectively.
The wholesale provision for credit losses was $1.5 billion, compared with $747 million in the prior year, and resulted from an increase in the allowance for credit losses reflecting a weakening credit environment. Wholesale net charge-offs were $191 million, compared with net charge-offs of $92 million in the prior year, resulting in net charge-off rates of 0.32% and 0.18%, respectively. The firmâs nonperforming assets totaled $14.7 billion at March 31, 2009, up from the prior-year level of $5.1 billion.
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