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Analyst
Vivek Juneja
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters; questions recorded in 6).
- Questions
- 32on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 47%15 of 32 questions
- Companies
- 7questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 6with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 32 of 32 questions from 7 companies
USBU.S. Bancorp10 questions · 6 reporting periods · 6 of 10 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
What are your plans for expanding that in terms of growing its monopoly of products or capabilities
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Kedia said the focus is leveraging BTIG within the existing client base, not building out products, with risk and control overlays already fully in place.
Calendar 2026 Q1
The growth rate in that slowed to 2% year-on-year, and you have the fuel card, which benefited a lot from gas prices
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John explained reclassification combines treasury management with corporate payments; corporate drag from lapping DOGE government spend cuts and tariff uncertainty; second quarter begins to lap, fully lapped by Q3; strong pipelines ahead.
How about private credit? And what's your exposure there?
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John clarified private credit represented by CDFs, BDCs, and CLOs at just under 3% of total loans; detailed on Slide 17; capital call facilities represent private equity component separately.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Your C and I NPLs were up 30% linked quarter. Any color on what you're seeing
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First Brands exposure partially explains C&I NPA increase; secured borrowings already reserved; management confident in overall credit quality and underwriting.
What is included in your other earning assets where the yield went up 300 basis points linked quarter
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Tri-party repo activity grew; gross-up of yield offset by matching short-term liability; when netted, no meaningful NII or NIM impact.
Calendar 2025 Q2
when I look at your corporate segment, and I hear you doing the multi-client and operational deposits and all that. I look at the net interest spread
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John attributed segment-level spread compression to internal FTP pricing dynamics; recommended looking at broader NII picture rather than segment spreads.
What are you seeing in terms of growth to loans to NBFIs? How much of that growth has come from this particular segment?
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NBFI was roughly half of C&I growth this quarter; remainder from corporate loans, small business, healthcare, expansion market middle market.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Edward Jones actually submitting an application to set up their own bank and wanting to grow their own deposit program
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Gunjan said Edward Jones bank is limited scope for CD-like products; core banking partnership with USB unchanged and well-contemplated in partnership discussions.
merchant processing and corporate trust, what percentage of the revenues are in Europe?
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Merchant acquiring about one-third Europe; trust and fund services sub-10% European exposure.
Calendar 2024 Q4
have you considered about whether you should get rid of this business and deploy the capital to other areas where you're doing a much
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Andy firmly rejected divestiture, citing payments-banking interconnectedness; Gunjan noted payments is 25% of revenue with high returns and two-thirds from core card issuing.
STTState Street Corporation8 questions · 5 reporting periods · 4 of 8 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Does that mean you are actually having discussions for being able to raise pricing
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Woods walked back the 'raise pricing' read, reframing as organic growth; O'Hanley cited a very different, ETF-driven pricing environment.
Calendar 2026 Q1
This was the second one in the last 12 months. Can you give some color?
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Ron explained this was a different client than Q2 2025. Existing Alpha client that remains an Alpha client; mutually agreed to pause further middle-office outsourcing. On Schwab fees, no concrete plan until final terms seen. Q1 charge-off was a COVID-era commercial loan, substantially reserved, fully exited, unrelated to NDFI book.
Calendar 2025 Q3
are you seeing more outflows in the fixed income order management systems?
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Ron stated significant development effort on fixed income platform delivered last year with more this year. Not seeing outflows; Alpha backlog includes clients coming onto fixed income side. Both equities and fixed income equally important.
You've got what is your exposure there from what we can see? Seems like over 60% of it is to BDCs
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John noted much smaller loan portfolio than peers. Growth concentrated in subscription finance (exceptionally low credit risk), triple-A CLOs, and private credit/BDC support for integrated custody clients. CRE book relatively small and shrinking. No real signs of credit deterioration to date.
Calendar 2025 Q1
what's the mix in terms of US versus non-US? And if you look at your servicing new business wins over the past year
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Mark noted 45% of servicing is non-US across 32 countries. SSGA is roughly two-thirds US and a third non-US. Ron added non-US share of wins has been slightly higher over time.
do you see there could be some shift in this now? If there's a, you know, a desire to go more local for some of your clients
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Ron acknowledged the risk but emphasized STT's deep local presence in 32 countries as a competitive advantage. Noted increased executive travel to clients in current environment.
Calendar 2024 Q4
Could you talk a little bit about the fee rate on that kind of business. Is it more akin to US type?
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Mark clarified APAC parent but multiregional servicing across jurisdictions including Luxembourg and US, with pricing consistent with those markets.
Given that your Tier 1 leverage ratio was actually a smidgen below the low end of your range
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Ron firmly reiterated 80% capital return commitment. Eric explained CET1 is the dominant binding constraint, Tier 1 leverage fluctuations are manageable through supplemental preferred equity.
CCitigroup5 questions · 3 reporting periods · 3 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
historically, you have seen market revenues decline 20% in the second versus the first half
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Luchetti said a strong first half makes an even larger decline possible, but a constructive backdrop could narrow it.
Calendar 2026 Q1
any sense of the pace over the next couple of years? The pace has been very slow.
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Luchetti provided specific $800M DTA reduction estimate for the year. Disallowed DTA up $200M in Q1 due to seasonality of carryback support. Multi-year path to accelerate burn-down.
what do you mean by “moderate” capital benefit, Gonzalo? Are you talking about 3%–5%?
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Luchetti declined to provide a specific range, deferring until the final proposal is published. Fraser reinforced they will share more when they have the final rules.
Calendar 2025 Q1
reading some news stories about mandates being shifted from US broker-dealers to local players
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Fraser cited century-long local presence, unique global network, and flight-to-quality dynamics favoring Citi in emerging markets.
How much are you willing to let your double leverage go up? Is there any sort of internal limits
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Mason confirmed internal limits exist but declined to specify, stating they are not constraining the buyback program.
NTRSNorthern Trust3 questions · 2 reporting periods · 1 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q2
Why is that good enough? I mean, given your mix like you've got hedge funds, that's an attractive margin business
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O'Grady argued the integrated model is key: AS platform powers GFO technology, institutional deposits fund WM lending, AM co-creates products. High 20s is a waypoint not a ceiling, need to get through it to reach 30s. Fox added GFO infrastructure value through operating alpha.
Calendar 2025 Q1
when I look at your servicing and asset management fees, both were downlinked quarter. Any color on what drove that down
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Fox quantified exact billing lag structure and noted March 31 was before liberation day so Q2 would still see some quarterly billing benefit.
your fee revenues, both servicing and asset management, what percentage is non-US?
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O'Grady noted 25-30% of total revenue is non-US. Higher growth in international GFO markets with meaningful EMEA wins. US dollars represent about 80% of trust fees.
WFCWells Fargo3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 1 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Both you and Mike said at conferences in the second quarter, you were very confident about the $50 billion NII.
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Charles pushed back that there was no shift; the $50 billion plus-or-minus guide is unchanged from January.
Calendar 2026 Q1
Is that all private credit exposure, and the BDCs are a subset of that?
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Santomassimo confirmed the $36.2B Corporate Debt Finance is all private credit and BDCs are a subset. Quick clarifying question.
Calendar 2024 Q4
Can you give us the guide for NII ex-markets for 2025?
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Mike declined to disaggregate NII between markets and non-markets, noting sensitivity to short-term rates and that it's not historically disclosed.
BACBank of America2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2024 Q4
what are you assuming for incentive comp in '25 in your guidance? Is it flat year on year? Are you assuming some increase?
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Brian gave a directional answer that incentive comp would grow with revenue but be offset by other efficiencies, without providing specific figures.
BSBY hedges, since those started to accrete this quarter, how much was the benefit this quarter? And what is the cadence of that as we look out over '25?
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Alastair disclosed ~$200M BSBY accretion benefit in Q4, with most of the $1.6B total recovery expected in 2025.
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RFRegions Financial Corporation1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Your CD costs, do you have room to bring those down further? You seem to have brought it down.
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Quantified the declining CD maturity pipeline and explained why repricing is now roughly cost-neutral.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| USB U.S. Bancorp | 10 | 60%6 of 10 questions |
| STT State Street Corporation | 8 | 50%4 of 8 questions |
| C Citigroup | 5 | 60%3 of 5 questions |
| NTRS Northern Trust | 3 | 33%1 of 3 questions |
| WFC Wells Fargo | 3 | 33%1 of 3 questions |
| BAC Bank of America | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| RF Regions Financial Corporation | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
- USBU.S. Bancorp · 10 questions60%6 of 10 questions
- STTState Street Corporation · 8 questions50%4 of 8 questions
- CCitigroup · 5 questions60%3 of 5 questions
- NTRSNorthern Trust · 3 questions33%1 of 3 questions
- WFCWells Fargo · 3 questions33%1 of 3 questions
- BACBank of America · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- RFRegions Financial Corporation · 1 question—rate withheld: under 3 questions
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 6 | 33%2 of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2025 Q1 | 8 | 25%2 of 8 questions | 4 |
| 2025 Q2 | 3 | 67%2 of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q3 | 4 | 100%4 of 4 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q4 | No questions recorded | — | — |
| 2026 Q1 | 6 | 67%4 of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q2 | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions | 5 |
- 2024 Q46 questions · challenge rate 33% (2 of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2025 Q18 questions · challenge rate 25% (2 of 8 questions) · 4 companies
- 2025 Q23 questions · challenge rate 67% (2 of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q34 questions · challenge rate 100% (4 of 4 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q4No questions recorded
- 2026 Q16 questions · challenge rate 67% (4 of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q25 questions · challenge rate 20% (1 of 5 questions) · 5 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Revenue Growth12
- Competitive Dynamics8
- Capital Allocation5
- Credit4
- Geographic Expansion4
- Cost Pressure3
- Macroeconomic3
- Margin3
- Guidance Reliability2
- Pricing2
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- Regulation Policy2
- Demand2
- M&A1
- Innovation & R&D1