Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Central Pacific Financial Corporation Q3 2023 conference call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, the conference will be open for questions. This call is being recorded and will be available for replay shortly after its completion on the company's website at www.cpb.bank. I'd like to turn the call over to Ms. Dayna Matsumoto, Group Senior Vice President and Director of Finance and Accounting. Please go ahead. Thank you, Abby, and thank you all for joining us as we review the financial results of the Q3 of 2023 for Central Pacific Financial Corp. With me this morning are Arnold Martines, President and Chief Executive Officer, David Morimoto, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Anna Hu, Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer. We have prepared a supplemental slide presentation that provides additional details on our release and is available in the Investor Relations section of our website at cpb.bank. During the course of today's call, management may make forward-looking statements. While we believe these statements are based on reasonable assumptions, they involve risks that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. For a complete discussion of the risks related to our forward-looking statements, please refer to slide two of our presentation. Now, I'll turn the call over to our President and CEO, Arnold Martines. Thank you, Dayna, and aloha, everyone. We appreciate your interest in Central Pacific Financial Corp. As we normally do, I'll start with an update on the Hawaii market, then I'll turn it over to the team to provide additional detail and insights on our financial and credit metrics, as well as other key updates. The wildfire in Lahaina, Maui, in August was devastating, and I want to first thank our employees, customers, and all of you for your continued support. While it will be a long road to recovery, Maui is strong and resilient. Central Pacific Bank is committed to servicing and supporting our Maui community to the fullest. We were fortunate that our Lahaina branch was unimpacted by the fires and reopened late August, which enabled us to help meet the needs of the community. The Hawaii tourism industry has been affected by the Maui wildfires, with a significant drop in visitor arrivals to Maui in August compared to a year ago. With government officials now encouraging visitors back to Maui, we hope the negative impacts will be short-lived, and Maui visitor counts will return to normal. Fortunately, we continue to see increases in visitors to the other islands, and overall, the Hawaii state economy is expected to have limited impact. In the month of August, a total of 769,000 visitors came to the state of Hawaii, which was down 7% from a year ago and 83% of pre-pandemic levels. Total visitor spending was $1.58 billion in August, down 9% from a year ago and up 5% from August 2019. Total statewide hotel occupancy in August was 74%, down 3% from a year ago, with an average daily rate of $370, down 4% from a year ago. Hawaii's statewide seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continued to decline to 2.8% in September and is outperforming the national unemployment rate of 3.8%. Year-over-year statewide non-farm payroll increased by 6,600 jobs, or 1.1%. Unemployment claims on Maui have surged following the fires, but is expected to gradually recede, with government leaders focused on supporting businesses and reopening areas of West Maui unaffected by the fires to help restart the island's economy. Real estate values in Hawaii continue to hold up firmly. The Oahu median single-family home price remains at $1.1 million, and the median condo sales price was $533,000 in September. While home sales volumes continue to be down year-over-year, there is still strong demand and limited inventory, with properties staying on the market for a median of 20 days. 47% of single-family homes sold at or above original asking price in September, an indication of the sustained demand and strength of Hawaii real estate, real estate, despite mortgage rates reaching levels higher than we've seen in the last 20 years. Strong construction activity in Hawaii continues to drive economic growth. Our governor recently issued an emergency proclamation on housing that will help accelerate housing development to address the lack of inventory and affordable housing in the state. Additionally, major infrastructure improvement projects, as well as large federal military projects, continue to be on the roadmap for the state. On top of this, Maui reconstruction efforts will be a priority, and the state will need to balance construction worker demand and a likely increase in construction costs. In the Q3, we continue our focus on growing relationship-based deposits, and I'm pleased that we were once again successful in growing total deposits. As part of our strong risk management focus, we continue to moderate loan growth. But with that said, our loan portfolio churn is resulting in favorable repricing, and deposit costs continue to be managed at levels lower than our peers. I'll now turn the call over to David Morimoto, our Chief Financial Officer. David? Thank you, Arnold. Turning to our earnings results. Net income for the Q3 was $13.1 million, or $0.49 per diluted share. Return on average assets was 0.70%, return on average equity was 10.95%, and our efficiency ratio was 63.91%. During the Q3, we continued to strengthen our balance sheet and liquidity positions with a quarter-end cash position in excess of $400 million and total deposit growth of $69 million. Average total deposit balances also grew by $63 million sequential quarter. Our loan portfolio remained relatively flat during the quarter as we selectively grew certain portfolios with appropriate risk-reward opportunities and continued to let other portfolios run off. We remain on hold with our mainland unsecured consumer portfolio as we continue to monitor the national economic outlook and the ongoing performance of consumer lending. We remain nimble and well-positioned for future opportunities when the operating environment improves. Net interest income for the Q3 was $51.9 million and decreased by $0.8 million from the prior quarter, primarily due to higher funding costs. The quarter-over-quarter decrease in net interest income continues to narrow as assets reprice up and the pace of deposit cost increases subsides. The net interest margin was 2.88% in the Q3, a decline of 8 basis points sequential quarter. Our total cost of deposits was 108 basis points in the Q3, and our cycle to date total deposit repricing beta was 21%, which remains within our expectations. With the current higher for longer interest rate forecast, the pay-fixed receive-float interest rate swap that we put on last year continues to increase in value and will support our future earnings. The swap payments will begin on March 31, 2024, and it is currently 340 basis points in the money on a notional balance of $115.5 million. Q3 other operating income was $10 million, which decreased by $0.4 million from the prior quarter, primarily due to lower BOLI income, driven by equity market volatility and offset by lower deferred compensation expense. Other operating expenses totaled $39.6 million in the Q3, a decrease of $0.3 million from the prior quarter. The decrease was primarily due to lower salaries and employee benefits related to deferred compensation, as well as the ongoing management of our FTE count. Our effective tax rate was 24.9% in the Q3, and we continue to expect it to be in the 24%-25% range going forward. Our board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.26 per share, which will be payable on December fifteenth to shareholders of record on November 30th. During the Q3, we repurchased a nominal 4,500 shares at a weighted average price of $16.07. Now I'll turn the call over to Anna Hu, our Chief Credit Officer. Anna? Thank you, David. Our asset quality remained strong in the Q3, with non-performing assets at 9 basis points of total assets and criticized loans at 1.09% of total loans. Our loan portfolio continues to be well diversified by loan type and industry sector. Over 75% of the loan portfolio is real estate secured, with a weighted average loan-to-value of 60%. Our commercial real estate portfolio represents 25% of total loans and is diversified across all asset types, with 5% of this portfolio maturing over the next twelve months. Our CRE office and retail exposure remains low at 3.5% and 4.5% of total loans, respectively. The office portfolio has a weighted average loan-to-value of 55% and 73 weighted average months to maturity. The retail portfolio has a weighted average loan-to-value of 65% and 64 weighted average months to maturity. The U.S. mainland loan portfolio declined in the Q3 to 16% of total loans, which included a continued decrease in the mainland consumer portfolio to $345 million, or 6% of total loans as of September 30. Our loan exposure to the Lahaina, Maui area was a manageable $111 million, or 2% of total loans before the wildfires in August. Since then, balances have paid down slightly to $107 million, or 1.9% of total loans. We estimate that $78 million of the total Lahaina, Maui loans outstanding was not impacted by the fires as of September 30. Additional updates continue to be collected from our borrowers. Insurance, FEMA, and unemployment benefit assistance processing also continues. To support our borrowers, we have provided 3- to 6-month loan payment deferrals and have granted total deferrals on 142 loans, totaling $32.7 million in balances. Overall, at this time, we do not anticipate material credit impacts from the Maui wildfire and will continue to monitor the situation. Net charge-offs were $3.9 million for the Q3, which equates to 28 basis points annualized as a percent of average loans. The increase in net charge-offs were primarily from our mainland unsecured consumer portfolio, which had lower recoveries. We believe the losses are leveling off due to the seasoning of the portfolio, and the performance remains within our original expectations. Our allowance for credit losses was $64.5 million, or 1.17% of outstanding loans. In the Q3, we recorded a $4.5 million provision for credit losses on loans, primarily due to net charge-offs. Additionally, a $0.4 million provision for unfunded commitments for a total provision for credit losses of $4.9 million during the quarter. Overall, given our strong risk management culture and history of conservative underwriting policies, our loan portfolio remains well positioned to withstand the near-term pressures from the environment. We continue to monitor the economic environment closely and are being selective and thoughtful about the loans we're adding to our portfolio. Now I'll turn the call back to Arnold. Arnold? Thank you, Anna. In summary, we continue to execute on our strategies as we navigate the current environment. Our liquidity, capital, and credit remain solid, and our teams continue to be focused on building relationships and serving our community. Thank you for your continued support and confidence in our organization. At this time, we will be happy to address any questions you may have. Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, press star and then the number one on your telephone keypad. Pressing star one a second time will remove your line from queue. We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. We will take our first question from Andrew Liesch with Piper Sandler. Your line is open. Hey, good morning, everyone. I want to take a look at the margin here, kind of right in line with the guidance. You're still thinking that between north of 380 is a good place to be here before maybe it bottoms out and maybe stabilizes next year? Andrew, this is Arnold. But I'll just say good morning to you, and then I'll pass it on to David. Thanks, Arnold. Hey, Andrew. Yeah, yeah, we are pleased with the margin performance, you know, right within management's prior guidance. I think the guidance for the next couple of quarters, you know, we're lowering the guidance range by a nickel, so 2.75%-2.85% range, but we're, you know, cautiously optimistic that we can stay above 2.80. And then as far as, you know, the trough in the NIM, you know, I think if the Fed stands pat in the fourth quarter, we're projecting the NIM trough probably in the Q1. If there is additional tightening, that may get pushed out to the Q2. So H1 of 2024, trough for the NIM. Got it. Is it just the liabilities repricing faster than you thought, pushing down the NIM guide? Yeah, it's just, it's being cautious. Again, it's being cautious, and we're hopeful that we can stay above 280. Got it. All right. And then on loan growth, balance is stable. You guys have been talking about stable balances for a while, stable-ish. Is that kind of the right place to look at it here, continued payoffs of the mainland book? But you have some good, pretty good production locally in Hawaii. I guess, how's the pipeline for the Hawaii production, and is that going to be sufficient enough to offset those paydowns? Yeah, Andrew, this is Arnold. Yeah, you're right. You know, we are continuing to moderate loan growth. We're being very selective. Again, you know, David mentioned it in his prepared comments that we're looking for, you know, risk-reward balance in this environment. I would just add that despite the fact that we're, you know, remaining flattish, I guess, in loan growth, we do have about $150 million-$170 million of churn every quarter, and we are replacing that with market rate loans. So I think, you know, the repricing from that aspect, as well as just the overall repricing of our loan portfolio will help us over the next few quarters. Yeah, and Arnold, if I may add, Andrew, to give you some color, new loan yields in the Q3, our weighted average was 7.5%, and that compares to the portfolio yield of 4.5%. So significant upward repricing. Similar in the investment portfolio, new investment yields, opportunities to the extent where we're investing is roughly 6% versus the portfolio investment yield of 2.10%. So, as Arnold mentioned, nice, nice repricing opportunities in the asset side of the balance sheet. Got it. That's, that's very helpful. Thanks for taking the question here. I will step back. Thank you, Andrew. We will take our next question from David Feaster with Raymond James. Your line is open. Hey, good morning, everybody. Morning, David. Maybe just kind of following up on the higher for longer environment. I'm curious, how do you think about balance sheet management, assuming we stay here in a higher for longer environment? You guys built some liquidity this quarter, and appreciate the margin discussion in the short run. But, you know, assuming we, you know, stabilize in the Q1, hit that trough. Again, assuming we stay in this higher for longer type of environment, how do you think about the pace of margin expansion, given the repricing dynamics that you talked about and hopefully stabilizing funding costs? Yeah. Hey, hey, David, it's David. Yeah, I think, I think the margin expansion would be moderate to begin with. But I think the wild card there will be our ability to stabilize deposit, you know, deposit balances and have it start to grow more consistently, and start to see growth in more core deposit, you know, deposit categories. So if we can stabilize and start growing core deposits, that may give us the opportunity to grow the loan portfolio a little more, you know, returning to more normal type of loan growth, and that will help the NIM expand. So a lot of it depends on what happens on the liability side. Well, maybe let's dig into that. I'm just could you talk about some of the trends that you're seeing on the core funding side? Obviously, we're seeing more migration, but I'd just be curious, some of the underlying trends that are happening there, how new core deposit pricing is, and just how you think about deposit balances going forward, in your conversations with clients and your you know, focus on gaining share. Yeah. You know, like the industry, you know, where we've been, you know, the deposit remix has continued. The positive there is we see the rate of change starting to moderate, starting to slow. DDA balances as a percent of total are returning back to 2019 levels. So the risk of migration is diminishing. And you know, I think that's what gives us some cautious optimism on the net interest margin. As far as deposit flows, you know, it is like everywhere, the battle for core deposits is real. We are grateful that, you know, we have great customer relationships, and we've been fortunate to deepen some of those relationships, while we have been able to grow some new relationships, and we expect that to continue. Okay, that's helpful. And maybe just touching on the credit front. You know, you talked about some of the stabilization, it sounds like in the consumer book. I'm just curious, you know. I know you guys sold some loans in the quarter. Just curious how you think about managing credit and asset quality. Are there any additional loan sales that you're expecting? And then just, you know, as you look more broadly into your portfolio, what are you watching more closely and just, you know, anything causing you concern and your thoughts on proactively managing credit going forward? David, we'll turn to Anna to respond to your question. Hi, David, this is Anna. So with regards to the broader outlook, we continue to focus on consumer. You know, we have been focused on watching the mainland consumer performance, but we are also watching the Hawaii performance. There's also the Lahaina, Maui wildfire, in which we are continuing to work with our customers. We're not expecting significant impact there, but we are watching with regards to the return of tourism, and just the general outlook for that island, specifically with regards to our consumer portfolio. The rest of the portfolio continues to do well. We are not concerned with any aspects of the different product types that we currently have. So overall, that's yeah, the focus is really on consumer, both mainland and Hawaii. Okay. Terrific. Thank you. There are no further questions at this time, so I will now turn the call back to Mr. Arnold Martines for closing remarks. Thank you, Abby, and thank you very much, everyone else, for participating in our earnings call for the Q3 of 2023. We look forward to future opportunities to update you on our progress. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's call, and we thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.