Rick Kraemer | IR |
Ira Robbins | President and CEO |
Alan Eskow | SEVP and CFO |
Tom Iadanza | Chief Lending Officer and Senior SVP |
Frank Schiraldi | Sandler O'Neill |
Steven Alexopoulos | J.P. Morgan |
Ken Zerbe | Morgan Stanley |
Collyn Gilbert | KBW |
Matthew Breese | Piper Jaffray |
David Chiaverini | Wedbush |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing-by and welcome to Valley National Bank’s Second Quarter Earnings Release. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and I will give instructions at that time. [Operator Instructions]. And as a reminder, today’s conference is being recorded.