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Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc (PNFP 1.58%)
Q2Â 2020 Earnings Call
Jul 22, 2020, 9:30 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Pinnacle Financial Partners Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. Hosting the call today from Pinnacle Financial Partners is Mr. Terry Turner, Chief Executive Officer; and Mr. Harold Carpenter, Chief Financial Officer. Please note, Pinnacle's earnings release and this morning's presentation are available on the Investor Relations page of their website at www.pnfp.com. Today's call is being recorded and will be available for replay on Pinnacle's website for the next 90 days.
[Operator Instructions]
During this presentation, we may make comments which may constitute forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other facts that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Pinnacle Financial to differ materially from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Many of such factors are beyond Pinnacle Financial's ability to control or predict, and listeners are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. A more detailed description of these and other risks is contained in Pinnacle Financial's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. Pinnacle Financial disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this presentation, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
In addition, these remarks may include certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC Regulation G. A presentation of the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP measures will be available on Pinnacle Financial's website at www.pnfp.com.
With that, I am now going to turn the presentation over to Mr. Terry Turner, Pinnacle's President and CEO.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Thank you, Jimmy. At the conclusion of our Q1 conference call, I tried to provide some guidance for what our focus would be going forward. I indicated that we'd continue to manage those things that produce long-term shareholder value but would remain in a more defensive posture until we could see more clearly the depth and duration of the pandemic and its impacts. Specifically, I indicated that we had increased liquidity in Q1 and we'd continue to do so in Q2, which we did. Harold will review in detail the substantial liquidity build from both wholesale and client funding, all obtained simply out of an abundance of caution, given the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic. I indicated that you should expect us to continue building loan loss reserves in Q2, which we did. Not to the extent we did in the first quarter, but still a meaningful increase. Our allowances moved from 0.48% at year end now to 1.27% at June 30. And excluding our PPP loans, allowance would be 1.41%.
In regards to capital, I indicated that while we did not intend to cut our dividend at this time, we were still in a mode to increase capital, which we did. Beyond suspending our share buyback and retaining sub debt we had previously intended to redeem, we sold preferred shares totaling approximately $225 million, increasing or topping off Tier 1 capital. I also indicated that for the first time since the Great Recession, we were slow on our planned levels of recruitment and hiring in an effort to avoid the expense build that goes with it, which we've done. Our non-interest expense to asset ratio, as we adjust it, was 1.54%, which is the lowest I can recall in the history of the firm.
As I mentioned last quarter, it's inconceivable to me that in the final analysis, 2020 will be [Phonetic] about what our earnings were in 2020. More likely, it will ultimately be about how nimble we were in a rapidly changing environment and how well we build run rates for earnings in 2021. And so, while we're taking defensive steps to bolster capital and liquidity and we're scarring [Phonetic] the loan book, we're slowing the recruitment to avoid the expense build, it's really our intent to execute on the fundamentals that we control and those that produce long-term shareholder value like lowering cost of funds, obtaining floors on loans and the various core deposit initiatives that we have launched in order to better position ourselves for a return to more normal run rate as we go into 2021.
Looking at those fundamentals that typically produce long-term shareholder value, Q2 was an outstanding quarter. Loans and deposits were up meaningfully, largely owing to PPP. We saw improvement in virtually all of our primary asset quality metrics, although we recognize many of them are lagging indicators. We made substantial headway, lowering our cost of deposits and obtaining rate floors on loans. And we saw late quarter growth in revenue, pre-provision net revenue, spread income and fee income.
As always, we will review our standard dashboard of key success measures for our firm. I'll start with the GAAP measures for the quarter but move quickly to the non-GAAP measures because honestly, for the most part, these are what we manage to. Total revenues were up 5.4% year-over-year and 14.7% linked quarter. Of course, as we adjust it, fully diluted EPS for the quarter was $0.89, primarily impacted by the elevated provision. Harold will review that in detail in just a few minutes. And next to the EPS chart, you can see core pre-provision net revenue was up 15% linked quarter and roughly 3% year-over-year, a really important measure when considering our ability to build the 2020 run rate, as I just mentioned earlier.
Loan and deposit volumes were up meaningfully during the quarter. In the case of core deposits, it was our largest growth quarter ever. No doubt, PPP had a major impact on that. But when we dig in, we find that our PPP borrowers' deposit balances grew roughly $1.7 billion during the quarter, which means absent that impact, our core deposits grew north of $1 million, the largest quarterly organic growth in core deposits ever. As you recall, we placed considerable internal emphasis on core deposit acquisition going back into 2019 and modifying our 2020 incentives, which I believe is also having an impact at this time.
Of course, loans grew dramatically in the second quarter, owing almost exclusively to PPP. I think there were at least two matters to note. The first is, I'd expect pure economic loan demand among small and mid-market businesses outside of PPP in the second quarter would have been near zero. Secondly, in our case specifically, we saw meaningful paydowns in commercial lines of credit after draws had swelled in the previous quarter, likely indicating less requirement for businesses to finance working assets and less urgent need to build and hold liquidity. After that line paydown phenomenon, loan growth would have been better than budgeted for us in the second quarter. Asset quality was strong. Even after the significant rerisk grading effort during the quarter, both NPAs and classified assets moved lower, and net charge-offs were just 10 basis points. Tim Huestis will review all of that in greater detail shortly.
So that's a 30,000-foot summary of the quarter: a growing balance sheet, largely aided by PPP; strong revenue growth; well managed expenses; and solid asset quality metrics.
Let me turn it over to Harold to provide a little more color commentary on the quarter before Tim Huestis digs into the loan book and the loan portfolio review process we undertook during the quarter.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Terry, and good morning, everybody. I'm going to talk more about PPP this quarter. I think it's important so you can better understand how we believe our second quarter results were impacted. Excluding PPP from our EOP balances results in a $99 million reduction in our loans for the quarter. As Terry mentioned, in the last quarter, we had about $250 million in commercial line draw increases. This quarter, line draws were down by $380 million. Line draws were at 50.7%, which is the lowest I can remember in recent memory.
Loans are coming in at a slower pace, but there are opportunities. We still believe, based on discussions with our market leaders and commercial lenders, that annualized loan growth will land in the low-to-mid single-digits for this year, of course, after excluding the impact of PPP.
As to looking forward, we're not anticipating any reduction in PPP loan balances in the third quarter. That may be conservative, but we don't have good forgiveness rules yet, so that's the decision we've made for the third quarter. The SBA told Congress that they hope to have their forgiveness portal up and running by August. We'll just have to see.
Average balances for PPP loans was $1.7 billion in the second quarter. Our third quarter forecast for average PPP loans is slightly more than $2.2 billion. Our yield on PPP loans was 2.89% in the second quarter. So, third quarter should be fairly consistent, based on our assumption -- based on our note paydown assumptions. We're forecasting principal reductions in PPP loans in the fourth quarter. Our internal forecast anticipates that 13% of our $72 million in PPP fees will amortize into income in the third quarter and then 37% in the fourth quarter, given our guess that we will likely get meaningful PPP forgiveness in the fourth quarter.
Now to deposits, as Terry mentioned, there was a huge deposit quarter for us. End-of-period deposits were up almost 26%, while our core deposits were up 15% over March 31. Significant growth in non-interest bearing deposits, ending at $6.9 billion. There is a chart in the supplemental information that categorizes the second quarter growth for loans and deposits. We're estimating that the PPP program provided about $1.7 billion of our deposit growth for the quarter. This is a rough estimate because it's practically impossible to determine a precise number. That number is simply the net growth in PPP borrowers' deposits between March 31 and June 30. We do anticipate that a meaningful amount of these deposits will move off our balance sheet over the next few quarters as the PPP borrowers use those funds.
So, rest of the second quarter growth was split $1 billion in client growth and $1.4 billion in wholesale deposits. Wholesale deposits were part of our decision to amp up our liquidity as a result of COVID. In all likelihood, we'll see some of these wholesale deposits decrease in the third and fourth quarters. So, we intend to let our liquidity return to more traditional levels over the next 12 months. This is all contingent on COVID and obviously progress toward a vaccine.
Next is a usual update to our loan pricing. Given the circumstances, very pleased with how loan spreads have held up when you consider the 30-day LIBOR averaged about 1.4% in the first quarter. That fell to 35 basis points in the second quarter and will likely be 15 basis points to 20 basis points in the third quarter. Our relationship managers are working with borrowers to increase LIBOR spreads and are finding success. As noted on the slide, our second quarter LIBOR rates for new loans were at 3.15% compared to 2.85% for the entire LIBOR portfolio.
Prime-based credit is hanging tough, basically trying to keep a fore handle on these credits, getting more and more successful in achieving loan floors on the prime and LIBOR books. So, we are excited to see that occurring. More on that in a minute. Fixed rate lending is also hanging tough. We're giving up some yield on new fixed-rate loans as new loans come in at around 4% in second quarter with a total fixed rate book yield of around 4.35%.
Forecasting loan yields in this environment is pretty difficult right now, given the uncertainty around PPP loans. We should experience some loan yield contraction in the third quarter, given the impact of PPP and where LIBOR is hovering. Offsetting these two items for us will be the success we're having in loan floors. At June 30, we had $2.7 billion in shorter-term variable rate credit with a loan floor, and that number is up from $2.1 billion at March 31. We also have $800 million in shorter-term variable rate credit that comes up for renewal between now and the year-end 2020 that doesn't have a loan floor yet. One of the big opportunities we have as we work our way through 2020 is to build loan floors into our prime and LIBOR loan books. Building that will obviously help us as we ramp into 2021 in this lower for longer flatter yield curve.
I'm not going to spend a great deal of time discussing deposit pricing. This is obviously not a new chart, and it seems like deposit betas were [Indecipherable] last year. That said, the other big thing we can do as we focus on building our ramp into 2021 is managing our deposit and total funding costs. We see no reason we should not be targeting a range of less than 25 basis points to 30 basis points for deposit cost by year-end. Our relationship managers have their client list and are working them aimed at depositors who have higher deposit pricing. We have approximately $1 billion in CD renewals in the second half of the year, and we will be gradually reducing our wholesale funding balances, both of which will serve to reduce funding costs.
Now, we're bringing this information forward from last quarter. I'm not going to spend a lot of time this quarter, as much of the information we've already covered. The NIM chart on top left goes back to 2007 and tracks our NIM in relation to Fed funds target rates. We all know, we've operated in the zero rate environment before. So, here we go again. Hopefully, it won't last for seven years like it did last time. Obviously, loan floors are critical in this environment, so we are pleased with where we are with the information on the bottom left chart. As we mentioned in our press release last night, we believe that both PPP and our excess liquidity negatively impacted our NIM by 32 basis points. There is a slide in the supplemental information that shows how we calculated that number, but suffice to say that these two events have impacted our reported net interest margin meaningfully. Looking to the third quarter, we are optimistic that the GAAP margin will hold fairly steady and be somewhat dependent on our third quarter PPP results. We will obviously have to counterpunch the reduction in LIBOR with a build in loan floors and reduced deposit pricing. Average liquidity hopefully will be down by a modest amount in the third quarter. So, that too should be helpful.
Now to fee income. I'll be really brief. Fees were more than $72 million for the quarter, up slightly over the last quarter and the same quarter last year. Taking BHG out of the calculation reflects significant growth as mortgage [Indecipherable] during the second quarter. Consistent with other financial institutions, this has been a huge refinance quarter. And our pipelines are really strong currently, but we are anticipating a repeat of Q2 when we've underestimated the results from this group before.
Wealth management revenues were down this quarter from last quarter, primarily based on advisory fees for investment services where fee revenues are received in arrears and are based on market performance. We should see these revenues come back in the third quarter with a broader market rebound that has occurred. BHG contributed approximately $17.2 million, which was slightly more than we anticipated, but more on BHG in a second.
So, now briefly on expenses, personnel costs were down $7 million from the prior quarter due to reduced incentives and reduced benefit costs. We don't have an exact number for PPP overtime costs, but overtime is up about $300,000 this quarter over last quarter. As to benefit costs, several speculate that medical expenses are down due to elective procedures being sidelined for some portion of the quarter, maybe so. Consistent with prior years, the usual reduction in payroll and unemployment taxes also contributed to the reduced
Benefit costs.
As to COVID-related savings, we anticipate around $30 million to $40 million in incentive savings for both cash and equity incentives as earnings are not being achieved for this year. We probably have another $3 million to $5 million in savings from travel, entertainment expense reimbursement and other things that I really haven't thought about. Our cash incentive accrual was at 25% at quarter end. This resulted in $4 million to $5 million reduction in incentive costs this year. As many of you know, our annual cash incentive is based on EPS targets. And this year, we adopted a deposit growth component into our incentive plan, and that deposit component is driving the incentive accrual for our associates. With the additional provisioning this year, our EPS incentive target is likely to DOA [Phonetic], absent some remarkable lend between now and year-end. We're working with our Board to provide some additional opportunity for our associates so that we can keep them highly energized and motivated to ramp up the operating performance of the firm going into 2021. We're targeting an incremental 25% of target incentives, so in total, call it, 50% of our annual incentive target inclusive of the deposit component.
We spent a lot of time on CECL last quarter, so we'll be brief this time. We anticipated last time that we would have another reserve build this quarter. As Terry mentioned, our reserve without PPP loans is at 1.41%, up from 1.09% last quarter. We also increased our off balance sheet reserve. And as you probably know, that $4.5 million is in our non-interest expense line. We've included some additional information regarding unemployment and GDP forecast as these are the two metrics that influence our CECL model building the most, unemployment being the most impactful. You can see the weighted average unemployment rates in the green chart comparing last quarter to this quarter, compared to our rates that we use to at least one large-cap firm that published figures recently. Our 2Q '20 weighted average rates are slightly lower than theirs. But our 1Q '20 weighted average rates are definitely higher. So, apples to apples, last quarter, we've allocated more reserves as a results of unemployment rates, and this quarter, slightly less. Over and above all that, we added another $20 million to the reserve through a qualitative overlay, just due to the uncertainty around the depth and duration of the pandemic that exists.
As to 3Q, I think we're all in a weird spot. Every bank is working their own portfolio in an effort to gain more visibility as to loss content [Phonetic]. There's just a lot we don't know and is difficult to predict. Two uncertainties are that the US Treasury will likely provide some amount of additional governmental assistance and loan deferrals will gradually work themselves through. Both of those, we believe, are positive. The big negative is of course the depth and duration of the pandemic. At Pinnacle, we've learned a lot about our borrowers over the last quarter and feel better about our book today. But we obviously will know more at September 30 with all steps that Tim's group is leading us through. Our best guess right now is that we will continue to build reserves in the second half of the year until visibility improves.
Lastly, this slide addresses what we think going into the third quarter. No guarantees, but we're more optimistic about things in general than we were at the beginning of March. That said, loan growth is likely to be soft. Deposit growth is as strong as we've ever experienced. It's an awful rate environment. We are optimistic that we can increase core bank loan spreads and lower deposit costs. PPP will have a significant influence on our results for the next few quarters. As to fees, we have great confidence in BHG, which I will discuss in a minute. Not anticipating mortgage to set another record, but they should have a solid third quarter. Expenses should be relatively stable. Still not willing to offer full-year guidance due to COVID and its impact on credit. All things considered, we feel confident PPNR will increase in the second half of the year.
Now, briefly about tangible equity. Our ratios dropped this quarter with the additional liquidity build and the PPP. These are high-quality assets that will eventually our balance sheet. We believe we will manage back into the [Indecipherable] by year-end and into the first quarter of next year.
As to BHG, we've shown this slide before and it's intended to give you a snapshot of BHG's business flows over time and more importantly how they are holding up during the pandemic. The green bars on the chart are originations, and they have ramped up with more loans being funded. So, business flows remained strong. Second quarter volumes were down slightly from last quarter, but this is following a record first quarter. The blue bars are the loans on which gain on sale has been reported as these loans were sold to downstream banks. This is the traditional BHG model with gain on sales revenues being generated. The blue bars did hit a record placement in the second quarter as the auction platform remained in great shape and bankers remained excited to purchase BHG paper. The gold bar represents loans held by BHG on its balance sheet for which BHG will collect interest income. They are warehousing more loans on their balance sheet than they ever have. And with the first securitization about to occur, the gold bar should back up some next quarter.
So, from 30,000 feet, business loans remained -- business flows remained incredibly healthy. Loan originations remained strong. Loan sales were at record levels. And BHG is prepared to execute on its first securitization with the next few -- within the next few weeks.
On the top left chart, we've shown on several occasions, the quality of BHG's borrowers has improved steadily in the first -- in the last few years, but particularly in 2020. They continue to refine their scorecards and increase the quality of the borrowing base. Again, the right chart, and I reiterate, maybe the most powerful chart I have to offer related to BHG's steadily improving credit quality. Looking at losses by vintage, losses continue to level out in earlier months since origination, thus pointing toward a lower loss percentage over the life of the underlying loans. Pandemic-related events will likely cause these loans move upward, but the quality of the borrowing base in our opinion is very impressive and is much higher than borrowers from just a few years ago. And I believe this help investors better evaluate the opportunities with respect to participating in their upcoming securitization.
Concerning deferrals, as of June 30, total deferrals represented about 15% of the total book, up from 13% this time last quarter. Dentists [Phonetic] continued to lead the group as expected with a 35% deferral rate. BHG communicates with these borrowers frequently and look to see these numbers decrease meaningfully in the third quarter as deferral requests are essentially non-existent currently. We've updated historical charge-offs and reserve builds. These are for loans that BHG has sold to the network of community banks. The green bars show that currently they have got almost those $3.2 billion in credit with banks who have acquired their loans. The orange line shows the annual loss rate, while the blue line on the chart details recourse accrual as a percentage of outstanding loans with these other banks. For the first three of 2020, losses were running at about 4.5% and ticked up only slightly to 4.56% for the six months ended June 30. They have increased their recourse accrual again from 6.4% last quarter to 7.25% this quarter. We anticipate some additional building of this reserve going into the second half of 2020.
Lastly, we believe it's been a big year for BHG and we anticipate big things for the rest of this year. During the quarter, the credit markets improved allowing BHG the opportunity to execute on their first securitization. We were -- Pinnacle was successful in access in the credit markets with a $225 million preferred issuance in June. We and BHG believe that their securitization will be successful and will get them in a good spot to potentially execute on another securitization in the next six months or so. This allows BHG to continue to diversify revenue stream away from gain on sale into the interest income and provide another very competitively priced funding source. More to come on this in the third quarter.
Lastly, as indicated on the slide, Fortune announced [Phonetic] BHG was named the Best Place to Work in the State of New York. They were Number 2 last year. So, it feels good to be Number 1. Congratulations to BHG on hitting that mark. So, here was a sleepy little upstate New York company that three friends started 20 years ago, and they turned it into a 600 plus associate driven firm that is now the best place to work in the State of New York. I suppose many are trying to replicate what they've built, but there is a special sauce at BHG. We are BHG's biggest fans and are excited about the future of our partnership.
And with that, I'll turn it over to Tim to talk credit.
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Thank you, Harold. Good morning, everyone. From a credit perspective, second quarter was a continuation of prior quarters for metrics such as past due loans, non-performing assets, classified assets and net charge-offs. We acknowledge COVID's full impact on the economy and our clients is still unfolding, but these standard measures of loan quality continue to hold up well.
Before I go into our credit slides, I wanted to outline our loan regrading work during the second quarter because our in-depth credit reviews may be more than many of our peers. During the second quarter, we rerisk graded all loans greater than $1 million with a payment deferral and every hotel loan and every CRE retail loan greater than $1 million. Our regrading effort was done at the loan level, not from a top of the house portfolio approach. Our method was interaction with each borrower, one borrower at a time. We regraded approximately 1,280 loans. Our regrading process entailed collecting current monthly borrower financial statements or monthly property operating statements, current personnel financial statements, liquidity verification, contingent liability statements of our guarantors. We believe collecting interim financial statements throughout 2020 will provide us with a baseline, given that borrowers' 2019 year-end financial statements may not be indicative in assessing their current financial health.
For C&I loans, we deployed a survey questionnaire to gather feedback regarding key variables such as revenue forecast for second, third and fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2019; client ability to resume regular payments by the second, third and fourth quarter 2020; a question regarding months of operating liquidity on hand; and finally, supply line disruption. Our bankers would discuss each question with their clients and then record the client response using an online tool that enabled easy data aggregation. Our goal during the second quarter was to identify and recognize those borrowers who warranted a non-pass risk grade of criticized or classified.
We did have an increase in the criticized risk grade during the second quarter that is largely attributed to our hospitality book. We have moved approximately 78% of the hotel loan balances into the criticized risk grade category. In our regrading work, we placed significant weighting on the hotel industry, given its known challenges. That said, fortunately, 74% of our hotel loans were in the economy, extended stay or limited service sector. By mid-June, many of our clients in these sectors had occupancy rates in the upper 40%. Many of these clients can cover interest expense at a mid-50% occupancy. But with the anticipated recovery period of the hotel industry now less clear, we believe this conservative risk grade stance is appropriate. Pinnacle's risk grading process is fluid. And should the hospitality sector improve later this year or into 2021, we will revisit the criticized classification of this portfolio. Our second largest increase in criticized was CRE retail, but its total was modest and only represented 4.4% of the CRE retail loan balances. We acknowledge retail is an impacted sector, but it will take time for the full impact of COVID on retail to be understood.
The remaining increase in criticized loans was both modest and very granular, spread across many different sectors. On a very positive note, after concluding our very thorough second quarter review of all deferrals greater than $1 million and reviewing all hotel loans and all CRE retail loans greater than $1 million, our classified assets at June 30 decreased $12 million from first quarter. Further, our NPAs decreased by $13 million from March 31 to June 30.
For our C&I clients with a loan payment deferral, we conducted a seven-question survey during late May and into June. Our survey tool aided us as a qualitative overlay in risk grading our clients. We surveyed 443 businesses, representing approximately $1 billion in loan balances. The results were guardedly optimistic. Three quarters of the clients responded, by fourth quarter, their top line revenue would be between 75% and 100% of the same quarter in 2019. Three quarters of the clients responded that by third quarter, their cash flow would be sufficient to resume debt payments as originally agreed. 45% of the clients reported seven months or more of liquidity to cover operating costs. And only 6% reported material supply chain disruption.
Pinnacle continues its approach of a well-balanced and granular portfolio. While our second quarter credit metrics likely don't yet evidence the full impact of COVID on our loan portfolio, we understand that as fiscal stimulus and PPP proceeds were expended, absent further stimulus, we may see these credit metrics change. As Harold has elaborated, our provisioning is largely driven by economic forecast for unemployment and GDP. And as such, we have meaningfully increased our credit loss reserve in the last two quarters.
Pinnacle adopted a defensive strategy during the second quarter, and we will regrade most of the remaining portion of our loan portfolio at the loan level during the third quarter. Our emphasis will continue to be on borrowers in highly impacted industries. Our goal is to quickly identify those borrowers who have been meaningfully impacted and bring the appropriate resources of the bank for resolution, while there is an opportunity to rehabilitate the credit and assess and improve our collaterals.
Pinnacle began proactively reaching out to clients with loan paying the deferrals during the third week of March. We believe many of our clients accepted our payment deferral offer because the impact of COVID was unknown. This chart illustrates that our deferrals have dropped by 37% off the peak. This large decline was confirmed by our bankers talking to clients about their intention for a second deferral.
For our consumer loan portfolio with deferrals, we conducted a survey in June with 655 clients, and the results were encouraging. With a 78% response rate, we identified only $31 million in an elevated risk category. And of these loans, all but four were secured by real estate. Additionally, 93% of our consumer loans that received a deferral are secured by real estate. Pinnacle's 2009 [Phonetic] consumer net charge-off was 1.15%.
For our small business loan portfolio, we conducted a similar survey in June for 1,379 of our small business loans. We gathered responses on 85% of the loans with deferrals, and we identified only $18 million in elevated risk. And of that total, 70% are secured by real estate.
Pinnacle's approach to the hospitality sector has been a disciplined, conservative approach of banking hotel sponsors who are well capitalized and have a long track record of successful operation. Many of these sponsors have been large Pinnacle depositors. A few attributes to illustrate our conservative hotel loan approach: weighted average loan to value, 55%; weighted average 2019 debt service coverage of 2.1% for stabilized properties; 91% of our loans have personal guarantees. Prior to COVID, we had only one non-performing loan of just $3 million. This loan was an SBA loan originated by a bank that Bank of North Carolina had acquired years ago.
While in most markets, hotel occupancy numbers have rebounded from the low seen in March and April, we believe it is too soon to discern a sustainable trend, though we are optimistic based upon the data we are collecting. The most important attribute of our hotel book is that 74% of our exposure is comprised of extended stay, economy and limited service, which are the segments that have experienced the greatest rebound in occupancy rates. The conservative LTV of 55% of our hotels offers an opportunity to return to profitability at lower occupancy and ADR. They do not have to return to 2019 levels to be profitable.
Pinnacle provided $42 million in PPP loans to our hotel clients. We have 21 hotel loans under construction, of which 50% of the commitments have been funded today. Limited, extended stay, economy constitute 77% of our hotel construction loans. During the second quarter regrading effort, we had just one loan of $2.6 million, located in Myrtle Beach, move into a classified loan status. The LTV on that loan is 44%. Out of Pinnacle's 116 hotels, only one is closed. It's a small hotel loans of just $3 million in Durham, North Carolina.
Business in our resort, high end and airport properties are under the greatest amount of stress. Our exposure in these categories is limited to a few in the business center and airport categories. While the stress is not necessarily expected to be alleviated in the short run, our borrowers have strong track records and the performance we believe positions them well for a recovery.
Hotel deferrals decreased 14% from the peak. Local and state laws and pandemic conditions continue to have a disparate impact on hospitality performance. Long term, we believe the states in which we have financed hotels are growth markets that will see stronger recoveries than the overall national economy. 88% of our hotels are within Pinnacle's footprint.
This slide provides some details on our loans in the restaurant sector. It groups together exposure to real estate developers who lease to restaurants, as well as loans directly to restaurant operators. Some noteworthy points include: this segment is just 3% of our loan book. Pinnacle's very successful PPP program provided $179 million in cushion to our clients in this segment. Loans with deferrals decreased meaningfully from the peak. Presently, just 21% of our loan balances have a loan payment deferral. Approximately half of our total exposure is real estate secured with a conservative LTV of 56%. 87% of our exposure is within our footprint.
Our 10 largest non-owner occupied CRE loans leased to restaurants, none have a payment deferral, coupled with conservative LTVs. Our quick service segment is made up of names like Taco Bell, Sonic, Wendy's and KFC. Our two largest restaurant operator exposures are well known public companies with very strong management teams. We have only six restaurant operator exposures greater than $10 million, and four of the six do not have payment deferrals.
This slide provides some insight into our retail portfolio. It consists of both retail store operators and commercial real estate loans leased to retail operators. Pinnacle's very successful PPP program provided $187 million of cushion to our clients. Loans with deferrals are now just 18% of the total portfolio balances. As of June 30, our teams reviewed all loans over $1 million secured by existing retail property. Each property's economics were marked to market by underwriting current rent roles [Phonetic], identifying those tenants which had received rent relief over a defined period. Our CRE retail book is extremely granular with over 700 loans averaging just $1.7 million.
This slide provides some more insight into our retail book. It's a well-diversified portfolio with only three of the top 10 loans with payment deferrals. We have no regional malls. 16% of our retail portfolio is grocery-anchored shopping centers. Approximately 31% of our CRE loans are single-tenant properties. A very high percentage of those stores remained open, as they generally house essential tenants such as Tractor Supply Company, Dollar General, O'Reilly Auto Parts, 7-Eleven and Walgreens.
There's been a lot of news coverage regarding big-name retailers like Pier 1 or Bed, Bath & Beyond and other names that are struggling. Pinnacle Bank has always maintained a very limited appetite for power retail centers. We only have five power retail centers in our entire portfolio with primary tenants like Walmart, Harris Teeter, Hobby Lobby, Dick's Sporting Goods. In our retail construction book, only nine loans are greater than $5 million. For our CRE retail construction book, 50% are built-to-suit single-tenant. Of our strip center construction loans, 75% of the space is pre-leased. The average strip center is a small neighborhood center with a loan size of approximately $4 million.
This slide provides some insight into our entertainment portfolio. Over 50% of our entertainment exposure is in the music publishing space to finance the acquisition of song catalogs. Pinnacle Bank has a financial advisor that specializes in this discipline. His extensive experience and strong contacts have [Indecipherable] this niche into a national calling program. Each catalog of songs is made up of thousands of well-seasoned, diversified songs that are stable from an earnings standpoint. Revenue from the catalog is generated primarily from music streaming fees paid from firms like Spotify, Apple, Amazon and Terrestrial Radio. To a lesser degree, sync revenue is generated from songs in the catalog used in film, TV commercials and general licensing. Country music streaming is up 13% since the start of the pandemic. And catalogs with seasoned older songs are also up materially as well. Sync has had some pressure, but digital revenues are up, largely offsetting other declines. This asset class is largely considered an uncorrelated annuity. And as such, institutional investment in this space in recent years has been robust. The loans have appropriate loan covenants that permit close monitoring. Average LTVs are under 50%. Pinnacle's very successful PPP program provided $53 million of cushions to our clients.
Terry, now I'll turn it back over to you to talk about moving forward in this pandemic.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Okay. Thanks Tim. In last quarter's call, it was my objective to get everybody on notice that moving forward in this pandemic, it was our intent to move from offense to defense, to slow our investment and grow until the storm has been weathered and the environment is once again conducive to our unusual ability to attract talent and to take share. Defense will continue to be our number one focus as we move into the second half of 2020. We've elevated liquidity meaningfully. We've taken actions to preserve and increase capital. We've built our allowance for credit losses substantially in the first two quarters, and Harold already indicated the bias toward further elevation in the second half of this year. As you already heard from Tim, we allocated enormous resource to the rerisk grading of the more difficult loans in our portfolio during the second quarter, and it's our intent to finish rerisk grading the rest of the graded loan portfolio during the third quarter.
That said, I believe our aggressive addition of revenue producers over the last two years, who were still in the early stages of consolidating their client base from where they were before to us, should result in ongoing growth, albeit at a slower pace than what we would have been producing pre-COVID. As we've already discussed, while we won't hire nearly as many as we had planned this year in order to contain expense growth, we will continue to make important hires. Through this, from a client perspective, these are the times that firms like ours are able to clearly differentiate ourselves from our competitors in terms of how we value clients, and consequently, we expect to pick up important market share that fuels earnings growth as we come out the other side of the economic slowdown.
Specifically, we intend to maintain elevated levels of liquidity until we find a more certain economic footing. Right now, as you heard Harold say, we intend to begin reducing some liquidity over the third and fourth quarters. But ultimately, we'll unwind the institutional portion of that and pick up that cost savings when it's appropriate. After our $225 million preferred issuance, we feel like we're in great shape on capital, and consequently, don't anticipate any further capital actions at this time. As I mentioned before, although we don't intend to cut our dividend this time, we're still in the capital preservation mode, suspended our share buyback program and retaining the sub debt that we had previously intended to redeem. So, we'd expect that our primary mechanism for growing our capital cushion from this point forward is through retained earnings. And hopefully, our very strong pre-tax pre-provision ROAA of 1.82% demonstrates that we'll have the flexibility to do just that.
We slowed our recruitment and hiring in an effort to avoid the expense build and enable us to maximize pre-provision net revenue as an important aspect of our defensive posture. I want to be clear, we've not frozen hiring completely. We've just slowed it. And of course, relative to our 2020 plan, we'll harvest a significant amount of the budgeted incentives that are tied to EPS targets, which offers [Phonetic] expense run rate in 2020 meaningfully.
So, much of what we've been talking about is defense. But one of the things that governs us during a time like this is the value that we place on our client relationships. Many of our competitors in the past have been viewed as reactionary and heavy-handed. And consequently, they have meaningfully damaged their reputations for valuing long-term relationships. It would surprise me if it were different than that this time. But following the Great Recession, according to Greenwich Associates, Pinnacle had earned the best reputation in our markets for valuing long-term client relationships, and that bond remains critical to us now.
On the bar chart on the left, you can see that this is a time that not only you can destroy client loyalty, but it's a time you can make clients for life. Keep in mind, I believe that Greenwich is doing research for virtually all of the top 50 banks in the country, plus about 600 more. Among all those banks and all those markets, they are already finding that the differentiation that took place in the Great Recession is in fact taking place now. How banks handled deferrals thus far in the pandemic makes a difference. How banks manage the PPP process makes a difference. And based on their extensive research with bank clients, Greenwich has recognized, eight [Phonetic] out of a very large group for banks for whom they did research, is standing out on those variables that are important to clients, and we're thrilled to be one of them.
When we combine the long-standing relationship that we've built, providing long-term client relationships, with the fact that Greenwich has found there has been much angst over the PPP process, which has already eroded bank loyalty among businesses and their owners, that course provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity for market share takers like us to harvest a great deal of market share. Last quarter, Greenwich had already found that 3 in 10 companies with annual revenues between $5 million and $500 million intend to switch banks; 3 in 10. 30% market share is already up for grabs. That's between two times and three times the normal level, and it's still early in the crisis. So, even at this point in the crisis, we believe things like our handling of deferrals and the PPP process are burnishing our reputation for banking clients and that we'll be one of the primary beneficiaries of the market share movement that will inevitably occur and benefit us as we come out the other side.
Jimmy, we'll stop there and be glad to take questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Stephen Scouten with Piper Sandler. Your line is now open.
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Good morning, guys. Thanks for all the detail here this morning.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Thanks Steve.
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
I'm curious on the guidance around BHG, it seems like it was intimated that 3Q revenue could be similar to 2Q. But then, looking at the one slide, it also notes the year-over-year earnings growth should be up. So, I'm wondering if that implies an extremely large 4Q. And if so, is that driven by the securitization or something altogether different?
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Yeah, I'd say, 3Q will be similar to 2Q. We're not sure about 4Q right now. But -- and I'm trying to find that slide.
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
I think it was Slide 22 where it shows BHG net earnings going up in 2020.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Yeah, I think that's a range of earnings between like $110 million to maybe going up above.
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Okay, got it. That makes sense. Okay, thank you. And then, kind of thinking about the NIM moving forward, obviously, you noted the 32 basis points of drag from liquidity and PPP loans. But I'm wondering where you think -- whenever liquidity does normalize, let's call it, sometime early '21 for argument sake, where you think the NIM to normalize at that point in time? Is that kind of back north of 3%?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, we think so. We think that the NIM will begin to increase back into the low-3s, call it, second quarter next year. At the same time, the accretion from the BNC loans that we acquired will be trailing off to pretty much an insignificant amount.
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Great. Okay. And maybe just last thing for me. Obviously, you guys noted that you will continue hiring. You have slowed [Phonetic]. I'm just wondering if you could give some color as to where you are in the pace of the Atlanta plans relative to the 50 RM target longer term. And then, you guys have never really been a bank that put some -- cutting expenses on a net basis, more about investing for future growth. But is there any likelihood in this environment we could see some sort of expense initiatives? Thanks.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
In the case of Atlanta, I believe these numbers are roughly correct. I think we ended the first quarter with about $40 million in loan outstandings and nearly $30 million in core deposits. I'd view that to be successful and ahead of plan for what was effectively the first quarter operation there. So, we continue to be excited both about the recruiting pipeline of associates, as well as the recruitment of clients. It looks like to me their pipelines are solid for another good quarter here in the third quarter.
I think as it relates to the expense initiatives, I think your assumption is basically right. Our approach on expense initiatives, I would characterize more about trying to drive PPNR up now because that's how we fund a lot of stuff we've got in front in this -- at this time where we need to be on defense. But I don't think you ought to expect us to have real meaningful expense initiatives where we're going in and making structural changes to the business.
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Great. That's very helpful. Thanks for the color, guys.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Yeah.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jared Shaw with Wells Fargo Securities. Your line is now open.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Hi, good morning.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Good morning, Jared.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Just sticking with the margin and NII side, as you -- you talked about the liquidity drawdown. So, that $1.4 billion -- should we assume sort of that $1.4 billion of wholesale coming off, call it, $400 million a quarter? Or is it not quite that linear?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Well, it's definitely not linear, Jared. But we're anticipating about, call it, $700 million between now and the end of the year. Now granted, that's about half of it between now and the next four quarters, but it's not exactly on a straight line.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Okay. And then, on the floors that you're putting in, can you give a little more detail around -- is that actually -- should we expect to see some loan yield pickup on those? Are those floors sort of above where we are here? Or is that just more protection for the future?
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Yeah, we are optimistic that we will get loan floors, call it, with -- in the mid-3s or on the LIBOR rate-based credit. So, we're hopeful to get some accretion and yield on those particular loans. But we're also doing things with some borrowers to protect against negative rates. So, there's some of that going on as well.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Okay. And then, just finally from me, it was great color that Tim gave on credit. Can you give an update on how the non-graded credits are looking, that small business pool? What are you doing to reach out to those customers and how you're trying to evaluate those pools of loans?
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Yeah, thanks. We did reach out to those clients -- trying to find my exact note here. I think we reached out and touched 1,379 of our small business loans, and the results were very encouraging. I realize it's preliminary, but out of those 1,379 small business loans and a response rate of 85%, we only identified $18 million that we would call elevated risk. So, that continues to be an area of focus for us. But our survey results, and this was done mid-June, came back quite positive.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Great. Thank you very much.
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Welcome.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Catherine Mealor with KBW. Your line is now open.
Catherine Mealor -- KBW -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Good morning.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Catherine Mealor -- KBW -- Analyst
One more on credit. Just to dig into the deferrals a little bit, the reduction was really encouraging to see. Is there also a way to dissect that to look at what dollar number has asked for a second round of deferral and then maybe the dollar amount that you expect to come up for -- to come off deferral over the next, call it, couple of months? Just so we can kind of -- the decline was great, but just kind of think how much of that is just from it running off and how much is actually we're doing in a Phase 2.
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Jennifer, I would tell you -- I mean, Catherine, I'm sorry. That decline was as of yesterday. We all know we were doing deferrals in April, mid-April, late April, early May, and that window will come open soon. And talking with our FAs, we believe the declines will continue. It's hard for me to give you a hard number, but I think that they will continue to decline based on conversations that our FAs have had with clients about deferrals that hit that 90-day window early August, mid-August, late August.
Catherine Mealor -- KBW -- Analyst
And what -- how does the Phase 2 look like? What are you doing differently with those modifications?
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
We -- when we rolled out our program, it was a 90 plus 90, Catherine. So, we would talk to that client before the first 90-day period, and if we felt and credit qualified, then we would extend that second 90 days using that same initial document that was executed. I will tell you, with any of the new deferrals -- and we've had just an inconsequential number since 1st of June. They've just dropped off. We are now asking for all the financial statements upfront before we make a decision, so we can grade that credit right then on the spot.
Catherine Mealor -- KBW -- Analyst
Okay, great. And then, switching to BHG, is there any color you can give on what gain on sale margins have done this quarter versus last? Are they still staying steady? Or have you seen those pull back?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
They were pretty steady for most of the quarter. I think in June, they pulled back about 0.5% or so. But I don't think -- they're not anticipating to see any kind of trend line lower than what they've experienced for the first, call it, five months of the year.
Catherine Mealor -- KBW -- Analyst
Okay, great. Great to hear. All right, great. Thank you.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Catherine.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Brock Vandervliet with UBS. Your line is now open.
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Thanks. Sticking with BHG, the loss rate slide that you cover on -- the loss rate stat you cover on Slide 21 is very helpful. Where does that -- what are you thinking in terms of where that peaks and when? I know that's probably the hardest question. But what's your read on where things peak?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, Brock, I think it is a great question. You're right, it's an impossible one to answer. But -- and I'm assuming you're talking about the orange line specifically.
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Yeah.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
So, I'm -- they believe that is probably going to be in this 6% kind of range, somewhere in that neighborhood. It could be more, it could be less. But right now, the way -- they grade the book every month. So, they're still hanging in there. Obviously, the deferral results will be very insightful on that. But currently, they're not anticipating like a 2 times kind of number. They're thinking it's more like another 50 basis points or -- I'm sorry, another, call it, 100 basis points to 150 basis points.
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Okay. And on the securitization, it looks like very bold timing here. I would have thought you would get better execution if you had weighted. But at the same time, very reassuring that you think you can get this done with BHG. Is this going to be kind of a niche financing vehicle? Or is this really the wave of the future and how BHG finances itself going forward longer term?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. I think they will use it as part of their financing package. Last year, when they had their Analyst Day, I think they mentioned somewhere around a 50-50 revenue split between gain on sale and interest income. So, it will take a few years to get to that. But they intend to approach the markets in a really active way, and I would guess that might be three times a year probably, something like that. So, they want to get some experience with it and use that as kind of a permanent tool in our toolbox.
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Okay. It's exciting. And lastly, on the expenses, if I'm doing the math right, I would think the 2020 expense base is around $550 [Phonetic] million, annualizing the Q4 '19. Is that kind of in the striking distance there, Harold?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
2020?
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Yeah, the 2020 total expenses. I think the guide was based on mid-single digit increase, annualizing the Q4 '19.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. And I mentioned on the call that we may include another incentive component. So, your number, we ought to come in within that number, even with that additional incentive number. So, I'm not seeing us getting above $550 [Phonetic] million.
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Got it. Okay, thanks very much.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jennifer Demba with SunTrust. Your line is now open.
Jennifer Demba -- SunTrust -- Analyst
Thank you very much. Good morning. Terry, I wonder if you could talk about Nashville tourism and how that's gone amid this pandemic? And what kind of impact that has on the total Nashville economy when it's -- when rent is really good or when it may be struggling? Thanks.
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Yeah, I would -- Jennifer, I would tell you just anecdotally, the count of people has rebounded some. I see them on the streets in the evening when I leave. But it's nowhere what it was pre-COVID. I think the spike in cases and the drop in tourism has been very noticeable and pronounced. But I've been surprised, Jennifer, with the number of people that have returned. So, I don't really have specific percentages or dollars for you, just more a perception of working downtown. It is off and likely will remain so for a while.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Jennifer, I might just add that, of course, a lot of what drives tourism is Music City Center. And they don't have any conventions and don't anticipate any into 2021. So, that's a pretty meaningful indicator. I think in terms of downtown hotels, many are open. But there are still a few that are closed or operating with limited service and so forth. So, clearly, there is an impact. I think to Tim's point, I'm not sure whether to describe it as fortunate or unfortunate, but I do encounter more pedal taverns these days than I did over the last few months. And so, to Tim's point, I think some of the tourism is rebounding. But I'd classify it in early stage. I wouldn't think we would even be at a midpoint of the return on tourism in Nashville.
Obviously, that has an impact. I think if you look at sort of the reopenings, Jennifer, in Nashville, like every city and every state, there's sort of a phased reopening plan with maybe four stages of reopening. We were in hopes, by now, we would be in the third phase, but we really backed up into the second phase of reopening because the coronavirus cases have spiked like a lot other cities that are reopening. And my belief is what we're seeing there is the same things we're seeing in other markets where it's concentrated in young people who are perhaps more fearless than a 65 year old. But anyway, I don't know if that's helpful to you, but...
Jennifer Demba -- SunTrust -- Analyst
And have you heard any anecdotes on corporate relocation pipelines for Nashville? Or do you think that's come to a bit of a halt here with the crisis?
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
My sense is that the corporate relocation pipeline is still full. I don't recall any major announcement of late, but I do believe that -- Amazon announced, in addition to their -- opening their -- jobs that they were bringing, they are adding another, I don't know, how many thousand jobs, but it was a big deal. There is a recent announcement out of [Phonetic] Henderson. Bill, do you remember what that was? I can't remember. Jennifer, it seems like to me that the development pipeline continues to be strong.
Jennifer Demba -- SunTrust -- Analyst
Thanks so much.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
All right.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Steven Alexopoulos with J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Hey, good morning, everybody.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Hi, Steven, good morning.
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
First, regarding the additional potential incentive this year maybe to set up a stronger 2021, can you give more color on this and maybe what options you're looking at?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. I think we're looking at probably a corporate PPNR measurement, maybe trying to understand what we think 2021 looks like, if we can get a nominal amount of loan growth, continue to see strong deposit inflows, what our fee businesses are doing, what we think will happen in 2021 and what do we need to do today to ramp into it. So, it will be along those kind of thought processes. Steven, I don't know if that helps or not, but we'll probably likely exclude credit from it because it's difficult to incent people around credit, particularly in this. We definitely want to be early in and early out. So, we want to get our loss content recognized as soon as possible. And when you marry that up with some kind of incentive plan, it becomes sometimes a little difficult.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Steve, I might add to Harold's comments, the key actions to be successful, I think, for us on the PPNR are really driving the cost of funds lower faster and picking up rate floors at a higher penetration, those kind of actions are the things that we're trying to stimulate here.
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay. And what's the timing that you think something like this could be rolled out?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
So, we think probably over the next couple of months. We talked to our Board about it. I think we received favorable response from them. I think they understand the concept and the benefit that it could drive for shareholders. So, I think, probably over the next couple of months.
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay. That's helpful. And then on credit, it was nice to see the classified loans come down in the quarter. What was the trend you saw in criticized and watch list in 2Q?
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
We -- on criticized, we moved the bulk of the hotel book into the criticized category. That was about $750 million. So obviously, the percentage of our loans for criticized this quarter had gone up significantly. We did have some in our C&I book and some in the CRE retail, but it was largely driven by our recognition of the distress of the hospitality sector.
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay. That's helpful. And then, finally for Terry, you mentioned there's a good opportunity to take customers and it depends how peers handle deferrals, PPP, etc. Curious what are you seeing from regional bank peers? Are they struggling to offer PPP and these different programs? And maybe if they are, why? is it technology or work from home or something else? Thanks.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Yeah, I think what -- I guess, Steven, I'll go ahead just in terms of our personal experience, and then I'll go back to the Greenwich thing. I think in terms our personal experience, most of the big -- and I shouldn't say most, a number of the big banks with whom we compete, they were not able to get their system up early. It took them -- they were late days to get PPP system up, even accept applications. I think they were very slow, which -- of course, everybody was slow, but I think their ability to communicate with clients and keep them up to speed on where they were in the process and all those kinds of things was really deficient. And so, that was the experience that we saw.
And then, to some, it may be a little more reliable than just my own observation there, I think, the case of Greenwich. They have seen that there is significant angst throughout the system that's tied to both deferrals and PPP where much of it's how you deal with the client. As an example, I think about what we're doing to go out here and gather all this information, conduct these surveys. If you go out there with a heavy-handed approach like a lot of those companies are prone to do, you might achieve the same result. But we're out there trying to do it in a way that inspires confidence and makes sure that they understand that this review is helpful to them and us. Not only does it help us understand the risk, but it puts us in a position to better take care of them if we're in a position to document what their path forward is as the economy reopens and so forth. So anyway, anecdotally, we certainly saw it, and it was tied to some measure to their ability to get their systems up and it was tied in some measure to just how they interface with clients and their inability to talk to clients and tell them where they were in the process and so forth.
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay. Thanks for all the color. Thanks for taking my questions.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Martin with Janney Montgomery. Your line is now open.
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Hey, good morning, guys.
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Hey, Brian.
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Hey, just one question, back to the deferrals, maybe for Tim. Just with the progress you guys have made already, I guess, Tim, where do you anticipate the deferrals end, I guess, October-December kind of as you get through -- working through more of these and do more of the risk regrading? And I guess, is it a significantly lower level than where we're at today? Is that -- and then, maybe who might be looking the most at the request for second deferrals?
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
The second deferrals have been hospitality. And I see us doing a lot of regrading, restructuring of the hospitality loans. We'll probably -- we've got a playbook written out for that so that everybody knows what we're doing. But I would see us restructuring many, many of the hospitality loans in the third quarter, asking the client for help with perhaps collateral guarantees or cash. And under the CARES 4013 Act, we'll restructure the loan and try and bridge them until the property stabilizes in 2021.
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay. And how about -- I guess, that's helpful. Thank you. And then, just maybe one for Harold, just on the expenses -- or Terry. Just the recruiting, you guys have scaled back this year. I guess, do you anticipate that getting back to kind of a normal level as you look to next year?
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
It's hard to know, Brian. I don't mean to hedge on the question, but I guess you'd have to tell me where are we going to be on a vaccine, where are we going to be on reopening the economy, all those kinds of things before I can give you an answer to the question. I think we believe that by being semi-active, which as you know -- I mean, we're still talking to prospects and so forth, that we'll be able to turn that switch pretty quickly. But it's more about finding a more certain footing, and when we do, then we'll be ready to go.
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Yeah. Okay. All right. And then just last one. I think you guys gave some color or detail on the PPP forgiveness. But just the percentage of loans you guys would expect to be forgiven today and just kind of -- I guess, what were you anticipating in the fourth quarter on that component?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, Brian, somewhere around 25%.
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Yes, forgiven in the fourth quarter. And then, total Harold, I guess your expectation is what percent of it gets forgiven?
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
As far as the whole thing over the next...
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Yeah.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
I think we have about 10% that goes out full two years.
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay. So, 90 [Phonetic] in total. Okay. That's all I had guys. Thanks so much.
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
All right.
Operator
Thank you. And our last question comes from Jared Shaw with Wells Fargo Securities. Your line is now open.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Hey, thanks for taking the call. Just following up on the hotel deferrals, so should we assume then that by the end of the year, any of the more troubled portfolio or troubled properties have been restructured and ultimately come off of deferral? Or should we assume that some of those more troubled ones could be in deferral for a much longer period of time that's allowed under the CARES Act?
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Yeah. What we will do in the third and it might -- some of them might spill into early fourth quarter is modify the loan, not a deferral. We will be looking at collateral guarantee, so forth and asking their cooperation, maybe their putting up cash for part of the deferral. And with that modification under the CARES Act 4013, we don't have to flag it as a TDR. So, our goal would be to get all of the hotel loans that are showing signs of recovery modified. It may be a modification that extends an interest-only period into 2021 and then resume amortization mid to later 2021. But we'll be working that with each borrower one by one, based upon how their property is recovering.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Okay. So, actually -- so it's current by the end of the year, just maybe current under a new structure as opposed to deferring under the old structure?
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Correct. We will modify the loan before year-end with a new repayment term.
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Great, thank you.
Operator
Thank you. And I'm showing no further questions in the queue at this time. [Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 78 minutes
Call participants:
M. Terry Turner -- President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Harold R. Carpenter -- Chief Financial Officer
Tim Huestis -- Chief Credit Officer
Stephen Scouten -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Jared Shaw -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Catherine Mealor -- KBW -- Analyst
Brock Vandervliet -- UBS -- Analyst
Jennifer Demba -- SunTrust -- Analyst
Steven Alexopoulos -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Brian Martin -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
