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First Bancorp (FBP 3.15%)
Q2 2020 Earnings Call
Jul 28, 2020, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning, and welcome to the First BanCorp Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to John Pelling, Investor Relations and Capital Planning Officer.
Please go ahead.
John B Pelling -- Investor Relations & Capital Planning Officer
Thank you, Andrew. Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining First BanCorp's conference call and webcast to discuss the company's financial results for the second quarter of 2020. Joining us today from First BanCorp are Aurelio Aleman, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Orlando Berges, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Before we begin today's call, it is my responsibility to inform you that this call may involve certain forward-looking statements such as projections of revenue, earnings, and capital structure, as well as statements and the plans and objectives of the company's business. The company's actual results can differ materially from the forward-looking statements made due to important factors described in the company's latest SEC filings.
The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during the call. If anyone does not already have a copy of the webcast presentation and press release, you can access them at our website, 1firstbank.com.
At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Aurelio Aleman. Aurelio?
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. This time before going into the details of the quarter, I would like to discuss you know what we consider more pressing matter at hand. Early this morning on their separate press release, we disclosed an exciting piece of news. Yesterday we did receive regulatory approvals for moving ahead with our strategic transaction with Santander, we're very pleased of achieving this step. We do expect to meet our closing conditions and close the deal by September 1.
As we shared before, this is a transformational transaction for our company and while there have been many moving parts since announcing October, we actually expect that the resulting deal metrics, meaning TBV dilution, EPS accretion and earn-back, will be in line with those that we report in October as compared to our stand-alone projections.
Please keep in mind, the deal excludes, just to remember some of the metrics that we shared that point in time that it excludes NPAs. The premium is calculated based on the size of the balance sheet at closing. In addition to what we disclosed under the agreement in October, we expect that Santander will deliver to us an additional $28 million on loan loss reserves to account for loans that are subject to COVID-related moratoriums. We also have to consider that over the past few quarter, we have incurred expenses associated with a transaction of about $50 million already, which have impacted our bottom line and annual book value already.
Also obviously that will reduce the remaining cost going forward. And I think it's important to note here that, given the timing, most of the savings of the transaction and the synergies will occur in 2021. We do expect to complete the full integration by the end of the second quarter of 2021. I think it's important to mention that our disclosure -- when we disclosed the transaction in October, we did not mention the DTA, but this transaction should have a potential benefit to our DTA, we can expand that later in the Q&A.
And I just want to comment, obviously we're being operating under this new COVID environment and we have learned a great deal from an operational standpoint, as we move through to the pandemic and now you know as a larger institution with greater scale, we will definitely look to identify larger synergies and additional opportunities for growth in this consolidation. We're greatly appreciative and welcome both the employees and expand the client base, and we will work hard to continue enhancing our products, services and channels to meet or exceed our expectation. So, we're very pleased of achieving this step.
Please, let's now move to Slide 5 of the presentation, so we can cover the highlights of the quarter. Definitely, the landscape has changed. I will call the operating landscape or the industry and from the operational standpoint, I must say that we are being extremely proud of our team and the dedicated frontline employees and also to our customers for their ability to adapt in this challenging operating landscape.
Priority number one, it's been the safety of our employees and customers while we provide the services. As of today, still more than 80% of the support staff is working remotely and in the facilities, we continue to execute strict safety protocols including contact tracing and preventive testing of COVID.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we've been committed to maximize the benefit of the CARES Act to support our customers. This includes the deferrals, includes the programs such as PPP, and we've also been involved in some other -- some other program such as the FHLB of New York grant, and the USDA support to rural communities. We understand that, you know, obviously those are key benefits to mitigate the challenging times that our customers are -- we are all experiencing.
It's really good experience that we -- and the trend that we continue to see in digital channels, they continue to enhance the customer experience and as mobile and online technology tools have definitely facilitated customer interaction remotely. And as you can see in the right side of this slide, definitely the transactions have shifted from branches to our alternative data channels, and we're very pleased to see those trends finally taking place in our market.
Please, let's move now to Slide 6, to talk a little bit about the quarter. Before that, actually reopening trends are important. When we talk about the quarter; the drivers are what's happening with -- after the closure what's happening with the reopening. Early indicators actually look good, but we continue to track these metrics within our customer base across different industries. The information included here pertains to our customer base and we are tracking on a bi-weekly basis how the different sectors are moving.
Obviously, we are also conscious of the potential impact of additional tightening towards the reopening -- to the reopening effort due to the spikes in cases recently. We have to say that the hospitality sector hotels, restaurants is definitely the most impacted so far, and the recovery will depend on the reopening speed.
As an example, we are looking into really activity of merchants and point of selectivity. We experienced significant increase during the last week of June compared to last week of March. So, obviously retail is open to the public and spend, it's been -- it's been actually significantly up. Obviously, the second quarter results for us were hampered by the lockdown. Remember that in Puerto Rico, we were not able to originate all the long term mortgages up until May, and basically half of the quarter show limited or initial activity on the consumer side.
The initial activity pick up in June is worth mentioning, that project did remain open, the Florida market and we continue originating normal levels of mortgage, actually better than normal. But obviously quarterly originations in consumer, driven by auto and the residential portfolio as you can see in the graph show obviously the impact of -- the positive impact of build.
The moratoriums on the other hand and favorite programs have increased customer liquidity, materially. When we look at growth we experienced an outstanding $1.2 billion increase in core deposits, 13.5% and this excludes government deposits. I think, it's important to keep in mind that the estimated stimulus work for Puerto Rico market is about $14 billion so far, and this is very material as a percent of the GDP has created this significant liquidity in the market. This should definitely help offset some of the risks that are present over the next couple of quarters. We compare this to the liquidity that we experienced during the last hurricanes and driven by the support and stimulus provided then.
So please move to Slide 7 for a moment, Orlando will expand on this detail but the quarter ended up with $21 million in net income or $0.09 per share. As expected, we experience some deterioration in the economic forecast and that required an additional reserve build. This quarter was $29 million, which impacted our bottom line. Pre-tax, pre-provision revenue continued strong $67 million considering the rate environment and the impact to the NIM. Definitely I have to say we do have a fortress balance sheet, extremely well capitalized, total risk based capital ratio of over 25% and now the reserve to loans is at 3.55% which both of these are among the highest of the industry or the sector.
And NPA's continue to move down, now below 2.2% of assets. Again, we remain committed to servicing our clients under this new operational challenge of COVID. We are committed to the safety of our employees and the customers, as a priority, and obviously while we face -- we still face uncertainty regarding the future part of the economy, our fortress balance sheet and battle-tested management team will allow us to navigate this pandemic here through the end.
So, with that I'm going to leave you with Orlando to cover the detail of the quarter and be available for the Q&A.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, everyone. Aurelio mentioned we posted a net income of $21.3 million for the quarter or $0.09 a share that compares to $2.3 million or $0.01 a share in the first quarter of 2020. This quarter, we had what we defined in our press release as few special items in both income and expense components. They were tied to the pandemic, tied to the Santander transaction. We even had an insurance recovery in the quarter, that resulted in an income and I will touch upon those in the next few slides. But if we to adjust the balance sheet for these items on a non-GAAP basis, our net income for the quarter would have been $22 million or $0.10 a share which compares to a net loss of $5.9 million -- adjusted net loss of $5.9 million in the first quarter which was $0.03 a share.
As we had anticipated, net interest income declined in the second quarter to $135 million, lower by $3.4 million from first quarter, and obviously the net interest income was impacted by the significant reduction in interest rates and the reduced level of loan originations that resulted from the pandemic and on the lockdown.As already explained, we were not originating for half of the quarter -- half of the quarter. Also, we did have a large increase in deposits which has translated into increased levels of cash on money market, which in this interest rate scenario is significantly lower yields.
Interest income by itself in the quarter declined $3.3 million in cash and investment securities, an additional $3.3 million in loan even though we did have an increase on the average balances related to the PPP loans, but those are lower yielding loans. On the other hand, although the average balances of interest bearing deposits grew almost $400 million for the quarter, interest expense declined $3.2 million -- basically reflecting the 22 basis points reduction in the average cost of interest bearing liabilities. Right now, the overall cost of deposits is about 61 basis points, which reflects a reduction in rates, and the increase in deposit is down from about 77 basis points in the first quarter.
The margin for the quarter was 4.22% compared to 4.63% last quarter, trying to break it down in components, the impact includes about 4 basis points reduction related to the PPP loans, about 7 basis points reduction for the repricing of the cash balances, and another 11 basis points for the higher proportion of cash balance to interest-earnings assets have obviously changed the mix of the earning assets.
Downward repricing of loans of commercial loans and credit cards was around 9 basis points, and we did have some impact of about 4 basis points for accelerated premium amortizations which resulted from the prepayments of the investment securities. As you know -- as you remember, we had sold some securities last quarter in anticipation of that, and prepayments were even higher than we had assumed. The other component was around 4 basis points decrease related to late fees such, as we had a higher proportion of the portfolio under payment deferral programs.
Non-interest income for the quarter was $20.9 million compared to $30 million, but also these two quarters had some special items. In the first quarter, remember we realized an $8.2 million gain on the sales of approximately $275 million of available for sale securities. This quarter, we had a $5 million benefit from the final settlement of the business interruption -- insurance claims that we had related to Hurricanes Irma and Maria back in 2017.
Excluding these items, non-interest income still declined about $6 million in the quarter, $3 million of this decrease relates to the seasonal contingent insurance commission that we received in the first quarter. It happens the first quarter of every year, but we also saw decreases in service charges on deposits and transactional fee income, all primarily related to the lower volume of transactions resulting from the reduced business activity services as a result of the COVID impact and the lockdowns.
On the expense side, expenses decreased $2.4 million for the quarter from $92.2 million to $89.8 million. These expenses did include also some of the special items I mentioned. There are $2.9 million in merger related expenses, what is called merger related expenses all associated with all the legal and integration efforts associated with the Santander transaction. Last quarter, we had about $800,000 of those. We also had this quarter about $3 million in COVID related expenses.
And when I mean COVID related expenses, that includes items such as cleaning cost, employee testing, protective material, we have put in the branches or provided to our employees. Additional security has been put on the branches to control traffic both foot and car traffic. Some special compensation, we did provide about $1.7 million of special compensations to our customer-facing employees and support employees that were there for the whole process, as well as expenses that we had incurred in customer communications to keep them abreast of what we're doing on the different branches and the programs.
Also remember that in the first quarter, we did have about $1.5 million recovery -- insurance recovery against expenses. If we were to exclude these items, the expenses decreased $8.2 million. Basically reduction is associated with lower business volumes as well as the expense control measures that we have implemented. So far, we've basically stopped all the hiring of vacant positions. We have modified business promotion strategies and reduced some of them. We have eliminated traveling. We have reassessed projects plans, you name it we've gone through all the different components, so that's resulted in some of these reductions.
There are more -- but they are basically explained in more detail on the press release, but you can see some of the components but there's a large -- a part of it is actually -- which is volume related in terms of expenses. As volumes normalize, some of these expenses will grow obviously on expense level -- the expense levels as we made it for going forward, it's a little bit more challenging but we are still assuming that excluding any COVID-related expenses and Santander expenses, we should be in that $88 million to $90 million range in the next quarters without any transaction cost and integration cost, which would be part of the expenses that we'll see.
In terms of reserves, the provision for the quarter was $39 million, which as Aurelio mentioned resulted in a $29 million increase in the allowance for credit losses. Total allowance for credit losses is $337 million, as of June 30, of which about $319 million relates to loans. If we look at -- since the adoption of CECL allowance for credit losses on loans have grown about $164 million from $155 million we had in December to the $319 million we have now and the allowance represents 3.55% of loans excluding the PBB loans which is over 2 times the 1.72% of loans we had as of December. We believe this is -- allowance provides very ample coverage against possible losses, and obviously positions us well for what is the expectation on the economy.
Like to mention, that in addition to the $399 million allowance on the loans, we do have about $7 million additional allowance related to unfunded commitments on some of the lending facilities that we have. Moving on to some of the other components, moratoriums are an important component as we had mentioned during the first quarter discussion. We have implemented payment moratoriums programs to support customers during this initial stages of this pandemic.
At the end of June, as of June 30 we had 36% of the portfolio under moratoriums, a lot of them were moratoriums extended for that three months timeframe. And in July, many of this borrowers have started to make their scheduled payments and the moratorium as of July 24 have been reduced to approximately 18% of the portfolios and that includes reductions on all the components as you can see in the chart. It's important to mention that the Governor of Puerto Rico has passed legislation requiring banks to extend moratoriums through the end of August to residential mortgage borrowers that still desire, if borrowers had to be current to qualify, at the beginning of the pandemic, that will keep moratoriums on the residential for a little bit longer time frame.
And we are continuing to work with borrowers and have been performing detailed reviews of all commercial portfolio -- commercial borrowers in the different industries. Clearly the hospitality industry is still facing the largest challenge, but some of the other industries have started to normalize.
Charge off levels for the quarter were lower, obviously as we have some deferral programs migrations tend to go down that it's -- what you will see on the non-performing side; inflows to non-performing were $10 million in the quarter, which is $20 million lower than last quarter, a big part related to these deferrals that the other customers kept making their payments. Overall non-performing decreased by $14 million to $303 million as of June 30 compared to $317 million as of March 31. We continue to monitor the portfolios that have continued to spend time understanding customers' behaviors. As Aurelio mentioned, a number of customers are already opened and operating, so we feel we're in good track to continue to execute.
With that, I would like to open the call for questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] First question comes from Ebrahim Poonawala of Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Chris Hordone -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Good morning, guys this is Chris Hordone [Phonetic] on for Ebrahim. Congrats on getting the regulatory approval.
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Chris Hordone -- Bank of America -- Analyst
I just want to know, are there any performing loans that you are planning to acquire initially, but are no longer acquiring given the COVID stress?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
The agreement given from the Santander transaction, the agreement calls for acquiring all loans that are performing at closing. If there is any non-performing loans that meets all the definition of non-performing has to be classified as such and Santander will keep, so if any loan has been affected to reach that point to be considered non-performing, it has to be classified as such and will not be part of the transaction. If it's just related to some payment deferrals that have been given in the market under normal terms and all of that, not necessarily it's a function of that payment capacity of the customer.
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
But you know the answer is anything that migrated to NPLs since October to closing is not part of the transaction.
Chris Hordone -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Got it, that's helpful. And just a quick follow-up, I appreciate your prepared remarks but if you could just give us an update on the pro forma capital outlook, just in terms of the tangible book value dilution that you expect and where you expect the TCE ratio to end, that would be great? Thanks guys.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
You mean, with the transaction?
Chris Hordone -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Yes.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. The ratios, as you know we had anticipated the ratios, the Tier 1 ratios to be above 15% on the transaction that -- those numbers still hold. If you look at the balance sheet -- at the balance sheet, we are a bit larger mostly because of the large increase in deposits and it's all cash -- a lot of cash and investment securities. So, the risk weighting of that is zero or 20% depending on the component. Santander balance sheet has remained fairly consistent to what we had before.
I anticipate a slightly lower leverage, only because of the higher average balances that we have on that cash, but not other than that, still all the ratio's been well -- well capitalized. The leverage ratios will be -- we had anticipated around 11% originally maybe as slightly lower, but still above 10% at closing. So, it's fairly consistent with what we had disclosed before including tangible book value dilution, similar to what we had disclosed before. We haven't seen any changes, obviously all based on -- as compared to our stand-alone there has been some reviews of our stand-alone estimates, but the transaction will continue to add as we had expected.
Chris Hordone -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Thanks for taking my questions.
Operator
Next question comes from Alex Twerdahl of Piper Sandler. Please go ahead.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Hey. Good morning guys.
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Hey Alex, good morning.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
So, I just wanted to elaborate or I guess dig in a little bit more to that last comment about the tangible book value dilution being consistent with the announcement. So, I think if I recall that the announcement is at 7% tangible book value dilution from the transaction and then another -- somewhere between 1.5% and 2% dilution from the CECL impact of the acquired loans, would it be fair and then you also kind of alluded to DTA and kind of I think you'll expand a little bit more upon that -- upon me asking.
But as we kind of put all that together and then look at tangible book value at 6/30 of $9.83 is the right way to think about pro forma tangible book value just kind of knock in somewhere between 8.5% and 9% off of that, the way we would have upon the announcement or is there something else we should be factoring in as well?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
We believe it's going to be more in the 7% to 7.5% combined with CECL, based on some of the changes on the balance sheet and some of the other components that we have seen, but it's just a bit lower considering CECL, but not too different, and similar earn back to what we have before. The DTA component that you made reference to, we did not include that in any of the analysis and it's something that clearly Santander adds to our borderline some revenue streams that would allow us to utilize DTAs, we'll work exactly on the exact amount. We haven't finished the full analysis of the amount, but clearly it's going to add some to the bottom line. I don't think it's going to realize the whole DTA evaluation allowance that we have, but would allow us to realize part of it, and that's going to help also in compensating for any dilution.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
And can you remind us what the -- what that valuation allowance was at the end of 6/30, the total one?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
The evaluation allowance, on the bank, it's about $40 million -- from the top of my head, I'll give you the exact number, I think it's $47 million, Alex, just on the bank remember that their evaluation -- it's evaluation allowance on the holding company that it's a bit different because of the individual legal entity taxing component of the Puerto Rico plus $50 million was the evaluation allowance on the bank as of June 30, Alex.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
$50 million. So, some portion of the $50 million will likely come back in, when the deal closes or I guess subsequent to the deal closing?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Okay. And then, just last question from me, just as I think about the margin going forward, and if you back out the PPP impact of 4 basis points, the 4 basis points of accelerated prepayments amortization, and then I guess 4 basis points from the lower late fees, is that kind of the right starting point for the margin going into the third quarter? And then, as you kind of look out and the opportunities you have on deposits and the pricing pressures on loans -- like how should we be thinking about the NIM trajectory over the next couple of quarters?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Well. The PPP will be there for the -- our estimation is that they will be there for the next couple of quarters or a large part of it because we feel that a large chunk of the loans will stay for the six months timeframe. So, in this quarter or next quarter, we'll -- I think that, that impact will still be there. The -- to be honest, I was expecting prepayments it was a bit higher so that's a little bit of difficult to estimate on the investment side.
In terms of repricing of loans, it's a function of the curve. We -- the estimation of the curves at this point, it's more stability a little bit going down, not a lot. So, I would say that it all depends on the curve. So, it might not affect too much going forward. The one thing we've seen is deposits grow and the things that reimbursement it's based on the same -- low market.
So, the -- to some extent, the ability of the market to reopen and be able to go back to originations like Aurelio mentioned, the trends are better in July and June and July in some of the consumer portfolios -- think about a 1.5% -- 1% to 1.5% investment alternative in the market, as compared to 7% or 8% on a consumer loan, makes a big difference. So, assuming normal trends we -- deposits continue to be healthy, so that makes changes.
I don't know, if we should -- we shouldn't be going down to be honest, but that mix of assets could change that a little bit. You're right, the late fees it's something that -- it's a function to some extent of moratoriums. Is it going to go down completely, the impact? I don't know, but part of it should go down as well as I am assuming that the prepayments at this point on investments should be lower, so that should be a smaller impact going forward than what we had in the quarter.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Okay. And then just as a follow up, when you layer on the Santander balance sheet initially it was supposed to be NIM dilutive, but given what's happened to the NIM already, do you still expect NIM dilution or is it going to be relatively neutral to the margin?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
The Santander balance sheet should be a bit NIM dilutive, they still have a significant amount of securities in their portfolio. Even though the transaction is a cash transaction, so some of it, it's going to be gone but that effects income also, so it should still be a bit dilutive, as we had anticipated before only because of the mix.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Thank you for taking my questions.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Just to clarify, the yields on their loans are very similar to our deals, they are -- they have more consumer -- I mean commercial and mortgages, they don't have as much in consumer, as you probably have seen on their balance sheet, so that by itself it's a lower yield, their cost of funds is good, so that helps -- but they do have large amounts of cash and investment securities there.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Thank you for taking my questions.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Alex.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] The next question comes from Glen Manna of KBW. Please go ahead.
Glen Manna -- KBW -- Analyst
Hi, good morning.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, Glen.
Glen Manna -- KBW -- Analyst
Congratulations on getting the approvals for the deal. I'm sure, given the current environment that it was no small feat to get it done. But just to dive into the NIM, just a little bit farther on yields on the commercial book, given the Fed move and how fast they move, could you provide some kind of a percentage that you think commercial loans, a variable portion are pricing in where current rates are given moves in one month and three month LIBOR and Prime?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
So, we did provide some information on the release. Let me give you exact, so I don't misquote. About 70% of our portfolio -- let me get the exact numbers for you. When you have information and you don't find it. Okay, let me -- the commercial portfolios are -- about two-thirds of the commercial portfolios are either based on Prime or based on LIBOR. Most on LIBOR, it's about a third on Prime, and the other two-thirds of that and 66% of the portfolio, it's LIBOR based.
We do have floors on many loans, so some of the portfolio won't suffer from future changes on rates because of the floors are there, but there are still some that don't have floors, and if rates were to go down, especially the three month LIBOR, it would affect a bit.
At this point, the expectation is that Prime will be sort of at this level for a little bit of time, and the changes to the three month LIBOR, I'm not expecting it to be large. So, I don't expect that to be a significant impact. Obviously, if things get worse and we move to the old subject of negative rates, that could have some impact on some of these loans that don't have floors. But again, our two thirds of the portfolio it's floating, and it will move with either one of these items.
Glen Manna -- KBW -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you. And maybe, given the addition of Santander, can you discuss or just remind us of some of the opportunities that you have on the funding side of the balance sheet, after the deal closes?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Well. I mean at this point the funding meaning, we have changed a lot funding components. As deposits have grown, we have been able to eliminate a lot of the wholesale funding, it's significantly down, broker CDs are significantly down, we still use some broker CDs in our Florida market which has a different funding profile at this point. It has remained an expensive deposit market, so we tend to use Puerto Rico funding or wholesale funding to fund that market.
At Santander, we'll just add to that. I believe, at the end it's a function of what makes sense in terms of portfolios and being able to mix correctly. They don't have wholesale funding, it's almost nothing what they had on the balance sheet the last time I looked. And obviously, we want to keep all those deposits. So, it's not going to change. We don't want to take away -- their deposits are not expensive deposits, are normal market deposits. So, we want to keep all those customers, so that's only going to add to that deposit mix that we have to help fund the assets. So, the Santander part it's not going to change much what we have been doing so far within our own balance sheet, it's just going to add to that diversity of our customers.
Glen Manna -- KBW -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you. And on the payment deferrals, and just kind of last question, the slide shows a 36% drop from 36% of the portfolio down to 18% here -- here in July, and you had mentioned some of the government mandates with respect to resi mortgages, but still that shows a pretty big drop in what's on deferral. Could you talk about customer behavior and maybe some of the people that are on deferral that are still paying and kind of how they are responding to it?
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Behavior has been really, really good. This decrease I've mentioned, significantly has been on customers that have already started payments, their payment patterns in July. The overall payment patterns we've been tracking that weekly to compared to prior to the pandemic implications, and it's been really, really consistent with that. So, so far it's been really good.
I think that it's -- keep in mind that deposits in the market have grown significantly, just ourselves we grew about $1.2 billion in deposits including government, and that means our liquidity also, so that helps in that component. There are customers that -- we've had a number of customers that originally we were anticipating that we could need on the commercial side extensions, from the three month, maybe up to six months, and many of them have come back and say no we don't need any more extension.
I think, it's still the challenge, it's going to be with the hospitality industry, and we have to continue to work with those, and some retail side could be affected. What happens with the lockdown and whether we have to revert back to some of it could change a bit, but as of now the trends -- the payment trends have been really good during the month of July. So, it makes us comfortable with what's going on with these customers.
Glen Manna -- KBW -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you for taking my questions.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Glen.
Operator
This concludes our question-and-answer session and the First BanCorp conference call. Thank you for attending today's presentation.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
I think we have one more on the line.
Operator
Okay. So, I'll put in that -- a question from Alex Twerdahl of Piper Sandler. Please go ahead.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Sorry. Thanks. I want to sneak one more in here.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Put the buzzer.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
With respect to sort of pro forma capital, I don't want to put the sort of the horse too far or that cart too far ahead of the horse here with the deal not even closed yet. But with the pro forma tangible book value of $9 $10-ish [Phonetic] that's trading at 65% of tangible book value and 15-ish percent common equity Tier 1, how should we be thinking about the time frame for additional capital return, with respect to things like buybacks, once the deal actually is closed?
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think Alex, this question had a different answer three months ago, but with the pandemic I think it's not really prudent to -- we need to rethink the capital plan definitely, if things goes well and the pandemic get resolved and the recovery is as expected in the most recent trends, obviously something shouldn't happen next year regarding next capital actions.
But, I think it's going to be driven by how we see the pandemic, how we see the additional provisions, if any, or not. It's the most prudent thing to do obviously it is there hopefully that will be the next step as the economy continues to improve. That's our main goal to move ahead, complete this one and then be able to move to our next capital action.
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Perfect. Thanks for taking my follow-up.
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Alex.
Operator
[Operating Closing Remarks]
Duration: 44 minutes
Call participants:
John B Pelling -- Investor Relations & Capital Planning Officer
Aurelio Aleman -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Orlando Berges -- Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Chris Hordone -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Alex Twerdahl -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Glen Manna -- KBW -- Analyst
