AIB Group plc (AIBG) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to AIB Group plc Q1 twenty twenty six Trading Update Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Finally, I would like to advise all participants that this call is being recorded. I will now pass you over to our speakers for today's session, Chief Executive Officer, Colin Hunt and Chief Financial Officer, Donald Gavin. Mr. Hunt, please go ahead. Thank you, Nadia. Good morning all and thank you for joining us on our Q1 call. I have Donald with us, as Nadia said, this morning and we will both be available to take your questions very shortly. But I'd like to make some brief introductory remarks. We're very pleased with the performance of the business in the first quarter and the group is performing very much in line with our own expectations. We entered 2026 with great momentum and that has been maintained in terms of actuals and outlook. And I'm particularly pleased with loan growth of 1.7% in the quarter. And with a strong pipeline now building before us, we're confidently reiterating our guidance for 2026. We're seeing a strong performance right the way across the franchise as the group fires on all cylinders. And the strength of the performance that we're reporting today reflects the ongoing resilience of the Irish economy in the face of marked geopolitical uncertainty. So with almost a third of the year now behind us, we can comfortably assert that we are confident in our ability in our outlook for 2026 and beyond, as well as in our ability to deliver strong sustainable returns to our shareholders today, tomorrow and over the medium term. I'll stop there and I'll turn over to you for your questions. And now we're going to take ...