Bladex, Inc. Class E (BLX) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to BLADEX's second quarter 2025 earnings conference call. A slight presentation is a company today's webcast and is also available on the investor section of the company's website .blaidex.com. There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions at the end of today's presentation. Please note today's conference call is being recorded. As a reminder, all participants will be in a listen only mode. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Jorge Salas, Chief Executive Officer. Sir, please go ahead. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today to discuss BLADEX's results for the second quarter of 2025. I will begin with the highlights of our performance during the quarter and then as usual Annette, our CFO, will walk you through the financials in more detail. After that, I will share a few thoughts on the macro environment and update you on the progress of BLADEX's transformation journey before we open the call for questions. The second quarter stands as one of the strongest quarters in our bank's history, not only because of the record bottom number but perhaps more importantly because of the earnings quality. Furthermore, it reaffirms the resilience and adaptability of our business model in the face of an increasingly complex macro environment in a particularly volatile trade environment. In the second quarter, we delivered record earnings, strong revenue growth propelled by fee income while maintaining pristine asset quality and robust capital levels. While the results include a meaningful contribution from a landmark structure transaction executing during the quarter, it is important to highlight that even without this transaction, the quarter would still have marked a record performance driven by well-...