Bper Banca Spa Unsp/Adr (BPXXY) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning. This is the Chorus Call Conference Operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the BEPR First Half 2024 Consolidated Results Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Nicola Spongi, Head of Investor Relations at BEPR. Mr. Spongi, please go ahead, sir. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to welcome you to our second quarter 2024 NLINX conference call. Before I give the floor to our CEO, Gianni Franco Papa, please note that our slide set and press release can be found on our corporate website. I would also advise you to take note of the disclaimer on slide two of the presentation document. That said, after the presentation, our CEO and our CFO, Simone Marcucci, will take care of the Q&A session. I will reiterate that this is reserved for financial analysts, whom I will kindly request to ask a maximum of two questions each, so that everyone will have the opportunity to contribute to today's call. Thank you very much. I will now leave the stage to Mr. Papa, CEO of Bittar. So good morning to everyone. Thank you, Nicola, for your introduction. Before I start walking through the presentation slides, I would like to inform you of the recent appointment of Simone Marcucci as group CFO. In the same way, I would like to thank Gianluca Santi for his very valuable contribution as CFO. Now, let's move on the presentation on slide four. As you can see on slide 4, the bank continues to pose strong results throughout the first half of 2024. Revenues grew by 4 percentage points, reaching 2.8 billion euros, underlining the strong resilience of our business model. Profit before tax was up by almo...