Equity Bancshares, Inc. (EQBK) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Equity Bank Shares Inc 2025 Q2 earnings call. My name is Carla and I will be coordinating your call today. During the presentation, you can register to ask questions by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. If you change your mind, please press star followed by two. I would now like to hand you over to your host, Brian Katze, Vice President, Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations to begin. Please go ahead when you're ready. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today for Equity Bank Chair's second quarter earnings call. Before we begin, let me remind you that today's call is being recorded and is available via webcast at investor.equitybank.com, along with our earnings release and presentation materials. Today's presentation contains forward-looking statements which are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed. Following the presentation, we will allow time for questions and further discussion. Thank you all for joining us. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Brad Elliott. Good morning, and thank you for joining Equity Bank Shares Earnings Call. Joining me today are Rick Simms, our bank CEO, Chris Navratil, our CFO, and Krzysztof Slukowski, our Chief Credit Officer. We are excited to share our company's sustained strong beginning to 2025. In the second quarter, we achieved strong earnings, core margin expansion, and successfully closed our merger with NBC Bank on July 2nd. Limiting time between announcement and closure of our transaction has been a core competency of equity. Our work to receive all required approvals on this transaction within 60 days of announcement provides ...