Rick Kraemer | Director of Corporate Finance |
Ira Robbins | President and Chief Executive Officer |
Alan Eskow | Chief Financial Officer |
Michael Hagedorn | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Thomas Iadanza | Chief Banking Officer |
Ken Zerbe | Morgan Stanley |
Frank Schiraldi | Sandler O’Neill |
David Chiaverini | Wedbush Securities Inc. |
Operator | |
Good day | ladies and gentlemen - and welcome to Valley National Bancorp Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time - all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later - we will conduct the question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions]. |
I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference Mr. Rick Kraemer | Director of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. Sir - you may begin. |
Thank you, Joel. Good morning and welcome to the Valley second quarter 2019 earnings conference call. Leading our call today will be Valley President and CEO, Ira Robbins; also joining our call is Valley, Chief Financial Officer, Alan Eskow, and Valley Chief Banking Officer, Tom Iadanza; and Valley income Chief Financial Officer, Mike Hagedorn.
Before we get started, I would like to make everyone aware that you can find our second quarter earnings release and supporting documents on our company website valley.com.
Additionally, I would like you to direct you to Slide #2 of our 2Q 2019 earnings presentation with a reminder that comments made during this call may contain forward-looking statements relating to Valley National Bancorp and the banking industry.