First Financial Bancorp. (NASDAQ:FFBC) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 26, 2024 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Scott Crawley - Corporate Controller
Archie Brown - President and Chief Executive Officer
Jamie Anderson - Chief Financial Officer
Bill Harrod - Chief Credit Officer

Conference Call Participants

Daniel Tamayo - Raymond James
Terry McEvoy - Stephens
Chris McGrady - KBW
Jon Arfstrom - RBC Capital Markets
Alex Twerdahl - Piper Sandler

Operator

Thank you for standing by. My name is Mondeep and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the First Financial Bancorp 2024 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. [Operator Instructions] Thank you.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Scott Crawley, Corporate Controller. You may begin.

Scott Crawley

Thank you, Mondeep. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us on today's conference call to discuss First Financial Bancorp's first quarter financial results. Participating on today's call will be Archie Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer; Jamie Anderson, Chief Financial Officer; and Bill Harrod, Chief Credit Officer.

Both the press release we issued yesterday and the accompanying slide presentation are available on our website at www.bankatfirst.com under the Investor Relations section. We'll make reference to the slides contained in the accompanying presentation during today's call. Additionally, please refer to the forward-looking statement disclosure contained in the first quarter 2024 earnings release, as well as our SEC filings for a full discussion of the company's risk factors.

The information we will provide today is accurate as of March 31, 2024, and we will not be updating any forward-looking statements to reflect facts or circumstances after this call.

I'll now turn the call over to Archie Brown.

Archie Brown

Thanks, Scott. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's call. Yesterday afternoon, we announced our financial results for the first quarter. I'll provide some high-level thoughts on our recent performance, and then I'll turn the call over to Jamie to provide further details.

I'm pleased with our first quarter results and encouraged by our trends, several of which were bolstered by actions we took during the quarter. These actions included a repositioning of a portion of the investment portfolio, a workforce efficiency initiative, and the acquisition of Agile Premium Finance.