Triumph Financial, Inc.

morning. It's 930 in Dallas, and we're looking forward to the conversation this morning. As always, we'd like to thank you for your interest in Triumph and for joining us this morning to discuss our second quarter 2025 results. With that, let's get to business. Aaron's letter last evening discussed a noisy quarter's results, but underneath that, albeit positive distraction, laid out a quarter with a lot going the right direction, particularly in our transportation businesses and around revenue growth. We are demonstrating the ability to monetize what we've built and the value we add to our customers and shareholders. That quarterly shareholder letter published last evening and our quarterly results will form the basis of our call today. However, before we get started, I would like to remind you that this conversation may include forward-looking statements. Those statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual and anticipated results to differ. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statement. For details, please refer to the safe harbor statement in our shareholder letter published last evening. All comments made during today's call are subject to that safe harbor statement. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Aaron for a welcome and to kick off our Q&A. Aaron?

Thank you, Luke. Good morning and welcome. Not sure how many of you made it through all 34 pages of the letter that was published last evening. If not, maybe you've got an AI summary that did it justice. We use AI in our business, but we do not use AI to draft this letter because, frankly, we value the discipline and the grind to put it together. We don't draft it just for investors. We do it to recalibrate internally to focus on our goals and our strategy. And we work hard to not have any throwaway phrases or sections and we avoid legalese as much as possible. So I hope you find it as valuable to read as we do as a team to prepare. Now, as you saw, there was a lot of noise in the court. The loudest noise was due to the successful resolution of the five-year kerfuffle with the United States Postal Service. It was long overdue, but in the end, it's what we expected. beyond the financial recoupment of all that we were owed, I hope investors can see that as just one piece of evidence that you can take triumph at its work. We will work deliberately to deliver on our promises. Now, some investors don't always like what we have to say, what our strategy is, but we work very hard to never give you a reason to doubt what we have to say. And we said we would recover those funds from the USPS, and we did. Turning back to core results and strategy, the core transportation business had a great quarter of revenue growth, and I see lots of opportunity in front of us. Second, credit quality also improved materially. And finally, with regard to strategy, I would encourage investors who want to understand our strategy, pay close attention to the value chain section in the shareholder letter. It helps frame what we have been working on for quite some time, but only recently publicly revealed. With that introduction and my personal welcome to Dawn Favier, our president of intelligence to the call, we will turn it over for questions.

We will now move to our question and answer session. If you have joined via the webinar, please use the raise hand icon, which can be found at the bottom of your webinar application. When you are called on, please unmute your line and ask your question. We will now pause a moment to assemble the queue. Our first question will come from Matt Olney with Stevens. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Hey, thanks. Good morning. Appreciate you guys taking my questions here. Want to start on the green screens acquisition. Now that the deal is closed, any early observations that you can see? And just remind us of the timing of the integration of green screens and what your initial expectations are as far as customer adoption following the integration. Thank you.

Yeah, great question, Matt. I'm going to start and then let Dawn speak to specifically the customer meetings because she's in more of those than me. I mean, how you think about, or at least how I think about green screens, is there's the green screens that existed, which is what we bought. There is the green screens that is now being integrated into Triumph over the next, call it 90 days. And then there is the Triumph intelligence product, that is a big part of our future story. And so if you look at the green screens we bought, and we talked about this, you had a business, it was roughly $10 million in contracted ARR. They served the long tail of the brokerage community and had carved out a successful niche in demonstrating that they were able to take data and return it back to customers in a way that was frankly better than others in the industry. And they were winning a lot of business and growing. That is now part of triumph and over the next 90 days what we are doing is taking the data we hold in triumph specifically about 40 billion of audit and payment data that is not currently part of what is inside of green screens and moving that data into their models which as you would expect and as we wrote about in the letter is going to make their models better, more precise, and give them broader coverage. And so finally, after that 90 day period, we're now gonna be talking about the Triumph Intelligence offering, which does more than just provide modeling of buy and sell rate data, but does other things that we talked about in the letter. And we're gonna distribute that to the customers that we already have and all the customers who already know us. And so maybe Dawn, from that, you could talk about what you've just seen since May 8th and what feedback you're getting.

Great. Thank you, Aaron. That's a great question. I think, look, we're less than 70 days into this and we are already starting to see great results. being part of the Triumph family now. First and foremost, the goal of penetrating the top 66 of the top 100 freight brokers. We had historically, with the traction we were seeing as green screens, been selling into the long tail of the market. And we started to make some traction in the top tier brokers, but we are already starting to see the results of really more engagement with that top 100 brokers that Triumph brings to the table for us. Our ACV historically before the deal closing was about $37,000. In our pipeline right now, we are seeing that increase to $80,000 ACV. So significant increase there. I think the other piece of that is the data, the power of the data coming from the Triumph Network with Sightline to nearly 70% of all freight transactions. That work is already underway. We have at this point ingested less than 5% of that data and are seeing significant improvement in both our lane density coverage, which then leads to improved accuracy, both on lesser traveled or less dense lanes, which is what's most important to a freight broker, but of course across the network. And finally, a lot of engagement with our customers, both on the ISO and green screen sides independently, as well as our joint customers on the value that we will be able to deliver to those customers by combining price and performance into a single intelligence solution.

Yeah, and the final point, and so it's gone great, Matt. The final point is of our three transportation businesses, factoring payments intelligence, intelligence as a percentage will grow the fastest in the next two to three years. It won't be linear every quarter, but that one has the most upside. We've written about that in the past, even as we were moving into it, and nothing has changed my view that intelligence will grow more quickly than any of our transportation-related businesses.

Okay, perfect. Thanks for the color on all that. And then just switching over to the payment side, I think you guys reported the EBITDA margin this past quarter was closer to 14%. That's a pretty big improvement from where we have been. We'd love to hear more about expectations for that EBITDA margin moving forward from here.

Thanks for the question, Matt. Yeah, I expect EBITDA margin to continue to improve as we continue to scale revenues without scaling expenses as fast. And so I think you should expect regular improvement. My long-term goal is to get us above 40%.

Thanks for taking my questions. All back in the queue.

Our next question comes from Joe with Raymond James. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Good morning. Joe. So I appreciate your opening remarks, particularly about the idea of using AI to summarize the shareholder letter. Be taking that under advisement next quarter. So starting off here, I was hoping we could talk about load pay a little more. You reported a really solid quarter on account growth, and it seems that growth should really accelerate in the back half of the year. Now that you have more accounts under your belt and data on this initiative, do you have a better sense on what the average annual revenue impact will be from each account?

Sure, yeah, I can take that. So when you think about the average revenue per account, there are a couple of factors you have to consider. The first is the season of the accounts over time. And just like any business checking account, it takes a while to get those accounts linked, funded, and actively used to the point where you can get a good sense for what the ongoing revenue will be. The second factor is that we are adding a lot of new accounts every quarter. And so when you think about the average revenue account for the foreseeable future here, I think you have to recognize that those new accounts will dilute the average revenue figure. But when you talk about a mature, seasoned account, you're already seeing in the investor deck some statistics that suggest that we're getting $700 or more on average, and in some cases significantly higher.

So, yeah. Okay, I appreciate that. And then the next one from me. So, given your initiatives, you know, with load pay, factory as a service, you know, your intelligence offering with green screens, you know, all these appear to be very disruptive to the industry. What type of pushback have you seen from some of the competitors in the market?

Oh, yeah. How long do you have? So, look, if you think about... If you think about how these things fit together, right? And that's where I think why I really honed in on that value chain. Everything we do in those five parts of our value chain is something our customers have asked us to do. Now, when we say customers, what do we mean? We serve different constituencies, but primarily what we're talking about is we serve freight brokerages and we serve all different sizes of freight brokerages, but the core part of our customer base certainly includes the tier one or the largest brokerages, but we frankly serve all the way down to some really small ones. And then secondly, in the carrier universe, And in the carrier universe, our customers are generally going to be the smaller carriers, which by numbers make up the largest proportion of all carriers. Something like 96% of all carriers have four trucks or less. And for us, our sweet spot is serving carriers that probably, I don't know, Kim would say 100 trucks or less. We have some that are larger, but by and large, small truckers. So If you think about on the audit side, let's just walk through the value chain. On the audit side, we do more audit than any known competitor. There are other people who do audit, but they don't do it at the scale or for the largest players like we do. So I don't know that we disrupted. I mean, you could argue we disrupted there, but we just have been able to go grab the largest part of the market share. If you go to payments, there is no... real competitor at scale doing payments from brokers to factors or from brokers to carriers. And that is something we pioneered with the payments network. So kind of a greenfield opportunity and something that we've grown really well. Go to the next step. If you do audit, then you do payments. Now you get back to where we started, which is liquidity. So there are other factoring companies who want to provide liquidity to carriers. How did they feel about our technology platform enabling CH Robinson and RXO and others to join the industry? I'm sure they don't love it. The point is those large brokers were going to be coming into financial products whether we were part of it or not. We just have the technology platform that empowers them to do so because they want to be bound more tightly to the carrier. And if you take all that data that we have from doing audit and payments and factoring, and you talk about intelligence, there are incumbent intelligence providers. I would say there's If you add green screens into the mix, there's like three to four who are well-known in the industry and some are much larger than others. How do they feel about Triumph stepping into intelligence? Again, I think they probably don't love it. The one thing I would point out about intelligence is it's not a zero sum game. A large customer is gonna consume intelligence, most likely from multiple sources. Our goal is just to be their primary source because our data is better, our models are more precise. So, you know, in all of those areas, and then on the performance part, which we kind of fold into what we do in intelligence, there's no real known competitor there who provides truly market neutral performance. And the same would be true, lest I skip over the important one of load pay. There isn't somebody who has a dominant market share of providing banking services to small truckers. There are people who do it. We would suggest, and I can't point you to third-party data on this, but I would guess that by Q1 of next year, we will be the largest in the industry. Once And in any event, once we get to 10,000 load pay accounts, I don't think there's anyone in the industry close to that. So who you're competing with to win load pay business are banks and credit unions who generally don't care too much about small truckers. I know they don't care about them nearly as much as I do. So different parts of that value chain touch different competitive sets. Some of it truly is areas where there is no known competitor. Others of it, we're already in a dominant market position. And in others, there's going to be a fight. And competitiveness is part of capitalism. And so we're here for it. And I think the industry will be better for it.

Very thorough answer. I appreciate that. I'll hop back in the queue for it.

As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question, please use the raise hand icon, which can be found at the bottom of your webinar application. Our next question will come from Tim Switzer with Keith, Briette, and Woods. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. For the green screens acquisition, we're trying to think of the go-forward run rate here. Is it correct to think of the near-term quarterly run rate to be about $2.5 million of non-interest income and $4.5 million of expenses, including the amortization? And then what's the timeline for breaking even on that, particularly as you start to feed in the data you guys have?

You want to take the near-term and short-term? Sure.

Yeah, Tim, that's a fair characterization. I would say that we won't be talking after this quarter about green screens in isolation. You should be looking at our intelligence segment broadly because there was a little bit of other activity there. But yes, we're talking about roughly $10 million in revenue on an ongoing basis there. And yes, that expense number that you quoted makes a lot of sense. There's probably about a little over... $2.2 million or so from green screen specifically that we've added to our run rate. And then that 1.8 million of ongoing amortization. So that contributes about $4 million to our quarterly expense run rate of that 104 that we talked about going forward.

Yeah. And so, Tim, it's like, let me just say, as I think you would have expected from us, none of that surprised us. We knew when we bought green screens what its revenue was going to be, and we modeled what the intangibles would be. And the impact on near-term earnings is, like, call it $3 million a quarter of drag. That's not insignificant. We don't take it lightly. But we did not make this decision lightly either. And so you asked about what to expect going forward. What I expect Don and team to do going forward is, is to take that $10 million run rate and grow it faster than any of our transportation businesses because number one, it's starting with the smallest denominator, but number two, you just heard her allude to the average contractual value, the ACV historically for them is $34,000. If we look at their pipeline now, the average is in the $80,000 range. Why? Because the distribution mechanism and the brand credibility of being part of Triumph who services 66 of the top 100 freight brokers in this country is materially different. It's also materially different that we touch 64% of all freight transactions in the United States. We have verified, audited, and paid data, which is the cleanest data set you can possibly get. I would say on the record, no one in the world has that level of precision data about what's going on real time in trucking audited down to the last penny. And if you have that and you have the team that can deploy these models like our green screens team, what we're calling intelligence can do, you're equipped to win. And so on the whole, look, transportation for us, we talk about it. You can see it in the letter. We talk about factoring, payments, and intelligence, the three segments that make up our transportation business. I will be disappointed if our transportation businesses in the aggregate don't grow at 20% a year. Because we have invested heavily to build the opportunity to create revenue growth there. And as I said earlier, of those three, the one on a percentage basis that I would expect will grow the fastest is intelligence. And so their ability to grow into that earnings drag over the next several quarters and get to themselves, where we do the exact same thing we talked about with payments, which is now 14% positive EBITDA margin. It was negative 160% not all that long ago. I expect the same thing to happen more rapidly with intelligence. So that's as much future guidance as we're able to give right now, but I hope that helps.

Yeah, that was very helpful. Appreciate all the color there. And then on the credit trends, it's good to see a lot of the improvement there kind of all around. Can you help confirm what dollar charge-offs looked like if we exclude the impacts from USPS and the acquired portfolio you made? And what are the expectations for provision for the back half of the year?

If you normalize for those two things, our charge-offs were less than a million dollars. So an extremely good quarter from a credit perspective. Todd, I'll let you speak about the rest of the year.

Yeah, so I would just give you some general guidance that the credit losses we experienced this quarter were pretty typical of what we would expect. I wouldn't say we had a great quarter with respect to credit loss expense. I also wouldn't say that it was a terrible quarter with respect to credit loss expense. So just use that as a general reference point. Last year, we were talking about as high as $20 million of credit loss expense. Going back further in history, it was more like $10 million of credit loss expense for the year. We're going to end up, on average, somewhere at the low end of that range.

Yeah, and I want to be clear on the million dollars. That was charge-off. That was net charge-off. Yeah, net charge-off, not just credit loss expense. But you've heard Todd say... roughly the low end of that range. And let me just unpack it just so it's clear on, you know, we opened the letter with this loan. What happened is we had the opportunity to buy a loan that we understood at a very steep discount to face value, right? We understand the equipment space. We understood the specifics of this loan. And so, you know, some people may not say that's not core. Look, I'm not too proud. If you're going to leave nickels on the ground, we're gonna bend over and pick them up, right? That's just how this company has operated since day one, since it was me and a laptop. Like if we can see an opportunity to make money in the near term on a great risk adjusted return, we should do that. Even if investors don't wanna give us credit for it, that's fine. It goes into tangible book value and making money now allows us to do things. Frankly, all the money that we've made over the last few years allowed us to buy green screens, which is highly dilutive to capital. without diluting our shareholders in a meaningful way. So if circumstances give us the opportunity to get small near-term wins like that, even if they make our quarters noisy, we're going to do it. And that's why that's in there. It's why it happened. And we'll recognize that back into revenue. And whether it shows up in top line revenue or recovery or reversal or provision, look, it's cash. And cash going into Tier 1 capital is a good thing as long as you get it by not taking undue risk.

Great. Thank you, guys. And, yeah, certainly appreciate the strategy on that loan acquisition there.

Sure. Our next question will come from Gary Tenner with DA Davidson. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Thanks. Good morning, everybody. Gary. Wanted to ask a question about the competitive environment. Again, I think a follow-up maybe on somebody else's question, but in terms of DAT and the acquisition that they did of the Alco payment platform, it seems to me that that is more specific to carriers versus brokers. So is that more of a competitive impact potentially to the traditional factory business than any other part of your transportation business?

Yeah, I mean, Look, we don't generally use our earnings calls to talk about competitors, but since you asked a specific question, DAT has moved in with this acquisition to the factoring space. That's frankly not totally new as they operated referral relationships before. In the small world syndrome here, their referral business started with Triumph some eight or nine years ago. So we understand how the offering works. We know that we've seen the product at Outgo and DAT acquired it, and I'm sure they're going to try to use that to grow factoring revenue. And it goes back to what I said, like confidence. Competition is a fundamental part of capitalism and we're here for it. And the customers will benefit from it and it sharpens us. So yeah, I would think that's what they're aiming at. I can't speak to their entire product roadmap, but that seems like what they were doing. And that'll just be one of about 400 factoring companies that we compete with. And so on we go.

Okay, fair enough. Sorry to put you on the spot on that one. No, no. And then just, I guess, Brad, in terms of the $1.2 million on the USPS fee collection, it looks like that's split between interest income and fees. Could you parse out a little more of how much was in each?

Yeah, that actually was all in interest income. So when we think about factoring fees that were accrued, it was factoring fees, but factoring fees typically end up in interest income. Okay. All right. Got it. Thank you.

Our next question will come from Harold Goach with B. Riley. Please lend me your line and ask your question.

Hey there. Hey, my question is about pricing. I know we have a lot of early players in monetization. I just want to get your thoughts on that. I don't know if I missed that on the call, but the growth is terrific. It would be better if there was a little bit better monetization. I want to know where you're at on that.

I'm sorry, we had a little bit of a hard time hearing. The question was referring to monetization of what? Of Triumph Pay. Oh, the payments network. Yeah. Before I hand it off to Todd, I just want to say congratulations to him. I mean, what got built here historically? with, you know, Melissa's work to get us to where we are was great. And then when this, when Todd stepped in the role, his ability to, you got to remember how, you know, one of the hard things about starting something totally new is you, your first step, foray with these customers is you're begging them right you're asking them to do something not only that you've never done but that the industry's never done right outsourcing payments at scale to create a network in brokered freight was not on anybody's radar and so i think you can develop a psychology and i mean this is just deep into the weeds of how you run a business of gaining market share gaining market share gaining market share are we for real have we proven this out And at some point along the way, it's a healthy discipline. And maybe it's my fault as a leader. Maybe I should have been quicker on this is to step back and go, OK, we've done this long enough now. We've done this well enough now. It's time to start having people pay us for the value we created. And Todd was able to walk into this with a fresh set of eyes and go, Aaron, there is a lot of value here. I'm like, great. Let me step out of the way. And so you take the rest of the questions.

Yeah. So just to elaborate a little further on that in late March, when Aaron asked me to to step in and take responsibility for payments, one of the first things I wanted to do was understand the value we're creating for our clients. And that has been the most encouraging lesson for me over the last four months. The reality is case by case, client by client. we can put together the value that we're creating for them. And it's very, very encouraging. And so with that underpinning, I feel very confident going out and asking for our fair share of that value that's been created. And, you know, To date, you saw in the shareholder letter, we referenced the clients that we've already had the repricing conversation with. And those conversations are going just as we expected them to go. They will accelerate in the coming quarters. We'll start dealing with the bigger clients, the bigger brokers in a more focused and concentrated way in the third quarter. And so we'll see where it all comes out. But I have a lot of confidence that we're delivering the value that earns the opportunity to reprice.

Thank you very much. Just to put a capsule on it, it's sort of the transition from startup mode to value mode. And everyone who helped get us there, we really value. I mean, there was a lot of hardwood to chop. And I think Todd would acknowledge that he gets the benefit of going faster because of all the work that was done. And so I hope you're pleased with the revenue growth you saw this quarter. We're not going to get that every quarter. but it is gonna grow from here. Thank you very much.

Our next question comes from Matt Olney with Stevens. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Yeah, thanks for the follow up guys. Just a few more questions here. Within factoring, I think you disclosed that the average invoice size was slowed by the market pressures in 2Q, but also slowed by the mix of customers that you added as there were a few larger customers. Looking forward, I think we're still assuming that factoring continues to grow at a pretty healthy clip. Should we anticipate a similar dynamic to continue where invoice price could be pressured as you add larger customers? Or do you think this 2Q event that you disclosed is more of a one-off event within the next shift?

Yeah, thanks for the question. You know, as you go up market, you might get a diversified mix of carriers that might be doing different types of hauling. And so some might do some shorter regional type loads, which will reduce your invoice price. And so what we like to look at is segmenting out our portfolio from our large segment versus our small segment. Which when you look at a small segment, I think you see more of like a normal $1,200 invoice value, which kind of pairs up with what we see in our payment segment that looks at a lot of small carriers. So as we go up market, yeah, you may see a fluctuation in the invoice price overall.

Yeah, Matt, and this is our fault because we started training investors to look at average invoice size back when all we did was factoring. And if you want to really look at average invoice size as a barometer of what the market is doing, you're probably better off looking in our payment segment than our factoring segment. And what Kim just said so well, I mean, I hope you heard that smaller carriers even have smaller invoices on average than larger carriers. It's like $1,100, $1,200 because they're doing shorter runs. What you see in our business is the mix shift. It's not just about large and small. It's about the nature of what these carriers do. And it just so happens that Triumph's factoring business has a lot of shipper exposure in it. meaning that our carriers not only run for brokers, but they also run for shippers, sometimes under contracts. And those can be, depends, but can be larger invoices. And so to look at Triumph's factoring business in isolation, you have to understand the mix of our customers is more diverse than if you just had what I think people assume factoring is, which is small carriers falling in the spot market for brokered freight. We do a lot of that and it's very, very profitable. But we have a mix shift that incorporates other things. And so you should not... think that the movement of the average invoice size in our factoring business has a perfect R squared correlation to what's happening in the market as a whole. There is some correlation. You can obviously see that in the historical numbers when invoice sizes ran up to $2,400 back in 2021, but it's not a perfect correlation. And so again, if I can get you to look at average invoice size as an approximation of what the spot market is doing, Number one, I'd say subscribe to our intelligence product and Don will do a tremendous job telling you what the market's doing. But number two, look in our payment segment versus our factoring segment because it's not as influenced by a mix shift of customers.

Got it. Okay. Appreciate the commentary from Kim and Aaron. Thank you for that. And then switching over to, I think the letter last night had some good details behind supply chain financing, some good growth there sequentially. And I appreciate this provides liquidity to some of your customers, especially those within the industry that has some headwinds right now. I'm just curious about how much growth we could see in supply chain financing over the next few years.

I'm pretty excited about the potential growth for supply chain financing. It fits very naturally with our brand promise of helping the players to transact confidently. We can inject more liquidity into the brokers, but we can do it in a way that protects the carriers as well. And I think we should just be doing a lot more of that.

The brokers have an interesting business model relative to a lot of other business. 85% of their expense, more or less, is going to be hiring truckers to haul these loads. And I alluded to this before. So if that's true, supply chain finance allows what Todd is leading, allows us to collect from the account debtor, which would be the shipper, the manufacturing company, whoever the broker is contracted with, and to pay the carriers directly. There are very few people who can do that at scale. And I think we would probably by far and away be the largest. But it's not just about creating liquidity for these brokers with what Todd's doing. It's about making their business more efficient and managing their cash flows better. And then just so you can see how this all fits together, I think this is really important. The work we do in audit and payments was always around helping brokers get more efficient in the 15% of their expense base that had nothing to do with hiring truckers, right? Just their back office, workflow automation, et cetera. That's what audit and payments was designed to do to make their life easier and to improve their margins. Don't miss this fact, and it goes back to why I'm so bullish on where intelligence goes. Intelligence speaks to the 85% of their cost base, which is how much do I need to pay this trucker to run this load? And so when you look at the value chain, once again, together, we're now able to add value in the back office, the 15%, but we're also able to add value, if this is the right word for it, in the front office of how we set our rates with our customers and with our truckers. And holistically, supply chain, finance, intelligence, all of this gets bundled together in a product suite that's designed to go back to exactly what Todd said, for every broker to achieve their business goals and ultimately for every trucker to thrive. Like that's what we're after and that's why it's designed the way it is.

Yep. Okay. Thanks for that. And then lastly from me, I want to ask about deposits and specifically the non-interest bearing deposit growth has been really strong over the last year. And it's my understanding that for Triumph, The NIV deposits are a mix of mortgage escrow, traditional banking DDA, but also the float from the payments business. Any color on kind of what that mix looks like? And specifically, just trying to appreciate how much of that growth over the last year of NIV deposits has been from the payment side.

Sure, Matt, I can break that down for you. So the largest share, a little more than half of that, is mortgage warehouse deposit growth. A little less than half of that is related to T-PAY float growth. The other community bank deposit base, the non-interest-bearing deposit base, has been flat to down slightly. We have seen a little bit of migration out towards interest-bearing accounts, and we've also seen some large commercial clients needing to use their deposits for other business purposes. But other than that, those community bank deposits are flat.

Perfect. Thank you, guys, for the commentary.

Our next question will come from Joseph Hakunas with Raymond James. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Again, thank you for taking my follow-up here. So just kind of wanted to go back to the factoring segment. You know, so the number of invoices purchased had a pretty nice pickup in the quarter. Does that figure include factoring as a service volume? And if so, can you give us a sense for how much of those purchases were done from your in-house factoring segment? You know, this is kind of a price times volume story, and with the price being a little less correlated with the spot rate market, just trying to better understand the forward trajectory as the number of invoice purchases outpaces the market.

Yes, so what you're seeing in the letter is the mixture of both, FAS and our factoring core business. And really what you're seeing is the growth is on the first side with us on the factoring portfolio and a little on the FAS side. So in the coming quarters when FAS picks up and our second customer comes on board RXO next week, you may see FAS volume grow over the next coming quarters.

All right. And then Last one from me here. Is there any seasonality within your intelligence segment? Like, would that kind of ebb and flow with kind of the volume within the trucking market and those seasonal trends? Or will it just kind of be, or I'll just open it up there.

Thanks for that question. I know there really is no seasonality associated with that business. And in fact, not only is there no seasonality, but historically, there has not necessarily been any seasonality as the market shifts, right? Greenscreens as a company was created during 2020 when the market was booming, right? Yeah. But we had our largest growth in a down market period. So that business is really stable from a seasonality and volatility perspective.

Perfect. Thank you very much for answering my follow-up questions.

Our next question comes from a private investor, Lee Pai. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Hi there. Can you guys hear me?

We can.

Oh, great. Thanks for taking the question. Going on a different direction, could you go into more detail about the growth and net non-interest expense under corporate another? The 10Q characterizes them as, you know, continued investment and shared services for all the other segments and certainly do appreciate, you know, that it's prudent to continuing to internally invest, especially during down cycles. But we'd just like more, you know, color to understand, you know, how these investments are going to deliver, you know, value for Triumph going forward.

Well, the flavor of those investments in our corporate segment particularly, you know, come in a few different flavors, but the predominant amount of growth that we've had in that segment has been around things like information security and infrastructure that support all of these other businesses that we're invested in.

Does that answer your question, or do you have a follow-up to that?

No, that answers the question. Thank you.

Yeah. And so I just look, I think it's a great question and it's a very fair question. You know, we have to think about since we report segments, like how do we allocate things? It has been quite a lot of as you get deeper into handling the volumes of payments and audit and then The things we're doing and even intelligence and data security and fraud in our space, we've really had to get out in front of that. It's just we're a bank, right? And more than just being a bank, we are telling the market you can trust us to disperse $200 million every day and get it to the right people or we're on the hook. And I don't know how closely you follow the transportation market, but organized crime is here. I would argue state-sponsored crime is here. And it is attacking every vector in transportation, not the least of which are those of us who remit payments. I mean, a lot's been written about stolen loads, and there's a whole lot, and our fingers are in that slightly. But they also aim at... They know that there's a ton of money being disbursed from this institution. And so we just have to be bulletproof. But we are not ignorant of it. It is a fair question. And what we owe you, frankly, and I hope we laid the groundwork for this, is we said we are going to hold expenses flat from here while we grow revenue. I would argue to you that the expense base that we have, you can look at any specific little line item, but the bulk of it, is there to be prudent in the face of a of a marketplace that that we play a critical role in and that when i lay awake at night and think about things i want to make sure we got the money to the right person the right way and we were able to identify people who have been hacked which happens every day and so we just we feel the need to bulwark our defenses around that in order to fulfill the brand promise, right? If you read our slide deck, it's transact confidently. That is our brand promise, that if Triumph is involved in your transaction, for you to know that we've done the work, the hard work, the credit work, the fraud work, all of the regulatory work that you can trust that we will get We will do for you what we said we will do for you. And so we've had some expense growth. And I hear you, or I think it's a valid question. Hopefully that helps you understand the why.

There are no more questions at this time. I'd now like to turn the call over to management for closing remarks.

Thank you all for being with us today. We look forward to seeing you in about 90 days.

Have a great one.