Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

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Earnings Call Transcript 2020-Q2

[Operator]

Good morning. Welcome to the CIBC Quarterly Financial Results Call. Please be advised that this call is being recorded. I would like to turn the meeting over to Geoff Weiss, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Geoff.

[Geoffrey M. Weiss]

Thank you, and good morning. We will begin this morning's presentation with opening remarks from Victor Dodig, our President and Chief Executive Officer. Following Victor, Hratch Panossian, our Chief Financial Officer, will review our operating results. Shawn Beber, our Chief Risk Officer, will close out the prepared remarks with the risk management update. We are also joined in the room by CIBC's business leaders, including Harry Culham, Laura Dottori-Attanasio and Jon Hountalas as well as Mike Capatides, who has joined us remotely from the U.S. They will be available to take questions following the prepared remarks. As noted on Slide 2 of our investor presentation, our comments may contain forward-looking statements, which involve assumptions that have inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. With that, I will now turn the meeting over to Victor.

[Victor G. Dodig, President, CEO & Director]

Thank you, Geoff, and good morning. I hope everyone joining us on the call, including your families and colleagues are well. And to those in the front lines, providing essential services for health care and economic recovery, we'd like to thank you for your courage and for your dedication. I'd like to begin the call by underscoring 3 essential factors that guide our thinking about our bank in the current environment and as we look to the future: First, we're well positioned to balance the short-term actions necessary to successfully navigate the current challenges as well as advance our long-term strategy. We continue to make strategic investments now to position us for success as we enter the recovery period and beyond. Second, our investments over the past several years to modernize and simplify our bank have allowed us to mobilize early and to respond quickly to the pandemic in support of our clients, our team members and the communities we serve. Third, whether you're building client relationships or managing a public health crisis, your success often rests on your people and their leadership. Our CIBC team has stepped up in remarkable ways over the past several months, and it has reinforced that we have a singularly connected team that is bringing a relentless focus on our clients. For our bank, we are leaning in to support our clients at a time when they need our help more than ever, while also ensuring the well-being of our team. Since mid-March, we've enabled over 75% of our employees to work remotely, tripling the number from a few months ago. We've also taken significant actions to ensure the well-being of our team members required to work on site, as they support our clients and keep our operations running smoothly. For our clients, we have helped over 0.5 million personal, business and corporate clients facing financial hardships, with including payment deferrals on loans, mortgages and other credit products as well as reduced interest rates on credit cards. And we're directly supporting government stimulus programs that have been launched for individuals and businesses in both Canada and the United States. In addition, our industry-leading mobile banking platform and online capabilities have served us well, as more of our clients adopt digital channels to perform their day-to-day banking. This level of digital engagement will become entrenched behavior and the new normal in a post-COVID world. We're well positioned for that new normal, and we'll continue to invest in digital to advance our lead. Now it's important to provide some context on why these numbers and these measures are important. We've consistently acted with the long-term in mind when it comes to client relationships. That's been a driver of our strategy and our investments in recent years. As I've said before, this is our moment of truth on that journey, where we have executed decisively on our long-term vision in the midst of a crisis. When we needed to be reactive to meet their urgent need for financial relief among clients, we made it as easy as possible for them to get help, such as creating a simple online form to request a payment deferral and building a seamless application process for the Canada Emergency Business Account loans in Canada and the Paycheck Protection Program in the United States. We've also taken every opportunity to be proactive, particularly in light of the sharp increase in the need for advice. Our team has called hundreds and thousands of clients offering advice or just checking in to ensure their banking is in order. We were the first bank to institute the "you're next" policy to serve seniors and persons with disabilities in our banking centers. We also proactively extended payment relief to clients who we identified as needing short-term support. And we've been highly visible with our commercial and corporate clients, helping them navigate these challenging markets. These are investments in the bank we're building as one connected team, CIBC. It's a long term effort, but we're seeing continued signs of progress. Earlier this month, J.D. Power released their 2020 Canadian Retail Banking Satisfaction Study for the big 5 banks, and CIBC moved up another rank to third this year. That has been a consistent trend for us. We knew when we set out to improve our client experience scores that it would take time, but our progress has been steady, and our unwavering commitment to our clients is being recognized. In addition to helping our clients through this crisis, we continue to support the communities where we live and work. We have increased donations to charities that directly support those most at risk. And more recently, we announced the bursary fund to support the education of the next-generation of health care workers. Now with that context, I will review the results of our second -- highlights of our second quarter results. While our results for the quarter were stable on a pre-provision basis, the changes in the economic backdrop that began in March had a material impact on our provision for credit losses. Pre-provision earnings of $1.9 billion reflect the resilience of our core business despite these challenging times. Including the impact of the $1.4 billion provision for credit losses, adjusted earnings were $441 million, resulting in earnings per share of $0.94. Our balance sheet remains strong, and it's underpinned by a solid capital position with a CET1 ratio of 11.3%. Looking at our business units. COVID-19 has significantly impacted consumer behavior, which has materially affected our results. In Personal and Business banking, transaction volumes across payment products have declined significantly since social distancing protocols were implemented. These trends negatively impacted fee revenue this quarter. And notwithstanding the macro challenges, we continue to see improving trends in volume growth across our core products, including mortgages and deposits. Our North American Commercial and Corporate banking businesses saw credit utilization increase early in the quarter, as clients secured liquidity for their businesses. With a large portion of these draws retained, both loan and deposit volume growth accelerated during the quarter. In Wealth Management, market deteriorations, that occurred largely in March, reduced fees as well as retail mutual fund net sales. And in Capital Markets, market volatility drove higher trading activities as we supported our clients. And while new equity issuance slowed, we had a record quarter in debt issuance, and there continues to be a strong pipeline for both government and municipal paper. In closing, before I hand it over to Hratch and Shawn for their remarks, I want to leave you with a few key messages. Our core franchise is strong. And while economic headwinds are likely to be here for the near term, our client focus and our well-diversified business will allow us to get back to pre-COVID levels of profitability as the recovery takes hold. In addition, while there are many unknowns related to the pandemic, it's effect on the economy and the path to recovery, what is certain is that our strong capital liquidity will allow us to withstand ongoing stress, while continuing to support our clients and protect our dividend for our shareholders. And finally, disruption creates opportunity. We are continuing to invest for the long-term with an eye towards strength in technology and innovation as well as in building relationships so that we emerge on the other side as a stronger bank. We've already fast-tracked some of our investments in technology to support digital engagement as well as working remotely, and we will continue to review other areas of our business to adapt and develop competitive advantages in this new normal environment. We have a talented leadership team who, along with our entire CIBC team, has stepped up to the challenge. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Hratch for a detailed review of our financial results. Over to you, Hratch.

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Thank you, Victor. Good morning, everyone, and hope you're all doing well. Starting on Slide 9. For the second quarter of 2020, we reported earnings of $392 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.83. Adjusting for the $49 million after-tax item of note reflected in the appendix, we delivered net earnings of $441 million and earnings per share of $0.94. Our results this quarter are net of a $1.4 billion provision for credit losses, which captures the full impact of the economic circumstances we anticipated as of the end of the quarter. Provisions were primarily driven by a substantial increase in our allowance for performing loans, reflecting potential credit losses as the economic impact of COVID-19 continues to unfold. Shawn will speak to credit provisions in more detail in his remarks momentarily. Pre-provision earnings of $1.9 billion were relatively stable from the prior year. While COVID-19 impacts presented headwinds in the quarter, our core underlying business performance remains solid, reflecting the resilience of our diversified franchise and continued progress against our strategy over the last year. Revenues of $4.6 billion were up 1% year-over-year, driven by a 13% increase in net interest income as continued growth in client balances and stable margin across our bank more than offset the COVID-related headwinds. In contrast, noninterest income was down 13% as a result of reduced transactional activity by our clients and disruption in capital markets due to COVID-19. Adjusted expenses of $2.6 billion were down 2% sequentially and reflect the actions we have taken to contain expense growth while accelerating some investments to respond to COVID-19 and modernize our bank. We will continue to prioritize selective investments to address the challenges presented during this crisis and to position our bank for growth in the post-crisis period. Overall, net of our ongoing efficiency initiatives, we continue to expect more moderate expense growth in the second half of the year as compared to the first. This quarter highlighted the strength and resilience of our balance sheet. As shown on Slide 10, we entered this crisis in a strong position and have maintained that strength. During the quarter, we supported our clients with our balance sheet, absorbing material increase in credit allowance and maintained our dividend while continuing to build our book value, capital and liquidity position. Our CET1 ratio remained stable at 11.3%. Excluding performing provisions, internal capital generation and implementation of the internal model method for counterparty credit risk benefited capital this quarter. These items were largely offset by an increase in RWA deployed in support of our clients. The impact of provisions on performing loans was mostly offset by associated changes in capital deductions and the CET1 add-back per OSFI's transitional arrangement. Our ending capital position provides us with a buffer of approximately $6 billion in capital or over $65 billion in RWA relative to the 9% regulatory minimum. This represents a 30% increase from current credit RWA levels, which is significantly beyond internal credit migration estimates even in severe downside scenarios. Our liquidity ratios were also strong, improving throughout the quarter as we preemptively built up our liquidity reserves. Our average liquidity coverage ratio for the quarter improved to 131% as a result of strong deposit growth and our continued access to funding markets throughout the quarter. Going forward, our resilient balance sheet positions us well to absorb any future stress or market disruption while continuing to support our clients and our dividend as the impact of COVID-19 unfolds. Slide 11 reflects our Personal and Business banking results. Net income for the quarter was $204 million, down 64% from last year due to a higher provision for credit losses and revenue headwinds related to COVID 19. The revenues of $2.1 billion decreased 2% year-over-year due to pressure on fee income in the current environment. Net interest income was stable year-over-year as growth in client balances was offset by the impact of lending accommodations to support clients experiencing financial hardship. Noninterest income for the quarter was down 9% due to significantly lower transaction activity, particularly in payments and deposits due to the ongoing social distancing measures across Canada. Net interest margin of 244 basis points for the quarter was down 3 bps from last year and 7 basis points sequentially, largely due to the impact of the prime BA compression and COVID-related interest relief this quarter. Going forward, if rates are unchanged from current levels, we expect NIMs to experience gradual pressure as we continue to absorb the impact of the recent changes in the yield curve. Expenses of $1.1 billion were up 2% year-over-year but down sequentially, as we reallocated resources through the quarter to react to COVID-19 while optimizing our cost base. We are continuing investments to further advance our leading mobile and digital capabilities, but have reduced investments in our physical footprint and other initiatives from the prior year. We will balance our level of investment through the back half of the year, guided by changes in market conditions as they evolve. Slide 12 shows the results of our Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management business, where our core business performed well, driven by continued growth and client balances. Net income for the quarter was $206 million, down 37% from a year ago due to the higher provision for credit losses. Pre-provision earnings were stable, with underlying revenue growth of 3% and a 5% increase in noninterest expenses. Commercial Banking revenues were up 3% from a year ago, benefiting from continued volume growth and favorable rates, offset in part by lower advisory fees. Deposit and lending balances were up 13% and 9% respectively, as we saw balanced portfolio growth throughout the year and continued supporting our clients with incremental credit needs in the quarter. Wealth Management revenues were up 3%, primarily driven by higher fee-based assets and trading volumes in our full-service brokerage business due to the market volatility in the quarter. The 5% increase in expenses reflects higher revenue-based variable compensation and hiring of client-facing roles over the course of 2019. We are continuing to invest in our digital capabilities to support our clients and our team over the remainder of 2020, but expect expense growth to moderate. Turning to Slide 13. U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management results reflect continued growth in our U.S. client franchise and market share gains. Net income for the quarter was $35 million, down 80% from the prior year due to the higher credit provisions. Pre-provision earnings growth continued to be strong at 16% year-over-year in Canadian dollars or 12% in local currency. Revenues were up 11% or 7% in U.S. dollar terms over the last year. Double-digit volume growth and higher asset management fees more than offset headwinds related to the significant decline in rates over the last year and a mark-to-market loss in the discontinued CMBS business due to the market disruption this quarter. Average loans grew 22% from a year ago in U.S. dollars, reflecting continued momentum in client development and our advancement of loans as part of the Paycheck Protection Program later in the quarter. Deposits outpaced loans, growing 24% from a year ago as new and existing clients continue to entrust us with their cash management and investment needs. Net interest margin was 305 basis points, up 3 basis points sequentially and down 27 basis points from a year ago. The modest NIM improvement this quarter was helped by reductions in deposit pricing that followed the Federal Reserve rate cuts while LIBOR declines lagged through the end of the quarter. While there can be some quarterly volatility, a prolonged low rate environment and, in particular, the recent downward trend in LIBOR will pressure core margins downwards going forward. Noninterest expense growth of 6% from the prior year was impacted by FX translation. The constant dollar increase of 2% reflects our continued growth investments in this business, net of the impact of our efficiency initiatives and a significant reduction in travel and business development expenses. Slide 14 covers Capital Markets results. This quarter, we stood by our corporate and institutional clients through the market disruption, generating strong revenues despite the impact of significant dislocation in some markets. Net income of $137 million was down 52% from a year ago, driven by a higher provision for credit losses. Pre-provision earnings were up 6% over the years due to continued growth of core revenues, offset by expense growth related to the strategic investments to expand our platforms. Revenues of $824 million were up 9% from a year ago, mainly due to the higher client trading activity in interest rates and foreign exchange, growth in corporate banking and higher debt underwriting. The performance of these businesses more than offset lower equity derivatives revenues, valuation adjustments driven by wider funding and credit spreads and reduced market activity in advisory and equity underwriting. Average loans were up 21% as we supported our clients through this crisis, providing incremental access to funding and financial flexibility as part of our lending accommodation. Noninterest expenses were up 12% from a year ago, primarily driven by higher spend on ongoing growth initiatives, particularly in the U.S. and expenses associated with higher trading volumes. Finally, Slide 15 reflects the results of the Corporate and Other business units. Net loss for the quarter was $141 million compared with net income of $5 million for the prior year, driven by lower revenues and higher PCLs, while strong expense management provided an offset. Lower FCIB revenues were impacted by write-downs in debt securities and declines in rates as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Treasury revenues were also lower this quarter, primarily due to the impact of the increased level and cost of our liquidity reserves. As mentioned previously, we anticipate completing the sale of our controlling interest in FCIB, subject to regulatory approval, and we'll provide updated guidance for this segment at that time. And with that, I will turn the call over to Shawn.

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Thank you, Hratch, and good morning. Before turning to our provisions, I'd like to provide a few high-level thoughts on our credit portfolios in the context of the current economic situation: First, our portfolios have performed well heading into this crisis. Nearly 2/3 of our outstanding loans are to consumers, the majority of which are mortgages, with our uninsured mortgages having an average loan-to-value of 53%. The balance of our portfolio is in business and government lending, with an average risk rating for the portfolio equivalent to a BBB plus. Second, given the unprecedented dislocation that has occurred since we last reported our results to you, we have performed various analysis and exercise judgment to determine our provision for credit losses this quarter, particularly with respect to the provision for performing loans. And third, we have also provided incremental disclosure this quarter to help you better understand select industry exposures. While acknowledging the uncertainty and the path forward for the global economy, if our current economic estimates materialize close to forecast, we would not expect to see notable increases in performing allowances from here. With that context, turning to Slide 18. The total provision for credit losses of $1.4 billion were higher quarter-over-quarter, mainly due to performing loan loss provisions driven by unfavorable changes to the macroeconomic outlook that informs our forward looking indicators, reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For impaired loans, the provision this quarter was $343 million, up $99 million from the prior quarter, mainly due to a few impairments in Canadian Commercial Banking and the oil and gas sector within our Capital Markets business. Given the current environment, we have provided additional information this quarter on the composition of allowance and our provision on the following slide. Turning to Slide 19. Allowance for credit losses grew by 59% to $3.3 billion this quarter, with our coverage ratio to gross loans increasing from 51 basis points to 78 basis points. On our performing provision of $1.1 billion this quarter, we have provided more details on the bottom left of the slide. The first column represents our model provisions, which incorporates revisions to the forward-looking indicators, along with changes to the case weightings based on input from our economics division. We made a number of further adjustments to reflect the circumstances this quarter that netted to a reduction of $122 million, which I'll now describe. We adjust in certain forward-looking indicators used in the model to reflect the benefits of government relief programs on our consumer and business and government portfolios that we do not believe our models would have otherwise captured. The outcome of these adjustments materially reduced our model provision. In addition, we performed a bottom-up review on select segments of our portfolios. We applied qualitative factors to these portfolios for the impacts we believe were not captured in our model-driven provisions, including additional future credit migrations. This bottom-up review resulted in our recognizing additional performing provisions, which offset a majority of the adjustments we had made to reflect the benefits of the government support. As I mentioned, the net result of these adjustments is a reduction of our model provision by $122 million, which is reflected in the second bar in the chart. Lastly, we had other portfolio movements, including credit migrations and parameter updates that added $136 million to the provision. All in, this resulted in a total provision on performing loans of just under $1.1 billion for the quarter. On Slide 20, we've provided incremental disclosure on our wholesale exposure to oil and gas, which represents 2.5% of our total loan portfolio with 54% in the exploration and production subsector. Our total allowance for credit loss coverage for this segment was 4x our current impairments this quarter. Looking at the oil provinces from a retail perspective, with 78% of our retail loans being secured, and our uninsured mortgage portfolio in these provinces having a loan-to-value of 67%, we remain comfortable with our overall exposure. Slides 21 and 22 provide details on select industries in vulnerable sectors that have been particularly impacted by the various protection measures put in place as a result of the pandemic. These include industries in leisure and entertainment, retail as well as certain asset classes within our commercial real estate portfolio. 38% of leisure and entertainment exposure and 50% of retail exposure were investment grade at the end of this quarter. For commercial real estate, 71% of our Canadian portfolio and 42% of the U.S. portfolio were investment grade. We have introduced relief programs for our corporate and commercial clients experiencing hardship, in addition to support programs offered by governments to provide assistance as they navigate through this difficult time. The next slide provides an overview of our gross impaired loans. Gross impaired dollars were up in both consumer loans and business and government loans, mainly due to COVID-19 and continued pressure on oil prices. The increase in consumer loans was mainly driven by marginally higher impairments in our Canadian mortgage portfolio. Given the moderate average loan-to-value ratio of this portfolio, we do not expect this increase in gross impaired balances to translate into material losses. In addition, the increase in formations this quarter was mainly driven by loans in our Canadian Commercial Banking segment, along with higher impairments in the oil and gas sector. Slide 24 shows the net write-offs and 90-plus day delinquency rates of our Canadian Consumer portfolios. At this stage, our write-offs continue to remain relatively stable other than seasonal trends within our credit card portfolio. We do expect consumer write-offs to increase late in the second half of 2020 once deferral programs that were put in place in Q2 end, at which point we will likely see a resumption of delinquency and write-off trends. The overall Canadian consumer late-stage delinquency rate was up this quarter with a higher rate in residential mortgages and a lower rate in credit cards. As I mentioned earlier, we do not expect the increase in mortgage delinquencies to translate into material losses. The decrease in credit cards was mainly due to the client relief programs instituted in Q2, which prevented certain clients from becoming increasingly delinquent during the quarter, resulting in fewer accounts flowing to late-stage delinquency. Excluding the benefit of payment deferrals, the delinquency rate on credit cards would have been 115 basis points versus 66 basis points shown in the chart. We have included this adjustment in our provisions for performing loans to account for the anticipated increase in delinquencies and potential write-offs in future quarters. On Slide 25, we've shown our trading revenue and VaR distribution throughout the quarter. Given market volatility in Q2, VaR increased throughout March and April, peaking at $22 million near the end of March. We also experienced 14 negative trading days in March and April. These were mainly driven by losses in equity derivatives, precious metals and the impact of negative oil pricing. This is in the context of volatility this quarter that, in many respects, was more significant than during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. I would also note that much of these mark-to-market losses were recouped in April as markets rebounded. In closing, I'd like to reiterate the extraordinary economic backdrop this quarter. As I noted in my opening remarks, assuming our forecasts remain unchanged, we would not expect to see further material increases in performing allowances this year. Having said that, none of us know how long this crisis will last or how effective the government support and relief programs will be enacting as a mitigant to potential losses. We remain comfortable that our prudent underwriting approach has positioned us well to manage through this period while continuing to support our clients. Operator, I'll now turn the call back to you for questions.

[Operator]

[Operator Instructions] And the first question is from John Aiken from Barclays.

[John Aiken, Director & Senior Analyst]

Hratch, you mentioned in terms of the sale of FirstCaribbean that you're expecting to go forward. My understanding, though, is that there's potential price adjustments based on book value. Do you see any impact on the pricing of this deal because of what happened in FirstCaribbean this quarter? Or alternatively, is there any impact on the timing you expect the deal to close?

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Sure. Thank you, John, and good morning. I would say, on the price adjustment side, we had made references before to the way the agreement is structured, so any changes in book value, as mentioned in our disclosures, would flow through to that. But that doesn't mean there is a price adjustment. So the agreement is as it is. It just reflects changes in the book value between agreement and close. And so that would happen as normal course. However, I'll say on the economics, that structure actually guarantees us that the economics with that respect stay the same. So we've looked at and recalculated the impact of the close, and you'll see us disclose on our capital side, we still anticipate 40 basis points roughly benefit when we close that transaction. And in terms of timing, as we've disclosed, again, we are working through regulatory approval processes, and that's what is between now and close. And so obviously, the COVID-19 situation and shutdown of certain government bodies, including regulators and the workload can impact that, but we still are anticipating it later this calendar year.

[Operator]

The next question is from Ebrahim Poonawala from Bank of America Securities.

[Ebrahim Huseini Poonawala, Director]

I guess, just a question following up, Shawn, on your comments around performing PCLs. If you can just give us some clarity around -- my sense is performance PCLs and the model is very sensitive to the unemployment outlook. If you can talk to just in what you're baking in with regards to unemployment as we look out, I guess, first half of '21 in the housing market, that would be helpful.

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Sure, Ebrahim. So we've used -- working with our economics department, we've taken the various scenarios, weighted them and then run our modeling exercise. So I'd say our base case is more reflective of a U-shaped pattern. So big contraction in GDP and rise in unemployment fairly quickly. Then as the economy reopens, recovery begins, and it's sort of quickly at first, but then we're sort of forecasting a more gradual emergence from there, where GDP doesn't get back to, say, end of 2019 levels until late 2021 or early 2022, with unemployment coming back after that. From a house price perspective, we've modeled in -- think about it as sort of a little more than 6% -- 6% to 7% price drops over the next 2 years and then some recovery in the following year.

[Ebrahim Huseini Poonawala, Director]

Got it. And just on that, so you mentioned that this was probably the high watermark absent the macro change on performing PCLs. Do you feel the same way about this total PCLs? What do you think the impairment and credit migration could actually push absolute PCL a level higher than what we saw in 2Q as we move later in the year?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Yes. So as I said, we -- based on our view of the forecast and the various analyses that we've done, which includes bottom-up analysis on impacted sectors. If things play out the way we've modeled them and based on the risks as we understand them today, we wouldn't expect to add any material amount to allowances. Now in terms of the impaired provisions, what we would expect to see, again, as things play out is some level of credit migration and ultimately, perhaps some cycling of those performing provisions into impaired provisions. But net, not having that allowance number move up materially.

[Operator]

The next question is from Gabriel Dechaine from National Bank Financial.

[Gabriel Dechaine, Analyst]

I just want to ask about the deferrals. And interesting that you put the proactive and reactive descriptions in the cards portfolio, that kind of hits at the, like needs versus accommodation or tactical use of these deferral programs by some borrowers. I'm wondering if you talk about it across the whole book, and especially on the tactical because if those numbers are quite high, you can give us comfort on how these deferral numbers are going to decline over the next few quarters and result in a much lower impaired loan number.

[Victor G. Dodig, President, CEO & Director]

Gabriel, it's Victor here. I wanted to just comment on that, and I'm going to hand it off to Laura, where the largest number of deferrals occurred in our Canadian Personal and Business bank. At the outset of this pandemic, it was clear to us, based on the inbound calls and based on the economics that we saw out there, that clients are feeling anxiety and hardship. Some was real financial hardship, some was perceived financial hardship, and we wanted to deal with them as expeditiously as possible. So we dealt with that on mortgages. We set up a digital format and made it very easy. We, on credit cards, decided that there was a group of clients that we wanted to offer relief to on a proactive basis based on their real hardship because alleviation of hardship means alleviation of hardship. And that's what we set out to do for those clients. While at the same time, recognizing that there are clients that we needed to open the lines for request for alleviation, and that was the reactive group. In our Commercial bank and our Corporate bank, we also worked with our clients on the deferral basis and/or to negotiate new lines of business. So we're highly and actively engaged. I think your question specifically relates to the proactive piece. So I'll hand it off to Laura to speak to that.

[Laura L. Dottori-Attanasio]

Thanks, Victor. So as Victor said, really our #1 priority during the crisis was to help our clients. So you would have likely seen if you're following the news that we were actually first out of the gate with all the announcement of the various deferral programs, including dropping interest rates, and I do want to point out that during the pandemic, there was a national poll of Canadians that ranked us as #1 among the big 6 banks for our handling of COVID. And so that I point out because it was really important for us because we pride ourselves on doing the right thing. So it was a deliberate decision that we made at the beginning of the crisis. And as Victor pointed out, what we wanted to do here was really find a way to provide cash flow relief to the clients that we thought might need it the most. So those were -- they were those that came in and asked, as Victor pointed out, and the ones we felt might also need it where we had seen, say they had missed a payment or been late with the payment. So it was really trying to help these clients because that's what we're supposed to do during these times, during their period of, I would say, very high stress that avoided a lot of delays with calls into our call centers. And most importantly, we knew these folks would benefit. So just some stats for you, which I know we had a slide that showed them, but on mortgages, the 108,000 deferrals we did, that represented 18% of overall mortgage outstandings. On the cards side, it was about 7% for those who asked for it and 9% for the proactive ones, so totaling 16%. And what I think I should point out to you is what we're seeing with our clients, they've been acting incredibly responsibly during these times. So we've seen them cut back on purchasing. They haven't increased their debt levels. Actually, in fact, utilization rates, both on secured and unsecured lines have trended downwards. And of the folks that we offered proactive relief to, I would tell you that just under 60% of them still chose to make a voluntary payment on their cards. So I think that just speaks to the responsibly -- sorry, how Canadians are acting responsibly during these times. So does that answer your question, Gabriel?

[Gabriel Dechaine, Analyst]

I guess it's -- if I can -- if you could tell me like 80% of these deferrals are people that are just taking a payment holidays while they sort out their situation and then I'd expect those to get back to performing and paying by -- when the 6-month period elapse, that's kind of what I was after.

[Laura L. Dottori-Attanasio]

Yes. Well, for mortgages, most of our clients, we offered 6-month deferrals, too. On the cards side, it was 2 to 3 months of, if you will, deferral and lower interest rates that they received. So I think you're -- well, comfort comes from of that segment of population, where we proactively deferred. As I said, just under 60% of those folks made voluntary payments on their cards.

[Gabriel Dechaine, Analyst]

Okay. My next question on capital and Hratch, I think you were talking about it. The -- your -- you mentioned credit migration. A bank yesterday gave some sensitivity on migration that if everything was downgraded a notch, there'd be a 100 basis point or whatever hit the capital ratio. Just to kind of give a stress scenario. I was wondering if you have anything of that nature.

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Yes. I'll take that. Gabriel, it's Hratch. So yes, I can give you a little bit more color on that. So as I mentioned, our capital is resilient, and we expect it to remain resilient to cover migration. So we've got -- this quarter, you'll see if you go into the sub-packs, we only had about 5 basis points of CET1 worth of migration, but we do expect that to come over time. When I look at our portfolios, if I look at, let's say, the wholesale, and I'll give you similar numbers to what was discussed yesterday. For our wholesale book, which is not just corporate, it's sort of overall wholesale book, we anticipate that we would have approximately, if you just look at the RWA impact from migrations, it would be about 80 basis points of CET1. But you've got to keep in mind that there is also on top of that potentially increases in the ECL, which would come through. And so you put that all in about 100 basis points over several quarters. Now that, I should point out, is a very, very significant scenario to see the whole book downgrade 1 notch, and we are starting from a very strong place with a portfolio that is very strongly positioned. Just to give you some numbers on our corporate sort of sovereign book as of Q2 of our exposures, 82% almost, where had a PD of under 0.5%. So I think that's a great starting point and we can absorb from there. In terms of what we actually expect, we've done a number of forecasts. And what I'll leave you with is absent credit migration, we think our capital is stable. At this point in time, hard to tell what's going to happen, but we do expect some credit migration. But we think that level of credit migration will be sort of, in our expected case, within that sort of 40 basis points. And then outside cases that we're seeing still well into the 10%, I would say, above potentially sort of that 10.5% level. And then in a very, very severe stress, based on the numbers I just gave you, you see that we still have, as I mentioned in my remarks, significant buffer to that regulatory minimum.

[Operator]

Your next question is from Scott Chan from Canaccord Genuity.

[Scott Chan]

Laura, I was wondering if you could offer any update on client behavior trends post quarter, in terms of what you're seeing on the mortgage origination side or personal or card side would be helpful.

[Laura L. Dottori-Attanasio]

Sure, Scott. Well, I tell you, post quarter does feel better than what we went through during the quarter. That said, I'd still expect to see, I'd say, slower demand for credit, and that's just reflecting the new reality that we're in. Let's see. We're seeing, I'd say, deposits, balances, those continue to increase. That feels good. On the mortgage side, pre-crisis, I'd say we were feeling good in that. As you've probably seen, we reversed that declining growth trend and are now in a positive trajectory. That said, still not good enough in terms of where we'd like to be. But we were trending in the right direction. I'd tell you, sort of post quarter end, we are seeing some of those applications drop off, which I think is normal given the circumstances. But on the credit card side for as much as we saw a big drop-off, particularly in April in terms of purchase volumes and new applications, we're actually seeing a much improved pipeline as it relates to a number of applications coming in, including purchase volumes that have come up. And so feels a lot better. That said, I think we're going to see slower demand, if you will, for credit on a go-forward basis. Does that answer your question?

[Scott Chan]

Yes, it does. And just for Shawn, just to follow up on your scenario analysis, I guess, response on performing loans on the allowances. For the housing prices, when you say 6% to 7% over 2 years, is that over 2 years? Or is that 6% to 7% each year?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

No, over the 2 years.

[Scott Chan]

Over the 2 years. And when you sign the weights to the different scenarios, can you quantify the weights for us?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

I don't think we've historically disclosed that. We didn't move a bit towards our upside case, but that was more a reflection relative to prior quarters, but that was more a reflection of the fact that our base case now reflects more of a recessionary environment.

[Operator]

The next question is from Steve Theriault from Eight capital.

[Stephen Gordon Theriault, Principal & Head of Research]

Victor, in your opening remarks, you talked about looking forward to getting back to pre-COVID levels of profitability. That's been a big question. It hasn't always been the case. Obviously, last cycle, put pressure on ROEs. Can you just maybe elaborate a bit on your confidence there and talk about some of the risks to that outcome?

[Victor G. Dodig, President, CEO & Director]

Steve, I think we all generally know where we are today in the economy. I think the stimulus -- just to provide a broader macro context, my views and our collective views here at CIBC are that the stimulus from the various government programs in both Canada and the United States are helping and will help demand recover as we come out of this. Clearly, some sectors will perform better than others. The discretionary economy, travel, entertainment, leisure, the ones that you constantly hear about are the ones that are going to have a longer period of recovery. Our economists tell us that GDP will contract in the high single digits this year in both Canada and the United States, and will likely rebound next year. Various letters of the alphabet are used to describe recovery. I always say there's no letter in the alphabet that will describe it. Let's just kind of take it quarter-by-quarter. In terms of my comments that we'll return to pre-COVID levels, there's a number of things that we're going to have to do. We're going to have to continue to win market share and develop deeper client relationships with our clients across all of our businesses. And I think you're seeing that in our businesses. There's obviously pockets of improvements that we have in our portfolio that we need to work on. We need to continue to transform our cost base. And we announced that last quarter, and we will continue with that program to transform our bank and to try and get our efficiency ratio to a normal level if we do what we can do to improve the performance of our portfolio and the economic recovery does take root, which I believe, ultimately, it will. There's a tremendous amount of stimulus in the market globally that's happening. We will see that growth come back. It may take the '21. It may take the early '22 before you see a robustness back in the banking sector again, assuming that the health care crisis is behind us. So I know that we have a good plan. We are going to continue to execute against that plan. I think quarter-after-quarter, you will see the resilience in our business results that on a relative basis, we will hold our own and try to improve versus our competitors as best as possible.

[Stephen Gordon Theriault, Principal & Head of Research]

Okay. Second question for Hratch. I think the margin was up 3 basis points in the U.S. You talked about a decline going forward, Hratch. Can you put some numbers around that, either some numbers around that or the timing with which it will take for margins to kind of settle out all else equal post rate cuts?

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Sure. Thank you. So it's a little tough right now to put numbers around it because, a, as I mentioned in my remarks there, we do expect some volatility over the next few quarters. And so if you look at, for example, the Paycheck Protection Program and how that plays out, and there seems to be potentially extensions to that. So that will -- when it's on balance sheet, skew things to some extent in the short term. But to give you the longer-term trends, as we've spoken about before, we do anticipate that business to be more stable now than it's been before because we have hedged that balance sheet fairly significantly. But directionally, I would say, LIBOR going down, you would see some modest pressure over the long term. And I think once the noise of the PPP program clears out, you'll see the impact fairly quickly come in for the LIBOR changes that we've seen now and then stabilize from there if we don't see any changes going forward. So what you see in our disclosures, I'll give you maybe a bit of extra color, you'll see that 25 basis point disclosure, the rates we have now, which is a lot more than what we had before because of some of the deposit floors. I would say within that number, there's probably sort of somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million for the U.S. And so you can go back and see how much rates have moved by. It was substantially less than that what we had said before, right, for shocks. And I think with that, you could triangulate to a number that still stands.

[Operator]

The next question is from Meny Grauman from Cormark Securities.

[Meny Grauman]

Follow-up -- following up on Steve's question, Victor, in terms of thinking about the future. I'm wondering, you referenced about digital investments and taking advantage of the current opportunity to do that. But I'm wondering what about potentially the golden opportunity of more dramatically reducing the branch footprint. Is this something that's considered -- should be considered in your view?

[Victor G. Dodig, President, CEO & Director]

Nice to hear your voice. So a couple of things I'd say about our physical footprint. We've kind of gone in a journey of transformation in terms of modernizing the footprint, where we're moving transactions out of our banking centers and moving advice into our banking centers. And that's a trend that I think you will continue to see. I believe that now our transaction levels, 91% or 92% of transactions are conducted either via an ATM, your tablet or your online banking platform, which is all encouraging. We see that going to 95%. But our belief over time is that people and people interaction, whether it's through some sort of safer distance measures or not, are going to be an important part of the banking equation. So while banking centers may drop in terms of overall numbers, they'll become smarter and lighter in terms of footprint. I think there will be an important part of our value proposition, particularly in the Canadian marketplace over time. You'll see some shrinkage, but they'll play an important role in building those client relationships. Let's say -- The other thing I'd add is that shrinking the number of banking centers doesn't necessarily improve your profitability that dramatically. What improves your profitability dramatically is your ability to attract the client relationships we wish to attract and to make sure they're deep and meaningful relationships, so that you can see those numbers flow through both our ROA and our ROE and that we can generate the healthy capital that we believe we will generate through our business model going forward.

[Meny Grauman]

And while we're talking about the future, I thought I'd ask about taxes and a question of inevitability of tax increases as we search to pay for all of this government spending and maybe even further than that, at what point should we get -- or at what point do you get concerned that the government is -- government debt or public debt is just getting out of control?

[Victor G. Dodig, President, CEO & Director]

Well, look, as citizens, we should always be concerned about what is the right level of debt to share the burden and making sure that our countries are strong, Canada, the United States and other countries we operate in. I'm not going to talk about whether tax increases will happen or not. What I will say is that what matters most is economic growth and policies that stimulate growth so that the economy can slowly retire the debt that's been incurred from this. We have the benefit of low interest rates that help, but all policies need to point to growth as we move into the recovery period. There's obviously a recovery period. There's going to be a reconstruction period, both for our bank as we continue to accelerate our transformation and our country as we move to a more modern economy. And I think this pandemic has opened our eyes to the ability to move swiftly in that regard. And the only thing I would continue to advocate all our government leaders to focus on is growth because that will raise the standard of living for everybody involved. And that's what we continue to advocate for. We continue to engage with policymakers to make sure that our GDP can get up to a robust-enough level so that our standard of living continues to improve for all Canadians and Americans.

[Operator]

The next question is from Sumit Malhotra from Scotiabank.

[Sumit Malhotra]

First question is for Hratch, and it's going to go to your capital slide on Page 10. So the lower capital deduction and ECL transition from what I've seen, the transition piece was 10 basis points. On the capital deduction, I was looking at the disclosure in the supplement and it looks like it's the removal of the shortfall that had previously been running in the $500 million, $600 million range that's provided that boost to capital. Just thinking about this technically, Hratch, you or the bank booked $2.2 billion in performing provisions this quarter. Simplistically, does that give you a buffer in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion now on this line that would have to be worked through in the model before this deduction could reemerge? I don't know if I'm phrasing this as well as I want to, but hopefully, you know what I'm getting. I'm just kind of curious as to whether this deduction could reemerge because clearly, it was a benefit to capital this quarter?

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Yes. I hope you're well. Let me give you some color on that. And maybe I'll tie in the ECL transition piece as well just to give you a sense of how this is likely to move going forward. So as I'm sure you're aware, that's the capital shortfall or the capital deduction that was there for the shortfall and any differences between what's in our allowance as an expected loss and what's in our regulatory capital model as an expected loss. And it was there to just ensure that you're holding either allowance or capital for the full spectrum of losses, right, between expected and unexpected losses per the capital framework. So we, at the time, before going into this crisis had about a $550 million kind of delta there, which was a deduction. And so what you saw is, as we increase the performing provision, and this is mostly the stage 1 and 2, as we've talked about the $1.1-ish billion, that does not have an impact on the regulatory expected loss, which only moves as kind of the ratings move and downgrades. So we went through, actually, when you have to go after tax and there's some more complicated math there on what qualifies and doesn't. But net-net, we actually went from a shortfall to a surplus. And then what OSFI did with the ECL transition framework essentially is, it made to some extent that sort of that dynamic symmetric. So when you're in a surplus now, you also get to add it back to CET1, which you didn't get to before. So where that sort of lands you now as going forward, what you'll see that will impact capital mostly, there might be some noise still because it's not 100% offset, right, as your stage 1 and 2 moves up or down. But what will really impact capital is how your regulatory expected loss changes, and that will be driven by migrations. And so that's why in the comments we talked about migration. So I would at this point say, we -- I would not looking at the shortfall, but I would be looking at the migrations forward.

[Sumit Malhotra]

And that is more a reflection of what we've been discussing for a lot of this call, the trends in the underlying portfolio. Effectively, the higher expected loss provision you took this quarter was the trigger that moved you from this deduction to now being flat from a capital perspective, at least as far as that line is concerned.

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Correct. You can almost think of it, Sumit, as that. The impact of what flew through P&L this quarter, right, was basically already taken in capital and reserved for.

[Sumit Malhotra]

Got you. I might follow up with you on that to make sure I'm thinking about this, but I'll do that later. Hopefully, more to the point question for Laura, and it has to do with credit cards, CIBC. I think this is applicable both to your current role and your previous one. We all know that credit cards are a smaller portion of the loan portfolio for commerce than they were 12 years ago when we were going through the last downturn. But the composition of that book has changed as well with some of the shifts you've made over that time, specifically moving to less single-product customers. When I look back in the archives, the loss rate on the card portfolio, or at least the provisioning rate, got up to 7%, 8% at the worst employment levels in 2009. Laura, do you think the composition of the book has changed such that you do -- you expect loss rates will be lower for the bank in that product than was the case in the previous downturn?

[Laura L. Dottori-Attanasio]

Well, the composition has changed in that we have spent time over the years really deepening our client relationship. So they're not sort of single-product clients. And history has shown us that we always do better from a loss perspective when we have a deeper relationship. And we've also done a great job over the years with our risk team in terms of being much better from a credit adjudication perspective. So all of that, I would tell you, has contributed to our loss rate coming down as much as it has. That said, I don't want to call things. We're in unprecedented times, who knows how bad and how ugly things can continue to get. That said, I -- again, because in a stable environment, we've managed to really bring down the loss rate, I would hope and would expect it wouldn't go up to that same rate just based upon all of the good work that was done, as I said, in risk management in terms of how we adjudicate and with the teams over the years, how they've really deepened those client relationships. So we should do much better sort of this round than we would have years ago. Does that answer...

[Sumit Malhotra]

Appreciate that. Yes, that's very good.

[Operator]

The next question is from Sohrab Movahedi from BMO Capital Markets.

[Sohrab Movahedi, Analyst]

Actually, if I can just follow up on that, Laura. One of the things you said was that the demand for credit is going to be a little bit slower, certainly in mortgages. Maybe just to turn Sumit's question on its head, is there a risk that you may have to get back into single-product relationship in cards as you push for growth in Canadian Personal and Small Business banking?

[Laura L. Dottori-Attanasio]

Sohrab, well, I wouldn't call that a risk in that. In natural part of growth, you have to start somewhere with someone. And so that can be entry-level relationship you start with a credit card. We do see some stuff in the industry that shows that clients might also be migrating to a bit of a single product. But that said, regardless of the product we start with, whether that's a transactional account that we open, a credit card, or a mortgage, I would tell you, our goal is full client service. So it's how do we franchise that client so that we have a real and deeper relationship with them. So I wouldn't say that we don't want to have, if you will, just a credit card that might well be how we start off our relationship. But do know that the goal will always be to deepen the relationship so that we have deeper client relationships, which just goes to not only help us on the revenue generation front, but it does -- it helps us a lot from a risk mitigation front as well. And it allows us to offer even better service to our clients because we just know them that much better. So all around win-win, but it's okay to start with just one product. Does that answer your question?

[Sohrab Movahedi, Analyst]

Okay. And if I -- yes, that's helpful. That's helpful. And if I can just quickly ask, Shawn, maybe a bit of an unfair question, Shawn, I don't know. But when you have arrived at the allowances and the required provisions, are you in a position to comment on kind of vintage analysis? Would -- is there any reason to believe maybe some of the outsized growth in mortgages in prior years may have kind of yielded higher allowance requirements now or the growth in PrivateBancorp -- since the PrivateBancorp acquisition. Is there any reason? Have you done any vintage work to suggest there's anything peculiar about vintages that may have driven higher reserve requirements, credit reserve requirements?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

No, Sohrab. I don't -- I wouldn't attribute it to vintage as an issue. I mean the -- our credit adjudication standards have not been relaxed since -- I'll speak first to the PrivateBank acquisition. We haven't relaxed that. We've been growing, and I'll turn it over to Mike shortly to make a few comments about that business. And on the mortgage side as well, I don't think we've been changing our standards there in terms of our growth. But I'll pass it to Mike, and then maybe Laura can speak to the mortgage piece.

[Michael G. Capatides]

Sure. Thanks, Sean. Well, Sohrab, I'll remind everybody some of the comments we made before at the time of the acquisition of the PrivateBank is that one of the credible positives we found at that bank was the credit culture. And so it was seamless in terms of vintage analysis in terms of the loans and the clients that were brought on the books and how we moved forward. So I would say pretty emphatically that you're just not going to see any type of negative vintage analysis in terms of loans that we inherited through the merger loans that we put on the books in the last couple of years and, in fact, going forward. It's a very consistent credit quality. Having said all that, we are in unprecedented times. Some of our clients and areas and, for example, in our specialty lending areas, are doing well for the time being. That's health care, construction, engineering, insurance. Some are more challenged, like retail and hospitality, where we have a relative limited exposure. But for the most part, these sentiments are reflected for the time being in our relatively normal course provision on impaired loans. And I'll just stand by saying in this and consistent with the credit discussion we just had, we are actually seeing a fair bit of good growth even in the midst of what we're going through over the course of the last couple of months and the last couple of weeks as deals in our pipeline are closing and our investments in additional people and capabilities are continuing to bring us new clients. So hopefully, that gives you a little bit of color. I'll hand it over to Laura.

[Laura L. Dottori-Attanasio]

Yes. Thanks, Cap. Look, just having sat in the risk chair for so long, I did want to add in that, that vintage of client that you were referring to earlier with regards to mortgages, again, having been in the risk chair when a lot of that origination happened, I can tell you that I did follow all of the vintages very closely and still continue to given I sat in the chair when we did those adjudications. And maybe just to reiterate what Shawn was alluding to, but when we look at that vintage relative to the others, most important takeaway for you is that there aren't any differences in performance. And in fact, for some of the special programs that we did during that time, like our foreign income programs, not only did they track, I would say, in line with that overall delinquency profile, but they have somewhat of a lower loan-to-value. So nothing to be concerned about.

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

And the last thing I would just mention is we're not seeing impairments coming through. You would have seen in the numbers, a very small uptick in the U.S. Commercial portfolio. So we're not seeing those issues now at this point -- in this point of the cycle.

[Sohrab Movahedi, Analyst]

Okay. Congrats on getting that capital ratio back to top of the class.

[Operator]

The next question is from Doug Young from Desjardins Capital Markets.

[Doug Young, Diversified Financials and Insurance Analyst]

Shawn, just back on Slide 19, bottom left, when you talked about just the progression of the performing loan PCL, the $122 million and $136 million, the $136 million looks like it does include credit migration. I'm hoping you can just maybe break that out. I mean how much is of that $136 million related to credit migration? And then talk about just the methodology and the thought process, and if you can quantify that credit migration that you're assuming in that number.

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Okay. So in terms of -- we saw some credit migration over the course of the quarter. Most of that would have been in the oil and gas sector. Obviously, it's been under some stress in that period. In fact, from an impairment perspective, that's where essentially all of the capital markets impairments came from this quarter. In terms of the composition of the $136 million, it'd be less than $100 million, would be a function of credit migration. It's still early in the cycle for at least since the pandemic onset to see that migration coming through. Obviously, our provisions are reflecting our views about that, but we would expect that migration to be realized in coming quarters. So hopefully, that answers your question.

[Doug Young, Diversified Financials and Insurance Analyst]

So that's just -- sorry, this is many banks in many days, but that migration that you're baking in here, that is just what you're seeing so far in the quarter or are you anticipating some further migration in that number?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Yes. So that was this quarter. So we would expect to see further credit migration over the coming quarters, which is reflected to some degree, as you look at our provision build and what we're sort of looking out forward, how we expect things to sort of materialize over coming quarters.

[Doug Young, Diversified Financials and Insurance Analyst]

Yes. And then that minus $122 million and positive $136 million, that's just essentially that's a management overlay to some degree. Is that the way to think? Or is there -- or can you spike out how much of this the management overlay?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Not the -- sorry, not the $136 million. The $136 million is parameters and actual experience migration. The $122 million is the net of all of the various adjustments that we made to reflect government support, bottom-up analysis across various portfolios that we think are particularly impacted by COVID-19, so that netted to that $122 million number. But there was a decent amount of travel, positive and negative, to ultimately get to that number relative to sort of the original $1.55 billion on the left side.

[Doug Young, Diversified Financials and Insurance Analyst]

And then just second, Hratch, the ability to add back the excess allowance over regulatory ECL in the CET1. That is new. I take it because I didn't think you were able to do it before. So correct me if I'm wrong. And is that something that's temporary? Or is that something that will -- will it go away at some point in time in the future? Or is that something that's permanent?

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Yes. So it is new. It was one of the changes announced by OSFI as we were sort of going through this. And I can't speak to its permanence, but it was introduced at this point in time. As was sort of the drop in the buffer, the countercyclical buffer to enable banks to support clients. And so that's its purpose as stated at this point, but I can't, again, speak to what happens in the future and what the regulators may do with that. What I will speak to is, from our perspective, we are continuing to watch the portfolio migrations. And as I said, we do feel pretty strongly with that trajectory forward. So that, for us, represented that sort of at 10 basis points now, if you will. And so if we do see -- as we see those migration numbers that I referenced with portfolio deterioration, part of it is that add back going away. And then going back to Sumit's question, right, you're starting to get into the territory of taking a deduction again. But as I kind of said to Sumit, I wouldn't focus on all the noise and which of the drivers that is underneath it. It's just as downgrades happen, RWAs will go up and the ECLs will go up, and both of those items together are included in the 100 basis point-ish number for the wholesale book I gave you, and it is significantly lower than that if you did a 1 band on our entire retail portfolio on top of that. So even with all of that combined, which I'm sure you can appreciate, is a very significant stress. And at that point, we would not be relying on any sort of add backs here. I think you would see our capital ratio well above that regulatory minimum.

[Doug Young, Diversified Financials and Insurance Analyst]

Perfect. And so just the benefit from that add back was 10 basis points. Is that...

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

That's correct.

[Operator]

The next question is from Mario Mendonca from TD Securities.

[Mario Mendonca, MD & Research Analyst]

Shawn, your answer -- your opening comments sounded a little different to -- from the answer you gave, is that -- maybe just help me understand what you're getting at. You said in your opening comments that you expected no change or no material change in the performing loan allowance going forward. And then in response to one of the questions, I think you said you expect no change in the total allowance going forward. Can you be more specific, which one are you referring to?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

So we don't expect to add to our performing allowance going forward. Like, if things play out the way we anticipate them to, then this would be where the allowance level would be. And then you would migrate from stage 1, stage 2 into stage 3 impaired over time as things play out. So we wouldn't expect, for instance, to take significant incremental provisions in coming quarters as a function of increasing our ECL. We believe we've reflected at least our current view in our $3.3 billion in allowances.

[Mario Mendonca, MD & Research Analyst]

Okay, that's clear. One other thing. I've struggled during this reporting season to understand the extent to which banks take into account migration or anticipated migration in establishing their PCLs, the performing loan PCLs. And what I'm getting at is when a bank revises the unemployment number materially higher, by definition, they have to assume there's migration into -- like there's got to be downgrades and there's got to be defaults. So it just seems logical to me that migration is already contemplated when you change your forward-looking indicators. Am I not thinking about this correctly?

[Shawn Beber, Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer]

Yes. So the way I think you should be thinking about it is I talked about in my prepared remarks about the judgment we exercise in looking at a bottom-up analysis across various sectors in the portfolio. The analysis that was done there used a number of different tools, stress testing, et cetera, to get a view as to -- because we can't re-rate the book all real-time at the end of the quarter to get a view around, well, what would migration potentially look like and come up with a view around that to then determine some level of judgment overlay to add to the provision. So we've done that in the best way we can based on the understanding of the risks as we understand them today. So that's where you would see that anticipatory migration analysis come from, at least the way we've done it. The other element of the adjustments was all the government support, which goes the other way. And we've -- including -- in that bottom-up analysis, as we thought about it, we also consider at least how that government support would play in that more bottom-up type analysis. But that's how we've come to our number. But what you don't see, like there's no -- there's -- you'll see it from a capital model perspective other than the impact of the PCL, the migration in terms of RWA will happen over time in the future based on the experience.

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Yes. So maybe, Mario, I'll jump in with the accounting side a little bit. So you're right in that IFRS 9 basically requires us to determine, right, how much of the portfolio is stage 1, how much has had significant credit deterioration so it's stage 2 and then hold 1 year or a lifetime as appropriate for each of those. So to do that, you have to have a good view of what's in stage 1 and what's in stage 2 today. And that's where, as Shawn described, all the analysis that we did to do that because we couldn't take, for example, the larger portfolios like commercial and so forth, one by one re-rate every client in the quarter, but the analysis the team did on the risk side, really estimated that for what we think would have been migrated, and that's captured in our overlays. Then in the models, it captures some of that future migration, particularly on the retail side, driven by SLIs. But on the commercial corporate side, really it captures where we think that would have been as of this quarter.

[Mario Mendonca, MD & Research Analyst]

Okay. I think that took me a long way toward understanding it.

[Operator]

The next question is from Darko Mihelic from RBC Capital Markets.

[Darko Mihelic, MD & Equity Analyst]

Thank you for extending the call to actually get to my question. I promise it's an easy one. Quarter-over-quarter, it looks like your credit risk RWA increased the least of the big 6 banks. And I'll juxtapose this against TD, which reported today as well. Your credit risk RWA is up 4% quarter-over-quarter and TD's is up 10%. And one of the things that I note in your capital supplementary, this is on Page 5, is you guys use some sort of client relief and government support programs to mitigate the increase in RWA, and TD makes no mention of that. So I wonder how much did that help you contain the RWA this quarter, if you can quantify that.

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Darko, it's Hratch. And you're welcome on extending the call. So I think you're referring to the Capital page, as you said, Page 5 in the Pillar 3 pack. I want to make it very clear that we did not get any capital benefit from the programs. And so whether it's the deferrals that we provided or the government programs, we did not -- we followed the guidance on both of those. And so whether you look at our provision that Shawn spoke about or you look at the capital and RWA sort of impact of it. We did not take any benefit from that. And so what you're seeing, if you're referring to some of the changes here, there were some changes that went to the negative side on credit quality as some of the migrations happened that Shawn mentioned, and you see that the $905 million number there on asset quality, that's netted off against that. There is a number of sort of improvements on the retail side, mainly utilization. So what you actually saw as utilization rates dropped, as Laura referenced earlier, just the way the capital models work, that provides some credit benefit, which netted off against the corporate commercial that went the other way. But what you see here is that migrations that may have happened in terms of the delinquency buckets were sort of frozen as was the guidance provided by OSFI on this. But that doesn't necessarily mean that there was capital benefit derived from that. And as Laura mentioned, a lot of those clients, particularly on the retail side, are still making payments and are delevering, which is providing a bit of a positive from a capital calculation perspective. But as that portfolio comes out and starts to either back to payment or if it does deteriorate, and we expect there'll be some of both, right, as there is for the portfolio that hasn't got any accommodation. Some people will face challenges through this crisis and some won't. But all of that will get reflected as we experience it.

[Darko Mihelic, MD & Equity Analyst]

I guess, what I'm confused by, as it says here, in Q2 '20, credit mitigations -- credit migrations were mitigated by CIBC client relief and government support programs. So I don't understand -- I mean, the verbiage seems to suggest that there was mitigation, but you're suggesting that there wasn't. Is that how I should read into that?

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Yes. So Darko, what that would have done is that refers to had we not provided that relief, maybe some folks would have had some cash flow trouble and they would have moved down delinquency buckets and then similar with some businesses. But what we've done is we have frozen the status. And again, this was the guidance provided. So we have sort of largely frozen the status of folks where they were. And we have not assumed just -- essentially what we've done, right, is not assumed just because they have elected to take the payment holiday that, that means that they cannot make payments and their credit has deteriorated, but we have looked at all of the other factors that would have potentially driven deterioration. So on the retail side, credit scores, utilizations, all of that stuff, that service still goes into the models and it gets calculated. And so both on the provision, again, I'll state that because it is important. So thank you for bringing it up. Provisions and capital, we were very deliberate as per the guidance if a company or an individual would have deteriorated regardless of deferral or no deferral, we would have reflected that. And if they took it the deferral alone, we are not going to assume they deteriorated, we're going to look at the underlying credit quality.

[Darko Mihelic, MD & Equity Analyst]

Okay. All right. So it's possible that other banks are also doing it. They just haven't explicitly printed that into their -- into the sub-packs, I guess, is another way to think of this as well, right?

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

I wouldn't -- I can't really answer that, Darko.

[Darko Mihelic, MD & Equity Analyst]

Yes. I'm just trying to understand why your credit risk RWA simply did -- I mean it's an understatement to say that quarter-over-quarter, the world changed. And we're seeing significant credit risk RWA inflation, but yours is just so small relative to everybody else's, that's why I was curious.

[Hratch Panossian, Senior EVP & CFO]

Yes. Again, I don't want to speak to the other banks, Darko. But from what I remember glancing through some of the sub-packs, there was -- if you look at the credit quality, some folks actually saw net credit quality improvement in their CET1 ratios and RWA reduction, we saw a net deterioration, right? So that was a 5 basis point drag to CET1, and that's that $905 million you see here on a net basis.

[Operator]

There are no further questions at this time. I'll turn the call back over to you, Victor.

[Victor G. Dodig, President, CEO & Director]

Thank you, operator, and thank you all of you for your very detailed questions. Before we end this call, I wanted to thank our incredible CIBC team. Thank you for your dedication and relentless focus on helping our clients achieve their ambitions during these very difficult times. Our immediate focus has been on providing our clients with the relief they need to deal with the short-term impact of the pandemic, and I think we made that very clear both in the remarks as well as in the answers to your questions. We're committed to standing with our clients and the communities we serve throughout this recovery phase. We know it will take time and resolve to get our economy and our clients back on their feet. We, as a bank, have risen to the challenge, and we're going to continue to do so as we fully support our clients and what I know will be an economic recovery ahead of us. So thank you, and take care, everyone.

[Operator]

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