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Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (HBAN) — this company's answers

The model's full reasoning — Q4 2022 call → NOWe need to determine if the transcript shows the dynamic described. The question asks about a "recently emerged positive element" that analysts probe, and whether management responds with unhesitating, granular operational command, answering follow-ups with specific present-tense working detail, while conveying that the element's contribution is still early. We need to identify what element is being probed. The transcript mentions several things: Capstone (a capital markets business acquired? It says "Capstone continued to perform well" and "we are very pleased with that. The integration into the bank channels is going very, very well." Also "Capstone's had a good performance thus far. They had a very strong pipeline coming into the year." Also "the $100 million revenue run rate" and "we expect that to continue and sustain and continue to grow as we go into '23." This seems like a recently emerged element? Capstone was acquired? The transcript says "the full-year run rate of Capstone in Toronto" and "Capstone continued to perform well" and "we are executing on our strategy to drive higher value revenue streams." Also "Capstone is doing really, really well. They beat the plan for Q3. Overall, more than the $100 million run rate, if you look at the back half of revenues." This suggests Capstone is a recent acquisition or new business that is contributing meaningfully. Analysts probe it? Let's see the Q&A. The question about capital markets: "Can you touch on what you're seeing there? You talked about Capstone and then some of your other businesses. Are these referrals coming to Capstone internally. Is it business generated on their own? And what do you think there in terms of the longer-term runway?" That's from Jon Arfstrom. Management responds with Zach and Steve. Zach says: "Capital markets is a real bright spot for us. the core underlying capital markets, excluding Capstone, grew 26% revenue year-over-year in 2022, and we expect another run rate of double-digit teams are above revenue growth as we go into '23. So, we're seeing just really sustained traction in the underlying strategy there is to deepen relationships with additional clients continue to penetrate that set of services and products into our core customer base and reap the benefits of it.

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