Comerica Incorporated (CMA) CEO Curt Farmer on Q2 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA) Q2 2021 Earnings Conference Call July 21, 2021 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Darlene Persons - Director of Investor Relations
Curt Farmer - President & Chief Executive Officer
Jim Herzog - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Peter Sefzik - Director of Commercial Banking
Melinda Chausse - Chief Credit Officer

Conference Call Participants

Gary Tenner - DA Davidson
Ken Zerbe - Morgan Stanley
Jon Arfstrom - RBC Capital Markets
Ebrahim Poonawala - Bank of America
John Pancari - Evercore ISI
Scott Siefers - Piper Sandler
Steven Alexopoulos - JP Morgan
Ken Usdin - Jefferies
Bill Carcache - Wolfe Research
Chris McGratty - KBW
Steve Moss - B. Riley Securities
Jennifer Demba - Truist Securities

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Comerica Quarterly Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand the conference over to Darlene Persons, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Darlene Persons

Thanks, Regina. Good morning and welcome to Comerica's second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Participating on this call will be our President, Chairman and CEO, Curt Farmer; Chief Financial Officer, Jim Herzog; Chief Credit Officer, Melinda Chausse; and Executive Director of our Commercial Bank, Peter Sefzik.

During this presentation, we will be referring to slides which provide additional details. The presentation slides and our press release are available on the SEC's website, as well as in the Investor Relations section of our website comerica.com. This conference call contains forward-looking statements and in that regard, you should be mindful of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially vary from expectations. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this presentation and we undertake no obligation