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Matt Frankel

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

I don't think that the 10% thing is going to happen.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

John mentioned Buy Now, Pay Later as an obvious beneficiary.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Think of any company that focuses on alternate ways of borrowing money, home equity loan companies, companies like SoFi.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

The President said absolutely nothing about capping personal loan interest rates.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Anything that offers alternative ways of providing the credit that Americans have grown accustomed to could be companies to watch here.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

I'm looking for Capital One.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Wouldn't you know it, the President wants to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, and Capital One pulled back by 10% in response.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Nice coincidence there.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

As we've discussed, the 10% cap is unlikely to happen.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

I don't know what's going to happen, but this bank has excellent profitability.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

It trades for less than 12X earnings right now.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

The Discover merger, which was completed last year, creates some really interesting possibilities.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Capital One is now the only major bank that owns a payment network.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

It will take time, but the company is gradually moving its own portfolio, especially debit cards, onto the Discover network, saving the interchange fees that it would normally be paying to Visa and MasterCard.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

It could ultimately provide third-party processing for other banks' cards with its own network.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Capital One is a founder-led bank.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

A lot of people don't realize that.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

It's the largest founder-led bank in the country and has an excellent credit card business, a massive customer base, especially now after the Discover merger.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

It's doing a great job of taking deposit market share from the other branch-based institutions by offering things like high-yield deposit accounts that the big four don't offer.

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Bank Profits Rise Amid Credit Card Uncertainty

Capital One is one that I'm really watching right now.