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There you have the closing bell at the NYSE
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Here at the NYSE with Glenn Williams
Her: Congradulations on being the incoming CEO.
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Glenn: Thank you very much, I'm glad to be here and Im proud to be leading such a great company.
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Her: You are the title is new but the comany is not.
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Your a veteran of 34 years, you must have seen alot happen in your company including a spin off from Citi.
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What are your plans to grow value for your shareholders?
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We do have a great legacy as a 38 year old company. But also, as a company that is 5 years new.
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Just 5 years since our IPO, we've had tremendous returns during that time.
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Very proud of our market performance, were even prouder of our marketplace performance.
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Our ability to do business in the middle market, with the members of main street across US and Canada. We believe that market is huge.
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The opportunity there for our growth is bigger going forward then it's been in the past.
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Just since we've been public, the middle market has added over 2 million households in the US and Canada.
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So, It's growing more rapidly than we are.
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We believe we can have a tremendous future of growth because of the size of that marketplace.
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Her - As you mentioned, middle market is key for your company and when we see americans save the extra cash they have for
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from lower oil prices, rather than spend it. There's a shift happening in this country.
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Can you tell me what your seeing in main street USA.
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Glenn - I'de love to we do see that additional disposable income is beginning to appear due to falling gas prices.
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We see confidence increasing, that does mean people are more opptimistic and looking forward to making plans for the future.
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That works well in our business, because when we sit down with clients on main street we are generally sitting down with them
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in thier homes about thier finances and we are seeing more willingness to take advantage of those opportunities