EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services companies in the United States and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

PNC has businesses engaged in retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, asset management and residential mortgage banking, providing many of its products and services nationally, as well as other products and services in PNC’s primary geographic markets located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Alabama, Virginia, Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin and South Carolina. PNC also provides certain products and services internationally.

KEY STRATEGIC GOALS

At PNC we manage our company for the long term. We are focused on the fundamentals of growing customers, loans, deposits and fee revenue and improving profitability, while investing for the future and managing risk, expenses and capital. We continue to invest in our products, markets and brand, and embrace our corporate responsibility to the communities where we do business.

We strive to expand and deepen customer relationships by offering convenient banking options and innovative technology solutions, providing a broad range of fee-based and credit products and services, focusing on customer service and enhancing our brand. Our approach is concentrated on organically growing and deepening client relationships that meet our risk/return measures. Our strategies for growing fee income across our lines of business are focused on achieving deeper market penetration and cross selling our diverse product mix.

Our strategic priorities are designed to enhance value over the long-term. A key priority is to drive growth in acquired and underpenetrated markets, including in the Southeast. We are seeking to attract more of the investable assets of new and existing clients. PNC is focused on redefining our retail

banking business to a more customer-centric and sustainable model while lowering delivery costs as customer banking preferences evolve. We are working to build a stronger residential mortgage banking business with the goal of becoming the provider of choice for our customers. Additionally, we continue to focus on expense management.

Our capital priorities for 2013 are to support client growth and business investment, maintain appropriate capital in light of economic uncertainty and the Basel III framework and return excess capital to shareholders through dividends, in accordance with our capital plan included in our 2013 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) submission to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve). We continue to improve our capital levels and ratios through retention of quarterly earnings and expect to build capital through retention of future earnings. During 2013, PNC does not expect to repurchase common stock through a share buyback program. PNC continues to maintain substantial liquidity positions at both PNC and PNC Bank, National Association (PNC Bank, N.A.). For more detail, see the 2013 Capital and Liquidity Actions portion of this Executive Summary, the Funding and Capital Sources portion of the Consolidated Balance Sheet Review section and the Liquidity Risk Management section of this Financial Review and the Supervision and Regulation section in Item 1 Business of our 2012 Form 10-K.

PNC faces a variety of risks that may impact various aspects of our risk profile from time to time. The extent of such impacts may vary depending on factors such as the current economic, political and regulatory environment, merger and acquisition activity and operational challenges. Many of these risks and our risk management strategies are described in more detail in our 2012 Form 10-K and elsewhere in this Report.

RECENT MARKET AND INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

There have been numerous legislative and regulatory developments and dramatic changes in the competitive landscape of our industry over the last several years. The United States and other governments have undertaken major

 

reform of the regulation of the financial services industry, including engaging in new efforts to impose requirements designed to strengthen the stability of the financial system and protect consumers and investors. We expect to face further increased regulation of our industry as a result of current and future initiatives intended to provide economic stimulus, financial market stability and enhanced regulation of financial services companies and to enhance the liquidity and solvency of financial institutions and markets. We also expect in many cases more intense scrutiny from our supervisors in the examination process and more aggressive enforcement of regulations on both the federal and state levels. Compliance with new regulations will increase our costs and reduce our revenue. Some new regulations may limit our ability to pursue certain desirable business opportunities.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), enacted in July 2010, mandates the most wide-ranging overhaul of financial industry regulation in decades. Many parts of the law are now in effect, and others are now in the implementation stage, which is likely to continue for several years.

New and evolving capital and liquidity standards will have a significant effect on banks and bank holding companies, including PNC. In July 2013, the U.S. banking agencies issued final rules that implement the Basel III capital framework in the United States and make other important changes to the U.S. regulatory capital standards. The rules are composed of three fundamental parts. The first part, referred to as the Basel III rules, materially modifies the definition of, and required deductions from, regulatory capital, and establishes the levels of regulatory capital needed to meet regulatory minimum and buffer requirements. For banking organizations subject to Basel II (such as PNC), the Basel III rules become effective on January 1, 2014, although many provisions are phased-in over a period of years, with the rules generally fully phased-in as of January 1, 2019. The second part, which is referred to as the advanced approaches rules, and the third part, which is referred to as the standardized approach rules, materially revise the framework for the risk-weighting of assets under Basel I and Basel II, respectively. The advanced approaches rules become effective on January 1, 2014, and the standardized approach rules become effective on January 1, 2015.

The Basel III rules that become effective on January 1, 2014, among other things, narrow the definition of regulatory capital; require banking organizations with $15 billion or more in assets to phase-out trust preferred securities from Tier 1 regulatory capital; establish a new Tier 1 common capital requirement for banking organizations; revise the capital levels at which a bank would be subject to prompt corrective action; require that significant common stock investments in unconsolidated financial institutions (as defined in the final rules), as well as mortgage servicing rights and deferred tax assets, be deducted from regulatory capital to the extent such items individually exceed 10%, or in the aggregate exceed 15%, of the organization’s adjusted Tier 1

common capital; significantly limit the extent to which minority interests in consolidated subsidiaries (including minority interests in the form of REIT preferred securities) may be included in regulatory capital; and, for banking organizations subject to the advanced approaches (like PNC) remove the filter that currently excludes unrealized gains and losses (other than those resulting from other-than-temporary impairments) on available for sale debt securities from affecting regulatory capital. As a result of the staggered effective dates of the final rules issued in July 2013, as well as the fact that PNC remains in the parallel run qualification phase for the advanced approaches, PNC’s effective regulatory risk-based capital ratios in 2014 for purposes of determining whether PNC is “well capitalized” will be based on the definitions of (and deductions from) capital under the Basel III rules (as such rules are phased-in) and the current Basel I risk-weighting asset framework, subject to certain adjustments. After PNC exits the parallel run qualification phase under the advanced approaches, PNC’s regulatory capital ratios will be determined using the higher of PNC’s risk-weighted assets calculated under the advanced approaches or the standardized approach. For additional information concerning the final capital rules issued in July 2013, see the Recent Market and Industry Developments portion of the Executive Summary section in our second quarter 2013 Form 10-Q.

The Federal Reserve on September 24, 2013, also adopted interim final rules to clarify how bank holding companies with $50 billion or more in total assets, including PNC, must incorporate the new final capital rules into their capital plan and stress tests submissions for the 2014 CCAR and Dodd-Frank Act stress test process. Under the interim final rules, the capital plan submissions submitted in January 2014 as part of the annual CCAR process must demonstrate how the bank holding company, under different hypothetical macro-economic scenarios, including a severely stressed scenario provided by the Federal Reserve (the supervisory severely adverse scenario), would be able to maintain throughout each quarter of the nine quarter planning horizon (i) a Tier 1 common capital ratio, calculated in accordance with the definition of Tier 1 common and the Basel I rules in effect in 2013, in excess of 5 percent; and (ii) regulatory risk-based capital ratios that exceed the minimums that are or would then be in effect for the relevant bank holding company, taking into account the final rules adopted in July 2013 and any applicable phase-in periods under those rules. The Federal Reserve may object to a bank holding company’s capital plan if it is unable to demonstrate an ability to maintain capital above these levels throughout the nine quarter planning horizon, including under the supervisory severely adverse scenario, even if the company continued with the capital distributions proposed under a baseline scenario. If the Federal Reserve makes such an objection, the company may be unable to pay or increase its common stock dividends, continue, reinstate or increase any common stock repurchase programs, or redeem or issue preferred stock or other regulatory capital instruments.

 

In October 2013, the U.S. banking agencies requested comment on proposed rules that would implement the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which is a quantitative liquidity standard included in the international Basel III framework. The proposed rules are designed to ensure that covered banking organizations maintain an adequate level of cash and high quality, unencumbered liquid assets (HQLA) to meet estimated net liquidity needs in a short-term stress scenario using liquidity inflow and outflow assumptions provided in the rules (net cash outflow). An institution’s LCR is the amount of its HQLA, as defined and calculated in accordance with the haircuts and limitations in the rule, divided by its net cash outflow, with the quotient expressed as a ratio. Under the proposed rules, top-tier bank holding companies (like PNC) that are subject to the advanced approaches for regulatory capital purposes, as well as any subsidiary depository institution of such a company that has $10 billion or more in total consolidated assets (such as PNC Bank, N.A.) would, following a phase-in period, have to maintain an LCR equal to at least 1.0 based on the entity’s highest daily projected level of net cash outflows over the next 30 calendar days.

The proposed rules in several important respects are more restrictive than the LCR requirement included in the international Basel III framework. For example, the proposal would phase-in the LCR more quickly than required under the Basel III framework, with full compliance required beginning January 1, 2017. The comment period on the proposed rules is scheduled to run through January 31, 2014. Although the impact on PNC will not be fully known until the rules are final, we expect to be in compliance with the requirements when they become effective.

The need to maintain more and higher quality capital, as well as greater liquidity, could limit PNC’s business activities, including lending, and its ability to expand, either organically or through acquisitions. It could also result in PNC taking steps to increase its capital which may be dilutive to shareholders or being limited in its ability to pay dividends or otherwise return capital to shareholders, or selling or refraining from acquiring assets, the capital requirements for which are inconsistent with the assets’ underlying risks. In addition, the new liquidity standards could require PNC to increase its holdings of highly liquid short-term investments, thereby reducing PNC’s ability to invest in longer-term or less liquid assets even if more desirable from a balance sheet management perspective. Moreover, although these new requirements are being phased in over time, U.S. federal banking agencies have been taking into account expectations regarding the ability of banks to meet these new requirements, including under stressed conditions, in approving actions that represent uses of capital, such as dividend increases, share repurchases and acquisitions.

On July 31, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment to the

plaintiffs in NACS, et al. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The decision vacated the debit card interchange and network processing rules that went into effect in October 2011 and that were adopted by the Federal Reserve to implement provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The court found among other things that the debit card interchange fees permitted under the rules allowed card issuers to recover costs that were not permitted by the statute. The court has stayed its decision pending appeal, and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted an expedited appeal. We do not now know the ultimate impact of this ruling, nor the timing of any such impact, but if the ruling were to take effect it could have a materially adverse impact on our debit card interchange revenues. Debit card interchange revenue for the year ended December 31, 2012 was approximately $305 million.

The U.S. banking agencies (together with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Securities and Exchange Commission), on August 28, 2013, requested comments on new proposed rules to implement the risk retention requirement in Dodd-Frank. The new proposed rules, which replace the rules initially proposed in 2011, would generally require the sponsors of securitization transactions to retain a certain amount of exposure to the credit risk of the assets underlying the securitization transaction. The new proposed rules differ in several material respects from those issued in 2011. For example, the new rules generally base the required amount of risk retention on the fair value of the securities issued in the securitization transaction, eliminate the premium capture cash reserve account aspect of the initial proposal, and define a qualified residential mortgage (QRM) by reference to the definition of a “qualified mortgage” established by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As under the initial proposal, securitization transactions backed by QRMs, as well as transactions backed by commercial loans, commercial mortgages, or automobile loans that meet specified standards, would not be subject to a risk retention requirement. The comment period on the new proposed rules closed on October 30, 2013. Until the rules are finalized and take effect, the ultimate impact of these rules on PNC remains unpredictable. The ultimate impact of the rules on PNC could be direct, by requiring PNC to hold interests in a securitization vehicle or other assets that represent a portion of the credit risk of the assets held by the securitization vehicle, or indirect, by impacting markets in which PNC participates and increasing the costs associated with mortgage assets that we originate.

For additional information concerning recent legislative and regulatory developments, as well as certain governmental, legislative and regulatory inquiries and investigations that may affect PNC, please see Item 1 Business – Supervision and Regulation, Item 1A Risk Factors and Note 23 Legal Proceedings in Item 8 of our 2012 Form 10-K, Recent Market and Industry Developments in the Executive Summary section

 

of the Financial Review in our First and Second Quarter 2013 Form 10-Qs, and Note 17 Legal Proceedings and Note 18 Commitments and Guarantees in the Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Report.

KEY FACTORS AFFECTING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Our financial performance is substantially affected by a number of external factors outside of our control, including the following:

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General economic conditions, including the continuity, speed and stamina of the moderate U.S. economic recovery in general and on our customers in particular,

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The ability of the U.S. government to resolve budgetary and funding issues without another government shutdown and without a default on U.S. obligations,

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The level of, and direction, timing and magnitude of movement in, interest rates and the shape of the interest rate yield curve,

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The functioning and other performance of, and availability of liquidity in, the capital and other financial markets,

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Loan demand, utilization of credit commitments and standby letters of credit, and asset quality,

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Customer demand for non-loan products and services,

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Changes in the competitive and regulatory landscape and in counterparty creditworthiness and performance as the financial services industry restructures in the current environment,

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The impact of the extensive reforms enacted in the Dodd-Frank legislation and other legislative, regulatory and administrative initiatives, including those outlined elsewhere in this Report, in our 2012 Form 10-K and in our other SEC filings, and

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The impact of market credit spreads on asset valuations.

In addition, our success will depend upon, among other things:

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Focused execution of strategic priorities for organic customer growth opportunities,

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Further success in growing profitability through the acquisition and retention of customers and deepening relationships,

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Driving growth in acquired and underpenetrated geographic markets, including our Southeast markets,

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Our ability to effectively manage PNC’s balance sheet and generate net interest income,

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Revenue growth and our ability to provide innovative and valued products to our customers,

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Our ability to utilize technology to develop and deliver products and services to our customers and protect PNC’s systems and customer information,

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Our ability to manage and implement strategic business objectives within the changing regulatory environment,

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A sustained focus on expense management,

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Improving our overall asset quality,

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Managing the non-strategic assets portfolio and impaired assets,

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Continuing to maintain and grow our deposit base as a low-cost funding source,

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Prudent risk and capital management related to our efforts to manage risk to acceptable levels and to meet evolving regulatory capital standards,

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Actions we take within the capital and other financial markets,

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The impact of legal and regulatory-related contingencies, and

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The appropriateness of reserves needed for critical accounting estimates and related contingencies.

For additional information, please see the Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information section in this Financial Review and Item 1A Risk Factors in our 2012 Form 10-K and in Part II of this Report.

INCOME STATEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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Net income for the third quarter of 2013 of $1.0 billion increased 12% compared to the third quarter of 2012. The increase was driven by a 9% reduction of noninterest expense and a decline in provision for credit losses, partially offset by a 4% decline in revenue, which resulted from lower net interest income as noninterest income was stable. For additional detail, please see the Consolidated Income Statement Review section in this Financial Review.

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Net interest income of $2.2 billion for the third quarter of 2013 decreased 7% compared with the third quarter of 2012, reflecting the impact of lower yields on loans and securities and lower purchase accounting accretion, partially offset by lower rates paid on borrowed funds and deposits.

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Net interest margin decreased to 3.47% for the third quarter of 2013 compared to 3.82% for the third quarter of 2012, consistent with the decline in net interest income.

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Noninterest income of $1.7 billion for the third quarter of 2013 was relatively unchanged from the third quarter of 2012. Strong growth in client fee income was offset by lower residential mortgage revenue, driven by lower loan sales revenue, and lower gains on asset sales and valuations.

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The provision for credit losses decreased to $137 million for the third quarter of 2013 compared to $228 million for the third quarter of 2012 due to overall credit quality improvement.

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Noninterest expense of $2.4 billion for the third quarter of 2013 decreased 9% compared with the third quarter of 2012 as we continued to focus on expense management. The decline reflected lower noncash charges related to redemption of trust preferred securities and the impact of third quarter 2012 integration costs.

 

CREDIT QUALITY HIGHLIGHTS

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Overall credit quality continued to improve during the third quarter of 2013. The following comparisons to December 31, 2012 were impacted by alignment with interagency guidance in the first quarter of 2013 on practices for loans and lines of credit related to consumer lending. This had the overall effect of (i) accelerating charge-offs, (ii) increasing nonperforming loans and (iii), in the case of loans accounted for under the fair value option, increasing nonaccrual loans. See the Credit Risk Management section of this Financial Review for further detail.

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Nonperforming assets decreased $.2 billion, or 5%, to $3.6 billion at September 30, 2013 compared to December 31, 2012, mainly due to a reduction in total commercial nonperforming loans, primarily related to commercial real estate. OREO also added to the decline in nonperforming assets due to an increase in sales. Nonperforming consumer troubled debt restructurings decreased as more loans returned to performing status upon achieving six months of performance under the restructured terms. That and other principal activity within consumer loans caused a decrease in consumer nonperforming loans. These decreases were offset by the impact from the alignment with interagency guidance for loans and lines of credit related to consumer loans which resulted in $426 million of loans being classified as nonperforming in the first quarter of 2013. Nonperforming assets to total assets were 1.17% at September 30, 2013, compared to 1.24% at December 31, 2012 and 1.34% at September 30, 2012.

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Overall delinquencies of $2.7 billion decreased $1.1 billion, or 29%, compared with December 31, 2012. The reduction was due to a reduction in government insured residential real estate accruing loans past due 90 days or more of approximately $370 million along with a decline in total consumer loan delinquencies of $395 million during the first quarter of 2013, pursuant to alignment with interagency guidance whereby loans were moved from various delinquency categories to either nonperforming or, in the case of loans accounted for under the fair value option, nonaccruing, or charged off.

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Net charge-offs of $224 million decreased $107 million, or 32%, compared to the third quarter of 2012, primarily due to improving credit quality. On an annualized basis, net charge-offs were 0.47% of average loans for the third quarter of 2013 and 0.73% of average loans for the third quarter of 2012. Net charge-offs for the first nine months of 2013 were $888 million, down from net charge-offs for the first nine months of 2012 of $979 million, due to improving credit quality in the second and third quarters of 2013, which was partially offset by the impact of alignment with interagency guidance in the first quarter of 2013. On an annualized basis, net charge-offs for the first nine months of 2013 were

0.63% of average loans and 0.75% of average loans for the first nine months of 2012.

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The allowance for loan and lease losses was 1.91% of total loans and 115% of nonperforming loans at September 30, 2013, compared with 2.17% and 124% at December 31, 2012, respectively. The decrease in the allowance compared with year end resulted from improved overall credit quality and the impact of alignment with interagency guidance.

BALANCE SHEET HIGHLIGHTS

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Total loans increased by $7.0 billion to $193 billion at September 30, 2013 compared to December 31, 2012.

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Total commercial lending increased by $5.5 billion, or 5%, from December 31, 2012, as a result of growth in commercial loans to new and existing customers.

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Total consumer lending increased $1.5 billion, or 2%, from December 31, 2012, primarily from growth in automobile and home equity loans, partially offset by paydowns of education loans.

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Total deposits increased by $2.9 billion to $216 billion at September 30, 2013 compared with December 31, 2012, driven by growth in transaction deposits.

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PNC’s well-positioned balance sheet remained core funded with a loans to deposits ratio of 89% at September 30, 2013.

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PNC had a strong capital position at September 30, 2013.

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The Basel I Tier 1 common capital ratio increased to 10.3% compared with 9.6% at December 31, 2012.

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The pro forma fully phased-in Basel III Tier 1 common capital ratio increased to an estimated 8.7% at September 30, 2013 compared with 7.5% at December 31, 2012 and was calculated using PNC’s estimated risk-weighted assets under the Basel III advanced approaches.

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The Federal Reserve announced final rules implementing Basel III on July 2, 2013. Our estimate of Basel III capital is based on our current understanding of the final Basel III rules.

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See the Capital discussion and Table 22: Estimated Pro forma Basel III Tier 1 Common Capital Ratio in the Consolidated Balance Sheet Review section of this Financial Review for more detail.

Our Consolidated Income Statement and Consolidated Balance Sheet Review sections of this Financial Review describe in greater detail the various items that impacted our results for the first nine months of 2013 and 2012 and balances at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.

 

2013 CAPITAL AND LIQUIDITY ACTIONS

Our ability to take certain capital actions, including plans to pay or increase common stock dividends or to repurchase shares under current or future programs, is subject to the results of the supervisory assessment of capital adequacy undertaken by the Federal Reserve and our primary bank regulators as part of the CCAR process.

In connection with the 2013 CCAR, PNC submitted its capital plan, approved by its board of directors, to the Federal Reserve and our primary bank regulators in January 2013. As we announced on March 14, 2013, the Federal Reserve accepted the capital plan and did not object to our proposed capital actions, which included a recommendation to increase the quarterly common stock dividend in the second quarter of 2013. In April 2013, our board of directors approved an increase to PNC’s quarterly common stock dividend from 40 cents per common share to 44 cents per common share. A share repurchase program for 2013 was not included in the capital plan primarily as a result of PNC’s 2012 acquisition of RBC Bank (USA) and expansion into Southeastern markets. For additional information concerning the CCAR process and the factors the Federal Reserve takes into consideration in evaluating capital plans, see Item 1 Business – Supervision and Regulation included in our 2012 Form 10-K.

See the Liquidity Risk Management portion of the Risk Management section of this Financial Review, as well as Note 20 Subsequent Events in the Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements in this Report, for more detail on our 2013 capital and liquidity actions.

2012 ACQUISITION AND DIVESTITURE ACTIVITY

See Note 2 Acquisition and Divestiture Activity in the Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements in this Report for information regarding our March 2, 2012 RBC Bank (USA) acquisition and other 2012 acquisition and divestiture activity.

AVERAGE CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET HIGHLIGHTS

Table 2: Summarized Average Balance Sheet

 

Nine months ended September 30 Dollars in millions		2013				2012
Average assets
Interest-earning assets
Investment securities		$	57,304			$	61,293
Loans			188,419				174,410
Other			11,606				11,142
Total interest-earning assets			257,329				246,845
Other			45,597				45,794
Total average assets		$	302,926			$	292,639
Average liabilities and equity
Interest-bearing liabilities
Interest-bearing deposits		$	145,041			$	139,272
Borrowed funds			38,994				42,362
Total interest-bearing liabilities			184,035				181,634
Noninterest-bearing deposits			65,485				60,295
Other liabilities			11,301				11,288
Equity			42,105				39,422
Total average liabilities and equity		$	302,926			$	292,639

Various seasonal and other factors impact our period-end balances, whereas average balances are generally more indicative of underlying business trends apart from the impact of acquisitions and divestitures. The Consolidated Balance Sheet Review section of this Financial Review provides information on changes in selected Consolidated Balance Sheet categories at September 30, 2013 compared with December 31, 2012.

Total average assets increased to $302.9 billion for the first nine months of 2013 compared with $292.6 billion for the first nine months of 2012, primarily due to an increase of $10.5 billion in average interest-earning assets driven by an increase in average total loans. Total assets were $308.6 billion at September 30, 2013 compared with $305.1 billion at December 31, 2012.

Average total loans increased by $14.0 billion to $188.4 billion for the first nine months of 2013 compared with the first nine months of 2012, including increases in average commercial loans of $10.1 billion, average consumer loans of $2.6 billion and average commercial real estate loans of $1.2 billion. The overall increase in loans reflected organic loan growth, primarily in our Corporate & Institutional Banking segment.

Loans represented 73% of average interest-earning assets for the first nine months of 2013 and 71% of average interest-earning assets for the first nine months of 2012.

 

Average investment securities decreased $4.0 billion to $57.3 billion in the first nine months of 2013 compared with the first nine months of 2012, primarily as a result of principal payments, including prepayments and maturities, partially offset by net purchase activity. Total investment securities comprised 22% of average interest-earning assets for the first nine months of 2013 and 25% for the first nine months of 2012.

Average noninterest-earning assets decreased $.2 billion to $45.6 billion in the first nine months of 2013 compared with the first nine months of 2012. The decline reflected decreased unsettled securities sales, partially offset by the impact of higher adjustments for net unrealized gains on securities, both of which are included in noninterest-earning assets for average balance sheet purposes.

Average total deposits increased $11.0 billion to $210.5 billion in the first nine months of 2013 compared with the first nine months of 2012, primarily due to an increase of $15.7 billion in average transaction deposits, which grew to $174.9 billion for the first nine months of 2013. Higher average interest-bearing demand deposits, average noninterest-bearing deposits and average money market deposits drove the increase in average transaction deposits, driven by organic growth. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $4.7 billion in average retail certificates of deposit attributable to runoff of maturing accounts. Total deposits at September 30, 2013 were $216.1 billion compared with $213.1 billion at December 31, 2012 and are further discussed within the Consolidated Balance Sheet Review section of this Financial Review.

Average total deposits represented 69% of average total assets for the first nine months of 2013 and 68% for the first nine months of 2012.

Average borrowed funds decreased by $3.4 billion to $39.0 billion for the first nine months of 2013 compared with the first nine months of 2012, primarily due to lower average Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) borrowings, lower average federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements, and lower average commercial paper. Total borrowed funds at September 30, 2013 were $40.3 billion compared with $40.9 billion at December 31, 2012 and are further discussed within the Consolidated Balance Sheet Review section of this Financial Review. The Liquidity Risk Management portion of the Risk Management section of this Financial Review includes additional information regarding our borrowed funds.

BUSINESS SEGMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Total business segment earnings were $3.0 billion for the first nine months of 2013 and $2.6 billion for the first nine months of 2012. The Business Segments Review section of this Financial Review includes further analysis of our business segment results over the first nine months of 2013 and 2012, including presentation differences from Note 19 Segment Reporting in our Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements of this Report. Note 19 Segment Reporting presents results of businesses for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012.

We provide a reconciliation of total business segment earnings to PNC total consolidated net income as reported on a GAAP basis in Note 19 Segment Reporting in our Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements of this Report.

 

CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT REVIEW

Our Consolidated Income Statement is presented in Part I, Item 1 of this Report.

Net income for the first nine months of 2013 was $3.2 billion, compared with net income of $2.3 billion for the first nine months of 2012. The increase in year-over-year net income was driven by revenue growth of 4%, a decline in noninterest expense of 6% and a decrease in provision for credit losses. Higher revenue for the first nine months of 2013 reflected lower provision for residential mortgage repurchase obligations, strong client fee income and higher gains on asset valuations and was partially offset by lower net interest income and lower gains on asset sales.

Net income for the third quarter of 2013 was $1.0 billion compared with $.9 billion for the third quarter of 2012. The increase in net income was due to a 9% reduction in noninterest expense and a decline in provision for credit losses, partially offset by a 4% decline in revenue. Lower revenue in the comparison resulted from lower net interest income while noninterest income was stable.

NET INTEREST INCOME

Table 4: Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin

 

		Nine months ended September 30								Three months ended September 30
Dollars in millions		2013				2012				2013				2012
Net interest income		$	6,881			$	7,216			$	2,234			$	2,399
Net interest margin			3.62	%			3.93	%			3.47	%			3.82	%

Changes in net interest income and margin result from the interaction of the volume and composition of interest-earning assets and related yields, interest-bearing liabilities and related rates paid, and noninterest-bearing sources of funding. See the Statistical Information (Unaudited) – Average Consolidated Balance Sheet And Net Interest Analysis section of this Report and the discussion of purchase accounting accretion of purchased impaired loans in the Consolidated Balance Sheet review of this Report for additional information.

Net interest income decreased by $335 million, or 5%, in the first nine months of 2013 compared with the first nine months of 2012 and decreased by $165 million, or 7%, in the third quarter of 2013 compared with the third quarter of 2012. The declines in both comparisons reflected lower purchase accounting accretion, the impact of lower yields on loans and securities, and the impact of lower securities balances. These decreases were partially offset by higher loan balances, reflecting commercial and consumer loan growth over the period, and lower rates paid on borrowed funds and deposits. The nine months period comparison was also positively impacted by the March 2012 RBC Bank (USA) acquisition.

The declines in net interest margin for both the first nine months and third quarter of 2013 compared with the 2012 periods reflected lower yields on earning assets and lower purchase accounting accretion. The decrease for the first nine months of 2013 included a 44 basis point decrease in the yield on total interest-earning assets, partially offset by a decrease in the weighted-average rate accrued on total interest-bearing liabilities of 15 basis points. In the third quarter comparison, the yield on total interest-earning assets decreased 45 basis points, partially offset by a decrease in the weighted-average rate accrued on total interest-bearing liabilities of 12 basis points.

The decreases in the yield on interest-earning assets were primarily due to lower rates on new loans and purchased securities in the ongoing low rate environment. The decreases in the rate accrued on interest-bearing liabilities were primarily due to redemptions and maturities of higher-rate bank notes and senior debt and subordinated debt, including the redemption of trust preferred and hybrid capital securities.

In the fourth quarter of 2013, we expect net interest income to be down modestly reflecting the anticipated continued decline in total purchase accounting accretion, which is expected to total approximately $175 million for the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to $199 million for the third quarter of 2013.

For the full year 2013, we expect total purchase accounting accretion to decline by approximately $300 million compared with 2012, less than we had anticipated earlier, due to elevated cash recoveries. We expect total purchase accounting accretion to be down approximately $300 million in 2014 compared with 2013.

NONINTEREST INCOME

Table 5: Noninterest Income

 

		Nine months ended September 30								Three months ended September 30
Dollars in millions		2013				2012				2013				2012
Noninterest income
Asset management		$	978			$	867			$	330			$	305
Consumer services			926				842				316				288
Corporate services			909				817				306				295
Residential mortgage			600				284				199				227
Service charges on deposits			439				423				156				152
Net gains on sales of securities			96				159				21				40
Net other-than-temporary impairments			(16	)			(96	)			(2	)			(24	)
Other			1,126				931				360				406
Total noninterest income		$	5,058			$	4,227			$	1,686			$	1,689

Noninterest income increased by $831 million, or 20%, during the first nine months of 2013 compared to the first nine months of 2012. The increase in the comparison reflected