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Discount exits 2025 with a strong domestic banking core, but 2026 will be judged on execution once CPI and rates stop providing the same support and CAL still has not closed.
Mercantile went through a real one-off cleanup in 2025 through the retirement plan, but even after adding NIS 105 million back to the bottom line, profitability only returns to roughly the 4Q24 level and does not yet prove that a new earnings tier has been built.
IDBNY entered 2025 with a clear leadership and strategy reset, but it exited the year with only 5.5% ROE, a 3.6% fourth quarter, and only partial evidence that a profitability-over-size model is already working.
The CAL sale should release meaningful regulatory capital for Discount, but the first number that matters is the CET1 uplift rather than the one-off gain, and the move to actual capital return still depends on closing and a board allocation decision.
