Medallion Financial Corp.

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Medallion Financial second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star, then 1 on your telephone keypad. Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star and 0. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ken Cooper with Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Medallion Financial's second quarter earnings call. Joining me today are Andrew Merstein, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Larry Hall, Chief Financial Officer. Certain statements made during the call today constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to and within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as amended. Such forward-looking statements are subject to both known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Those risks and uncertainties are described in our earnings press release issued earlier and in our filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements made today are as of the date of this call, and we do not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. With that, let me turn the call over to Andrew. Andrew?

Thank you, Ken.