Medallion Financial Corp.

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Greetings and welcome to Medallion Financial's second quarter 2022 earnings conference call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question and answer session. At that time, if you have a question, please press the 1 followed by the 4 on your telephone keypad. If at any time during the conference you need to reach an operator, please press star 0. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to Ken Cooper of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Medallion Financial Corp's second quarter earnings call. Joining me today are Andrew Merstein, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Anthony Controne, 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 yesterday 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. In addition to our earnings press release, you can find our second quarter supplement presentation on our website at medallion.com and clicking investor relations. The presentation is near the top of the page. With that, let me now turn the call over to Andrew. Andrew?