Barry Sloane | President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Jennifer Eddelson | Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer |
Leslie Vandegrift | Raymond James |
Nicholas Grant | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods |
Mickey Schleien | Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. |
Casey Alexander | Compass Point Research and Trading, LLC |
Scott Sullivan | Merrill Lynch |
Lisa Springer | Singular Research |
Marc Silk | Silk Investment Advisors |
Michael Kitlinski | UBS |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Newtek Business Services full year 2017 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.