Report
Stephen Ellis
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Signature Bank Continues to Build Taxi Provisions in Q4, but Worst Seems to Be Over

We remain somewhat disappointed that Signature is continually adding substantial provisions to cover taxi medallion losses, yet we think management has realized its mistake, and the vast majority of the business is doing extremely well. Earnings are at record levels. We plan to maintain our $136 fair value estimate and narrow moat rating. After adding $47 million in provisions last quarter, and $101 million in charge-offs, Signature added another $5.5 million in provisions, while charge-offs fel...
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Signature Bank

Signature Bank is a commercial bank with private client offices located in the New York metropolitan area, providing a variety of business and personal banking products and services. The company also has a private client banking office in San Francisco. The company provides a variety of financing and leasing products, brokerage, asset management and insurance products and services, and a range of municipal finance and tax-exempt lending and leasing products to government entities, including state and local governments, school districts, fire and police and other municipal entities. Additionally, the company purchases, securitizes and sells the guaranteed portions of U.S. Small Business Administration loans.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Stephen Ellis

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