BIMIZCI Urges Stockholders to Vote for Its Outstanding Nominees to the Board Who Will Strengthen Medallion and Represent Stockholders. MFIN Wants to Distract from Underlying Underperformance and Possible Dividend Issues – We Won’t Let Them.
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BIMIZCI’s total cash investment of
$11.7 million is 42% stock and 58% preferred securities -
ISS and Glass Lewis, 2 of the world’s best-known proxy firms, supported 2 BIMIZCI candidates and agreed that change was necessary at
Medallion Financial -
BIMIZCI is Medallion's 4th largest institutional stockholder as of
June 4, 2026 , has been invested for more than 5 years, and owns 530,250 shares plus$15 million par value of trust preferred securities as ofJune 4, 2026 -
We are asking stockholders of record as of
April 13, 2026 , to vote the BLUE proxy card now at https://restoretheshine.com/vote - Medallion and its Board continue to push an easily disprovable narrative about BIMIZCI in a desperate effort to distract from underperformance and dividend sustainability
- The market has spoken with 1Q26 0.80x Price/Tangible Book multiple near all-time lows
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Medallion's total shareholder returns were the lowest in its peer group over nearly every measured period, Recreation loan charge-offs hit a 16-yr high, 1Q26 earnings were the lowest in 5 years, and the SBA declared an event of default on
$73.5 million of subsidiary debentures - BIMIZCI has engaged with Medallion over 50 times in the last 3 years, delivered 2 white papers, and has been ignored or dismissed nearly every time
Medallion’s sensational ad hominem attacks are a worn, and arguably self-destructive, tactic. We would prefer MFIN direct its energy towards addressing the specific governance and operating weaknesses we have repeatedly identified. We repeat sections from our previous press release because Medallion and its Board continue to push an easily disprovable narrative in a transparent attempt to manipulate stockholders. Medallion and
It is telling that a management team and board that spent years as defendants in an
The difference is the record. Where the
We published a “rebuttal deck” HERE refuting the majority of Medallion’s inaccurate claims and personal attacks. We have issued a Cease & Desist letter to Medallion once already. This unethical behavior should be unacceptable for any public company — and yet we are not surprised. Medallion’s Board has tolerated, and rewarded, unethical behavior in the past.
The question is, what is Medallion so desperate to hide that it is now relying on blogger posts to attack our board nominees who clearly bring expertise that is lacking? We believe there are two main reasons they are afraid:
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That we will push to change executive compensation to match sustainable performance, bring accountability and pursue bonus clawbacks;
- That our nominees will have unfettered access to internal company documents and will bring in a 3rd party objective law firm to investigate ethics violations.
Medallion argues that board change would disrupt value creation. Let us consider a few of the changes BIMIZCI is advocating for that Medallion describes as disruptive; but that most investors would describe as common-sense improvements:
Governance
- Refresh the board — it does not make sense to have a board of 8 with 5 directors older than 80 within the year
- Bring technology expertise onto the board
- Enforce MFIN’s code of ethical conduct and clawback policy for bad executive behavior
- Put all directors up for re-election every year so stockholders can hold them accountable
Strategy
- Diversify revenues away from consumer and consumer discretionary
- Apply deep analytics to dynamically understand credit risk
- Invest in ancillary services to increase fee income
- Improve the capital stack so as not to jeopardize dividends
Technology
- Develop a near-term and long-term tech strategy to better compete with Fintech who are now applying for and receiving bank charters
- Use AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, underwriting, pricing, distribution, servicing
- Apply tech to productivity – begin a full operational top-down analysis
Compensation
- Link bonuses and compensation to goals connected to the CORE business
- Stop transferring control by buying back shares and then giving them to insiders
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Take away the
$28 million change-in-control that would be owed to the top 5 executives if Medallion were sold
Stockholders of record as of
View the rebuttal deck at https://restoretheshine.com/materials/bimizci-rebuttal-mfin-may-2026-presentation
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