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Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans

Posted by NYCYellowCabTaxi.com on February 23, 2017

Ride-sharing apps are distressing traditional cab companies (and their debt).


There’s a good reason your cab driver is so cranky: His livelihood might be teetering on the edge of default. According to a recent presentation prepared for Capital One Financial Corp. investors, some 81 percent of its $690 million in loans for taxi medallions are at risk of default.

Medallions, the small metal shields affixed to the hoods of taxi cabs, are issued by the local taxi authority and effectively allow the cabs to operate legally. Owning one used to be akin to owning a gas-guzzling, money-printing machine. Medallions in New York City traded at more than $1 million in 2014, but today’s prices are about half of that.

Now the share of taxi medallion loans Capital One thinks its borrowers won’t be able to repay in full has nearly tripled over the past year, to 51.5 percent. (Another 29 percent of loans are to stressed borrowers who could be in trouble soon.)

BankUnited told its investors in November that nearly 59 percent of its loans secured by taxi medallions were under water. Close to 95 percent of the BankUnited’s loans were to New York City borrowers. “This is the portion of our loan portfolio that we keep the closest eye on, for obvious reasons,” Rajinder Singh, then BankUnited’s chief operating officer, told investors last January.

The distressed taxi industry is under assault from ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. and competitor Lyft Inc. Uber recently became the preferable mode of transportation for business travelers and has gained market share among leisure travelers.

In New York City, people took fewer trips and spent less on taxis during the first half of last year compared with 2015, according to a November securities filing from lender Medallion Financial Corp. Capital One doesn’t detail where its taxi customers are located, though Betsy Graseck, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, told clients in October she believes most of the loans are to New York City cab owners. Michael Bulger, a spokesman for Capital One, declined to comment.

Not every bank is struggling under the weight of delinquent taxi loans, according to Ethan Gerber, executive director of Greater New York Taxi Association. Lenders that seek out “compromises and solutions” are faring better than their peers, he said. Gerber added that banks that continue to lend to their taxi customers “will do far better than the ones that decided all of a sudden to clamp down on their borrowers.”

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6 thoughts on “Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans”

  1. The plan on February 26, 2017 at 4:29 pm said:

    I believe that the taxi industry , and medallion owners are so stupid or brain washed dont know what to do getting these medallions back to life.
    The only secret to bring these taxi to life is to hire 5year experienced drivers for 200$ flat cash a day for 12 hours .
    these drivers will work only for curb app or ehail app.and passenger must have at least two trips a day .so any passenger that book in two trips a day or 60 a month can have access to the curb.
    period .This method will kill uber lyft or via over night..

  2. Itsme on February 28, 2017 at 2:21 am said:

    I would like to introduce to the new york city a new tech kind of selfdriving cars and that would be a
    TOILET SELFDRIVING CAR
    this car will help cabies relieve theselves easily.thank you for sharing .peacr

  3. HellBoy on March 7, 2017 at 12:19 pm said:

    50,000 Ubers..?…What About The Environmental Impact ..???

  4. Alec on March 16, 2017 at 7:50 am said:

    It is a shame that the Mayor de Blazio and Taxi Limousine Commission did not protect yellow taxi industry. If no action will be taken to defend yellow industry, a lot of drivers will lose their jobs including Uber’s and Lift’s drivers as well because very soon every driver will be replaced by cars who driver without drivers. And it could happen in two years. Drivers stand up against Uber and Lift if you like to keep your job as a driver.

  5. JoeSpa on March 22, 2017 at 10:18 am said:

    ” very soon every driver will be replaced by cars who driver without drivers”

    This is years away from being technically feasible in a a big city, and a far longer time away from being politically accepted. It’s already possible to operate subway trains with no driver (that was invented in the 1960s), but politicians (who want to buy captive votes from unions) blew it off. Now, only Airtrain and similar operations are fully automated in the USA.

  6. FairShare on March 22, 2017 at 6:57 pm said:

    Driverless subway trains proved to be unsafe and prone to malfunctions. Driverless cars will be x1000 times worse. Better buy snapchat or some other Silicon Valley scheme.

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