MoneyLion Completes Acquisition of Even Financial, the Market Leader in Integrated Finance

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MoneyLion Inc. (“MoneyLion”) (NYSE: ML), the award-winning digital finance platform, has completed its acquisition of Even Financial Inc. (“Even”), the class-leading integrated finance marketplace. Acquisition strengthens MoneyLion’s platform by improving consumers’ ability to find and access the right financial products to help them manage their financial lives through Even’s network, spanning more than 400 partner financial institutions and 500 partners distribution and covering a wide range of financial services, including loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings products and insurance.

The acquisition increases MoneyLion’s distribution capabilities, diversifies its revenue mix and is expected to be accretive to MoneyLion’s earnings, with Even expected to add positive EBITDA in 2022, excluding synergies.

“With this transaction, we have combined MoneyLion’s powerful proprietary products and open-architecture marketplace with Even’s dynamic recommendation engine and expanding partner network to expand the range of products and services within the MoneyLion platform.” , said Dee Choubey, co-founder and CEO of ArgentLion. “In doing so, we have strengthened our product leadership to position MoneyLion as a “must-have” consumer credit product for hard-working Americans. Together, MoneyLion and Even will improve the financial lives of existing consumers and expand our reach to serve a new consumer segment. With our current capabilities, we are well positioned to advance our leadership position in hyper-personalized lifestyle content and financial recommendations.

Phillip Rosen, Founder and CEO of Even commented:At Even, our vision has always been to revolutionize the way consumers receive recommendations for financial services. Through a combination of machine learning expertise and our trusted user experience, Even has helped over 400 partner financial institutions find and connect with consumers. Going forward, we are excited to play a vital role in fueling MoneyLion’s rapidly growing marketplace and offering MoneyLion’s suite of products to our channel partners.

MoneyLion and Even have completed the first phase of their product integration, with more than 60 solution providers from Even’s network now represented in MoneyLion’s marketplace for personal loans, life insurance, auto insurance , home ownership and other services.

Even will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of MoneyLion, led by Even’s current management team. Phillip Rosen will continue in his role as CEO of Even and join MoneyLion’s executive committee.

Evercore served as financial advisor and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as legal advisor to MoneyLion. Broadhaven served as financial advisor and Goodwin Procter LLP as legal advisor to Even.

For more information on the acquisition, please see the Investor Presentation.

About MoneyLion

MoneyLion is a mobile banking and finance membership platform that empowers people to take control of their finances. Since its launch in 2013, MoneyLion has engaged with millions of hard-working Americans and earned the trust of its members by creating a full-service digital platform to provide mobile banking, lending and banking solutions. ‘investment. From a single app, members can get a 360-degree view of their finances and access personalized tools, content, and offers designed to improve their financial lives. MoneyLion is headquartered in New York with offices in Sioux Falls and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MoneyLion has won various recognition awards, including Forbes FinTech 50 2020, Aite Group’s Best Digital Wealth Management Multi-Product Offering, Finovate Award for Best Digital Bank 2019, Benzinga FinTech Awards Winner for Innovation in Personal Finance 2019 and the Webby Awards 2019 People’s Voice Award.

For more information about the company, visit www.moneylion.com. For investor information and updates, visit www.moneylion.com/investors and follow @MoneyLionIR on Twitter.

About Even Financial

Founded in 2014, Even digitally connects and connects consumers with real-time, personalized financial product recommendations from banks, insurance and fintech companies on mobile apps, websites and other touchpoints. contact with consumers through its market technology. Even’s infrastructure leverages machine learning and advanced data science to solve a significant problem in customer acquisition in financial services, by seamlessly connecting financial service providers (such as SoFi ) and distribution partners (such as TransUnion) through its state-of-the-art API and integrated financial markets. Even allows any business to add financial products to their business, with full compliance and security at scale. Even was named one of “America’s Best Startup Employers’ by Forbes for 2021 and ranked in the Top 50 of the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the world’s fastest growing technology companies. Learn more at www.evenfinancial.com.

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