MoneyLion
MoneyLion Completes Acquisition of Even Financial, the Category Leading Embedded Finance Marketplace
NEW YORK, NY, February 17, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MoneyLion Inc. (“MoneyLion”) (NYSE: ML), the award-winning digital financial platform, has completed its acquisition of Even Financial Inc. (“Even”), the category-leading embedded finance marketplace. The acquisition strengthens MoneyLion’s platform by improving consumers’ abilities to find and access the right financial products to help them manage their financial lives through Even’s network, spanning over 400 financial institution partners and 500 channel partners and covering a breadth of financial services including loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings and insurance products.
The acquisition increases MoneyLion’s distribution capabilities, diversifies its revenue composition 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 first-party products and open architecture marketplace with Even’s dynamic recommendation engine and expanding partner network to broaden the range of products and services within the MoneyLion platform,” said Dee Choubey, co-founder and CEO of MoneyLion. “In doing so, we have enhanced our product leadership to position MoneyLion as a ‘must have’ consumer finance product for hard-working Americans. Together, MoneyLion and Even will improve existing consumers’ financial lives and expand our aperture to service a new segment of consumers. Together with our current capabilities, we are well positioned to advance our leading 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 how consumers receive recommendations for financial services. Through a combination of machine learning expertise and our trusted user experience, Even has helped over 400 financial institution partners find and connect with consumers. Going forward, we are excited to play an integral role in powering MoneyLion’s fast-growing Marketplace and offer MoneyLion’s suite of products to our channel partners.”
MoneyLion and Even have completed the first phase of their product integration, with over 60 solutions providers from Even’s network now represented in MoneyLion’s Marketplace across personal loans, life insurance, auto insurance, homeownership 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 will 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 additional information about the acquisition, please review the investor presentation.
About MoneyLion
MoneyLion is a mobile banking and financial 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 has earned its members’ trust by building a full-service digital platform to deliver mobile banking, lending, and investment solutions. From a single app, members can get a 360-degree snapshot of their finances and have access to personalized tools, content and offers designed to improve their financial lives. MoneyLion is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Sioux Falls and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MoneyLion has achieved various awards of recognition including the 2020 Forbes FinTech 50, Aite Group Best Digital Wealth Management Multiproduct 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.
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About Even Financial
Founded in 2014, Even digitally connects and matches consumers with real-time, personalized financial product recommendations from banks, insurance and fintech companies on mobile apps, websites and other consumer touchpoints through its marketplace technology. Even's infrastructure leverages machine learning and advanced data science to solve a significant pain point in financial services customer acquisition, seamlessly bridging financial services providers (such as SoFi) and channel partners (such as TransUnion) via its industry-leading API and embedded finance marketplaces. Even enables any company 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 placed in the Top 50 of the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the fastest growing tech companies in the world. Learn more at www.evenfinancial.com.
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