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SoFi Technologies, Inc. Common Stock Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference 2026

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Will NanceVP of Equity Research

All right. We are going to kick it off now. Kicking us off for the entire conference is Chris Lapointe from SoFi. Very excited to have you. Chris has been the long-serving CFO since 2020 and has been at SoFi for longer than that, so thank you for being here.

Chris LapointeCFO

No, appreciate you having me.

Will NanceVP of Equity Research

Thanks, Will. All right. Let's kick it off.

Will NanceVP of Equity Research

I think it might be good to start with the state of the union here. You're coming off several years of really rapid growth. Personal loan originations have grown tremendously. SoFi Plus has seen rapid membership growth straight out of the gate. You've continued to diversify the product set. Where do you think you are in the evolution of the business and the broadening out from the core personal products?

Chris LapointeCFO

Yeah, absolutely. We've had a tremendous start to the year here in 2026. We've generated approximately 40% year-over-year revenue growth in each of the first two quarters and approximately 30% adjusted EBITDA margins, which puts us at a produced Rule of 40 score of about 70, which is your revenue growth plus adjusted EBITDA margins, which is really unusual given our size and scale as a business. What's just as important is the fact that this isn't a one or two-quarter phenomenon. We've been consistently outpacing the Rule of 40 for the past 20 consecutive quarters. So the last five years, we've had a Rule of 40 score north of 40%. What's even more important is since 2022, our members, our products, and our revenue have all compounded at more than 30% each year.

Chris LapointeCFO

What we are most excited about is despite all the success that we have had, especially recently, it still feels like we are in early days as a company. It feels just like we were back in 2018 when Anthony and I joined. At that time, we only had 650,000 members. Today, we are adding that many members every 7 to 8 weeks. The quality of that membership is continuing to improve. This past quarter, we added double the amount of products relative to members. We added 2.2 million products versus 1.1 million members, which is the first time that we have achieved that ratio, and cross-buy accelerated to 51%, meaning 51% of all new products that were taken out came from existing members on the platform, which demonstrates that our financial services productivity loop and everything app strategy is really working and hitting an inflection point.

Chris LapointeCFO

At the same time, we have all of these newer businesses like SMB, SoFi Plus, SoFiUSD, SoFi Tech Solutions, all in their early stages of growth and profitability. The combination of these maturing businesses growing at the pace that they are, as well as all of these new growth vectors, makes us really excited to be at the company at this point in time.

Will NanceVP of Equity Research

Yeah. I guess one of the big changes this year was the pivot to growing the balance sheet and pivoting away slightly from the third-party loan buyers. Q1, you channeled $5.4 billion of loans to the balance sheet. I think that stepped up to $7.5 billion and then around $10 billion to $11 billion after that. Can you walk us through just the decision framework each quarter, and then talk about how much runway there remains to keep growing the balance sheet at that pace before capital starts to become the binding constraint?

Chris LapointeCFO

Yep, absolutely. I would not define this necessarily as a pivot away from Loan Platform Business partners. We had excess demand from those parties in each of the last two quarters. In fact, we did not fulfill all of the demand that we have. What I would say is the assessment of risk-adjusted returns and what risk-adjusted return assets would create the most durable revenue given our current capital position is what actually changed. We have a really high risk-based capital ratio, which is far north of the regulatory minimum and where we think we should be operating the business. This past quarter, we originated $10.7 billion of personal loans, $7.6 billion of which came to the balance sheet, $3.1 billion of which went through our LPB business.

Chris LapointeCFO

What I would say is we don't manage to a predetermined split between what goes on the balance sheet and what goes to the LPB business. What we're managing to is what's going to deliver us the best risk-adjusted returns, given the demand we see from borrowers, the demand that we see from our capital markets partners, and the durability of the resulting revenue that we're able to generate. If we put loans on the balance sheet, we're able to generate predictable recurring net interest income that gives us really good visibility over the course of the next six to eight quarters. On the flip side of that, we can generate revenue through our Loan Platform Business and distribute loans that way, which is much more capital efficient and enables us to serve more members than we otherwise would be able to do.

Chris LapointeCFO

So putting the two together, we view them as complementary, and we're going to manage the business to the best risk-adjusted return at any given point in time, given where our capital ratios are, and that's what you saw in Q1 and Q2.

Will NanceVP of Equity Research

Got it. So as you think about the go-forward levels of capital and funding, risk-based capital came down to 18.8%. You said low to mid-teens is the right long-term level. You have a lot of funding levers between the deposit base, the LPB partnerships, securitization pricing, which has been very favorable. How are you thinking about the funding mix and capital needs over the next couple of years?

Chris LapointeCFO

Yeah. I'll hit on both the funding mix and the capital separately because we have a lot of flexibility across both of them. From a funding perspective, deposits are the foundation of our funding mix. Right now, 93% of the funding stack is coming from high-quality deposits. Most of which are from direct deposit relationships. Right now, over 90% of our member deposits are coming from direct deposit members. And we can supplement that funding with unused warehouse lines. We have significant capacity from a warehouse perspective. We also have great access to the securitization markets, whole loan sales, and you mentioned the 86 basis point spread that we've been able to achieve through the re-securitizations of loans that we put through the LPB business.

Chris LapointeCFO

That's a really good proof point of the demand that we have for loans that are originated by SoFi and the quality of those loans to be able to price those at industry-leading levels. On the capital front, we have an 18.8% total risk-based capital ratio, which is well north of the 10.5% regulatory minimum that we have and the low to mid-teens level that we want to operate at. The thing I would say is that our capital capacity is not static. As we continue to grow our profitability, our organic capacity is going to continue to increase. At the same time, we're starting to drive more growth into fee-based revenues streams like LPB, like brokerage, like credit card, et cetera, which is going to naturally increase our ability to use less equity to drive even more revenue.

Chris LapointeCFO

Taken together, those levers give us a lot of confidence and flexibility in the model and will be used dynamically going forward.

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