FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES THE ONLY INTEREST FINTECH EQUITY RESEARCH PLATFORM

LAUNCH COVERAGE: ENXTAM:ADYEN, NASDAQ:AFRM, NYSE:AXP, NASDAQ:AVDX, NYSE:BILL, NYSE:SQ, NASDAQ:COIN, NASDAQ:EXFY, NASDAQ:FLYW, NASDAQ:GLBE, NYSE:LMND, NASDAQ:MM , NYSE:MA, NYSE:NU, NYSE:PAGS, NYSE:PAY, NASDAQ:PYPL, NASDAQ:RELY, NASDAQ:HOOD, NYSE:SHOP, NASDAQ:SOFI, NYSE:TOST, NASDAQ:UPST, NYSE:V, LSE : WISE

For more information: https://www.ftpartners.com/public-equity-research

NEW YORK, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Financial Technology Partners (“FT Partners”), the first and only global investment bank focused exclusively on FinTech, is proud to announce the launch of the firm’s Equity Research platform. Building on more than 20 years of dedicated coverage of the FinTech ecosystem, FT Partners’ new Equity Research platform expands the breadth and depth of its global advisory offering, strengthening the firm’s positioning as the leading expert in both the public and private FinTech space.

Steve McLaughlinfounder and CEO of FT Partners, said “FT Partners has emerged as the largest global advisory franchise in FinTech and market demand for our entry into the equity research business has been building over the last decade. We have recruited who we believe to be the most respected Equity Research analysts in the area. While in stealth mode for the past year, support for our redesigned Equity Research offering from both the buy-side and issuers has been universally enthusiastic.”

FT Partners’ Equity Research team is led by Co-Directors of Research, Craig Maurer and Matt O’Neill, who together bring more than 35 years of experience from the sales side. Craig was most recently Managing Director at Autonomous Research / Alliance Bernstein covering 15+ FinTech issuers and Matt most recently led FinTech Equity Research coverage at Goldman Sachs covering 25+ stocks. We are also pleased to announce the recent hiring of Rob Rileypreviously from Citadel, Balyasny and FrontPoint, as head of share sales.

FT Partners’ Equity Research offering has been redesigned and differs significantly from what has become typical of sell-side research coverage. Most critically and uniquely, FT Partners Equity Research:

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• Will be free, with our large volume of in-depth published research available to qualified institutional investors at no cost and with no obligation to trade / pay commissions

• Will avoid the inherent friction introduced by rapidly outdated/single-time ratings, price targets and earnings estimates (ie no ratings, price targets or earnings estimates)

• Will instead focus on deep and more meaningful scenario-based analyzes and financial modelling, using several valuation methods, assessing both short- and long-term results, and where the results may deviate from the consensus view

• Will be functionally aesthetic, designed to be digested quickly, while providing all the necessary layering, content and context for institutional investors to arrive at the best-informed investment decisions on a real-time basis

• Will include unparalleled coverage of the private companies and their CEOs across the FinTech ecosystem aiming to disrupt legacy public sector players

Initially, FT Partners Equity Research is launching coverage of more than two dozen public companies, and will focus on key FinTech companies driving the next decade of FinTech innovation. FinTech sub-sectors represented in our first tranche of coverage include payments, e-commerce platforms, Challenger banks, financial management solutions, alternative lending, remittances, InsurTech and capital markets technology. In the long term, FT Partners intends to further expand its equity analysis coverage to all key FinTech sub-sectors and geographies. All published research will be provided free of charge to qualified institutional investors, including but not limited to:

• Proprietary Company Profiles

• In-depth sub-sector reports

• Deep dive into company-specific reports

• Notes covering revenue from preview to review

• Real-time analysis of impactful news or events

• Weekly publications

• FT Partners’ world-renowned private company and sector research

This free published research will be accompanied by a wide range of deeper content and analyst/network access, for Premium Access subscribers, including but not limited to:

• Direct access to our industry-leading equity research analysts

• Access to detailed working financial models

• Invitations to private VIP conferences

• Company access to key private and public company managers and managers

• Webinars with highly topical speakers

• Strategic tailor-made events

• Limited and compliant access to FT Partners’ investment bankers, operations managers and CEO

Originally covered companies per March 20, 2023:

• Adyen (ADYEN-NL)

• Confirm (AFRM)

• AvidXchange (AVDX)

• American Express (AXP)

• BILL (BILL)

• Coinbase (COIN)

• Expensify (EXFY)

• Flywire (FLYW)

• Global-e (GLBE)

• Robinhood (HOOD)

• Lemonade (LMND)

• Mastercard (MA)

• Market (MQ)

• Now (NOW)

• PagSeguro (PAGS)

• Paymentus (PAY)

• PayPal (PYPL)

• Remitly (RELY)

• Shopify (SHOP)

• SoFi (SOFI)

• Block (SQ)

• Toast

• Upstart (UPST)

• Visa (V)

• Wise (WISE-GB)

Introductory webinar This Wednesday 22 March on 1 p.m. EDT

Join us on Wednesday, March 22^n.d on 1 p.m. EDT for one Introduction to FT Partners Equity Research and discussion with Craig, Matt and Rob, along with FT Partners’ CEO Greg Smith and special guest, our founder and CEO Steve McLaughlin. Click here to register.

Receiving FT Partners Published Equity Research and Premium Access

Eligible institutional investors known to FT Partners will have already received a welcome email from [email protected] with instructions on how to access our research via the firm’s website. Those interested in accessing our offerings, including Premium Access which requires a commercial agreement, but have not yet received instructions on how to do so, can contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more information.

About FT Partners

Financial Technology Partners (“FT Partners”) is the first and only global investment banking firm focused exclusively on the FinTech sector. We define the sector broadly as the dynamic convergence of technology-based solutions and financial services. FT Partners was recently recognized as “Dealer of the Year” and “Investment Banking Firm of the Year.” While FT Partners has largely provided buy-side and sell-side M&A and private capital raising services for the past two decades, FT Partners will now emphasize its comprehensive IPO Advisory offering as well as its new IPO Underwriting/Equity Research platform.

The company was founded by Steve McLaughlinManaging Partner, former senior investment banker in Goldman Sachs & Co.’s Financial Technology Group and Financial Institutions Group i New York and San Francisco. The firm’s founder and senior bankers are all highly experienced investment bankers previously with financial technology, M&A and the investment banking groups of mainly Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan in New York, San Francisco, Londonand Los Angeles.

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