ANNUAL REPORT · FORM 10-K 

Sofi Technologies, Inc,
Fiscal Year 2022.

Exceptional top-line revenue growth is being driven by a shift to a comprehensive digital financial services ecosystem, but this expansion occurs against an unusually complex risk profile defined by persistent GAAP losses. Management notes that structural policy uncertainty regarding student loan refinancing presents a material adverse impact on results of operations.

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SOFI · Form 10-K Analysis

Exceptional top-line revenue growth is being driven by a vertically integrated platform strategy, but this expansion occurs against an unusually complex risk profile defined by structural policy uncertainty and persistent GAAP losses.

Strategic Posture: Platform Integration and Deposit Funding

SoFi Technologies is executing a deliberate shift from a purely loan origination model to a comprehensive digital financial services ecosystem centered on the "Financial Services Productivity Loop." This strategy aims to increase member lifetime value by cross-selling products—from checking/savings accounts and credit cards to loans and investments.

The acquisition of SoFi Bank was a critical strategic milestone, allowing the company to transition toward a deposit-funded model. By growing its deposit base significantly in 2022, management is reducing reliance on volatile and expensive warehouse financing and securitization markets. Furthermore, the Technology Platform segment (Galileo and Technisys) provides crucial revenue diversification, leveraging SoFi’s proprietary technology stack for external enterprise clients.

Financial Reality: Growth vs. Profitability

While total net revenue grew substantially in 2022, the company remains in an investment phase with persistent financial headwinds. GAAP net losses continued to mount, and cash burn accelerated dramatically. The path to sustained profitability is complicated by rising compliance costs associated with its new bank holding company status and significant integration expenses related to recent acquisitions.

Critical Risks and Management Framing

The filing identifies a high-risk profile driven by several simultaneous, transformative challenges:

Structural Policy Risk (Existential Threat): SoFi’s largest revenue segment—student loan refinancing—faces potential structural impairment due to ongoing federal student loan policy uncertainty, including the Supreme Court's pending decision on forgiveness. Management acknowledges this decline in demand as a material adverse impact on results of operations.

Macroeconomic and Credit Risk: The rising interest rate environment is compressing net interest margins and reducing demand for home loans (a 68% drop in origination volume). Concurrently, credit risk has escalated; the charge-off rate for SoFi Credit Card surged to 12.53% in 2022, prompting a massive increase in provisions for credit losses.

Regulatory Complexity: Becoming a bank holding company introduced extensive oversight from multiple federal regulators (OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve). The company is navigating this new regulatory environment with limited institutional experience while also managing time-sensitive conformance requirements related to its digital asset operations.

Operational and Execution Risk: While the platform strategy is coherent, execution gaps exist. Integration costs for acquired entities are outpacing revenue growth in the Technology Platform segment, and the rapid scaling of newer products (like the credit card) appears to have outpaced risk management capabilities.

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Management Discussion
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Risk Factors
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Business Description
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Controls & Procedures
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Legal Proceedings
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Market Risk
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Executive Compensation
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escalated The following table summarizes our on-balance sheet liquidity:

FY2021 10-K
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Payments Due by Period ($ in thousands) Total Less than 1 Year 1 – 3 Years 3 – 5 Years More than 5 Years Warehouse debt(1) $1,641,253 $329,840 $1,205,589 $39,269 $66,555 Revolving credit facility(2) 495,336 5,377 489,959 — — Convertible Notes(3) 1,200,000 — — 1,200,000 — Operating lease obligations 167,395 22,287 44,286 39,874 60,948 Finance lease obligations 19,042 959 1,932 2,098 14,053 LA Stadium Complex naming rights(4) 540,345 22,890 46,073 54,900 416,482 Purchase commitment(5) 76,430 19,938 39,876 16,616 — Total contractual obligations(6) $4,139,801 $401,291 $1,827,715 $1,352,757 $558,038 __________________ (1)The amounts reported exclude future interest expense, other than interest accrued as of December 31, 2021, as it is difficult to predict the amount of interest we will incur due to the variability of the utilization of our warehouse debt and timing of collateral cash flows. As such, only principal commitments and the aforementioned accrued interest are included herein. See Note 10 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our warehouse debt. (2)Includes principal balance and variable interest on our revolving credit facility. The estimated interest payments assume that our borrowings under the revolving credit facility (i) remain unchanged, (ii) are held to maturity, and (iii) incur interest at the rate for standard withdrawals in effect as of December 31, 2021 through its maturity. See Note 10 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our revolving credit facility. TABLE OF CONTENTS (3)The Convertible Notes will mature on October 15, 2026, unless earlier repurchased, redeemed or converted. See “Borrowings” for additional information on these provisions. (4)The contractual obligations associated with the operating lease and finance lease components of the Naming and Sponsorship Agreement with the LA Stadium and Entertainment District are reported in the corresponding lines and are, therefore, excluded from amounts reported in this line. As of December 31, 2021, all payments associated with the planned retail district, which is currently expected to commence no earlier than 2022, are attributed to non-lease components. We do not expect the agreement to contain a material lease component, although the evaluation remains ongoing. See Note 16 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our leases and on a contingent matter associated with SoFi Stadium payments. (5)Relates to a four-year purchase commitment for cloud computing services with a total of $80 million to be incurred through the term, of which $3.6 million was already incurred in 2021. See Note 16 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. (6)Contractual obligations exclude residual interests classified as debt that result from transfers of assets that are accounted for as secured financings. Similarly, contractual obligations exclude securitization debt, as the maturity of the notes issued by the various trusts occurs upon either the maturity of the loan collateral or full payment of the loan collateral held in the trusts, the timing of which cannot be reasonably estimated. Additionally, our own liquidity resources are not required to make any contractual payments on these borrowings, except in limited instances associated with our guarantee arrangements. Our maturity date represents the legal maturity of the last class of maturing notes. See Note 16 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of our guarantees. Finally, contractual obligations exclude the impact of uncertain tax positions, as we are not able to reasonably estimate the timing of such future cash flows. See Note 14 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on income taxes and unrecognized tax benefits. Cash Flow and Liquidity Analysis The following table provides a summary of cash flow data:

FY2022 10-K
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Payments Due by Period ($ in thousands) Total Less than 1 Year 1 – 3 Years 3 – 5 Years More than 5 Years Warehouse debt(1) $3,068,968 $1,608,410 $1,418,403 $42,155 $— Revolving credit facility(2) 505,520 505,520 — — — Convertible Notes(3) 1,200,000 — — 1,200,000 — Operating lease obligations 147,320 25,120 42,899 34,383 44,918 Finance lease obligations 18,083 964 2,006 2,121 12,992 LA Stadium Complex naming rights(4) 547,185 26,943 52,894 59,505 407,843 Purchase commitment(5) 56,804 20,616 36,188 — — Total contractual obligations(6) $5,543,880 $2,187,573 $1,552,390 $1,338,164 $465,753 __________________ (1)The amounts reported exclude future interest expense, other than interest accrued as of December 31, 2022, as it is difficult to predict the amount of interest we will incur due to the variability of the utilization of our warehouse debt and timing of collateral cash flows. As such, only principal commitments and the aforementioned accrued interest are included herein. See Note 12 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our warehouse debt. (2)Includes principal balance and variable interest on our revolving credit facility. The estimated interest payments assume that our borrowings under the revolving credit facility (i) remain unchanged, (ii) are held to maturity, and (iii) incur interest at the rate for standard withdrawals in effect as of December 31, 2022 through its maturity. See Note 12 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our revolving credit facility. (3)The Convertible Notes will mature on October 15, 2026, unless earlier repurchased, redeemed or converted. See “Borrowings” for additional information on these provisions. (4)The contractual obligations associated with the operating lease and finance lease components of the Naming and Sponsorship Agreement with the LA Stadium and Entertainment District are reported in the corresponding lines and are, therefore, excluded from amounts reported in this line. As of December 31, 2022, all payments associated with the planned retail district, which is currently expected to commence during 2023, are attributed to non-lease components. We do not expect the agreement to contain a material lease component, although the evaluation remains ongoing. See Note 9 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our leases. (5)Relates to a four-year purchase commitment entered into during 2021 for cloud computing services with a total of $80 million to be incurred through the term, of which $20.5 million was incurred through December 31, 2022. See Note 18 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. (6)Contractual obligations exclude residual interests classified as debt that result from transfers of assets that are accounted for as secured financings. Similarly, contractual obligations exclude securitization debt, as the maturity of the notes issued by the various trusts occurs upon either the maturity of the loan collateral or full payment of the loan collateral held in the trusts, the timing of which cannot be reasonably estimated. Additionally, our own liquidity resources are not required to make any contractual payments on these borrowings, except in limited instances associated with our guarantee arrangements. Our maturity date represents the legal maturity of the last class of maturing notes. See Note 18 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of our guarantees. Finally, contractual obligations exclude the impact of uncertain tax positions, as we are not able to reasonably estimate the timing of such future cash flows. See Note 17 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on income taxes and unrecognized tax benefits. Guarantees We may require liquidity resources associated with our guarantee arrangements. As a component of our loan sale agreements, we make certain representations to third parties that purchased our previously held loans. We have a three-year obligation to GSEs on loans that we sell to GSEs, to repurchase any originated loans that do not meet certain GSE guidelines, and we are required to pay the full initial purchase price back to the GSEs. In addition, we make standard representations and warranties related to personal, student and home loan transfers, as well as limited credit-related repurchase guarantees on certain such transfers. If realized, any of the repurchases would require the use of cash. See Note 18 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on these and other guarantee obligations. We believe we have adequate liquidity to meet these expected obligations. Factors Affecting Liquidity We are currently dependent on the success of our lending business. The primary drivers of operating cash flows related to our Lending segment are origination volume, the holding period of our loans, loan sale execution and the timing of loan repayments. Our ability to access whole loan buyers, to sell our loans on favorable terms, to maintain adequate warehouse capacity at favorable terms, to access new SoFi bank deposits and grow existing bank deposits and to strategically manage our continuing financial interest in securitization-related transfers is critical to our growth strategy and our ability to have adequate SoFi Technologies, Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS

reworded We reconcile adjusted net revenue to total net revenue, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, for the annual periods presented below:

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(5)Transaction-related expenses during 2021 included a $21.2 million special payment to the Series 1 preferred stockholders in conjunction with the Business Combination and financial advisory and professional costs associated with transactions that occurred during the period. We incurred such costs as follows: (i) $2.2 million related to our acquisition of Golden Pacific Bank, (ii) $3.3 million related to a recently announced acquisition, and (iii) $0.6 million related to debt and equity transactions, including our convertible debt, capped call and secondary offering on behalf of certain investors. During 2020, transaction-related expenses included certain costs, such as financial advisory and professional services costs, associated with our acquisitions of Galileo and 8 Limited. (6)Our adjusted EBITDA measure excludes the non-cash fair value changes in warrants accounted for as liabilities, which were measured at fair value through earnings. The amounts in 2019 and 2020, as well as a portion of 2021, related to changes in the fair value of Series H warrants issued by Social Finance in 2019 in connection with certain redeemable preferred stock issuances. We did not measure the Series H warrants at fair value subsequent to May 28, 2021 in conjunction with the Business Combination, as they were reclassified into permanent equity. In addition, in conjunction with the Business Combination, SoFi Technologies assumed certain common stock warrants (“SoFi Technologies warrants”) that were accounted for as liabilities and measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The fair value of the SoFi Technologies warrants was based on the closing price of ticker SOFIW and, therefore, fluctuated based on market activity. The vast majority of outstanding SoFi Technologies warrants were exercised during the fourth quarter of 2021, and therefore the Company incurred gains and losses associated with fair value changes until the warrant liabilities converted into SoFi common stock. The remaining unexercised warrants were redeemed at a redemption price of $0.10 on December 6, 2021. See Note 9 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. (7)Reflects changes in fair value inputs and assumptions, including market servicing costs, conditional prepayment and default rates and discount rates. This non-cash change is unrealized during the period and, therefore, has no impact on our cash flows from operations. As such, these positive and negative changes in fair value attributable to assumption changes are adjusted out of net loss to provide management and financial users with better visibility into the earnings available to finance our operations. (8)Reflects changes in fair value inputs and assumptions, including conditional prepayment and default rates and discount rates. When third parties finance our consolidated VIEs through purchasing residual interests, we receive proceeds at the time of the securitization close and, thereafter, pass along contractual cash flows to the residual interest owner. These obligations are measured at fair value on a recurring basis, which has no impact on our initial financing proceeds, our future obligations to the residual interest owner (because future residual interest claims are limited to contractual securitization collateral cash flows), or the general operations of our business. As such, these positive and negative non-cash changes in fair value attributable to assumption changes are adjusted out of net loss to provide management and financial users with better visibility into the earnings available to finance our operations. We reconcile adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss), the most directly comparable GAAP measure, for the quarterly periods indicated below:

FY2022 10-K
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liabilities resulting from intangible assets acquired from Galileo in May 2020. See Note 17 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. (3)Depreciation and amortization expense in 2022 increased compared to 2021 primarily in connection with our recent acquisitions and growth in our software balance, partially offset by the acceleration of core banking infrastructure amortization during the 2021 period. The increase in 2021 compared to 2020 was primarily in connection with our 2020 acquisitions, amortization of purchased and internally-developed software, and depreciation related to SoFi Stadium fixed assets, partially offset by a decrease related to the acceleration of core banking infrastructure amortization. (4)Transaction-related expenses in 2022 primarily included financial advisory and professional services costs associated with our acquisition of Technisys and an exploratory process. Transaction-related expenses in 2021 included the special payment to the holders of Series 1 Redeemable Preferred Stock in conjunction with the Business Combination and financial advisory and professional costs associated with our then-pending acquisitions of Golden Pacific and Technisys. During 2020, transaction-related expenses included financial advisory and professional services costs associated with our acquisitions of Galileo and 8 Limited. (5)Our adjusted EBITDA measure excludes the non-cash fair value changes in warrants accounted for as liabilities, which were measured at fair value through earnings. The amount in 2020, as well as a portion of 2021, related to changes in the fair value of Series H warrants issued by Social Finance in connection with certain redeemable preferred stock issuances. We did not measure the Series H warrants at fair value subsequent to May 28, 2021 in conjunction with the Business Combination, as they were reclassified into permanent equity. In addition, in conjunction with the Business Combination, SoFi Technologies assumed certain common stock warrants (“SoFi Technologies warrants”) that were accounted for as liabilities and measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The fair value of the SoFi Technologies warrants was based on the closing price of ticker SOFIW and, therefore, fluctuated based on market activity. The outstanding SoFi Technologies warrants were either exercised during the fourth quarter of 2021 or redeemed on December 6, 2021. (6)Reflects changes in fair value inputs and assumptions, including market servicing costs, conditional prepayment, default rates and discount rates. This non-cash change is unrealized during the period and, therefore, has no impact on our cash flows from operations. As such, these positive and negative changes in fair value attributable to assumption changes are adjusted out of net loss to provide management and financial users with better visibility into the earnings available to finance our operations. (7)Reflects changes in fair value inputs and assumptions, including conditional prepayment, default rates and discount rates. When third parties finance our consolidated VIEs through purchasing residual interests, we receive proceeds at the time of the securitization close and, thereafter, pass along contractual cash flows to the residual interest owner. These obligations are measured at fair value on a recurring basis, which has no impact on our initial financing proceeds, our future obligations to the residual interest owner (because future residual interest claims are limited to contractual securitization collateral cash flows), or the general operations of our business. As such, these positive and negative non-cash changes in fair value attributable to assumption changes are adjusted out of net loss to provide management and financial users with better visibility into the earnings available to finance our operations. We reconcile adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, for the quarterly periods presented below: