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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. –Jan. 30, 2023 – SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI), a member-centric, one-stop shop for digital financial services that helps members borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money, reported financial results today for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. The Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Earnings Results and the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Earnings Results Presentation can all be found at https://investors.sofi.com.

SoFi’s executive management team will host a live audio webcast beginning at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (5:00 a.m. Pacific Time) today to discuss the quarter and full year financial results and business highlights.

All interested parties are invited to listen to the live webcast at https://investors.sofi.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the SoFi Investor Relations website for 30 days. Investor information, including supplemental financial information, is available on SoFi’s Investor Relations website at https://investors.sofi.com.

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SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) is a member-centric, one-stop shop for digital financial services on a mission to help people achieve financial independence to realize their ambitions. The company’s full suite of financial products and services helps its more than 5.2 million SoFi members borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better by giving them fast access to the tools they need to get their money right, all in one app. SoFi also equips members with the resources they need to get ahead – like career advisors, Certified Financial Planners, (CFP®), exclusive experiences and events, and a thriving community – on their path to financial independence.

SoFi Technologies innovates across three business segments: Lending, Financial Services – which includes SoFi Checking and Savings, SoFi Invest, SoFi Credit Card, SoFi Protect, and SoFi Insights – and Technology Platform, which offers the only end-to-end vertically integrated financial technology stack. SoFi Bank, N.A., an affiliate of SoFi, is a nationally chartered bank, regulated by the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC. The company is also the naming rights partner of SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams. For more information, visit SoFi.com or download our iOS and Android apps.

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SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), the digital personal finance company, received seven 2023 Best-Of Awards from NerdWallet, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRDS), a platform that provides financial guidance to consumers and small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). A recent NerdWallet survey found that only 30% of Americans know where to find reputable information when they have questions about financial products and topics. In order to better help consumers and small to midsize businesses understand their options when it comes to their finances, they announced the winners of their 2023 Best-Of Awards.

This year’s awards recognize the best financial products across Banking, Credit Cards, Insurance, Investing, Mortgages, Personal Loans, Student Loans, and Travel Rewards.

SoFi received five Best-Of Awards for: Best Checking Account Overall; Best Checking Account for High Interest; Best Checking Account with No Monthly Fee; Best Checking Account for Overdraft Fee Avoidance; and Best Checking and Savings Combo. Additionally, SoFi received two personal loan awards for: Best Personal Loan for Good and Excellent Credit; and Best Online Personal Loan.

NerdWallet’s survey, conducted online in November 2022 by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults, also found that one-third of Americans (33%) plan on making new financial goals for 2023. In order to identify the best products for consumers, the Best-Of Award winners were selected by NerdWallet’s knowledgeable subject matter experts with years of experience reviewing and evaluating these personal finance products for Nerdwallet.com. Over 40 Nerds from our editorial team compared rates and rewards of over 1,000 products, did side-by-side comparisons, and conducted objective ratings and reviews to help consumers confidently choose the best products for them.

A complete list of NerdWallet’s 2023 Best-Of Awards winners can be found at: www.nerdwallet.com/awards

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Check Engine Soon

That’s the dashboard light no one likes to see. Occasionally it’s a simple malfunction and no big deal, but other times it’s a more ominous sign.

The check engine light came on in the services sector of the US economy last Friday. Namely, the ISM Services PMI clocked in at 49.6 for December, missing expectations, and dropping from 56.5 in November. Perhaps the more important shift was that it fell below 50 (considered the “neutral” reading), which indicates that services are now in contraction territory along with manufacturing.

In all prior recessions when this metric was tracked, Services PMI fell below 50 after the recessions had already begun. This is not a great sign for economic growth, but it could be a good sign for inflation.

Strong Winds on Bridge

After a high in February 2022, the goods component of inflation has been trending downward, falling materially in Q4. I would expect this trend to continue. And given the outrageously high readings in the first half of 2022, we may see outright deflation in goods CPI this year. A battle won, but not the war.

Inflation has also come down overall, but the services component has kept it propped up despite the cooling in goods. Services inflation includes things like shelter (a.k.a. housing, which I’ll cover in a minute), medical care, transportation, recreation, and education, among others. Until last week’s contractionary reading, many still pointed to the services sector as the bright spot that may get us across the economic bridge without much trouble.

Alas, trouble is in the air. Some of it won’t be so bad. In fact, I don’t think we’ll hear many complaints over airfare or hotel accommodations falling in price. But there’s another side to every coin: as services inflation comes down it may benefit consumers, but hurt the business providing said services as their revenue falls.

We are now in an environment I’d label as “pick your poison.” Prices may come down quite dramatically for things we spend money on everyday, and by the middle of this year we could find ourselves in a very different inflation situation than we were just 6 months before. But inflation doesn’t come down for no reason, it comes down because the demand/supply equation gets more in balance. If demand is falling, so is consumer spending. If demand and consumer spending are falling, so is corporate revenue. You’ll probably tire of hearing me say this, but I have to do it again: we can’t have it both ways.

One of the major components of the CPI chart above is shelter. I’ll stop short of describing the wonky way it’s measured in CPI because it’s not a direct read of home prices like you’d expect. In any event, home prices and rents remain quite elevated and can take an irritatingly long time to reflect what we already know…that activity has slowed. Mortgage activity has fallen 81% since the peak in early 2021, and it took a real dive last year with rising rates — down 67% since the end of 2021.

Even if it takes some time for slower mortgage activity to bake through the sector completely, this does point to a cooling trend in home prices and rents in 2023. But it also means anyone who bought homes at the top could see the value of said properties fall meaningfully from where they were at the time of purchase. Two steps forward, one step back.

Traction Control

As someone who learned how to drive in Wisconsin and spent 16 cold winters driving (not always successfully) through snowy, icy, and windy conditions, I’m all-too-familiar with traction control on a vehicle.

Unfortunately, I think it’s going to be necessary in the economy for a while. We wait with bated breath for Q4 earnings season to kick off, while the lagged effects of tighter financial conditions and reduced demand make their way into economic data.

Markets will no doubt cheer cooler inflation data, but we can’t declare victory until (and unless) we know we didn’t create a lot of employment, corporate, and economic casualties along the way. Keep your hands on the wheel at 10 & 2.

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SoFi’s Head of Investment Strategy weighs in with what we might expect over the short term in 2023.