Growth Initiatives and Outlook

The Company anticipates revenue growth in 2024 driven by investments in the Higher Education vertical and the full year effect of Durbin-exempt interchange rates on the majority of serviced deposit account holder's debit card spend. The Company also expects a return to positive Core EBITDA1 in 2024 based on these higher revenues and stricter cost controls implemented as part of the Company's PEP.

Technology Initiatives and Outlook

Jamie Donahue, President and Chief Technology Officer stated, "The Company is actively executing on its technology transformation plan to accelerate growth opportunities and enhance the competitive advantage that already exists in our unique position in the higher education market. We have rewritten and unified our platform infrastructure to seamlessly power both our student disbursement and BaaS experiences going forward. This investment in modernization will reduce operational costs and fraud risk, accelerate new feature integration velocity, and unlock new partnership opportunities."

Mr. Donahue continued, "We believe that the roll out of additional product and service enhancements, along with closer relationships with college and university clients, will increase engagement and positively contribute to the success of our customer-for-life strategy."