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Funding Circle Holdings plc's FY20 Results transcript, dated 25 March 2021, features speakers Samir Desai and Oliver White. Desai says that in the UK business originations were £1.5 billion, up 91% year on year, and that the group was profitable in the second half of the year, delivering £20 million of Adjusted EBITDA and around £7 million of operating profit. Desai says the company finished the year with net assets of £218 million and aggregated more than £2.5 billion of investor capital to lend to small businesses in the UK and US during 2020. White says the UK represented 70% of group total income in 2020, and that the US will likely be AEBITDA loss-making for the next few years after the PPP scheme boost in early 2021.

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Funding Circle Holdings plc

       FY20 Results

      25 March 2021

        Transcript
Samir Desai: Good morning. It has been an extraordinary period for Funding Circle and I feel
             really proud of the huge difference we've been able to make for tens of
             thousands of small businesses during this period. We have proven the power
             of our model, taking our machine learning and technology platform to a new
             unmatched level, and have a number of attractive growth opportunities going
             forward. 2020 was a year of two halves. In the first half, we spent time
             responding to COVID, moving our team to remote working, and supporting
             small businesses through what was a difficult period for them. In the second
             half, we saw strong demand from investors and small businesses to access
             funds. In particular, in our UK business, we saw originations of £1.5 billion, up
             91% year on year.


Samir Desai: Our technology platform is truly transforming the small business borrowing
             experience and we've reached our target of having instant decisions for 50% of
             loan applications. I'm pleased to say, we now expect all cohorts of loans to
             deliver a positive return despite the severity of the recession caused by COVID.
             I'm proud that we have not only survived during this period, but thrived, and
             proven the resilience of our unique model. The group was profitable in the
             second half of the year, delivering £20 million of Adjusted EBITDA and around
             £7 million of operating profit. In the UK in particular, we delivered £28.6 million
             of Adjusted EBITDA and £21.3 million of operating profit.

Samir Desai: We finished the year with robust net assets of £218 million. Looking ahead, we
             are seeing a number of exciting structural trends that really benefit Funding
             Circle and I'll talk about those in a minute. As we move into 2021, we will
             operate our core loan product alongside the Recovery Loan Scheme in the UK
             and bank SBA loans in the US. We will continue to roll out our Instant Decision
             Lending platform with a long-term target of 80% of loan decisions automated.
             We will also leverage our technology to launch a number of new solutions to
             help small businesses, which I'm excited to talk to you about later. The group
             has an attractive financial profile going forward. Powered by the UK, we expect
             to be Adjusted EBITDA profitable and will invest in additional growth
             opportunities.


Samir Desai: We see a number of structural trends that have accelerated during COVID that
             will benefit our business going forward. Government support, not just in the UK
             and US, but across every country in the world, for small businesses, has shown
             how strategically important they are to economic growth. We are seeing a
             significant acceleration in the adoption of online borrowing. There has been a
             5x increase in searches for online business loans in the UK in 2020. Strong
             demand from investors despite the severe recession has demonstrated the
             quality and performance of our loans and the resilience of our platform. I'm
             really pleased to say that during 2020, we were able to aggregate more than
             £2.5 billion of investor capital to lend to small businesses in the UK and US.
             Small businesses expect to have ongoing financing needs. 40% of small
             businesses that we've surveyed have said that they expect to require finance
             in the next 12 months, primarily for growth or investment as economies
             reopened. And we've seen the similar data in surveys by the Bank of England
             and the Fed.
Samir Desai: Our mission is to build the place where small businesses get the funding they
             need to win. We do this by delivering an amazing experience for small
             businesses, powered by machine learning and technology. Small business
             lending is underserved by traditional lenders. On average, it represents less
             than 2% of bank balance sheets, but small businesses are 50% of GDP and 70%
             of employment. There's a big disconnect between how much the financial
             system cares about this type of lending and how much we all as society care
             about it. But for a disruptive technology business like us, this is a very large
             addressable market and opportunity.

Samir Desai: Over the past 10 years, we have aggregated huge amounts of data and loan
             performance history, allowing us to develop incredibly sophisticated machine
             learning models. Our models include the £11.5 billion of loans we've lent to
             small businesses since 2010, 700,000 loan applications, data on 750 million
             repayment events, and we have 26 million small businesses in our data lake.
             Our 8th generation machine learning models are three times as predictive as
             traditional Commercial Bureau scores. And this is creating a huge competitive
             moat for our business.

Samir Desai: This is all powered by what I believe is the best technology and team dedicated
             to small business lending. We use the latest technologies, with continuous
             deployment, that enables us to scale quickly, efficiently and securely without
             being burdened by large legacy systems. We have built a proprietary data lake
             with 2 billion data points in it, containing data on 26 million small businesses.
             And this is used for our machine learning risk models and also highly targeted
             marketing. We have a team of 300 engineers, product managers and data
             scientists and we are investing to grow this team and our machine learning and
             technology platform capabilities in 2021.


Samir Desai: Our technology platform is revolutionising small business lending. Borrowers
             can apply in 6 minutes, 50% of loan applications get a decision within 9
             seconds and are funded within 24 hours. Through this process, we deliver high
             credit quality loans and low interest rates for borrowers comparable or cheaper
             than banks. It is the combination of the amazing experience we deliver on our
             machine learning and technology platform with low cost loans funded by
             investors, that is the incredible innovation that Funding Circle has created.


Samir Desai: This technology delivers huge benefits to our customers but also to Funding
             Circle. We have reached 50% of loan decisions automated, and we've set a
             long-term target of having 80% of loan decisions automated. Instant Decision
             Lending delivers a number of benefits to Funding Circle. We are seeing credit
             performance as accurate as non-Instant Decision Lending loans. We are using
             the same risk models developed over the past 10 years and credit performance
             has been strong. We're seeing higher conversion from borrowers. Getting an
             instant decision can improve borrower conversion by up to 25%. Lower
             processing costs and scalability are driving operating leverage in our business.
             In the second half of 2020, UK loan originations were up 91% year on year
             without us adding any additional headcount. This technology also allows us to
             launch new products, which we will begin to do in the next 12 months, and I'll
             talk about this a bit later.
Samir Desai: The great experience we deliver to small businesses leads to stable repeat
             rates and attractive unit economics. The graph on the left-hand side shows the
             average number of loans taken out by a small business, versus the months
             from taking the first loan. This shows very stable, predictable repeat rates
             across every quarterly cohort. The graph on the right-hand side shows the
             lifetime value divided by the marketing customer acquisition costs. This shows
             that we're profitable on a first loan basis after marketing costs and because of
             the stable repeat rates as borrowers take out more loans, our unit economics
             improve as very little marketing costs associated with the repeat loans. Over
             51% of operating income in the UK came from existing customers in 2020,
             which improves the quality of income and increases the strong moats around
             our business.


Samir Desai: Since 2010, we have originated £11.5 billion of loans to over a 100,000 small
             businesses. I'm also pleased today to announce, that we launched our
             Economic Impact Report with research from Oxford Economics. This showed
             that the lending through the Funding Circle platform in 2020 created and
             sustained 135,000 jobs and added £10 billion to GDP, demonstrating the huge
             economic impact our platform is delivering. Typical Funding Circle borrowers
             are not startups: they've been trading for an average of 12 years, have 8
             employees, £1 million of revenue. On average, our loans are £80,000 and the
             average term of the loan is around 50 months. I'm really proud of the impact
             we've been able to have in supporting businesses like Wild Card Brewery. On
             the day the lockdown started, they opened an e-commerce store, and actually
             over the past year have been able to grow by 12% and Funding Circle have
             played an important role in supporting them. And we hear these stories from a
             number of different small businesses right the way across the UK and US. And
             in many ways, this is really why I started the business in the first place, to
             actually help get money to small businesses during times of economic stress.

Samir Desai: We are reaching a level of scale, brand awareness and customer satisfaction
             in the UK that is unmatched by other fintechs. We are the third largest CBILS
             loan provider in the UK and have approved £2.6 billion of loans since we joined
             the program. We have brand awareness of around 50%, which is significantly
             higher than other fintechs, and is approaching the level of the top four banks.
             In terms of customer satisfaction, we have net promoter scores of 83. That
             compares very favourably to the large banks and over 80% of customers tell us
             they would always come back to Funding Circle first in the future. Once they
             experienced this way of borrowing, they never want to go back.

Samir Desai: We have £4.2 billion of loans under management funded via a platform model.
             We are strategically focused on having a diverse mix of investors on the
             platform and this served us well during COVID. The largest group of investors
             on the platform are Asset Managers, who represent 36% of loans under
             management. Banks represent 35% of loans under management. Our bond
             program represents around 12% of loans under management. Retail represents
             11% of loans under management, down from 23% in 2019. And the remainder
             is made up of national entities, including Development Banks and Councils, and
             funds that we manage. Funding Circle's equity represents only 3% of loans
             under management. Funding Circle only invests its own equity where it makes
             the platform model stronger. And we expect absolute amounts of equity
             invested to be around or below year-end 2020 levels of £118 million.
Samir Desai: 2020 has given us lots of momentum in the business and the Funding Circle
             Flywheel is driving significant competitive advantage. As we get more repeat
             customers on the platform, this generates more data. This feeds into our
             machine learning models, which improve. This allows us to deliver a better
             borrowing experience with more automation, less documents required, faster
             decisioning, which in turn drives higher conversion and lower costs, and more
             operating leverage in the business. This technology allows us to launch new
             products, which expands the size of our ecosystem, which in turn leads to more
             repeat customers and more data. I'm just going to hand over to Oliver now to
             talk about the financials.

Oliver White: Thank you, Samir. I'm proud to be presenting my first set of full year results of
              Funding Circle, especially as we've achieved a number of important profitability
              and growth milestones. Let's begin by looking at the group results and
              overview. Here we show in the first two columns the performance in H1 and in
              H2 2020, along with FY 2020 compared to 2019 on the right-hand side of the
              page. Not only was 2020 year of two halves as Samir mentioned but it is worth
              remembering the dynamics we saw in H1. Pre-pandemic, both the US and the
              UK had very strong starts to the year. This was followed by a pause in
              originations as the business responded to COVID and became accredited to
              government guarantee programs in both the UK and the US and then ramped
              up those programs by the end of the half. In the UK, CBILS continued
              throughout 2020. In the US, the PPP scheme initially ended early August.

Oliver White: Working down the table, loans under management ended the year at a record
              4.2 billion up from 3.7 billion in 2019. Loans under management was driven by
              increasing originations. In 2020, originations were 2.7 billion up from 2.35
              billion in 2019. This was enabled by an extremely robust performance in H2
              with a very encouraging performance in the UK with CBILS and
              notwithstanding, there being no further PPP in the US for the majority of H2. H1
              origination of 1.1 billion was marginally down in H1 2019 and reflected the mix
              of a strong start and then an adjustment period to the pandemic and the
              government schemes. Operating income, which is all the income we earn aside
              from the income from our investment vehicles, was broadly flat year-on-year.
              This was despite the origination and loans under management growth and due
              to the lower initial yields in the PPP scheme in the US where we initially followed
              a referral model. The origination economics as a CBILS scheme and the PPP
              scheme, once Funding Circle was able to participate in the Fed's PPP Liquidity
              Facility, or similar to the economics of the core product. This can be seen with
              the operating income performance in H2.

Oliver White: Investment income, which is the investment income less investment expense
              attributable to the various investment vehicles, increased sharply year-on-year.
              This is because of various ABS programs only commenced during 2019. In
              2020, we retained a number of these investments longer than we had intended,
              as our strategy is to sell these vehicles. Accordingly, 2020 reflected both a full
              year of investment income and also at a higher level than originally intended.
              The reduction H2 over H1 is due to the natural roll-off of the loans within these
              vehicles. In total, total income was 222 million for the year, up from 177 million
              in 2019. In H2, we saw a more normal level of fair value adjustments at negative
              22.2 million, and our investment Adjusted EBITDA was a positive 7.7 million. It
              is important that we consider the net of the investment income and the fair
              value adjustment. In H1, we recorded the heightened fair value adjustments
              due to the impact of the economic stress caused by the pandemic on our
              investments. Our forward view of economic stress, which feeds into the
              calculation of fair value, is substantially unchanged from our view as of half
              year.

Oliver White: Costs, both expenses above AEBITDA and expenses below AEBITDA reduced
              substantially, both 2020 over 2019 and in H2 compared to H1. Exceptionals
              reflect the costs of actions taken in developing markets and in the US. The
              group recorded a full-year Adjusted EBITDA loss of 63.8 million, up from 27.5
              million in 2019, and an operating loss of 106.3 million, up from 84.7 million in
              2019. This was primarily driven by the fair value adjustment seen in H1 of
              negative 96 million or negative 59.7 million, after taking into account the
              investment income earned. The majority of this adjustment we ascribed to the
              economic impact of the pandemic and which, of course, we did not see a
              repetition of in H2. The operating loss was also impacted by the 18.7 million of
              exceptionals. Very encouragingly, in the second half of the year, the group
              recorded its first AEBITDA profitable half. We have an AEBITDA of 20.3 million
              and also its first operating profit, we have an operating profit of 7.2 million.
              Overall, I'm very pleased with the financial performance during a challenging
              year. The actions we have taken show our commitment to delivering
              profitability for the company whilst we continue to see many exciting future
              opportunities. I will now break down these group figures in more detail.


Oliver White: I will begin with the UK business. As you will see, the UK is the engine of the
              Funding Circle group. We have an advantage position in the market, have scale,
              and have been Adjusted EBITDA profitable since 2018. The slide shows a top
              line of loans under management of originations and total income. Working
              from left to right: Full year loans under management and originations both grew
              strongly 2020 compared to 2019, up 27% at 3,271 million and up 36% to 111
              million, respectively. H1 originations were impacted by the pause in business
              as the pandemic hit and the adjustment to support the CBILS program. This
              pleasing group has reflected in total income, up 37% year-on-year at 152.9
              million. Within the total income, operating income grew 20 million with an
              increase in the proportion coming from servicing fees, and investment income
              also grew 20 million.

Oliver White: This slide shows Adjusted EBITDA on operating profit for the two halves of
              2020 and full year 2020 in 2019. The UK is Adjusted EBITDA profitable for 2020,
              even after absorbing the H1 of fair value adjustment. This is the third year our
              UK business has been Adjusted EBITDA profitable. We are profitable in H2, we
              have an Adjusted EBITDA of 28.6 million, a margin of 31% and the UK recorded
              its first half of operating profit with an operating profit of 21.3 million.


Oliver White: Turning to the US, the payment protection program in the US launched in April
              2020, with Funding Circle participating by the end of April. Initially, we
              originated loans and refer to selector partners for funding. In June, we became
              eligible to participate in the PPPLF. The PPP Liquidity Facility enables banks
              and non-banks to access Federal Reserve funding to support PPP loans.
              Participating in the PPPLF meant that the origination economics of PPP are
               broadly similar to that of our core product. Prior to participation, our
               partnership model led to lower yields.

Oliver White: PPP ended on August the 8th. Following the ending of the scheme, the market
              was dislocated with borrower expectation of a new government scheme
              suppressing demand. Despite steady growth through H2 in our referral
              business, and relaunching our core product at the end of the half, originations
              in H2 was subdued. These dynamics can be seen in the overall year-on-year
              decrease in originations of 7% and LuM of 11%. And also in the H1 originations
              up 28% year-on-year, due to the strong pre-pandemic start to the year and the
              PPP scheme, followed by subdued H2 originations with a wider market
              uncertainty. Total income is up 20% year-on-year at 63 million driven by the
              year-on-year increase in investment income of 25 million.


Oliver White: The US recorded a full-year Adjusted EBITDA loss of 62.4 million, up from
              negative 22 million in 2019 and an operating loss of 83.6 million, up from
              negative 29.9 million in 2019. This was mainly driven by the fair value
              adjustment seen in half one of negative 61 million or negative 41 million after
              reflecting the investment income earned. Our losses in H2 are much reduced
              compared to H1, notwithstanding the subdued trading performance. This is
              due to both the non-recurrence of the pandemic related fair value adjustment
              and to the positive impact of the cost actions announced early July to rightsize
              the US business. Developing markets, so Germany and the Netherlands, now
              are breakeven following the actions we announced in March and successfully
              executed during the year to move to more of a referral model.


Oliver White: Putting this together for Funding Circle as a whole, 2020 saw record loans
              under management of 4.2 billion, up 13% year on year, and record originations
              of 2.7 billion, up 17% year on year. With total income of 222 million, up 25% year
              on year.

Oliver White: 2020 was an exceptional year with the unprecedented impact of COVID-19. Full
              year Adjusted EBITDA of negative 63.8 million and operating profit of negative
              106.3 worsen year on year, primarily driven by the H1 fair value adjustment of
              negative 96. Within the overall performance, the operating Adjusted EBITDA
              loss reduced from 37.9 million in 2019, to 11.8 million in 2020. This is the
              yellow box on the left hand side of the chart. Very encouragingly, we were
              Adjusted EBITDA and operating profitable in H2. Adjusted EBITDA was 20.3
              million, a 17% margin. Both operating and investment Adjusted EBITDAs were
              profitable. Operating profit was 7.2 million in the half. I'm very happy with this
              performance and it demonstrates increasing scalability and operating leverage
              within the Funding Circle platform.

Oliver White: Talking now to costs. Operating expenses have been actively and tightly
              managed. Operating costs are shown on the left hand side of the slide. As you
              have seen, the restructuring actions announced in March, executed during the
              year have brought developing markets to break even profitability. In July, we
              announced a rightsizing of the US business, with technology centralised in the
              UK, and moved more activities to our Denver center from San Francisco.
              Overall, year-on-year operating expenses have reduced 12% to 191 million, and
              H2 over H1 also reduced 12%. Marketing, shown on the right of the slide, has
               reduced from 42% as a percent of operating income in 2019, down to 30% in
               2020. This is due to reduced brand spend, improved efficiency, and tight
               control.

Oliver White: Looking now at the performance of our loans portfolio as a whole. The chart
              on the right shows a flow of borrowers missing payments for the first time.
              After an initial spike in April, the flows remained low and stable despite the
              second and subsequent waves of COVID-19 and resultant further lockdowns
              and restrictions. The chart on the left looks at our stock of borrowers. As of
              December, over 93% of borrowers are making payments. This has slightly
              improved since the half year. Overall, our borrower population have proved
              resilient throughout the impact of the pandemic, and we have seen no
              significant impact of the second and subsequent waves on the pandemic.

Oliver White: This resilience flows into the returns to our investors. All investor cohorts in
              both the UK and the US show a positive return in the latest projection, the green
              bar to the right of the three. This is a slight improvement to our projections at
              half year, where one US cohort was forecast to make a small loss. It's important
              to note we have not substantially revised our future macro projections. We
              continue to see an economic impact of the pandemic out until end 2022. The
              improvement has been driven by the actual performance seen in H2. This
              positive return to our investors in both geographies in all cohorts, at the time
              of an exceptional period of economic stress, is testament to the strength of our
              model and the performance of our borrowers.

Oliver White: Moving on from our external investors to Funding Circle's own balance sheet.
              We end the year with a robust net asset position of 218 million, including 103
              million of cash. Net assets impacted at half year with a fair value adjustment,
              but have increased slightly by year end. We have included in the appendix more
              detailed analysis of our balance sheet and the various investment vehicles,
              consistent with our disclosure at the half year. Let me take a minute to explain
              the role of equity investments in our business model and the level of that going
              forward. Going forward, I see the absolute level of Funding Circle equity
              invested to be around or below the year end 2020 level of 118 million. As a
              reminder, Funding Circle deploys its equity where it makes the platform
              stronger. This may include limited co-investments or investment in new
              products.

Oliver White: We see the ability to do this as a source of competitive advantage. We do not
              deploy capital with the sole purpose of deepening profit for investment returns,
              though we do anticipate these investments will ordinarily be profitable. As we
              saw in H2 2020, the investments Adjusted EBITDA, so investment income net
              of expenses and less the fair value adjustment, contribute to the positive 7.7
              million. We intend to recycle the investments over 2021, as opportunities for
              realisation allow. As previously discussed, the majority of these investments
              we hold for sale. We will continue to leverage some of our co-investments as
              appropriate. I'd now like to hand back to Samir.

Samir Desai: Thanks, Oliver. I'm going to spend a few minutes talking about our priorities for
             2021 and then looking ahead at future growth opportunities. Over the past 12
             months, we have seen an acceleration in a number of structural trends, which
             benefit Funding Circle, and we've proven the power and resilience of our model.
               I have never felt better about where the business is, or more excited about the
               opportunity going forward. In the UK, we will operate core loans for borrowers
               that do not require a guarantee. We will operate the Recovery Loan Scheme for
               other borrowers once the CBILS program ends. We also intend to launch new
               products using our technology platform to help solve more small business
               problems. In the US we will expand our core loans once PPP finishes. We will
               originate government guaranteed loans through the SBA on behalf of banks
               alongside this. We will continue to operate our referral model for borrower
               needs outside these offerings, partnering with other providers, given the scale
               and diversity of the US lending ecosystem.

Samir Desai: 10 years of research and development have created an inflection point for
             Funding Circle, and I'm incredibly excited about the potential going forward.
             Over the years, we have aggregated huge amounts of data, built incredibly
             sophisticated machine learning models, and used technology to create a user
             experience for small businesses that is unmatched by other providers. This
             year, we'll get to the point where we can deliver a fully automated loan, with
             money in a customer's account within 15 minutes, a massive step change from
             where we were when we started the business 10 years ago. In 2021, we will
             launch an Application Programming Interface, or API, that will enable us to
             natively embed our Instant Decision Lending technology into partners'
             websites and platforms. We will focus on partnering with finance brokers,
             accounting software providers, and payments companies. Integrating with
             partners will increase the distribution of Funding Circle products, while
             servicing small business needs wherever they are.

Samir Desai: Our mission is to build the place where small businesses get the funding they
             need to win, and we deliver this powered by machine learning and technology.
             We have spoken to a number of customers to understand their funding
             problems, and it is clear that we can, and they want us to do more with them.
             In the next 12 months, we will launch new solutions to help solve more small
             business funding problems. We will launch a payment finance product that will
             help small businesses spread the cost of bills over a 3 month period. And we
             will also launch a card product to help small businesses finance their day-to-
             day spending. New products will drive more frequent usage of our platform by
             small businesses, which will make it an increasingly integral part of their lives,
             and also reinforce and drive more usage of our long term loan products. I'm
             incredibly excited about the opportunities to grow our core loan product and to
             augment it with these new products going forward. I'm now going to hand over
             to Oliver, who will take us through the full outlook.

Oliver White: Thank you, Samir. Turning to 2021. I'd like to start by saying that we take our
              forward guidance very seriously and that we're very thoughtful in choosing
              what we say about our 2021 guidance. Looking forward, we have some very
              exciting tailwinds as we've discussed, but there are also some real near term
              uncertainties. COVID-19 has changed the SME lending landscape. Over the
              past 12 months, we've seen an acceleration on the adoption of online
              borrowing. Through our use of machine learning and our technology platform,
              we are well placed to capture this enlarged opportunity going forward.


Oliver White: I'm very pleased to say we've made a strong start to trading so far this year.
              Loans under management and originations over the full year will depend on
              how fast the UK and the US economies open up, alongside related macro
              factors such as competition and borrow demand. We expect there will be an
              initial reduction on lending from Q2 onwards as we transition to operating our
              core product alongside the government guarantee programs in the UK and the
              US. We are very confident we will deliver positive Adjusted EBITDA for the full
              year, with profitability skewed towards H1. We are very well-placed to take
              advantage of the opportunities this coming year offers.

Oliver White: We are hugely excited about the opportunities for Funding Circle on the
              medium term. As Samir has discussed, 2020 has seen accelerated changes
              are benefiting Funding Circle, and progress and positive proof points on our
              business model and technology platform.

Oliver White: Taking a step back, this is how we see Funding Circle. The established UK
              business is the engine of Funding Circle. The UK represented 70% of group total
              income in 2020. Our business offers operational leverage, is Adjusted EBITDA
              on operating profit profitable and has been Adjusted EBITDA profitable since
              2018. It's also cash generative. Growth opportunities in our core market
              continue over the medium term.

Oliver White: The UK engine enables Funding Circle to pursue additional growth
              opportunities. The US is five times the size of the UK market, but our business
              there is at an earlier stage of development. The PPP scheme will provide a
              boost of volumes and revenues in early 2021. Post-PPP, as we invest to grow
              market share, the US will likely be AEBITDA loss-making for the next few years.
              We are very excited about the scale of the opportunity the US offers. We will
              carefully manage the level of investment in the US.

Oliver White: There is a big but early stage opportunity to support more customers by
              leverage our technology platform into new adjacent products. There will be
              beta launches in 2021, but with small income contribution initially, stepping up
              in the future, following successful rollout.


Oliver White: Following the restructure to a referral model in H1 2020, the developing
              markets business is now breakeven. Overall, the group, powered by the UK will
              be Adjusted EBITDA profitable going forward, and we will continue to invest in
              additional growth opportunities.

Oliver White: Thank you. This is now the end of the presentation.


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