Strong progress towards quarterly and annual targets

SAN CARLOS, Calif., September 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Oportun Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: OPRT), an AI-driven financial services and technology company that gives hard workers access to responsible and affordable credit, today provided an intra-quarterly update of its strategic initiatives.

“We continue to be very satisfied with the progress of our third quarter and the year 2021,” said Raul Vazquez, CEO of Oportun. “Oportun is making great progress on all of its key strategic goals. “

The intra-quarter updates were featured in an updated investor set posted on the Opportunity investor website (investor.oportun.com) this morning. The updates included:

• Aggregate fixtures were $ 501 million year-to-date, up 122% year-on-year

• Better-than-expected personal loan arrangements in the first 12 states where Oportun started offering loans as part of its banking partnership expansion, launched on August 23, 2021

• Receivables on secured personal loans were $ 23.1 million as of August 31, 2021, up 11,078% year over year

• Oportun Visa credit card receivables were $ 31.8 million as of August 31, 2021, up 946% year-on-year

• DolEx locations that offer Opportunity loans through its Lending-as-a-Service program now number 181 as of September 13, 2021, already exceeding the company’s end-of-year target of 175 locations, which ” it brings to a new end-of-year goal of 200 locations

  • Oportun remains on track to begin offering loans under its second Loan-as-a-Service partnership in Q4, which will add at least 100 additional new locations over the next 12 months.

• Last week, the company closed its new 3-year $ 600 million warehouse line and pulled the line to redeem the last of its more expensive ABS tickets issued in 2018, lowering the cost of funds. ‘Timely in the future

About Opportunity
Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a financial services company that leverages its digital platform to deliver responsible consumer credit to hardworking people. Using AI-powered models that leverage 15 years of proprietary customer information and billions of unique data points, Oportun has made over 4.3 million loans and over $ 10.5 billion affordable credit, offering its customers alternatives to payday loans and auto titles. In recognition of its responsibly designed products that help consumers build their credit history, Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.

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