OppFi Upsizes Revolving Credit Facility with Affiliates of Blue Owl Capital to $300 Million
19 February 2025 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
OppFi Inc. (NYSE:OPFI) (“OppFi ” or the “Company”), a
tech-enabled, mission-driven specialty finance platform that
broadens the reach of community banks to extend credit access to
everyday Americans, today announced the Company increased the
existing revolving credit facility among one of the Company’s
subsidiaries and affiliates of Blue Owl Capital Inc. (“Blue Owl”)
to $300 million, up from $250 million. Blue Owl acquired Atalaya
Capital Management in September 2024.
“The increase in our credit facility with Blue Owl is a
testament to the strength of our business and our commitment to
facilitating credit access for hard-working consumers,” said Todd
Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of OppFi.
“As we continue to scale and serve a growing number of customers,
it is important that our financing capabilities increase with us.
The expansion of this credit facility will aid our ability to
continue to meet increases in loan demand and deliver on our
mission of financial inclusion and profitable growth,” Schwartz
added.
OppFi increased the total capacity under this revolving credit
facility from $250 million to $300 million. The amended agreement
extends the maturity date to February 2029, increases funds
available for growth, and provides the Company the flexibility to
use balance sheet capital to extinguish corporate debt ahead of
schedule.
About OppFi
OppFi (NYSE: OPFI) is a tech-enabled, mission-driven specialty
finance platform that broadens the reach of community banks to
extend credit access to everyday Americans. Through a transparent
and responsible lending platform, which includes financial
inclusion and an excellent customer experience, the Company
supports consumers who are turned away by mainstream options to
build better financial health. OppLoans by OppFi maintains a
4.5/5.0 star rating on Trustpilot with more than 4,400 reviews,
making the Company one of the top consumer-rated financial
platforms online. OppFi also holds a 35% equity interest in Bitty
Advance, a credit access company that offers small businesses
revenue-based financing and other working capital solutions. For
more information, please visit oppfi.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within
the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. OppFi’s actual results
may differ from its expectations, estimates and projections and
consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking
statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect,”
“estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,”
“intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “believes,”
“predicts,” “potential,” “possible,” “continue,” and similar
expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the
absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not
forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include, without
limitation, statements regarding OppFi’s expectations with respect
to the future performance of OppFi’s platform and OppFi’s
expectations for its growth. These forward-looking statements are
based on OppFi’s current expectations and assumptions about future
events and are based on currently available information as to the
outcome and timing of future events. These forward-looking
statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could
cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected
results. Most of these factors are outside OppFi’s control and are
difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences
include, but are not limited to: the impact of general economic
conditions, including economic slowdowns, inflation, interest rate
changes, recessions, and tightening of credit markets on OppFi’s
business; the impact of challenging macroeconomic and marketplace
conditions; the impact of stimulus or other government programs;
whether OppFi will be successful in obtaining declaratory relief
against the Commissioner of the Department of Financial Protection
and Innovation for the State of California; whether OppFi will be
subject to AB 539; whether OppFi’s bank partners will continue to
lend in California and whether OppFi’s financing sources will
continue to finance the purchase of participation rights in loans
originated by OppFi’s bank partners in California; the impact that
events involving financial institutions or the financial services
industry generally, such as actual concerns or events involving
liquidity, defaults, or non-performance, may have on OppFi’s
business; risks related to the material weakness in OppFi’s
internal controls over financial reporting; the ability of OppFi to
grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees;
risks related to new products; risks related to evaluating and
potentially consummating acquisitions; concentration risk; risks
related to OppFi’s ability to comply with various covenants in its
corporate and warehouse credit facilities; costs related to the
business combination; changes in applicable laws or regulations;
the possibility that OppFi may be adversely affected by other
economic, business, and/or competitive factors; risks related to
management transitions; risks related to the restatement of OppFi’s
financial statements and any accounting deficiencies or weaknesses
related thereto; and other risks and uncertainties indicated from
time to time in OppFi’s filings with the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission, in particular, contained in the section or
sections captioned “Risk Factors.” OppFi cautions that the
foregoing list of factors is not exclusive, and readers should not
place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which
speak only as of the date made. OppFi does not undertake or accept
any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or
revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change
in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or
circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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