Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
WebBank Banking Program
On August 26, 2024, Sezzle Inc. (Sezzle or the Company) and WebBank, an FDIC-insured, Utah-chartered industrial bank, entered into a five-year strategic partnership program by executing a Loan and Receivables Sale Agreement and Marketing and Servicing Agreement. The program is expected to launch in September 2024, subject to completion of the parties' confirmatory testing and procedures. WebBank will serve as Sezzle's exclusive bank to originate and finance products currently offered through the Sezzle platform, including Sezzle's "Pay-in-2" and "Pay-in-4" products, subject to limited exceptions. WebBank will also serve as the exclusive issuer of all Sezzle subscription products and the exclusive issuer of Sezzle card products, including the Sezzle Virtual Card (subject to up to a one-year transition period) and gift cards.
WebBank, through Sezzle's marketing efforts, will offer loans to U.S. customers to finance purchases of merchant products through the Sezzle platform or within Sezzle's direct merchant network. Sezzle, subject to WebBank's review and approval, will act as the administrator of the program and master servicer, with responsibility over the marketing, administration, legal and compliance, application of WebBank's underwriting criteria, origination assistance, and ongoing servicing functions.
WebBank has the right to sell all loans it originates under the program to other entities, including Sezzle. In the event WebBank sells loans to Sezzle, the purchase price would be the principal amounts of the loans, plus accrued interest and certain fees.
The Loan and Receivables Sale Agreement and the Marketing and Servicing Agreement contain certain indemnification rights and obligations and certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants, and events of termination.
The foregoing descriptions of the terms of the Loan and Receivables Sale Agreement and the Marketing and Servicing Agreement are summaries only and are qualified in their entirety by reference to those agreements, copies of which will be filed as Exhibits to Sezzle's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. The representations and warranties contained in the Loan and Receivables Sale Agreement and the Marketing and Servicing Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreements (or the applicable related agreements) and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreements (or the applicable related agreements), and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the parties, including being qualified by disclosures for the purpose of allocating contractual risk between the parties instead of establishing matters as facts; and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors or security holders. Accordingly, investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the parties.