Mogo to Acquire Saving and Investing App Moka Financial Technologies
Mogo, a digital payments and financial technology company, today announced its intent to acquire Moka Financial Technologies Inc., one of Canada’s leading saving and investing apps.
The proposed acquisition will increase Mogo’s member base by over 40% to more than 1.7 million and expand Mogo’s wealth offering to include saving and investing products. In addition, the acquisition will accelerate Mogo’s plan to launch a free stock trading solution for Canadians. The two companies expect to complete a definitive agreement and close the transaction in Q2 2021.
“This acquisition represents another significant milestone for Mogo on our journey to building the leading digital wallet for Canadians,” said David Feller, Mogo’s Founder and CEO.
“Like Mogo, Moka is driven to help users improve their financial health, and they have built an innovative solution to enable consumers to easily save and invest money. By adding these digital saving and investing products – along with Moka’s technology platform and experienced fintech team – we will dramatically enhance what is already one of the most compelling and differentiated value propositions in Canadian finance. Moka will complement our existing MogoCrypto account and form the core of MogoWealth, making Mogo’s digital wallet the most comprehensive solution in Canada.”
This acquisition would increase Mogo’s total addressable market into the $4+ trillion wealth management business along with expansion into Quebec. Following the Moka acquisition, Mogo plants to expand the MogoWealth product offering in 2021, including introducing a free stock trading solution to Mogo members.
Philip Barrar, Founder & CEO of Moka, added: “We’re very excited to join Mogo, a fintech pioneer and one of Canada’s leading fintech companies. Moka has built a robust customer-centric technology platform and, as part of a larger, more diversified and well-capitalized digital platform, we enhance the opportunity to grow our business and, importantly, to give our members access to even more digital products and tools to improve their financial well-being. We look forward to bringing these two companies together.”
Moka currently has more than 500,000 active members and over 100,000 monthly subscription members, and the company generated approximately $6.5 million of revenue in 2020.
