SPAC IPO FILING: Fintech Acquisition Corp. (TBBK)

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Fintech Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, has filed to come public via an IPO. The filing shows a target of $100 million. Each $10 unit will consist of unit of one unit of common stock and a warrant with a $7.50 strike price. The sole underwriter is UBS Investment Bank. The company has applied to trade on The American Stock Exchange.

Fintech was organized by TBBK Acquisitions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBBK), a financial holding company. As an indirect subsidiary of a financial holding company, Fintech is limited to financial activities. Their target will consist of established financial technology business companies that provide data processing, storage and transmission services, databases and payment and payment processing services in support of businesses in the financial services industry and are in need of redirection.

Fintech will utilize the experience of Chairman and CEO, Betsy Cohen and President, Frank Mastrangelo. Betsy Cohen has 37 years of experience and current acts as CEO of Bancorp.

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Rachel Lopez
March 31, 2008

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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