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Earnings Call: Q4 2021

Mar 23, 2022

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. I will now introduce Mr. Craig Armitage of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Craig Armitage
Head of Investor Relations, Mogo

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us today, and thanks for your patience. Just a couple quick notes before we get started. Today's call will contain forward-looking statements that are based on current assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The company undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by law.

Information about these risks and uncertainties are included in our Q4 year-end 2021 filings, as well as periodic filings with regulators in Canada and the U.S., which you can find on SEDAR, EDGAR, and the website. Today's discussion will include adjusted financial measures, which are non-IFRS measures. These should be considered as a supplement to and not as a substitute for IFRS measures and can find reconciliations in the filings.

Lastly, the amounts today are discussed in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated. We were a little delayed getting the presentation up. That was the cause of the delay. Our normal practice, of course, is to have slides. You will see that available PDF for download in the Handouts panel. So appreciate your patience again with that. I'll turn the call over to David Feller to get us started. Dave?

David Feller
Founder and CEO, Mogo

Thanks, Craig. Thank you. Good afternoon. Welcome to our fourth quarter and year-end 2021 results conference call. I'm joined today by Gregory Feller, our President and CFO. Last year was a transformative year in many aspects. We can't be more excited about the progress we've made. As one of Canada's leading fintechs, we believe we are well on the way to building the leading digital finance platform in Canada.

Our team continues to be guided by a simple important mission: to make it simple and engaging for consumers to achieve financial freedom while also making an impact. We are building a next-generation fintech platform around this mission with products, solutions, and an experience that's designed to primarily resonate with the next generation. Building a next-gen platform that can deliver on this mission has been our focus, and we've come a long way in the last few years.

2021 has been perhaps the most transformative year so far, given our acquisitions and the focus on building out our new digital wealth platform. Clearly, we have a lot going on, but each one of these initiatives and acquisitions has been strategically done to build out the platform we believe will deliver on our mission and position us to become the world's relevant digital finance company in the Canadian market.

As you can see here, last year was also a very transformational year from a financial perspective. Looking at year-over-year Q4 metrics really highlights the magnitude of the transformation. Members up over 70%, revenue up 70%, cash investments and digital assets up over six times, and shareholder equity up over 54x from the same quarter last year.

Obviously, these are all very material improvements and was a result of a lot of hard work from all of our team members. Taking a step back on the space we're in, it's important to understand just how big of a transformation is occurring in finances. We've been living in a traditional finance world up until recently, a whole new world is emerging, and we see ourselves as a platform to bridge these two worlds.

Fintech is about leveraging technology to reimagine the products and experiences of finances, but it's all been built with the legacy infrastructure, whereas DeFi is all about rebuilding the back-end infrastructure. This new infrastructure is natively digital, global, and 24/7. We're going from a traditional finance world to a decentralized one that includes Web3, NFTs, and crypto. Personal finance is no longer just about checking accounts and bill payments.

It's about a world where users will increasingly have digital assets and need the ability to manage these alongside the current traditional products. It's no longer just a traditional mortgage and real estate in the real world. People are now buying and selling land in the digital world. NFTs are also moving beyond just art and digital assets to being used to verify ownership of physical assets from a plot of real estate to even a herd of cows.

Our focus is on building a platform that enables Canadians to manage their finances and achieve their financial goals in this new world. I believe the investments we've made to date positions well to do this. Now, although the makeup of finances are changing rapidly, the objective of financial freedom is the same. Whether you're interacting in the metaverse or the real world, you still want to achieve financial freedom.

For the next generation, it's not enough to just build wealth. They want to do it in a way that makes the world a better place. They want to have an impact. In fact, 76% say they identify as activists. Our focus is on building a platform and experience that helps them achieve this goal. We recently profiled one of our own team members, a woman in her 20s with the same aspirations as many people her age, to make an impact in the world and one day achieve financial freedom.

Like many, she came out of university with student debt and then got into credit card debt. Before Mogo, she wasn't sure what to do or how to get out of it. Now, by using our products and following our program, she's on a path to retiring with over CAD 10 million. Now, this is ultimately what it's all about, helping someone get on the right path to financial freedom and make it easy and engaging to do it while also having an impact.

This unique focus really differentiates Mogo. Without question, the most challenging part of being on track to financial freedom is getting into the habit of spending less than you make. Whether you live primarily in the virtual world or the real world, this will continue to be the case. As we all know, it's not what you make, but what you have left that determines if you're on track to building wealth. Someone making CAD 100,000 a year and spending CAD 100,000 a year is broke, while someone making CAD 40,000 and investing CAD 10,000 a year can be on track to retiring a millionaire.

Being more mindful around our spending isn't just key to our financial health, it's also key to building the world we want. Just as where we invest our money matters, so does how we spend. The MogoCard is the only card in Canada that makes it easy and free to eliminate your carbon footprint. As you get in better control of your spending, you're also doing your part to stop what is arguably the biggest social issue of our time.

Another unique feature of our card is that it not only makes it easy for anyone to eliminate their carbon footprint, but it also rewards you in Bitcoin every time you use it. Credit cards with air mile points might have been the preferred path for the older generations, Gen Z is looking for something different.

Today, our average card user, like the Mogo team member I referenced, is not only climate positive, but saves on average over CAD 2 a month by using the card. While controlling your spending is perhaps the hardest part of wealth building, without investing, consumers can achieve financial freedom goals. 2021 was a transformational year in many ways, but perhaps mostly for our progress on our digital wealth platform.

Our solution has two main parts, passive investing and active investing. Both of these are critical components of a digital wealth platform. MogoTrade is our active investing solution, and Moka today is our passive investing solution. We believe both are needed. MogoTrade has been our number one growth initiative for the last year, and without a doubt, the most important product we have ever built.

Our acquisitions of Moka and Fortification were a key part of this, along with the focus of the entire team over the last year. We successfully got regulatory approval and launched our app and wait list at the end of 2021. MogoTrade is designed to be a best-in-class, next-gen trading platform, beginning with commission-free stock trading, and with the goal of expanding into crypto and other products, including NFTs.

Now, this obviously ties into our strategic investments, and we believe positions us to be one of the leaders in Canada. The next generation wealth building platforms are going to look a lot different than what's in the market today. Crypto, NFTs, and stocks are all going to be part of the next generation's financial assets, and building a platform for this new world is what we are focused on.

Like our card, we built it in with impact, so that every investment you make also has a positive impact. Members will also be able to access their impact right in the app. Our goal remains to remove the wait list in Q2 and ramp up marketing later on in the quarter. With over 100,000 active subscribers, Moka continues to be an important part of our subscription revenue. Perhaps more importantly, is how we are evolving this into a best-in-class passive long-term investing solution.

As much as we believe in active investing, the facts also support that passive should be a key part of anyone's long-term wealth building plan, and setting up an automated investing program that invests in low-cost ETFs is the key. Moka was initially designed as more of a short-term savings solution, and with some small adjustments, we are turning it into a powerful best-in-class long-term wealth building solution. We put a graph here to highlight how different returns can be through one of these strategies.

We compared 100% allocation strategy versus a typical 85% allocation strategy to equities, along with the difference between a 0.5% fee that some competitors charge versus our current monthly fee. The differences are shocking, as you can see. The point here is for long-term wealth building, your allocation and your fees matter a lot, and that's how we are evolving this product, so that it truly delivers best-in-class results. We continue to believe that marketing can also become a competitive differentiator, and that companies that win will also have a brand that connects emotionally.

Besides leveraging social media and traditional marketing channels, we've put a lot of work and focus on connecting emotionally, and you'll be seeing that with our upcoming MogoTrade campaign that we expect to launch sometime in Q2. In banking today, there's not much differentiation between brands, but for the next generation, we think it matters and relevancy matters.

Although the Canadian market doesn't seem large by global standards, this is still a market where the top five largest banks made over CAD 50 billion in net profits last year. As one of the leading fintechs in Canada, we are well-positioned, and there's a strong barrier to entry given the regulatory environment. As we continue to build out our platform in key areas like legal and compliance, we are creating a competitive moat that isn't easy to replicate.

It's not just the dollars that are invested, but the years of work needed to get to where we are today, and we'll continue to build on this moat every quarter. Although we've made a lot of progress in the last year, we're still clearly at the early stages of our journey and the opportunity, which is why we're continuing to invest heavily in building our platform and positioning us for long-term growth.

Key areas of investment include product development, sales and marketing, regulatory and compliance, and market expansion of our payments business. We also continue to evaluate acquisition opportunities that can accelerate our growth and mission. With that, I'll pass it over to Greg.

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Thanks, Dave, and good afternoon. I want to go deeper on some of the key metrics and trends that Dave touched on. It was a milestone year for Mogo both strategically and financially, capped off by record Q4 revenue that showcases the strength and diversification of our business. Our fourth quarter results were again highlighted by accelerating top-line growth in subscription services that exceeded our guidance. Key fourth quarter highlights include CAD 8.6 billion in payment processing volume, record organic net member additions, third quarter in a row of accelerating revenue growth.

In the fourth quarter, we generated strong positive contribution from our diversified revenue base. Lastly, we ended the year with a very healthy financial position with cash and total investment portfolio on our balance sheet of approximately CAD 193 million. Mogo's total member base increased 64% over the last year to approximatel y 1.9 million members.

The approximate 800,000 in net member additions during the year was split roughly 50/50 between organic and acquisitions. The scale of our member base is clearly one of the big competitive differentiators for Mogo in the fintech landscape of Canada, and gives us the ability to more quickly launch and scale new products like MogoTrade. Once MogoTrade is fully rolled out, we expect to see accelerating net member additions and ultimately increase engagement monetization rates.

Our new member growth was matched by accelerating revenue growth in the quarter, which increased by 70%. Q4 revenue growth was fueled by accelerating subscription services revenue, which grew 135% for the quarter, reaching CAD 34.4 million in 2021.

The revenue segment now accounts for 60% of our total revenue. Growth came from both acquisitions we completed as well as an increasingly diversified set of products and revenue streams, including strong year-over-year growth in subscription revenue and our MogoCard. Crypto-related revenue was volatile during quarters but increased significantly year-over-year. However, it still remains a small % of our total subscription services revenue.

Contribution, which is gross profit, less our funding interest expense and customer service and operations expense, is a measure we use to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends before accounting for investments we are making across our platform. We view this metric as a good indicator of the operating leverage our model has as we scale. Contribution profit increased 51% in Q4 to CAD 7.6 million, and it grew 43% for the full year to CAD 28.7 million.

These increases are partially driven by incremental contribution generated by core Mogo business along with the positive contribution of our acquisitions. We believe that the significant investments we are making in our platform today that Dave spoke about, including the development of MogoTrade, MogoInvest in our payments business, will help further solidify our position in Canada and become important drivers of growth long term.

Our strong contribution margin, along with our strong balance sheet, gives us confidence in maintaining these investment levels as we move into 2022. An important and valuable distinguishing factor in our business model is the high percentage of returning revenue and the diversification of this revenue. We believe that this is becoming even more valuable during a period of continued financial market volatility, where having a predictability in your core business base of revenue increase is important.

In addition to growing our member base, we also saw an increase in the monetization rate of our members, which has been driven by an expanding set of relevant products like MogoCard, MogoInvest, MogoMoney, and the rollout of MogoTrade. Specifically, in the last 12 months, we've increased the monetization rate of our member base from under 10% to approximately 14%.

When you compare our average revenue across all our members to our average revenue per monetized member, you can see that the payoff to continuing to increase our member base is significant at almost eight times the ARPU level across our total member base. As we have also discussed before, there remains an even larger long-term opportunity to drive higher ARPU, as the average leading Canadian bank and credit union is approximately CAD 1,000 or higher.

Carta, our payments business, had a good year, and as you saw, generated CAD 8.6 million volume last year, up 50% over the prior year for Carta, prior to the acquisition by Mogo. After a year of owning the business, we are increasingly excited about the tremendous long-term growth opportunity this business represents. As a result, we are investing in the business in 2022, which includes the recent appointment of Allan Smith as head of Carta.

Allan is a proven fintech leader with directly relevant sector experience from his time at U.S. payments leader Galileo, and we're very excited to have him on our team. As we look to 2022 growth in this business, we will see some first-half headwinds as a customer rolls off. Excluding this one-time event, we are expecting another growth year and excited to have Allan in the role to guide the team through the next phase of growth within a massive global TAM.

Along with our earnings results today, we also announced the formation of Mogo Ventures to manage our existing investment portfolio in strategic partners and companies that support Mogo's ecosystem. The portfolio has a book value on our balance sheet of approximately CAD 124 million. Our 39% stake in Canada's leading crypto exchange, Coinsquare, is by far the largest investment in the portfolio and one of which we continue to be very excited about, both today and longer term.

In the latest quarter, Coinsquare saw revenues increase about 40% sequentially over Q3, and we also recognized positive net income through our equity recognition for the quarter. The company is also well-capitalized with close to CAD 100 million of cash and other investments on the balance sheet at year-end. More importantly, however, we believe Coinsquare is positioned to become the first fully regulated crypto exchange in Canada this year.

We believe this will be a milestone event for both the company and the industry, and as Coinsquare's largest shareholder, Mogo is very well positioned to benefit from the value creation of this major milestone. It's also important to note that the value of our investment in Coinsquare is based on our book value at acquisition, as we don't mark the position to market value, and it does not include any value of our warrant to purchase up to an additional 10% of the company, which is separately recognized on our balance sheet.

Separately, this portfolio includes investment in Canada's first digital asset trust, Tetra Trust Company, along with our 25% stake in the global NFT trading platform, NFT Trader, which David Feller spoke about earlier. We also have a number of legacy investments in the portfolio which we will focus on finding ways to monetize and believe that some of these investments could be monetized over the next 6 to 12 months.

Over the past several years, Mogo has been able to leverage its leadership position in the Canadian fintech industry to make a number of attractive investments in other emerging players in the Canadian market. Today's announcement clearly highlights the significant value that these investments represent for our shareholders. As we continue to build out Canada's leading financial technology and payments platform, we will continue to look for ways to participate in value creation opportunities with our partners that drive incremental shareholder value.

With today's results, we also reiterated our guidance for 2022, which is based on the investments we are making and the growth opportunities we see across our business. Specifically, in fiscal year 2022, Mogo is targeting total revenues of CAD 75 million to CAD 80 million and improving adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue in the second half of the year. Lastly, as you may have seen with today's earnings, we announced that the board has approved a share repurchase program of up to $10 million U.S.

While our primary focus is to invest in our platform and new products, the current market volatility may continue to present attractive buying opportunities. Put simply, we believe our share price does not reflect the fair value of the business, including the significant assets and performance of value that we discussed. A strong balance sheet puts us in a position to take advantage of those situations on behalf of our shareholders. With that, we will now open the call to questions.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask an audio question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Again, that's star one to ask an audio question. We will pause for just a moment to compile the community roster. Our first question is on the line, Adhir Kadve with Eight Capital.

Adhir Kadve
Principal of Equity Research and Technology, Eight Capital

Thanks, guys. My first question will be just on MogoTrade. Full rollout in Q2, but what are you guys really expecting in terms of rollout? How do you plan on going to market and any other details surrounding that?

David Feller
Founder and CEO, Mogo

Sure. It's David Feller. Our plan is we're continuing to accelerate our invitations. Obviously, this is a new product and as much as we're excited about it's always about really making sure that when you release it delivers. We're trying to be careful and mindful around that approach.

Given everything we've done so far and all of our testing, we're increasingly confident, and we're accelerating our invitations, and we expect to eliminate the need for an invitation so that somebody can sign up directly by downloading the app without the wait list. Most likely targeting near the end of April. Next month, first month of Q2. That also is subject to making sure things are going well. If we feel we need to extend it a little bit more, we will, but generally that's where we feel we're on track for that.

Then post that we're again going to be careful in terms of the timing of hitting the go button on our marketing campaign. We've been working on a big ad campaign that is going to be ready to go beginning of May. We'll have to see in terms of when we think that right timing is, but we do expect at some point in Q2 to ramp up the marketing efforts really focused specifically on the MogoTrade product, and that also includes obviously social, PR, et cetera. One of our more significant marketing campaigns that we've ever done for a product launch. Then obviously marketing to our member base as well.

Adhir Kadve
Principal of Equity Research and Technology, Eight Capital

Yeah. No, that makes sense. Just maybe, I know it's probably a little bit early, but could you maybe touch on some of the learnings since it's been active since late December? Some of the things you guys have learned or some things you guys are looking at? Any trends you'd like to call out?

David Feller
Founder and CEO, Mogo

On what? Sorry. On trade?

Adhir Kadve
Principal of Equity Research and Technology, Eight Capital

On trade. Yeah, just from, I guess not really a soft rollout, but you said you'd do a phase rollout through Q1, and so just any learnings behind that you guys can maybe share?

David Feller
Founder and CEO, Mogo

That's just around identifying areas of the experience that we have to improve. That really is the big one. One of the big differences you'll notice when you download the MogoTrade app and you sign up and you make a trade. For example, there's a new TD Easy Trade app in the market, and they've just launched it, and they're targeting the younger generation.

This is a night and day experience compared to that. Every part of that experience is designed to be a really cool, engaging experience, not only simple, but actually an engaging experience. A lot of work has gone into not just the functionality, does it work? Actually an experience that actually people go, "Okay, that is a cool experience," right?

Everything no different than what you see right now in the app in terms of the real-time streaming quotes tick by tick. That typically is not anything you would see in any of the major brokerages, right? You typically have to refresh. Those types of things. Getting the feedback on just the experience, which also includes the copy.

Does it make sense? Does somebody intuitively understand all these different components? I'd say those are the primary learnings that we're getting. Along with obviously at this stage, you're always identifying some bugs. The more people who get on there, the more likely you are to identify bugs that you obviously solved.

Once you've identified those bugs, that obviously gets you to a level of confidence where you're like, "Hey, we're prepared to release it from a wait list, and now anybody can sign up." Generally, I'd say those are the primary learnings that we've been focused on.

Adhir Kadve
Principal of Equity Research and Technology, Eight Capital

That's great. Then maybe just one more question, just broader on the overall investment that you guys were talking about in the end of your preamble there. Can you maybe just remind us some of the key priorities outside of MogoTrade? I know you mentioned B2B payments. Just any additional color on what kind of investments you'll be making this year outside of MogoTrade.

David Feller
Founder and CEO, Mogo

Greg, do you want to take that?

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Yeah. Apologies. You cut out for me at the beginning. Investments outside of MogoTrade. Yeah, I would say number one, as we talked about Carta. We're making a big commitment to invest there. We are big believers in the long-term opportunity. We believe a number of exciting opportunities. Obviously that's a massive global TAM of over a couple of trillion.

Obviously think of Mogo as a B2C consumer business in Canada, and then more of a B2B payments business outside of Canada. Again, with the appointment of Allan to head up that team, we're committing resources and capital to invest there because we do believe that going forward in 2023 and beyond, that Carta can be a much more meaningful component of overall growth.

We're continuing to invest in the card, and that carbon offset experience, as well as MogoInvest and sort of bringing in the Moka product into the broader Mogo ecosystem under the banner of MogoInvest. Those would be the priorities.

Adhir Kadve
Principal of Equity Research and Technology, Eight Capital

Great. Thanks, guys. I appreciate all the color. I'll pass one.

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Thanks.

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Scott Buck with H.C. Wainwright.

Scott Buck
Managing Director of Equity Research and Technology, H.C. Wainwright

Hi, good afternoon, guys. I guess first question from me, could you remind us how large of an opportunity you guys believe Trade could end up being?

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Well, yeah. Look, I think if you step back and you look at what is the market that we're going after here, this is today initially just equity trading. As Dave has articulated, this is a lot more than equity trading. This is a next-gen trading platform. Ultimately that will include other assets like crypto, like NFTs, et cetera. We believe the opportunity is a lot more significant than just the equity piece.

The equity piece alone is obviously a massive opportunity. We're millions of brokerage accounts in Canada dominated by the big banks. We believe we're at the very early innings in Canada of the shift from the discount broker model into this commission-free trading model. Mogo, we expect to be only the second app out there. Obviously, ultimately the plan is to bring in crypto into that account as well.

We're big believers that ultimately the majority of retail crypto trading will actually flow to those products or solutions that actually enable you to trade both equities and crypto. We think we're going to be one of the first there. This is definitely an opportunity where we think there's an opportunity in the long run for Mogo to get millions of users with a successful product.

Obviously we have multiple ways to monetize that user beyond the monetization directly within MogoTrade because our solution obviously includes multiple other products and increasing our share of wallet with the user as well. A big part of MogoTrade is going to be, we believe, is going to help drive even accelerating user growth at attractive customer acquisition costs as well. I think there's a number of components of value to the opportunity.

Scott Buck
Managing Director of Equity Research and Technology, H.C. Wainwright

Great. That's some really good color. I appreciate that. Second one, can you provide a little color around gross margin? Looks like provisioning was up in the quarter. Curious what the outlook is there for credit and provisioning in 2022.

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Yeah. Really, what I would say is we've gotten back from an origination level to sort of pre-COVID levels on the loan origination side, which is the biggest driver of provisions from an accounting perspective. I think generally in the industry we've seen credit metrics return closer to sort of pre-COVID levels.

We think that the gross margin that we're at in Q4 is going to be more representative of a normalized state today. I think there's opportunities for that gross margin to go up as our other products sort of scale in the future. I think that for 2022 is going to be a more normalized state. We feel, again, on balance sheet lending is going to be an important product to the customer. Our primary growth driver, we continue to believe, will be on the subscription services side.

Scott Buck
Managing Director of Equity Research and Technology, H.C. Wainwright

Great. That's really helpful. Last one for me, kind of strategy question. How are you guys thinking about investment in the business versus generating positive EBITDA? Clearly, you can do it if you wanted to, but I'm just kind of curious, as we look out the next few years, whether we start to get a real path to profitability or the opportunity is so large to continue to invest in the business?

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

I would say, look, our bias today is investment. We're going after a massive TAM. We've got a lot of exciting opportunities with the upcoming full rollout of MogoTrade. As Dave said, we're really very early innings here. We do believe this is a winner-take-most industry, and I think we believe that Mogo is well-positioned as one of only a handful of leaders in Canada with the capital, the product breadth, the member base, et cetera.

We want to be able to take full advantage of that, and we believe we've got a balance sheet that actually affords us the ability to take advantage of that. Having said that, as you pointed out, we have proven in the past our ability to very quickly turn those growth dials down and get to profitability. We generated close to 50% EBITDA margin in Q2 and Q3 of 2020 when we made that decision. That was at much lower revenue scale. Our revenue scale was close to 70% quarterly revenue scale, about 70% higher than it was at that point in time.

What I'd like to say is we continue to have our hand on the growth dial, and we can adjust that growth dial up or down. The bias is definitely towards investment given the massive TAM. If we feel the need to turn that spend dial down a certain degree and get to profitability faster, we believe that that's actually well within our control. Right now, I think our bias is on the investment side for the long-term growth.

Scott Buck
Managing Director of Equity Research and Technology, H.C. Wainwright

All right. Great, guys. I appreciate all the additional color and congrats on the quarter.

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Thanks, Scott.

Operator

Again, to ask a question please press star one on your telephone keypad , again its star one. Your next question is on the line of Andy Nguyen with Raymond James.

Andy Nguyen
Equity Research Associate, Raymond James

Hi, guys. Thank you for taking my question. My first question, can you give me some sort of your long-term view for Carta? When you say the processing volume was up this quarter, I remember I think it was 58%. Does that mean Carta revenue was up by the same amount in the quarter as well? Thank you.

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Yeah. Long-term view or opportunity on Carta. Look, I think our view there is that this is obviously a massive TAM by any definition, and Carta is still a relatively small player in the sector. Therefore, we believe there's significant opportunity to grow the business there with the right level of investment.

I would say in 2021, our first year of really owning the business, we were more just getting our arms around and understanding it and to make the long-term decision of what level of investment we wanted to make. Now that we've gotten comfortable with the business and really understanding how much bigger the longer-term opportunity is, we've made the decision to invest in it, and that's what we're planning to do.

Look, this is a business that given its scale today and given the global TAM, has the opportunity to be growing 30% to 50% plus CAGR for a long period of time if we're executing and if we make the right investments, and that's what 2022 is about. Revenue growth was not as high as volume growth in 2021. It was still high. It really sort of depends sometimes where that volume growth comes from. I would say in general, we'd expect revenue growth to be fairly close to volume growth. As I say, we're early days. We're excited. We believe this is a very valuable asset in the ecosystem.

It gives Mogo a big strategic advantage, we believe, in Canada, being vertically integrated from a cost perspective as it relates to providing a best-in-class user experience and best-in-class benefits program to the user, given our cost base advantage. We think it's a valuable asset in the overall payments ecosystem. This is a business, remember that most of the revenue today is outside of Canada. It's also a business that gives us an opportunity to grow internationally.

Our general view has been that we don't want to take the Mogo brand internationally because that's where the big expense is building that brand. Then you've got the legal and regulatory fight, all those barriers that make it challenging for an international player to come to Canada would be there for Mogo going internationally. That's not the case with the Carta business. It allows us to grow internationally through that division.

Andy Nguyen
Equity Research Associate, Raymond James

That's great. Thank you for the color. My second question is on Coinsquare. Could you shed some light on how it performed in terms of revenue in Q4 and whether it was profitable?

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Coinsquare overall was profitable in Q4. Revenue close to about CAD 10 million in the quarter, which as I mentioned in my comments, was up meaningfully sequentially from Q3. Just like we've seen more broadly in the industry, the crypto-related trading has generally been going up and down with the volatility in the market.

Q4 was up about 40% sequentially over Q3. As I mentioned, the business itself is very well capitalized. We think they are very well-positioned from a regulatory perspective, which we believe is going to be one of the biggest drivers of value here because Canada's really going to be the first country almost globally that's going to be bringing this level of regulation to crypto.

We believe Coinsquare is positioned to be really the first fully regulated crypto exchange in Canada, which we believe will bring tremendous value to Coinsquare after they get those regulatory approvals. We're super excited about that. Strategically, they're a partner of ours. Long-term goal is for Coinsquare today powers a Bitcoin account and long-term goal is for Coinsquare to power our broader crypto capabilities when we do bring those in on the MogoTrade side as well.

Andy Nguyen
Equity Research Associate, Raymond James

Thank you. That's all for me. I will pass back to the line.

Gregory Feller
President and CFO, Mogo

Thanks.

Operator

There are no further questions. I will turn the call over to Mr. David Feller for closing remarks.

David Feller
Founder and CEO, Mogo

Well, thanks for your time today, and we appreciate the questions. We look forward to updating you on our Q1 call. Thanks again.

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call and webcast. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.