Company: NEWTP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001587987-25-000073
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Company: NewtekOne, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 the aggregate of the Board of Directors meetings and meetings of the committee(s) held and on which he or she served during the last fiscal year. All members of the Board of Directors make a diligent effort to attend all Board and committee meetings, as well as the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. In 2024, all members of the Board of Directors attended the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

#### Corporate Governance Policies
The Company has adopted corporate governance policies which are available at the Company’s Investor Relations page at www.newtekone.com (http://investor.newtekbusinessservices.com/corporate-governance.cfm). The corporate governance policies are also available in print to any shareholder who requests them. These policies were adopted by the Board of Directors, among other things, to best ensure that the Board of Directors is independent from management, that the Board of Directors adequately performs its function as the overseer of management and to help ensure that the interests of the Board of Directors and management align with the interests of the shareholders.

On an annual basis, each director and executive officer is obligated to complete a Directors’ and Officers’ Questionnaire which requires disclosure of any transactions with the Company in which the director or executive officer, or any member of his or her immediate family, have a direct or indirect material interest.

#### Committees of the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors currently has four standing committees: the Audit Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Risk Committee and, as of January 2025, a Technology Steering Committee. Each member of the Audit Committee, the Nominating Committee and Technology Steering Committee is independent as defined by applicable Nasdaq and SEC rules. The Risk Committee is comprised of both independent directors and directors who are members of Company management. A brief description of each committee is included in this Proxy Statement and each of the committees has a written charter approved by the Board of Directors, which is available on the Investor Relations page of our website at www.newtekone.com ( http://investor.newtekbusinessservices.com/corporate-governance.cfm ).

Audit Committee. The Board of Directors has established an Audit Committee in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). The Audit Committee currently consists of Messrs. Salute, Fernando Perez-Hickman and Zink, each of whom is an “independent director” as defined in the Nasdaq listing standards, and operates pursuant to its written charter. Mr. Salute serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and currently