Company: NEWTP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001587987-25-000073
Chunk: 60

Company: NewtekOne, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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ENT AUDITORS</div>

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, and our independent directors, have reappointed RSM as our independent accountants to audit our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, and the Audit Committee has asked that this selection be ratified by our shareholders.

During the two most recent fiscal years, neither us nor any person on our behalf has consulted with RSM with respect to either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on our consolidated financial statements or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a “disagreement” or a “reportable event” as such terms are described in Items 304(a)(1)(iv) or 304(a)(1)(v), respectively, of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Exchange Act. RSM has advised us that neither the firm nor any present member or associate of it has any material financial interest, direct or indirect, in us or our affiliates.

Representatives of RSM are expected to be present at the Annual Meeting. They will have an opportunity to make a statement if they so desire and will be available to respond to appropriate questions.

#### Required Vote
The ratification of the selection of RSM as our independent accountants for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, will require the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Common Shares voted at the Annual Meeting, in person or represented by proxy. In determining whether the proposal has received the requisite number of affirmative votes, broker non-votes will be voted as instructed by the broker. In the event this Proposal is not approved, the Audit Committee will take such fact into account in selecting the Company’s independent accountants for the year ending December 31, 2025, but the Audit Committee is not bound by the outcome of the vote.

THE BOARD BELIEVES THAT A VOTE FOR THE PROPOSAL TO RATIFY THE SELECTION OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS AS DESCRIBED ABOVE IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR SHAREHOLDERS AND RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” SUCH PROPOSAL .

### PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES

#### Audit Fees and Services
Fees for professional services rendered to the Company by RSM during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 were as follows (in thousands):

| Audit fees