How to build DCF for financial company?

I'm trying to build a DCF for a financial company, but am a bit confused about how to come up with FCF and WACC because a large portion of the company's income is from interest (i.e. the company borrows a substantial amount of money (e.g. through customer deposits) and lends this out at a higher interest rate).

In this case it doesn't seem to make sense to use FCF that equals EBIT(1-t)+D&A-capex-change in working capital, because this excludes the huge amount of interest income.

Also, for determining WACC, what should I use as the cost of debt (the rate on deposits it pays customers, or just the rate it pays on its bonds)?

Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

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Thank you for the info... from that source it looks like I'll just try to discount dividends at the cost of equity.

Does anyone think this is incorrect?

 

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