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Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) have been on a winning streak. Even after 2022, they continued to come out ahead of banks and credit unions. In fact, IMBs currently handle the majority of mortgage originations. And despite a rocky start to 2025 and rising fulfillment costs, they have seen production profits in Q2 and Q3 of the year.
The future may also bring positive changes: even modest rate declines in 2026 could be enough to bring buyers back into the market.
With all of this in mind, IMBs need to be ready to defend their lead against competitor institutions. This leaves no room for a legacy mortgage LOS that slows your business with manual tasks, hidden costs, and profit-eroding workarounds.
Widening the Market Lead With Modern Mortgage Lending Software
The key to IMBs growing their market lead is mortgage origination technology that can reduce per-loan expenses, shorten cycle times, and eliminate expensive workarounds required by many legacy systems.
That’s why IMBs are increasingly turning to MeridianLink® Mortgage. With configurable workflow automations, seamless integrations, and current, decision-ready data, our mortgage lending software ensures that IMBs can capture additional volume and lower per-loan costs without straining resources.
- Speed up loan cycles and boost pull-through rates with a PPE—built into the platform or from our trusted integration partners—fully connected to rules-based automation, eDocs, web portals, and more.
- Increase loan closings and keep on growth targets with the smooth, engaging, digital-first experiences today’s borrowers expect.
- Eliminate expensive, time-consuming workarounds with a scalable, cloud-based platform, direct core integration, instant decisioning capabilities, and more to lower expenses and free up resources.
MeridianLink Mortgage also integrates with our add-on Insight for Mortgage intelligence and analytics solution to take your lending operation even further. From real-time peer benchmarking to pull-through rate breakdowns, this solution delivers out-of-the-box intelligence and analytics to help you continuously capture more market share.
Grow your lead in the rate race. Accelerate growth, save more per loan, and streamline your mortgage lending operation with MeridianLink Mortgage.
