September 16, 2022
MeridianLink is a tech company focused, in part, on providing mid-market lending software used to originate consumer and mortgage loans.
Recently, it added to its offerings by linking with MX to add instant account verification technology.
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September 1, 2022
MeridianLink Opening allows consumers to open and fund new deposit accounts quickly and easily. By integrating with MX, consumers can leverage fast, reliable verification technologies to instantly provide the information they need to verify and connect their external financial accounts — which ensures a more seamless user experience, mitigates fraud and risk, and increases conversion.
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September 1, 2022
Open finance firm MX and financial software platform MeridianLink announced a reseller agreement to speed up and enhance the digital account opening process.
Under the agreement, MeridianLink Opening will integrate MX’s Instant Account Verification (IAV) product to enable its customers to instantly provide the information they need to verify and connect their external financial accounts.
September 1, 2022
MeridianLink Opening allows consumers to set up and finance new deposit accounts in no time, but with the MX integration, the user experience is enhanced, while also reducing fraud risk and increasing conversion. MeridianLink's SVP, Amy Daniels, said MX is a great platform for financial institutions and FinTechs to provide seamless connectivity and verifications.
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August 9, 2022
“Our co-founder, chief strategy officer, and a partner in the business that I respect and admire greatly, Tim Nguyen, received the 2021 Innovator of the Year Award from the Orange County Business Journal,” MeridianLink Inc. (NYSE: MLNK) Chief Executive Nicolaas Vlok told analysts on the company’s third-quarter call last year.
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August 4, 2022
With powerful automation, analytics and workflow tools, MeridianLink® DecisionLender® can help you become a high-speed lender in no time. A cloud-bases and paperless loan origination system, DecisionLender automates application acceptance, processing, correspondence, real-time decisioning and compliance.
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July 17, 2022
Amplify Credit Union’s bid to rid its deposit accounts of all fees started as a marketing idea.
The Austin, Texas, credit union commissioned research in the fall of 2019 that suggested one-too-many bank fees were the clincher that motivated customers to move from one financial institution to another. It wanted to attract more core deposits and lower its cost of funds.
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July 15, 2022
Conventional wisdom says the more directors who are not affiliated with the company, the better because it decreases potential conflicts of interest and better positions boards to maintain objectivity when making executive decisions. These days, companies are even more inclined to separate CEO and board chair duties because of directors’ increased workloads.
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July 6, 2022
A local marketing firm Blue C, based in Costa Mesa, announced it has added new-to-market electric vehicle maker VinFast as a client this year.
Founded in 1998, Blue C also works with the Irvine Co., Costa Mesa-based MeridianLink, and an Ingram Micro business titled CloudBlue.
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June 22, 2022
Professionals in the lending sector have been developing CX-focused digital banking platforms for the last decade or more, and now fintechs are catching up in the B2B space. Credit unions and banks are looking to simplify their own work by using digital lending solutions (like MeridianLink) to help manage their customers' online applications.
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June 16, 2022
Costa Mesa-based MeridianLink Inc. (NYSE: MLNK), which provides software for credit unions and other financial firms, hired Sean Blitchok as the chief financial officer, effective June 13.
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June 8, 2022
Digital communications platform Eltropy announced it has acquired video banking expert POPi/o. In April, Eltropy integrated with financial services software provider MeridianLink to help the company provide text messaging capabilities, secure document collection and sync, and instant notifications from within its platform.
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May 27, 2022
Sean Blitchok will join MeridianLink, a loan and mortgage origination software platform, as CFO on June 13. Blitchok has held leadership roles at several organizations, including Salesforce, BlackLine, Hewlett-Packard, and Honeywell International.
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May 3, 2022
Consumers have been increasingly conditioned to expect a relevant, highly-personalized experience that caters to their every preference. Joe Mearn, Director of Product Management at MeridianLink, explains that with more data available than ever, financial institutions (FIs) must look at how they can deeply understand members and what they need.
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April 26, 2022
Data-driven software solutions from entities like publicly traded MeridianLink have helped small to mid-sized financial lenders fill the gap in workflows or tools to streamline application processing. MeridianLink designed a data-rich platform to gather and process loans rapidly.
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April 5, 2022
While 2021 was a record year for fintech merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, 2022 is off to a great start. In the first quarter, MeridanLink acquired small business lending technology provider StreetShares.
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March 11, 2022
“StreetShares’ commitment to providing lenders across the U.S. with state-of-the-art business lending capabilities, including business loans, automated decisioning, and business lines of credit, aligns with our focus on empowering more banks and credit unions to better serve consumers and communities,” said MeridianLink CEO Nicolaas Vlok.
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March 11, 2022
MeridianLink, a cloud-based software solutions provider for banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, and consumer reporting agencies, enables financial institutions to streamline loan decisions and account openings. CEO Nicolaas Vlok weighs in on the recent MLNK earnings report that indicated $0.01 in EPS and $64.02M in revenue.
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March 10, 2022
MeridianLink, which provides modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies, announced Thursday (March 10) that it intends to buy StreetShares, a FinTech for small business lending.
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March 10, 2022
Lenders have come to expect digital tools that can integrate smoothly with other systems, even the proprietary products they’ve designed themselves. Given that new platforms and fintechs are emerging on a regular basis, options keep growing. MeridianLink joins the discussion of which ones could serve these companies best.
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March 1, 2022
The 2022 TECH100 Mortgage list of honorees spotlights the innovators, such as MeridianLink, that are making the housing sector better and more sustainable by increasing efficiency, improving borrower experience and bringing elasticity to mortgage origination and servicing processes.
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February 8, 2022
Wesley Zauner describes MeridianLink Debt Optimization / Cross-Qualification: An innovative product feature that utilizes known debt and liabilities from a mortgage application to pre-qualify the member / consumer for consumer loan opportunities (auto, personal, credit card) available through the financial institution.
February 1, 2022
With digitization, credit unions and banks make their services more convenient for their customers. Many of such institutions use MeridianLink API to develop their platforms to ensure seamless service on any device used to visit their website or application.
January 31, 2022
Innovative B2B banking solutions are disrupting the financial sector to meet the start-up surge and provide services specific to emerging businesses. MeridianLink, for example, creates solutions that reduce friction and roadblocks in the financial industry by leveling the playing field for small- and medium-sized banks to compete digitally with their much larger competitors.
January 18, 2022
Consumers still wanted fast access to money but in a way that didn’t put their health at risk. So MeridianLink, which went public in July 2021 at a valuation of $2 billion, led the charge to make quick changes. By supplying technology upgrades to their smaller clientele, including credit unions and community banks, MeridianLink helped level the playing field for all lending institutions.
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January 3, 2022
Last year was a record-setting one for Orange County companies making their debuts on Wall Street. Costa Mesa’s MeridianLink Inc., which provides cloud-based software solutions for small banks and credit unions, opened in July at $26 for a $2.2 billion valuation. Since the IPO, the stock’s hovered around $21 and a $1.7 billion market cap.
December 17, 2021
In addition, the company also brought a digital bank account opening feature to its platform by partnering with MeridianLink in November. According to Apiture, providing an option to open bank accounts online responds to the growing reliance from consumers on using digital channels to conduct banking needs.
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December 15, 2021
MeridianLink, which creates digital lending solutions, went public in July valued at over $2 billion. They partnered with podcast host and financial expert Jim Marous to produce the Future of Digital Lending Report that shows just how rapid the adoption of digital payments and offerings has been post-pandemic in lending.
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December 6, 2021
In extensive reporting, MerdianLink and Digital Banking Report owner Jim Marous released The Future of Digital Lending. Their survey-based findings from 300+ financial institutions showed an industry-wide desire for more modern mobile interfaces.
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November 1, 2021
According to MeridianLink, the report highlights survey responses from more than 300 financial institutions, including banks and credit unions, on the continuing shift to digital channels as competition for loan customers increases.
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