Product Innovation Snapshot

Helping You Innovate
at the Pace of Change

At MeridianLink®, we’re committed to driving innovation that empowers your financial institution to work smarter, move faster, and grow stronger. Every enhancement we deliver is guided by four key strategies, each designed to help you operate more efficiently, engage consumers more meaningfully, and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.

Release Highlights

Our latest MeridianLink product updates focus on driving growth by accelerating and scaling digital acquisition through more efficient, secure, and consumer-friendly experiences, including:

  • Improving conversion rates through smarter consumer applications and increased automated decisions.
  • Decreasing abandonment and enabling cleaner handoffs with streamlined workflow tools and omnichannel consumer engagement.
  • Reducing manual work and offering more self-service options for customers to free up internal resources.

Key Releases

  • Prefill applications in MeridianLink Access
  • User experience improvements for MeridianLink Mortgage Originator Portal 
  • Enhanced instant decisions in MeridianLink Opening

What’s New Webinars

Learn more about the latest round of updates and enhancements.

Releases by strategy:

Expand your reach and drive growth with a streamlined, fully digital account opening and loan application experience.

Product

Release

Description

Access

Prefill (Pilot)

Instantly verify identity and automatically populate personal data data, streamlining transactions while enhancing security and reducing fraud.

Mortgage

Originator Portal: Information Architecture

Refreshed design allows lenders to more easily process mortgage loans through an updated information architecture that provides an intuitive user experience.

Deliver tailored products and experiences that build stronger, lasting relationships with your customers and members.

Product

Release

Description

Access

Omnichannel Reengagement (Pilot)

Financial institutions can reengage applicants—whether they started in-branch or online—by sending a unique URL that allows consumers to resume unfinished applications.

Consumer/DecisionLender

Vehicle Loan Batch Validation Tool

The Batch VIN ID Tool enables FIs to quickly identify 2025 vehicle loans eligible for tax deductions using batch VIN checks, helping customers comply with new federal requirements tied to the Made-in-America interest deduction.

Opening

Distinct User Rights for Different Account Types

Enables admins to configure separate user rights/permissions for Personal Accounts, Special Accounts, and Commercial Accounts.

Consumer/Opening

Eliminate Duplicate Denial Reasons for Modern Experience

Remove duplicate denial reasons from appearing on automatically decisioned applications originating via API in the Modern Experience.

Mortgage/OpenClose

Salesforce SSO

Introduces an SSO connection to Salesforce for access to the new Salesforce Knowledge Base, as the Support team transitions from CXOne MindTouch to Salesforce Knowledge.

Improve efficiency and accuracy by automating routine tasks and accelerating decisioning.

Product

Release

Description

Opening

Enhanced Deposit Instant Approvals & Declines

Streamlines automated decisioning workflow by reducing instant approval clicks for in-branch applications and enabling instant declines for all channels.

Collect

Tangenesis Self-Service Collections

Allows consumers to manage collections independently through their devices, reducing staff involvement while improving the consumer experience.

Consumer/Opening

Data Connect for Marketplace

Securely share mutual customer data and streamline data exchange with MeridianLink Marketplace partners, allowing for faster, more powerful integrations

DecisionLender

Point Predictive IE Validate

Introduces Point Predictive’s IE Validate as a cost-effective income verification alternative, simplifying integration, rule authoring, and configuration.

Mortgage Credit Link

4506C API Integration

CRAs no longer need the 4506C form and can reduce turnaround times and streamline ordering and retrieval from the IRS.

Mortgage Credit Link

The Work Number Additional Products

Expand MCL’s existing integration with Equifax to include all TWN products available to resellers.

Mortgage

Enhanced Org Structure Support | Division Config Options, Logos & Brand Colors

Allows customers with complex organizational structures (e.g., multiple DBAs, CUSOs, and BPO providers, etc.) to configure account and integration settings, logos, and brand colors which deviate from the default values defined at the corporate level.

Mortgage

Candid Integration

Integration with Candid CRM for real time status updates for loans, automated communication workflows.

Mortgage Access

Construction and Land Workflows

Provides additional workflows to support Construction and Land loans.

Mortgage/OpenClose

SSO for Community

Introduces SSO access to the Community platform, enabling secure peer-to-peer collaboration and centralized access to Product Announcements, Release Notes, and System Alerts.

Mortgage/OpenClose

PriceMyLoan – Post Implementation

Enhancements designed to enable a smooth transition from DecisionAssist to PriceMyLoan.

Releases by product:

Release

Description

Strategy

Omnichannel Reengagement (Pilot)

Financial institutions can reengage applicants—whether they started in-branch or online—by sending a unique URL that allows consumers to resume unfinished applications.

Personalization That Powers Loyalty

Prefill (Pilot)

Instantly verify identity and automatically populate personal data data, streamlining transactions while enhancing security and reducing fraud.

Unlock Digital Growth

Release

Description

Strategy

Tangenesis Self-Service Collections

Allows consumers to manage collections independently through their devices, reducing staff involvement while improving the consumer experience.

Efficiency Unleashed

For more details and to access detailed release notes, log in to the MeridianLink Community page for Collect.

Release

Description

Strategy

Vehicle Loan Batch Validation Tool

The Batch VIN ID Tool enables FIs to quickly identify 2025 vehicle loans eligible for tax deductions using batch VIN checks, helping customers comply with new federal requirements tied to the Made-in-America interest deduction.

Personalization That Powers Loyalty

Eliminate Duplicate Denial Reasons for Modern Experience

Remove duplicate denial reasons from appearing on automatically decisioned applications originating via API in the Modern Experience.

Personalization That Powers Loyalty

Data Connect for Marketplace

Securely share mutual customer data and streamline data exchange with MeridianLink Marketplace partners, allowing for faster, more powerful integrations

Efficiency Unleashed

For more details and to access detailed release notes, log in to the MeridianLink Community page for Consumer/Opening.

Release

Description

Strategy

Release

Description

Strategy

Point Predictive IE Validate

Introduces Point Predictive’s IE Validate as a cost-effective income verification alternative, simplifying integration, rule authoring, and configuration.

Efficiency Unleashed

For more details and to access detailed release notes, log in to the MeridianLink Community page for DecisionLender.

Release

Description

Strategy

Release

Description

Strategy

Enhanced Org Structure Support | Division Config Options, Logos & Brand Colors

Allows customers with complex organizational structures (e.g., multiple DBAs, CUSOs, and BPO providers, etc.) to configure account and integration settings, logos, and brand colors which deviate from the default values defined at the corporate level.

Efficiency Unleashed

Originator Portal: Information Architecture

Refreshed design allows lenders to more easily process mortgage loans through an updated information architecture that provides an intuitive user experience.

Efficiency Unleashed

Candid Integration

Integration with Candid CRM for real time status updates for loans, automated communication workflows.

Efficiency Unleashed

Salesforce SSO

Introduces an SSO connection to Salesforce for access to the new Salesforce Knowledge Base, as the Support team transitions from CXOne MindTouch to Salesforce Knowledge.

Personalization That Powers Loyalty

SSO for Community

Introduces SSO access to the Community platform, enabling secure peer-to-peer collaboration and centralized access to Product Announcements, Release Notes, and System Alerts.

Efficiency Unleashed

PriceMyLoan – Post Implementation 

Enhancements designed to enable a smooth transition from DecisionAssist to PriceMyLoan.

Efficiency Unleashed

For more details and to access detailed release notes, log in to the MeridianLink Community page for Mortgage.

Release

Description

Strategy

Construction and Land Workflows

Provides additional workflows to support Construction and Land loans.

Efficiency Unleashed

Release

Description

Strategy

Distinct User Rights for Different Account Types

Enables admins to configure separate user rights/permissions for Personal Accounts, Special Accounts, and Commercial Accounts.

Personalization That Powers Loyalty

Eliminate Duplicate Denial Reasons for Modern Experience

Remove duplicate denial reasons from appearing on automatically decisioned applications originating via API in the Modern Experience.

Personalization That Powers Loyalty

Data Connect for Marketplace

Securely share mutual customer data and streamline data exchange with MeridianLink Marketplace partners, allowing for faster, more powerful integrations

Efficiency Unleashed

Enhanced Deposit Instant Approvals & Declines

Streamlines automated decisioning workflow by reducing instant approval clicks for in-branch applications and enabling instant declines for all channels.

Efficiency Unleashed

For more details and to access detailed release notes, log in to the MeridianLink Community page for Consumer/Opening.