With more employers helping their employees repay their student loans these days, the launch of Finicity’s Student Loan Verification solution means those employers will soon be getting some help of their own.
The new product unveiled this week will enable employer repayment programs to access Finicity’s ACH endpoint to confirm accounts and routing numbers when making student loan repayments on behalf of their employees. Student Loan Verification leverages Finicity’s embeddable web app, Finicity Connect, to provide an intuitive user experience for the employee and ensure an easy integration with student repayment platforms for the employer.
“Student loans have become a major concern for individuals and families, with three out of four graduates burdened by debt,” Finicity COO and President Andy Sheehan said. “We are excited to contribute to an emerging trend in employer contributions to student debt by delivering a solution that eases the process and increases efficiency.”
Among the companies to take advantage of the new offering is fellow Finovate alum Vault. The company, which demonstrated its technology as Student Loan Genius at FinovateSpring 2016, has partnered with Finicity to add Student Loan Verification to its employer-paid student loan contribution solution.
“Companies are rapidly evolving their benefit offering to meet the needs of the modern workforce,” Vault CEO Matt Beecher said. “We chose Finicity to enhance our user experience within our student loan repayment benefit because of the technology’s superior coverage and capabilities.”
This week’s product release follows news of the Finicity’s big partnership with Ellie Mae, announced two weeks ago. This integration makes Finicity’s Verification of Assets (VoA) solution available via Ellie Mae’s Encompass Digital Lending platform. Ellie Mae has more than 230,000 users and thousands of providers in its partner network. Like Vault, Ellie Mae is also a Finovate alum, having demonstrated its Encompass Consumer Connect and Encompass Developer Connect offerings at FinovateSpring 2017.
“With the integration of Finicity’s digital Verification of Assets through our Encompass Digital Lending platform, we are further enabling loan officers, processors, and other key lender participants to reduce cycle-times and offer a more complete digital mortgage experience for their customers,” SVP of Business Development for Ellie Mae Parvesh Sahi said when the integration was announced.
Founded in 1999 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Finicity made its most recent Finovate appearance at FinovateFall 2017, where the company demonstrated its credit decisioning technology. This year, it addition to its partnership with Ellie Mae, Finicity announced it was teaming up with LendingQB who will leverage Finicity’s Verification of Assets solution to accelerate loan processing and enhance the user experience for borrowers. In April, Finicity announced an integration with Pulte Mortgage, which will also use the company’s VoA solution to speed the home financing process.
Finicity has raised $79.9 million in funding. The company includes Experian and Bridge Bank among its investors. Co-founder Steven Smith is CEO.