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2020 HW Tech100 Mortgage winner: Blend

Propelling the consumer banking industry into the digital age

Blend is propelling the consumer banking industry into the digital age through partnerships with banks, lenders, and technology providers. Blend’s cloud-based technology – which encompasses mortgages, HELOCs, deposit accounts and auto loans – delivers speed and efficiency so lenders can serve the modern borrower amid rising competition and changing regulations. Blend’s One-tap Pre-approval for Mortgage technology enables lenders to verify a consumer’s assets, income, employment and liabilities with source data and zero friction, significantly reducing the amount of paperwork to review and saving time for the lender.

  • Blend currently works with over 200 lender partners – including Wells Fargo, US Bank, SunTrust, Lennar, and smaller community banks and credit unions across the country.
  • Blend processes nearly $2.5 billion in loans daily, driving innovation in the industry at large and helping consumers and lenders.
  • Blend is moving toward a future where borrowers can open an app or walk into a bank and instantly know how much they are capable of borrowing.

https://blend.com/

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