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• October 07, 2009
  Three More Credit Unions Deploy MeridianLink System
  Three more credit unions — iQ Credit Union (WA), Royal Credit Union (WI and MN), and SafeAmerica Credit Union (CA) — recently deployed the MeridianLink system. "Each of these credit unions had different needs and goals in automating all or part of their member financial services," explains Tim Nguyen, chief information and technology officer for MeridianLink. "Our ability to adapt technology to create a custom fit for each individual credit union is one of the areas where we excel as a company."
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  Frontier Bank Goes from ZERO to ONE MILLION in One Month: MeridianLink System Provides Rapid ROI
  Frontier Bank appreciates the results they received in just one month of using MeridianLink's automated system for new accounts and deposits online. "We’ve been very pleased," says Eva Shue, project manager for Frontier Bank. "Within one month we reached $1,000,000 in new deposits via the system."
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Realizes Greater Online Loan Volume With Meridianlink
  MeridianLink’s automated loan application system has had a positive impact at Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union (FMFCU). “Our online loan applications have increased significantly with the MeridianLink system,” says Allan C. Stevens, Chief Credit Officer for FMFCU. “We’re getting over 25% of our loan applications online now — an increase of over 30%.”
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  CUSN and MeridianLink Announce Partnership
  Working Together to Connect Members to Credit Unions
  Credit Union Service Network (CUSN) has partnered with MeridianLink to offer XpressAccounts, an automated new member application and account opening program. "Our goal is to become a one-stop shop for our subscriber credit unions and help them take advantage of new options and technologies to assist them in connecting with their members," explains Doug Burke, CEO for CUSN.
  
  
• May 12, 2009
  MeridianLink Powers FIRST ROI's Advanced Online Account Opening System
  FIRST ROI, a full-service marketing firm exclusively focused on supporting community financial institutions, announced today the launch of INMO online account opening. Powered by MeridianLink, a leading provider of enterprise business solutions for the financial services industries, INMO combines FIRST ROI's user interface proficiency and lead management capabilities with MeridianLink's robust infrastructure and expertise in the ID verification, authentication, and applicant-screening integration. Together, the organizations have developed a robust, quick-to-launch online account opening system for retail DDA, CD, and/or savings account applications that increases applications, improves funding rates, drives efficient back-office workflow.
  
  
• March 04, 2009
  Two Credit Unions Realize Advantages of One Platform
  Both Associated Credit Union and First Entertainment Credit Union chose the advantages of one platform to automate their key financial services. “It was very appealing to us to give our staff one point of access to many of our third party applications. This vast integration is helpful in giving our staff the information they need quickly so that they can spend more time cross-selling loans and other deposit products” says Nas Ebrahimi for First Entertainment Credit Union. Jeffrey Bergum for Associated Credit Union agrees. “We liked the idea that we’d have both lending and deposits in one seamless platform,” he explains. “This offers us great cross-sell opportunities.”
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  MERIDIANLINK DEVELOPS ULTIMATE INTEGRATION
  Northwest Federal Credit Union Requires Custom Solution
  When Northwest Federal Credit Union automated their lending application, they faced more than the usual processor integration challenges. Unlike their peers, this $1.5 billion institution operates from a unique core database and required a custom solution. For MeridianLink programmers, developing an in-depth custom integration like Northwest Federal Credit Union required, was a challenge they were more than willing to accept.
  
  
• September 03, 2008
  Automation Technology Strategies
  It's hard to explore outer space in an airplane—and it's just about as difficult to grow a credit union using yesterday's technology. A key component of Kern Federal Credit Union's strategic plan for growth was the automation of financial services.
  
  
• August 14, 2008
  MERIDIANLINK TECHNOLOGY ASSISTS WITH CU MERGER
  Public Service Credit Union and MeridianLink Partners in Growth
  Public Service Credit Union (PSCU), realized unexpected benefits in the use of new technology, in a recent merger with another credit union "We recently acquired another, smaller credit union," says Steve Weber, assistant vice president of Lending for PSCU, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. "We went from about 77,000 to 120,000 members, and we grew from 20 to 26 branches. Our asset size jumped to $930 million, and we’re experiencing a lot of growth and change."
  
  
• July 14, 2008
  CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION POISED FOR GROWTH:
  Kern Federal Aligns with MeridianLink as Part of Expansion Plans
  With the deployment of MeridianLink’s single automated lending and new account opening platform in March of 2008, Kern Federal Credit Union in Bakersfield, CA is now poised for growth. Like many credit unions and community banks, Kern had a single branch location for a long time. “About three years ago, we opened our second branch in an auto mall, says Linda Crosby, Senior Vice President of Financial Services. “We were hoping to enhance indirect lending activity, as well as serve the employees and residents of the surrounding area. We’ve had a great response to this second location, and now we’re working toward adding additional branches in the coming years.”
  
  
• March 8 , 2007
  Technology Rates High at Sun Federal Credit Union: MeridianLink Receives Top Approval from CU Employees
  An annual survey conducted by the Toledo, Ohio based
  credit union found that employees were more productive and able to perform their work
  with greater ease as a result of their deployment of MeridianLink’s LoansPQ Enterprise system.
  
  
• Feb 15, 2007
  Jack Henry Experiences Rapid Adoption of Opening Act
  Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. , a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that it is experiencing rapid adoption of Opening Act, its recently introduced online origination solution for deposit accounts and consumer loans. Fifteen of Jack Henry's financial institution clients have contracted to implement Opening Act.
  
  
• January 15, 2007
  MeridianLink LoansPQ Selected by Nation's Largest Indirect Lending Credit Union
  MeridianLink, a provider of automated credit and lending technology for financial institutions, announced that Security Service Federal Credit Union (SSFCU), the nation's largest indirect lending credit union, has selected their LoansPQ Enterprise automated lending and new deposit account platform.
  
  
• October 26, 2006
  MeridianLink Technology Increases Credit Union Membership & Lending
  LoansPQ and Xpress Accounts Synchronize Member and Loan Approval Processes:
  MeridianLink, Inc., a provider of automated credit and lending technology, has successfully boosted new member acquisition and increased lending opportunities for Salt Lake City, Utah-based Beehive Credit Union.
  
  
• March 28, 2006
  MeridianLink Hires Former Fannie Mae Director to Head Mortgage Industry Relations
  MeridianLink, Inc., a technology provider for the mortgage finance industry, announced today that Doug Glagola has joined the company as Vice President of Mortgage Industry Relations. Mr. Glagola will head efforts to build strategic relationships with mortgage industry partners and assist MeridianLink in expanding the reach of their technology.
  
  
• August 22, 2005
  FedComp and MeridianLink establish key partnership for Automated Lending
  FedComp Inc., provider of core data processing software and systems to more than 1,200 Credit Unions, and MeridianLink have just announced a new technology alignment that integrates MeridianLink’s product, LoansPQ, (a comprehensive and customized financial services solution for credit unions, provides a single-point integrated solution for automated lending and member services) into FedComp’s system.  An online automated lending and decisioning tool, LoansPQ seamlessly blends the secure credit technology of MeridianLink with TNG, the data processing and accounting suite of FedComp.  Credit unions can now offer improved banking services to its members with automated lending services, instant response to new loan applications, real time account balances, and online requests for services.  Members will have automated loan officer interaction, while credit union management can have valuable online supervision of loan officer activities.
  
  
• July 5, 2005
  Bankers Systems and MeridianLink Form Alliance
  MeridianLink to offer Bankers Systems’ electronic lending documents within LoansPQ
  Under the terms of the agreement, MeridianLink will offer credit union clients that utilize its loan origination system (LOS), LoansPQ, Bankers Systems’ electronic documents that support consumer, open-and closed-end, and home equity lending transactions. MeridianLink has integrated Bankers Systems’ documents into LoansPQ for rapid, common client deployment.
  
  
• March 25, 2005
  Tech Savvy America First Deploys MeridianLink’s Next Gen Lending System
  MeridianLink Inc., an established technology provider to the credit union system, announced successful deployment of their popular LoansPQ lending platform with America First Credit Union. The announcement marks the beginning of the Ogden, Utah credit union’s initiatives to leverage advanced lending technology to refine the member borrowing experience, improve processing workflow, and automate its lending operations.
  
  
• September 22, 2004
  CU VILLAGE, MERIDIANLINK PARTNER TO OFFER CREDIT UNIONS Online Decisioning and Lending Solution
  CU Village and MeridianLink have entered into an agreement to offer credit unions LoanDecision+ powered by LoansPQ, an entirely Web based system that allows members to complete an online loan application and receive an answer within 30 seconds on whether their application has been pre-approved or forwarded to a loan officer for further review.
  

• May 27, 2004
  MeridianLink Provides Centerpiece for Credit Union’s Technology Makeover
  Salt Lake City’s VAMCU Federal Credit Union always felt they were on the outside looking in when it came to technology; they understood the role technology could play in streamlining their lending operations, but their goals were usually larger than their budgets. Everything changed last December, however, when VAMCU ran across MeridianLink, a leading credit union technology vendor who provided them with an innovative online lending and decisioning system. “The difference,” says VAMCU Vice President Phil Patten “is night and day.”

• May 15, 2004
  MeridianLink completes direct integration with Fannie Mae on LoansPQ platform
  MeridianLink is proud to announce the completion of a direct integration of its LoansPQ Transaction Manager with Fannie Mae's automated underwriting system. MeridianLink's LoansPQ is a cutting-edge online decisioning and lending solution designed to help financial institutions streamline their loan inquiry processes, significantly reducing their operating costs and improving the lending experience for their valued customers.

• July 15, 2003
  SOSystems establishes seamless credit integration using MeridianLink's credit technology
  SOSystems has partnered with MeridianLink, Inc. to integrate advanced credit reporting technology to their suite of credit union products, adding a key component to their Centryx® core data processing system. With the addition of credit reporting technology, credit unions utilizing SOSystems will have the capability of pulling credit data directly from the national repositories for use in their loan origination and automated decisioning modules.
  
  
• March 4, 2003
  MeridianLink Announces New Online Lending System for Credit Unions
  Designed for credit unions and other financial institutions, LoansPQ is an interactive Web application for members to apply for loans online, improving customer response times and branch loan processing efficiency. LoansPQ can be private-labeled and customized for each financial institution to create a seamless bridge between consumer-oriented websites and internal core processing software.