MeridianLink and FICO Partner to Help Hundreds of Small Banks and Credit Unions Speed Consumer and Small Business Lending

SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 20, 2013 –MeridianLink, developer of the industry's first multi-channel account opening and loan origination platform, and FICO (NYSE: FICO), a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, today announced that they are working together to provide their mutual bank and credit union clients with access to FICO’s small business and consumer lending models.

The solution will combine MeridianLink’s loan origination platform, LoansPQ™, a web-based consumer loan management solution, with two sets of models built by FICO on pooled data representing thousands of loans: FICO^® Consumer Application Risk Models (FICO ARM 3) and the FICO^® Small Business Scoring ServiceSM solution ( FICO SBSSSM 7). Launched in October of 2012, FICO SBSS 7 is the industry leading scoring service for assessing the risk of US small business credit applicants, and FICO ARM 3 provides an immediate, cost-effective means for assessing risk for a variety of consumer portfolios and market segments. The combined MeridianLink and FICO solution will help banks and credit unions generate instant loan decisions for home equity line of credit, auto loans, credit cards, commercial loans and many other loan products. By using FICO analytics, lenders will be able to speed loan decisions while reducing delinquency and charge-off losses, approving more applicants, increasing profitability, streamlining operations and ensuring regulatory compliance.

"Our customers are looking for online account opening and lending solutions that ensure the right credit decisions are made quickly and efficiently," said, Doug Glagola, vice president of Business Development at MeridianLink. "With these new pooled models from FICO, we're putting this power right in their hands."

"Demand for credit from consumers and small businesses is intense, and lenders must respond in real time with offers closely tailored to the applicant's needs," said Bill Waid, general manager, Americas at FICO. "The integrated solution from MeridianLink and FICO enables lenders to grow profitably by adapting quickly to changing market conditions and making more competitive offers to consumers and small business borrowers."

About MeridianLink
MeridianLink, Inc., developer of the industry's first multi-channel account opening and loan origination platform, is a leading provider of enterprise business solutions for 20,000+ financial service organizations. The company’s passion for excellence is reflected in their web-based credit reporting, lending and new account opening/deposit technologies, which all enjoy solid reputations as being cutting edge, reliable and affordable. Based in Costa Mesa, California, MeridianLink is committed to creating “Smart Solutions” that deliver “Real Value.” For more information, visit www.meridianlink.com.

Über FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) ist ein führender Anbieter von Predictive Analytics und Softwarelösungen für Entscheidungsmanagement, das Unternehmen in über 90 Ländern dabei unterstützt, bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen, um Wachstum, Profitabilität und Kundenzufriedenheit zu steigern. Der zukunftsweisende Einsatz von Big Data und mathematischen Algorithmen zur Erstellung von Prognosen zum Kundenverhalten hat ganze Branchen grundlegend gewandelt. Die Analytics-Softwarelösungen und -Tools von FICO werden in den verschiedensten Branchen verwendet, um Risiken und Betrugsfälle zu verringern, profitablere Kundenbeziehungen aufzubauen, Abläufe zu optimieren und strenge regulatorische Vorgaben zu erfüllen. Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption — such as the FICO^® Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO-Lösungen integrieren Open-Source-Standards und Cloud Computing, um so maximale Flexibilität und schnelle Bereitstellung zu ermöglichen und Kosten zu reduzieren. Das Unternehmen hilft Millionen von Menschen dabei, ihren persönlichen Kreditstatus zu verwalten.

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