Ben Conant
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Well, first, Jim, thanks for having me on.
It's always great to be here.
And it's great to see Adam here as well.
Adam and I actually spent a day together and an evening together out at Atlantic FCU while we were building this.
So it's always great to be on a podcast with someone who's a true friend.
Look, I think the first thing we have to talk about is why is it critical to modernize lending technology today, right?
If we're going to think about what's broken, it's like, well, why do we need to change anything?
And I think the reason for that is that loan origination technology has become, over the past five to 10 years,
strategic infrastructure.
It's not just a back office system that we need to automate to improve efficiency, right?
This is strategic infrastructure that your institution needs to invest in in order to compete.
And
Why has that happened?
Well, over the past five to 10 years, you have the rise of LendingTree, Credit Karma, SoFi, right?
The market has changed and these fintechs and these marketplaces are marketing on the ease of the experience for the end customer.
The end customer doesn't care that you have a back office process that involves this Rube Goldberg machine of how the loan actually gets funded and approved, right?
This...
The end customer is looking at, how can I get access to the lending product that I need as quickly and painlessly as possible?
And these fintechs are marketing exactly that.
So the reason, the thing that was broken is that we have a bunch of legacy providers that are designed around, oh, it feels good.
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