LoanPro Strengthens Leadership with Sarah Howell as the Head of Partnerships

LoanPro, the market-leading API-first modern lending and credit platform, is thrilled to announce the appointment of fintech and banking expert Sarah Howell as Vice President of Partnerships. With her extensive background in fostering collaboration between financial institutions and fintechs, Sarah is set to drive growth through innovative partnership strategies for LoanPro. Sarah's unparalleled expertise in leading partner programs across traditional business models as well as banking-as-a-service models at Visa and Infinant has equipped her for strong success in this new role at LoanPro.

Collaboration between financial institutions and fintechs has grown significantly over the past five years. In 2019, financial institutions had an average of 1.9 fintech partnerships. Today, financial institutions average 3.7 partnerships with fintechs and 82% plan to increase collaboration over the next three to five years.

Sarah's role in leading partnerships for LoanPro involves building a partner ecosystem that is designed to advance the growth goals of fintechs, financial institutions, and brands to meet evolving consumer and commercial demands for personalized financial services. Using her deep industry knowledge of embedded finance, credit card processing, and banking technology; Sarah will play an instrumental role in reinventing the collaboration between the entire financial ecosystem, providing strong partnerships and seamless integrations.

"Given the state of the industry, joining LoanPro is a remarkable opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technology to facilitate meaningful partnerships," Sarah stated. "I am thrilled to contribute to our vision of modernizing infrastructure for financial organizations."

"We're confident that Sarah's leadership will enable us to integrate the necessary ecosystem partners into our API-first credit platform," emphasized Rhett Roberts, Co-Founder and CEO of LoanPro. "We've modernized the financial technology infrastructure by utilizing the same loan management software for credit card processing, and we're excited for the fintech ecosystem to join us on our mission driving growth and operational efficiency."

Discover how LoanPro is revolutionizing lending and credit solutions. Visit loanpro.io to learn more and explore partnership opportunities.

About LoanPro

LoanPro is the market-leading modern lending and credit platform enabling lenders to innovate quicker, driving account growth while optimizing operational efficiency. Today, 600+ financial organizations use LoanPro to holistically upgrade their borrower, agent, and back-office experiences. LoanPro's mission of providing the platform to innovate the future of finance currently is enabled through its composable architecture, allowing lenders to enhance their origination, servicing, payments, collections, all built on the foundation of a modern lending core.