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Mission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company that leverages advanced technology, data analytics, and machine learning to provide a dignified customer experience to people who are working hard to build or rebuild their credit and improve their financial lives. Mission Lane strives to offer branded products through its sponsor banks with better and easier-to-understand terms than many of the alternatives available to people with less-than-perfect credit or limited credit history. The company’s digital self-service tools make it easier for customers to stay on top of their accounts. And with responsible use, Mission Lane branded products and tools can help them on their journey to improve their credit. Over three million consumers have chosen Mission Lane, earning high customer ratings on Credit Karma for its market segment. Since its spinoff as an independent company in December 2018, Mission Lane has cumulatively raised over $600 million of equity from leading investors, including Invus Opportunities, QED Investors, LL Funds, funds affiliated with Oaktree Capital Management, and other leading investors to support the company’s mission of setting a new standard of financial services for everyday Americans seeking to improve their financial health.
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- Financial Services
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Richmond, VA
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2018
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"There’s no replacement for compassion and understanding." Hear how Mission Lane COO Lisa Fischer's personal journey highlights the transformative power of compassion in finance.
“There I was – a Senior Vice President at a major US bank, with $150 in my account.” Lisa Ann Fischer has counseled hundreds of unbanked and underbanked Americans, from those new to the country and without credit history to those recovering from tragedy. Today, she is the COO of Mission Lane, an organization that prides itself on serving these individuals with compassion by investing heavily in understanding the full picture of their lives. But nothing taught her more about compassion than facing financial disaster herself. Read Lisa’s story here: https://hubs.la/Q02nMC7J0
How Financial Ruin Made Me a More Compassionate Leader
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Mission Lane just launched our Tech Blog 🎉, a collection of thought pieces on Mission Lane technology, from data science and analytics to machine learning and engineering. Check in every two weeks to read our newest articles 🚀. https://lnkd.in/eyc7KaNa
Mission Lane Tech Blog – Medium
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Our Head of Engineering & Technology Mike Lempner was featured on “The Buzz” podcast by Bank Automation News (Royal Media) discussing how financial institutions are accounting for the risks, opportunities and regulations that come with #AI. Hear more from his conversation with Whitney McDonald here: https://bit.ly/47nwryt
Podcast: Approaching AI with a plan
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“Financial exclusion is a real problem for maybe as much as a third of the United States,” said Jason Capehart, Head of Data Science and Machine Learning Engineering at Mission Lane. “Technology and inclusiveness from a data perspective is one of the ways that we can approach that problem and improve it.” Check out Jason’s conversation with Isabelle Castro of Fintech Nexus about how #fintechs can play a role in advancing #financialinclusion through #data and #machinelearning: https://bit.ly/3QORKUp
US Financial Inclusion Slips, Weighed by Drops in Support
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Mission Lane’s head of enterprise fraud, collections and recoveries Gaurishankar Gopalakrishnan penned an article for BAI on how #financialinstitutions can #fightfraud while delivering a seamless #customerexperience in an increasingly complex financial ecosystem. Read on to learn more: https://bit.ly/3Qc9SHb
How banks can prioritize fraud prevention with the customer in mind
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Mission Lane’s Chief Operating Officer Lisa Ann Fischer spoke with Erica Sandberg of U.S. News & World Report about what unmarried couples should be thinking about when it comes to #personalfinance, including dealing with #debt and #credit and the importance of #transparency. Check out her top tips here: https://bit.ly/3rBO3aR
6 Key Financial Considerations for Unmarried Couples
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Mission Lane’s Head of Engineering and Data Science Mike Lempner spoke with Louis Thompsett of FinTech Magazine on how artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling financial institutions to streamline operations and enhance customer service. See their conversation here: https://bit.ly/46aTnRy #fintech #AI #machinelearning
Mission Lane: AI Revolutionising Financial Operations
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Our very own Jason Capehart sat down with Ethan Simpkin on the Making Cents of Data interview series to discuss the role of data in promoting financial inclusion. Tune in on September 5th at 11am ET to hear Jason's perspective: https://bit.ly/3EmKJTA
Data serves as a vital asset for numerous financial service companies, regardless of their size. However, are these firms fully exploiting its potential? Ethan Simpkin engages in conversations with data leaders for his latest series, 'making cents of data,' to explore the major hurdles and possibilities they encounter concerning their data, particularly within the financial service sector. This series features: 🚀 Jason Capehart, Head of Strategy & Data Analytics, Mission Lane 🚀 Deborah Lorenzen, Head of Enterprise Data Governance and Master Data Management, State Street 🚀 Dalya Adams, Head of Data, Torus Register to join, now! #data #dataanalytics #strategy #financialservices
Making Cents of Data, Series Two w/ State Street, Mission Lane & Torus
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Mike Lempner, Head of Engineering and Technology at Mission Lane, sat down with Billy Hurley of IT Brew to discuss how to cultivate empathy for coders by encouraging other teams to learn coding, improving collaboration between teams and generating new solutions. Read more here: http://bit.ly/3NIQ9fW
Employers find ways to empathize with coders
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