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Wilmington, DE – February 21, 2018 – LendIt Fintech, the world’s leading event in financial services innovation, announced today that they have selected the Best Egg Personal Loan Platform provided by Marlette Funding, LLC, as a finalist in the Top Consumer Lending Platform category for the LendIt Fintech Industry Awards. The Top Consumer Lending Platform finalists were selected from companies that demonstrate a combination of loan performance, volume, growth, product diversity and responsiveness to stakeholders.
The Best Egg Platform was selected as a finalist out of hundreds of applicants worldwide and by more than 30 respected fintech industry experts who judged entrants based on innovation, emerging talent and top performance. Best Egg will compete for top honors within its award category at the LendIt Fintech Industry Awards Show and Dinner on April 10 at the LendIt Fintech conference in San Francisco. The prestigious awards will bring together 500 fintech influencers, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to honor the outstanding achievements in financial services innovation.
“It’s an honor to be recognized by Lendit Fintech and a finalist in the Top Consumer Lending Platform category,” said Jeffrey Meiler, CEO of Marlette Funding. “We are devoted to delivering the platform that makes accessing money quick and hassle-free. Every day, we are motivated by the feedback we receive from our Best Egg customers who share how we help them reach their goals and enjoy life. We uniquely serve our customers from a perspective that includes decades of banking experience, deep customer knowledge and smart technology to deliver digital products, services and experiences.”
“This year’s finalists are the most innovative companies disrupting the future of finance in order to improve the quality of daily life,” said Peter Renton, co-founder and co-chairman, LendIt Fintech. “We were yet again impressed by the number of high-caliber nominees and look forward to celebrating these companies that have made impressive contributions to the fintech industry.”
To view all LendIt Fintech Industry Award finalists, visit www.lendit.com/usa/2018/awards.
About Marlette Funding and Best Egg
Marlette Funding, through its consumer brand Best Egg, is a financial technology provider on a mission to find better ways to make money accessible to allow people to enjoy life. The team mixes decades of banking experience with deep customer knowledge and smart technology to deliver digital products, services and experiences in a more relevant way. Today, Best Egg provides a frictionless online personal loan platform where qualified applicants can instantly view loan offers with no impact to their credit score and receive funds in as little as 1 business day. Since March 2014, the online loan platform has delivered over $4.7B of prime loans with unparalleled credit performance.
About LendIt Fintech
LendIt Fintech is a recognized global internet finance industry leader, founded in New York in 2013. Its aim is to gather industry elites to discuss and explore latest trends in the development of international financial technology. LendIt Fintech has become the largest event in financial services innovation as it hosts three annual conferences, LendIt Fintech USA, LendIt Fintech Europe, and Lang Di Fintech, and dozens of complimentary online and in-person industry events. LendIt Fintech also owns and operates one of the world’s leading industry educational channels, Lend Academy.
