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Mary Costello joins FormFree team as director of vendor management, risk and compliance

ATHENS, Ga. -- FormFree® today announced that it has welcomed 17-year finance industry veteran Mary Costello to its team as director of vendor management, risk and compliance. In this role, Costello will support FormFree's audit, risk and compliance efforts across the management of internal and external vendor, lender and integration partnerships.

Prior to joining FormFree, Costello served 14 years at Veterans United Home Loans, where she developed, launched and led the enterprise-wide vendor management program for the largest U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) purchase lender. Costello also served as Veterans United Home Loans' go-to vendor compliance manager - diligently mitigating third-party risk through careful contract analyses, strong pricing negotiations and frequent due diligence collaborations.

"We are incredibly lucky to bring Mary and her wealth of vendor management expertise to the FormFree fold," said FormFree Founder and CEO Brent Chandler. "Mary has a deep background in managing risk across a complex portfolio of critical vendor relationships. I'm confident that she will be an incredible asset as FormFree continues to grow its vendor network."

As Director of Vendor Management, Risk and Compliance at FormFree, Costello will manage FormFree's internal and external vendor relationships with support from compliance leadership, internal stakeholders and external auditors. She will collaborate across FormFree's network to mitigate vendor risk by ensuring compliance with regulatory and ethical requirements.

"I was drawn to FormFree because I identify with the company's mission of driving disruptive change in the mortgage industry," said Costello. "I look forward to nurturing FormFree's numerous vendor relationships, promoting its groundbreaking mortgage products and thinking outside the box to leverage these relationships and products to facilitate a world-class lending experience."

About FormFree®

As the industry's go-to provider for direct-source VOA and VOI/E data, FormFree helps lenders understand credit risk like never before. Our patented AccountChek® and Passport® products open doors to more inclusive credit decisioning by revealing each customer's true ability to pay (ATP®). We have completed over $3 trillion in loan verifications that help lenders lower operating costs while improving the borrower experience.

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FormFree Welcomes Paul Finch, Former Early Warning CEO, to Its Board of Directors

ATHENS, Ga. -- FormFree® today announced the appointment of payments and banking fintech pioneer Paul Finch to its board of directors.

Finch is best known for his 16-year tenure as CEO of Early Warning Services (Early Warning), a private fintech company owned by seven of the largest U.S. banks - Bank of America, BB&T, Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo. Notably, Finch spearheaded the 2017 launch of Zelle, a real-time payments network composed of 850 banks and credit unions, and led Early Warning's transformation into a premier provider of real-time payments, risk and authentication solutions. Finch retired from Early Warning in 2019, and founded PWF Advisory Services, a financial services consulting firm.

"Paul is a visionary that has led transformational advances in the payments and financial risk space," said FormFree Founder and CEO Brent Chandler. "We're honored to have him join our board of directors and assist FormFree on its journey to forge a more inclusive credit decisioning landscape."

"I am enthusiastic to work with FormFree - a trailblazer in the digital mortgage industry - to break down the barriers to financial inclusion," said Finch. "They have proven themselves an innovative and agile organization that has enormous potential to disrupt the way credit decisioning is done."

In addition to Finch's extensive experience in the financial technology sector, he is head of the Finch Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps children and families in need in the Phoenix area.

About FormFree

FormFree® is a market-leading fintech company whose revolutionary products AccountChek® and Passport® make for a more inclusive credit decisioning landscape by enabling lenders to understand people's true ability to pay (ATP®). To date, thousands of U.S. lenders and brokers have ordered millions of FormFree's patented verification reports representing trillions of dollars in loan verifications. FormFree delights borrowers and lenders with a paperless experience, dramatically reduces origination timelines and offers automated analysis and standardized delivery to lenders and investors using a secure ReIssueKey®.

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