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Varo Bank Selects RiskExec®'s SaaS Fair Lending Platform Furthering Varo's Commitment to Economic Mobility
[March 16, 2023]

Varo Bank Selects RiskExec®'s SaaS Fair Lending Platform Furthering Varo's Commitment to Economic Mobility


WASHINGTON, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RiskExec, Inc. ("RiskExec"), a subsidiary of Asurity Technologies, LLC ("Asurity"), announced its compliance software has been selected by Varo Bank to conduct Fair Lending analytics for its innovative financial products serving Americans living paycheck to paycheck, Varo Advance and Varo Believe.

Varo Bank (www.varomoney.com) is the first all-digital, nationally-chartered U.S. consumer techbank built from the ground up, designed to make financial inclusion and opportunity a reality for all. With its suite of products and services, Varo Bank is reimagining the modern banking experience and providing customers with the tools they need to build financial resilience and realize their financial power.

RiskExec is a SaaS platform that helps lenders of all types — banks, mortgage companies, credit unions, auto finance companies, credit card issuers, and digital lenders — achieve fair lending compliance. RiskExec provides insights and analytics that enable its users to proactively monitor, measure, and manage their progress against regulatory compliance standards as well as their performance against self-defined goals and objectives. This best-in-class solution quickly geocodes, runs edit checks, and utilizes industry recognized methodologies and data analytics to perform fair lending analysis and to review results. Varo Bank will now have ready access to the data required to assess lending dispositions, compare pricing and lending decisions across geographies, census tracts, protected class groups and other relevant characteristics.

"We were pleased to select RiskExec's market-leading, fair lending solution and are excited to begin using it to support our mission," said Caryn Becker, Varo Bank's Fair and Responsible Banking Officer. "With RiskExec's intuitive and scalable data management platform—and its powerful analytics engine—more hardworking Americans will have access to short- and long-term credit. At Varo we believe in supporting everyday consumers striving to reach their financial goals and creating solutions for all that foster true economic mobility."

"We at RiskExec are gratified by Varo Bank's decision to make our technology solutions an integral part of its overall commitment to fair andequitable lending practices," said Dr. Anurag Agarwal, President, RiskExec. He further stated, "RiskExec's team of domain experts strives to provide the most up-to-date, robust, and easy to use capabilities, so that our clients have the best information available to inform their critical business judgments. We look forward to a long, mutually beneficial partnership with Varo Bank to further its mission of promoting fair banking access for all."



For more information on RiskExec, contact us at [email protected] or (202) 765-2150.

About Asurity and RiskExec
Asurity delivers automated compliance solutions to the mortgage, retail banking, and consumer lending industries. RiskExec is one of Asurity's leading SaaS-based products, combining the best of compliance expertise with state-of-the-art software for reporting and analytics to help lenders meet demanding regulatory requirements and business objectives. RiskExec is embraced by financial institutions for compliance or other uses in mortgage, retail banking, auto lending, student lending, and other forms of credit and deposit products. Asurity also offers Propel™, an all-new, highly configurable solution for the dynamic preparation of compliant mortgage document packages, and RegCheck®, which provides comprehensive compliance checks against loan-level data pulled from any integrated LOS. For additional information about Asurity and its suite of SaaS compliance solutions, please visit www.asurity.com.


About Varo Bank, N.A.
Varo Bank is the first all-digital, nationally-chartered U.S. consumer techbank built from the ground up, designed to make financial inclusion and opportunity a reality for all. Varo Bank is reimagining the modern banking experience and providing customers with the tools they need to build financial resilience and realize their financial power. Innovative offerings include: Varo Believe, a secured card to help build credit; Varo Advance to help stretch hard-earned dollars between paychecks; the ability to earn up to 15% cashback at merchants nationwide; and a high yield savings account offering annual percentage yields up to more than 14x the national average. A different kind of financial institution, Varo Bank serves everyone striving to build a better future – from those with abundance to people struggling to make ends meet. Varo has been named one of Forbes' World's Best Banks in 2022, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and is on the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing companies for 2022. For more information on Varo Advance, Varo Believe, and other offerings such as Perks, visit www.varomoney.com, like Varo Bank on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @varobank. ©2023 Varo Bank, N.A. Member FDIC.    

Media Contacts

Asurity Technologies
Era Williams
Director of Marketing
(214) 257-1763
[email protected] 

Varo Bank
Emily Rose    
Weber Shandwick
[email protected]

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