In this episode of Sunny Side Up, host Tara Quehl talks with Preethi Janardhanan, the Lead Product Manager at Rapid Finance. Preethi has worked at startups, Fidelity Investments, and American Express and is now focused on launching Rapid's Lending as a Service solution. Tune in to hear about her journey and how Rapid Finance was able to quickly implement a loan origination platform to help the Small Business Administration (SBA) launch the Disaster Recovery Program for Covid Idle in April 2020. Hear about how she was able to accept 700,000 applications on day one and how their experience opened up a new product journey for Rapid. Learn more about what banks and FinTech need to do to stay ahead of the competition, including providing tailored and scalable solutions that meet customer expectations such as speed, efficiency, and transparency. Discover what trends are driving lending as a service today, such as shrinking availability of capital to small businesses, understanding data analytics and trends to minimize risk, tighter regulations, and digital transformation.

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