{"id":100663,"date":"2023-10-04T12:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=100663"},"modified":"2023-10-04T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:22:07","slug":"formfree-partners-with-original-shark-and-iconic-entrepreneur-kevin-harrington-to-launch-passport-portable-financial-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/formfree-partners-with-original-shark-and-iconic-entrepreneur-kevin-harrington-to-launch-passport-portable-financial-id\/","title":{"rendered":"FormFree partners with original ‘Shark’ and iconic entrepreneur Kevin Harrington to launch Passport portable financial ID"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 4, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — FormFree<\/a>\u00ae has partnered with serial entrepreneur Kevin Harrington<\/a> of \u201cShark Tank\u201d fame to promote Passport\u00ae, a free service that makes it easy for consumers to quantify their borrowing power and share their verified assets, employment, annual and residual income and rent payment history with their preferred lender in just minutes from any web-enabled device.<\/p>\n

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Image Caption: Entrepreneur Kevin Harrington.<\/em><\/p>\n

Passport\u2019s comprehensive and streamlined approach to verifying borrowers\u2019 ability to pay significantly lowers lenders\u2019 operational costs, reduces fraud risk and speeds loans along \u2014 all while putting borrowers in control of their data and opening up financial inclusivity to the historically underserved.<\/p>\n

Harrington\u2019s team will support FormFree\u2019s October 20 launch of Passport with advisory and marketing services, including the engagement of financial advisors, real estate agents and social media influencers in sharing the service with consumers who are ready to use their credit to achieve financial goals such as consolidating debts or financing the purchase of an automobile or home.<\/p>\n

Brent Chandler, founder and CEO of FormFree, pioneered digital asset verification with the 2009 launch of AccountChek\u00ae, a service that was used by more than 3,500 mortgage lenders to verify more than $4 trillion in borrower assets before its strategic divestiture<\/a> to Stewart Information Services Corporation (NYSE: STC) subsidiary Informative Research in March 2023. With the consumer debut of Passport, Chandler aims to transform the lending industry once again with technology that leapfrogs current financing barriers.<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin [Harrington] is a masterful communicator. Together we\u2019re reshaping credit access with Passport by giving consumers direct control over their data for the first time,\u201d said Chandler. \u201cAs we initiate this transformative shift in lending, our focus on low income and minority buyers is unwavering. They are at the heart of this change and stand to reap significant benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving to gather and provide dozens of documents just to understand their own borrowing capacity deters countless consumers from applying for financing \u2014 and it\u2019s a hurdle they have to clear again and again if they want to apply with several lenders and compare offers,\u201d added Harrington. \u201cPassport makes it practical for consumers to share their always up-to-date financial data with a marketplace of lenders all at once and consider multiple, competitive offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chandler and Harrington will appear together at the Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Convention and Expo in Philadelphia next week to introduce Passport to mortgage industry participants and preview the FormFree Exchange (FFX), the online marketplace where lenders compete for the business of Passport users.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis idea is something we\u2019ve been working on for a while now,\u201d said Chandler. \u201cThere is already a lot of excitement about how FFX would speed and simplify customer acquisition and help buyers get the best financial products for their needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

About FormFree\u00ae:<\/strong><\/p>\n

FormFree empowers consumers to understand their ability to pay and share it with lenders like never before. Using FormFree\u2019s Passport\u00ae app, consumers can verify all the core financial data required by loan underwriters \u2014 including identity, assets, income, employment credit history and cash-flow data \u2014 in seconds. Once consumers are ready to transact, they can anonymously share their verified data on the FormFree Exchange (FFX) and receive immediate offers from a marketplace of lenders who fully understand their ability to pay, residual income and eligibility for down payment assistance and inclusive lending programs.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/www.formfree.com\/<\/a> or follow FormFree on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Kevin Harrington:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harrington is world renowned as the inventor of the infomercial, pioneer of the \u201cAs Seen on TV\u201d brand and one of the original \u201csharks\u201d on the hit ABC show \u201cShark Tank.\u201d He has launched more than 20 businesses that have each grown sales in excess of $100 million as part of a career that has introduced 1,000+ products generating over $6 billion in global sales. His business experience spans the globe, including opening distribution outlets in over 100 countries. https:\/\/kevinharrington.tv\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

X\/Twitter: @RealFormFree #mortgage #mortgageindustry #fintech #digitalmortgage @HarringtonKevin<\/p>\n

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Photo caption: Kevin Harrington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 4, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — FormFree® has partnered with serial entrepreneur Kevin Harrington of “Shark Tank” fame to promote Passport®, a free service that makes it easy for consumers to quantify their borrowing power and share their verified assets, employment, annual and residual income and rent payment history with their preferred lender in just minutes from any web-enabled device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":100662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12804,14409,1,10711,123,39,559,6,5],"tags":[205,19599,19600],"class_list":["post-100663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","category-ap","category-athens-business","category-business-news","category-fintech","category-georgia-news","category-mortgage-news","category-products-news","category-software-news","category-technology-news","tag-depthpr","tag-kevin-harrington","tag-portable-financial-id","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4323,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}