{"id":80131,"date":"2022-03-23T06:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=80131"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:51:44","slug":"mary-costello-joins-formfree-team-as-director-of-vendor-management-risk-and-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/mary-costello-joins-formfree-team-as-director-of-vendor-management-risk-and-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Costello joins FormFree team as director of vendor management, risk and compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ga., March 23, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formfree.com\/\">FormFree<\/a>\u00ae 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\u2019s audit, risk and compliance efforts across the management of internal and external vendor, lender and integration partnerships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0323-s2p-Mary-Costello-FF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Costello joins FormFree\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0323-s2p-Mary-Costello-FF-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0323-s2p-Mary-Costello-FF-800x600-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-0323-s2p-Mary-Costello-FF-800x600-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><em>PHOTO CAPTION: Mary Costello named director of vendor management, risk and compliance at FormFree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 go-to vendor compliance manager \u2014 diligently mitigating third-party risk through careful contract analyses, strong pricing negotiations and frequent due diligence collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly lucky to bring Mary and her wealth of vendor management expertise to the FormFree fold,\u201d said FormFree Founder and CEO Brent Chandler. \u201cMary has a deep background in managing risk across a complex portfolio of critical vendor relationships. I\u2019m confident that she will be an incredible asset as FormFree continues to grow its vendor network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Director of Vendor Management, Risk and Compliance at FormFree, Costello will manage FormFree\u2019s internal and external vendor relationships with support from compliance leadership, internal stakeholders and external auditors. She will collaborate across FormFree\u2019s network to mitigate vendor risk by ensuring compliance with regulatory and ethical requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was drawn to FormFree because I identify with the company\u2019s mission of driving disruptive change in the mortgage industry,\u201d said Costello. \u201cI look forward to nurturing FormFree\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About FormFree\u00ae<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the industry\u2019s go-to provider for direct-source VOA and VOI\/E data, FormFree helps lenders understand credit risk like never before. Our patented AccountChek\u00ae and Passport\u00ae products open doors to more inclusive credit decisioning by revealing each customer\u2019s true ability to pay (ATP\u00ae). We have completed over $3 trillion in loan verifications that help lenders lower operating costs while improving the borrower experience.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formfree.com\/\">https:\/\/www.formfree.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow FormFree on LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/formfree\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/formfree\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @RealFormFree #mortgage #mortgageindustry #fintech #digitalmortgage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ga., March 23, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; 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&#8217;s audit, risk and compliance efforts across the management of internal and external vendor, lender and integration partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":80085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,12804,14409,1,38,10711,123,317,6,5],"tags":[205,17893,15642,802],"class_list":["post-80131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mortgage-news","category-ap","category-athens-business","category-business-news","category-finance-news","category-fintech","category-georgia-news","category-career-news","category-software-news","category-technology-news","tag-depthpr","tag-director-of-vendor-management","tag-loan-verification","tag-mortgage-risk-management","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4192,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80131","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=80131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}