Optimal Blue

MeridianLink has integrated Optimal Blue’s real-time pricing and eligibility technology into its mortgage platform to streamline workflows, improve accuracy, and enhance automation for lenders

Non-QM lending closed 2025 with record momentum, capturing more than 9% of total lock volume as investor demand and alternative credit programs continued to reshape origination strategies

Optimal Blue has promoted Lanny Rogers to CFO and Jeremy Moreno to CRO to strengthen financial strategy, unify revenue functions, and support the company’s next stage of growth

If certified, the case will become one of the largest antitrust actions in housing finance history

Refinances rose to 26% of originations last month, though purchase activity is beginning typical seasonal decline

Originators finding more opportunities in investor-driven and self-employed borrower segments