##{"id":98838,"date":"2021-12-16T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/societyone-doubles-down-on-broker-channel-with-expanded-loan-market-group-partnership\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:54:00","slug":"societyone-doubles-down-on-broker-channel-with-expanded-loan-market-group-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/societyone-doubles-down-on-broker-channel-with-expanded-loan-market-group-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"SocietyOne doubles down on broker channel with expanded Loan Market Group partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SYDNEY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 16, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Digital finance platform <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.societyone.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SocietyOne<\/a><\/u> has expanded its partnership with Australasia&#8217;s largest broker network, <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/loanmarketgroup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Loan Market Group<\/a><\/u>, in an agreement that enables its brokers to offer more choice and outcomes to customers.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Loan Market<\/span> brokers have been recommending SocietyOne&#8217;s award-winning products and services to customers since 2019, but the new partnership now extends to businesses within Loan Market Group&#8217;s other aggregators &#8211; PLAN Australia, Choice Aggregation and FAST Group.<\/p>\n<p>SocietyOne has so far facilitated 5,000 personal loans with a value of <span class=\"xn-money\">$125 million<\/span> through the broker channel.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tony<\/b>&#160;<b>MacRae<\/b>, <b>SocietyOne Chief Commercial Officer<\/b>: &#034;SocietyOne is proud to partner with the Loan Market Group and bring the SocietyOne experience to their brokers and ultimately their customers.&#160; <\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder6669\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1710962\/Tony_MacRae.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1710962\/Tony_MacRae.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"SocietyOne Chief Commercial Officer Tony MacRae\" alt=\"SocietyOne Chief Commercial Officer Tony MacRae\" \/><\/a><br \/><span>SocietyOne Chief Commercial Officer Tony MacRae<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#034;Simple, fast, and easy personal lending is what we provide where a broker can get a quote in two minutes and complete an application in about five minutes. This is a great opportunity to offer our award-winning products and service through a broker network that prides itself on delivering great customer outcomes.&#034;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Sam White<\/span>, Loan Market Group Executive Chairman: <\/b>&#034;Loan Market Group offers industry-leading support for brokers across all our aggregators. Providing access to best-in-class solutions for the wide-ranging needs of their customers is part of that commitment. The focus SocietyOne places on investing in their technology solutions, along with their strong offering to customers, makes them a good fit for all our businesses.&#034;<\/p>\n<p>The 100% family-owned Loan Market Group was expanded in <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 2021<\/span> with the acquisition of formerly NAB-owned aggregators, PLAN Australia, Choice Aggregation Services and FAST Group.<\/p>\n<p>Like SocietyOne, Loan Market Group is also an award-winning tech innovator. Its bespoke CRM, MyCRM, won the company the Mortgages category of the 2021 Australian Digital Technology Awards, while <span class=\"xn-person\">Loan Market<\/span> was ranked #1 for IT and CRM Support in the 2021 MPA Brokers on Aggregators survey.<\/p>\n<p>For more information: <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.societyone.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.societyone.com.au<\/a><\/u>&#160; <\/p>\n<p><b>SocietyOne&#160;<\/b>(<u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.societyone.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.societyone.com.au<\/a><\/u>) is a leading digital finance platform. Since launching in <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 2012<\/span>, SocietyOne has provided over <span class=\"xn-money\">$1 billion<\/span> in total lending and has helped more than 35,000 borrowers. Its broker distribution channel has also driven more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$125 million<\/span> in loan originations since its launch 16 months ago. <\/p>\n<p>SocietyOne offers fixed rate secured and unsecured personal loans between <span class=\"xn-money\">$5,000<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-money\">$70,000<\/span>, over terms of 2, 3, 5, or 7 years. Its free credit score product helps customers know their score, understand how it works, and learn how to improve it through clear and simple insights. <\/p>\n<p>SocietyOne is backed by a diverse group of shareholders, including News Corp Australia, Seven West Media, Consolidated Press Holdings, Reinventure Fund (Westpac Group&#8217;s venture capital arm), and several credit unions and mutual banks.<\/p>\n<p><b>SocietyOne has received numerous industry awards:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>#2 in The Australian Financial Review Top 100 Most Innovative Companies 2020 <\/li>\n<li>Product Review 2020 Awards \u2013 Personal loans <\/li>\n<li>Fintech Business &#8211; Lending Innovator of the Year, Fintech Excellence Award 2019 <\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-person\">Deloitte Fast<\/span> 500, APAC winner 2019 <\/li>\n<li>Canstar 5 stars 2019 and Product Review Personal Loans Award <\/li>\n<li>#9 in The Australian Financial Review Top 100 Most Innovative Companies 2019 <\/li>\n<li>Lending Innovator of the Year in the Fintech Business Awards 2018 <\/li>\n<li>Best Marketing\/Branding Initiative of the Year in the Fintech Australia Awards 2018 <\/li>\n<li>Listed in The Australian Financial Review Top 100 Most Innovative Companies List 2018 <\/li>\n<li>Excellence in P2P Lending in the FinTech Australia Awards 2017 <\/li>\n<li>Innovative Retail Product of the Year in the RFi Group Australian Retail Banking Awards 2017 <\/li>\n<li>Best FinTech Bank Collaboration Award in the Annual Australian FinTech Awards 2017 <\/li>\n<li>Listed in the 2016 Global Top 100 FinTechs by KPMG and H2 Ventures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About Loan Market Group<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Loan Market Group is one of the largest and fastest-growing retail mortgage brokerages in Australasia. Proudly family-owned and led, it was founded in 1994 by <span class=\"xn-person\">Sam White<\/span> and is part of the White Family Group of companies comprising <span class=\"xn-person\">Loan Market<\/span>, PLAN Australia, Choice Aggregation Services, FAST, Wealth Market, Home Now and <span class=\"xn-person\">Ray White<\/span>. There are nearly 7,000 brokers that make up Loan Market Group in <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New Zealand<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Indonesia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder0\">  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Dec. 16, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Digital finance platform SocietyOne has expanded its partnership with Australasia&#8217;s largest broker network, Loan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}