How WaFd Bank Reimagined Efficiency and Revenue with nCino

VeraBank, a community bank headquartered in Henderson, TX, partnered with nCino to modernize lending processes and streamline employee and customer experiences.
The Bank has taken a full-platform approach as it continues to focus efforts on partnering with technology vendors like nCino to bring quality of service to customers and employees, while having a mindset aimed at growth and stability for the future.


Since 1930, VeraBank has grown to over 500 employees and 40 locations. VeraBank’s mission aims to grow the Bank and to serve as deeply as they can the communities in which they do business. “We want to continue to be known for quality of service and innovation,” says Brad Tidwell, President and CEO at VeraBank. To support this mission and vision, the Bank partnered with nCino to in Spring of 2021 to overhaul lending processes and streamline the employee and customer experience.

Of the four challenger banking licenses granted by Australian regulators in 2019, only one is still standing – and the Financial Times says it’s growing faster than any other financial institution in Asia-Pacific. At nSight 2023, Judo Bank COO, Lisa Frazier, shared what differentiates Judo Bank and how nCino has been a foundational part of its journey.SME business bank, Judo Bank is on a strong growth trajectory reflected in its lending book that jumped nearly 25% to A$7.5 bn in the six months to the end of December 2022. This growth was recognized in April 2023, when the Financial Times identified Judo as the fourth fastest growing company in Asia Pacific out of the top 500 high-growth businesses in the region.

According to Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Frazier, Judo Bank began in 2016 when a deeply experienced group of bankers who were passionate about the SME economy came together to help establish the challenger bank.

“In 2016, we were a PowerPoint standalone idea. It was very hard to raise money,” she recalls.

Yet two and a half years after getting a banking license in April 2019, Judo listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and continues to grow and scale its business.

How did they do it?

By leveraging nCino’s state-of-the-art technology to transform its services, Santander UK has been named the winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Commercial Lending. The Bank’s initial implementation of the nCino Bank Operating System is just the start of its roadmap with nCino, and it plans to continue to grow the partnership in the future.

We are thrilled to announce that Santander UK has been named the winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Commercial Lending. This award comes after the bank underwent a digital transformation by utilizing the nCino Bank Operating System and other enabling tools. In partnership with nCino and other technology companies, the bank was able to replace 13 disparate systems and over 60 end-user computing systems with a cloud-based ecosystem.

“The Model Bank Awards recognize how banks are using technology to change the face of banking," says Patricia Hine, CTP and Head of Corporate Banking at Celent. She says: