Nova Credit Income Verification helps Yardi enhance resident screening

By Edlyn Cardoza

Nova Credit, the FinTech unlocking opportunities for those historically excluded from the credit system and companies looking to serve them, has announced the availability of its income verification solution for Yardi^® to offer its residential property managers. This technology enables users to perform fast, secure, FCRA compliant income and employment verifications through its ScreeningWorks^® Pro resident screening solution.

Nova Credit’s income verification solution lets prospective renters verify their income by linking to a bank account or uploading a pay stub. This represents a new option for applicants who aren’t employed by a company that furnishes their payroll data to The Work Number^® from Equifax, which Yardi has been offering for the last several years.

“For years, Yardi has leveraged our Credit Passport^® product to help recent immigrants get their first apartment here in the U.S., and now they are making that process easier for a broader set of U.S. renters using our income verification product,” said Misha Esipov, co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit. “This marks an exciting expansion of our relationship with Yardi and a huge step toward ensuring more people can seamlessly get the housing that they need.”

“ScreeningWorks Pro seamlessly incorporates credit reports, rental history, income and other publicly reportable civil or criminal data in the leasing process. Nova Credit’s income verification solution extends this capability by expanding our coverage, while mitigating fraud and delivering significantly higher income verification success rates without burdening our clients’ leasing agents with manual tasks. Applicants also benefit from fast and efficient verification, whether they work for a large or small company, are self-employed, or work in the ‘gig’ economy,” said Patrick Hennessey, vice president of resident screening for Yardi.

With an audacious vision for stitching together the world’s credit data into a single network, Nova Credit started by serving the financial needs of immigrants into the United States by enabling them to apply for financial services using their international credit history from more than 15 countries worldwide. The company has since expanded to support those with insufficient history to gain access to credit services. Nova Credit’s real-time delivery of this reliable data enables banks, lenders, and telecommunications companies to instantly serve immigrants faster and more fairly. The company was founded by immigrants and is backed by leading investors including Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Sound Ventures.

Yardi^® develops and supports industry-leading investment and property management software for all types and sizes of real estate companies. Yardi was established in 1984, and serves clients worldwide.