About Access Group

Access Group "Firsts"

 
 

Over the years, Access Group has established a history of industry innovations. Our scrapbook shows that Access Group (and its loan programs):

  • Offered the first private Bar Examination Loan
  • Developed Need Access®, the first fully electronic financial need analysis software product designed specifically for graduate and professional students
  • Created Loan Line, the first over-the-phone application in student lending
  • Pioneered borrower-based pricing of private student loans (varying loan costs according to the individual borrower's level of credit risk)
  • Applied the universal use of credit scores to student loan credit reviews
  • Offered the first fully interactive graduate student loan application on the Web
  • Led the industry in switching to LIBOR as the index used to set interest rates on private student loans
  • Implemented Instant Credit Review technology for student loan applicants
 
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