About ELM

ELM Resources began in 1994 and is the only not-for-profit mutual benefit corporation serving the student loan industry today, including universities, colleges and lenders. ELM provides a common, non-proprietary and open data exchange and disbursement system that seamlessly links the diverse computing platforms of schools and lenders through its industry leading products, ELMNet and ELM NDN. ELM also offers a lender comparison solution for schools that provides their own custom page to display a recommended lender list and offers students the ability to compare and select the loan that best fits their needs, ELMSelect. Over 1,600 campuses use ELMResources to send and receive loan data for alternative loans with the lender of their choice.


ELM as a not-for-profit mutual benefit corporation

As a not-for-profit, mutual benefit corporation, ELM Resources is a member based company in which competing lenders, guarantors and servicers have agreed to cooperate in select areas of student lending to better serve schools.


ELM's History

Education Loan Management Resources (ELM) was established in 1994 by a group of loan providers who were looking for ways to improve loan processing for schools. Back then, there were only proprietary loan delivery systems. Every school had to process their loans based on the lender's system. This was highly inefficient for schools since they had to deal with each loan record differently despite the fact that the information transmitted was standardized.

ELM was started to take advantage of technology to eliminate this inefficiency through the creation of a uniform data exchange network for loan processing. Today, loan providers that are members of ELM compete on customer based criteria such as service and product offerings. They are able to utilize ELM's open, lender-neutral and non-proprietary technology platform to exchange critical loan data with schools efficiently and cost effectively. Schools in turn benefit from a free, centralized loan delivery platform that allows them to work with any lender, guarantor or servicer they choose.

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