BMO & Blend Panel Discussion: Scaling Digital Onboarding & Origination – and Beyond

Date & Time
Jun 17, 2025
1:00 PM
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About the Webinar

 

PRESENTERS:

  • Sajjad Butt - Project Manager, BMO

  • John Whipple - Manager, Product Management, Blend

  • Saurabh Khurana - VP, Marketing & Partnerships, OneSpan

 

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

Join this exclusive live panel discussion with two industry leaders who will discuss ways banks and credit unions can drive enterprise-wide efficiency and productivity by digitizing everything from origination and onboarding, to processes throughout the customer lifecycle. You’ll hear firsthand advice on how you can deliver transformational business outcomes – including reduced costs and revenue growth. 

  • Bank of Montreal: Sajjad Butt, who leads BMO’s eForms and eSignature Center of Excellence, will share his journey to make the bank paperless. BMO has now automated 100+ document signing use cases and captured 1.7M+ eSignatures, giving Sajjad a broad perspective on scaling digital capabilities across a bank. Hear practical insights on the reusable processes and technologies that allow faster scaling, smarter solution building, and more expedient deployment.
  • Blend: One of the leading POS platforms for digital banking and lending, Blend integrates with solutions like eSignature to deliver a fast, easy digital experience for customers and loan officers, from mobile app to in-branch. John Whipple, a product management leader with Blend, will share how banking customers like BMO are finding new ways to personalize and automate consumer and mortgage loan application processes, improving conversion and pull-through rates while boosting operational efficiency from application to close. 

This event will not be recorded, so be sure to block 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET in your calendar on June 17. Register now!
 

THIS WEBINAR WILL COVER:

  • What we learned on the journey to transform paper-heavy ecosystems
  • Why pair eSignature with your applications and core banking platform
  • Quick wins that simplify the lending and banking experience for customers

TOP 3 BENEFITS TO ATTENDEES:

  1. Our best practices for expedient deployment of paperless processes
  2. Top obstacles to avoid when expanding eSignatures & eForms across LOBs
  3. How going paperless now will help you extract more value from cloud migration initiatives 
     

 ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS: 

 

John Whipple 

Manager, Product Management, Blend

John is a Product Management leader at Blend, the leading digital origination platform for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. He has an extensive background in delivering impactful SaaS products in the financial, advertising, and cloud technology spaces. He is a Stanford graduate and is passionate about improving the everyday experience of other people's lives through intelligent, beautifully designed technology. 

 

Saurabh Khurana 

VP, Marketing & Partnerships, OneSpan

Saurabh leads product marketing and partnerships at OneSpan. Having worked at OneSpan, DocuSign, Adobe, and Symantec, Saurabh has accumulated extensive experience in contract management, electronic signatures, identity verification, and authentication. Saurabh holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

 

**CBA Webinars are free for all CBA members. Please login to register. If you have any questions or need assistance with registration please reach out to Isabella Brennan (ibrennan@consumerbankers.com).

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