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March 7, 2025 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, a technology platform powering a more efficient and liquid marketplace for financial products, announced that its DART electronic lien registry has achieved significant ecosystem traction among “warehouse providers, investors and originating partners.” DART is a “core component” of the Figure Connect loan… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Provenance Blockchain Foundation, a non-profit organization responsible for developing and growing the public blockchain for financial services, announced the carve-out of Provenance Blockchain Labs, a blockchain development firm building a suite of foundational infrastructure SaaS products that enable asset issuers and servicers to efficiently transact… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, the technology platform streamlining the private credit and housing markets, announced the launch of Figure Connect, a blockchain-based multi-seller, multi-buyer marketplace of private credit loans. Figure Connect brings Figure’s broad and deep capital markets buyer universe “directly to Figure’s loan origination partners.”… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced the appointment of Michael Tannenbaum as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately. In conjunction with the appointment, Mike Cagney,… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a disruptive and scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced that it will begin making its DART System, a combined lien and eNote registry service, available to private and wholesale lending partners, “initially for… Read More

November 9, 2023 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Figure Technologies, along with former NYSE Executive Tom Farley and VC Proof Group, are planning to acquire what’s left of FTX, according to a report by WSJ.com. FTX was once valued at over $30 billion. Figure, founded by top Fintech entrepreneur Mike Cagney, operates one… Read More

November 2, 2023 @ 1:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Lending LLC and Figure Technologies, Inc., a key player focused on transforming financial services through the power of blockchain technology, announced it has expanded its Partnership business to “include an increased offering under the Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform, in addition to the previously launched Wholesale… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Figure has completed $16 billion in blockchain native lending transactions since 2018. The data point was shared by founder Mike Cagney, who was responding to a LinkedIn post that said the world is five years away from broad-based utilization of tokenization having any volume or… Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 7:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

While there has long been much discussion about the benefits of crypto and blockchain, too frequently, these comments ignore regulation and a need for a compliant environment that instills confidence from all sides of the equation. This has undermined the public perception of blockchain technology… Read More

August 12, 2022 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., a key player in transforming financial services through the power of blockchain tech, announced a collaboration with Visa “to provide issuing processor services via Figure’s blockchain-based Banking in a Box platform.” Visa DPS, used by financial institutions around the globe, will be… Read More

September 21, 2021 @ 8:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain-based fintech Figure today announced the completion of a digital securities transaction using Figure ATS, an alternative trading system that is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and that is part of Figure’s Marketplace trading platform. The trade included the minting of a… Read More

September 21, 2021 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), a top Fintech that powers modern card services, has announced a partnership with Figure, a Fintech that leverages blockchain technology, to launch Figure Pay, a digital money app. According to a release, Figure Pay is now available in 26 different states and… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 3:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New York Community Bancorp this week announced its banking subsidiary, New York Community Bank, successfully completed a new digital payment process through the creation of a blockchain-based digital marker. It allows Figure Technologies to conduct real-time secondary trading in digital shares of its stock utilizing… Read More

August 10, 2021 @ 12:06 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fintech software company Sagent, which modernizes mortgage and consumer loan servicing for American financial institutions, today announced two major strategic deals with digital lending and payments firm Figure. Sagent will power Figure’s mortgage servicing services, and the firms will partner to accelerate Figure’s blockchain vision…. Read More

August 3, 2021 @ 3:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Figure, a financial services firm utilizing blockchain technology, has announced a merger with Homebridge Financial Services. Figure was founded by CEO Mike  Cagney, the founder of publicly-traded SoFi, a Fintech unicorn. The terms of the deal were not revealed. At the end of July, Figure… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 9:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain-based financial services provider Figure officially closed its $200 million Series D, leaving it with a $3.2 billion valuation. New investors including entities and funds associated with affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Blockchain.com, Rockaway Blockchain, HOF Capital, Endeavour Capital, National Bank Holdings, Goldentree Asset Management… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., which aims to transform financial services by leveraging the power of blockchain tech, has finalized a $200 million Series D round at a $3.2 billion valuation. 10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital have reportedly co-led the investment round. They’ve been joined by… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Securities, a division of the digital lending service provider Figure Technologies, has reportedly acquired approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to serve as a broker-dealer and also operate as an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System for digital securities that are custodied on… Read More

May 12, 2021 @ 12:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Figure Technologies, a lending platform that uses blockchain technology, announced on Wednesday its subsidiary, Figure Securities, Inc. has become a FINRA-approved broker-dealer and an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) for digital securities custody on Provenance Blockchain. As previously reported, Figure is the creation of Mike… Read More

January 15, 2021 @ 1:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., founded by prominent Fintech entrepreneur Mike Cagney, has received $100 million from JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) to finance jumbo mortgages, according to a release. Figure uses blockchain technology to reduce friction and cost to the loan origination process. Figure notes that this is the… Read More