June 8, 2018 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

  Online mortgage lender LendInvest reports it is scrambling to hire new employees due to the demand of its Buy-to-Let (BTL) product. The LendInvest team has now grown to 15 people in the short period since the  BTL product was launched in November 2017. Antonia… Read More

May 23, 2018 @ 8:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

HashChing, a Sydney-based home loan marketplace, has just announced a $700,000 loan from Jobs NSW. Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business John Barilaro said the NSW Government had backed the Fintech which is expected to create 46 jobs over the next five years. “Jobs for… Read More

May 5, 2018 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an interim report on UK mortgage market. According to the FCA, Mortgage debt accounts for over 80% of total UK household liabilities – so this is a significant sector of finance that has a profound impact on individuals. While… Read More

February 24, 2018 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The New York Federal Reserve has published a staff report pertaining to “The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending”. Authored by Andreas Fuster, Matthew Plosser, Philipp Schnabl, and James Vickery, the research asserts that Fintech is improving the mortgage lending market by making it more efficient… Read More

November 2, 2017 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a Fintech marketplace platform for property finance, has agreed a long-term warehouse facility with Citi boosting its entry into the UK’s £40 billion buy-to-let (BTL) market. Under the terms of the financing, Citi will provide a funding line to LendInvest that will be used… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 12:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, privately held mortgage-banking firm CMG Financial announced the launch of its new crowdfunding platform mortgage payments, HomeFundMe. The company claims HomeFundMe is the first industry approved crowdfunding service providing homebuyers the support, education, and platform they need to crowdfund a mortgage down payment. CMG Financial… Read More

August 26, 2017 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Blend has landed a significant funding round to the tune of $100 million. The funding was led by Greylock Partners with participation by Emergence Capital. Existing investors joined in the round as well. Blend partners with lenders to provide a fast and simple borrowing process… Read More

August 8, 2017 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Better Mortgage is now available in 13 different states as it has received a license to lend to house hunters in Florida.  The Sunshine state is an important addition to the online lenders services as Florida is a popular vacation home state. Better Mortgage says it… Read More

June 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the revelation that online mortgage lender Sindeo was turning off the lights and shutting down was disappointing news in the Fintech space. But other online mortgage lenders continue to execute and grow. One of the most promising is loanDepot, the creation of CEO Anthony… Read More

June 23, 2017 @ 7:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Launched in 2013, Sindeo opened up offices in San Francisco “to revolutionize the way people plan, shop and secure a mortgage.” Founded by CEO Nick Stamos and Ori Zohar, Sindeo quickly raised funding to fuel sector growth for their online lending platform including a $5… Read More

May 17, 2017 @ 12:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingHome says it is ready to ratchet up platform growth. The marketplace lending platform that finances residential mortgages has made two announcements today. First, the online lender has announced that former Nationstar Mortgage CFO, Robert Stiles, has been appointed to become LendingHome’s CFO. Simultaneously, LendingHome… Read More

May 7, 2017 @ 4:30 pm By Xu Gao  |  

WeChat Enters the U.S. Market WeChat Pay, one of the biggest mobile payment platforms in mainland China, has boosted its cross-border business by entering the U.S. market. With the backing of China’s largest social networking app WeChat, which now claims more than 889 million monthly… Read More

April 18, 2017 @ 5:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Revolut and Tussle have partnered to provide mortgage broking services directly to the Revolut App. The digital only bank will now enable Revolut’s 360,000 plus UK based users to access Trussle’s online mortgage service. Trussle uses technology and human mortgage advisers to help borrowers secure… Read More

April 17, 2017 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Are you looking at purchasing a home? Do you not quite have enough cash on hand to purchase the home you really want? If this is the case, there may be a solution to your challenge as Unison may be willing to provide a portion… Read More

February 21, 2017 @ 6:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prosper Marketplace President and prominent Fintech investor Ron Suber has taken an equity position in Unison Home Ownership Investors. Unison is a unique platform that partners with homebuyers to pay a portion of the down-payment to help buyers purchase a home. Suber will be joining… Read More

February 11, 2017 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Better Mortgage has received $15 million in funding during a Series B round. Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm that helped to fund companies like Google and Amazon, participated in the funding round alongside Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments Group and Pine Brook. Better previously raised… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 1:30 am By JD Alois  |  

loanDepot challenges the status quo of traditional banking every day. loanDepot has just achieved an impressive milestone.  In the past 7 years since platform launch, loanDepot has now funded $100 billion in home, personal and home equity loans making it a top-five retail mortgage lender… Read More

January 22, 2017 @ 5:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leveraging a common language and an emerging Fintech regulatory realm that is improving, SoFi is poised to enter the mortgage lending market in Australia. First reported in the Financial Review, SoFi, one of the largest online lenders in the US, is prepping to challenge  Aussie… Read More

January 17, 2017 @ 2:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

SoFi expects the online mortgage origination industry to be a big portion of their business. In fact, they expect mortgages to experience the fastest growth of any of their products to date. National Mortgage News shared some comments from SoFi management including Chief Revenue Officer… Read More

December 18, 2016 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Fitch shared last week its intent to rate SoFi’s RMBS transaction that included 270 loans with a total balance of approximately $168.79 million. The group of loans consists of prime fixed-rate mortgages originated on the SoFi online lending platform. The presale report was pretty positive… Read More