Tagged: mortgages

July 16, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Morty, a marketplace for mortgages that enables people to compare different mortgage offerings, has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by March Capital. Additional investors include Rethink Impact, Thrive Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Prudence Holdings, FJ Labs and Metaprop. Nora Apsel, co-founder… Read More

July 12, 2021 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s first neobank Volt has reportedly acquired neo-lending platform Australian Mortgage, enabling it to provide “fully-verified” approval times of less than 15 minutes on its new digital mortgage product. As mentioned in a release shared with CI: “This is a material improvement compared to many… Read More

July 7, 2021 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Atom Bank, which claims to be the very first app-based bank, reports that it has surpassed £3 billion in residential mortgage completions. The Fintech has also reached £1 billion in total deposits into its Instant Saver accounts. Since launching operations in November 2016, Atom… Read More

June 25, 2021 @ 1:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After an extensive and thorough selection process, Hometrack, an established provider of insight and intelligence to the United Kingdom’s mortgage sector, has decided to work with Moneyhub, an Open Finance data, intelligence, and payments service for customer-focused firms. Moneyhub will be serving as Hometrack’s preferred… Read More

February 27, 2021 @ 7:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Blend, which claims to offer market-leading digital lending technology that makes the process of acquiring a loan simpler, faster, and safer, notes that in the increasingly competitive lending sector, it’s now more important than ever to work with technology that provides your clients… Read More

February 21, 2021 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) confirmed that consumer credit activity keeps rising from the COVID-19 pandemic lows, but some areas like automobile loans (subprime) performance have lagged. As noted in an update published on February 18, 2021, by TransUnion, the company’s Q4 2020 Industry Insights report looks… Read More

February 18, 2021 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Following its initial public offering, online mortgage lender loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) is out with Q4 earnings. According to a company statement, loanDepot generated record revenue, as well as earnings as top-line numbers, came in at $4.3 billion generating $2 billion of net income. Shares in loanDepot… Read More

February 11, 2021 @ 12:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

loanDepot lowered the price of its initial public offering (IPO) to $14 a share – far below its expected $21 a share float. loanDepot shares, trading under the ticker symbol LDI, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today trading higher in early action…. Read More

February 2, 2021 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, loandDepot filed an updated S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission as it bumped up its share price to $21 for a forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) that may raise a gross amount of over $362 million. According to the document, loanDepot is offering… 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

December 27, 2020 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dutch banking challenger Bunq has reportedly managed to grow its mortgage portfolio by 400% within six months. Bunq began offering mortgages to Dutch clients in July 2020. The digital bank has teamed up with third-party broker, asset manager NN IP, in order to provide these… Read More

November 14, 2020 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lee Birkett, Founder at UK-based JustUs, a peer to peer (P2P) lender, has stated that the platform will begin providing P2P owner-occupied residential mortgages (starting in 2021). These mortgages will be available either with or without an exemption from the UK government. Birkett noted that… Read More

November 11, 2020 @ 9:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK banking group NatWest announced on Tuesday the launch of its new product Green Mortgages. According to NatWest, the product offers a “preferential interest rate” to new or existing customers who are purchasing energy-efficient properties. The banking group explained: “The Green Mortgage offers a discounted… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Landbay. a digital buy-to-let finance platform, has announced a partnership with an unnamed UK bank. According to a note from Landbay, the deposit-taking bank will fund mortgages originated by Landbay and then hold them on their balance sheet. Landbay states that this arrangement complements its… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 10:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australian Digital bank 86 400 has signed a strategic partnership with Australian Finance Group Ltd  (AFG), to expand its home loan broker distribution network, according to a company release. 86 400 states that with AFG on board, one in three mortgage brokers in Australia now… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 3:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tavant, a U.S.-based AI-powered digital technologies provider, announced on Tuesday its FinConnect platform, which is described as an intelligent lending data and enterprise mortgage services integration hub, has processed more than 10 million digital mortgage transactions in the past 12 months. The platform has also processed… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Better.com is one company that appears to be benefiting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Better.com is an online lender in the mortgage sector. Crowdfund Insider reported last year that Better.com was funding $375 million in mortgages a month. A different report said that amount stood at… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Habito, an online platform that streamlines the entire home mortgage process, has topped £4 billion in mortgage submissions, according to a Tweet from the company. Habito is a Proptech firm that was launched in 2016 “to end mortgage hell forever.” You have to love that…. Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 3:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., a blockchain-based lending platform, says the recent Fed rate cut has been good for business. In fact, Figure is reporting a whopping 300% increase in loan applications hurdling loans funded to over $1 billion. 30 year fixed interest rates on mortgages were… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK government has provided an update on its project to digitize home deeds. According to the government, the 7000th deed has been registered digitally in February. Many of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders are now using the service. HM Land Registry safeguards land and… Read More