Tagged: mortgages

November 12, 2021 @ 9:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ABN AMRO (AMS: ABN) confirmed that it’s the co-founder of the new Energy Efficient Mortgages NL Hub (EEM NL Hub). Charissa Cardon will reportedly represent the banking institution on the EEM NL Hub’s board. As mentioned in the announcement, the EEM NL Hub was “initiated… Read More

November 3, 2021 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s first digital bank Volt and one of the nation’s largest mortgage aggregators Australian Finance Group Ltd (ASX:AFG) have introduced a personal finance app ‘Handl. by AFG’, and a white-label home loan product, ‘AFG Home Loans Sparc’, both “powered by Volt’s banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform,” according… Read More

October 31, 2021 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Nationwide House Price Index (in the UK) reveals that the annual house price growth remained steady in double digits for the fifth straight month in September 2021. However, it eased back to 10.0% from 11.0% in August, the Blend Network team notes. The UK-based… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coventry Building Society and Atos announced on Monday (October 18, 2021) the completion of a “major” upgrade of its digital infrastructure by Atos that will “help strengthen the Society’s position as a top 10 UK savings and mortgage provider.” As mentioned in the announcement, Coventry… Read More

October 11, 2021 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mortgage platform Finova has reportedly acquired its competitor, BEP Systems, in order to expand its presence in the United Kingdom. Finova’s Cloud-powered software is being used by more than 60 lenders and around 3,000 brokers, meanwhile, BEP, which launched back in 2014, focuses mainly on… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 2:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading loan data provider dv01 has partnered with Invictus Capital Partners on mortgage lending. According to a release, the partnership will facilitate data reporting operations for the growing portfolio of non-qualified mortgage loans managed by Invictus and its affiliates. dv01 will serve as Loan Data… Read More

October 1, 2021 @ 6:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently, loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) was hit with a lawsuit by a former executive that alleges fraudulent activity at the online mortgage lender. In a filing dated September 21, 2021, Tammy Richards alleged that loanDepot allowed an environment that enabled sexual harassment and gender discrimination.  Additionally, Richards… Read More

August 20, 2021 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Molo Finance is pleased to confirm their partnership with In Partnership Group, a growing community of more than 500 investment, mortgage, and protection advisers. In Partnership aims to offer “high-end” services to its customers and will now provide Molo mortgages as a… Read More

August 13, 2021 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

First American Docutech, an established provider of document, eSign, eClose and print fulfillment tech, and a member of the First American family of companies, has reportedly integrated its ConformX loan document generation tech and Solex eSignature solution with SimpleNexus’ homeownership platform. Lenders that are using SimpleNexus… Read More

August 10, 2021 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

In June, Columbus, Ohio-based Lower, a home finance Fintech, raised $100 million in a Series A Funding round, led by Accel. Ohio is not known to be a tech hotbed like New York City or the Bay Area and at the time. Lower said the… 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 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ABN Amro (AMS: ABN), a Dutch bank with headquarters in Amsterdam and currently the third-largest bank in the Netherlands, will be offering clients a sustainability discount on mortgage interest rates for energy-efficient homes. ABN Amro‘s management noted that they will be using the EU’s Energy Label… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Proptech Landis has raised $165 million in debt and Series A equity financing led by Sequoia Capital.  Other investors include Arrive, a Roc Nation company, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC as well as existing investor Signia Venture Partners. Total funding for Landis now stands at $182… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based digital bank Starling has confirmed the acquisition of specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender Fleet Mortgages as part of a £50 million cash and share deal. Fleet Mortgages, based in Hampshire, focuses on offering mortgages to professional and semi-professional buy-to-let landlords, “only via mortgage adviser distribution… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this month, the team at Atom Bank reported reaching a key milestone: £3 billion in residential mortgage lending. Hitting this number “represents an important step for our bank, and gives us a real sense of progress as we continue helping more to buy, move,… Read More

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