Digital mortgages

Button Finance intends to use the capital to develop its underwriting platform and increase hiring.

The Series B investment round for the power buyer comes at a time when all-cash purchases account for almost a quarter of the market.

The two fintechs’ venture looks to solve the long-standing problem of connectivity as the barrier to full lending digitization.

With a huge wave of consolidation expected soon, lenders must carefully adjust their mix of personnel and technology to stay profitable, whether they plan to continue to compete or sell.

Large companies competing to become the Amazon or Google for home lending products discuss their use of acquisitions and targeted marketing to cultivate the image of being a one-stop-shop innovator.

The software from Incenter allows appraisers to use a homeowner’s mobile phone to take time-stamped and geotagged photos, in addition to dimensions recorded with a 3-D scanning digital measuring tape.

Lenders and servicers must ask three essential questions of their technology provider in order to better understand how they operate, writes the director of U.S. operations for Paradatec.

As millennials and Gen Z position themselves to obtain 25 million new households by 2028, appealing to these tech-savvy generations should be a top priority for retail lenders, writes the director of technology alliances at Total Expert.

The regulation of cryptocurrencies gains momentum abroad while a number of hurdles must be cleared before lenders and banks can handle them at scale in the U.S.

The deal comes just days after Figure closed on a capital raise that valued it at $3.2 billion.