CEO Thomas Cangemi is pushing to modernize a bank that for decades was focused largely on multifamily lending. The company has already agreed to buy the mortgage lender Flagstar Bancorp and its partnership with Figure Technologies, a blockchain-focused fintech, has the potential to make that acquisition more productive.

New York Community Bancorp says it will invest in Figure Technologies, which has developed an open source distributed ledger. The bank plans to use the technology to cut costs in mortgages and payments and promote financial inclusion.

The tool is designed to help lenders adjust their underwriting to address the growing faction of non-W2 employees, which is expected to make up half of the workforce by 2027.

The newly public technology provider will use community and industry partnerships to give banking access to historically underserved communities.

The cloud-based mortgage software company plans on trading on the New York Stock Exchange with a starting price of $24 to $26 per share.

The software provider’s offering hit the top of its price range estimate and started trading at $18 per share.

The new deal will remove manual bid taping and automate secondary loan sales directly on the Encompass platform.

For the first time, the FDIC, Federal Reserve and OCC have combined efforts to advise banks on risk management procedures when working with nonbank partners.

Lending startup Tomo Networks will eschew refinances to focus exclusively on purchases.

Dozens of digital tools are billed as democratizing finance. But a number of entrepreneurs still see massive gaps.

The financial services company will use its new capital to invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning to cut transaction times, as well as build its own servicing platform.

A new public-private network is pursuing a more comprehensive approach than other states to cultivate a strong financial technology industry by uniting banks, insurance companies, startups, government agencies, investors, universities and students.

In addition to earning ancillary fee income, it provides originators with an opportunity to connect with current and potential clients mired in student loan debt.

The digital title insurance, closing, escrow, and recording services provider has now raised a total of $110 million in funding.

The cloud-based mortgage closing platform’s Series D round earned $150 million for the company.

While COVID-19 pushed digitization to the forefront of lending, a majority of borrowers still want some degree of human interaction, according to a survey by ICE Mortgage Technology.

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COVID-19 has shown us that technology can rapidly evolve to meet customer needs, in areas from contactless payments to digital banking to mobile wallets. However, we still see great disparities when it comes to the use of contactless and digital banking by low- to moderate-income (LMI) workers. The question is, will emerging tech in the post-COVID economy provide an opportunity to include new people in the financial system-- or leave them even further behind?

People want their payments to be quicker, safer, and more readily available across a wider range of channels. How are industry leaders leveraging data to build stronger relationships with their clients?