Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said in a press conference Wednesday morning that there is a place in the banking world for some kind of fintech charter, though the exact parameters of such a charter are still unclear and have to be worked out.

Maxwell Financial Labs, a provider of a digital cloud-based platform used by the mortgage industry, is getting a new $3 million round of funding led by Anthemis Group's investment arm.

Competition between fintech, marketplace and traditional mortgage lenders often focuses on borrower-facing automation and other technology. What gets overlooked is how differences in their funding sources create another area of competition.

Fintech and marketplace lender LendingHome is getting more than $450 million in investment and funding from different channels to help support mortgage production growth and technology improvements.

Entrepreneurs like LendingHome's Matt Humphrey are upending mortgage finance with tactics borrowed from fintech, marketplace lending and the traditional mortgage playbook.

With issuance of marketplace securitizations now exploding — rising 300% cumulatively in the past two years — the idea of online lending as a niche is quickly deteriorating.

Tim Welsh has spent his first two months on the job thinking about how to make U.S. Bank as central to consumers’ lives as Amazon, develop new personal financial management services, and expand into new cities.

Technology isn't a magic bullet for success, and just doing mortgages digitally doesn't change how the business fundamentally works.

The changes to the National Multistate Licensing System will include a more customized user experience for companies and functionality for states to share examination data.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is calling on the FDIC to hold a public hearing on SoFi's application for deposit insurance.

The service, which carries a $9.95 monthly fee, recently completed a private beta test, with users managing more than $1 billion on the platform.

Auto risks mounting. Mortgage market tightening. Are there any good risks these days in consumer lending? Regional bank executives insist partnerships with online lenders, unsecured personal loans and other niche efforts can work if done properly.

The marketplace lender's application for an industrial bank charter is under fire from small banks and progressives, who say it could violate the barrier between banking and commerce and shut out middle-class and lower-income consumers.

It's not only regulation that is hurting profitability, but also banks' failure to adapt to the internet age, according to a recent study.

Corporate One FCU has teamed up with San Francisco-based Roostify to provide CUs and CUSOs with a streamlined digital mortgage platform.

At CIBC, Aayaz Pira is quickly turning ideas into apps, including its new mortgage one, with the help of its recently formed innovation hub.

Brent Beardall, who recently took the helm at Washington Federal, discusses having excess capital, myriad potential fintech partners and why he would tweak — not repeal — Dodd-Frank.

Experian and Finicity have released a product that aims to speed up decisions on mortgage applications, using financial data aggregation technology.

The private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners will acquire D+H in a deal valued at $3.57 billion.