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Nonbanks claimed more of the top slots based on loan volume, while the origination gains experienced by Hispanic, Black and Native American borrowers were weaker than those of other groups.

Also: BSI Financial, Verity Global, BlackFin, Deephaven and Hunton Andrews Kurth add new faces to their rosters.

Also: Fairway fires back at UWM, private equity goes big with mortgage deals, manufactured homes aid the inventory crisis and how servicers will navigate the CDC's eviction ban extension.

Top executives from the 49 companies that earned a spot in this year's ranking of the Best Fintechs to Work For cite the need for nimble shifts in business strategy, leadership style and recruiting tactics among the lessons they took away from the challenges of the coronavirus crisis.

Efforts to improve representation in the workforce have to be measurable in order to avoid becoming an empty trend, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s chief financial officer and diversity & inclusion officer.

Bradley Riss is chief commercial officer at Checkout.com, a firm that acts as a payment gateway, acquirer and processor through a single channel, covering cards, passthrough wallets, stored value wallets and alternative payment options such as point of sale credit. It charges a fee based on processing and card payment costs rather than the percentage+ model that most payment API companies charge. The model is designed to make the service customized to different merchants and serve as a base to offer other merchant products.

Five transactions in the past week provided cash infusions for tech companies that are developing products for real estate finance.

Also: ClosingCorp, BSI Financial company Entra Solutions, CoreVest, BlackFin and Maxex add to their rosters.

Pre-fabricated homes that have features and GSE financing competitive with traditional houses could bring prices down roughly into the $200,000 range, making them affordable to roughly 1.5 million people.

Also: How 9.3 million renters could enter the purchase market, lessons from Flagstar’s data breach and a possible 15-year plan for Fannie and Freddie.