Esusu, a financial technology company that aims to help bridge the racial wealth gap by reporting rent payments to credit agencies, has become one of only a few Black-owned startups to reach a valuation of $1 billion after closing a Series B round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Among the mortgage industry investors in the product and pricing engine provider are Movement Mortgage and First American Financial.

As Gen Z and millennials become homebuyers, companies are adding and upgrading their apps in the hopes of gaining a greater market share.

The nonprofit received a $1.5 million grant to monitor, evaluate and strengthen consumer protections in the digital financial marketplace. Here's what it's doing with the funds.

Influencer loan officers are aiming to reach the largest emerging group of homebuyers, one super-short video at a time.

Home valuation professionals have had mixed feelings about automation out of concern that some forms could result in less accurate assessments.

The new offering’s loan structure is designed to hedge against digital currency's price volatility.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors abandoned a lawsuit against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that had challenged the San Francisco fintech's effort to become a national bank without deposit insurance. The company recently amended its application to drop that controversial element.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is more than a year away from issuing a proposal on consumers’ right to control the flow of their data between banks and third parties such as fintechs, according to people familiar with the bureau’s thinking. Many previously expected a plan to arrive this spring.

The compliance software provider plans to use this funding to add staff and drive customer acquisition.

The second year of the pandemic unleashed unprecedented exogenous challenges for financial companies heading into 2022. What core trends will shape the industry moving forward?

The Change Company, a lender to Black, Hispanic and low-income borrowers, was set to merge with the former quarterback’s blank-check company. Steven Sugarman, a onetime Banc of California chief, says his company is now in talks with other investors and inviting banks to use a new digital marketplace for its loans.

Attacks directed at mobile usage are helping drive the increase, with almost 30% of related expenses coming through the channel.

Bob Walters' decades of experience with the brand offers stability as it fights to remain at the forefront amongst its competitors in mortgage and related businesses.

Tim Birkmeier, chief revenue officer at Rocket Mortgage, adds the president's role as part of the changes.

The division will focus on short-form video favored by emerging homebuyers.

The lender’s controversial leader Vishal Garg will remain on break but retain his post after disparaging laid-off employees, Aurora Acquisition Corp. confirmed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Banks have extra reason to be concerned by the news that a commonly used piece of software could be exploited by hackers.

Yan Zhao, President of NYDIG as she exploreshow Bitcoin is experiencing wider adoption in the traditional finance world, and why that is.