Technology

The mortgage real estate investment trust has been a first-mover regarding innovations in the private securitized market, and others tend to follow its lead.

A private equity capital raise earlier this year gave the company a $3.3 billion valuation.

An interactive dialogue with Founder and CEO of NorthOne on the fintech industry, the growing needs of challenger banks, and the future of SMB banking.

In the nonstop deluge of loan volume, last year’ highest producing loan officers leaned on tech — though sometimes reluctantly — to adapt in the digital marketplace.

Lenders largely took a piecemeal strategy to technology adoption, gravitating towards a hybrid e-closing process as the latest industry “innovation,” yet this process is anything but, Rick Triola of NotaryCam writes.

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.

One year after its internal merger, the fintech and fulfillment services provider’s COO Debora Aydelotte discusses the company’s support for community banks and its placement in the ranking of Best Fintechs to Work For.

The financial-technology firm Plaid is close to a new round of funding at a valuation of about $13 billion, almost three months after scrapping its sale to Visa, according to people familiar with the matter.

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.