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News/Mortgage processing
Mortgage finance software house Ellie Mae is to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.7 billion.
12 February 2019
News/startups
US digital mortgage lender Better Mortgage has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round joined by American Express Ventures and Goldman Sachs.
04 February 2019
A huge cache of financial documents scanned from paper-based mortgage and credit reports was exposed online in an alleged major security lapse at US data and analytics company Ascension.
25 January 2019
Australian share registry Computershare has posted its largest ever profit, boosted by massive growth at its mortgage services business and in the US.
16 August 2018
Royal Bank of Scotland has tapped into pent-up demand from consumers for paperless mortgage processing, following the launch earlier this year of its online document sharing service DigiDocs.
Hundreds of Wells Fargo customers lost their homes because of a computer glitch which denied creditors at risk of foreclosure modifications to their loan terms.
06 August 2018
Legal & General has made a £3 million investment in Smartr365, a software-as-a-service supplier to the UK mortgage intermediary market.
31 July 2018
Price comparison website Moneysupermarket is moving into the mortgage market, setting up a joint venture with the founders of HD Decisions to enable consumers to search for, and apply, for a home loan online.
19 July 2018
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has been accused of spying on its customers after it emerged that it monitors mortgage holders' social media accounts
14 May 2018
Athena, an Australian home loans startup led by former NAB bankers that is bidding to take on the nation's biggest lenders, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Macquarie Bank and Square peg Capital.
10 May 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority wants UK lenders to provide more online tools to help customers choose the right mortgage deal and to switch more easily to cheaper products.
04 May 2018
Bank of America has rolled out a digital mortgage service, enabling customers to apply online or via the bank's mobile app, often getting conditional approval on the same day.
12 April 2018
BNP Paribas is inviting property investors to don a virtual reality headset to meet with brokers and take a 3D tour of prospective house purchases.
29 March 2018
The Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab), an innovation programme backed by JPMorgan Chase, is looking to make fintech a little less male and white, calling on entrepreneurs of colour, women and people with disabilities to take up its latest challenge to develop products that can support under-represented communities - and, in the process, bag a slice of a $3 million prize fund.
01 March 2018
San Francisco-based digital lending platform provider Roostify has closed a $25 million Series B financing round joined by Santander InnoVentures, Cota Capital and Point72 Ventures.
15 February 2018
A group of US financial institutions are set to allow homeowners to count the income they earn from renting out their properties on Airbnb on their mortgage refinancing applications.
12 February 2018
UK fintech startup Nuvo has launched an artificial intelligence-powered Facebook chatbot that helps people find the best deals on mortgages.
18 January 2018
National Australia Bank is working with online property finder realestate.com to integrate financing options with housing searches.
12 October 2017
ANZ has acquired a startup that uses data analytics and crowdsourced market chatter to provide prospective home buyers with accurate predictions of property price momentum in Australia's fervent real estate market.
03 October 2017
Greek bank Piraeus is hailing the performance of three new fully-automated bank branches, claiming that their popularity has freed up staffers at traditional branches to focus on more complex, higher value work.
14 September 2017
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