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Figure Lending lands $100M funding facility

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SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney’s latest digital mortgage operation Figure Lending closed on a $100 million funding facility from JPMorgan Chase this week. In a statement, Figure said the $100 million loan facility represents another push toward growth in mortgage lending. Mike Cagney, SoFi. billion across these deals.

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Fintech Stavvy acquires servicing tech firm Brace

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Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, acquired Brace , a digital mortgage servicing platform. Founded in 2018 , Stavvy works to increase efficiency and transparency in real estate and mortgage lending. Terms of the deal were not announced.

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Ex-MBA prez Ronald McCord to pay $52M mortgage fraud penalty

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As the housing market changes, so does lending fraud. This white paper covers new fraud schemes in mortgage lending as well as solutions for fraud detection. In early 2017, after Spirit and Citizens stopped funding his company’s mortgages, McCord sought a new warehouse lender. Presented by: First American Data & Analytics.

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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

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The company also said it “continues to evaluate new products to reach additional segments of the population facing a retirement gap,” and describes recent reverse mortgage industry consolidation following influential industry changes in 2017 and the 2022 bankruptcy of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF). “As

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Orchard reaches unicorn status with $100M funding round

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It also launched its lending division, Orchard Home Loans, in July. Its rival, Knock , shifted its focus to lending around the same time. Since its launch in 2017, Orchard has raised $255 million in total equity. Last year, the company completed a $69 million series C funding round.

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American Bank of Oklahoma settles redlining case for $1.5M

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The DOJ complaint, filed in federal court, claims that the bank failed to provide mortgage lending services from 2017 through at least 2021 in neighborhoods in and around Tulsa , including those that were the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. American Bank of Oklahoma has agreed to invest $1.5 The bank denies the allegations.

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Feds seek to enlist real estate agents in anti-corruption push

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , or FinCEN, is floating a proposed anti-money laundering rule that could impose reporting mandates on a broad swath of professionals in the residential real estate market, including real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, title insurance companies and settlement agents.