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Change Lending loses CDFI certification

Housing Wire

Non-bank originator Change Lending lost its Community Development Fund Institution (CDFI) certification, according to a report from Barron’s. Change Lending was removed from the CDFI Fund’s list of certified program lenders last week, the outlet reported.

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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

Housing Wire

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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Lenders, don’t overlook real estate investors

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently spoke with William Tessar, president of Civic Financial Services , about the private lending space and how LOs can benefit from serving real estate investors. . HousingWire: What is the current outlook for the private lending space as the market shifts from a refi boom to a flooded purchase market?

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CFPB issues its final rule on small business lending

Housing Wire

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized the rule on small business lending, which fulfills a mandate from Congress and aims to increase transparency while mitigating discrimination. For decades, the government has assembled data pursuant to Congressional mandates on residential mortgages,” the CFPB said.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. We would feed them leads, but they came back to us because they didn’t know how to structure the full document deals,” Jay Voorhees, co-founder at JVM Lending, said in an interview with HousingWire. I thought it was sparse.

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Figure Lending lands $100M funding facility

Housing Wire

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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NEXA Mortgage co-founders are splitting

Housing Wire

of the company and there were no outside investors. NEXA was founded in 2017 after Kortas and Grella left Equity Prime Mortgage. The brokerage’s biggest lending partner is United Wholesale Mortgage , the nation’s largest mortgage lender. Kortas told HousingWire that he owns 50.5% NEXA did $6.29

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