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As mortgage biz suffers, Blend sees unified banking platform as the key to growth

Housing Wire

To reach a key financial goal in 2026, Blend Labs plans to diversify far beyond mortgage. Blend Builder – an initiative that started about four years ago and launched in March 2023 – is a cloud banking platform designed to help businesses in the financial services industry streamline processes for mortgages, loans, deposits and accounts. “We

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The Fed pauses its rate hikes for now, will it last?

Housing Wire

The CME FedWatch Tool showed a 99% chance the Fed would halt its hikes to the 5.25 Raising interest rates is designed to tackle those still-high prices outside of the volatile food and energy sectors. next year and to reach 2% in 2026, he added. research and consulting at TransUnion , said. However, only 70.9% this year, 2.5%