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News/retail
Selina Finance, a London-based alternative lender which provides credit to business and consumer borrowers by unlocking the value tied up in their property, has raised $35m in equity from Lightrock and $115m in debt from Goldman Sachs and GGC.
08 February 2022
News/people
A week after firing 900 employees in a single Zoom call, Vishal Garg is “taking time off effective immediately” from his position as CEO of digital mortgage outfit Better.com.
10 December 2021
The boss of digital mortgage outfit Better.com is under fire after laying off around 900 employees on a single Zoom call and then accusing many of "stealing" by being unproductive.
07 December 2021
News/startups
Rental deposit lending business Fronted has raised over £20m in a debt and equity deal led by Fasanara Capital. This comes after Monzo co-founders backed the fintech in a £1m fundraise in May 2021.
24 November 2021
Cloud-based core banking vendor nCino is to expand its business in the US mortage market through the acquisition of SimpleNexus in a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately $1.2 billion.
17 November 2021
Starling Bank has reportedly bought a mortgage book worth around £1 billion as it steps up its challenge to the UK's largest banks.
15 November 2021
News/sustainable
Triodos Bank has just announced its aim to reach net zero by 2035.
02 November 2021
NatWest is to offer a preferential interest rate to new or existing customers who are looking to re-mortgage an energy efficient property.
10 August 2021
Tembo Money, a mortgage broker for first-time buyers, has raised £2.5 million, with backing from Aviva and Nationwide.
05 August 2021
ABN Amro is to offer customers a sustainability discount on mortgage interest rates for energy efficient homes.
03 August 2021
Landis, a US startup that uses technology and data science to help renters reach homeownership, has closed $165 million in debt and Series A equity financing.
30 July 2021
Starling Bank has made its first acquisition, shelling out £50 million for the buy-to-let lending operation of Hampshire-based Fleet Mortgages.
26 July 2021
OwnHome, an Australian rent-to-own scheme for millennials, has bagged $3.6 million in funds from investors including Global Founders Capital, Entrée Capital, AfterWork and InVentures.
23 July 2021
Danske Bank's Northern Ireland unit has launched the UK’s first mortgage to be certified as carbon neutral.
19 July 2021
Australian neobank Volt has acquired fintech lender Australian Mortgage to speed up the mortgage approval process as part of its banking-as-a-service offering.
15 July 2021
Better HoldCo, a digital platform that helps Americans buy homes, has acquired UK online mortgage broker Trussle Lab. Financial terms were not disclosed.
13 July 2021
RVU, owner of Uswitch, Confused.com and Money.co.uk, is taking on the UK mortgages sector by agreeing to acquire Mojo Mortgages.
12 July 2021
Home buying fintech startup Tomo, led by former Zillow executives Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong, has logged one of the largest seed rounds in history, scooping $70 million just eight months after founding.
02 July 2021
Stavvy, the Boston-based startup behind a platform that digitises the mortgage closing process, has raised more than $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures.
26 May 2021
Mouro Capital, the fintech venture vehicle backed by Banco Santander, is to pool the services of two of its portfolio companies to create a new joint venture for online property sales in Mexico.
04 March 2021
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