Mortgage Lending

Mortgage applications reach pandemic peak

A surge in home mortgage applications has set the bar high for 2021. An index tracking applications to buy homes jumped 8 percent, seasonally adjusted, last week, up from the prior week when it...

SoftBank-backed online lender SoFi eyes IPO

Online lender Social Finance, or SoFi, is the latest SoftBank-backed startup to eye a public offering through a blank-check company. The San Francisco-based company has held talks with several special purpose acquisition companies about...