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Figure is proud to have been named today as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintechs, included within the Alternative Financing category. We don’t innovate merely to innovate. We focus on driving real-world impact to everyone that touches capital markets. By modernizing financial infrastructure using blockchain, we’re removing friction to make credit flow faster and be more accessible. For borrowers: Faster access to home equity at lower costs. For partners: Built-in efficiency to scale into new markets. For investors: Transparent, liquid access to high-quality assets. Grateful to our team, partners, and customers who are building the future of finance alongside us. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e2M5gzjX

Timing is everything for entrepreneurs — but standard lending often overlooks or slow plays qualified small business owners. For the two-thirds of small business owners who are also homeowners, that’s where simple home equity financing makes a real difference. We teamed up with Big Think Capital to help entrepreneurs like Chuck. A seasoned and successful business owner, Chuck worked with his broker Samantha Brown to unlock his home equity, pay down high-interest business debt, and jump on a timely opportunity. Chuck’s story shows what’s possible when modern funding meets operators where they are. Read the full Q&A to see how our partner ecosystem turns home equity into opportunity: https://lnkd.in/ewtqgeEZ

HELOC Heroes: Strategies with Brian Shields We are sitting down with Brian Shields, C2 Financial's top Figure HELOC producer, to dissect exactly how he uses Figure's high-speed HELOC to smash production goals by focusing on specific clients and debt-payoff strategies. Learn from the best in this next installment of our HELOC Heroes series! You won't want to miss this session as we interview one of the highest volume producers using a fast-closing tool to help his clients. We will also be hosting Q/A! 🔗 Join us on Wednesday, July 22nd, to learn how to give your clients the speed they actually care about and the certainty they need. 👉 Register now and join us for the deep dive! 🗓️ Wednesday, July 22nd, at 11am PST / 2pm EST 📍 Register now to reserve your spot — don’t miss it! https://lnkd.in/gU49N7T3 #Webinar #HomeEquity #HELOC #Sales #fintech #lending

What does it take to become the No. 1 originator? For this month’s HELOC Hero Kevin Areia, mortgage advisor at Stanford Mortgage, the answer is simple: ditch the jargon and build a business on relationships. By stepping away from a transactional mindset, Kevin didn't just top his organization's leaderboard earlier this year — he’s actively helping his clients crush their debt, realize home renovation goals, and so much more. Dive into our conversation with Kevin to steal his HELOC playbook: https://lnkd.in/gDEeP9_E

Join us in welcoming Saket Nigam, CFA to Figure as our new Senior Director of Wholesale and Sales Success. He brings over 15 years of deep mortgage experience across secondary marketing, product development, and credit policy. With Saket on board in this new role, we’re doubling down on our commitment to grow the wholesale channel. He will help our partners scale with the Figure HELOC and Non-QM offerings to continue to better serve consumers.

Announcing Unblocked, a new podcast by Figure hosted by our CEO Michael B. Tannenbaum! We’re talking to the innovators who’ve removed the barriers that have long held legacy industries back. In our first episode, Michael sits down with Linda Du, co-founder and president of Valon. They dive into "schlep blindness" — the value of tackling the complex issues that most leaders ignore — and how tools like AI and blockchain can actually improve the financial system for everyone instead of just filling a buzzword soup. Links to the full episode are in the first comment. Stay tuned for more episodes soon. In the meantime, we’d love your feedback and guest recommendations!

Welcome Brick City Capital, our newest partner! This significantly expands the real estate investor channel within home equity on our Figure Connect marketplace. As a rapidly growing, top-20 private lender, Brick City brings immediate scale to our growing DSCR (investor mortgage) channel. This partnership complements our expansion into the RTL / fix-and-flip space, which was bolstered by our announcement last month that we plan to acquire market leader Kiavi. With scale across two related asset classes – short-term renovation financing is often refinanced into permanent DSCR funding – we are uniquely suited to serve the needs of real estate investors. DSCR is one of the mortgage industry’s fastest-growing asset classes. The rental market is booming, its economics are strong and stable, and there's a robust investor appetite. Brick City and Figure share a focus on speed and certainty. We are offering the combination of Figure Connect for standardized whole-loan distribution as well as short-term financing unlocked via our Democratized Prime marketplace. Multiple leading Figure products + a fast-growing asset class with a likeminded partner = lots of room to run.  

Our CFO Macrina Kgil was recently featured in Nicole Casperson's Fintech Is Femme newsletter, discussing what it takes to scale blockchain infrastructure to connect originators with institutional investors. Her approach is simple: think of it as a public accounting ledger. At Figure, we focus on blockchain as an innovation that delivers tangible operational efficiency that flows all the way to the end consumer. The real-world scale is already here: our Figure Connect marketplace reached $1.5 billion in monthly volume in June. By moving past the speculative volatility often associated with crypto, this infrastructure focuses purely on building a more liquid, efficient financial system. She also covers our trajectory, the evolving CFO role, and the vision behind our announced acquisition of Kiavi. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gRf_bMqH

We’re hitting "record" on something big. All the conversations we’re having with partners and industry leaders about the intersection of capital markets, fintech, blockchain, and AI — we’re bringing them straight to you. No buzzwords. Just how innovators get unblocked and drive real outcomes. Stay tuned.