borrowers the option to repurchase their mortgage at the market price, mitigating "lock-in" effects. Danish mortgage … covered bond market bears a number of similarities to U.S. agency securitization. In this paper we describe the key features … of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and contrast it to the U.S. system. We also note characteristics of the …

Technology-based ("FinTech") lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent … from 2010 to 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech … suggest that technological innovation has improved the efficiency of financial intermediation in the U.S. mortgage market. …