Who owns Kiavi, and is it the same company as LendingHome?
Yes — Kiavi is the company formerly known as LendingHome, which was founded in San Francisco in 2013 and rebranded to Kiavi in late 2021. It is a privately held, venture- and institutionally-backed company, and it funds loans at scale by securitizing them: Kiavi regularly issues rated securitizations of its residential transition loans, which is how a non-bank lender can originate billions per year. The name changed; the NMLS license (#1125207) and the business carried over.
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