Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (FIGR) Business
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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Business Overview
Figure is building the future of capital markets using blockchain-based technology.
Figure’s proprietary technology powers next-generation lending, trading and investing activities in areas such as consumer credit and digital assets. Our application of the blockchain ledger allows us to better serve our end-customers, improve speed and efficiency, and enhance standardization and liquidity. Using our technology, we continue to develop dynamic, vertically-integrated marketplaces across the approximately $2 trillion consumer credit market and the rapidly growing approximately $3 trillion cryptocurrency and digital asset market. As a result, Figure has grown quickly in a capital-efficient manner since our founding, and more recently we have achieved strong and growing profitability, with net income of $134.3 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $251.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to net income of $19.9 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $101.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, and accumulated deficit of $187.0 million and total stockholders’ equity of $1.2 billion as of December 31, 2025, compared to accumulated deficit of $320.9 million and total stockholders’ equity of $363.4 million, as of December 31, 2024. See the section titled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for information regarding our use of Adjusted Net Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA and a reconciliation of such Non-GAAP Financial Measures to our most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”).
The infrastructure supporting capital markets today is fragmented and operates on legacy systems which employ antiquated processes for loan approvals and transaction processing. This creates process and cost inefficiencies in serving consumer credit markets and limits the development of alternative marketplaces. Furthermore, the manual elements underpinning the records of ownership and transfer of financial and real assets constrain liquidity, maintain elevated costs, and are error-prone.
Figure aims to address these challenges by using blockchain-based technology to innovate beyond legacy processes. We built a transformative, scaled and fast growing technology platform that displaces trust with truth in the financial ecosystem. Our platform also supports legacy systems, and our goal is to shift customer adoption towards blockchain-based solutions. Furthermore, our technology significantly reduces complexity and increases speed for market participants across the application, underwriting, funding and subsequent capital markets processes. Using our Loan Origination System (“LOS”), the time it takes to fund a home equity loan from application has been reduced to a median of 10 days from an industry median of approximately 43 days (based on data from industry sources) as of December 31, 2025. In comparison, for asset classes outside of mortgages, such as personal loans, there are many loan originators that utilize digitized, fast and automated processes that can fund as fast as same-day or often in as little as three to five days. Additionally, the average production cost per loan was reduced to approximately $717 for the year ended December 31, 2025 from a mortgage industry average of $11,109 as of September 30, 2025, the most recent period available, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (“MBA”). This is a result of our entirely automated application process that takes as little as five minutes to complete and as few as five days to fund. Our platform automates income verification and offers customers the ability to redraw without incurring closing or out-of-pocket costs. Additionally, our platform employs an automatic valuation model, replacing the traditional, time-consuming appraisal process, and utilizes a digital lien matching process instead of the traditional analog title search. It also facilitates remote closings, including remote notaries, in jurisdictions where permitted by applicable laws. Importantly, we have brought a liquid capital market for loans behind this low cost, automated and blockchain-based origination engine.
Our technology enables the immutable recording of all assets and their key information on Provenance Blockchain. Provenance Blockchain, an independent Layer 1 blockchain, provides the scale, security, speed and cost structure to facilitate activity across the broad financial services landscape as a record of truth for assets. Using loans as an example, this authenticity record provides a validation mechanism to support the traditional, off-chain processes we use for tracking and monitoring loan transactions. This record provides verified information regarding the chain of ownership for all of the loans originated on our platform. Adoption of our technology has scaled significantly with every asset passing through Figure’s system being recorded on Provenance Blockchain, which has accumulated over $70 billion in both real-world and digital asset transactions since our launch in late 2018. According to data from RWA.xyz, our real-world assets total value locked is approximately $14 billion as of December 31, 2025 and our share of tokenized private credit is approximately 75% based on the value of outstanding loans originated as of December 31, 2025.
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We began addressing the consumer credit market in 2018 with our Figure-branded product, which catered to direct-to-consumer home equity loans. We then expanded further through Partner-branded strategies, in which a growing number of partners use our technology to independently originate home equity loans. For the year ended December 31, 2025, we facilitated approximately $8.3 billion of home equity lending, representing an increase of 62% compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2025 we had 307 active partners.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, 87% of loans originated through our LOS, which include loans originated by Figure as well as by our partners, utilized our proprietary DART platform, compared to only 2% of loan originations for the year ended December 31, 2024. DART is an electronic registry that tracks servicing rights and ownership of loans in the United States on Provenance Blockchain. Loans originated by our partners utilizing DART accounted for 88% of Partner-branded loans and 67% of all loans originated by our LOS (including wholesale (brokered) transactions) for the year ended December 31, 2025. We pay a minimal amount in the form of HASH for our use of the Provenance Blockchain. HASH is the utility token of the Provenance Blockchain and therefore gas fees (usage fees) are paid in HASH. A small amount of HASH is required to complete each transaction, and we pay these fees on behalf of all participants for any activity they complete with our assets. The average gas fee has been less than one HASH since 2018, which is equivalent to approximately $0.02 as of December 31, 2025.
Since launching Figure Connect in June 2024, approximately $3.9 billion in HELOC volume was transacted on Figure Connect by third parties and 48 total marketplace participants (across loan originators, buyers and investors) were onboarded as of December 31, 2025. Our relationship with our partners is based on our partners’ right to use our solutions. Once a partner is approved and onboarded, the partner enters into a contractual agreement with us for the right to use our LOS and Figure Connect marketplace, an electronic marketplace that employs blockchain technology to directly connect sellers and buyers of loans, in exchange for fees. These partner agreements typically have a fixed term with auto-renewals unless notice is given to terminate, are non-exclusive and do not obligate our partners to use our solutions. The fees we earn from partners are based on the principal balance of each loan originated on our LOS and the principal balance of loans transacted on Figure Connect.
In February 2025, we formed a joint venture with Sixth Street Partners (“Sixth Street”), Fig SIX Mortgage, LLC, to purchase HELOC loans originated through our LOS and sold through Figure Connect. Sixth Street Partners is a global investment firm that invests in credit products, among other strategies. Fig SIX Mortgage, LLC is capitalized with 95% Sixth Street equity and 5% Figure equity. We refer to this joint venture and its activities as a “Guarantor Vehicle.” The Guarantor Vehicle is expected to wholly own the loans it purchases and subsequently sell these loans into Figure HELOC securitizations. Both we and Sixth Street Partners expect to continue to contribute equity into the joint venture up to a total $210.5 million commitment. As of December 31, 2025, Figure had contributed $2.5 million of equity into the Guarantor Vehicle out of a total $10.5 million initial commitment, and Sixth Street Partners had contributed $47.1 million out of a total $200.0 million initial commitment. We do not consolidate the financial statements of the Guarantor Vehicle. Our aim with Figure Connect is to enhance liquidity for loans originated on our LOS, and we believe the Guarantor Vehicle will significantly advance this goal.
With our technology applicable to the broader capital markets, we are expanding beyond our foundational solutions by developing trading and investing products. One example is Figure Exchange, a digital asset marketplace that provides customers advantages for crypto-trading, such as cross-asset collateralization for margin lending. Another example is YLDS, a groundbreaking interest-bearing peer-to-peer transferable stablecoin that is both native to a public blockchain and a debt security registered with the SEC. YLDS has many use cases resulting from its status as a security, including yielding collateral for institutions, cross-border payments and serving as the de-facto currency of Figure Exchange. For the year ended December 31, 2025, we generated $1.1 million in net interest income from YLDS and we did not generate material revenue from Figure Exchange.
A newer pillar of our value proposition is the Democratized Prime platform, which disrupts the traditional prime brokerage infrastructure by allowing users to lend their assets or excess cash into the ecosystem at a market-clearing rate. Democratized Prime is a decentralized, blockchain-based financial (“DeFi”) marketplace connecting sources and uses of capital, where common borrowers face off against common lenders. Lenders have pro-rata exposure to all borrowers and make their decision on participating and on the desired loan interest rate based on a combination of (i) the liquidity of the collateral, (ii) the volatility of the collateral, (iii) the over-collateralization amount, and (iv) the quality of the collateral. In the case of Figure HELOC loans, there is a weekly Bid Wanted In Competition (“BWIC”) for these loans that provides liquidity; should there be a breach of loan-to-value ratio, the relevant loans will be liquidated through the BWIC process.
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As of December 31, 2025, the applicable fees for Democratized Prime are 50 basis points of outstanding balance and are paid by the borrower. As of December 31, 2025, Democratized Prime had not generated material revenue as we have provided the initial assets to support the platform while we build out funding distribution. We expect Democratized Prime to grow as users begin to recognize its benefits.
We believe that we have established a regulatory and licensing apparatus which sets us apart from our competitors and enables us to continue expanding our diverse product offering. We currently have more than 180 lending and servicing licenses, 48 money transmitter licenses, and are an SEC-registered broker-dealer with authority to operate an alternative trading system (“ATS”), the operations of which are conducted in accordance with SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) rules and regulations.
In addition to fees generated from our partners, we earn volume-based fees from partners and users who utilize our technology solutions to transact in our ecosystem. Within this usage-based model, we target positive unit economics in each of our solutions. In addition to our growing stream of ecosystem and technology fees, we also earn origination, gain on sale, and servicing revenue from assets generated through our LOS. During the year ended December 31, 2025, HELOCs comprised over 98% of our total loan originations.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, approximately 82% of our total net revenue was generated from origination fees, gain on sale of loans, servicing fees and interest income from assets generated through our LOS from both Figure and our network of partners. For the year ended December 31, 2025, this represented approximately 71% of total net revenue, as revenue from Figure Connect and other new products grew faster than the solely LOS-driven revenue sources.
Competition
Our integrated loan origination and distribution technology solution faces competition from other originators’ proprietary systems and from third-party digital origination technology solutions providers. In particular, we compete with a variety of technology companies that aim to help legacy financial institutions with the digital transformation of their businesses, particularly with respect to originating, servicing, financing, and selling loans. This includes new products from legacy bank technology providers as well as newer companies focused entirely on lending software infrastructure for financial institutions. Within consumer loans, the extension of credit is highly competitive and increasingly dynamic as emerging technologies continue to enter into the marketplace. Our Partner-branded and Figure-branded originated loans compete in varying degrees with all other sources of secured and unsecured consumer credit, including depository and non-depository lenders (including retail and wholesale-based lenders) as well as other financial technology lending platforms.
We may also face competition from companies that have not previously competed in the consumer lending or financial services market, including companies with significant resources, large and experienced data science teams, and access to vast amounts of consumer-related information, including to information to which we do not have access, that could be used in the development of competing platforms and credit risk models.
We believe none of our competitors provide an offering equivalent to our platform, which we believe displaces legacy infrastructure at each stage of the loan lifecycle based on the principles of efficiency, customer experience, transparency, scalability, and flexibility. Specifically, we believe we distinguish ourselves from our competition through our technology and automation, streamlined originations, partner-accessible platform, and digitally native underwriting, which allows us and our partners to offer loan approvals in as little as five minutes and funding in as little as five days (subject to regulatory waiting periods), a fully electronic closing process, where allowed, a broad distribution network, and our embedded servicing and capital markets technology delivered via our blockchain-based ecosystem.
We believe we compete favorably based on the following competitive factors:
•speed and ease of use enabled through our blockchain-based technology;
•overall customer experience, including convenient access, product functionality, and transparency throughout the transaction;
•partner satisfaction, including ease of onboarding, scope of offering, and value-add to all parties in our ecosystem;
•flexibility, scalability, and the ability to innovate and improve rapidly;
•ability to competitively price loan products for customers, partners, and loan purchasers on the secondary market;
•ability to offer and sell loans efficiently and transparently in the capital markets; and
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•brand awareness and reputation across the ecosystem.
As a still relatively nascent industry, the digital asset landscape continues to be shaped by evolving regulation, a shift in the composition of major players and expanding avenues for growth and business lines. For Figure Exchange, the closest competitors are incumbent centralized cryptocurrency and digital asset exchanges. YLDS faces direct competition from other stablecoin issuers, although the scope of YLDS is set to broaden as we aim to displace legacy fiat payment rails and traditional stores of value like money market funds. Furthermore, as regulatory sentiment is increasingly perceived as more favorable in the United States, we anticipate heightened competitive tension on the back of new entrants.
Exchange firms focused on digital assets are expanding their business latitude, evolving beyond basic cryptocurrency trading platforms to offer bundled services and products that aim to capture incremental portions of the value chain. At the same time, the collapse and retreat of major participants has left market vacuums to be occupied by new players, altering pre-established competitive dynamics.
Stablecoin issuance has seen a marked increase as regulatory sentiment towards cryptocurrencies has become more favorable in the United States. With the inherent volatility in cryptocurrencies, there is a demand for coins that can act as a reliable store of value, a first step if their ultimate goal is to displace fiat currency payments infrastructure and, effectively, decentralize finance. As such, participants are focused on achieving mass adoption and boosting activity as the market presents significant network effects that could suggest partial winner-takes-all dynamics.
Under this context, we believe Figure Exchange and YLDS offers differentiated solutions based on the following factors:
•decentralized custody where investors remain in full control of their assets;
•unique tokenized real-world assets that will be exclusive to Figure Exchange;
•disintermediated monetization of user assets via our Democratized Prime offering;
•platform infrastructure that allows users to cross collateralize assets, efficiently reducing margin requirements, the implied drag on returns, and increasing their overall access to secured credit;
•regulatory and licensing moat that limits our competitors capacity to offer our full comprehensive suite of products;
•YLDS status as a registered security permits institutional investors to hold it, with the increased attractiveness of receiving interest payments; and
•YLDS use cases for trade settlement and payments with transferability 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Research and Development
Our technology platform operates as the interface that drives efficiency, transparency, and certainty into the end-to-end loan origination and distribution process for our customers, partners, and our loan purchasers. We invest substantial resources in research and development to expand our platform by developing new components, features, and product offerings. Our product, engineering, and design teams build our platform and products in light of direct customer feedback, partner dialogue, market opportunity, and investor requirements. In addition, we continuously monitor our funnel to gain a deep understanding of the tasks and workflows we can make more efficient and user-friendly. We analyze the data from tens of thousands of applications flowing through our system to understand opportunities for driving further automation and improvements. We expect costs related to our research and development activities to increase in absolute dollars but decline as a percentage of total revenue as we continue to grow our business. We intend to leverage our existing platform in addition to hiring product, engineering, and design teams to expand our technology and launch products.
Intellectual Property
We believe that our success depends in part on our ability to obtain, establish, enforce, and defend intellectual property rights in our core technology and innovations. We rely on a combination of trademark, service mark, trade secret, patent, and copyright laws in the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as license agreements, contractual restrictions, non‑disclosure agreements, employee confidentiality, and intellectual property assignment agreements, and other contractual protections and confidentiality procedures, to obtain, establish, enforce, and defend our intellectual property rights. We seek to control access to our proprietary technology by entering into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and contractors, and confidentiality agreements with third parties. Though we rely in part upon these legal, contractual, and procedural protections, we believe that factors such as the technological and creative
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skills of our personnel, creation of new services, features, and functionality, and frequent enhancements to our software platform are more essential to establishing and maintaining our technology leadership position. In addition, we use open source software in certain aspects of our platform. The terms of various open source licenses have not been interpreted by U.S. or foreign courts, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our services. For additional information, see Item 1A., Risk Factors, Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property, “Our software contains third-party open source software components, which could subject our proprietary software to general release, restrict our ability to sell our products and subject us to possible litigation, claims or proceedings.”
As of December 31, 2025, we had pending patent applications for certain aspects of our proprietary technology in the U.S. and various other countries. We filed these applications through two international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, which allows the applicant to seek patent protection for an invention in a large number of countries simultaneously. These patent applications are pending, and we do not yet have patent protection for the inventions that they cover. The examination of the patent application in any particular jurisdiction may not be successful. We may, in the future, seek patent protection for additional technology that we develop. As of December 31, 2025, we had registered the term FIGURE as a trademark in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Hong Kong, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, obtained protection granted status in India, and also registered the FIGURE logo as a trademark in China. We have also obtained trademark registrations for certain of our other business names and trademarks and may in the future seek additional trademark registrations in jurisdictions where we operate. In addition, we have registered domain names used in, or related to, our business, most importantly figure.com.
We intend to pursue additional intellectual property protection to the extent we believe it would be beneficial and cost‑effective. Intellectual property laws, procedures, and restrictions provide only limited protection, and despite our commercially reasonable efforts to protect our current and future intellectual property rights, they may not be respected in the future or may be invalidated, circumvented, challenged, infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated. Further, the laws of certain countries do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and, therefore, in certain jurisdictions, we may be unable to protect our proprietary technology, brand, or other intellectual property rights. We cannot guarantee that our existing and future patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, know‑how, domain names, and other intellectual property rights will provide us with competitive advantages, distinguish our products from those of our competitors, or prevent competitors from launching comparable products. Further, we may not be able to prevent third parties from infringing, diluting, misappropriating, or otherwise violating our intellectual property rights, and we may face challenges to the validity or enforceability of our intellectual property rights. Although we are not presently involved in intellectual property lawsuits, we may face allegations from third parties, including our competitors and “non‑practicing entities,” that we have infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated their intellectual property rights. For additional information, see Item 1A., Risk Factors, Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property.
Regulatory Environment
The loans facilitated through our platform, whether by us or our partners, and the other products and services we offer, are subject to a wide array of extensive and complex laws and regulations that are subject to ongoing change, reinterpretation and evolution. Compliance with these laws and regulations may be subject to examination by various federal, state, and local government authorities. Failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations can lead to severe consequences, such as the revocation of necessary licenses or registration, loss of approved status, nullification or rescission of the loan contracts, class action lawsuits and other litigation, investigations, enforcement actions, and other regulatory and legal action and penalties, including civil and criminal liability. Moreover, we, along with our partners, vendors, and other service providers must comply with laws and regulatory frameworks that apply both directly to us and indirectly to our partners, vendors, or service providers. This includes compliance in areas such as lending, consumer protection, privacy, data security, and data protection, especially given our role as a technology provider to financial services firms. Our contractual relationships with our customers also necessitate strict adherence to these legal and regulatory standards to ensure the integrity and security of our operations and services.
We hold licenses and currently offer (i) HELOCs directly to consumers through our Figure-branded solutions in Washington D.C. and all states other than Hawaii, and (ii) digital assets-secured personal loans in all states other than Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Our partners offer HELOCs and other loans directly to consumers using our technology in all states where they are appropriately licensed.
In addition, we hold various licenses and registrations for the other financial services we offer at the federal and state level, including those related to consumer credit transactions, mortgage lending, loan servicing and collection activities, money transmission and digital assets transactions, the purchase and sale of whole loans, and other related transactions. While we hold certain licenses in a number of jurisdictions, we may, however, be required to temporarily or permanently cease or
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reorganize their offerings in certain jurisdictions to obtain additional licenses. Such additional licenses, reorganizations, temporary or permanent cessation of our offerings could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations and reputation.
•Truth in Lending Act including the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act, and Regulation Z promulgated thereunder and similar state laws, which require certain disclosures to borrowers regarding the terms and conditions of their loans and credit transactions, require creditors to comply with certain lending practice restrictions, and limit the ability of a creditor to impose certain loan terms, take certain actions, or change the terms of a HELOC or other loans we make after origination.
•Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) and similar state laws, which provides guidelines and limitations on the conduct of certain debt collectors in connection with the collection of consumer debts. The FDCPA limits certain communications with third parties, imposes notice and debt validation requirements, and prohibits threatening, harassing, or abusive conduct in the course of debt collection. While the FDCPA primarily applies to third‑party debt collectors, debt collection laws of certain states impose similar requirements more broadly on creditors who collect their own debts. In addition, the CFPB prohibits unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (“UDAAPs”) in debt collection, including first‑party debt collection.
•Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (the “RESPA”) and Regulation X promulgated thereunder, which require certain disclosures to be made to the borrower at application and closing, prohibit giving or accepting any fee, kickback, or other thing of value for the referral of real estate settlement services or accepting a portion or split of a settlement fee other than as fair market value for services actually provided, place limitations on affiliated business arrangements, and require mortgage servicers to comply with certain servicing practice obligations, including with respect to escrow account administration and maintenance.
•Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B promulgated thereunder, and similar state fair lending laws, which prohibit creditors from discouraging or discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, the fact that all or part of the applicant’s income derives from any public assistance program or the fact that the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act. Fair lending laws of certain states impose similar requirements more broadly by protecting additional classes of applicants and borrowers.
•Fair Credit Reporting Act and Regulation V promulgated thereunder and similar state laws, which impose certain obligations on consumer reporting agencies, users of consumer reports and those that furnish information to consumer reporting agencies, including obligations relating to obtaining consumer reports, marketing using consumer reports, taking adverse action based on consumer report information, addressing risks of identity theft and fraud, and protecting the privacy and security of consumer reports and consumer report information.
•Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair and deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, and Section 1031 of the Dodd‑Frank Act, which prohibits UDAAPs in connection with any consumer financial product or service, and analogous state laws prohibiting unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices.
•Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act and Regulation P promulgated thereunder, which include limitations on financial services firms’ disclosure of nonpublic personal information about a consumer to nonaffiliated third parties, in certain circumstances require financial services firms to limit the use and further disclosure of nonpublic personal information by nonaffiliated third parties to whom they disclose such information and require financial services firms to disclose certain privacy notices and practices with respect to information sharing with affiliated and unaffiliated entities as well as to safeguard personal borrower information, and other state and federal laws and regulations relating to privacy and cybersecurity.
•Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, which allows military members to suspend or postpone certain civil obligations, requires creditors to reduce the interest rate to 6.0% on loans incurred before a servicemember entered active duty, and imposes certain obligations and restrictions on the enforcement of loans to servicemembers, including limitations on foreclosure or repossession of property securing certain loans, so that military members can focus on their duties.
•Military Lending Act, which provides disclosure requirements, interest rate limitations, substantive conduct obligations and prohibitions on certain behavior relating to loans made to covered borrowers, which include both servicemembers and their dependents.
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•Fair Housing Act and similar state fair lending laws, which prohibit discrimination in housing on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and certain other characteristics.
•Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act, which imposes state licensing requirements on mortgage loan originators.
•The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and Regulation C promulgated thereunder, which require financial institutions to maintain, report, and publicly disclose loan‑level information about their mortgage lending activity in order to help determine whether financial institutions are serving the housing needs of their communities, assist public officials in distributing public‑sector investment so as to attract private investment to areas where it is needed, and assist in the enforcement of fair lending and anti‑discrimination laws.
•State laws and regulations that impose requirements related to unfair or deceptive business practices and consumer protection, as well as other state laws relating to privacy, information security, cybersecurity, and conduct in connection with data breaches.
•State laws and regulations that impose licensing and other requirements related to money transmission, money services, and virtual currency activity, including with respect to the money transmitter licenses that we hold in most U.S. states and territories.
•The Flood Disaster Protection Act, which provides that a regulated lending institution may not make, increase, extend, or renew any loan secured by improved real property that is located in a designated special flood hazard area unless the improved real property is covered by a sufficient flood insurance policy.
•Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, which impose various consumer consent requirements and other restrictions in connection with telemarketing activity and other communication with consumers by phone, fax, or text message, and which provide guidelines designed to safeguard consumer privacy in connection with such communications.
•Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, and similar state laws, particularly the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, which authorize the creation of legally binding and enforceable agreements utilizing electronic records and signatures and which require financial services firms to obtain a consumer’s consent to electronically receive disclosures required under federal and state laws and regulations.
•Electronic Funds Transfer Act, which regulates electronic fund transfer transactions, including a consumer’s right to stop payments on a pre-approved fund transfer and right to receive certain documentation of the transaction.
•U.S. Bankruptcy Code, which prohibits certain contacts with consumers after the filing of bankruptcy petitions and dictates what types of claims will or will not be allowed in a bankruptcy proceeding including how such claims may be discharged.
•Americans with Disabilities Act, which has been interpreted to include websites as “places of public accommodations” that must meet certain federal requirements related to access and use.
•Right to Financial Privacy Act and similar state laws that were enacted to provide the financial records of financial services firms’ customers a reasonable amount of privacy from government scrutiny.
•Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act, and regulations promulgated thereunder, which relate to compliance with anti‑money laundering, and counter‑terrorist financing laws and require us, as a money services business, broker-dealer, loan or finance company, and/or other regulated entity, to, among other things, develop, implement, and maintain an anti‑money laundering program, report suspicious activities and transactions to FinCEN, comply with certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements, and collect and maintain information about customers.
•The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other applicable laws concerning or relating to public sector or private sector bribery or corruption.
•The regulations promulgated by Office of Foreign Assets Control under the U.S. Department of the Treasury related to the administration and enforcement of trade and economic sanctions against foreign jurisdictions and persons that threaten U.S. foreign policy and national security goals, primarily to prevent targeted jurisdictions and persons from accessing the U.S. financial system.
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•Federal, state, and self-regulatory organization securities rules and laws, including, among others, the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”), and the Investment Company Act, the rules and regulations adopted under those laws, including those adopted by FINRA, and similar state laws and regulations, which govern how we offer, sell, and transact in our loan financing products.
We are also subject to a variety of additional laws and regulations, such as those related to real estate, property and casualty insurance, title insurance, settlement services, mobile‑ and internet-based businesses, data security, privacy, and consumer protection. Further, in connection with the issuance and transfer of YLDS and onboarding to our broker-dealer ATS, we require all participants to complete a know-your-customer (“KYC”) and anti-money laundering onboarding process, consistent with applicable U.S. federal and state financial regulatory requirements. This process is administered directly by us or through a registered transfer agent or broker-dealer and includes the collection of personally identifiable information such as name, date of birth, address, social security number, and contact information. Additionally, if certain digital asset transactions we facilitate or have previously facilitated were to, now or in the future, constitute “commodity interests” or “retail commodity transactions” as defined by and subject to regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”), we could be subject to additional regulatory requirements, licenses, and approvals, including under the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (the “CEA”), the rules and regulations promulgated by the CFTC thereunder, and the rules of the National Futures Association (“NFA”). See Item 1A., Risk Factors, Regulatory, Tax and Other Legal Risks, for additional information and a discussion of our regulatory risks.
Human Capital Resources
Our strong corporate culture is built upon respect for, and promotes the well‑being of, our employees, empowering them to rise to their full potential and deliver their top performance. We create this environment by placing a focus on training, developing strong teams, and creating an organized efficient workplace. We focus on the continuous education of our employees by providing opportunities for real‑time learning. We also strive to develop strong teams through our recruiting efforts, which focus on attracting hardworking individuals with a range of backgrounds and experiences. We also believe that the retention of employees who contribute to our success in measurable ways is key to sustaining our growth. We aim to drive employee retention through our market‑based compensation philosophy and the adoption of unique employee benefits, such as mental health initiatives and financial wellness resources. We aim to achieve workplace organization through the implementation of consistent policies and procedures that are widely communicated and reinforced regularly through training and executive leadership. In addition, our strong commitment to promoting our corporate culture and belonging has fostered a highly collaborative and motivated workforce. We intend to continue to evaluate our human capital resources in managing our business, including the measures we employ to maintain inclusivity in our workforce.
As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 602 full‑time employees. We also engage contractors and consultants. None of our employees are represented by a labor union or covered under a collective bargaining agreement. We have not experienced any work stoppages due to employee disputes, and we consider our relationship with our employees to be good.
Data Privacy and Security
The data we collect, store, use, share, disclose, transmit, and otherwise process is integral to our business, serving as a key input to our operations and providing us with insights to improve our software platform and products. Our collection, use, receipt, and other processing or handling of data subjects us to numerous U.S. federal, state, and foreign laws and regulations regarding privacy, information security, and the collection, storage, sharing, use, transfer, disclosure, transmission, protection, and processing of certain types of data, including personal information and other non‑public data. These regulations include, for example, the GLBA, TCPA, FCRA, CCPA, the FTC Act, and New York’s Cybersecurity Law. We work to comply with, and to provide a platform and products that comply with, applicable laws, rules, and regulations relating to privacy, data protection, and information security. This commitment underpins our aim to build trust and provide a strong experience to customers.
Despite our efforts to comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other obligations relating to privacy, data protection, and information security, it is possible that our interpretations of such laws, rules, regulations, or other actual or asserted obligations, or our practices or software platform, could be inconsistent with, or fail or be alleged to fail to meet all requirements of, such laws, rules, regulations, or obligations. Our failure, or the failure by our partners, vendors, service providers, or customers, to comply with applicable laws, rules, or regulations or any other actual or asserted obligations relating to privacy, data protection, or information security, or any compromise of security that results in unauthorized access to, use, disclosure or other processing of, personal information or other data relating to customers or other individuals, or the perception that any of the foregoing types of failure or compromise has occurred, could damage our
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reputation, discourage new and existing customers from using our software platform, or result in investigations or other proceedings by governmental agencies, private claims and litigation, and fines, penalties, and other liabilities. Such outcomes could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. For additional information, see Item 1A., Risk Factors, Information Technology and Data Risks.
Seasonality
We experience seasonal fluctuations in our business as a result of consumer spending patterns which we expect to mimic the seasonality of our general business in the near term. Historically, our Consumer Loan Marketplace volume has been the strongest during the second and third quarters due to increases in home improvements and our origination volume is at its lowest during the first and fourth quarters. Adverse events that occur during our second and third quarters could have a disproportionate effect on our financial results for the fiscal year.
Recent Developments
Reorganization
Prior to a change in corporate structure on March 18, 2024, the consolidated financial statements were under the former parent company, Figure Technologies, Inc. ("FT"). On March 18, 2024, FT, FT Intermediate, Inc. (“FTI”), and Figure Markets Holdings, Inc. (“FMH”) and other entities under common control consummated a reorganization (the “Reorganization”) whereby FT contributed assets and liabilities to FTI and subsequently, FT consummated a reverse merger with a subsidiary of FTI. Each outstanding share of common stock of FT converted into one share of common stock of FTI, whereby FTI (a) contributed assets and liabilities applicable to the FMH business and (b) 100% of the equity interest to FT's successor. FT then ratably distributed 74.1% of FMHs' common stock to third-party shareholders and 25.9% to related parties in exchange for their FTI common stock.
As a result of the Reorganization, there were two affiliated corporations under common control. Each of the following two corporations was owned either directly or indirectly by its controlling shareholder, Michael Cagney (“Controlling Party”):
•FTI was formed on March 18, 2024 as a Delaware corporation and primarily operates through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Figure Lending Corp. (“Lending”). Lending offers Figure Connect which generates ecosystem and technology fees, and originates, sells, and securitizes home equity line of credit (“HELOC”) loans that it services.
•FMH was formed on January 25, 2024 as a Delaware corporation. FMH utilized blockchain technology to develop an exchange for digital assets and credit, with new product offerings including providing interest-bearing stablecoin deposits.
In May 2025, both FTI and FMH redomiciled from the State of Delaware to the State of Nevada.
Recombination
On August 29, 2025 (“Recombination Date”), FTI and FMH recombined the businesses through a series of transactions (the “Recombination”) and FMH became a wholly-owned subsidiary of FTI. Approximately five outstanding shares of FMH common or preferred stock, options, or warrants converted into one share of common or preferred stock, options, or warrants of FTI (“Conversion Rate”). Upon the consummation of the Recombination, FTI changed its name to Figure Technology Solutions, Inc.
The Recombination was a reorganization of entities under common control as FTI and FMH were owned, either directly or indirectly, by the Controlling Party before and after the Recombination. As a result, the Recombination is accounted for in a manner similar to a pooling of interests with the assets and liabilities of the parties to the Recombination carried over at their historical amounts. Therefore, the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements have been retrospectively recast to reflect the results as if FTI and FMH were a single consolidated entity as of the earliest period presented.
Initial Public Offering (“IPO”)
On September 12, 2025, the Company completed its IPO, in which the Company issued and sold 36,225,000 shares of its Class A common stock, including the underwriters’ over-allotment option which was exercised in full, at a public offering price of $25.00 per share. The IPO resulted in net proceeds to the Company of $663.4 million after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions.
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In connection with the IPO, all shares of outstanding convertible preferred stock, including 2,010,410 shares of Series E preferred stock issued upon the exercise of outstanding warrants, automatically converted to 113,910,905 shares of Class A common stock, and a total of 39,393,047 shares of our Class A common stock held by the Controlling Party and his permitted transferees were converted into an equivalent number of shares of Class B common stock, of which 1,500,000 shares were subsequently converted back to Class A and sold in connection with the IPO.
OPEN Launch
In February 2026, we launched On-Chain Public Equity Network (“OPEN”), a blockchain-based network designed to modernize the infrastructure that supports the issuance, trading, custody and lending of public equity securities.
OPEN enables companies to issue their equity natively on the Provenance Blockchain and make it available for secondary market trading on our ATS. OPEN is designed to reduce reliance on traditional centralized market infrastructure and provide new capabilities for public companies and shareholders. These capabilities are anticipated to include lower costs and capital requirements compared to existing clearing and settlement models, greater access to trading through self-custody and self-settlement mechanisms that can reduce the need for custodial intermediaries, portfolio margining across digital and tokenized assets.
We aim to support frictionless two-way exchangeability between our securities issued on OPEN and our listed Class A common stock, a capability that we expect to make available to future OPEN issuers. This exchangeability is intended to promote liquidity and prices near par between blockchain securities and securities listed on national exchanges.
Blockchain Common Stock Offering
In February 2026, the Company successfully completed a secondary public offering of 4,375,000 shares of its Series A Blockchain Common Stock ("Blockchain Stock"). The selling stockholders in the offering agreed to sell 4,687,500 shares of Class A common stock to the underwriters. The Company did not raise proceeds through this offering. In conjunction with the offering, the Company repurchased 312500 of our Class A common stock, subsequently held in treasury, that were subject to the offering at an aggregate amount of approximately $10 million at $32.00 per share.
The Blockchain Stock is a new class of equity security that trades exclusively on the Company’s ATS, allowing for trading 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The Blockchain Stock provides the ability for holders to lend their stock transparently and utilize cross-asset collateralization through DeFi protocols. The offering served as the foundational launch of OPEN.
Share Repurchase Program
On February 25, 2026, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program under which the Company may repurchase up to $200 million of its Class A and Blockchain common stock over the next 12 months subject to market conditions, contractual restrictions and other factors.
Repurchases under the program may be made from time to time in the open market, through privately negotiated transactions, accelerated share repurchase transactions, or by other means in accordance with applicable securities laws and regulations. The timing, number of shares repurchased, and prices paid will depend on market conditions, share price, trading volume, corporate considerations, and other factors. Open market repurchases will be structured to occur within the pricing and volume requirements of Rule 10b-18. The Company may also, from time to time, enter into Rule 10b5-1 plans to facilitate repurchases of its shares under this authorization.
This program does not obligate the Company to acquire any particular amount of stock and the program may be extended, modified, suspended or discontinued at any time at the Company’s discretion.
Available Information
Our website address is www.figure.com. In addition to the information about us and our subsidiaries contained in this Annual Report, information about us can be found on our website. Our website and information included in or linked to our website are not part of this Annual Report. We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act, and, accordingly, file reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. The SEC maintains a website (http://www.sec.gov) that contains material regarding issuers that file electronically, such as ourselves, with the SEC. We make available free of charge on our website our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.