Over the past decade we’ve seen consumers warming up to buying everything with multiple payments. It is a phenomenon that...
While on the surface Affirm’s business may appear to be focused on lending and payments, the company can also help merchants in marketing; the company has large amounts of data on who is buying products, what they are buying and where they are buying; with this information they plan to offer their merchants more services in the future; Tearsheet shares more on Affirm’s plans. Source
Afterpay operates in the buy now, pay later space and is a similar offering to other fintechs like Affirm and...
We started the month with the huge news that Square was acquiring Afterpay and we ended with Amazon’s deal with Affirm.
It seems like every day there is more news coming out of this sector, it is white-hot right now.
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Affirm has dominated the market when it comes to point of sale finance at a time when consumers are increasingly...
While speaking on Business Insider’s podcast “Success! How I Did It” Affirm CEO Max Levchin shared the story about how he started PayPal; Levchin moved out to Silicon Valley after starting a business that didn’t succeed and was sleeping on his friend’s floor; he saw Peter Thiel deliver a lecture and stayed after to chat with the then hedge fund manager; they met the next morning for breakfast and Thiel liked one of his two ideas, he decided to invest and that was the company that became PayPal. Source.
Paypal Mafia buy now pay later fintech the talk to the town having snagged the biggest e-commerce market in the world.
Certain customers will be able to use an Affirm pay later option at checkout, Amazon said in a press release.
Big banks like Citi and JPMorgan Chase are trying to beat fintechs at their own game with launches of new...
Buy now pay later services are becoming one of the biggest benefactors during the current crisis; consumers have turned to...