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.
UK payment aggregator Curve is launching its own credit offering later this year called Curve Credit; they began testing the...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) leader Afterpay is rolling out a new feature today called Pulse that rewards customers who...
One of the biggest trends in the last 5 years has been the ease at which you can make a...
Karen Webster of PYMNTS talks with Afterpay CEO Nick Molnar about going public early on in the company’s journey; The...
The contact us form is a staple of most websites but buy now pay later startup Afterpay never thought it...
Recovery, Re-Boot, Resilience: Roadmap Back to Growth August 25th at 2:00 PM ET: Register Today Banks, Lenders and FinTechs have...
In this analysis, we explore an overarching framework for the M&A activity in the fintech, big tech, and crypto ecosystems. We discuss acquihiring, horizontal and vertical consolidation, as well as the differences between growth and value oriented acquisition rationales. The core insight, however, is about the arbitrage between the fintech and financial services capital markets, as evidenced by the recent transactions for Starling and Figure.
Chinese giants Tencent and Ant Financial have found value in the buy now pay later industry with the companies buying...
Millennials and Gen Z consumers are still wary of credit cards and are looking for alternative payment methods; they are...