It is not news that the buy-now-pay-later space is the hottest vertical in fintech. With three companies, Afterpay, Klarna 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.
Traded on the Australian Securities Exchange buy now pay later leader Afterpay has been on a tear in recent weeks;...
Buy now pay later services are becoming one of the biggest benefactors during the current crisis; consumers have turned to...
Afterpay has teamed up with payments fintech Marqeta to help the buy now, pay later firm expand their presence and...
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.
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