For the first time, customers can book travel with Expedia through the Afterpay app bringing BNPL functionality to the experience.
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.
It is not news that the buy-now-pay-later space is the hottest vertical in fintech. With three companies, Afterpay, Klarna and...
UK payment aggregator Curve is launching its own credit offering later this year called Curve Credit; they began testing the...
The Wall Street Journal reported late yesterday that Affirm has started to prepare for an IPO that could value the...
How did competition between the top consumer debt contenders heat up over the long-awaited holiday shopping spree?
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.
Recovery, Re-Boot, Resilience: Roadmap Back to Growth August 25th at 2:00 PM ET: Register Today Banks, Lenders and FinTechs have...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) leader Afterpay is rolling out a new feature today called Pulse that rewards customers who...