The company is introducing the new account by leveraging a bank partner; the account will pay 2% APY and will...
Affirm has dominated the market when it comes to point of sale finance at a time when consumers are increasingly...
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
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.
Originating the loan to a borrower is just the beginning; at LendIt USA 2017 we hosted a presentation by Envestnet | Yodlee on monitoring the consumer after the loan; key items to focus on include: monitoring the lending relationship and data analysis of the borrower, ensuring you have the best data for a specific borrower, are credit data and scores enough or should you look to alternative data sources, what alternative data and details do you focus on to make sure you are making the right decision, and how do changes to income and employment effect the borrower status; focusing on the details is key, making sure you understand the different borrowers and the data points that affect them the most. Source
Afterpay operates in the buy now, pay later space and is a similar offering to other fintechs like Affirm and...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) leader Afterpay is rolling out a new feature today called Pulse that rewards customers who...
Afterpay has teamed up with payments fintech Marqeta to help the buy now, pay later firm expand their presence and...
Traded on the Australian Securities Exchange buy now pay later leader Afterpay has been on a tear in recent weeks;...
Agriculture financing has typically been done by local banks who have built relationships with farms and families; there is a...