Buy now, pay later provider Affirm has seen its active merchant and consumer counts skyrocket in recent months after expanding its partnership with Shopify.
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John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.
ABN AMRO has reported a net profit of €343m for quarter ended 30 September 2021, a 14% rise compared to €301m for the same period in 2020.
Shares of Affirm, the digital “buy now, pay later” company, soared as high as 30% in after-hours trading Wednesday, after the company said it would expand its partnership with Amazon. The company also beat analyst estimates on revenue in the fiscal first quarter.
On episode 26 I talk with Carlos Torras of Fintech Collective. Fintech Collective is a venture capital firm that partners with founders with vision and persistence – founders with a desire to reshape markets.
Some of the top startups in Europe will go head to head. Our second group of semifinalists in Pitchit’s Startup Summit competition will pitch their ideas live in front of a panel of fintech industry vets to compete for the gold prize.
Potentially the answer to the controversy swirling around payday lenders and overdrafts, can this nascent product be regulated appropriately?
The data aggregator is recruiting partners such as Railsbank, Silicon Valley Bank and Marqeta for a project designed to make certain digital transactions easier to complete.
Backbase, an engagement banking platform that enables banks and other financial institutions to accelerate digital transformation, announced it has joined the Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, according to a press release sent to FinLedger.
Mastercard has signed up a gaggle of new partners - including American Airlines, CSI, Fiserv and Tsys - to its recently launched buy now, pay later offering.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has halted two token offerings by American CryptoFed DAO LLC, a Wyoming-based organization. According to the SEC, the Division of Enforcement alleges that in September American CryptoFed filed a 'materially deficient and misleading registration form known as a Form