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Fintech
·Dec. 29, 2021

The top fintech stories of 2021

In 2021, firms who had stayed alive through the initial pandemic became giants: fintechs became banks, banks became super apps, and super apps became some of the most successful public companies in the world.
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Embedded FinanceneobankOpen Bankingpaytech
·Nov. 10, 2021

Plaid’s payments ecosystem & Affirm’s decoupled debit card reveal embedded finance Trojan Horse

In this analysis, we want to update the discussion of card networks, money movement, and the potential existential threat — or perhaps evolution — to existing infrastructure. It continues the thread on articles like Is Plaid cheap at $5.3 billion for $500 billion Visa? and Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure, and Who are the customers of Embedded Finance, and what do they reveal about Stripe, Affirm, DriveWealth, and Green Dot?, and more generally in this research section. We map Plaid’s progress in building out a payments ecosystem, and highlight Affirm’s debit card product powered in a novel manner through open banking. The analysis visualizes a likely evolution of the space with the introduction of Web3, and highlights a couple of early symptoms.

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Payments
·Aug. 30, 2021

Amazon to partner with Affirm on future BNPL options

Paypal Mafia buy now pay later fintech the talk to the town having snagged the biggest e-commerce market in the world.


Certain customers will be able to use an Affirm pay later option at checkout, Amazon said in a press release.

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Chinadigital transformationEmbedded Financeinsurtech
·Jan. 22, 2021

Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance

In this conversation, we talk all things embedded finance, platform banking, and APIs with Simon Torrance – one of the world’s leading thinkers on business model transformation, specializing in platform strategy, breakthrough innovation and digital ventures.

There’s an enormous gap between the financial needs of humanity and what the financial sector is able to deliver there. This gap is being filled by tech-savvy solutions and embedded finance plays which are putting into question the role of a bank in this new ecosystem.

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Fintech
·Jan. 13, 2021

Affirm’s IPO Takes Off Like a Rocket Ship

Consumer lending fintech Affirm (ticker: AFRM) went public on the Nasdaq Wednesday and saw their stock take off. Shares were...
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Fintech Earngins week
Fintech
·Nov. 12, 2021

Q3 Fintech Earnings Week: a Wild Ride

This earnings season started strong but turned uneven this week. Even firms that showed outsized growth saw their stock prices...
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Opinion
·Sep. 7, 2021

August was a big month for buy now pay later: What’s next?

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.

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digital lendinginsurtechInvestingIPO / SPACneobankventure capital
·Aug. 1, 2021

What do SPACs and IPOs say about Coinbase, Robinhood, Lemonade, SoFi, and other fintech darlings?

We look in detail at the state of marking recently-private-fintechs to the public market in mid-2021. Multiple industry segments have seen IPOs, direct listings, and SPACs transition fintech darlings into traditional stocks. How is performance doing? Is everything as magnificent and rich as we expected? Have multiples and valuations fallen or held steady? The analysis explores the answers and provides an explanatory framework.

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Embedded Financemonetization / commercialpaytechventure capital
·Jan. 18, 2021

Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and other fintech companies using systems theory

This week, we look at:

  • Over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation: Checkout.com with $450 million at a $15 billion valuation, Affirm more than doubling after its IPO to $30 billion, lending enabler Blend raising $300 million, and payments enabler Rapyd raising $300 million.

  • A systems theory framework that explains the stocks and flows of goods and services, and what monetization strategies are available to fintechs

  • How transactional models are thriving and creating 50-100x revenue multiples

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big techdigital lendingEmbedded Financepaytech
·Dec. 7, 2020

Who are the customers of Embedded Finance, and what do they reveal about Stripe, Affirm, DriveWealth, and Green Dot?

This week, we look at:

  • Embedded finance as a growing theme with the $10B Affirm IPO and Stripe's launch of Treasury

  • The customer types that each of these firms is attempting to convert into their product, and what this tells us about economic growth

  • A framework for understanding the emerging value chain of digital finance, and the role of platforms and marketplaces

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