Affirm has dominated the market when it comes to point of sale finance at a time when consumers are increasingly...
Last year we saw continued interest in a broad array of fintech companies. Recently the fintech space has become more...
At the CB Insights conference last week Max Levchin, the CEO and Co-founder of Affirm, talked about the status of...
Affirm, the leader in point of sale financing for consumers, announced today that it is spinning out a new business...
Big banks like Citi and JPMorgan Chase are trying to beat fintechs at their own game with launches of new...
Over the past decade we’ve seen consumers warming up to buying everything with multiple payments. It is a phenomenon that...
Finance is everywhere, and everywhere is finance. Smart city supply chains, self driving car insurance, video game real estate markets -- no matter which frontier technology you touch, it will have embedded implications on the delivery of financial services. And why wouldn't it? Like the use of language, finance is a human technology that allows societies to coalesce and compete with one another (in the Yuval Harari sense). It lifts people out of poverty and into entrepreneurship through microloans, providing generational sustenance for their families. And of course it also throws them into pits of corruption and greed, as they drink too deeply from the rivers of securitization and political power.
But enough poetry! I want to talk about augmented reality, attention platforms, and the re-formulation of payments and lending propositions in a global context.
CNBC has released their 7th annual version of the CNBC Disrupter 50 which consists of startups who have exploited niches...
The Series F round values the company at $2.9 billion post money according to Axios; participating investors include Thrive, Fidelity,...
Leading point of sale financing firm Affirm recently partnered with Walmart and the nation’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, just released...