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Fintech Startup Affirm Plans To Go Public This Year At Up To $10B Valuation: WSJ
Thursday, July 30, 2020 - 11:15pm | 397Read More...Financial technology startup Affirm Inc. is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) to prepare for an initial public offering by the end of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. What Happened The groundwork for taking the point-of-sale lender public...
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Shopify To Begin Offering Affirm-Powered Installment Plans To Customers Later This Year
Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 4:25am | 376Read More...Financial technology services company Affirm will power installment plans on Shopify Inc’s (NYSE: SHOP) e-commerce platform, it announced Wednesday. What Happened Affirm’s "buy now, pay later" financing plan would be available for eligible Shopify merchants later in 2020...
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9 San Francisco Fintechs Poised To Shine At The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 9:19am | 780Read More...The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards — a day of dealmaking, networking and recognition in the financial technology space — takes places Nov. 10. In recognition of those disruptive innovators creating positive and diverse change within the financial services...
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Video: How Data Science Is Changing The Future Of Financial Decision Making
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 4:45pm | 343Read More...By Claire Bendig With technological growth comes limitless data sources. The question is: how can massive amounts of data aid the flow of business? Jacob Sorensen, CIO at Bank of the West, named three key factors in how businesses manage data during a panel discussion at the Benzinga Fintech Summit...
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Affirm: The San Francisco Startup Using Fintech To Simplify Lending
Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 3:42pm | 947Read More...Rob Pfeifer, chief risk officer at the San Francisco fintech startup Affirm, remembers the moment the company began lending: 7:57 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2014. Since going live, Affirm has made more than 1 million loans totaling more than $1 billion. "That's when we flipped the switch. We've...
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6 People You Need To Know In Fintech
Friday, October 7, 2016 - 10:05am | 603Read More...Banking Disrupted, a Fintech conference held in Silicon Valley earlier last month, highlighted some of the brightest up and coming minds working to change the financial industry. Banks, VCs and startups were all in attendance to discuss the future of banking and how fintech startups are disrupting...
