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Affirm Holdings Becomes 2nd Company This Weekend To Delay Initial Public Offering
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 1:48pm | 376Read More...Affirm Holdings Inc. has become the latest company to put off its IPO until the next year. What Happened: The Wall Street Journal reported that the fintech startup has decided to postpone its IPO until next year — January at the earliest — according to a source familiar with...
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6 IPOs To Watch In December: Airbnb, DoorDash And More
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 1:01pm | 1270Read More...The 2020 IPO market could end with a big bang, with several high-profile names scheduled to offer shares during December. Other companies have not confirmed dates, but could try to complete IPOs before the end of the year. Affirm: Fintech company Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) filed for an IPO...
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Fintech Focus For November 20, 2020
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 7:41pm | 2302Read More...Quote Of The Day: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball Fintech Movers: Cashless payments were on the rise before the pandemic hit, and now, eight months into its grip on the U.S., their use is...
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Fintech Focus For October 9, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 7:04pm | 2287Read More...Quote Of The Day: The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Electronic trading giant Citadel Securities will bolster its already huge presence at the New York Stock Exchange by buying the NYSE market-making business of smaller...
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Will This Recession Lead to Another Fintech Boom?
Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 11:42am | 1752Read More...The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. The biggest silver lining in periods of economic turmoil—such that we are in right now, despite what the stock market may tell you...
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Fintech Focus For September 1, 2020
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 6:51pm | 2023Read More...Quote Of The Day: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau Fintech Movers: If it were to continue compounding at that rate, bitcoin’s daily volume would exceed that of the US equity market in fewer than 4 years. - Ark Trading...
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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...
