Tag: Affirm

Affirm has expanded its relationship with Amazon to the Canadian market to boost payment flexibility.

Payments network Affirm and FinTech Verifone have entered into a partnership that will make Affirm’s flexible payment options widely available on Verifone’s eCommerce and card-present payment solutions.

Bitcoin company NYDIG, which describes itself as a gateway to a new era of financial products, has secured $1bn in funding that will value...

Global retail giant Amazon has partnered with buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Affirm to provide its US customers with a BNPL option at the checkout.

Buy-now-pay-later boom contributes to growth as companies in the area raise four out of the ten largest deals in H1

The BNPL market has seen a financial boon in recent years, creating market leading behemoths like Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay – who are all recording strong growth on the back of clear market demand. Could a growing call for regulation in the sector change this?

US PayTech Resolve has raised $60m in funding to expand its embedded billing platform for business-to-business (B2B) companies.

B2B payments FinTech Balance has secured $5.5m in seed capital from Stripe, Tal Morgenstern of Lightspeed, and Max Levchin through his SciFi VC.

The buy now pay later sector may have had its best year ever in 2020, but now the UK’s top financial watchdog is calling for stricter rules “to protect consumers”.

Klarna was briefly Europe’s highest valued FinTech in 2020 and while the FinTech company has helped shape buy now and pay later services, there are many more gaining a lot of traction.