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Alt-Credit Apps Ride The ‘BNPL’ Wave
Alt-Credit Apps Ride The ‘BNPL’ Wave
March 10, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Peer-to-peer (P2P) instant money apps and real-time payments (RTP) are the most exciting developments in getting paid in decades, and alternative credit is having the...

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StubHub Taps Affirm For Buy Now, Pay Later Offering
StubHub Taps Affirm For Buy Now, Pay Later Offering
January 21, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Customers will be able to purchase tickets for live entertainment with greater flexibility as alternative payment company Affirm and ticket vendor StubHub announced a partnership...

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The Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In 2019
The Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In 2019
December 23, 2019  |  Monday Meetup

Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Except as it turned out, due to the...

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Inside Affirm’s ID Verification And Fraud Prevention Techniques
Inside Affirm’s ID Verification And Fraud Prevention Techniques
November 06, 2019  |  Authentication

Stringent ID verification is crucial for online lenders to prevent fraudsters from using stolen identities to rip them off. This means lenders must utilize hard-to-falsify...

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Top News In Payments: Flywire Names President, COO; Uber Beats Q3 Estimates
Top News In Payments: Flywire Names President, COO; Uber Beats Q3 Estimates
November 05, 2019  |  News

In today’s top payments news, Flywire appointed Rob Orgel to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Also, Uber’s Q3 results beat...

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The Science Behind Affirm’s Identity Data Play
The Science Behind Affirm’s Identity Data Play
November 05, 2019  |  Authentication

Digital identities are gaining popularity across industries as businesses, services and other operations increasingly move online. Consumers are normalizing the use of digital identifiers, such...

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News
Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News
October 11, 2019  |  News

It’s never quite a slow week in the world of payments and commerce, and the newest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender is proof of that....

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Top News In Payments: Affirm Rolls Out New App; EU Has Questions For Facebook, Libra Association
Top News In Payments: Affirm Rolls Out New App; EU Has Questions For Facebook, Libra...
October 08, 2019  |  News

Today in the payments news roundup, Affirm has launched a new app that will let customers use the service to pay almost anywhere online or in the real world....

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Max Levchin On The Future-Present Of Everywhere POS Lending
Max Levchin On The Future-Present Of Everywhere POS Lending
October 08, 2019  |  POS Innovation

When Affirm launched in February 2013, the point-of-sale (POS) financing marketplace in the U.S. was largely an empty greenfield wherein PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin set...

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