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Re:Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans by boling11 on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:08AM (#9503528)
There are a couple of companies trying to do this right now. Digit just raised 11mm to do something similar. Acorns does something similar with investing. It is definitely a hard business to be in though, at the end of the day someone does have to pay for it for these things to work - be it users, merchants, or businesses.
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Re:Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans by bbcbasic on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @07:14PM (#9542595)
Just had a thought maybe pension/superannuation companies, who have a vested interest in you saving more. Also mortgage companies, who could help you save for a deposit on a house (and therefore take out a mortgage).

Of course mortgage is debt but it is backed by an asset, usually comes with an excellent interest rate that is very close to zero or negative in "real terms".

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