28 August 2026
Affirm Holdings, Inc.
CIK: 1820953•2 Annual Reports•Latest: 2026-08-27
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10-K / August 27, 2026
Revenue:$4,261,082,000
Income:$1,929,793,000
10-K / August 28, 2024
Revenue:$2,322,999,000
Income:-$517,757,000
10-K / August 27, 2026
Affirm
Company overview
- Founded in 2012, Affirm is a digital payments and financing platform focused on offering transparent, consumer-first financial products.
- Mission: deliver honest financial products and reinvent payments and commerce using modern technology, proprietary risk modeling, and transparent terms.
- Business model:
- Merchant-facing: earns revenue primarily from merchant fees for facilitating pay-over-time transactions and for helping merchants convert sales and increase average order value (AOV).
- Consumer-facing: earns interest income on interest-bearing installment loans; also offers 0% APR installments and Pay-in-X options.
- Card and wallet options: issues the Affirm Card (debit) and virtual cards; earns revenue from card transactions through partner issuing banks and shared interchange revenue.
- Core value proposition: a transaction-level risk model that prices risk and underwrites each transaction, with transparent consumer terms (no late fees, no deferred or compounding interest).
Product and platform details
Consumer features
- Affirm at Checkout: pay over time with personalized terms (weeks to years).
- Consumer-first borrowing: individual underwriting for Pay-in-X, 0% APR installments, or interest-bearing loans; no late fees.
- Affirm Card and Affirm Marketplace: card usable online and in-store; pre-purchase installments via the app; virtual card and in-app purchases; access to merchant offers through the Affirm Marketplace.
- Affirm Money Account: FDIC-insured high-yield savings account offered via Cross River Bank.
Merchant features
- Simple integration via direct API or platform partners to add Affirm at checkout.
- Flexible offerings including 0% APR and/or interest-bearing installments.
- Prequalification to improve conversion and personalize offers.
- Brand-sponsored promotions funded by suppliers and merchant dashboards with analytics.
- Participation in the Affirm Marketplace for targeted advertising and offers.
Key business and growth levers
- Deep data and in-house technology: a cloud-first, data-rich platform with machine learning to underwrite, price risk, and detect fraud; scalable to thousands of checkouts per minute.
- Data advantages: uses a broad set of signals (over 1,000 data points per transaction) and a large loan history to refine risk models.
- Network effects: more consumers attract more merchants and vice versa; repeat consumers drive higher efficiency and lower loss rates.
Operational and financial metrics (as of June 30, 2026)
- Active merchants: approximately 571 thousand.
- Employees: approximately 2,358.
- GMV (gross merchandise volume) facilitated in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026: $50.2 billion.
- Product mix of GMV in FY2026:
- Pay-in-X: 16% of GMV.
- 0% APR installment loans: 14% of GMV.
- Interest-bearing monthly installment loans: 70% of GMV.
- (FY2025 comparison: Pay-in-X 14%, 0% APR 13%, interest-bearing 72%.)
- Financing and use metrics:
- Transactions initiated via mobile app, website, or Affirm Card: about 25% of total transactions in FY2026.
- Repeat consumer transactions: 96% of transactions in FY2026 (vs. 94% in FY2025).
- Average transactions per active consumer: about 7.0, up ~20% from 6/30/2025 and ~44% over the two-year period since 6/30/2024.
- Data and loan history:
- Over 1,000 data points used per underwriting decision.
- Data set backing risk models: approximately 553 million loans to date.
Regulatory and privacy context
- Operates across the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia under evolving lending, money transmission, consumer protection, and privacy regimes (including GLBA, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) and subject to oversight by agencies such as the CFPB and other authorities.
- Relies on originating bank partners for underwriting (examples include Celtic Bank and Lead Bank) and must comply with state and provincial lending and licensing requirements; some markets are evaluating BNPL-specific legislation.
- Maintains AML, sanctions, and anti-corruption policies, including an enterprise AML program and FCPA compliance.
