Affirm said on Wednesday it’s cutting 19% of staff and shuttering businesses including its crypto service, blaming slower consumer spending and rising costs of funding its installment loans. The company’s gross merchandise volume, which measures total customer transactions, came in at $5.66 billion in the quarter ended in Dec. 31, below the $5.73 billion to $5.83 billion the company had...
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