Welcome to the Vested Finance podcast! In this session, we will be discussing numerous topics: Banks and non-banks, Affirm's IPO, as well as Ant Group's failed IPO. Several of the topics discussed in this podcast are covered in our blog post (see link below). Date uploaded: Wednesday, 9th December 2020 Co-hosts: Darwin Arifin & Kaihan Lin Show Notes: (0:38) More on company IPOs! (2:27) Starbucks and Role #1: Taking deposits (3:33) Affirm: The gist of things (3:54) Affirm and Role #2: Lending (6:35) Affirm's 3 shareholders (7:17) Going public equates to doing well, no? (8:31) And on to Ant Group... (10:58) Ant: Distancing itself from the banks (11:40) Collision course (13:20) Food For Thought: Avoiding the government's wrath (13:41) Will Ant IPO? Click here to access Vested's blog post on The Roles of Banks, the Rise of Non-Banks, Affirm's IPO, and Ant's Failed IPO. Blog: https://vested.co.in/blog/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vestedfinanceco/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestedfinance/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/vested-finance/ Website: https://www.vested.co.in/