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SoFi (SOFI) Q1 revenue beats, profit doubles, but unchanged 2026 guidance sinks stock 15%
SoFi Technologies reported record Q1 revenue of $1.10 billion and net income of $166.7 million, its tenth straight profitable quarter. The stock fell 15 per cent on the day after management left full-year guidance unchanged.
Affirm Q3 revenue rises 33% to $1.04bn, EPS beats by $0.13
Affirm Holdings reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $1.039 billion, beating analyst estimates by more than 4 per cent, as GMV rose 35 per cent to $11.6 billion. Diluted EPS of $0.30 topped the $0.17 consensus and the stock rose 1.29 per cent after hours.
Block Q1 beats by $0.17, raises FY26 gross profit outlook to $12.33B
Block reported Q1 adjusted EPS of $0.85, beating consensus by $0.17, as gross profit rose 26% to $2.91B. The company raised its full-year 2026 gross profit outlook to $12.33B, sending shares up 9.8% in after-hours trading.
Robinhood bets prediction markets can fill crypto revenue gap
Robinhood is positioning its prediction markets subsidiary as the next growth engine after crypto transaction revenue fell 47 per cent year over year in the first quarter, betting its 27.4m funded customer base can outscale dedicated platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.
Visa Q2 revenue jumps 17% to $11.23bn, strongest growth since 2022
Visa reported Q2 revenue of $11.23bn, up 17% year over year and $480m above consensus, its strongest top-line growth since 2022. Adjusted EPS of $3.31 beat by $0.22. The company raised full-year guidance and authorized a $20bn buyback, sending shares higher after hours.
BofA taps UBS tech dealmaker Hardegree as M&A vice chair
Bank of America has hired veteran technology banker Richard Hardegree from UBS as a vice chair of M&A, an internal memo shows, adding more than three decades of semiconductor dealmaking experience as global transaction volumes surge past $2 trillion in 2026.
Mastercard ties up with Yellow Card to push stablecoin rails across EEMEA, opens with five-country pilot
Mastercard signed a partnership on Wednesday with African crypto-payments operator Yellow Card to roll out dollar-stablecoin payment infrastructure across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with pilots in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and the UAE.
Eli Lilly prices $9bn eight-tranche bond, biggest-ever sale to fund $13bn M&A push
Eli Lilly priced $9bn of investment-grade bonds across eight tranches on Wednesday, its largest-ever debt sale, to fund the Centessa and Kelonia acquisitions. The 40-year tranche tightened 33 basis points from initial price talk to 80bp over Treasuries.
Wall Street banks plan final push to ease capital charges before November vote
Bank Policy Institute and Financial Services Forum push Fed, OCC and FDIC for two more concessions on the G-SIB surcharge and undrawn credit-line capital, hoping to lock in further Basel III endgame relief before November midterms.
