SoFi aims to become the Amazon of fintech through its Spac deal

SoFi had plenty of options, so its choice of a Spac validates that structure for listing and raising capital. Can it now challenge the biggest US banks?

Equity investors in Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH) Holdings Corporate V, the special purpose acquisition company (Spac) sponsored by Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist who made his name at Facebook and took Virgin Galactic public through another Spac last year, love his latest deal.

On January 7 it announced a merger agreement with SoFi, the fast-growing fintech that has transformed itself in the last three years from a provider of student loan refinancing funded from warehouse lines for securitization into a full-product challenger to US banks.

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