Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and PGIM Fixed Income, a Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) company and one of the largest global fixed income managers with $859 billion in assets under management, today announced that PGIM Fixed Income has completed an inaugural private purchase of $500 million in Affirm loans.

The transaction deepens Affirm's partnership with PGIM Fixed Income, which manages a leading asset-based finance ("ABF") platform and more than $120 billion in assets under management across public and private securitized credit*. Previously, PGIM Fixed Income invested in Affirm's assets via the company's public asset-backed securitizations. As a scaled and programmatic issuer, Affirm has issued 21 asset-backed securitizations totaling nearly $10 billion with participation from over 130 unique capital partners across institution types, including: alternative asset managers, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and banks.