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A community to discuss the future of BNPL and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.
Apple has set the cat amongst the pigeons by announcing its foray into Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). In an earlier whitepaper, we had taken a view that BNPL is not viable as a standalone product and is m...
Buy Now, Pay Later is a rapidly growing trend in a number of market sectors, including retail, entertainment and travel. During the COVID-19 pandemic, use of the payment scheme increased fourfold in t...
After gaining momentum during the 2020 lockdown, the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) market continues to expand at speed and has become a regular feature at online checkouts. 2 in 5 adults now use BNPL opti...
There has been a lot of news recently around Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), such as Apple’s announcement of a BNPL solution, Revolut rolling out its ‘Pay Later’ product in Ireland, as well as proposed regu...
As the tourism industry finally begins to make a full recovery from COVID-19 and its resulting travel restrictions, there have recently been fresh worries that sanctions brought on by the conflict in ...
In my blog "Buy Now Pay Later - A credit in disguise? (https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/20660/buy-now-pay-later---a-credit-in-disguise) I raised already some concerns about the Buy Now Pay L...
In the last few years investors have become enamored with, and clamored over themselves to invest in, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) companies. And you can certainly understand why. According to research an...
In 2020, the value of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) transactions reached £6.4 billion (a 60-70% growth on the previous year). BNPL offerings appeal to both merchants and shoppers so this growth is expecte...
Over the past 3 to 4 years, we have seen the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) segment grow exponentially. But, typical to most growing businesses, this segment is also facing some challenges like: - a. Increa...
Paying for goods on the installment plan is hardly a new payment scheme, but it has resurfaced in response to increased consumer interest. “Buy now, pay later” gives consumers greater control over how...
With the number of online purchases using BNPL services growing at a rate of 39% per year, more and more lenders are starting to become concerned with high BNPL usage, and how that data will be includ...
It seems ironic that Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) offerings are considered a touchstone of customer-centricity in today’s highly sophisticated payments sector. In-store credit has been present across B2C ...