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News/payments
New Zealand-based buy now, pay later outfit Laybuy has successfully undertaken a capital raise for A$35m to further its push into the UK market.
19 May 2021
American Express is making a move into a new frontier for the buy now, pay later movement, offering US consumer card members the option to pay for plane flights in instalments.
17 May 2021
Fiserv is joining forces with PayBright to let small businesses in Canada that use the Clover POS platform offer buy now, pay later plans at checkout.
12 May 2021
News/people
Swedish buy now, pay later giant Klarna has opened a new headquarter office in London and larger premises in Manchester as it prepares to double its UK headcount to 400 staff over the next year.
05 May 2021
Barclays has identified payments as a key growth opportunity worth £900 million over three years thank to areas such as merchant acquiring and the BNPL market.
30 April 2021
Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay is contemplating a US listing following strong growth in North American markets.
22 April 2021
News/startups
Checkout.com has led a $110 million investment round in Saudi Arabian buy now, pay later startup Tamara.
Russian consumers are to get their first taste of the buy now, pay later phenomenon sweeping neighbouring European markets, courtesy of a new product from digital bank Tinkoff.
A study of the terms & condition of popular buy now, pay later apps finds that they can take up to an hour to read, with important information about financial risks buried in the documents.
21 April 2021
News/sustainable
Buy now, pay later giant Klarna is to provide shoppers with carbon footprint calculation tools from Mastercard-backed Doconomy to measure the emissions generated by their purchases.
20 April 2021
The buy now, pay later sector continues to attract investor dollars, with two-year old UK player Zilch the latest to benefit, raising $80 million at a valuation of $500 million.
19 April 2021
UK-based buy now, pay later player Zilch is rolling out a 'tap and pay-over-time' feature that lets shoppers make in-store payments with a wave of their digital wallet, with the cost spread over a six week period.
08 April 2021
Japanese buy now, pay later (BNPL) outfit Paidy has raised US$120 million in a Series D funding round.
01 April 2021
Australian BNPL giant Afterpay is stepping up its assault on in-store payments through the introduction of a contactless virtual card offering.
30 March 2021
UK-based buy now, pay later provider Butter has closed a £15.8m funding round to help it take on the likes of AfterPay and Klarna in its home market.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has waded into the competitive buy now, pay later market, competing with local juggernaught Afterpay, and Klarna, in which it has invested $350 million.
17 March 2021
AIM-listed digital payments business ThinkSmart is reporting a 237% uplift in trading performance for the first half as it realises the value of its remaining ten percent holding in buy now, pay later firm ClearPay.
04 March 2021
Global payment platform Apexx is to offer merchants a choice of multiple buy now, pay later options from disparate players via a new Agreggatior product.
03 March 2021
Max Levchin's BNPL outfit Affirm is launching a debit card that lets users pay for purchases over time.
26 February 2021
Buy now, pay later schemes are expected to account for 10 percent of all UK e-commerce sales by 2024, according to data compiled by Worldpay.
24 February 2021
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