Tagged: bnpl

December 9, 2024 @ 11:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Data from BNPL provider Clearpay and Square have released data showing significant rises in some important Black Friday shopping metrics in the United Kingdom. Total transactions rose 25%, in-person transactions surged 30% and online buys inched up 5%. Nov. 29 at precisely 8:02 a.m. was… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JD Sports, the retailer of sports, fashion, and outdoor brands, has partnered with Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, to offer a flexible way to pay. This partnership brings Affirm’s pay-over-time options to shoppers purchasing brands such… Read More

November 26, 2024 @ 10:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant,  reported its financial results for the first nine months of 2024, achieving net income of SEK 216 million in Q3, up 57% YoY. Klarna noted that this marks the Fintech firm’s second profitable quarter, as the… Read More

November 25, 2024 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant,  announced a global agreement with the technology solutions provider Lenovo. Consumers in 15 European countries are now able to pay for their tech purchases at Lenovo.com using Klarna’s flexible payment methods, including its popular interest-free Buy… Read More

November 21, 2024 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and Priceline, a key player focused on online travel, today announced an expanded partnership. Via their collaboration, Affirm is the pay-over-time provider for Priceline’s B2B business, Priceline Partner Solutions. Priceline Partner… Read More

November 13, 2024 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish payments Fintech Klarna revealed recently that it had confidentially filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO). The number of company shares to be offered as well as the price range for the proposed IPO have… Read More

November 11, 2024 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, and John Lewis & Partners have partnered to bring Klarna to JohnLewis.com and the John Lewis app. John Lewis’ customers can now choose to check out with Klarna’s interest-free Pay in 3 product enabling shoppers… Read More

November 1, 2024 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, unveiled updates to the Affirm app. The “redesigned’ experience shows consumers their real-time purchasing power with Affirm, offers an upgraded search function, and provides access to personalized “payment terms and interest-free… Read More

November 1, 2024 @ 7:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), a card issuing platform that enables embedded finance solutions, this week unveiled its Marqeta Flex solution. Marqeta Flex addresses the way BNPL loans can be delivered inside payment apps and wallets, surfacing them at the moment of need within an existing payment… Read More

October 25, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers are not holding back on holiday spending this year – but they are taking a “more deliberate approach” to the purchases they make, according to  research from Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth. The research study,… Read More

October 24, 2024 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL or Buy Now Pay Later is said to have saved UK consumers half a billion pounds in credit card interest over a decade, according to an update from Klarna which claims it is now marking 10 years of savings. Klarna, the AI-powered global payments… Read More

October 19, 2024 @ 4:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Financial Technology Association (FTA) this week spoke out against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final interpretive rule on BNPL products. FTA president and CEO Penny Lee said the two organizations share the goal of consumer health. However, the CFPB’s results are inadequate. “Millions… Read More

October 18, 2024 @ 8:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has issued a statement in recognition of ten years of Apple Pay. In many respects Apple is one of the largest Fintechs in the world due to its global reach and ubiquitous nature of its products – most importantly the iPhone. Apple  reported… Read More

October 18, 2024 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of funds advised by Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited for the on-going sale of “substantially all” of Klarna’s short-term, interest free product receivables in the United Kingdom. Klarna will still… Read More

October 14, 2024 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, an AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has released data on its launch of cashback. In the six weeks since launch: 506,378 Klarna shoppers have earned $2.7m dollars in cashback. Klarna merchants have given cashback on $98.4m worth of sales. Over 1,000 cashback… Read More

October 3, 2024 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has unveiled “Apple from Klarna”, a storefront in the Klarna app and Klarna.com where customers are reportedly able to purchase Apple products via its flexible payment options. An official Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reseller, Klarna also introduces a… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Building on the multimarket partnership to enable flexible payments adoption in the region, Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and ZOOD, one of the digital lending platforms for e-commerce in the Middle East and Central Asia, has introduced a BNPL card – ZOOD Card – in Uzbekistan. The… Read More

September 29, 2024 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qist Bazaar, Pakistan’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) fintech startup, announced that it has secured $3.2 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Indus Valley Capital, with “participation from Gobi Partners, a prominent Asia-focused venture capital firm with $1.6 billion… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network, and shopping assistant, will launch its flexible payment methods on Adyen’s (ADYEN:AMS) physical payment terminals across Europe, North America, and Australia. Adyen, which claims to be the financial technology platform of choice for businesses, is the first global PSP to… Read More

September 25, 2024 @ 7:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, is working with global small business platform Xero, to help small businesses accept payments from consumers wanting a ‘buy now, pay later’ option. For Xero’s customers, offering Klarna’s alternatives to traditional credit “means they can get… Read More