Tagged: bnpl

August 4, 2025 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish BNPL Fintech Klarna is reportedly gearing up to relaunch its initial public offering (IPO) this autumn, following a pause earlier this year. Sources cited by Sky News indicate that the company and its advisors are targeting a September or October listing, provided market conditions… Read More

August 3, 2025 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced a continued improvement in repayment performance among its extensive consumer base of 100 million. A significant number of transactions were reportedly repaid “on time or early, across both higher and lower-value purchases, as consumers turn… Read More

July 27, 2025 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant move to enhance consumer payments options, BNPL Fintech Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM), a payment network focused on transparency and flexibility, has announced strategic partnerships with Xsolla and Shopmonkey. These collaborations aim to integrate Affirm’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions into… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL Fintech Klarna has been making strides this year to solidify its position as a key player in the flexible payments while streamlining digital commerce. With over 100 million active users and 720,000 retail partners across 26 countries, Klarna continues to enable product development, forging… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 1:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL Fintech Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM) continues to announced key update that aim to expand its services while enhancing customers’ payment experience. With a user base of 22 million and $28 billion in annual payment processing as of 2025, Affirm claims that it is… Read More

July 21, 2025 @ 8:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services have emerged as a popular method for consumers to access credit. Typically offered at the point of sale, BNPL providers can offer immediate credit, frequently at a lower interest rate than traditional credit cards. While providing a good service… Read More

July 7, 2025 @ 3:48 am By Michael Wong  |  

Contact Creditech, the digital consumer finance arm of Contact Financial Holding, has entered into a strategic partnership with Kashier, an online payment gateway in Egypt and the Middle East, to integrate Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services from the ContactNow app into Kashier’s payment system…. Read More

July 4, 2025 @ 9:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced a strategic partnership with Bolt—the checkout, identity, and payments platform—to integrate Klarna’s flexible payment options directly into Bolt’s CheckoutOS. With customers increasingly seeking flexible payment solutions tailored to their needs, this integration empowers merchants to… Read More

June 26, 2025 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and commerce network,  announced $1.25M in fresh funding for 18 ‘moonshot’ climate projects for 2025 in a further rejection of the traditional ‘carbon offsetting’ model. The latest funding takes Klarna’s total contribution “in climate projects to $8.4 million over… Read More

June 25, 2025 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant shift for the consumer credit landscape, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), the company behind the widely used FICO credit score, announced that it will incorporate Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) loan data into its credit scoring model. This move, reported by The Wall… Read More

June 24, 2025 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and the Moore Specialty Credit (MSC) Platform, the Private Asset Backed Finance (ABF) platform of Moore Capital Management, LP, a global private investment management firm, today announced an extension of their… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 5:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, is now available as a payment option  on Google Pay. Shoppers can use Klarna’s flexible payment options “online on select Android apps and websites that offer Google Pay at checkout.” By joining forces with one of… Read More

June 20, 2025 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (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 $862 billion in assets under management, announced the expansion of their… Read More

June 19, 2025 @ 12:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, is entering the mobile market with an unlimited phone plan, paired with Klarna’s signature seamless experience directly in the Klarna app. Klarna’s unlimited mobile plan launches “first in the U.S. in the coming weeks (join the… Read More

June 16, 2025 @ 12:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered payments and commerce network, launched an AI-powered CEO hotline, enabling its 100 million global consumers to provide direct product feedback in a one-to-one conversation with an interactive AI avatar trained on Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski’s real voice, insights and experiences. Initially rolling… Read More

June 13, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS), a U.S. based full-line omni-channel sporting goods retailer, and Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced an extension of their partnership, which originally began in 2020. Eligible DICK’S and Golf Galaxy shoppers… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 3:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report concisely describes how fraud has evolved over the past two years. First-party fraud, for one, surged in 2024, with BNPL and financial services companies popular targets. Fraudsters’ attack modes are also changing. In 2023, the top three types were… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KAYAK, the world’s travel search engine, and Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, today announced the expansion of their exclusive partnership into Canada. This builds on the companies’ collaboration in the U.S., which has empowered consumers “to… Read More

May 20, 2025 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments and commerce network, announced its Q1 2025 results, unveiling consumer milestones, surging market traction, and exceptional returns from its AI strategy. Klarna is a Fintech that is widely expected to list its shares in an initial public offering (IPO) later… Read More

May 17, 2025 @ 11:01 am By Michael Wong  |  

BillEase, a digital consumer finance platform in the Philippines, has partnered with Maya Business, the country’s largest digital payments processor, to bring its Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service to Maya’s ecosystem. The integration enables installment-based payments at checkout via QRPh-enabled point-of-sale (POS) terminals and… Read More