Tagged: flexible payments

December 11, 2024 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wayne Pommen, Affirm’s (NASDAQ: AFRM) Chief Revenue Officer, noted that the holiday shopping season is here and for retailers, it’s “make-or-break time.” Pommen also mentioned in a blog post by Affirm that despite recent inflation and economic uncertainty, retail spending is expected to “stay strong.”… Read More

October 2, 2024 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indeed Flex, the temporary staffing platform providing flexible work and efficient staffing solutions, has partnered with workforce payments platform Branch to offer Same Day Pay. This tool enables Flexers to access as much as 50% of their earnings within an hour following a shift. As… 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

June 17, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DNA Payments is bringing more flexible payment options to the payments space, being one of the first to market in the UK by launching Open Banking for its axept PRO payment terminals, offering merchants even more ways for their customers to pay. The introduction of… Read More

March 3, 2024 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Although the rapid rise of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services has been accompanied by a growing chorus of concern about runaway consumer debt, the customers who are using these services are growing “increasingly satisfied with their experiences.” According to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S…. Read More

December 26, 2023 @ 11:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, today announced it has expanded its services with Walmart in order to “bring Affirm’s transparent and flexible pay-over-time options to self-checkout kiosks at over 4,500 Walmart stores in the United States.”… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced their flexible and transparent payment options will be “offered to consumers and merchants that use Google Pay for online checkout in the U.S.” Beginning in Q1 2024, Affirm will be “available… Read More

December 12, 2023 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airbnb and Klarna have joined forces to launch Pay Over Time with Klarna, which is described as being a new way for guests in the UK to spread the cost of their reservation. The launch is part of a phased global roll-out which “will see… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rokt, the ecommerce technology company using machine learning and AI to make transactions more relevant to each shopper, announced its partnership with Afterpay, one of the global leaders in “Buy Now, Pay Later” payment. The partnership enables Afterpay to offer its ecommerce shoppers “highly relevant… Read More

November 7, 2023 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping service assistance provider, reported its latest financial results revealing “a net profit in Q3 2023.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna said: “With a profitable quarter and continuous double digit growth, we have achieved exactly what we set… Read More

November 3, 2023 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Americans are shopping earlier than ever before and leveraging flexible payments to manage their expenses during the holiday season according to newly released research from leading financial services company Zip Co (ASX: ZIP). The survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults revealed “that 57% of… Read More

November 2, 2023 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, released new data revealing shoppers’ priorities this holiday season. While consumers face continued economic uncertainty, the survey of 2,000 gen pop Americans revealed “they are still planning to spend: 3 in… Read More

October 23, 2023 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been several years since financial services upstarts reimagined buy now pay later (BNPL) as a point-of-sale (POS) payment method. Since then, this once-obscure way of transacting has “been placed front and center at the checkout by merchants worldwide, and 28% of U.S. consumers now… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is partnering with players across the ecosystem, including Worldpay from FIS, the merchant solutions business of global financial services technology provider FIS, and Zip, a buy now, pay later firm, “to scale new open banking-powered solutions that enable more payment choice, empower… Read More

October 18, 2023 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform enabling some of the world’s most innovative embedded finance solutions, today announced a new partnership with Scalapay, Southern Europe’s BNPL provider, “to leverage Marqeta’s platform to issue cards both online and in-store.” Marqeta and Scalapay have… Read More

October 4, 2023 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hastee claims that it is disrupting a rigid monthly pay cycle that’s no longer “fit for purpose” by giving employees early access to part of their earned pay. This ensures employees can cove themselves “for financial emergencies without the risk of borrowing funds they may… Read More

October 1, 2023 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network, announced the launch of several new products and services aimed to promote circularity and encourage smart shopping. With these updates, Klarna continues to evolve beyond payments “to become a starting point for every purchase for 150 million consumers… Read More

September 27, 2023 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently sat down with Vishal Kapoor, Head of Product at Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), a payment network that helps millions of consumers spend and save “responsibly” and empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses with the tools to fuel growth. In his role, Vishal leads the… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 9:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Businesses in the UK can now give their trade customers up to 12 months to pay for products or services, with a new feature of iwoca‘s integrated B2B payments solution iwocaPay. Building on a 3 month offering, iwocaPay has now “added a second option allowing… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Episode Six (E6), a global provider of enterprise-grade payment processing and ledger infrastructure, announced the launch of Business Now, Pay Later. This solution enables commercial banks “to capture new revenue streams by meeting the working capital needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through tailored… Read More