Tagged: flexible payments

March 20, 2023 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) usage continues to grow, but “not all these payment plans are experiencing the same level of customer engagement,” according to an update shared with CI. By the end of 2021, shoppers had “spent more than $20 billion using BNPL, and,… Read More

March 11, 2023 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yapily have agreed to a partnership with payments technology company Zilch that will provide millions of people “with better access to 0% interest swift repayment credit.” The partnership “marks the first time we’ve teamed up with a provider of consumer credit via Buy Now Pay… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AsiaPay, a provider of digital payment solutions in the Asia Pacific, has launched Visa Instalments in Hong Kong and will further extend to Southeast Asia to provide merchants more flexible payment options and enhance the purchase experience of consumers. Leading a new trend in credit… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 8:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kriya Payments is now available in 42 countries. This means buyers worldwide can “take advantage of flexible payment terms, feeling more secure about their cash flow.” General Manager, Martina Trifonova, has commented on the thinking behind the decision was, what the team learned in the… Read More

February 17, 2023 @ 5:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac will soon offer credit card customers the ability “to pay for purchases in four instalments, providing greater control and flexibility.” In the coming months, Westpac credit card customers will be able “to link their existing credit card to a new PartPay digital card, enabling… Read More

February 2, 2023 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WooCommerce B2B stores can now easily add business buy now, pay later options within their eCommerce checkout thanks to the Kriya Payments plug-in. As our planet sets off on another orbit, it is natural for our minds “to gravitate towards a lull of self-reflection on… Read More

January 23, 2023 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Playter, the UK’s provider of B2B Buy-Now-Pay-Later for SMEs, is once again shaking things up in the world of alternative lending, with its newest credit offering, “Paid”. Playter’s mission “to help SMEs release cash flow for growth and investment by offering flexible financing, continues apace… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial services sector has evolved considerably during the past decade, with many new Fintech startups and banking challengers raising substantial funding to fundamentally improve how consumers perform transactions. Individuals and business organizations across the globe have been moving their activities online, a digital transformation… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Splitit Payments Limited (ASX:SPT), which claims to be the only white-label service allowing customers to pay by installments using their existing credit on their payment card at checkout, announced that Splitit and Alipay have formed a partnership “to power the ‘Pay After Delivery’ option for… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ingenico, which claims to be a global leader in payments acceptance solutions, and Klarna, the “leader” in the generational shift away from credit cards, announced a partnership that will facilitate the roll out of Klarna’s flexible payment options “at the point of sale using PPaaS,… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sprinque, Europe’s most flexible B2B payments platform, has raised a €6m seed funding round led by Connect Ventures, “with participation from Kraken Ventures, Inference Partners, and SeedX.” Existing investors Antler, Volta Ventures, and Force Over Mass also contributed to the investment round. Sprinque’s B2B payments… Read More

December 22, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments and API banking solutions company, Cashfree Payments is now offering one of India’s “widest” ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) suite. Cashfree Payments’ BNPL suite will “enable online businesses to provide customers with over 30 flexible financing options during checkout.” The company has “launched its… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NAB Now Pay Later is now live and “available for the 52,000 customers who pre-registered.” In a move to give Australians more control of their money, customers can now “apply for and use the bank’s new instalment payments product in their NAB app.” Customers can… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL firm Zip Co (ASX: ZIP) announced the availability of Zip Card, issued by WebBank, the newest buy now, pay later product “offered through its portfolio.” As consumers look for BNPL options in brick-and-mortar retail, the Zip Card “extends the ‘Pay-in-4*’ functionality offline in a… Read More

August 20, 2022 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sezzle Inc. (ASX: SZL), a key player in the Pay in 4 industry, announced the launch of a new “direct integration” with Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a customer platform that “helps over 100,000 paying users maximize revenue, increase repeat sales, and improve retention with personalized emails… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Splitit (ASX: SPT) announced Telispire, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), has “selected to integrate Splitit’s Installments-as-a-Service into its PHOENIX back office and billing system allowing Telispire’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers to offer installment payments to its subscribers… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL Fintech Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) CEO Max Levchin recently noted that the next recession could silence Fintech lender’s doubters or critics. With shares of the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Fintech down over 75% from November 2021, Max Levchin said the company’s innovative lending models… Read More

August 8, 2022 @ 11:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since 2020, and the recent global pandemic, digital commerce has seen “exceptional growth,” according to an update from Juniper Research. Although the impact of COVID-19 certainly forced an increase in online shopping and eCommerce usage, it is clear that it is “a continuing trend,” the… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, recently announced its ability “to increase its app releases by 300%, thanks to its ongoing work with mobile devops company Bitrise.” Since 2019, Affirm has been “working with Bitrise to automate… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 7:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Razer Merchant Services (RMS), the B2B arm of Razer Fintech, has partnered with Atome, which claims to be Asia’s leading Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) brand, to “enable flexible deferred payment acceptance during checkout at online and offline RMS merchants.” Starbucks is among the first… Read More