The Latest Breaking News from BNPL

Companies like Klarna and Afterpay can enable bad spending habits, tank your credit, and lack the consumer protections of genuine credit lenders.

Klarna said it will protect customers and provide the industry with greater visibility of BNPL use, helping to improve affordability assessments.

Move by Swedish firm, the UK’s leading buy now, pay later company, will begin on 1 June

If a farmer needs to buy cattle or grain, should they be approved for huge loans within 48 hours? The buy now, pay later industry moves in on farmers who could take advantage of six to 12-month loans.

Australians are seeking out buy now, pay later options to cover daily essentials at an alarming rate, as more people struggle to survive.

Finance experts are concerned about the expansion of buy now pay later platforms into everyday shopping as supermarkets and petrol stations open their arms.

The BNPL industry has gained traction lately owing to consumers' growing preference for deferred payment of online purchases. Furthermore, rising investments by prominent industry leaders have been driving the BNPL market’s growth. So, Wall Street analysts expect fundamentally strong BNPL stocks PayPal (PYPL), Block (SQ), and Affirm (AFRM) to deliver…

First UK high street bank moves into lucrative yet unregulated payment sector

The bank said it would put safeguards in place to help make sure lending is affordable

A global alliance of consumer groups is calling for regulation of the buy-now, pay-later industry amid warnings that more customers will end up in a debt spiral as the cost of living goes up.

As Klarna promises greater convenience and flexibility with its latest offering, Saman Javed speaks to its users about the dangers of buy now, pay later services