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Company update/payments
Klarna, a leading global retail bank, payments, and shopping service that helps consumers save time and money, be informed and in control, today announced it will launch its global rewards programme in the UK.
22 February 2022
Retailers will be able to showcase their latest and best deals directly to Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) shoppers thanks to a new feature introduced to the Zip app.
Company update/startups
Cape Town-based start-up PayJustNow has announced a significant investment by a major fintech player that will drive its ongoing growth in the booming buy now, pay later (BNPL) space.
21 February 2022
ViaBill, the Danish Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) leader backed by international venture capital Headline and Blackfin announces it has raised a $120m equity and debt round led by London-based Fasanara capital.
Klarna, a leading global retail bank, payments and shopping service, today announced that its waitlist for the Klarna Card is now open to all US consumers.
17 February 2022
Trustly, the leading global payments platform for digital account-to-account transactions, is proud to introduce FlexPay by Trustly, a new product that gives consumers the flexibility to defer the settlement date of a debited amount to a date in the future.
News/payments
Siam Commercial Bank has invested $100 million in Indonesian buy now, pay later platform Akulaku.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payment software, today announced ACI PayAfter, a new solution that enables merchants and payment service providers (PSPs) globally to provide their customers with a choice of more than 70 BNPL options through a single integration.
15 February 2022
News/regulation
The Financial Conduct Authority is cracking down on potentially unfair and unclear terms in the contracts of Clearpay, Klarna, Laybuy and Openpay ahead up-and-coming regulation of the UK buy now, pay later market.
14 February 2022
Barclays is calling for more robust regulation of all buy-now-pay-later products as it releases new research which suggests the lack of consistent affordability assessments has led shoppers to take on more debt than they can afford to repay.
News/startups
French buy now, pay later startup Alma has raised €210 million to scale its business across continental Europe.
Australian buy now, pay later outfit Zip has struck a deal with Singapore's Singtel to provide embedded payment instalment services to the 1.3 million users of the telco's Dash mobile wallet.
10 February 2022
Klarna is weighing plans to raise new money in a funding round that could potentially fetch a $50bn-$60bn valuation.
Global information and insights provider TransUnion has announced it is ready to accept buy now, pay later finance into UK consumer credit files, being the first credit reference agency in the UK to do so.
09 February 2022
From today, UK customers using global flight search and booking site, Alternative Airlines, will benefit from additional options to spread the cost of their flights at the time of booking.
07 February 2022
Research/BNPL
07 February 2022 1113 downloads
Square has revealed the initial results of the first iteration of its integration with buy now, pay later provider Afterpay, releasing the functionality to sellers using Square Online for e-commerce in the United States and Australia.
02 February 2022
Company update/people
Kueski, one of the largest buy now, pay later (BNPL) and online consumer lenders in Latin America, today announced the appointment of Krishna Venkatraman as the company's chief data officer.
01 February 2022
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) and Afterpay Limited today announced the successful completion of the Scheme of Arrangement under which Block has acquired all of the issued shares in Afterpay.
Amount, a banking technology provider offering account opening, loan origination and BNPL financing solutions, announced today the acquisition of Linear Financial Technologies (“Linear”), the premier SMB loan and account origination platform.
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