At a time when investors are increasingly risk averse, it is important that buy now, pay later (BNPL) firms — and FinTechs more generally — reevaluate their business strategies. Investors are prioritizing present profits over rapid growth, so companies need to pivot toward a model...
After years of easy money and rapid growth, the FinTech bubble burst in 2022 amid economic challenges. A new monthly report takes a deep dive into FinTechs’ sometimes painful pivot to profitability, starting with BNPL.
After a record-breaking year in 2021, the FinTech industry experienced a significant downturn in 2022. High inflation, market volatility and recession fears caused investors to shift their focus from companies’ growth potential to their current profitability; a metric many FinTechs struggle with. Consequently, once abundant...
Mondu has launched its B2B payment solutions in the United Kingdom. U.K. businesses can now use Mondu’s B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering both within the country and in cross-selling with businesses in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France, Mondu said in a Wednesday...
Splitit has launched an Installments-as-a-Service integration with the SAP Commerce Cloud. The Splitit Checkout Plugin joins other SAP-validated solutions on the available on the SAP Store online marketplace, Splitit said in a Thursday (March 23) press release. “Our first white-label plug-in for SAP Commerce Cloud...
Complications run rampant in B2B payments, with small businesses especially struggling to overcome payment delays, cash management challenges and a host of other issues. While large businesses can deploy tremendous resources and extensive accounts payable (AP) teams to brute-force their way through these obstacles, small-...
Billie and Mollie have partnered to offer B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) across Europe. With this partnership, Billie’s B2B BNPL solutions have been integrated into Mollie’s payments application programming interface (API), the companies said in a Wednesday (March 22) press release emailed to PYMNTS....
What happens when businesses need expensive supplies but have difficulty purchasing them upfront? Neha Raghava of equipment supplier Bryant Dental explains how B2B BNPL can help businesses buy them so that suppliers don’t have to wait for the proverbial check in the mail.
The exploding use of buy now, pay later (BNPL) needs to have some oversight governing that growth, Omri Flicker, chief legal and risk officer at Splitit, told PYMNTS. The conversation came against a backdrop in which the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) found many BNPL...