March 08, 2021
Digital Intermediaries Threaten The Payments Status Quo
March 19 will mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. lockdown in the face of the global pandemic. Since then, the payments and commerce headlines have been mostly about one...
February 26, 2021
Sezzle Closes The Books On 2020 With Total Revenue Up...
Installment payment platform Sezzle on Friday (Feb. 26) reported record results for 2020, with underlying merchant sales (UMS) up 250.8 percent and total income up 272.1 percent year over year....
February 18, 2021
Buy Now, Pay Later Apps Play Musical Chairs In New...
S&P Global Market Intelligence has said the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) space will be worth $352 billion within four years — about a fourfold increase over its current size....
February 08, 2021
Regulating Digital Gatekeepers: Lessons from the Banking Industry
Gatekeepers are not exclusive to digital markets. Gatekeepers exist in many other industries such as banking, telecoms and energy. The new element introduced by digital gatekeepers is their scale and...
January 28, 2021
Buy Now, Pay Later Isn’t Just For The Budget-Conscious
Popular buy now, pay later (BNPL) services are proliferating and duking it out for share of market as installment payments are dubbed the new budgeting miracle. One need only peruse...
January 25, 2021
BNPL Energizes Spending Per Latest Alt-Credit Provider Ranking
The “it” way to buy now is to pay later. As in “buy now, pay later.” Call it BNPL for short. No proof needed of the concept’s raging global success,...
January 12, 2021
The Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets: Looking in the...
The majority staff of the House Judiciary Committee recently released its Report and Recommendations (“MSRR”) following an investigation of competition in digital markets. It claims that the leading digital technology...
December 29, 2020
Alt-Credit Apps Merry And Bright In Latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking
Wondering how alternative credit — aka buy now, pay later (BNPL) — did over the holidays? Complete tallies aren’t in yet, but here’s a taste: BNPL brand Afterpay topped $2.1...
December 21, 2020
Lease-To-Own Business Fueled By Acima Acquisition; Company Boasts Triple-Digit Growth
Rent-A-Center, the largest provider of lease-to-own purchase plans in the U.S. said Monday (Dec. 21) that its acquisition of a virtual provider of similar plans will accelerate its omnichannel growth...