Millennials’ financial lives are shaping how they receive, spend and manage money, creating new opportunities for payment providers to make transactions faster and more useful. About 7 in 10 millennials have lived paycheck to paycheck in each year from 2020 through 2025, according to the...
Amazon is teaming with Affirm to offer installment payment options to its U.K. customers. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Sept. 23), lets customers choose Affirm as their payment method at checkout and apply to get an instant eligibility decision from the buy now, pay later (BNPL)...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Affirm’s Libor Michalek Picture someone who had a bad year. A few bills went unpaid, and their credit score took the hit. Then things turned around. Every payment since has been on time. The score hasn’t caught up. Now picture...
Issuers can invest in faster, more precise credit decisions, but those improvements alone may not persuade customers to change how they pay. Cardholders need to see a benefit they can understand and trust, whether that means choosing how to repay a purchase, receiving credit terms...
September 24, 2026
Millennials’ financial lives are shaping how they receive, spend and manage money, creating new opportunities for payment providers to make transactions faster and more useful. About 7 in 10 millennials have lived paycheck to paycheck in each year from 2020 through 2025, according to the August 2026 PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Cash Flow Generation: How […]
September 21, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Affirm’s Libor Michalek Picture someone who had a bad year. A few bills went unpaid, and their credit score took the hit. Then things turned...
September 18, 2026
Credit card installment plans are turning the biggest promise of buy now, pay later (BNPL) into an advantage for the card industry. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The Pay Later Data...
September 17, 2026
Affirm has started using a new real-time underwriting model at U.S. checkouts that approves consumers its previous models would have declined, including shoppers with limited credit histories and no FICO...
September 30, 2026
U.K. FinTech Zilch is reportedly in discussions with banks as it prepares to go public. The company, whose offerings include buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans, is looking to list on the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Sept. 30). Sources familiar with the matter told the FT Zilch recently invited investment […]
September 23, 2026
Amazon is teaming with Affirm to offer installment payment options to its U.K. customers. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Sept. 23), lets customers choose Affirm as their payment method at checkout...
September 15, 2026
Lending startup Split Pay raised $125 million in new funding, Axios reported Sept. 8. The company’s Series A and Series B rounds were led by Khosla Ventures, and there was...
September 15, 2026
Saudi Arabia-based buy now, pay later FinTech Tabby has raised $230 million in new funding. The financing, announced Monday (Sept. 14), values Tabby at $6.5 billion and will be used to expand the company’s...
