Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments have exploded in popularity in the past several years, now with more than 360 million users worldwide. While BNPL offers no interest on payments made by the due date, users who fail to make payments on time can face...
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...
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.
Business-to-business (B2B) payments are the lifeblood of the modern economy. They are necessary for any business that deals with physical goods, from the smallest craft shop needing to purchase needles and thread to the largest technology titan having to buy microchips. B2B payments total $25...
