Afterpay’s deal with EyeBuyDirect and Sezzle’s tie-up with WellNow Urgent Care reflect BNPL’s push to diversify beyond retail.

The provider brought its rewards program to nine markets to help entice spending and expanded Pay Now’s availability, which gives customers more flexibility.

Amex added Plan It to Delta’s checkout, giving the airline another BNPL option for its customers while letting Amex reroute volume to its cards.

ACI PayAfter integrates more than 70 BNPL options into a single solution for merchants.

The company suffered worse than expected losses, but new partnerships and tie-ups might help it bolster growth this year.

Payments Ecosystem: This year will reveal how providers must adapt to lasting pandemic-driven digitization across payments channels, ranging from in-store retail to B2B ecommerce.

Payments Ecosystem: Diminishing analog payment use—as well as the battle for share between entrenched electronic payment methods and emerging challengers—will intensify the battle for customer spending this year.

Smaller banks are cool toward BNPL: A survey finds that most have scant to zero interest in entering buy now, pay later (BNPL). Those that expressed interest want to partner instead of going solo.

The firm closed the acquisition and made it available to online merchants in Australia and the US.

A PYMNTS survey shows that most users of standalone BNPL services are interested in bank-backed versions—including customers of the biggest standalone players.

On today's episode, we discuss how buy now, pay later (BNPL) adoption will continue to evolve and what's next for these services. We then talk about what retailers' first step into the metaverse should look like and what retailers should be doing with their avalanche of returns. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Sky Canaves.

The acquisition could give Zip a path into long-term financing and a user base boost as competition mounts and regulation looms.

The DNA of today’s shopping experience has been rewritten over the past 20+ months. Taking a holistic, coordinated, and strategic approach to modernizing your company’s payments architecture will help you keep up while unlocking significant value and growth.

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) services are more popular among younger generations: 26% of US adults ages 34 and under regularly use these financing solutions, compared with just 8% of those 55 and older.

High-profile acquisitions and partnerships shook up the space as competition intensified.

Major marketing campaigns are raising awareness of buy now, pay later (BNPL) among consumers and are going into overdrive for the holidays.

Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal, and Zip have until March 1, 2022, to respond to the consumer watchdog’s inquiry.

Increasing competition in the realm of point-of-sale installment plans will push existing buy now, pay later firms to diversify their offerings and target consumers beyond the existing core of Gen Z and millennial users.

Letting users pay directly from their bank accounts minimizes their reliance on cards, which could mean less volume and revenues for issuers.