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For buy now, pay later BNPL , heady growth demands some new guardrails.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report, Buy Now, Pay Later: Market trends and Consumer Impacts has been long awaited and debuted Thursday Sept. 15 with the recommendation that there be new measures put in place to safeguard consumers as they continue to embrace the nascent payment method.And as for the protections themselves: The CFPB urges that a few pages be taken from the credit card industrys playbook.The report itself builds on the
stanley france data collected since the end of last year when the CFPB issued market monitoring orders to five lenders to provide data on their BNPL loans.The growth of the BNPL industry overall has been staggering. The CFPB noted in its data that between 2019 to 2021 the number of BNPL loans originated by these five lenders grew by 970%, and the dollar volume grew by more than 1,000% to as much as $24.2 billion.聽 Approval rates are high, at more than 73% and up from 69% previously.See also: PYMNTS Intelligence: Leveraging BNPL to Beat the Cost-of-Living CrisisAnd, yes, there are consumer benefits in t
stanley hrnek he mix and some notable advantages over traditional credit 鈥? these benefits are both financial i.e., no interest and sometimes no late fees and operational i.e., ubiquitous, easy to access, simple repayment structure , the CFPB wrote.As to the harms: The CFPB warned
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A mid-week update to the Apple
stanley cup Pay page indicates that another 10聽physical retailers joined the Apple Pay party this week. Acme, Davis Food Drug, Firehouse Subs, GameStop, Luby , Rubio and T-Mobile all joined the Apple accepting list this week as did the Phoenix Suns ; US Airways Center.That brings the overall list of physical merchants taking Apple Pay to 68 accord
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stanley fr ing L.L.Bean, Pep Boys and Marriott.Acceptance in the physical store is likely impeded by Apple Pay reliance on NFC technology, as fewer聽than 3 percent of U.S. merchants are currently wired to accept NFC. Apple additionally聽faces competition from the also-NFC-backed Google Wallet and the now-Loop-enhanced emergent Samsung Pay.
