Apr 13, 2022 | FinTech, News
21 Attorneys General Say CFPB Should Regulate Buy Now, Pay Later Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) closed its request for comments on the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) inquiry it launched on December 16. Among the comments received, 21 state...
Mar 28, 2022 | FinTech, News
Survey: 72% of Consumers Manage Lending Accounts Online A recent PYMNTS collaboration with Mastercard company Finicity, titled “Account Opening and Loan Servicing in the Digital Environment,” found that 61 percent of consumers have loan accounts with outstanding...
Mar 21, 2022 | Federal Regulation, FinTech, News
Biden Signs Executive Order on Digital Assets, Including Cryptocurrencies Earlier this month, President Biden signed an Executive Order on digital assets including cryptocurrency, representing the first ever whole-of-government approach to address the benefits and...
Mar 18, 2022 | FinTech, News
98% of Afterpay Customers Repaid BNPL Loans in 2021 Nearly all Afterpay users paid back their installments in 2021, Block CFO Amrita Ahuja told CNBC when questioned about the company’s acquisition of the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) service. 98 percent of users repaid...
Mar 14, 2022 | Financial Literacy, FinTech, News
Survey Finds Buy Now Pay Later Users More Likely to Overdraft A recent analysis of Morning Consult data found substantial overlap between consumers who overdraft their accounts and those who use “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) products. In January, 15 percent of all...
Feb 25, 2022 | FinTech, News
New Mexico Legislature Passes 36% APR Cap Bill Last week, lawmakers in the New Mexico state legislature passed a bill reducing the state’s maximum allowable annual interest rates from 175 percent to 36 percent, ending a years-long debate between the state House and...