As the BNPL fad continues deepening into irrelevance, market leader Zip Co (ASX: ZIP) insists profitability is on its horizon. You just have to overlook any timelines for such to be achieved, and their $1 billion loss for FY22 which includes $276m in customer delinquency write offs. Consumers have been happy to utilise Zip’s BNPL
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Interest rate rises are expected to continue dominating national headlines for the months ahead but this hasn’t stopped Aussie borrowing behaviour as witnessed by neolender Plenti Group (ASX: PLT) which issued 11% more loans through the June quarter than the March quarter. Where prior corresponding period metrics tend to be the ones reported the most,
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In a remarkable series of events headed by one rogue Director, the proposed $335 million sale of Humm’s (ASX: HUM) buy-now-pay-later division to Latitude (ASX: LFS) has been shot down just two days after the Chair of Humm pleaded with shareholders to accept the acquisition proposal. What makes the saga most incredible is the global
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Binding – what a great word! This will be the sentiment amongst most shareholders in buy-now-pay-later company humm group (ASX: HUM) which like its peers has seen a sharp downturn in BNPL customers. Thankfully for those shareholders though, humm has a “binding” agreement to sell their consumer finance business to Latitude Group (ASX: LFS) with
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There has been a monumental shift within the buy now, pay later scene with companies consolidating in a recent blitz of mergers and acquisitions. Confidence in this sector has been diminishing as big players like Z1P (ASX: Z1P) have come back to earth, falling as much as 90% since their all-time highs. Following the Block
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With the buy-now-pay-later sector in a nosedive pattern amid market saturation and unsustainable losses, operator Sezzle (ASX: SZL) has confirmed that it will be laying off 20% of its American workforce with the intention of saving $13 million in staff salaries to reduce their haemorrhaging losses. The decision, which Sezzle describes as a “difficult” one,
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