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BoF LIVE: The Future of Payments

On the latest BoF Live, buy-now, pay-later experts discuss the customer-acquisition benefits of the payment option, as well as what the future of financing looks like for consumers and brands.
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This #BoFLIVE event was based on the The Future of ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’” article. Click here to read our full analysis.

Companies such as Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay and Quadpay have popuarlised ‘buy now, pay later’ in retail, which gives shoppers the ability to pay for purchases through instalment plans, taking on the financial risk that typically falls on retailers when going after Millennial and Gen-Z consumers. In doing so, they’ve changed the way credit card-skeptical young consumers shop online and have lowered barriers to product accessibility, allowing the brands to gain access to new customers.

“With buy now, pay later we’re seeing a huge influx of a certain demographic of customers that are using it, specifically, younger women, 20 to 35, young professionals whose average order value then jumps to six or $700,” said Carl Cunow, co-founder of swimwear brand Onia, which uses Klarna. “And I don’t think that we would have had, you know, 40 percent of those customers before.”

Now, the space is heating up: Klarna is valued at over $40 billion, and both Apple and Goldman Sachs have announced plans to move into the space. But despite recent developments, the space is still very young, not to mention, competitive, fast-changing and vulnerable to increased regulation and scrutiny.

In the latest BoF Live digital event, BoF deputy editor Brian Baskin and correspondent Cathaleen Chen are joined by Cunow and Albert Saniger, founder and chief executive of retail finance startup Nate, to discuss the state of buy now, pay later space today and what’s to come.

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