Jul. 19, 2026
The Inexorable Rise of Funny Money
The BNPL market is run by a small consortium of companies we’ve seen on our web browsers: PayPal, Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay, and a few others. Their goal, as stated at least, is to compete with credit card companies for consumer adoption and upend... Read more.
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