Buy Now, Pay Later Is a $157 Billion Market. Payments Are Now Part of Your Product

BNPL now shapes affordability, product choice, refunds, and trust. Leaders need to treat financing as part of the offer, not a final checkout step.

BNPL now shapes affordability, product choice, refunds, and trust. Leaders need to treat financing as part of the offer, not a final checkout step.
Program expenses, excluding net actuarial losses, reached $159 billion, up from $151.3 billion. The department cited higher direct program expenses and major transfers to persons. Public debt charges, the interest the government pays on its borrowing, totalled $20 billion, up from $18.6 billion. Net actuarial losses were $1.7 billion, up from $1.3 billion. The department…
Most CFOs and finance teams still treat tax planning like a season. You spend the year chasing growth, guarding cash flow and sharpening forecasts, then squeeze tax into a few frantic weeks before the deadline. Not rushing through your tax planning could be the one strategy CFOs are missing to help maximize savings and minimize…
The Internal Revenue Service has created a new Office of Conservation Easements and plans to make changes in the process for settling disputed claims for the sometimes lucrative tax breaks. Processing Content The IRS has cracked down on the tax break for landowners who set aside part of their property for conservation purposes, particularly when…
Wow, how about that stock market? It’s a phrase we keep having to dust off and use again, as the years go by and the market keeps surprising us. When it crashes, some of us worry because we see our retirement stash shrinking. But even when it rises to record levels and then to super-duper-crazy…
Following a targeted report on VASPs and digital assets, the FATF [Financial Action Task Force], a global coordinator of financial standards and illicit activity, has filed a report on decentralized finance, or DeFi. FATF standards are followed, and at times adhered to, by approximately 200 countries. The targeted report on DeFi highlights the ‘regulatory challenges”…
Last fall, I received an email that appeared to be from my web host. The email claimed that there was a problem with my payment information and asked me to update it. I clicked on the link in the email and entered my credit card number, thinking that a recent change I’d made to my…