What we can say, on an individual level, is that BNPL is getting more dangerous. The industry “has built a delirious new ...

Many consumers are using buy now, pay later to cover regular household purchases like groceries. Stacking multiple BNPL loans can make it harder to manage debt and lead to costly late fees and ...

Services like Klarna, Clearpay, and PayPal Pay in 3 promise to make gift shopping and grocery splurges more manageable, but they can easily turn into a debt trap if not handled carefully. BNPL can be ...

New credit scoring will soon include buy now pay later, a welcome change for lenders who don’t want to make risky loans but maybe not so much for the growing share of users who pay late. BNPL’s ...

Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven analysis and news at the intersection of tech, personal finance and consumer sentiment. Dashia investigates economic ...

A new FICO credit score will factor in buy now, pay later account activity. This could help some consumers start building a credit history so they can qualify for more traditional forms of credit, ...

As Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most.

Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven analysis and news at the intersection of tech, personal finance and consumer sentiment. Dashia investigates economic ...

BNPL loans aren't figured into your credit score. Yet. Sakshi Udavant covers small business finance, entrepreneurship, and startup topics for Investopedia. For over a decade, she has been a freelance ...

To cover grocery costs, some consumers are using a payment method often associated with impulse purchases: buy now, pay later. In a recent survey of 1,000 American consumers from marketing agency ...