Buy Now Pay Later

In the fifth episode of 'Direct from the Desk', analyst Jono Higgins and I take a deep dive into Buy Now Pay Later juggernaut Zip Co (Z1P). If you had bought Zip, the...

More non-bank lenders are clamouring to list on the ASX, but is it a harbinger of a permanent new banking paradigm or a sign the bull market is nearing a peak? We’re...

Everyone has an Afterpay story. Or at least, most of the investors I know. Personally, I was told by multiple analysts to invest in early 2018, when its share price...

Investing rulebooks went out the window last year, as pandemic-hit markets plummeted, then rebounded, and share prices rose or fell on little more than sentiment. Take...

One of my first jobs at university was in retail, working at Surf Dive ‘n’ Ski. In 1995 I was amazed by the number of people who used ‘lay-by’ to purchase goods, one...

As with the coronavirus, the buy now pay later (BNPL) sector was expected to have fizzled out by now. Instead, it’s stepped up another level in terms of revenue usage...

Mark the date October 20, 2020 in your calendars. At 10:35am, Afterpay, the ASX darling and BNPL giant cracked $100. Achieving 10296% growth from its IPO price of...

In late August, payments juggernaut PayPal announced their new product 'Pay-in-4'. The Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) adoption was unexpected for many and sent the ASX BNPL...

Having started in funds management right after the ’87 crash, Anton Tagliaferro thought he had a good grip on the business cycle. Economies boom, stock prices go up,...

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has put in an astonishing performance in recent years, growing from a barely known niche to an ASX powerhouse since 2017. In FY20 alone,...