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British fintechs are jumping into the booming buy now, pay later market

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British fintechs are jumping into the booming buy now, pay later market

Monzo and Revolut, two of Britain’s best-known financial technology firms, are planning to enter the booming “buy now, pay later” industry.

Buy now, pay later, or BNPL, plans are an increasingly popular method of payment that lets users spread the cost of their purchases over a series of interest-free instalments. The trend was pioneered by the likes of Swedish fintech Klarna and Australian firm Afterpay.

It’s now attracting interest from some of the world’s biggest companies, with PayPal launching its own BNPL service, Amazon and Apple partnering with U.S. provider Affirm, and Afterpay being sold to Square, the payments company owned by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Now, two of the U.K.’s hottest fintech companies are trying to get in on the action.

Monzo, which offers checking accounts through an app, is soon set to announce plans to launch its own version of BNPL, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.

The person, who preferred to remain anonymous as the information is not yet public, said the digital bank would introduce affordability checks on customers.

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The news was first reported by London’s Evening Standard newspaper.

Meanwhile, Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky told the Standard earlier this week the company was working on its own pay-later product. Revolut, a digital banking and trading app, was recently valued at $33 billion following an $800 million funding round led by SoftBank and Tiger Global.

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But Monzo, unlike Revolut, is a regulated bank in the U.K. While Revolut was granted a European banking license in Lithuania, it is currently seeking further licenses in Britain, the U.S. and Australia.

Still, Monzo is smaller in size than Revolut, with 5 million customers and a £1.25 billion ($1.7 billion) valuation. Revolut says it now has more than 15 million users. Starling, another popular digital bank in the U.K., has over 2 million customers and was last valued at £1.1 billion.

Regulators take notice

While the BNPL industry is growing fast, its rapid rise hasn’t gone unnoticed by regulators.

The British government has plans to introduce regulation for the sector. Proposals announced by the Treasury department earlier this year included the requirement that firms make affordability checks before lending to customers and the ability to escalate complaints to the U.K.’s financial ombudsman.

According to a review published by the Financial Conduct Authority in February, the U.K.’s BNPL market is worth £2.7 billion, with 5 million Brits using such products since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. More than one in 10 customers of a major bank using BNPL services were already in arrears, the review said.

“The FCA has already taken a significant step towards bringing BNPL into the fold, with the review they unveiled earlier this year — and they are certain to increase controls if only due to the growing popularity of BNPL in the market,” David Brear, CEO of London-based fintech consultancy 11:FS, told CNBC.

“Unlike some of the other providers of BNPL in the U.K., Monzo is already a regulated entity under the FCA and wouldn’t do anything to risk their reputation with the regulator.”

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