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    Square to buy Afterpay in $29bn all-stock deal

    2021-08-02T08:36:00Z

    The American fintech Square has reached an agreement to buy the Australian firm Afterpay in an all-stock deal with an implied value of about $29 billion based on Square’s share price on July 30. Afterpay specializes in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services. The transaction is expected ...

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    Klarna grows in the pandemic

    2020-09-23T06:08:00Z

    One clear sign of the boom in the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) model is the latest fundraising round of Klarna , which saw the Swedish online payments group set a new record for the valuation of a European private fintech company at $10.65 billion, nearly double the $5.5 billion ...