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Bye-bye, buy-now, pay-later

ANALYSIS: Investors are bidding farewell in droves to much-hyped fintech sector.

There’s no legal obligation on BNPL providers to ensure their lending is suitable and affordable for their customers.

Investors are bidding farewell in droves to the much hyped buy-now, pay-later sector, which has recently seen a number of merger deals collapse, share prices plunge and a looming threat of regulation in a largely unregulated space.

There’s been a proliferation of fintech companies providing these

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