“FCA eyes crackdown on buy now, pay later firms”

Feb 2, 2021 | In the news

Tags: Amazon, FCA, PayPal

Whenever you Amazon or Paypal anything (no parents-ask-your-kids here, we’re all at it now), you’re asked if you want to buy now pay later. Which you can do at the click of a button. It’s so easy. As long as you do, actually, pay later. If you don’t, you’re hit with a bad credit record and nightmare interest. You may wonder why, when these deals hit the headlines six months or so ago it’s taken until now for action to be taken. But I guess it takes lots of meetings to get things done in any big organisation. And Zooming does make decisions a tad more complicated. 

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

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