As high inflation continues to put pressure on consumers, more shoppers are turning to buy now, pay later (BNPL) schemes to afford their purchases. Klarna...
As high inflation continues to put pressure on consumers, more shoppers are turning to buy now, pay later schemes to afford their purchases. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski joins Wealth! to discuss the state of consumer spending and new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations.
39% of US adults have used at least one of these services at check out, according to a bank rate survey. So if we would see even a slight increase in losses that we would attribute to macroeconomic shifts, then we could also make changes much faster. To be fair, I felt that, like when I was looking at consumer sentiment in the U, SI wondered how much of the US sales of Christmas was driven by, You know, a tough discounting by the retailers as as opposed to like sentiment, my impression in the and our impression looking at our numbers for the last six months is not that you're seeing that worsening trend that you read in other places in media and so forth, right, So we're not seeing that.
But with that said, at the same point of time, we welcome these changes that the C PB suggested, because there are basically good standards that anyone lending money should apply.I don't believe that, like, you know, a market should operate without any rules, So I think it's good to have some rules, and it also makes sure that, like every player in the market is is behaving appropriately and with the best interests of the consumer, so there's a balance there.
About 70% of all of our errant are handled by that, and that meant that about 700 jobs of a reduction of need of clona.They were in the short term, basically work for other clients of those customer service companies.And we felt that we wanted to encourage politicians and society to think about this practically and not hide the fact that it will have implications on those kind of jobs and that, you know, we think society should take some careful consideration about what to do about that.
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