{"id":754162,"date":"2026-06-23T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754162\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:03:09","slug":"buy-now-pay-later-for-3-bubble-tea-highlights-thai-debt-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754162\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy-Now-Pay-Later for $3 Bubble Tea Highlights Thai Debt Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Installment plans used to fund everything from bubble tea to chicken rice have caught the attention of Thailand\u2019s central bank chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Governor Vitai Ratanakorn is moving to curb the rapid growth of buy-now-pay-later services, which increasingly allow consumers to split everyday purchases into installments. He worries that easy access to digital credit is encouraging borrowing in a country already burdened by one of Asia\u2019s highest household debt levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Installment plans used to fund everything from bubble tea to chicken rice have caught the attention of Thailand\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1724,64,63,22226,99,18459,5175,8884,5693,164,186,361348,96344,5626,187,3725,361347],"class_list":["post-754162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bangkok","tag-business","tag-cash-flow","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-credit-cards","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-generic-1st-rr-future","tag-household-debt","tag-interest-rates","tag-money","tag-thailand","tag-vitai-ratanakorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}