{"id":117024,"date":"2025-11-02T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:16:13","slug":"irish-shoppers-received-more-than-e100m-from-one-single-buy-now-pay-later-lender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117024\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish shoppers received more than \u20ac100m from one single \u2018buy now, pay later\u2019 lender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Central Bank has probed usage of short-term point-of-sale loans<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Consumers with low financial literacy are more likely to rely on BNPL. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a9362e7f-4052-41a0-bc78-63562cbc0d11.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Consumers with low financial literacy are more likely to rely on BNPL. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An international buy-now pay-later (BNPL) lender\u2019s Irish operation is among its best performers globally, underscoring the soaring popularity of short-term retail loans among consumers in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Humm, an Australian-listed BNPL lender previously known here as Flexifi, has revealed that the value of loans and advances for its point-of-sale payment plans in Ireland reached A$189.5m (\u20ac107.2m) in its 2025 financial results, more than double its newer UK business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Bank has probed usage of short-term point-of-sale loans Consumers with low financial literacy are more likely to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,20927,70200,61,60,8581,5913],"class_list":{"0":"post-117024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","10":"tag-harvey-norman","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-revolut","14":"tag-sean-pollock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}