fintech digest
BNPL Demystified, Private Credit Environment, British House Market & More
Research Team
30 June 2023
Opening the black box of digital wallets and demystifying ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’
The growth of digital wallets and popular 'buy now, pay later’ options raises concerns about social welfare and policy. This column uses data from a world-leading Chinese provider to document that 'buy now, pay later’ dominates e-wallet transactions and expands FinTech credit to underserved consumers. It also substantially boosts consumer spending, but users – especially those relying on e-wallets as their sole credit source – carefully moderate borrowing when incurring interest charges. These findings can help policymakers tackle the challenges arising from the expansion of digital wallets and 'buy now, pay later’.
It’s a lender’s market in private credit
Higher yields, increased negotiating power, and favourable business cycle conditions have made private credit the most attractive alternative investment, according to BCA Research.
It is already too late to save Britain’s doomed housing market
It was the news that Britain’s legion of squeezed homeowners was dreading – the strongest hint yet from the Bank of England that borrowers should anticipate more than one further interest rate rise in the coming months despite already being at their highest level since 2008....
How do “liquid” private market strategies square the circle?
The past two years have seen huge growth in the availability of private market strategies that offer some degree of in-built liquidity, such as open-ended funds and diversified multi-manager strategies (the latter are discussed in our recently published white paper – Rise of the Allocators). Open-ended private market funds achieve liquidity in different ways, with very different potential outcomes. In this article, Trevor Castledine takes a closer look at open-ended Private Credit with new data on strategy types and liquidity mechanisms.
A blueprint for the future monetary system
Tokenisation – another major leap for the monetary system? Developments in the monetary system and society at large have been closely interwoven. This interplay has been a story of one side pulling the other, leading to dramatic spurts of economic activity over time.