How Malaysia Wants to Regulate BNPL

Vincent Fong, Chief Editor, Fintech News Malaysia

30-May-23 12:00

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Last week, Australia announced that it would be looking into new laws in an effort to regulate the BNPL sector as a consumer credit product, which comes amidst rising concerns of BNPL repayments.

Closer to home, we’re seeing similar concerns around delayed or missed BNPL payments , so today on BizBYtes we’re going to explore what our regulators are looking to do to regular the industry and how this could impact the BNPL startups in Malaysia with Vincent Fong, Chief Editor, Fintech News Malaysia

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Tags: financial regulations, credit loans, fintech, finance, bnpl,

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