BNPL giant Afterpay hints at expansion into SME lending
Aussie buy-now, pay-later leader Afterpay is reportedly considering making a move in the increasingly crowded small-business lending space.
For Zip and Afterpay, going public was about ensuring survival. What’s changed for startup founders today?
The founders of both Afterpay and Zip have suggested their businesses may have listed on the ASX before they were truly ready, in order to ensure their very survival. But in the years since, the ecosystem has evolved.
Afterpay just delivered $426 million to its US team, but will the Aussie tech giant be seeing profits any time soon?
With Afterpay there is a seemingly continuous flow of stock issuing transactions… some of which will hopefully one day deliver profits and dividends.
Afterpay mulls a US listing: Is this a loss to the Aussie ecosystem?
Afterpay is considering listing in the US. But that doesn’t mean forgetting its roots, and it could ultimately bolster the local ecosystem.
Canva will soon be worth more than Atlassian and Afterpay. Here’s why
While the company's recent valuation $19 billion may sound expensive, it’s possible that Canva could be worth $250 billion in just a few years.
Nick Molnar isn’t concerned about Afterpay competitors… But should he be?
One expert says Afterpay has lost the first-mover advantage, and merchants might be thinking twice about what works best for them.
Has Afterpay lost its touch?
Afterpay earns its revenue by taking a clip of every dollar transacted through its platform, but does it consider the financial impact to the underlying retail partners?
SmartCompany’s most-read startup stories of 2020
We've examined our most-read tech and startup stories of 2020, giving us a slightly different look at the trends of the year.
ASIC report reveals troubling consequences of BNPL, with 20% of users skipping meals to make payments
According to ASIC, some users are suffering financial stress to make BNPL payments, even skipping meals or missing bills. But the regulator has not imposed any new rules.
Faster than Facebook: How Afterpay grew to $30 billion by leveraging the partner effect
Founded just six years ago, Afterpay recently hit a monstrous $30 billion value in its market cap. Here's how it did it.
The business models that have made these Aussie entrepreneurs into millionaires
From startup unicorns to e-commerce empires, how do these Aussie businesses and their millionaire owners actually make money?
Afterpay adds 23,000 new merchants: Four things we learnt from the buy-now-pay-later giant’s results
Afterpay unveiled a multibillion-dollar increase in underlying sales, adding an average of 17,300 new customers each day over FY2020.