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Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services Together · Apr 17, 2023 · 26m

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Zack Miler, Tearsheet’s editor in chief. We’ve covered a lot about buy now, pay later over the years. BNPL’s rise was strong, given how it is embedded into a merchant’s checkout process and appealed to younger customers who preferred financing certain transactions and not the revolving credit of a credit card. Honestly, BNPL’s takeup and growth has overshadowed the emergence of other forms of financing. One of those is lease to own – if you’re my generation and grew up in the US, you’re probably familiar with lease to own through Rent-A-Center…