Global Buy Now Pay Later Top Market Players 2022

Global Buy Now Pay Later Top Market Players 2022

Leading BNPL market players ranked in a report by yStats.com

The Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) transaction volume has been rising rapidly, with still more growth to come over the next five years, according to a forecast cited in the yStats.com report. Competition is becoming more intense, as companies from other sectors join the race and challenge the BNPL specialists. As a result, established market leaders expand beyond consumer lending and launch new banking, payment and shopping services.

Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm are revealed as the world’s largest BNPL companies in the yStats.com report. All three boast millions of users, with Klarna leading both by number of consumers and retailers using its services. Sweden-based company also has the largest GMV, rising at a strong double-digit rate between 2020 and 2021. The strongest sales growth, however, was recorded by Australia’s Afterpay. In early 2022, this BNPL specialist was acquired by a leading payments company Block (formerly Stripe). Together, Afterpay and Block will create synergies between their respective BNPL and payments offerings. Another fast-growing market leader is Affirm. Due to its cooperation with the leading online retailers, Affirm’s services cover more than half of the B2C E-Commerce market in the U.S.

The yStats.com report also lists several regional BNPL providers that are successful in their respective markets. These include Tamara and Tabby in the Middle East, PayLater by Grab in Singapore and by Flipkart in India, among others


1. Management Summary
2. Global BNPL Player Rankings
2.1. Global
BNPL Market Overview and Trends, March 2022
Market Shares of BNPL Services, in % of Top E-Commerce Websites Supporting BNPL as a Payment Method, March 2022
2.2.North America
Top 3 BNPL Platforms Used, in % of BNPL Users, May 2021
Top 6 Most Used BNPL Apps, in % of Downloads in the BNPL Category, Q1 2021
2.3. Europe
Average Customer Debt, in GBP, by Selected BNPL Providers, 2020 & 2021
BNPL Services Used, in % of Respondents, 2020 & 2021
Share of Top 100 E-Commerce Websites Accepting Klarna and Afterpay/Clearpay, in %, May 2021
Breakdown of Klarna Services Used, in % of Klarna Users, March 2022
2.4.Asia-Pacific
Afterpay’s Share of B2C E-Commerce Sales, 2020 & 2021e
BNPL Sales, in USD billion, Number of Users, in million, 2021e & 2026, and Selected BNPL Providers, February 2022
Tenure and Late Fee of Selected BNPL Providers, January 2022
2.5.MENA
Overview of Selected BNPL Providers, incl. Launch Year, Country of Origin, Number of Employees, Total Funding Received, Installments, and Key Partnerships, October 2021
3. Top 3 BNPL Player Profiles
3.1.Klarna
Company Profile, April 2022
Number of Users, in millions, 2019-2021
Number of Merchants, in thousands, 2019-2021
Gross Merchandise Volume, in SEK billion, 2019-2021
Breakdown of Net Operating Income by Selected Countries and by Income Category, 2020 & 2021
3.2.Afterpay
Company Profile, April 2022
Overview of Consumer and Retailer Fees, by Australia, USA and UK, March 2022
Number of Active Customers, by Region, in millions, FY 2020 & FY 2021
Number of Active Merchants, by Region, in thousands, FY 2020 & FY 2021
Underlying Sales, by Region, in AUD million, and Breakdown by Channel, by Enterprise and Other, in %, FY 2020 & FY 2021
3.3.Affirm
Company Profile, March 2022
Company Profile, March 2022
Overview of Lending Products, including Merchant Discount Rate, APR, Term Length, Payment Frequency and Representative AOV, March 2022
GMV, Total Revenue, and Revenue Less Transaction Costs, in USD million, and CAGR, in %, FY 2019-FY2022f
Number of Active Merchants, in thousands, June & December 2020-2021
Number of Active Users, in millions, June & December 2020-2021

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