How upstarts & bigger players are jostling for 'buy-now-pay-later' pie in SE Asia

How upstarts & bigger players are jostling for 'buy-now-pay-later' pie in SE Asia

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When Singapore wealth fund GIC-backed buy-now-pay-later firm Affirm, led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, raised $1.2 billion in its IPO on Nasdaq in January, it was widely hailed as the first big tech IPO of 2021.