Credit cards, move over: Filipinos really love buy now, pay later

Rappler - Oct 4, 2026

BNPL is running red-hot, enough for one top player to turn itself into a bank and snag one of the government’s former highest paid official for its board. Rappler sits down with TransUnion to unpack the boom.

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