{"id":84122,"date":"2025-11-28T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-buy-now-pay-later-platforms-trapping-people-in-debt-the-take\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:44:16","slug":"are-buy-now-pay-later-platforms-trapping-people-in-debt-the-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-buy-now-pay-later-platforms-trapping-people-in-debt-the-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Are &#8216;Buy Now, Pay Later&#8217; platforms trapping people in debt? | The Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Buy now, pay later&#8221; has become a retail fixture seemingly overnight, and Cyber Monday is set to be its biggest <!--more--> sales day yet. But as \u201cpay in 4\u201d platforms offer customers freedom and flexibility, are they also opening the door to a wave of unregulated debt?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Emily Stewart, Senior Correspondent, Business Insider\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Episode credits:<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Farhan Rafid, Fatima Shafiq and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Buy now, pay later&#8221; has become a retail fixture seemingly overnight, and Cyber Monday is set to be its biggest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}