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Funding will expedite the onboarding of thousands of additional retailers to provide responsible financing to millions of shoppers worldwide – anywhere they shop

New York, NY, March 22, 2022 – ChargeAfter, the market-leading Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) consumer financing network that provides shoppers with responsible, approved financing offers from multiple lenders with a single application, and bespoke white-labeled BNPL platform services for global banks and financial institutions has announced the completion of their $44M Series B. The round was led by The Phoenix, with participation from global banking giants Citi Ventures (Citigroup), Banco Bradesco, MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group), and existing investors. ChargeAfter’s new funding follows a strategic investment and partnership with Visa bringing the company’s total amount raised to $60 million.

“While BNPL has exploded in popularity in recent years, the marketplace often gives consumers limited options and up to a 70 percent decline rate,” said Meidad Sharon, CEO, and founder of ChargeAfter. “Investor interest in ChargeAfter is a testament to the growing need for a network-driven financing platform made for merchants, banks, and financial institutions, as the industry rapidly shifts from a single lender, low-approval reality to a multi-lender experience where responsible lending and approvals rates upwards of 85% or more are the new norm,”

With dozens of pre-integrated global financing lenders and banks already on the platform, ChargeAfter offers shoppers approved and personalized consumer financing from multiple lenders through a single, quick application, wherever they shop. With the distribution of credit streamlined into a single platform, retailers can easily implement ChargeAfter’s BNPL offering both online and in-store. Plus the company’s growing lender network offers seamless integration to lenders seeking to grow their customer base while expanding into new retail markets.

ChargeAfter also provides global banks, acquirers, financial institutions, and strategic partners with a fully branded white label BNPL platform. The network provides retailers and businesses access to leading financing partners across the full-credit spectrum with BNPL products such as card-based installments, split pay, long and short-term installments, 0% APR financing, revolving credit, B2B financing, lease to own, and more, in a single integration.

“The investment will enable us to accelerate growth and further diversify our global lender and merchant networks while scaling strategic partnerships by providing leading banks, lenders, financial institutions, and industry partners a turnkey white label BNPL platform of their own.” continued Mr. Sharon. “Our ongoing investment in the platform will expedite the onboarding of thousands of additional retailers to provide responsible financing to millions of shoppers worldwide – anywhere they shop.”

“As consumer interest in BNPL accelerates, it is critical for merchants, banks, and financial institutions to offer tailored solutions that meet their customer’s evolving needs. ChargeAfter’s white-labeled, multi-lender platform represents the next generation in consumer lending and enables any business to seamlessly embed diverse credit solutions in their product offering. We are excited to partner with ChargeAfter as they execute on their vision to unify this massive but fragmented space,” said Boaz Morris, Investment Manager, VC at The Phoenix.

“Given the growing usage and popularity of Buy Now Pay Later solutions, a multi-lender platform that provides more flexibility at checkout is imperative for ensuring clients have choices when completing purchases. This requires nimble and innovative consumer shopping experiences. We are thrilled Citi Ventures has invested in ChargeAfter, a Citi accelerator graduate,” said Carol Grunberg, Global Head of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions.

“For nearly 30 years, the Boleto has been the dominant form of BNPL or consumer credit in Brazil. Our investment in ChargeAfter stems from our need as the leading bank in Brazil to redefine local BNPL and consumer financing and stand behind payment innovation for merchants and lending technologies for banks and financial institutions,” said Rafael Padilha, Director of Bradesco PE & VC, Bradesco.

 About ChargeAfter

ChargeAfter is the leading multi-lender buy now pay later consumer financing platform and network connecting retailers and lenders to offer shoppers responsible, personalized financing options.

Powered by a data-driven decisioning engine and network of global lenders, ChargeAfter delivers the most relevant financing offers to consumers from multiple lenders based on credit type – resulting in approvals for up to 85% of applications. ChargeAfter streamlines the distribution of credit into a single platform that retailers can implement rapidly both online and in-store. The company’s growing lender network offers seamless integration to lenders seeking to grow their customer base while expanding into new retail markets.

ChargeAfter investors include PICO Venture Partners, Propel Venture Partners, The Phoenix, Citi Ventures, Banco Bradesco, Visa, MUFG, BBVA, Synchrony Financial, and Plug and Play VC. Headquartered in New York, ChargeAfter has offices in New York, California, and Tel Aviv.

For more information, visit https://chargeafter.com/about-us/

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MUFG Innovation Partners Completes Investment in Point of Sale Financing Platform Leader ChargeAfter and Announces Strategic Partnership to Expand Global POS Usage

ChargeAfter continues to lead and innovate the global, multi-lender consumer financing market with an investment and strategic partnership with MUFG to further bolster the consumer’s buying power and provide personalized financing choices at checkout

Sunnyvale, CA, June 09, 2020 /PRWeb/ — ChargeAfter, the leading Multi-lender Point of Sale Financing platform, and MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (MUIP), a corporate venture capital fund and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MUFG, the leading global financial group of Japan, announced a strategic investment and partnership to equip global eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailers with the tools they need to approve more applications for POS financing from multiple lenders in real-time.

The investment and partnership will further promote ChargeAfter’s rapid global growth and presence, while accelerating the onboarding of new strategic lenders and merchants to the platform. This new collaboration will expedite the commercial distribution of ChargeAfter’s white-labeled Point of Sale Financing technology platform to global leading banks, lenders, issuing banks, and acquirers.

Founded in 2017, ChargeAfter provides leading eCommerce and Omni-channel retailers a Point of Sale Financing technology platform to offer personalized financing options from multiple lenders in a single application. With ChargeAfter’s data-driven decisioning engine and growing network of global lenders, ChargeAfter specializes in delivering the best financing offers from the most appropriate lenders for the consumer’s credit type (prime, near-prime and subprime), while approving up to 85% of applications.

“ChargeAfter created the next wave of credit by connecting merchants and lenders to provide consumers with personalized Point of Sale Financing options from multiple lenders, live and instantaneously at checkout. Consumers submit a simple, four-data-point credit application at checkout. ChargeAfter’s proprietary decisioning engine then processes the credit request across our lender network to find personalized, approved financing offers for the consumer which leads to high take rates, approvals, and sales for the merchant. ChargeAfter’s platform offers Omni-channel merchants the financing product and tools needed to deliver instant and flexible credit options from multiple lenders, while ensuring a flawless user experience,” said Meidad Sharon, CEO of ChargeAfter. “We are very excited about the new collaboration and investment. Working with MUFG, a top-10 ranked global bank, enables us to further our mission to democratize and socialize credit by making payments quick, convenient, safe, and accessible. We are placing the power of payments and flexibility back into the hands of the consumer. ChargeAfter’s vision is to help global consumers gain access to financing options that best fit their unique backgrounds and needs, and that are available to them wherever and whenever they are ready to purchase: online, mobile, in-store and over the phone.”

“Real-time POS financing provides affordability and smooth payment experience to shoppers, but most single lender solutions finance only a small segment of the merchant’s customers. Therefore, to find a solution that works all the customers, the merchant needs to search, negotiate, and integrate with multiple lenders” said Mayank Shiromani, VP, MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. “Dealing with multiple lenders is a huge challenge for both the merchant and the end customer. In ChargeAfter’s approach, a shopper is matched with offers from a diversified network of lenders in real-time, providing an optimized offer to each customer without requiring any additional efforts from the merchant. We believe that ChargeAfter’s model has a global potential and it can be applied to other verticals within financial services to provide the best fit solution to customers when they need it.”

About ChargeAfter

ChargeAfter is a market-leading Point of Sale Financing technology platform that connects merchants and lenders to offer consumers personalized Point of Sale Financing options at checkout from multiple lenders. Through a growing network of global lenders, merchants can approve up to 85% of applicants in real-time and increase sales by up to 45%. ChargeAfter’s network offers seamless integration for lenders to increase their customer base and compete for business while expanding into new retail markets by streamlining the distribution of credit into online and in-store point of sale financing.

ChargeAfter investors include PICO Venture Partners, Propel Venture Partners, VISA, BBVA, Synchrony, and Plug and Play VC.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ChargeAfter has offices in Dallas, New York, and Tel Aviv.

About MUFG

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,700 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has over 180,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english

ChargeAfter has created the next wave of credit through its global multi-lender Point of Sale Financing platform and launch of strategic partnership with Visa to make payments personalized and flexible.

Sunnyvale, CA, Feb 12, 2020 /PRWeb/ — ChargeAfter, the leading Point-of-Sale Financing technology platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Visa to help provide Visa cardholders with more choice and flexibility in payments when buying goods and services in-store or online. Visa has also made a strategic investment in ChargeAfter.

Through this partnership, Visa’s network of sellers, acquirers and issuing banks will have the option to distribute a broad range of Point of Sale Financing and credit instruments to eCommerce and in-store sellers worldwide using ChargeAfter’s platform.

This collaboration will also enable Visa’s global network of issuing banks to participate in ChargeAfter’s network as direct lenders. It helps to further democratize payments by empowering Visa cardholders with additional payment choices and increased credit options at the Point of Sale.

“By combining ChargeAfter’s financing platform with Visa’s global reach, we have created one of the largest networks of global Point-of-Sale Financing,” said Meidad Sharon, CEO of ChargeAfter. “We are very excited about the new collaboration and investment. Visa and ChargeAfter share a common vision to make payments quick, convenient, safe and accessible. ChargeAfter’s vision is to help every consumer, worldwide, gain access to financing options that best fit their unique needs, and that are available to the consumer when and where they are ready to purchase – online, in-store and over the phone. As part of the continued effort to democratize credit, we’re placing the power of payment options and flexibility in payments back into the hands of the consumer. We are creating the next wave of credit.”

“Consumers increasingly demand more choice and flexibility when making a payment, whether for their everyday needs or high-value items. Working with ChargeAfter, we aim to make it easier for sellers and financial institutions to offer a range of tailored, personalized financing options at the point of sale, allowing consumers to manage their payments in a way that works for them,” said Shahar Friedman, Head of Visa Innovation Studio Tel-Aviv.

 

 About ChargeAfter:

ChargeAfter’s platform was founded with the goal to help every consumer access fair and attainable financing options personalized to their unique needs.

ChargeAfter is a market-leading Point of Sale Financing technology platform that connects merchants and lenders to offer consumers personalized Point of Sale financing options at checkout from multiple lenders. Through a growing network of global lenders, merchants can approve up to 85% of applicants in real-time and increase sales by up to 45%.

ChargeAfter’s network offers a seamless integration for lenders to increase their customer base and compete for business while expanding into new retail markets by streamlining the distribution of credit into online and in-store point of sale financing.

ChargeAfter is venture-backed by leading VC’s such as, PICO Venture Partners, Propel Venture Partners, BBVA, Synchrony and Plug and Play VC.

Founded in 2017, ChargeAfter has offices in Sunnyvale, New York and Tel Aviv, Israel to better support our global clients.

About VISA:

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network – enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and a driving force behind the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

Press Contact

Jeffrey Tower

VP of Marketing and Business Development, ChargeAfter

jeffrey.tower@chargeafter.com