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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Jones

Buy now, pay later use exploding among older Britons, data shows

Close up of woman working on laptop making online payment with credit card
Buy now, pay later is ubiquitous at online checkouts. Photograph: Monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Young people have fuelled its rise but the use of buy now, pay later is exploding among older people, with uptake among 55- to 64-year-olds more than doubling in a year, UK data shows.

The shift to digital payments is also continuing apace, with more than half of UK adults now using mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, mobile banking becoming the main way people access their accounts, and cash falling below 10% of all payments for the first time.

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