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Americans shopping online after midnight often make riskier transactions and are more likely to default on their loans, according to Affirm<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> CFO Michael Linford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fintech firm uses the hour a consumer attempts a transaction as a key data point to help determine whether to approve loans, Linford told CNBC in a recent interview. Other factors include a user’s repayment history with Affirm and transaction data from credit bureau Experian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Local time of day is a signal that we use in underwriting, and most times of day have the same credit risk,” Linford said. Between midnight and four a.m., however, something changes, he said.<\/p>\n

“Human beings don’t make the best decisions at two o’clock in the morning,” Linford said. “It’s clear as day; credit delinquencies spike right around 2 a.m.”<\/p>\n

While the data is clear that late-night<\/a> financial decisions are riskier, the reasons for it are less so. Shoppers could be inebriated or under financial or emotional duress and desperately seeking credit, Linford said.<\/p>\n

Affirm, run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin<\/a>, is among a new breed of fintech lenders competing against credit cards issued by banks. The buy now, pay later industry offers installment loans that typically range from no-interest short term transactions to rates as high as 36% for longer-term credit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Firms including Affirm, Klarna<\/a> and Sezzle<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> have embedded their services in the online checkout pages of retailers.<\/p>\n

A key to their business model is the ability to approve or reject customers in real time and at the transaction level, using data to help judge the odds of being repaid.<\/p>\n

“We don’t need to know if you’re going to be employed in two years,” Linford said. “We need to know whether you’re going to be able to pay back the $700 purchase you’re making right now. That is very different from credit cards, where they give you a line and say, ‘Godspeed.'”<\/p>\n

The use of buy now, pay later loans has grown along with the overall rise in consumer debt. While the industry touts up-front rates and fewer fees compared to credit cards, critics have said they enable users to overspend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Affirm manages repayment risk by either denying transactions or offering shorter-term loans that require down payments, Linford said. Last week, Affirm reported<\/a> that 30-day delinquencies on monthly loans held steady at 2.4% during the last three months of 2023 <\/strong>from a year earlier, even as total purchase volumes surged 32% in that time.<\/p>\n

Affirm has little incentive to allow users to pile up debts, according to the CFO.<\/p>\n

“If you can’t pay us back, we’ve lost, unlike with credit cards,” Linford said. “We don’t charge late fees. We don’t revolve, we don’t compound.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The rates at Affirm are in contrast to credit card delinquencies<\/a> at the four biggest U.S. banks, which have been climbing since 2021 as loan balances have grown. Americans owed $1.13 trillion on credit cards as of the fourth quarter of last year, a $50 billion increase from the previous quarter amid higher interest rates and persistent inflation, according to a\u00a0Federal Reserve Bank of New York report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The job environment is good, so it begs the question, why are credit card delinquencies creeping up?” Linford said. “The answer is, they took their eye off of underwriting and from my perspective, they got aggressive in a time when consumers were beginning to show stress.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: www.cnbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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