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A look at the risks of BNPL apps like Klarna on users' financial health, as credit cards adopt BNPL features and regulators struggle to categorize BNPL services (Amy X. Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay: How ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Built a New Culture of Consumption
‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ has built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt.

Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/bnpl-startup-snapmint-raises…

BNPL startup Snapmint raises $125 Mn led by General Atlantic
Buy now pay later startup Snapmint has raised $125 million in its Series B funding led by General Atlantic, with participation from Prudent Investment Managers. News

Meetup ElasticFR #100 - BNP Paribas, Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/elasticfr/events/311284356/?from=ref

Meetup ElasticFR #100 - BNP Paribas, Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Meetup exceptionnel ! **Places limitées** avec obligation de réserver à l'avance. Merci de penser à libérer vos places minimum la veille de l'évènement, si vous ne pouvez p

Panorama: misogyny and racism in the metropolitan police.
I'm waiting for the panorama report that highlights excessive bias for promoting Nick Griffin/BNP, Nigel Farage/UKIP, Reform; Boris Johnson/Tory and suppressing the comments of anyone to the left of Labour.

Bayesian Network Propensity Score to Evaluate Treatment Effects in Observational Studies
Clelia Di Serio, Federica Cugnata, Pier Luigi Conti, Alberto Briganti, Fulvia Mecatti, Paola Vicard, Paola Maria Vittoria Rancoita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03194

Bayesian Network Propensity Score to Evaluate Treatment Effects in Observational Studies
This paper focuses on the Bayesian Network Propensity Score (BNPS), a novel approach for estimating treatment effects in observational studies characterized by unknown (and likely unbalanced) designs and complex dependency structures among covariates. Traditional methods, such as logistic regression, often impose rigid parametric assumptions that may lead to misspecification errors, compromising causal inference. Recent classical and machine learning alternatives, such as boosted CART, random f…

Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing shareholders' stakes, valuing it at $4.5B ahead of a possible IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gulf-fintech-tabby-valu…

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🎵 Supernatural Feelings (Remix)
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https://theflintsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/supernatural-feelings
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