Lease-To-Own Puts Durable Goods In Reach for Ineligible BNPL, Other Credit Borrowers

As buy now, pay later (BNPL) spreads, many subprime consumers who don’t qualify are turning to lease-to-own (LTO) as a more accessible installment payment option with none of the downsides of last resort options like rent-to-own, as Katapult CEO Orlando Zayas explained during a recent conversation with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster.