Affirm stock rallies after report of plans to work with Apple in Canada

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The Bloomberg report indicated that Apple AAPL, +1.26% will be working with PayBright, a Canadian BNPL company acquired by Affirm, on the installment option, which will let people pay for devices like iPhones over 12 to 24 months. The offering will be interest-free for a limited time after it launches on Aug. 11, per the report.

Apple didn’t respond to MarketWatch’s request for comment on the plans. A spokesperson for Affirm declined to comment.

The arrangement with Apple “could be nicely additive” to Apple’s fiscal 2022 revenue, wrote Barclays analyst Ramsey El-Assal.

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Apple’s reported plans to work with Affirm on the installment option for Canadian hardware purchases mark the latest twist in Apple’s BNPL story. Bloomberg reported in mid-July that Apple was exploring its own BNPL offering in conjunction with the Apple Pay product, which would allow people to make more general purchases in installments using the mobile wallet. Such a service would put Apple into competition with BNPL providers like Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna, as well as PayPal Holdings Inc. PYPL, +0.93%, which recently rolled out its own installment option.