Buy Now, Pay Later Just Started Affecting Your Credit Score: What Changed in 2026

You split a $200 purchase into four payments through Klarna or Afterpay, paid every installment on time, and assumed it had nothing to do with your credit score. For years, that assumption held. Buy now, pay later loans mostly lived outside the credit reporting system. That is no longer guaranteed. FICO rolled out new scoring […]

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