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Richard Quinn partners with Clearpay to launch London Fashion Week opening

The opening of London Fashion Week will be a consumer welcome affair, with principal sponsor Clearpay teaming up with the BFC and designer Richard Quinn for its City-Wide Celebration in Covent Garden. Dubbed a fashion and entertainment event, a surprise performance and DJ set will inaugurate the fashion week ahead. A limited edition floral print...

Fashion Featured

What you need to know about London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week starts on June 12 and runs until June 14, as a digital-first experience. The event will showcase 32 womenswear, menswear, and accessories brands across 28 digital platforms and four physical performances. London Fashion Week will open with a digital show named ‘Everything Is Temporary’. The short film is a mediation on the...

FairsFeatured

IMG announces Afterpay partnership for NYFW: The Shows

Buy-now-pay-later payment service Afterpay, known as Clearpay in the UK, is partnering with another fashion week, NYFW: The Shows, adding to its commitments with London Fashion Week and Australian Fashion Week. During an online presentation, IMG said that Afterpay had signed up as a multi-year presenting partner, beginning with September 2021,...

Fashion

MPs criticise London Fashion Week sponsorship deal with Clearpay

The British Fashion Council is facing a backlash after naming buy-now-pay-later payment service Clearpay as the principal partner of London Fashion Week, which kicked off on February 19. A cross-party selection of 60 MPs has signed a letter expressing their concerns to the British Fashion Council regarding the sponsorship deal, a well as urging...

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London Fashion Week names Clearpay as principal partner

The British Fashion Council has confirmed that buy-now-pay-later payment service Clearpay will be the new principal partner of London Fashion Week, starting from this up-coming season kicking off on February 19. On a Zoom call, Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, explained that Clearpay would be partnering with London...

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Clearpay expands into Europe with acquisition

Clearpay, the retail payments platform known as Afterpay in the US, Australia and New Zealand, is expanding into Spain, France and Italy with the acquisition of Pagantis. The ‘buy now, pay later’ payments provider announced that it has entered into an agreement with NBQ Corporate SLU to acquire Pagantis SAU and PMT Technology SLU. Pagantis is a...

Retail

Clearpay announces new partnerships with retailers

UK "Buy Now, Pay Later" service Clearpay has announced partnership with a number of retailers. These new brands include Gymshark, Mac Cosmetics, Reiss, Never Fully Dressed and Ren. As well as launching new partnerships, Clearpay is presenting consumers with the bi-annual Clearpay Day sale where brand partners will offer shoppers deals and...

BusinessFeatured

Clearpay refreshes brand identity with ‘Bondi Mint’ hue

Retail payments platform Clearpay, known as Afterpay in the US, Australia and New Zealand, has unveiled a new global brand identity, which it states captures the “power and value enabled by the platform at a time of incredible growth for the business and its customers”. The new look Clearpay now has a refreshed mint hue, which has been designed...

Business

Clearpay reaches one million active customers, saw growth during lockdown period

Payments innovator Clearpay has announced that, after completing its first year on the market, its purchasing service is now being used by over one million active UK shoppers. The Afterpay Limited Group-owned company additionally reported that customer purchasing frequency in the UK is outpacing that of the US when it was at the same stage of...

Retail

Clearpay to host flash sale on three continents

Payments innovator Clearpay, the UK arm of Afterpay Touch Group, has announced that independent retailers on UK high streets are joining global brands for its first “flash sale”. #ClearpayDay will be a 36-hour online sale for retailers offering Clearpay to customers, including Urban Outfitters and Boohoo. Deals on offer will typically give...

Business

Afterpay Touch Group launches ‘Clearpay’ in the UK

Afterpay Touch Group, the first digital payments provider allowing people to pay in instalments free of charge on their debit cards, is launching the same service in the UK under the Clearpay brand, following backing from global retail partners including Boohoo and Urban Outfitters. The payment provider launched four years ago and has partnered...