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Kueski gives small online loans and buy-now-pay-later credit to shoppers and merchants in Mexico.
Kueski is a Mexican fintech that hands people small loans online, quickly, often within minutes and without the paperwork of a traditional bank. Its best-known product is Kueski Pay, a buy-now-pay-later service that lets shoppers split a purchase into installments at checkout, both online and in physical stores. The customer is usually someone a bank might overlook — a person who needs cash before payday or wants a pair of sneakers now and can pay over a few weeks.
The business works like this: Kueski uses its own software to judge whether a borrower is likely to repay, looking at data beyond a plain credit score. If approved, the money or the installment plan goes out fast, and Kueski earns from interest and fees on the loans, plus fees from merchants who want the extra sales that "pay later" brings. Merchants like it because a customer who can split the bill is more likely to buy; Kueski likes it because it earns money on both sides. Founded in Guadalajara in 2012, Kueski is one of the older players in Latin American fintech, and it has grown into one of the larger buy-now-pay-later providers in Mexico. It has raised outside money from investors and struck partnerships with major retailers to put Kueski Pay at their checkouts. That reach matters, because in a country where many people have little or no formal credit history, being the easy, fast option at the moment of purchase is the whole game.
The flip side is risk. Kueski lends to people with thin credit files, so some loans simply don't come back, and the company has to price that in. It also faces competition from banks, card issuers, and other fintechs chasing the same shoppers, plus the constant regulatory attention that comes with consumer lending. In short, Kueski sells convenience and access to credit, and its success depends on approving the right borrowers fast while keeping losses from eating the fees.
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