compared to the rather fragmented and diverse landscape of marketplace platforms, the market for online merchant platforms , payment processors and ' telcos' is significantly more concentrated among few large players.
this could potentially limit healthy competition.
also, as this form of lending is part of s business relationship, it is less transparent from the outside and harder to regulate.
on a micro level, the lack of experience of such players in the lending business has been a source of concern.
extrapolating from internal seller data may not be enough to properly assess credit risk over time, especially from a micro perspective. as Amazon or Rakuten are not set up as banks , those players have less access to the banking network and are excluded from access to credit bureaus in some countries. Furthermore , shareholders may question the mandate of an e-commerce platform or payment processor to move into the lending space.