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Good morning. Apple has scrapped its “buy now, pay later” service that launched in the US only last year, marking a retreat in the iPhone maker’s ambitions to become a major provider of traditional financial services.
Apple said it was moving to a new instalment loan service offered through third-party credit and debit cards. In the US it is partnering with Citi and…