Public Desire
“Can a UK-born value-fashion footwear brand scale internationally while maintaining a digitally-native, frictionless checkout experience?”
HQEngland and Wales, UK
IndustryE-commerce / Retail
The story
Public Desire is a UK-registered online footwear retailer targeting young, style-conscious consumers with bold and affordable footwear. The company has expanded from a UK-centric e-commerce operation to international markets including the US and Saudi Arabia. Its embedded finance footprint is primarily consumer-facing: BNPL at checkout (Klarna, Laybuy) and fraud protection (Signifyd), reflecting a standard D2C e-commerce stack rather than a financial services play.
Last 12 months
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Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by Public Desire
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
1 layer disclosed in Public Desire’s embedded-finance stack
Lending
Laybuy (pay in 6 weekly instalments)Klarna (pay in 4 instalments)
Accounting gap: none