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    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Fintech
      Klarna valuation crashes to $6.5bn from $46bn

      Swedish fintech’s decline highlights how investors are souring on ‘buy now, pay later’ sector

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      News in-depthFintech
      Apple piles pressure on embattled buy now, pay later sector

      BNPL companies face rising interest rates, default risks and threat of tighter regulation

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
      Buy now, pay later must be regulated — now

      Industry operators are money lenders and should be treated as such before it blows up in all our faces

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      News in-depthKlarna AB
      Klarna boss puts brave face on buy now, pay later problems

      Europe’s most valuable private tech business forced to cut staff as losses mount

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      The Top LineTom Braithwaite
      Behind every racy fintech, a sensible German saver

      Greensill and Wirecard among those to have tapped into the country’s abundant deposits

    • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
      Klarna AB
      Klarna chief says IPO closer as pandemic drives online shopping boom

      Swedish payments group whose investors include rapper Snoop Dogg to list in ‘1 or 2 years’

    • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
      Inside BusinessRichard Milne
      Can $5bn Klarna avoid the fate of other Swedish unicorns?

      Country has previously lost other homegrown tech start-ups to rivals in US and Asia

    • Sunday, 15 July, 2018
      News in-depthEuropean companies
      Klarna prepares for launch of payment card and for expansion

      Swedish start-up is changing from an entrepreneurial company to an industrial one

    • Wednesday, 28 February, 2018
      European companies
      Klarna’s profits driven by growth in Nordics and Germany

      Swedish online payment group makes slow progress in UK and US despite big push

    • Friday, 23 June, 2017
      News in-depthWeek in Review
      The Swedish fintech chief licensed to chill banking

      Sebastian Siemiatkowski says building a bank will be cool for newly empowered Klarna

    • Monday, 19 June, 2017
      European companies
      Swedish fintech leader Klarna wins banking licence

      Group plans to expand and challenge traditional banks with range of services

    • Monday, 19 June, 2017
      European companies
      Sweden’s Klarna wins Europe’s biggest fintech banking licence
    • Tuesday, 1 September, 2015
      European companies
      Klarna opens its tills in the US

      Swedish payments start-up looks to take on PayPal and Square

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