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    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Klarna ready for IPO when conditions improve, says chief

      Swedish ‘buy now, pay later’ pioneer posts profitable month for first time in three years

      A Klarna logo on a laptop and a mobile phone
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Klarna’s losses halve as Swedish fintech predicts return to profit

      Buy now, pay later pioneer says it expects to be profitable again by end of year

      Klarna logo
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Klarna’s annual loss widens to $1bn but chief’s pay jumps 35%

      Swedish fintech says it is on track to return to profit this year

      The Klarna logo with a mobile in the foreground
    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      Klarna aims to return to monthly profitability in 2023 as losses double

      Once-flying Swedish payments group is trying to turn things round by laying off staff and tightening lending

      An FT montage of Klarna logos and its website on a mobile phone
    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
      Best Of: Why VC funding is drying up

      Venture capital fundraising hit a record-high. Now, the bonanza is over. What does that mean for the future of start-ups?

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      The Future of Money
      Account-to-account payments pose fresh threat to credit card networks Premium content

      Plus, African and Latin American fintechs have lessons for the US and EU

      Mastercard and Visa signs displayed in a store window
    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      Lex
      Klarna: buy-now-default-later borrowers will test BNPL mettle Premium content

      Claims to superior credit judgment are so much hot air until tested by a few tough years of trading

      The Klarna app on a mobile phone
    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      Klarna losses quadruple as costs rise

      Swedish group’s falling valuation highlights problems facing buy now, pay later sector

      The Klarna logo on top of cupcakes
    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Fintech
      Half a trillion dollars wiped from once high-flying fintechs

      Digital companies that boomed during lockdowns hit by fears they cannot withstand a recession

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Venture capital’s delayed rendezvous with reality

      The sector, and investors, may be trying to maintain business as usual — but a messy unwinding is under way

      The Klarna app icon on a mobile phone
    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Klarna’s valuation crashes to under $7bn in tough funding round

      Sequoia’s Michael Moritz says investors are in ‘their bunkers’ and prices will recover

      The Klarna app on a mobile phone
    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Financial services
      Klarna: buy now, pay 85% less a year later

      Blame fickle shareholders, says biggest shareholder

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      Due Diligence
      How a £15bn KKR deal blew up Premium content

      Plus, Klarna becomes the poster child of the private markets meltdown and a highly leveraged Chinese tycoon battles the property bond rout

      Due Diligence logo
    • 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

      A Klarna logo
    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      News in-depthFintech
      Fintechs face reckoning as easy money dries up

      Valuations have collapsed even faster than they climbed, making fresh funding hard to come by

      A montage of US dollar notes and Klarna, Nubank and Mollie payments logos
    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Klarna tries to raise cash at less than half its peak $46bn valuation

      Buy now, pay later company’s struggle underscores challenges facing the sector

      A Klarna logo on a laptop and mobile phone
    • 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

      The Apple Pay contactless payment service at the press launch of the cooperation between FC Bayern Munich, Hypo-Vereinsbank and Apple Pay in 2018
    • 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

      A Klarna app logo on a mobile phone
    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      The Big Read
      Can buy now, pay later survive the cost of living crisis?

      High energy bills and rising inflation have raised doubts about a sector that relies on consumers who might struggle to meet repayments

      A Klarna advert with a woman shopping in front of it and a line showing inflation over the past two years. Three dots represent three payments
    • Monday, 30 May, 2022
      #techFT
      The wages of Masayoshi Son as tech falls Premium content

      Tether’s Bahamas bank, Top Gun’s top takings, Xiaomi’s new TVs

      Masayoshi Son and SoftBank logos
    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      News in-depth
      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

      Klarna chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski at a summit in London
    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Interview
      Klarna CEO says fintech will focus more on ‘short-term profitability’

      Buy now, pay later pioneer faces one of the biggest challenges in its 17-year history

      Sebastian Siemiatkowski, chief executive and founder of Klarna
    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Fintech
      Swedish fintech Klarna to cut 10% of workforce

      CEO blames Ukraine war, volatile stock market and rising inflation for ‘hardest’ announcement bank has made

      a smartphone showing the Klarna app
    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Lex
      Fintech/Klarna: their stars wane amid rising credit costs Premium content

      Sector spends heavily on customer acquisition which means funding rounds are usually vital not optional

      A Klarna logo on a laptop and mobile phone
    • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
      Fintech
      Klarna to report ‘buy now, pay later’ use to UK credit agencies

      Swedish fintech moves to address concerns about consumer financial wellbeing

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