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    XXL switches to Walley as payment provider

    2024-01-24T14:51:00Z

    XXL is changing its payment provider in the Nordic market. The company has been using Klarna for a while, but now it´s switching to Walley, which aims to assist the sports retail chain in developing multiple payment solutions. Walley will support both digital and in-store transactions, catering to individual consumers ...

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    Klarna’s losses narrow

    2023-08-31T14:03:00Z

    Swedish payment and shopping service provider Klarna’s total revenue for the second quarter was 5.5 billion Swedish krona (€464.6m), up 17 percent year-on-year, with a loss of SEK 0.9 billion (€76.0m), compared to SEK -3.8 billion a year earlier. “A year ago, we promised to become profitable again, and ...

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    L.A. football club and Klarna release capsule

    2023-05-15T07:41:00Z

    Angel City Football Club (ACFC) and one of its founding partners, the payment and shopping platform Klarna, have launched a small collection for women’s sports called Un Nuevo Amanecer (A New Dawn). The windbreaker, bucket hat and fanny pack were designed by Suay Sew Shop of Los Angeles and are ...

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    Klarna launches resale function and more to mark 18th anniversary

    2023-04-27T11:10:00Z

    Payment and shopping service provider Klarna has unveiled a number of new innovations on the occasion of its 18th anniversary. The new products include the new Klarna app and smart shopping features that help consumers find and resell the perfect items. With the Klarna app’s new AI-driven shopping feed, consumers ...

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    New Klarna in-app search and compare tool as an alternative to Google and Amazon

    2022-11-15T11:55:00Z

    Klarna launched a new “rich and unbiased search and compare tool” in the Klarna App in the U.S. last month and is now expanding it to the U.K., Sweden and Denmark. The tool compares prices from thousands of retailers. In addition, consumers can filter their search by criteria that matter ...

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    AliExpress launches 11.11 global shopping festival with longest sales period ever

    2022-11-01T08:18:00Z

    AliExpress, the global online retail marketplace owned by Alibaba Group, officially kicked off its 2022 11.11 Global Shopping Festival on Oct. 31 under the theme “Deals & Fun. Always Better Together” – a full two weeks earlier than previous years and running throughout November. For all orders in Spain, France, ...

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    Klarna starts $800m fundraising round, but drops in valuation

    2022-07-13T13:51:00Z

    The Swedish financial technologies company Klarna is raising $800 million in a funding round advised by Goldman Sachs. The sum is planned to flow primarily into the company’s expansion in the U.S., where Klarna has roughly 30 million users. However, Klarna’s current valuation of $6.7 billion is a significant drop ...

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    Klarna to lay off 10% of workforce due to changing business climate

    2022-05-24T07:57:00Z

    Germany’s Manager Magazin reports that Swedish fintech Klarna will lay off about ten percent of its roughly 7,000 employees. The startup, led by co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, reportedly said that rising inflation and the war in Ukraine had impacted the business climate, making the move necessary. At its last ...

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    Klarna drives global expansion with launch of rewards program and Pay Now in nine new markets

    2022-02-22T15:27:00Z

    Klarna, the global retail banking, payment and shopping service hailing from Sweden, is expanding two of its fastest-growing products internationally. With the global growth of Klarna’s rewards program and Pay Now payment method, the fintech company aims to become the go-to destination for every type of purchase while rewarding consumers ...

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    Klarna launches immersive basketball activation in the U.S., accessible worldwide

    2022-02-17T06:50:00Z

    Klarna, the Swedish retail banking, payment and online shopping service, has unveiled “The Klarna All-Star Vault,” an interactive activation celebrating the connection between fashion and professional basketball in its 75-year history. The promotion – Klarna’s first-ever immersive sports activation – continues the shopping service’s expansion in the sports industry, following ...

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    Klarna and Good On You make sustainable products suggestions

    2022-02-14T13:05:00Z

    Klarna, the Swedish retail banking, payment and shopping service, in collaboration with Good On You, has unveiled its first set of sustainable collections in the Klarna app that can be shopped on an ongoing basis. Good On You is a platform for rating the sustainability of fashion brands. Using more ...

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    Klarna acquires social shopping platform Hero

    2021-07-12T08:23:00Z

    Klarna, the retail banking, payments and shopping service from Sweden with over 90 million active users worldwide and 2 million transactions per day, has acquired Hero, a social shopping platform founded in 2015 and based in London and New York. The Wall Street Journal said Klarna would pay about $160 ...

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    Sports sales boom in Norway continues over the internet

    2021-03-17T18:03:00Z

    The Norwegian sporting goods market, which grew by 7 percent last year across the major retail chains, continues to be very buoyant, especially over the internet, as noted by Sportsbransjen, the country’s sporting goods industry association. According to Klarna, the Swedish fintech company, online sales of sports and leisure products ...

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    Klarna enters partnership with Verifone

    2020-12-21T08:21:00Z

    Klarna, the Swedish supplier of ”buy now, pay later” online payment solutions, has entered a partnership with Verifone, a California-based provider of hardware products for payment processing, that will make Klarna available to millions of Verifone devices in the U.S. and Europe. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has impacted shopping behaviors ...

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    Klarna’s high valuation proves the merits of buy-now, pay-later schemes

    2020-09-16T09:12:00Z

    Klarna, the Swedish provider of online payment services, raised $650 million in an equity funding round that values the whole company $10.65 billion. Known in Europe for the growing popularity of its buy-now, pay-later program, claims that the valuation ranks it as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe and the ...