{"id":391825,"date":"2025-09-02T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391825\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:56:17","slug":"klarna-aims-to-raise-up-to-1-27-billion-in-u-s-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391825\/","title":{"rendered":"Klarna aims to raise up to $1.27 billion in U.S. IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Klarna Bank AB logo appears on a smartphone screen in this illustration photo in Reno, United States, on December 30, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Swedish fintech firm Klarna is looking to raise up to $1.27 billion in its long-awaited U.S. initial public offering, according to an official filing out on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Klarna plans to offer 34,311,274 ordinary shares priced between $35 and $37 each. The offering will value the company up to $14 billion, according to CNBC calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The company will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#8220;KLAR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Klarna will offer 5.56 million of those shares, while the remaining roughly 28.8 million will be put forward by existing shareholders who are selling their stock.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are acting as joint book runners for the listing.<\/p>\n<p>Klarna, which was founded in 2005, is best known for its buy now, pay later model \u2014 a service that allows consumers to split purchases into installments.\u00a0But it has looked to expand into other products <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/18\/klarna-ceo-outlines-plan-to-become-super-app-with-ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including debit cards and deposit accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission also revealed the company&#8217;s latest financial figures. Revenue for the June quarter rose 20% year-on-year to $823 million. Klarna posted a net loss of $53 million widening from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Klarna was initially aiming to go public earlier this year, but temporarily put its plans on hold due to U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s April announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries.<\/p>\n<p>It was once valued at as $45.6 billion in a <a id=\"107312506\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/\" type=\"security\" brand=\"cnbc\" section=\"[object Object]\" contentclassification=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoftBank<\/a>-led funding round in June 2021 but this has since dropped significantly, slumping as much as 85% in 2022 to $6.7 billion.\u00a0The company at the time blamed worsening macroeconomic conditions linked to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Klarna Bank AB logo appears on a smartphone screen in this illustration photo in Reno, United States,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[3083,3085,20957,7993,117347,53,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-391825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-breaking-news-technology","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","11":"tag-morgan-stanley","12":"tag-softbank-corp","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115134580827828765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}