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Swedish Fintech Klarna aiming at IPO in the USA in April with an estimate of up to $ 15 billion, in what would be one of the biggest censuses this year.
Credit company to buy, payment, prepare to discover your including plans for the next month, according to people who are familiar with the thinking of the company. It Submitted for IPO to the US Securities Commission in November But he has not yet chosen the place of enrollment in the US, to get to know this question. Klarna refused to comment.
Founded the company in 2005 Executive Director Sebastian Siemiatkowski And it offers short -term loans without interest to consumers, usually on a salesworker.
Became an emblem of Fintech Bum -ai bust when its assessment collapsed to $ 6.7 billion only for a year After raising funds for 2021, he was appreciated at $ 46 billion and made it the most prized start-up in Europe.
Fintech recently came out of the management crisis caused by a conflict between Siemiatkowski and his Co -founder Victor Jacobsson This resulted in a representative being of the latter Built from the CLARNA Committee last year.
Klarna reduced her losses last year and appears on her way to returning to annual profitability. It was regularly profitable until 2019, when he began to accept some credit losses to deal with the US expansion.
Sought to reduce the costs and reduce the balance sheet before IPO, Believing AI -in will allow him to almost halve his numbers. He also transferred loans to the release of capital to grow borrowing and recently sold most of his UK portfolio of the American Hedge Fund Elliott. Also in conversations on the sale of the American Book of Load, he previously reported to FT.
