company
Klarna
Klarna Group plc is a Swedish financial technology company and digital bank. It offers buy now, pay later payments, cards, banking services and merchant tools for online and in-store commerce. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2025.
CEO
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Key facts
- Founded
- 2005 in Stockholm, Swedensource
- Founders
- Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobssonsource
- Stock listing
- New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: KLAR), September 2025source
- Reach (2026)
- more than 119 million active consumers, more than one million merchants, 3.4 million transactions per day, operations across 26 countriessource
- Second-quarter revenue
- $1.04 billion, up 27% from $823 million a year earliersource
- 2026 gross merchandise volume outlook
- between $149 billion and $151 billion, below the prior view of more than $155 billionsource
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