Klarna ‘Definitely Ready’ for IPO After US Growth, CEO Says

  • Buy-now, pay-later firm is setting up UK-based holding company
  • Klarna has met growth criteria to press ahead with an IPO: CEO

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

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Klarna Bank AB is prepared for an initial public offering after an expansion globally and in the US, which is now the buy-now, pay-later firm’s largest market by revenue, Chief Executive Officer Sebastian Siemiatkowski said.

“We’re definitely ready,” Siemiatkowski said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview. Asked whether a stock sale could come even earlier than the first quarter of next year, he said, “Everything’s possible.”