Finance

From Boardroom Brawls to IPO Ready: Inside Klarna’s Wild Year

Fintech firm is expected to make public debut sometime in 2025
Klarna spent this year reshaping operations to prepare for IPO

A sticker in the window of a shop which reads “Klarna Available Here” in Stockholm, Sweden.Photographer: Erika Gerdemark/Bloomberg

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By Aisha S Gani

November 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM UTC

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At times, the boardroom drama inside Klarna Group Plc this year felt like a soap opera.

It turns out, it could be one: a production company in Sweden that has made features for Netflix Inc. bought the rights to bring the company’s wild rise from a plucky provider of online payments to one of the year’s most highly-anticipated IPO darlings onto the big screen.