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Company announcement/payments

Nets to offer Klarna payments to Nordic merchant customers

Nets, part of European PayTech Nexi Group, and Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, have entered a partnership that will bring Klarna’s popular payment methods to Nets’ Nordics merchant customers.

15 May 2024

News/payments

Nine-in-ten Klarna employees now use AI daily

Billed as a game-changer for productivity, up to 90% off Klarna staff are now using generative AI daily, with non-technical groups such as Communications, Marketing, and Legal seeing adoption rates of 92.6%, 87.9%, and 86.4% respectively.

14 May 2024

Company announcement/sustainable

Klarna adds $2 million Climate Transformation Fund

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has announced a further $2M worth of funding as part of its Climate Transformation Fund in collaboration with Milkywire.

01 May 2024

News/payments

Klarna strikes global payment deal with Uber

Klarna has struck a global deal with Uber, giving users the option of immediate or deferred payments across the ride hailing company's taxi and food delivery services.

24 April 2024

Company announcement/payments

Klarna and Expedia expand partnership to US

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Expedia Group to the US market. Klarna is now bringing its flexible payment offerings to millions of travelers, enabling them to book flights and stays using its popular interest-free Pay Now or Pay in 4 options across Expedia.com/Klarna and Hotels.com/Klarna.

22 April 2024

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Klarna sells virtual shopping business Hero

Klarna is selling Hero, the virtual shopping platform it acquired in 2021, to video commerce outfit Bambuser in a deal worth around EUR1.3 million.

22 April 2024

Company announcement/sustainable

Klarna and Milkywire open global biodiversity fund to other companies

The AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, Klarna and Milkywire, an environmental impact platform, have launched a new fund to open to tech and finance companies which want to invest directly in impactful projects to contribute to global biodiversity targets but don’t know where to start.

19 April 2024

Company announcement/payments

Klarna Card waitlist opens in US

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, today announced it has opened its waitlist for the new Klarna Card to all US consumers.

17 April 2024

Company announcement/payments

Klarna launches data hub with facts on how Brits use its credit products

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, today announced Wikipink, an industry-first data hub with facts on how UK consumers are using Klarna’s credit products.

04 April 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: Top Nordics payments stories you’ve missed this year

Finextra is returning to Stockholm for the annual NextGen Nordics event. Attendees can expect in-depth conversations on a variety of topics and much more.

19 March 2024

Company announcement/payments

Klarna adds open banking settlements for 18 million consumers and 32,000 retailers

Klarna, the AI-powered payments network and shopping assistant, has begun to roll out open banking-powered settlements in the UK.

14 March 2024

News/regulation

Court tells Klarna to pay $733,000 over GDPR failings

Klarna must pay a fine of nearly three quarters of a million dollars for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a Swedish court of appeal has ruled.

13 March 2024