Swedish payments group Klarna is planning an initial public offering (IPO) for next year. However, many of its FinTech compatriots aren’t ready to jump on the IPO bandwagon, CNBC reported Tuesday (Nov. 19). For example, Hiroki Takeuchi, CEO of online payments startup GoCardless, said last...
Klarna is reportedly looking to list its recently announced initial public offering (IPO) in New York in the first half of 2025. The Swedish buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider is asking banks to submit pitches for junior roles in the share sale, Bloomberg reported Friday (Nov....
Klarna has filed its long-awaited plans to go public in the U.S. The Swedish buy now, pay later (BNPL) company on Wednesday (Nov. 13) announced it had “confidentially submitted” a draft registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO) to the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Mexican FinTech Klar is reportedly aiming to go public at the end of 2026. Juan Sarmiento, the company’s vice president of finance, told Bloomberg News Saturday (Nov. 2) that Klar is eyeing annual run rate of $500 million as a target for its initial public...
While this year hasn’t seen an initial public offering (IPO) rebound, the CEO of Nasdaq reportedly isn’t surprised. That’s according to a report Sunday (Oct. 27) by TechCrunch, citing Adena Friedman’s comments at a recent Axios event. She said that while the public markets have...
For FinTechs in general, and the FinTech IPO Index in particular, this past week has been dominated by regulators, new rules related to data and disclosure, and legal wrangling in the courts. Shares of Sezzle surged 19.8% through the past five sessions, while Affirm lost...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday (Oct. 8) that regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. have made it difficult for companies to go public. Speaking in a Bloomberg Television interview from London, Dimon said rising expenses from litigation and regulatory filings have contributed to...
A top banker at JPMorgan Chase said that the initial public offering (IPO) market for companies backed by private equity firms is heating up. Keith Canton, JPMorgan’s head of Americas equity capital markets, said the market for such companies is “very much open,” as firms...
Brazilian digital bank PicPay is reportedly planning to go public in the U.S. next year. The company is set to hire financial firms to help it with an initial primary offering in New York, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 2), citing two sources familiar with the matter. The report...