Klarna operates a payments and commerce network that serves more than 118 million consumers and works with over one million merchants, processing millions of transactions daily. The company leverages its regulated banking license as a strategic advantage to access funding structures used by established financial institutions. Klarna has pursued multiple Significant Risk Transfer transactions — the recent $1.7 billion deal is its sixth and largest — to optimize capital deployment and reduce risk-weighted assets. It also announced a $2 billion facility intended to support up to $17 billion of U.S. financing expansion. Combined, these funding initiatives are intended to enable Klarna to support over $40 billion in lending capacity. Klarna is using these capital-efficiency structures to scale its consumer credit offerings and expand lending, particularly in the United States.

Total raised

$15.3B

Funding rounds

17

Latest round

Debt Financing

Latest activity

Jul 2026