Payments firm Klarna's Jan-Sep losses grow on soured credits
Payments firm Klarna's Jan-Sep losses grow on soured credits
STOCKHOLM, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Losses for Swedish payments firm Klarna deepened in the year to the end of September, while transactions using its platform jumped in the final three months of the period, results published on Friday showed.
路透斯德哥爾摩11月26日電-週五公佈的財報顯示，瑞典支付公司Klarna在截至9月底的一年中虧損加劇，而使用其平臺的交易在此期間的最後三個月躍升.
Operating losses at Klarna, a "buy now, pay later" company, widened to 3.13 billion crowns ($344.1 million) in the January-September period, from 801 million crowns a year ago.
Klarna是一家名為“現在購買，以後付款”的公司，今年1-9月的營業虧損從一年前的8.01億克朗擴大到31.3億克朗(3.441億美元)。
Net credit losses rose by over 80% to 2.9 billion crowns, Klarna, which rivals Affirm and Afterpay APT.AX , said.
Klarna説，淨信貸損失增加了80%以上，達到29億克朗。競爭對手Klarna和Afterpay APT.AX證實了這一點。
In the third quarter, the firm's gross merchandise volume (GMV) - the value of transactions made using its payment platform - grew to over $57 billion in the third quarter from $35 billion.
第三季度，該公司的商品交易總額(GMV)-使用其支付平臺進行的交易價值-從350億美元增長到第三季度的570億美元以上。
"The US continues to be Klarna's fastest growing market with over 300% GMV growth YTD driven by 21m+ consumers," the firm, which is expected to make its stock market debut in the coming months, said in a statement.
該公司在一份聲明中表示：“在2100多萬消費者的推動下，美國仍然是Klarna增長最快的市場，GMV同比增長超過300%。”該公司預計將在未來幾個月上市。
The firm's investors include SoftBank 9984.T , Sequoia Capital, NorthZone, Silver Lake, rapper Snoop Dogg, BlackRock
該公司的投資者包括軟銀9984.T、紅杉資本、NorthZone、銀湖、説唱歌手史努比·狗、貝萊德
BLK.N and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC.
BLK.N和新加坡主權財富基金GIC。
($1 = 9.0963 Swedish crowns)
(1美元=9.0963瑞典克朗)
(Reporting by Helena Soderpalm; Editing by Simon Johnson)
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