Adyen, the global financial technology platform for many of the world's leading companies, is proud to announce the company is strengthening its global partnership with Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant. In this new partnership, Klarna will benefit from Adyen’s acquiring capabilities to simplify card payments for Klarna's 150 million consumers and 500,000 retail partners globally.

Adyen has offered Klarna’s suite of payment methods, including their interest-free Pay Now and pay later options to Adyen consumers for over ten years. Now, the partnership enters a new strategic phase where Adyen, for the first time ever, assumes the role of acquiring bank on behalf of Klarna’s different consumer offerings, starting in Europe, North America, and Asia in 2024. Adyen will, as a payment provider, help Klarna make more seamless payments for Klarna’s 150 million users worldwide.

Klarna has showcased a strong understanding of the modern consumer journey and successfully launched their payment and shopping services all over the world. Adyen’s technology is set to make payments easier in a global context. With the help of Adyen’s financial technology platform, Klarna can further concentrate their efforts on delivering the best possible shopping experience to consumers worldwide.

The partnership with Klarna highlights Adyen’s ambition to provide global enterprises within the digital economy with the tools to create seamless payments, scalability and consumer journeys regardless of their market, sales channel or business vertical.

“Klarna has, in many ways, revolutionized the digital shopping experience. I am proud to say we are now joining forces in a partnership set out to simplify payments and shopping in our respective areas of expertise. Adyen’s financial technology platform combined with Klarna’s various consumer offerings will raise the standard of payments and consumer experiences worldwide,” says Pieter van der Does, co-founder and co-CEO, Adyen.

“Adyen is fortunate to work with businesses that are reshaping commerce and Klarna is the latest testament to this. Klarna has changed how people shop around the world and it is incredibly exciting to take our collaboration to the next level locally and globally,” says Tobias Lindh, Managing Director Adyen Nordics & Baltics.

“Adyen, a world-class financial technology platform for businesses with global ambitions, aligns seamlessly with Klarna’s role as the preferred payments network and shopping assistant for consumers and retailers worldwide. In our journey towards strengthening our global commerce offerings, Adyen will play an integral role as our trusted partner,” says Sebastian Siematkowski, Co-founder and CEO, Klarna.