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Last year could hardly have started better for Swedish buy now, pay later firm Klarna. After signing up a new retailer every seven minutes over the course of 2019, the business started 2020 from a position of strength. UK customer numbers had doubled, US numbers had grown sixfold and revenues had shot up by 31 per cent to $753 million.
Then Covid-19 hit and, as country after country went into lockdown, shops around the world were forced to close. Disastrous for many, it was exactly the kind of negative global event Klarna needed to thrive. As Klarna chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski wrote in the company’s 2020 interim accounts, the pandemic made its offering “more relevant than ever” as retailers shifted online.
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When an injustice is so massive, yet so concealed, it can drive anyone to madness. Most people can’t bear to face corruption head-on when the stakes are so high. But a Swedish financial insider named Victor X is sacrificing everything to uncover the truth.
Is this man the key to exposing the largest money laundering and financial fraud scheme in world history? Before becoming Victor X, he was Victor Carlstrom, a top money broker in Sweden. Although he rose up the ranks quickly, he was thrown down even further and faster.
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Exclusive Limited Time Offer Returns to St Kitts and Nevis Popular Citizenship by Investment Programme
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LONDON, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ After unprecedented demand, the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis has announced that it will be extending its limited time offer under its Citizenship by Investment Programme. The limited time offer launched last year and was initially anticipated to last only six months. Now, due to popularity, it has been extended. The Programme, introduced in 1984 after St Kitts and Nevis gained independence from the United Kingdom, offers investors a safe and secure route to second citizenship once contributing through the Sustainable Growth Fund.