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not of Rogers News.

If you see as a bank, then you do worry about the economic stuff.

The positive there, though, is that if you see it as a bank, it's going to work out, right?

You don't have to worry about whether climate is going to fail or not.

Banks have been in business forever and will continue to be in business forever.

Maybe this pitch that like we can lend money get cheaper and that we're going to lead us

to high growth will play out.

But they can just fall back on what banks have always done, which is just charge people more money for lending.

And in that sense, it's a cheaper, it's a safer IPO than, say, Corweave or some others.

What do you get when you stuff a burrito with the machinations of high finance?

Klanar, the Swedish firm that

let's shop is buy now and pay over a series of installments, including for takeout food

from New Partner DoorDash, is about to give investors a chance to find out.

Amid a rocky market for initial public offerings, with high-profile technology firm Corweave

and gas-exported venture global stumbling out of the gate, boss Sebastian Simikovsky's nonetheless seems to be pushing ahead for a long-sought listing

at a potential value of $15 billion, that Reuters reported.

That's a steep tumble from the $46 billion once awarded to the firm during the giddy post-pandemic era.

What its success or failure augurs for others waiting in the wings, and whether Klanah really

can make a claim to reinventing a tech-flavored form of credit is the subject of this week's

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