I recently learned that Klarna is a Swedish company, and was founded in 2005 [0], which surprised me because I don't remember seeing it anywhere until the past

I recently learned that Klarna is a Swedish company, and was founded in 2005 [0], which surprised me because I don't remember seeing it anywhere until the past ~5 years, when it started appearing as an option on nearly every checkout page. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klarna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klarna