Business news live: Klarna shares soar after IPO, Musk regains richest person tag

Whether you’re ordering drinks to your table in a pub or want to pay for car parking, QR codes make life simple.

A quick scan of a black-and-white grid on your mobile phone takes you straight to a website to carry out the transaction.

But that harmless-looking square can now hide a cunning scam.

Morning all – another weekend is fast approaching but there’s a lot to get through before then on the business and money side.

Tomorrow in the UK we’ll get GDP figures of course, but today there’s reaction to Klarna’s successful listing as a public company, the UK government getting hammered by both domestic and overseas companies and plenty more besides.