N26 sets sights on future IPO
“Our goal is to do for finance what Spotify did for music.”
N26
Top fintech stories this week – 19 July 2019
PayTech Awards winners announced!
N26 extends Series D funding to $470m
The company is now valued at $3.5bn
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Top fintech stories this week – 12 July 2019
N26 has superhero-landed in the US, new hip bank in Spain, and more!
N26 lands in the US
Starting with users in the waiting list.
Top fintech stories this week – 21 June 2019
From JP Morgan’s secret UK digital bank project to MoneyGram and Ripple’s partnership.
N26 launches MoneyBeam for UK users
MoneyBeam lets users receive or transfer up to £100 with other N26 users in the UK.
Paysend secures $4.2m crowdfunding for global expansion
The round hit its target in less than 72 hours.
Form3 partners with Pockit
The UK-based payments system is also opening new offices in Amsterdam.
Yolt signs partners and prepares for wider roll-out
Yolt is also partnering with Payvision and Funding Options, both of which also have ties to ING.
Top fintech stories this week – 18 April 2019
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Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 15 April 2019
This week, news about challenger banks!
N26 under German regulator’s microscope
The BaFin has highlighted issues with staffing and communications.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 4 March 2019
Featuring N26, South Korea, Brex and TymeBank.
Challenger bank N26 expands to Brazil
It’s also planning its delayed launch in the US this year.
Challenger banks in Spain: who’s who (and what’s their tech)
A list of the known challengers to date and the technology they are using.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 14 January 2019
Featuring N26, RBS and Loot, Google in Ireland, and Alipay in Pakistan.
N26 plots delayed US launch with $300m funding
Mobile challenger bank is now valued at $2.7 billion.
N26 and Rasa to launch extra languages and features for its chatbot
N26’s chatbot is already live in English in both Facebook and Salesforce.
Challenger bank N26 begins beta launch in UK
The Germanic one revealed its plans back in November 2017.
N26 goes into Spaces for savings
On the heels of Monzo and Starling.
N26 sets aim on 100 more engineers by 2019
It has opened an office in Barcelona to reach a larger talent pool.
Banking Technology April 2018 issue out now
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Top fintech stories this week – 23 March 2018
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N26 raises €110m and eyes US expansion
German mobile challenger bank will also consolidate its presence in Europe.
German mobile challenger bank N26 expands to UK
Germany-based mobile challenger bank N26 will enter the UK market in the first half of 2018. According to N26, the UK is “one of the most advanced markets” in Europe in terms of digital payment methods. It says “non-cash payments and e-commerce are the accepted norm” and reckons there is a demand for a “fully-fledged […]
Top fintech stories this week – 8 September 2017
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Mambu’s core banking tech supports challenger bank N26
Mambu has gone on the record about its core banking software project at N26, a German-based challenger bank. N26 is using Mambu’s flagship core system, provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis.
Mobile bank N26 launches loans with credit marketplace Auxmoney
Berlin-based mobile bank N26 has teamed up with credit marketplace Auxmoney to offer loans in Germany. The deal builds on N26’s current range of consumer loans – and with this new partnership, N26 says it will soon be able to offer loans to those such as students, the self-employed or freelancers. The bank already offers […]
Insurtech firm Clark and N26 launch digital insurance service
Clark, a German insurance robo-advisor, has inked a deal with mobile bank N26. Clark says its Bancassurance-API will help customers of N26 “to better understand their current tariffs and improve their insurance situation”.
N26 mobile bank powers to 300,000 users
Berlin-based mobile bank N26 says its user base grew to more than 300,000 over the last year, tripling in size since the last announcement of 100,000 users in January 2016. As Banking Technology reported late last year, N26 took its business fully across 17 European countries, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland and Slovakia. Before that […]
Digital challenger bank N26 goes pan-European
Germany-based mobile bank N26 is taking its business fully across 17 European countries, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland and Slovakia. Until now, some of these locations were in the “soft launch” phase.
Siri gives N26 payments a voice
Digital bank N26 (formerly Number26) is now offering voice-powered payments via Siri – the “first” bank in Germany to do so. Users can transfer money by talking to Siri; and can also request money from their N26 contacts using Apple’s instant messaging service iMessage. Valentin Stalf, founder and CEO of N26, says: “Our customers can […]
Number26 gets banking licence and new name
German digital bank Number26 becomes N26 and has received its banking licence, 1.5 years after launching. After applying for the licence nine months ago; Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and the European Central Bank gave the bank regulatory approval to conduct operations across Europe. “This banking licence is an important additional step for us […]
