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  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    News in-depthEuropean banks
    High hopes, rocky realities: Europe’s new banks struggle to grow up

    Funding bonanza has come to an end with interest rate rises and doubts about profitability, controls and culture

    The exterior of the German neobank N26
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    How Germany’s top fintech is struggling to grow up

    N26’s strategic planning, leadership and governance in the spotlight

    Max Tayenthal, left, and Valentin Stalf
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Allianz puts N26 stake up for sale at steep discount

    German insurance group values smartphone bank at as little as $3bn

    People walking towards a door at the N26 office
  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Fintech
    N26’s top executives warned co-founders over ‘dysfunctional’ leadership

    German fintech’s senior management laid bare their concerns in blistering internal memo

    N26 offices
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    N26 head of risk quits due to personal reasons in escalating leadership crisis

    Fintech start-up loses Thomas Grosse while scrambling to improve anti-money laundering controls

    Thomas Grosse, former chief risk officer at N26
  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    German fintech N26 says no new funding needed before it breaks even

    Online bank optimistic over cash despite regulatory cap on new customers and a 14% rise in net losses

    Woman holding smartphone and N26 bank card
  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    InterviewFintech
    N26 got it wrong on global expansion and crypto, co-founder admits

    Max Tayenthal says €7.8bn fintech should have prioritised expanding its services over ‘putting flags’ in more countries

    N26 co-founders Valentin Stalf and Max Tayenthal
  • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
    Fintech N26 pulls out of US as it abandons global ambitions

    Retreat follows last year’s UK exit and series of public rebukes from German regulator

    N26 app on a mobile phone
  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    Fintech
    German watchdog imposes strict cap on N26’s client growth

    Fintech limited to maximum 70,000 new customers a month in long-running BaFin tussle

  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    N26 fined €4.25m for weak money-laundering controls

    German regulator rebukes the fast-growing online bank and has installed a supervisor to monitor progress

    A poster advertising N26
  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
    European companies
    German regulator sends supervisor to N26 in money laundering push

    BaFin’s intervention comes 2 years after it ordered digital bank to improve controls

  • Friday, 14 February, 2020
    City InsiderMatthew Vincent
    Rory Stewart plans to build an aligned post-Brexit City

    London mayoral candidate aims to be both a house guest and a housebuilder 

    Consrvative Party leadership contender, Rory Stewart.
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
    LombardKate Burgess
    BP lays out the wisdom of Buffett’s advice to short the horses

    Oil group’s green push; German digital lender N26 struggles in crowded field

    Greenpeace activists sit chained into oil barrels as they protest outside the headquarters of oil giant BP in London on February 5, 2020, on the day that the company's new was set to take up his role. - Activists from Greenpeace on Wednesday blocked the headquarters of BP in London with solar panels and mock barrels of crude to mark the first day of the oil giant's new CEO, Bernard Looney. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    Digital bank N26 to pull out of UK

    German challenger blames Brexit disruption although fintech rivals maintain commitment

    London, UK - June 22, 2019: Skyscrapers and modern office buildings of the City of London, London's famous financial district, from the other side of River Thames during blue hour Skyscrapers and modern office buildings of the City of London, UK. EDITORIAL STOCK PHOTO Skyscrapers and modern office buildings of the City of London, UKDOWNLOAD PREVIEW London, UK - June 22, 2019: Skyscrapers and modern office buildings of the City of London, London`s famous financial district, from the other side of River Thames during blue hour blue hour,river thames,other side,financial district,blue,city,district,famous,financial,hour,london,modern,office,river,skyscrapers,thames,architecture,area,banking,banks,building,business,capital,career More ID 152649079 © Alena Kravchenko/Dreamstime.com 0 0
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Fintech users just can’t get enough of traditional banks

    New data show challenger banks aren’t managing to convince customers to ditch their old high-street accounts. 

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2019
    Special ReportFuture of Fintech
    Coming soon: Netflix-style nudges that reward retail bank customers

    Lenders take a lead from subscription services that make recommendations based on user behaviour

    BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 11: In this photo illustration the Logo of German Direct Bank N26 is displayed on a smartphone on January 11, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2019
    German fintech N26 appeases regulators as it eyes future IPO

    $3.5bn online bank is fixing customer service and security problems, says chief

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    N26 comes of age

    “In all honesty, profitability is not one of our core metrics”.

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    German online bank N26 valued at $3.5bn after $170m investment

    Europe’s most valuable fintech says it does not see profitability as a ‘core metric’

    Employees of the Fintech N26 (Number26), attend a meeting in Berlin, Germany, August 19, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - S1AETWHYMJAA
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2019
    Regulator orders N26 to improve anti-money laundering controls

    German bank told by BaFin to fix backlogs and strengthen staffing

    The logo of the Fintech N26 (Number26), seen in the N26 office in Berlin, Germany, August 19, 2016.    REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - S1AETWHYIOAB
  • Thursday, 10 January, 2019
    Digital banking
    Germany’s N26 becomes Europe’s top fintech with $2.7bn valuation

    Online bank raised $300m from US Insight Venture and Singapore’s GIC

    Employees of the Fintech N26 (Number26), attend a meeting in Berlin, Germany, August 19, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - S1AETWHYMZAA
  • Thursday, 4 October, 2018
    European companies
    German digital bank N26 opens to UK customers

    Berlin-based start-up will be hoping to emulate success of app-based rival Monzo

    The logo of the Fintech N26 (Number26), seen in the N26 office in Berlin, Germany, August 19, 2016.    REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - S1AETWHYIOAB
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