Sam Bankman-Fried The co-founder and CEO of the crypto exchange FTX is threatened with investigations by the public prosecutor. (Foto: Bloomberg/Getty Images) New York It would be a desperate maneuver: According to US media reports, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, still believes he can raise enough money to compensate his users. … Read more
Mobile banking apps are becoming increasingly popular More and more people are doing financial transactions via app while on the go. (Photo: dpa) Cologne Doing banking online – this trend has accelerated during the pandemic. This is shown by a study by the IT industry association Bitkom from October 2021. According to it, 80 percent … Read more
Qonto headquarters in Paris The French fintech primarily wants to win over freelancers and medium-sized companies as customers. (Foto: Alexis Leclercq Photography / Qonto) Berlin After a successful round of capital, the French banking start-up Qonto has set itself an ambitious goal: “By 2025, we want to be the preferred financial solution for a million … Read more
Frankfurt The British neobank Revolut is growing rapidly. She puts the number of her customers at 18 million, around 70 percent of them in the EU and half a million in Germany. The central offer of the finance start-up (Fintech) Revolut is a finance app. But only now is the company known as “Neobank” or … Read more
N26 The German insurance group Allianz, the state fund GIC from Singapore, the Chinese internet giant Tencent, Earlybird and the German-American investor Peter Thiel are among those involved in N26. (Foto: imago images / photothek) Berlin The Berlin Internet bank N26 receives an expensive receipt for its deficiencies in money laundering prevention and has to pay … Read more
Berlin “Attention, there is still a construction site here,” says Özkan Akkilic as the 47-year-old founder walks ahead across the corridor that is glued with non-woven cover. He wants to show the newly emerging offices and the huge roof terrace high above Berlin-Charlottenburg. Elopage has already secured 2500 square meters, but the young company currently … Read more