European Digital Bank N26 Welcomes Decision from BaFin to Lift Customer Onboarding Cap

N26, Europe’s digital bank, says that it welcomes the latest decision from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Germany, which will see the complete lift of the growth restriction for N26 from June 1, 2024.

To date, the company has been able “to take on up to 60,000 new customers per month.”

This restriction ceases from the month of June.

The news follows “a period of close exchange between N26 and the regulator to combat financial crime and money laundering, which will continue even after the growth restriction ends.”

In addition, the exchange with “the special representative will continue until the end of 2024.”

Valentin Stalf, CEO of N26 said:

“We are pleased about the trust of our regulators and will continue our close exchange in the future. In recent years, we have been able to make significant progress in preventing and combating money laundering and financial crime.”

Maximilian Tayenthal, co-CEO and COO of N26 said:

“Our infrastructure and our use of modern, intelligence-based technology enable us to detect and combat fraud and money laundering in real time. We want to play a pioneering role among European banks in this field over the next few years.”

Over the past two years, N26 has invested “more than 100 million Euros in compliance and its infrastructure and teams to effectively combat money laundering and financial crime, as it prepared to onboard a higher number of new customers.”

The systems that will enable this include, “among other things, sophisticated intelligence-based models that analyze the fraud potential of individual customers before they even open an account with N26.”

They additionally include self-learning transaction monitoring systems “that protect the company’s customers by detecting suspicious activity in real time.”

N26 claims that it is seeing growing customer demand “for its mobile banking app and the new products it launched in the first half of 2024.”

Thanks to Instant Savings accounts with up to 4% interest on deposits, “a competitive Stocks and ETFs trading offering, and Joint Accounts, customers across Europe can now manage all aspects of their financial lives directly within the N26 app.”

The company expects to reach “monthly profitability in the second half of 2024.”

As covered, N26 is Europe’s digital bank with “a full German banking license.”

It says that it “offers a simple, secure and customer-friendly mobile banking solution for more than 8 million customers in 24 markets across Europe.”

N26 processes over 100bn EUR “in transactions a year and currently has a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.”

The company is headquartered in Berlin, with “offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna, Paris, Milan and Barcelona.”

Founded by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal in 2013, N26 has “raised close to US$ 1.8 billion from some of the world’s most renowned investors.”



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