N26 is expanding its travel offering with the launch of a Travel eSIM – fully digital data plans designed to keep travelers connected in more than 100 different countries.
Travel eSIM allows customers to activate their Travel eSIM “within the N26 App without the need for a physical SIM card or additional app.”
The launch builds on the introduction of N26 SIM earlier this year, reportedly making N26 one of the first digital banks to “offer fast and flexible mobile plans directly within its banking app.”
Customers can avail flexible data plans with reasonable prices, “choosing from different plan sizes tailored to their destination, with highly competitive flat-rate.”
Customers can activate travel data plans for “over 100 destinations within the N26 app in just a few taps.”
They can also buy data plans in advance, which automatically “activate as soon as their device connects to the destination’s network to avoid unexpected fees.”
N26 offers various features for anyone traveling abroad, combining practical financial tools with valuable travel benefits:
- Good exchange rates, that remove the need to manage multiple foreign currency accounts
- Fee-free card payments abroad, simplifying spending without additional foreign exchange fees
- Unlimited free ATM withdrawals abroad, ensuring access to cash when needed without extra fees
- Comprehensive travel insurance, covering a range of travel-related situations, like trip delays and interruptions, baggage damage, medical emergencies and more
- Access to over 1,300 airport lounges worldwide, with digital lounge access passes available straight in the N26 app
N26 is also introducing 1% travel cashback on “all in-person purchases made outside of Europe going forward.”
Available to customers who have an active N26 Go or N26 Metal subscription, the cashback comes “with no minimum spending requirements, or limits on the amount of cashback claimable on international spend while traveling to the Americas, Asia Pacific, and all other areas outside of the European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland.”
Travel eSIM is available to eligible personal and business “customers in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.”
As covered, N26 is Europe’s digital bank with a full German banking license.
It offers mobile banking to customers across Europe.
N26 claims that it processes over “140bn EUR in transactions a year and currently has a 1,500-strong team of more than 90 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 reportedly raised close to “US$ 1.8 billion from some of the world’s most renowned investors.”
