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October 1, 2019

Another challenger bank is trying its luck in the UK. This is how it hopes to sweep the market

Holland’s Bunq is launching in Britain this week. Will its “life-hack” features, ethical investing, and credit-card offering be enough to lure a more mature market?


Isabel Woodford

3 min read

Bunq isn’t an ordinary challenger bank. The company has branched into 30 European countries without a penny of VC funds, it doesn’t believe in free banking, and perhaps most unusually, it asks its customers where it should invest its funds.

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Canadian-Iranian founder and CEO Ali Niknam. Source: Bunq
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