Fintech startup N26 plans to launch its retail banking service in Brazil soon. The company announced the news onstage at MWC in Barcelona.
N26 has already announced that its next market would be the U.S. at some point during the first half of 2019. Brazil should launch after that.
Right now, N26 is available in 24 European countries, including all of the Eurozone, the U.K., Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Liechtenstein and Iceland.
The company reached 2 million customers back in November 2018. N26 says that it now has 2.5 million customers. It has processed €20 billion in transaction volume since its creation in 2013, and customers currently hold more than €1 billion in N26 accounts.
Eduardo Prota will be the general manager for Brazil. He’s worked for Santander, Cielo and various startups. N26 will compete with another challenger bank in Brazil, Nubank. The startup already has 5 million customers and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
N26 also recently raised $300 million at a $2.7 billion valuation. It’s clear that the company doesn’t want to stop at Europe. Let’s see if N26 can reproduce the same success on another continent.
Update: An earlier version of this post said that N26 would launch in Brazil in 2019. The company hasn’t given a clear time frame. The post has been updated to reflect that.
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Challenger bank N26 plans to expand to Brazil
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