The Sad Demise Of Europe’s Neobanks
David Dawkins in his article for Forbes writes that the pandemic and the subsequent ‘new normal’ across Europe has pushed neobanks to the edge. With not a penny of profit yet between them, the pandemic was an opportunity for the startups to strengthen their relationship with users, and come out of the lockdown having proved their value over the big banks they sought to disrupt.
This simply didn’t happen. Instead the prospects of the European neobank withered, unused and unloved in the wallets of their users. For years, no one has had reason to question the claim that the bank of the future would be a neobank, but as revenues dwindle, regulatory obligations sap energy and long-serving staff wave goodbye, the basic promise of Europe’s neobanks to deliver on this is fading fast.
