Neobanks: Our time has come

With venture capital flooding in, the world’s biggest neobanks are more confident than ever. They still face serious questions about their long-term profitability and regulators are certainly paying them more attention, but amid the upheaval of Covid-19, freedom from legacy infrastructure has proved even more important than ever. The incumbents are rightly worried.

Australia demonstrates the stages of neobank evolution

The neobanks’ implicit promise – encapsulated by names like Revolut – is a radically new set of financial institutions built from the ashes of the moral and technological bankruptcy of the old ones.

Sometimes you have to suspend your disbelief. It can seem like you’re missing the point if you ask a founder how the company will ever make money or fulfil its business objectives when it lacks the proper regulatory means to do so.