Banks vs fintech: 5 ways of responding

(Banks AM – 14/11/18) Progressive development of financial technologies has become a challenge for traditional banking activity, making banks to reconsider their business strategy. Banks are responding in different ways to this digital threat.

25 Digital-Only Banks to Watch

(The Financial Brand – 08/01/18) Listing Fidor as a digital bank that is redefining the banking industry by connecting with a new generation of mobile-first customer.

FinTech in 2018: The Fads, the Fears and the Future

(Fleishman Hillard Fishburn – 09/01/18) The report reaches out to over 30 experts from leading brands including Ant Financial, Citi, Ripple, Fidor Bank Santander, Starling Bank, Visa and Western Union to share their insights on the biggest fads of 2017. Download Report

New rules set to transform the retail banking landscape

(Retail Tech Innovation Hub – 12/01/18) PSD2 is set to revolutionise the way individuals and businesses manage their finances by opening up access to the heretofore closely guarded reserves of transactional data held by the big banks.

Seedrs & Nutmeg Join Forces with Fidor Bank

(Fintech Finance - 10/07/17) Seedrs announces that it will be the sole equity finance provider in a new partnership with Fidor Bank.

BPCE targets 1 billion euros by 2020

(Reuters UK - 21/2/17) France’s second-biggest retail bank BPCE announced plans on Tuesday to trim and reorganise its branch network and invest in online banking, as it targets annual cost savings of 1 billion euros (£0.88 billion) by 2020

Fidor Bank Predictions for 2018

A new challenger bank built like an app store just launched in the UK

(BusinessInsider UK - 18/09/15) Fidor has been operating a website since April in the UK, signing on "community" members to discuss what products and services they want. But today it is launching its first products in the UK.

UK banking revolution begins as Fidor opens for business

(Finextra - 18/09/15) Innovative German bank Fidor has opened its doors for business in the UK, beating home-grown challengers from the likes of Atom, Mondo, and Starling to the punch.

Fidor Online Bank launches in London

(Bloomberg - 18/09/15) Fidor Bank CEO and Board Spokesman Matthias Kroener discusses the Fed decision, launching Fidor bank in the U.K. and his outlook for the company. He speaks to Bloomberg's Guy Johnson on "Countdown."

Another challenger bank launches in Britain

(City A.M. - 18/09/15) A German digital challenger bank is expanding to the UK, joining the ever-growing collection of challenger banks giving the "big five" a run for their money.

Unbundling Fidor and the model for approaching financial startups

(Celent - 09/09/15) Fidor Bank wants to transform the way financial institutions interact with their customers by creating a sense of community and openness. The bank views its platform, FidorOS, as a key differentiator that allows it to offer customer services from startups or new financial instruments.

Matthias Kroener: Why isn't bitcoin being executed by banks?

(International Business Times - 17/08/15) So far Fidor Bank is the only mainstream banking operation bold enough to put its money where its mouth is in respect of cryptocurrency. Matthias Kroener calls bitcoin "a natural part of the digital lifestyle".

Fintech’s future is fast and furious

(VentureBeat - 04/08/15) Eric M. Jackson the former head of Marketing at Paypal mentions on his article on VentureBeat, Fidor as one of the banks in Europe to look out for when it comes to open architecture".

Fidor appoints Clarity PR for UK launch

(PR Week - 23/07/15) Fidor Bank, a digital German lender with assets exceeding 300m Euros in Germany, has hired Clarity PR to launch its banking services in the UK following a competitive pitch.

The mobile-first startups taking on the big banks

(TechWorld - 02/07/15) Fidor has been featured as one of the mobile-first start ups taking on the big banks. Since the UK's financial regulators relaxed rules for new entrants in 2013, a host of start ups have applied for banking licenses in order to take on the established lenders.

Finextra interview with CEO Matthias Kroener

(Finextra - 24/06/15) The CEO of Fidor Group Matthias Kroener gave an exclusive interview at SAP Financial Services Forum event in London. Matthias talked about the need for a better banking and the ways to harness innovation.

The Finanser Interviews: Matthias Kroener

(The Finanser - 22/04/15) The weekly Finanser talks featured this week Matthias Kroener the CEO and founder of Fidor Bank on a special interview about the Fidor Bank, its activities and the plans for expansion and growth.

The future of the digital-only bank

(MoneySummit - 21/04/15) We recently caught up with Matthias Kroener, CEO of Fidor Bank, one of the world's most innovative banks. Fidor has completely rethought the traditional concept of banking and produced an outstanding digital-only bank.

Fidor: Celent Model Bank of the Year 2015

(CELENT - 24/03/15) Celent names Fidor Bank the Model Bank of the Year for 2015. The vision for Celent’s Model Bank research, now in its eighth year, is to spotlight effective uses of technology in banking. Each year, in addition to case studies highlighting initiatives within a variety of topic areas, Celent awards an overall winner. download report

Bitcoin.de launches Integration with Fidor

(Coindesk - 23/02/15) Bitcoin.de's long-standing partnership with Fidor Bank has finally borne fruit, with the company claiming it is the world’s first bitcoin trading platform with a "direct connection to the classic banking system".

Fidor: First bank to use Ripple Payment Protocol

(Coindesk - 05/05/14) San Francisco-based decentralized payment network provider Ripple Labs has announced that German Internet direct bank Fidor is now using the Ripple protocol as part of its transaction infrastructure.

Technology you can bank on

(Computer Weekly - 01/03/13) Lessons Fidor can teach the broader financial services industry. Fidor Bank, as it is known, is the brainchild of a group of entrepreneurs who recognised that because of Web 2.0 and social media were changing people's social lives, they would inevitably change retail banking too.

Quarter of banks will use startups to replace legacy IT

(Computer Weekly - 05/05/16) A quarter of banks will go to financial technology suppliers for their online and mobile and mobile banking requirements by 2020.

German Bank Fidor steps up fight for UK current accounts

(The Guardian - 21/01/16) An online challenger bank from Germany is taking onmainstream UK banks with a revamped curent account.

Fidor rolls out first debit cards

(Finextra - 21/01/16) Digital-only challenger Fidor has launched its first physical product in the UK market, a contactless debit card developed with input from its online user community.

Bring back the Listening Bank

(Bobsguide - 27/11/15) It has been two decades since the UK truly had a "listening bank", one that heard customers' views and acted on them, one that helped people in their financial ambitions. That's where Fidor comes into the new Fintech scene.

German bank Fidor launches in Britain

(The Telegraph -18/09/15) The online-only lender’s chief executive says it is more like a social network than a traditional bank, with online communities offering finance tips, peer-to-peer loans and financial market trading facilities.

Bank with interest rates linked to Facebook likes to launch in UK

(The Guardian - 18/09/15) Based in Germany, with deposits overed by the German savings guarantee scheme, Fidor is starting out with a savings account and intends to launch full service current accounts and other products later

Fidor UK launch promises social media revolution in retail

(BankingTech, 18/09/15) Online-only bank Fidor has launched in the UK, promising to change the way retail banking works by letting the customer build the services and products they want to use