2010s

Greek banks were at the center of the Greek debt crisis. Greek banks held large amounts of Greek gov...

Danske Banks Estonia branch was at the center of one of the largest money laundering scandals in his...

In March 2013, Cyprus implemented an unprecedented bail in, forcing depositors in Cypriot banks to c...

The Unified Payments Interface was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India in April 2...

The criticism that major banks were not prosecuted for financial crisis crimes because they were too...

The shift from branch based banking to digital and mobile banking transformed the industry. Neobanks...

Open banking requires banks to share customer financial data with third parties with customer consen...

Financial technology companies disrupted traditional banking starting around 2010. Payment companies...

Truist was formed from the 2019 merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks, creating the sixth largest US ban...

TransferWise, founded by Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann in 2011, pioneered transparent low cost...

Banking as a Service allows non bank companies to offer banking products through licensed banks. Baa...

Real time payment systems settle transactions in seconds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The UK Fa...

The 1MDB scandal involved the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund being looted of 4.5 billion. Goldman S...

Nubank was founded in 2013 by David Velez in Sao Paulo as a digital first credit card company. Nuban...

Revolut was founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko as a multi currency debit card. T...

Basel III, agreed in December 2010, strengthened bank capital requirements in response to the 2008 c...

Monzo was founded in 2015 as Mondo by Tom Blomfield, a former Starling Bank executive. Monzo launche...

Dexia, a Belgo French bank, failed in 2011 after passing European stress tests just months earlier. ...

Starling Bank was founded by Anne Boden in 2014 after she left her job as head of transaction servic...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency challenged traditional banking by offering an alternative financial syste...

Cyprus developed an outsized banking sector, with bank assets reaching 7 times GDP. Cypriot banks at...

The Immediate Payment Service was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India in 2010. IM...

N26 was founded in Berlin in 2013 by Maximilian Tayenthal and Valentin Stalf. N26 launched its mobil...

Chime is a US neobank founded by Chris Britt and Ryan King in 2013. Chime offers fee free banking th...

Varo became the first US neobank to receive a full national bank charter from the OCC in 2020. Found...