The bank of The Free
Bunq was founded in 2012 by Ali Niknam and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It received a full EU banking license in 2014 — the first granted in 35 years — and publicly launched its app in 2015. Today it serves over 20 million users and is Europe's second-largest neobank. Bunq became the first profitable EU neobank in 2022 and in 2023 launched Finn, a GenAI-powered banking assistant.