Valentin Stalf founded N26 (formerly Number26) in 2013 alongside his longtime friend Maximilian Tayenthal, with a shared vision of building a company that would make banking more reachable for millions of people around the world. Today, N26 is one of the fastest-growing mobile banks in the world with more than 8 million customers, a team of over 1,500 passionate employees of 80 nationalities, and offices around the globe.
In his closing keynote interview at this year's FRANKFURT DIGITAL FINANCE Conference, Valentin shared with us how he came to found N26, what keeps him going in the face of challenges and setbacks, how to avoid being distracted by market performance but remain focused on company performance and much more.Interviewer Reinhard Höll (Partner, McKinsey & Co.)
FRANKFURT DIGITAL FINANCE brings together top executives, investors, entrepreneurs, academics and policy makers on a single platform. The event serves to enable exchange of ideas and foster collaboration in the European digital finance ecosystem – helping disruptive companies find corporate partners and investors and established financial services providers to innovate their business models.
The conference offers two days packed with high quality content covering the key topics of the European financial industry: European Capital Markets Union, European Regulation (FiDA, MiCAR, DORA, etc.) and Banking Supervision, Open Finance & Payment, Crypto Currencies, Digital Euro and Digital Assets & Securities, Data and AI, Bank(ing) Transformation, ESG & Green Finance, FinTech Investment and Scale-up Strategies. Day 2 of the event is dedicated to FDF’s EUROPEAN FINTECH DAY which assembles top startups from Europe's leading fintech hubs and connects them with banks, VC investors, co-innovation and business partners. The EUROPEAN FINTECH DAY features a startup exhibition, a variety of master classes and fireside chats with fintech founders and industry experts and a startup pitch.
SAVE THE DATE: FRANKFURT DIGITAL FINANCE Conference #6 and EUROPEAN FINTECH DAY will be held on 12-13 February 2025. Find more information on www.frankfurt-digital-finance.de.