News Archive 2016

Berlin, September 30th, 2016: WB21 will relocate its European Head Office from London to Berlin. CEO and Founder of WB21, Michael Gastauer announced in today press conference that WB21 will transfer its current UK based employees to Berlin in addition to creating up to 200 positions in its Berlin office. Simultaneously WB21 will file for a banking license under German law and will invest up to €50 million.

Singapore, September 22nd, 2016: WB21 reached a record-breaking milestone in the digital banking industry. Today, the company millionth customer opened an account. After its launch in late December 2015, it took the banking platform WB21 less than ten months to achieve this major milestone. Based on its business model which allows Private and Business customers from 180 countries to open Bank accounts in real time and a global cross border payment market of US $22 Trillion, has WB21 been able to create a spectacular

June 14th, 2016 - Today, digital bank WB21 announced that it has added bitcoin as a method for its customers to transfer and deposit funds to their checking accounts. For WB21's over 650,000 customers, this means they can send bitcoin to make real time account deposits in any of the 18 currencies that WB21 is offering. WB21's founder and CEO Michael Gastauer explained the company's reasons for adopting bitcoin payments: "A bank accepting bitcoin is quite unusual, however it makes total sense for us and provides huge

On May 21st, 2016 WB21 reached a new record in the digital banking industry, witnessing its 500 thousandth-customer setting up his accounts. Since its public launch less than five months ago, the online account opening and banking platform WB21 has experienced record breaking growth. With more than 1.2 Million checking accounts in 18 different currencies, 500,000 Private and Business customers have begun using the platform on a regular basis. In May 2016, WB21 has sent payments of more than $320M USD in total value t

Singapore, April 27th, 2016: WB21 Group announced offering its services to more than two million customers. The Group launched its digital banking platform in December 2015, and acquired more than one million active clients by September 2016. Based on its unique business model that allows Private and Business customers from 180 countries to open bank accounts in less than 8 minutes, WB21 has generated rapid growth threw out the past 15 months.

London, March 17th 2016: Ten weeks after its launch, digital banking platform wb21.com has 250k new customers. On March 14, 2016 WB21 saw its 250 thousandth-customer, a 49-year-old Malaysian currency trader, setting up accounts at wb21.com. Since its public launch in late December 2015, the online account opening and banking platform WB21 has experienced a remarkable number of private and corporate account openings from customers in the European, North American and Asian regions

London, Feb. 2nd, 2016: Followed by its massive market traction, the company has now expanded, with new offices in London and Hong Kong. On February 2, 2016 WB21 set up their Hong Kong office at the Central Plaza Building, 18 Harbour Road, at one of Hong Kong's well known skyscrapers that overlooks the financial district of Wan Chai. The opening of the Hong Kong office was the obvious move due to the effect of the hyper growth driven global roll out strategy which was initiated end of 2015