The neobanks’ implicit promise – encapsulated by names like Revolut – is a radically new set of financial institutions built from the ashes of the moral and technological bankruptcy of the old ones.
Sometimes you have to suspend your disbelief. It can seem like you’re missing the point if you ask a founder how the company will ever make money or fulfil its business objectives when it lacks the proper regulatory means to do so. Technology will overcome, the founder will insist. Global domination is still within reach.
