bunq

Today we are recording special episodes ahead of FinTech Connect 2026 and the yearly conference.

We are joined today by Joe Wilson, Chief Evangelist at Bunk, and he will be speaking at FinTech Connect this year.

He is here today to share how he walks the talk for inclusion in our sector, and more importantly, what more he wants done.

Welcome, Joe.

So figured I could recycle all I wanted, but my money would do more talking than my recycle would.

So I could stop bitching and start doing something about it, so investing.

And throughout the process of that, I met the CEO of Bunk, who's a friend, Ali.

And we shared a lot of similar principles.

Um, a lot of the very loud voices in banking-as-a-service have become much more silent lately.

Uh, and yet, Bunq recently released their Bunq as a service as a way to, um, offer their corporate clients, um, more organizations like, for example, Blockrise, who provides crypto services, uh, to help them benefit from their banking license and allowing them to, um, have their customers open IBANs, et cetera.

So what they do is, um, offer many more capabilities in the compliance, make sure that third parties that don't have a banking license can start exploiting banking capabilities, um, and that way, growing the business, hoping that, uh, it becomes a bigger business overall for Bunq and Bunq's business line.

Wealth has been named frequently in the interviews as well as probably the next, um, space where you-- we will see much more benefit from open banking, which is an interesting one, I think, because you can't be further away from payments than, um, the pure wealth business, uh, which is still a pretty conservative field in banking.

Um, and then I think definitely ripe, um, for, for expansion and more digitalization if the customer is willing to share those data with their main bank, of course.