About Norris Koppel

Norris Koppel is serial entrepreneur and currently CEO & Founder of Monese, a online-bank enabling anyone to open a UK current account in 120 seconds, using a mobile app. Monese’s breakthrough technology can validate the identity of customers in real time. This enables the company to offer accounts to the hundreds of thousands of expats and migrants who find it slow and painful to open bank accounts with major banks across Europe. Monese’s fully-featured UK current account comes with cheap global payments and a contactless debit card. Norris Koppel founded Monese after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country. Prior to starting Monese, he built multiple FinTech companies in the UK.” He believes technology should enable modern, convenient and affordable financial services for all. He launched Monese in 2015 after his first-hand painful experience of trying to open a bank account in another country. Monese is a leading pan-European fintech that offers smart money services to millions of consumers across Europe, and its technology arm XYB provides cutting-edge B2B platform technology to global banks that enables them to transform their business and launch new products at pace. Norris Koppel is passionate about financial literacy and empowering young people. He is one of the founding members of the €1M Good Deed Education Fund alongside the founders of Skype, Wise, Bolt and others. We at Monese believe that in the future banks will let you open accounts within seconds on your mobile and move your money where and when you choose, internationally if necessary, with a fraction of the cost of today's available services. We also believe that the future is now.