CHECK24 Bank
“Can Germany's largest price comparison portal convert its comparison-shopping customers into direct banking relationships?”
Founded2019
HQFrankfurt, Germany
IndustryFintech / Neobank
The story
CHECK24 built Germany's leading price comparison portal starting in 1999, expanding across insurance, energy, finance, telecom, and travel. In 2019 it spun up C24 Bank GmbH as a BaFin-regulated digital bank, launched in 2020 with Mambu as core banking platform. The bank is a vertical extension of the CHECK24 ecosystem — leveraging the comparison portal's customer base to distribute checking accounts, debit cards, loans, and savings products.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
1999
CHECK24 founded as Germany's largest price comparison portal.· founding
2019
C24 Bank GmbH established as a subsidiary of CHECK24.· banking
2020
C24 Bank launched to market, offering current accounts, debit cards, and deposits via mobile app.· banking
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by CHECK24 Bank
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
6 layers disclosed in CHECK24 Bank’s embedded-finance stack
Money movement
Banking / BaaS
in the full report
Card issuing
in the full report
Card network
in the full report
Ledger
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
7 more providers across 5 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.