Revolut
Nikolay Storonsky launched Revolut in 2015 to transform the way we spend and transfer money abroad. Since then, he has put Revolut on the path to becoming the world’s first truly global bank, changing the way we do all things money. Previously an Emerging Markets Equity Derivatives Trader at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers, he traded over $2bn across various options, swaps, and FX instruments. Nikolay holds an M.S. in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MA in Economics from the New Economic School, Moscow. He is a keen kite surfer, mountaineer, and championship swimmer.
Revolut
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Revolut is an app-based financial services technology company. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the UK, Revolut serves 20 million customers around the world as they make over 250 million transactions per month. They have over 5,000 employees in offices around the world, including New York, Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Mexico City, Berlin, Budapest and Bucharest with further expansion planned. Revolut offers both personal and business accounts, helping customers improve their financial health and easily connect with the global economy through a variety of features, including On Demand Pay, personalized Loans, Pet Insurance, Currency Exchange, Budgeting and Analytics, peer-to-peer payments, Saving Vaults, Junior, Stays, and Trading. Revolut’s top five countries, based on the number of retail customers, are the UK with 4.8 million customers, Romania with 2 million, Ireland with 1.9 million, Poland with 1.7 million, and France with 1.5 million customers. In 2021, Revolut raised a $800 million Series E round led by Softbank and Tiger Global, valuing the business at $33 billion.