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Bunq stopped offering new accounts in the UK at the end of 2020.
However, it still has UK users acquired before Brexit.
The Amsterdam-based firm has been planning a UK comeback for at least a few months already.
As a true tech company, it only makes sense for us to pursue this market, said Niknam.
However, bunqwill be attempting to elbow its way onto an already highly competitive market.
As Europes biggest neobank, Revolut aloneregistersmore than30 million users, 6.8 million of which reside in Britain.
Niknam, born in Canada to Iranian parents and raised in the Netherlands, founded bunq in 2012.
Two years later, thefintechstartup became the first bank to get a European banking licence in 35 years.
It reached unicorn status in 2021.
Story bySion Geschwindt
Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy.
