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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 September 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2018
Foreseen end date
1 October 2019
Description
The French Fintech Qonto has announced the recruitment of 100 employees in the next 12 months. Qonto is a payment institution agent supervised by Banque de France. It provides a current account that allows companies or self-employed to perform daily operations (transfers, card transactions) but, unlike a traditional account, it cannot be overdrawn. In September, Qonto raised funds from Valar (Peter Thiel's fund) and Alven, with the support of the European Investment Bank, for €20 million, bringing the total funds to €32 million since its creation in spring 2016. Quonto has 25,000 customers and has treated a total amount of €1.7 billion of transactions.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Qonto, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 95520, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95520.
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