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First-e was a highly innovative European online bank during the Dot-com bubble of 1998-2001. The company was based in Dublin, Ireland and employed 280 people, with 250,000 customers.〔 It operated on a licence from French bank Banque d'Escompte,〔 an innovation that allowed it to get around the usual difficulties faced by European banking startups. It launched with €200m in funding from various institutions including Intel, Morgan Stanley and Apax Partners and initially targeted the British market with a savings interest rate 2% higher than its high-street competitors, and gained 50,000 customers. A 2.4 billion euro merger with the Spanish online bank Uno-e was proposed 2000,〔 but after the dotcom bubble burst in late 2000, parent company of Uno-e, BBVA called off the merger was in April 2001 and instead paid some €350m in compensation. First-e then sold its business to Direkt Anlage Bank of Germany in October 2001. First-e was owned by the Enba group of companies, created by Gerhard Huber, Peter Phillips, Christian Kaiser, Nicholas Malcomson and Xavier Azalbert. Its Board included Sean Donlon, a former Irish ambassador to the US and the late Sir Nicholas Redmayne who was also its chairman. ==See also== *Egg Banking *smile.co.uk 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First-e Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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