The title is misleading, as is the press release. The ECB does not issue banking licenses, nor is it involved in active regulation of individual banks. If some

The title is misleading, as is the press release. The ECB does not issue banking licenses, nor is it involved in active regulation of individual banks. If someone had issued NUMBER26 GmbH a banking license, then as a company situated in Germany, that someone would have been the BaFin, the German banking supervisory authority. Neither N26 nor BaFin list such a license yet, but I guess it's still early.