First-e was an online European bank during the Dot-com bubble of 1998-2001. The company was based in Dublin, Ireland and employed 280 people, with 200,000 customers. It operated on a license from French bank Banque d'Escompte, an innovation that allowed it to get around the usual difficulties faced by European banking startups.

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  • First-e was an online European bank during the Dot-com bubble of 1998-2001. The company was based in Dublin, Ireland and employed 280 people, with 200,000 customers. It operated on a license 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 £370m in funding, 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, the merger was called off in April 2001. First-e shut down in October 2001. First-e was owned by the Enba group of companies, owned by Gerhard Huber, Peter Phillips and Sean Donlon, a former Irish ambassador to the US.
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  • First-e was an online European bank during the Dot-com bubble of 1998-2001. The company was based in Dublin, Ireland and employed 280 people, with 200,000 customers. It operated on a license from French bank Banque d'Escompte, an innovation that allowed it to get around the usual difficulties faced by European banking startups.
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  • First-e Group
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