2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026

Yearbook of the dead

Directories hide closures because a live tile still ranks. This page is the opposite: one year, the brands that died, why, and who inherited the customers. Crypto yield 2022 sits underneath as the chapter that still poisons search.

Full graveyard

3 stones

2026

The year is still being written. Nobody on this desk has a 2026 close date yet.

  1. 2026-05-02 · United States

    SMBC wound down the US digital brand. Axos Bank acquired the US consumer deposits (~$2.3bn) on 2 May 2026 under a 12 Feb 2026 purchase-and-assumption.

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  2. 2026-03-11 · India

    Ficlosed

    Consumer banking SKU on the Fi app ended 11 March 2026. Federal Bank partnership ended. The savings account remains a Federal Bank account. Channel is FedMobile, not Fi.

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  3. 2026-02 · Switzerland

    Kaspar&acquired

    Liberty Vorsorge acquired 100% in February 2026. Independent asset-manager operations continue; retail direct-to-consumer banking is not the live product.

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2025

Switzerland’s carrying cost. radicant, Swiss4, Coop Finance+ — and Motus wound up in Canada.

  1. 2025-09 · Switzerland

    Retailer-bank app discontinued; customers returned to traditional rails.

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  2. 2025-07-10 · France

    La Banque Postale wound down the digital subsidiary. Unclaimed balances transferred to Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations from 10 July 2025.

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  3. 2025-06 · Switzerland

    radicantclosed

    Wound down; clients directed toward Alpian. Swiss home market too small for a fourth green bank.

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  4. 2025-03 · Switzerland

    Swiss4closed

    Project halted; FINMA path and market did not support the crypto-bank hybrid.

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  5. 2025-01 · Canada

    Motus Bankacquired

    Wound up as a standalone digital bank; customers moved to Meridian.

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  6. 2025 · United States

    Ivellaclosed

    Product sunset. Founders joined EarnIn. Historic deposits sat at a partner bank (Blue Ridge Bank, N.A. in the live era).

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2024

BaaS broke in public. Synapse froze end-users while partner banks were solvent. Daylight, Zing, Prizepool, FlowBank.

  1. 2024-12 · Belgium

    Banxclosed

    Proximus and Belfius ended the Banx app in December 2024 after a joint review. Clients were offered a migration to Belfius.

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  2. 2024-11 · United States

    Daylightclosed

    Shut down after failing to find a sustainable partner-bank path.

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  3. 2024-10 · United Kingdom

    Zingclosed

    HSBC retired the Zing brand; features folded or dropped.

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  4. 2024-06 · Switzerland

    FlowBankbankrupt

    FINMA bankruptcy. esisuisse process for eligible deposits.

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  5. 2024-05 · United States

    Prizepoolclosed

    Product shut; prize-linked savings did not become a bank.

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  6. 2024-04 · United States

    Synapsebankrupt

    Chapter 11. Ledger breaks between Synapse and partner banks left end-users unable to access funds even when banks were solvent.

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2023

W1TTY ceased. Directories that still list it as live are why the graveyard exists.

  1. 2023-08 · United Kingdom

    W1TTYclosed

    Operations ceased; leftover directories still rank.

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The yield chapter

Before 2023

FTX, BlockFi, Celsius. Not neobanks. They still rank next to banks in leftover roundups. They stay here so we do not pretend the yield years were a different industry.

  1. BlockFi2022-11 · Chapter 11 after FTX exposure and yield-book failure.
  2. FTX2022-11 · Fraud and bankruptcy. Customer assets commingled. Court-supervised recovery.
  3. Celsius2022-07 · Chapter 11. Yield programme froze. Recovery via court.

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