Expert power for financial education: Fintech Bling launches top-class Education Board

• Financial expert Anissa Brinkhoff, co-chairman of the Alliance for Economic Education Sven Schumann, founder of the Schulgold Initiative Babett Mahnert and headmaster Christoph Krüger support Bling on its mission to make families money wise.

• The external committee monitors product development and advises the Bling team so that financial education can be integrated even more closely into the development of family fintech.

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Berlin, August 1, 2023 — Bling, the first family fintech in Europe, is founding an external education board consisting of renowned experts in financial education. The aim of the Education Board is to ensure the quality of existing and new functions and to incorporate pedagogically valuable content and ideas more strongly into product development.

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“When putting together our Education Board, it was particularly important for us to find selective and experienced experts with great enthusiasm for the topic. With our current members, we succeeded perfectly!”

Nils Feigenwinter, co-founder and CEO of Bling

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Since summer 2022, Bling has been offering a family banking solution: with the Bling Card and app, children and young people pay independently. With the Bling app, the whole family learns how to manage money. An idea that is not only well received by investors: One year after the launch, tens of thousands of families are already using Bling's offer. The teaching of financial literacy at Bling has played a major role since the launch. In the app view for children, Bling playfully teaches financial literacy with financial tips, savings goals and many other functions and content. In addition, Bling provides information on important topics relating to personal finances on social media and has already reached over a million young people with his videos.

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With Verena Pausder, one of the first business angels at Bling, the family fintech has been benefiting from the expertise of the multiple founder, education expert and mother for one and a half years. The new Education Board further strengthens expertise in both finance and education. “We will not implement any function without the approval of the Education Board,” says Nils Feigenwinter, co-founder and CEO of Bling.

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The expert committee is provided with a monthly “update from the Bling engine room”, with information on current developments and ideas. The members share their opinion with the product team and the management of the family fintech and communicate with them regularly.

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Anissa Brinkhoff, who writes about finance and continuing education topics and is involved in the areas of female finance and financial education, says: “Both Bling and the Bling families will benefit greatly from the Education Board. I am looking forward to working with the ambitious team to find innovative ways to impart financial literacy.”

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Members of the Education Board:

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Anissa Brinkhoff is a financial journalist and founded various podcasts on the topic of women and finances, in which she talks about money, financial education and retirement provision. She gives lectures on the topics of money and finances and sensitizes women in particular to this content.

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Sven Schumann is a senior executive at Deutsche Börse Group. He is an expert in economic and financial education and is also concerned with the framework conditions for wealth creation and retirement provision on the capital market. Since 2020, he has been co-chairman of the Alliance for Economic Education Germany, which is committed to the adequate and mandatory integration of economic education in all secondary schools in Germany and improved subject-related qualifications of teachers.

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Babett Mahnert is a business and financial coach, entrepreneur, banking economist and podcaster. She co-founded Schulgold, the first online learning platform for financial literacy for young people, teachers and schools.

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Christoph Krüger is a headmaster, teacher, family man, podcaster and YouTuber. At his school, he tries to get students excited about economics and finance and to communicate these topics in a simple and exciting way.

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About bling

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Bling was founded in Berlin in June 2021. The family fintech started as an allowance app to strengthen the financial literacy of children and young people. Tens of thousands of families use the Bling app today. Since June 2023, families have been able to invest their money sustainably via Bling.

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For more information, see www.bling.de

You can find photos and the Bling logo here

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