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One Zero Bank

Fintech & Insurance Founded 2019

Last updated: Jul 31, 2026

One Zero Digital Bank is an Israeli branchless bank offering app-based accounts, deposits, cards, foreign exchange, securities, open-banking aggregation, and AI-assisted financial management. It is a regulated operating bank with meaningful customer and deposit growth, but remains loss-making and focused on reaching profitability in the Israeli retail market.

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Company Overview

One Zero Digital Bank is an Israeli branchless bank founded in the late 2010s and operating under Bank of Israel supervision. Its consumer proposition combines current and deposit accounts, debit cards, foreign-currency services, securities trading, pension and investment views, open-banking connections to accounts held elsewhere, and a daily financial check-up. The bank also markets digital private-banking services, human financial specialists, and AI-assisted tools. The public record supports a digital operating model and substantial automation, but does not justify describing every backend component as proprietary machine learning or a separately commercialized banking platform.

Its initial market is Israeli retail banking, where the bank competes on transparent pricing, remote onboarding, service availability, and an integrated view of a customer's financial life. The official 2025 results presentation reported 168,000 customers at year-end, 180,000 as of March 2026, NIS 3.57 billion in deposits, NIS 5.1 billion in assets under management, and NIS 109 million of total income. It reported a 20% reduction in net loss, but still lost NIS 214 million in 2025. Those figures indicate genuine commercialization and improving operating leverage, while also making capital needs, credit expansion, and the path to breakeven central diligence questions. The bank's own 2025 financial statements say additional equity will be needed as it expands its product portfolio and credit activity.

Competition comes from Israel's established banks and their digital channels, Bank of Jerusalem and other smaller regulated institutions, and international or regional digital-bank substitutes such as Revolut where available. One Zero's license is strategically important because it can take deposits and conduct banking activity directly rather than relying entirely on a sponsor bank. However, a license does not by itself create a defensible technology moat: customer acquisition, deposit pricing, credit underwriting, service quality, resilience, fraud controls, and regulatory execution all remain contestable. The current public evidence points to a retail bank rather than a BaaS company or an enterprise banking-infrastructure vendor; the record should not imply established SME, white-label, or cross-border traction that has not been disclosed.

The defense and national-security case is limited. A supervised bank necessarily operates secure authentication, payment processing, fraud monitoring, access control, privacy, continuity, and compliance workflows, and those capabilities could inform high-integrity disbursement or emergency-payment programs. Nevertheless, the core business is consumer banking, not cyber defense, mission systems, intelligence, secure communications, or a government-finance product. No public evidence was found of defense contracts, classified work, government deployments, or defense-specific certifications. Any security-sector use would require a defined customer, procurement pathway, data-handling authorization, resilience testing, and evidence that the bank can serve the relevant jurisdiction without conflicting with banking obligations.

The most credible strategic thesis is therefore indirect: One Zero is a regulated Israeli financial institution with a growing digital channel and an automation-heavy service model, not a pure-play dual-use technology startup. Its 2025 presentation attributes efficiency gains partly to generative AI and automation, including a high share of customer interactions handled without a human banker; this is a useful operational signal but not proof of a transferable AI product. Reviewers should track recurring income, customer activity and retention, deposit concentration, credit quality, capital raises, cyber incidents, regulatory findings, and whether management can reduce losses without degrading service or risk controls.

Strategic Fit Assessment

One Zero is a real, growing regulated bank with improving income, deposits, customer count, and automation metrics, but it remains loss-making and expects additional equity needs as it expands credit and products. Its relevance to this database is analytical rather than a priority signal: banking regulation, capital intensity, Israeli-market concentration, and limited demonstrated defense applicability make it a poor fit for a dual-use technology shortlist without new evidence of a security-sector product or strategic deployment.

Strategic Value to U.S.-Israel Alliance

Provides an independent, Bank of Israel-supervised digital banking channel in Israel, with direct deposit-taking capability and growing automation. Strategic value is primarily domestic financial-system competition and operational resilience; any public-sector or security value is contingent on a separately defined, accredited use case rather than inherent defense capability.

Key Technologies

  • Digital account opening and branchless banking workflows
  • Core deposits, payments, cards, foreign exchange, and securities processing
  • Open-banking aggregation and financial-data connectivity
  • AI-assisted customer-service automation and financial insights
  • Fraud, credit-risk, identity, and transaction-monitoring controls
  • Regulated banking security, privacy, and operational resilience

Use Cases & Applications

  • Retail current, savings, and deposit accounts opened remotely
  • Digital debit-card, payment, and foreign-exchange services
  • Personal financial management across connected bank accounts and cards
  • Online securities trading and investment portfolio visibility
  • AI-assisted customer support and automated service operations
  • Open-banking data aggregation and financial check-ups
  • Potential future high-integrity public disbursement workflows, subject to procurement and accreditation

Sources and verification

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Investor Lens

What this entry is

Private startup

Why it may matter

One Zero Bank may matter as a Fintech & Insurance entry with not currently an investable standalone company for Israeli technology research.

How an independent investor should read this

Not currently an investable standalone company. Read this profile as a starting point for independent verification, not as a recommendation or suitability assessment.

Evidence to verify

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  • Verify customer concentration

Main investor questions

  • Is the company currently active, independently financeable, and raising or not raising on terms you can verify?
  • What customer, revenue, product, and technical evidence supports the company story?
  • What valuation, cap table, rights, and follow-on assumptions would govern any private exposure?
  • What evidence would change the thesis or show that the profile is stale?

What not to infer

  • Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
  • Inclusion does not imply allocation availability or current fundraising.
  • Scores do not indicate investment suitability or expected returns.
  • Strategic importance does not automatically imply venture return potential.
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Diligence questions

  • What evidence verifies One Zero Bank's current customer traction, deployment status, and revenue concentration?
  • Which technical claims are independently demonstrable today, and which remain roadmap or pilot-stage assertions?
  • Is there a credible national-security or public-sector use case, or is the company primarily a commercial technology asset?
  • What regulatory, procurement, and buyer-adoption constraints could slow deployment in strategic or government-adjacent markets?
  • Is the company a live venture opportunity, a mature strategic reference, an acquired asset, or primarily a market-mapping entry?

Related sector

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