Revolut is in early talks with private equity firm Blackstone over a potential partnership that would allow Revolut customers to access Blackstone’s investment funds.
The discussions centre on integrating Blackstone products into Revolut’s planned private banking offering. If the deal goes ahead, it would signal Revolut’s shift from retail finance toward private banking and wealth management.
For Blackstone, the talks reflect an effort to expand distribution to a new generation of affluent investors through digital platforms.
Revolut’s Move into Private Banking
The potential partnership aligns with Revolut’s broader push to target wealthier clients. The company has been expanding its private markets team and hiring investment bankers and private capital advisers to develop products for high-net-worth individuals.
In a recent job posting, Revolut described its private banking initiative as focused on building long-term relationships with high-net-worth clients globally.
Private bankers would be responsible for managing defined market segments, overseeing client acquisition and activation, and supporting more complex financial needs—an approach that closely mirrors traditional private banking models rather than mass-market fintech services.
Private Capital and Fintech Converge on Affluent Clients
For Blackstone, a tie-up with Revolut—whose platform serves nearly 70 million users globally—would provide direct access to a large and growing pool of affluent and mass-affluent clients as the firm looks beyond institutional investors for new sources of funding.
Blackstone has tripled the number of private banks and wealth managers it works with in Europe over the past two years as part of a broader distribution strategy.
Similar dynamics are emerging elsewhere in the industry as other private capital firms are pursuing comparable routes, with recent initiatives linking Apollo Global Management with EQT with German neobroker Trade Republic.
The potential Revolut–Blackstone partnership highlights how the traditional boundary between retail fintech platforms and private banking is narrowing, reshaping competition across brokerage and wealth management.
For firms moving into this space, success will depend on execution, regulatory compliance, and their ability to meet the expectations of a more sophisticated client base.
This article was written by Tanya Chepkova at www.financemagnates.com.
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