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Air Bank: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Air Bank is a digital bank in the Czech Republic that serves private customers and small businesses. Its range includes current accounts, including accounts for children and teenagers, payment cards, savings and investment products, pension savings, personal loans, mortgages, overdrafts, insurance and business accounts. It is a regulated banking service, not software that an organisation runs on its own infrastructure.

Air Bank a.s. is registered in Prague and belongs to the PPF group. PPF is its majority shareholder, and its sole shareholders are members of the Kellner family; the group has moved its registered office to the Czech Republic. Because the bank and its owners are Czech, no non-European parent is involved. The bank's privacy information refers to the European data-protection framework, but it does not name the location of its data centres or cloud providers, so a European organisation should confirm hosting arrangements before entrusting sensitive business data.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
CZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Air Bank

The European alternatives to Air Bank come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Air Bank

Air Bank is headquartered in CZ and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Air Bank scores best on data residency.

Air Bank is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Air Bank together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Air Bank?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Air Bank include 1822direkt, ActivoBank and AMINA Bank. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Air Bank?

Our list of EU alternatives to Air Bank is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Air Bank GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Air Bank is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Air Bank an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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