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“Money doesn’t sleep,” Gordon Gekko once sneered in Oliver Stone’s operatic ode to capitalism. But for Mohamed Ameen, it wasn’t sleep he feared losing: it was clarity.

When Ameen landed in Germany in 2018, he was not the kind of immigrant who arrived with wide eyes and empty hands. He had already worked for several years in Cairo, where the habit of setting aside a slice of each paycheck, modest though it may have been, had been a habit so ingrained in the culture.

Cairo, with its spiraling inflation, teaches a person early that money unguarded is money undone. But it was in the rigour of the European financial system that Ameen encountered a more cryptic adversary - the institution itself. He wanted, simply, to grow his savings.

Just enough to hedge against what he already understood well, the invisible tax of inflation, which gnaws at the value of idle cash like rust on iron. What he found, instead, was a labyrinth.

In Germany, as in much of the Western world, the official pathways to investing in the stock market forked into two equally unsatisfactory roads.

The first was to open an account through a traditional bank, staid and established but at a price, up to two percent in annual fees, with a minimum threshold of EUR 2,000 per year.