Student life

With OP-mobile, you can easily manage all your daily banking using your smartphone. Pay your invoices and check your account balance whenever you want. Read more

With OP-mobile’s Siirto payment, you can split expenses easily. All you need is the payee’s phone number. Read more

With your own life choices, you can have a major influence on how much you need to pay for electricity, phone and food. The Consumers' Association of Finland, for example, has assembled tips for saving money. Read tips (in Finnish)

When you want to start saving and are looking for a place for your savings, you can open a cost-free Money Box on OP-mobile or the op.fi service. Money Box is an easy and fun way to save. Read more

A current account is an account to which you can link a payment card and from which you easily pay bills, purchases and loan repayments. Read more

Our credit card for students is a payment card that combines a debit and credit feature. As a higher education student, you can get an OP Classic card or OP Gold card with a 2 000 euro credit limit as soon as you have a study place. Read more

OP Debit is a debit card, with which you can also pay abroad and online. Read more

If you are OP’s customer and aged 18–25 or an OP cooperative bank owner-customer and aged 18–29, you get one card (OP Classic or OP Debit) and daily banking services, meaning current account and OP's digital services, free of charge. You can also get OP Gold card with even better benefits for just 4 €/month.

• Current Account and online bank statement
• One payment card (OP Basic, OP Debit or OP Classic credit card for higher education students)
• OP eServices
• Home and travel insurance -21%

Want more benefits? If you are an OP cooperative bank owner-customer, your savings, loans and insurance transactions generate OP bonuses which can pay some insurance premiums or banking service fees for you! An owner-customer gets discounts on banking services and insurance policies, too.

Read more about being an owner-customer

In case study grant and housing supplement prove insufficient and you want to focus on studying, a student loan comes in useful. With OP, applying for a student loan and drawing it down can be done conveniently online. A student loan requires a guarantee, but it is granted to all students by the government ‒ you do not need any other collateral.

A student loan is primarily intended to support your daily spending but you can use it as you like: rent, school supplies, clothing or, say, travelling.

The student loan may also come in useful if the student wants to buy something necessary, such as a computer.

Many rental companies require that their tenants take out home insurance. Whether you live in a rented or owned dwelling, home insurance is necessary because it provides protection for your home and belongings in the case of e.g. burglary or damage.

If you are aged between 18 and 27, your home insurance will be cheaper at OP, since we will give you a 21% discount on almost all home and family policies.

If you are dreaming about your first own home, we recommend you saving under the ASP scheme. It is an easy and rewarding way to save for your first home. It is beneficial to start saving well in advance, even if you don’t plan to buy a home for several years. 

Why is the ASP savings scheme suitable to students?

• You can start saving under the scheme already at the age of 15.
• You do not need regular income to open an ASP account. You can start by saving as little as 50 euros a month.
• The savings plan is flexible according to your life situation.

Saving with an ASP account is beneficial because it offers a better interest rate on your savings. When you have saved 10% of your home’s purchase price, the bank can grant you the remainder as an ASP loan.

The Rent Deposit Account is an ideal solution for depositing your security deposit. The tenant deposits an amount corresponding to a maximum of three-month rent, as agreed with the landlord, to a current account and pledges the account.