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Starling Bank

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Industry
  
Banking

Website
  
www.starlingbank.com

Founded
  
2014

Type of business
  
Private

Products
  
Retail Banking

CEO
  
Anne Boden (2014–)

Headquarters
  
London

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Starling Bank is a licensed mobile-only challenger bank founded by former Allied Irish Banks COO, Anne Boden in January 2014.

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Headquartered in London and operating as one of a few British financial technology startups, Starling is looking to disrupt the incumbent financial systems and challenge traditional corporations. Since its founding, it has received significant funding, including $70 m of investment in early 2016.

In July 2016, Starling received its banking licence from the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Founder

Anne Boden is CEO of Starling Bank and a member of its board of directors. As CEO, Anne oversees the executive leadership team and focuses its vision on building the best possible customer experience. Previously, Anne was COO of Allied Irish Banks and Head of EMEA, Global Transaction Banking across 34 countries for RBS and ABN AMRO. Anne's vision for Starling Bank is to build the best bank account in the world.

History

Tom Blomfield was CTO of Starling for a period at the end of 2015, he left to create Mondo which was subsequently renamed Monzo

Starling Bank announced its Beta and partnership with TransferWise in March 2017.

References

Starling Bank Wikipedia