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    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      News in-depth
      Starling Bank faces questions over reliance on state-backed funding

      The UK start-up’s rapid growth owes a lot to the ‘bounce back’ pandemic business lending scheme

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Starling Bank turns a profit on mortgage loan growth

      Challenger shifts away from government-backed lending to focus on the mortgage market

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      Starling snaps up £500mn mortgage book in shift from Covid loans

      Digital challenger bank agrees to buy loans from specialist group Masthaven in effort to diversify lending

    • Monday, 26 July, 2021
      Digital bank Starling makes first acquisition in quest for faster growth

      Goldman Sachs-backed start-up to buy landlords’ mortgage provider Fleet for £50m

    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      UK digital bank Starling on track for annual profit after Covid loan lift

      Start-up aims for initial public offering in late 2022 or 2023

    • Monday, 19 April, 2021
      Goldman invests £50m in UK digital bank Starling

      Start-up lender aims to boost growth ahead of targeted initial public offering

    • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
      News in-depthDigital banking
      Fintechs look beyond survival after pandemic battering

      Britain’s biggest digital banks are hoping the Covid-19 crisis has shifted consumers’ behaviour

    • Monday, 8 March, 2021
      Starling Bank raises £272m as government support winds down

      Latest funding round values UK digital lender at £1.1bn

    • Monday, 16 November, 2020
      ReviewUK banks
      Starling Bank founder’s appetite for disruption

      Anne Boden’s account of her struggles and bust-ups has the makings of a digital banking biopic

    • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
      Digital bank Starling makes progress towards profitability

      Customers start to use challenger lender’s cards again after activity fell sharply as pandemic hit

    • Friday, 14 February, 2020
      City InsiderMatthew Vincent
      Rory Stewart plans to build an aligned post-Brexit City

      London mayoral candidate aims to be both a house guest and a housebuilder 

    • Monday, 10 February, 2020
      Starling raises £60m to fund business service and overseas push

      UK challenger will focus on expansion in Europe as app-based banks spread wings

    • Saturday, 5 October, 2019
      News in-depthDigital banking
      Race to become UK digital banking leader hots up

      Fintech scene ‘not winner takes all, but winner takes most’

    • Friday, 12 July, 2019
      Starling senior executives take flight from app-based bank

      UK digital lender has lost four key employees this year as it seeks to step up growth plans

    • Friday, 12 April, 2019
      Banks
      Starling confirms CFO departure weeks after major fundraising

      Tony Ellingham to leave ‘within the next 18 months’

    • Wednesday, 13 February, 2019
      Starling raises £75m as it plots European expansion

      Bank’s fundraising follows similar moves by expanding rivals N26 and Monzo

    • Wednesday, 14 November, 2018
      Personal Finance
      Digital bank Starling to roost on the high street

      Partnership with the Post Office will enable customers to deposit and withdraw cash

    • Monday, 27 August, 2018
      UK banks
      Starling looks for further funding as users grow fivefold

      Existing investor to support new capital raise

    • Wednesday, 25 July, 2018
      FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
      UK fintechs aren't eating the banks' lunch just yet
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
      Currencies
      Starling Bank strikes money transfer deal with TransferWise

      Digital-only bank lined up later this month to take on traditional lenders

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2017
      News in-depthBrexit
      Digital banker fears Brexit will damage competition

      Start-up founder says EU rules that others hate have shaped London as fintech hub

    • Sunday, 20 November, 2016
      The Commuter
      Anne Boden: the Starling Bank founder’s reading list

      One book inspired the London fintech start-up to adopt Silicon Valley methods

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2016
      Digital banking
      Digital challenger Starling wins UK banking licence

      January launch planned for newcomer that favours mobile app over high street branches

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2016
      FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
      App-only bank Starling loses another chief technology officer
    • Monday, 11 January, 2016
      European companies
      Starling raises $70m for UK banking market push

      New digital bank gets backing from investor and recruits former regulator to spearhead efforts

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