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    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Atom Bank to tap private equity for final £50mn funding round next year

      Digital lender has been forced to delay IPO because of choppy markets

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Atom Bank valued at £435mn as it targets market listing next year

      App-based lender raises more than £75mn in round led by BBVA, Toscafund and Infinity

    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
      UK banks
      Atom Bank moves to four-day work week without cutting pay

      App-based lender becomes UK’s largest company to make the shift and expects Friday to be default day off

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      Atom Bank cuts losses despite collapse of backer Woodford

      App-based lender plans to re-enter mortgage market next week and £100m funding raise

    • 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’

    • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
      UK banks
      Digital bank Atom starts to make money on loans

      Chief Mark Mullen says group defied closure and held nerve in face of mortgage price war

    • Monday, 22 July, 2019
      LombardMatthew Vincent
      How much of a challenger bank can Metro still afford to be?

      Talk of a loan-book sale underlines how difficult it is to be a bank that takes on others

    • Monday, 22 July, 2019
      Atom Bank raises £50m from investors including Neil Woodford

      UK challenger bank says it plans to step up spending on technology and hiring

    • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
      Digital banking
      Atom Bank’s pricing promotions drive up losses

      UK digital lender more than triples its assets to £2bn in the last financial year

    • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
      Digital banking
      Metro Bank founder joins digital challengers in Australia 

      Anthony Thomson targets Big Four banks with focus on mobile offering

    • Wednesday, 7 March, 2018
      Digital banking
      Atom Bank in £149m capital raising

      Spanish lender BBVA lifts stake in UK challenger to almost 40%

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2017
      Digital banking
      Atom Bank to offer retail savings in Germany
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
      UK banks
      FCA’s Bailey warns lenders over provision of current accounts
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2017
      Digital banking
      Atom bank postpones current-account launch

      UK digital lender concerned about extent of forthcoming regulation

    • Friday, 10 March, 2017
      UK banks
      New-generation UK banks challenge with technology

      Range of app-based lenders are latest competitors to large established rivals

    • Friday, 3 March, 2017
      Digital banking
      Atom Bank raises £83m from shareholders as it eyes expansion
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2017
      Digital banking
      New digital banks turn to celebrities to boost sales

      Singers Will.i.am and Tom Odell show interest in UK start-ups

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2016
      First-time buyers
      Atom Bank to offer residential mortgages

      Digital-only lender aims to enter UK buy-to-let market next year

    • Thursday, 6 October, 2016
      Digital banking
      UK’s first app-based digital bank launches across country
    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2016
      Digital banking
      Atom Bank attracts early interest from mobile customers

      Digital lender signs up 40,000 potential customers of which just 2,000 have opened accounts

    • Friday, 29 April, 2016
      UK banks
      Clydesdale and Yorkshire develops artificial intelligence app

      Bank to launch app as customers demand digital banking

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
      Disrupters
      Atom Bank launches challenge to high-street lenders

      Mobile-based group’s arrival delayed until second quarter by investment regulations

    • Wednesday, 10 February, 2016
      FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
      A brief look at Metro Bank’s offer document
    • 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

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
      UK banks
      Mobile bank chief mocks big high street rivals

      Traditional lenders’ efforts to go digital like ‘putting lipstick on a pig’

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