Starling Bank

News/cloud

Romania's Salt goes live with Starling's SaaS platform

Romanian digital bank Salt has gone live on Starling's SaaS platform Engine, onboarding 100,000 customers in its first two weeks.

16 April 2024

News/people

Starling Bank appoints OVO head as new CEO

Starling Bank has appointed Raman Bhatia, the chief executive of energy retailer OVO and former HSBC digital banking lead, as it new CEO.

12 March 2024

News/retail

Starling Bank Bikes to hit the road in Manchester

Transport for Greater Manchester has signed its biggest ever commercial deal, with Starling Bank as the first sponsor of the Northern city's bike hire scheme.

31 January 2024

News/retail

Wise accuses high street banks of hidden exchange rate fees

For GBP to EUR, Wise reports that HSBC has the highest fee for exchange rates (3.7%), followed by Lloyds at 3.6%, Barclays at 2.75%, and NatWest, TSB and Santander all at 2.5%.

19 January 2024

Finextra TV/cloud

Building the digital banks of the future

Carlton Hopper, UK Managing Director of GFT, and Sam Everington, CEO of Engine by Starling, review the impact of new banking platforms and implementation strategies for successful bank modernisation. They discuss GFT and Engine by Starling's collaboration that utilises cloud-native, modular, and API-based technologies to empower clients worldwide to deliver next generation digital banking.

17 January 2024

News/people

Starling's chief banking officer Helen Bierton departs for Lloyds

Starling Bank's chief banking officer Helen Bierton has left for a new position as director of 'Everyday Banking' at Lloyds Banking Group.

03 January 2024

News/cloud

PwC forms alliance with Starling's Engine SaaS platform

PwC has signed on as a strategic implementation platform for Starling Bank's Software-as-a-Service platform, Engine.

07 December 2023

News/retail

Starling signs first banking client for SaaS platform

Starling Bank has signed Romania's Salt Bank as the first client for its Software-as-a-Service platform, Engine.

16 November 2023

News/retail

Starling Bank bids to defuse arguments over household chores

Treading beyond its traditional financial services remit, Starling Bank has created a new 'Share the Load' tool to help quarrelling couples track and fairly split their unpaid labour and household tasks

08 November 2023

News/security

Monzo and Starling among worst performers for APP fraud reimbursements

Monzo and Starling are among the lowest scoring firms for reimbursing victims of authorised push payment fraud, according to 2022 data published by the Payment Systems Regulator.

31 October 2023

News/retail

Starling Bank abolishes monthly fee for kids pocket money app

Starling Bank is to waive the £2 monthly fee for its Kite debit card and app for kids after conducting research which found that the UK is a nation of ‘baby bankers’ - with children as young as six already saving for cars (26%), university (19%) and even houses (18%).

10 October 2023

News/regulation

Monzo beats all comers in CMA customer satisfaction survey

The Competition and Markets Authority has ranked Monzo as the UK's best bank for personal and business accounts.

15 August 2023

News/retail

Starling in talks with Asian bank about BaaS platform deal - CNBC

UK challenger bank Starling is working with an Asian lender about taking its Engine banking-as-a-service platform outside of Europe for the first time.

11 August 2023

ResearchEvent Report

How to Formulate an Actionable Cloud Strategy

13 July 2023 212 downloads

News/people

Starling CEO Boden stepped down following investor row - FT

Anne Boden stepped down as CEO of Starling last month after clashing with investors over a sharp drop in the challenger's valuation, according to the Financial Times.

09 June 2023