England’s Starling Bank is reportedly considering the acquisition of another British lender. That’s according to a report Thursday (Dec. 11) from the Financial Times (FT), which characterizes this effort as an overhaul to the digital bank’s business model, letting it find a more profitable use for its 12 billion...
Starling Bank says it has begun using AI to help customers ward off purchase scams. The lender’s latest product, dubbed “Scam Intelligence,” marks the first time a British bank has offered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered scam detection tool in its app, Starling announced Tuesday (Oct....
U.K.-based FinTech firms are ramping up plans to acquire American banks to boost lending abilities. As the Financial Times noted Monday (Sept. 2) in a report on this trend, this is happening as U.S. financial regulators are showing a new openness to mergers under President...
British digital lender Starling Bank is set to acquire U.K.-based tax and bookkeeping FinTech Ember. The acquisition, announced Tuesday (Aug. 19), will integrate Ember’s software with Starling’s app and online bank, helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) manage their finances, including things like bank transactions and tax submission. This comes...
December 10, 2024
A wave of funding rounds over the past several months is giving challenger banks fresh financial firepower to position themselves as alternatives to traditional banks, mainstays of financial services that have been around for decades — even centuries. While these digitally focused challengers promise to bring financial services and products to just about anyone who […]
June 09, 2022
“We’re in a very dangerous phase,” said Starling Bank CEO Anne Boden in a session at the ongoing Money2020 Europe conference in Amsterdam when describing the heightened exposure to fraud...
July 19, 2017
New players on the banking scene are bringing a host of changes to the industry. But in some cases, these disruptions are more likely to be met with pushback from...
July 03, 2026
Starling Bank plans to cut about 130 jobs as it automates roles and restructures its banking and technology operations to eliminate duplicate roles, the Financial Times reported Friday (July 3). The company said in the report that it completed some major projects and began using artificial intelligence across more of its operations. The Guardian also […]
December 11, 2025
England’s Starling Bank is reportedly considering the acquisition of another British lender. That’s according to a report Thursday (Dec. 11) from the Financial Times (FT), which characterizes this effort as an overhaul to the...
October 28, 2025
Starling Bank says it has begun using AI to help customers ward off purchase scams. The lender’s latest product, dubbed “Scam Intelligence,” marks the first time a British bank has...
September 02, 2025
U.K.-based FinTech firms are ramping up plans to acquire American banks to boost lending abilities. As the Financial Times noted Monday (Sept. 2) in a report on this trend, this...