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Company announcement/wholesale

Starling Bank introduces two new subscription accounts for business owners

Starling Bank is helping British entrepreneurs get back to business with the launch of a new digital banking toolkit and a US dollar account that allows them to spend directly in pounds and dollars with a single debit card.

06 July 2020

News/wholesale

Starling to provide in-app integration to Slack, energy switching and health insurance

Starling Bank continues to beef up its business banking platform, adding health insurance, energy switching services and Slack integration to its range of third party marketplace offers.

15 June 2020

Company announcement/regulation

Starling Bank appoints Jaywing to build IFRS 9 model framework for Covid-19 loans

Starling Bank has partnered with Jaywing to provide support developing an IFRS 9 modelling framework for the calculation of IFRS 9 Expected Credit Losses on the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan portfolio.

09 June 2020

News/retail

Starling Bank raises £40 million as SME banking business picks up

Starling bank has raised a further £40 million from existing investors JTC and Merian Chrysalis Investment Company, bringing the total raised this year to £100 million.

29 May 2020

News/retail

Challengers beat incumbents on account opening experience

Many of the UK's leading high street banks have fallen behind their upstart digital rivals when it comes to making it easy and fast to open an account, suggests a review of 12 players' user experience.

25 May 2020

News/startups

Covid-19 hits challenger banks as app downloads slide

Leading challenger banks in the UK have suffered a significant drop in the number of new app downloads in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, according to data compiled by Finbold.

29 April 2020

News/payments

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: Natwest copies Starling with carers card

NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster bank have followed the example set by Starling Bank in launching a companion card which vulnerable customers can give to trusted people to pay for their groceries or other essential items.

24 April 2020

News/payments

Starling Bank to issue spare debit card for trusted shoppers

Starling Bank is introducing the 'Connected card', a second card that customers can link to their existing account and give to anyone they trust to pay for groceries and other essential items on their behalf.

08 April 2020

Company announcement/payments

Starling Bank offers mobile cheque deposits

Starling Bank is launching mobile cheque deposits.

06 April 2020

Company announcement/covid-19

Starling launches coronavirus support scheme

Starling, the leading digital bank, is offering arranged overdraft interest holidays to personal account holders who are struggling financially as a result of coronavirus. Customers can apply for a three-month interest holiday starting from 1 April 2020.

31 March 2020

News/people

Monzo and Starling furlough some employees

Monzo is offering some of its staffers voluntary furloughs and CEO Tom Blomfield is forgoing his salary for a year as the digital bank looks to weather the Covid-19 storm, according to TechCrunch.

31 March 2020

News/payments

Starling adds 'positive friction' to gambling block

Starling Bank has introduced a delay to its in-app gambling-block, meaning that customers wanting to turn the block off will have to wait 48 hours before they can reactivate spending on betting and gaming.

26 March 2020