Starling is a challenger bank based in the UK; Boden speaks about Starling, open banking and how she came to discover fintech which in turn led her to founding Starling; Boden previously worked in executive positions at UBS, ABN Amro, RBS and AIB; Starling was founded in 2014 as an app-only bank; in an interview Boden stated: “…and in 2014, I started the journey to build a bank. And it’s been a long process because you don’t just build a bank overnight. We’ve done things the hard way in that I’m a big believer that things that are worth doing are things that tend to be quite hard – because easy things anybody can do.” Source
