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NEWS Starling heads towards 2017 launch who happily manage their lives on their phone.”


received a restricted UK banking licence and announced Faster Payments adoption later in the year. The venture, set to launch to customers by January 2017, is the brainchild of Anne Boden, a former Chief Operating Officer of Allied Irish Bank (AIB).


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“We are delighted to have the confidence and support of the regulator, to move forward and introduce a new style of banking,” she says. “For the past year, our team has been focused on building our product and technology from the ground up. By 2020, the number of UK mobile banking users will double from 17.8 million to 32.6 million and our aim is to empower these people to better manage their finances with an incredible app, purpose-built for those


igital only challenger bank Starling has


Starling has also unveiled a new brand identity and launched a new website (www.starlingbank.com). “We are on track to be the first next-generation bank to connect directly to the Faster Payments system. This will allow us to offer the best possible payments experience to our customers and partners,” says Boden.


It’s a much needed boost for the bank which recently parted ways with CTO and Co-Founder Mark Hipperson. He told the FT: “We had a disagreement on the way forward and I therefore decided I would resign.” Last year, it was also left looking for a new management team, following the departure of: CTO Tom Blomfield (who was behind GoCardless, a startup looking to make direct debits accessible to individuals, and has since gone on to launch rival digital challenger bank Mondo); CFO, Gary Dolman (ex-ABN Amro); CRO, Paul Rippon (ex-Allied Irish Banks); and Chief Customer Officer, John Bates.


Scott Thompson OakNorth in Facebook at Work partnership


challenger bank to adopt Facebook at Work as the social platform prepares for its global debut later this year.


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OakNorth, which provides loans to SMEs, launched the network internally during July. Co-founder and CEO, Rishi Khosla, says: “In using Facebook at Work, we’ve been able to crowdsource ideas from people within the business who otherwise wouldn’t have been involved in the discussion. The platform has enabled us to combine the viewpoints of employees from all areas of the business which has already directly helped with the design of two new projects. Our partnership with Facebook at Work is yet another example of how OakNorth is building its business with the flexible/


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collaborative technology – outdoing the approach of many FinTech businesses.”


The FI is hoping the network will enable it to achieve a 30% reduction in the number of internal emails by the end of the year, as well as accelerating decision making processes by drawing everyone into virtual rooms on the platform.


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