Starling Bank is an award-winning, fully-licensed and regulated bank built to give people a fairer, smarter and more human alternative to the banks of the past. It offers personal, business, joint, teen, euro and dollar accounts alongside a child card and a range of lending products. Starling also provides B2B banking and payments services through its Banking-as-a-Service model based on the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power its own bank. The Starling Marketplace offers customers in-app access to a selection of third party financial services. Headquartered in London, it has offices in Southampton, Cardiff and Dublin.
How we got here
Starling was founded in 2014 by industry-leading banker Anne Boden, who recognised how technology could transform the way people manage their money and serve customers in a way that traditional banks hadn’t. We were voted Best British Bank in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 and topped the Which? customer satisfaction table for 2020. Our customers also rate us Excellent on Trustpilot.
See all of the awards we’ve won.
How many customers does Starling have?
Starling has opened more than 2 million customer accounts.