Starling Bank
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Nov 4, 2026
James HurleyGUEST
You're just using it as a way to get more business customers in.
James HurleyGUEST
There was a very high profile row between Lord Agnew, who was the counter-fraud minister and resigned at the dispatch box in 2022 in a bit of a mic drop moment, between him and Anne Bowden, who was the co-founder of, and then at the time, chief executive of Starling Bank.
James HurleyGUEST
And he accused Starling of exactly that, basically of using this scheme as a way to grow the customer base.
James HurleyGUEST
Anne Bowden was very unhappy with this.
Andrea McLeanGUEST
That was the key thing, was I only wanted to interview... really interesting women who are inspiring.
Andrea McLeanGUEST
And I interviewed Anne Boden, who was the creator of Starling Bank.
Andrea McLeanGUEST
So Anne Boden is the first female founder of a bank in the UK.
Andrea McLeanGUEST
And she's an incredible woman.
David SavageHOST
She's someone who we've had on the show actually a couple of times.
David SavageHOST
Had her very, very, very early on when she worked at Starling Bank.
David SavageHOST
Very well-respected commentator in fintech, but also... has a good understanding of what's going on in tech more broadly, okay? She posted something on LinkedIn yesterday that I thought was genuinely fascinating.
David SavageHOST
This is rather than news, it's a post on LinkedIn.
Sam BoboevHOST
And today, actually, I read an article, I think, a news about data sovereignty.
Sam BoboevHOST
Starling Bank is doing something really cool here.
Sam BoboevHOST
They've become the first company using, if I remember, local cloud or something like that.
Sam BoboevHOST
But yeah, I have to dig into this.
Cameron ParryGUEST
And, yeah, so for us, again, we were trying to give this familiar experience of a, you know, so it's very similar to a bank account, like give that experience.
Cameron ParryGUEST
And, you know, fortunately, you know, Monzo had been before us, Starling Bank, Revolut, TransferWise or WiseNow.
Cameron ParryGUEST
And what those firms had done was allow, you know, it happened over five plus years, but where the public could feel confident that I could hold my money in an account that I can just see on my smartphone.
Cameron ParryGUEST
You know, there's no branch or anything, but I can actually trust it.
Kris KovacsHOST
I am your host, Kris Kovacs, and this is the series where we talk with, and yes, sometimes about, community-based institutions, their digital and business transformation projects, and we meet the innovators, entrepreneurs, and fintechs that make it all possible.
Kris KovacsHOST
On this episode, we're speaking with Jody Bhagat, the North American president of Engine by Starling, about how they are bringing next-generation technology into the business of banking.
Kris KovacsHOST
So if you're ready, let's suit up and get out on the field.
Kris KovacsHOST
Jody, thank you very much for joining us.
Kris KovacsHOST
We're super excited to have you on the show.
Kris KovacsHOST
Why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and about your company, Engine by Starling.
Jody BhagatGUEST
Thank you, Chris.
Jody BhagatGUEST
And also thank you for being such a leading light and a prominent voice in the credit union space.
Neil WinwoodMODERATOR
Thank you very much for the answer.
Neil WinwoodMODERATOR
What valuation are you putting on Starling Bank in light of the recent sales at a 1.7 billion valuation?
Tom TraynorGUEST
So I think a few points on that sale.
Tom TraynorGUEST
Without getting to the weeds of the accountancy guidelines, there are very clear rules about What factors influence whether secondary sales should be incorporated into an official NAV or not? And it seems very clear to us that this was a bilateral transaction between two parties.
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Charlotte CuthbertsonGUEST
It's one of those stocks that seems to get beaten up with, you know, any kind of news flow that's even potentially marginally negative.
Charlotte CuthbertsonGUEST
And, you know, we saw their share price friction to the sale of Van Bosen shares earlier this week being a prime example of that.
Charlotte CuthbertsonGUEST
Tom's already gone through why we think that their share price reaction is very much overdone in terms of where we think valuation of uh starling bank uh it really is um but between starling bank and smart pension you know we think both of those assets are very good and very exciting um and we think that it just looks incredibly cheap and massively the wrong price yeah
Neil WinwoodMODERATOR
great thank you And moving on to thoughts on US solar following the announcement on Monday of the extension of the exclusivity period for the sale of the portfolio.
Sophie ValentineHOST
that.
David CrawfordHOST
But what's happened is that Starling Bank, so this is a UK-based bank.
David CrawfordHOST
It's one of the big challenger banks, right? It's now quite large.
David CrawfordHOST
I'm not sure if a challenge is appropriate anymore, right? Starling Bank has started training its own AI model on UK Sovereign Cloud, right? It's quite a simple story.
David CrawfordHOST
There's nothing overly complicated about this, right? They're basically building a transactional foundation model for a banking model, Ray, which will be trained and hosted within the UK Sovereign Cloud.
David CrawfordHOST
And it will be trained on styling data from over 15 billion anonymized transactions to give the bank insights into the needs and behaviors of its customers.
Sophie ValentineHOST
that.
David CrawfordHOST
But what's happened is that Starling Bank, so this is a UK-based bank.
David CrawfordHOST
It's one of the big challenger banks, right? It's now quite large.
David CrawfordHOST
I'm not sure if a challenge is appropriate anymore, right? Starling Bank has started training its own AI model on UK Sovereign Cloud, right? It's quite a simple story.
David CrawfordHOST
There's nothing overly complicated about this, right? They're basically building a transactional foundation model for a banking model, Ray, which will be trained and hosted within the UK Sovereign Cloud.
David CrawfordHOST
And it will be trained on styling data from over 15 billion anonymized transactions to give the bank insights into the needs and behaviors of its customers.
Jan WatermannHOST
Absolutely right.
Jan WatermannHOST
If banking is literally the main thing you're looking for, Starling has a great free current account.
Jan WatermannHOST
Chase UK is a great one that also provides cashback.
Jan WatermannHOST
Monzo has a good base account, also great options.
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