Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’

Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’

Penguin Service describes Starling Bank creator Anne Boden’s “Banking On It” as the “first-hand account of one lady’s mission to reconstruct Britain’s damaged banking system.” Written with the help of a ghost author, Boden relates how she came up with the concept to discovered a challenger bank and the numerous challenges she faced along the […] Less than 300 pages, the book parachutes the reader right away into a taxi journey in Ireland that Boden is taking post-financial crisis, when lenders weren’t precisely close to the public’s heart. There is also the ₤ 1 million in debt that Boden racked up employing management consultant firms to assist her with the bank license application procedure. What we don’t constantly get is an incredible amount of self-questioning, with Boden telling me that “Banking On It” is not a memoir however an organization book, even believed it often checks out like one. Boden stated she isn’t going to retire any time quickly and that Starling isn’t preparing to sell to a huge bank. Throughout our conversation, Boden resolved one media misconception (which my own sources verify): There was never ever any kind of gagging order or privacy contract forbiding celebrations from talking about the Starling-Monzo split….