Amazon changed shopping, iTunes changed music, but nobody had really changed banking

As the founder of Starling Bank, former AIB chief operating officer Anne Boden has challenged the traditional banking model in Britain. Now she’s preparing the bank’s entry into the Irish current account market

Anne Boden

CV: Anne Boden

Age:57

Lives: London during the week; Marlow, Buckinghamshire at weekends

Hobbies: enjoying the countryside at weekends; shopping

Favourite film: not into movies

Favourite book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

In an office on leafy St James’s Square in London, a short walk from Buckingham Palace, young-looking staff bustle about in casual clothes. The receptionist wears a branded-hoodie, and branded pens and canvas shopping bags are on ...