Anne Boden founded Starling, a digital bank targeting millions of users who live their lives on their phones, in 2014 after a distinguished career in banking. Starling was voted Best British Bank in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Starling has more than 1.3 million personal and small business customers (as of April 2020) Anne was awarded an MBE for services to financial technology in 2018.