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August 19, 2025

Starling plots SME accounting play with Ember acquisition

The deal follows reports Starling is looking to buy a nationally chartered bank in the US

Tom Matsuda

2 min read

Starling has acquired tax accounting software startup Ember to enable the UK neobank to offer book-keeping services to its small-medium enterprise (SME) customers. 

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

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