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January 30, 2025

Starling’s new power players as the neobank shakes up its C-suite

New CEO Raman Bhatia has been busy building out Starling’s C-suite


Tom Matsuda

5 min read

Starling is now one of the UK’s largest neobanks, with more than 4.2m customers and £11bn in deposits. It’s also raised more than $1.1bn in funding from investors, including the Qatar Investment Authority, Goldman Sachs and Fidelity Investments.

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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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