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Awards, awards and more awards

For five years running, we’ve reigned as the Best Current Account Provider at the British Bank Awards. Top that off with: Best British Bank, Which? Recommended Provider for Current Accounts, Top UK Startups 2021, Innovator of the Year. We could go on...

Tech that gets you to your goals

A beautiful, intuitive app stacked with budgeting and saving tools to help you organise your money and hit your goals. All with no fees when you spend overseas, and 24/7 UK-based customer support.

Our values match yours

We campaign against financial stereotypes, democratise financial education, and never choose profit over people and planet. Starling is also the only bank in the UK founded by a woman – ever.

Somebody joins Starling every 38 seconds.

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*This statistic was formed by calculating the number of accounts added in a 12 month period divided by the number of hours in a 12 month period.

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Once your account’s open, we’ll plant a tree through Trillion Trees!

Trillion Trees is a joint venture between BirdLife International, Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF that is focused on protecting and restoring the world’s forests.

Starling Bank will make a donation to WWF-UK, a registered charity with charity registration number 1081247 in England and Wales and SC039593 in Scotland, of £3 for each bank account, which is successfully opened with Starling Bank as a result of a referral under this scheme.
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