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...“Now is the time for a new kind of international payments solution; one that combines cutting-edge innovation with the support of an experienced global bank,” said Zing chief executive James Allan....
...Job moves Deutsche Bank’s head of corporate and investment banking for the Americas James Davies is leaving the group....
...However, while the going may be tough, the FCA recently highlighted how low-cost digital banks like Starling and Monzo have started to gain market share....
...It runs almost half of the firm’s funds, including those by partners James Hanbury and Oliver Kelton....
...“Complaints statistics are very easy to fiddle,” says Martyn James, the consumer-rights expert....
...The sale of Holbein’s A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling to the National Gallery boosted restoration funds....
...In April, it invested £50m in Starling, the digital bank....
...My most recent memory of feeling true awe was seeing the maiden images from the James Webb Space Telescope last year....
...“Male” stands insouciantly against the wall, James Dean-style; “Female” lies recumbent, an abstract odalisque....
...James Hayward, Goldman Sachs’ managing director, said: “Starling is one of the leading and most innovative digital banks in the UK, with an ambitious technology-first leadership team and addressing a deep...
...“UK culture doesn’t celebrate the entrepreneur,” says James Dyson, the inventor behind the eponymous appliance and technology business....
...With the exception of a few digital-focused start-ups like Monzo and Starling Bank, entrenched incumbents NatWest, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC have long-dominated the territory....
...It’s an unhappy thought, but one James Crabtree grappled with recently while visiting a Singapore facility designed to allow Covid-safe meetings behind airtight glass panels....
...If coronavirus fears can diminish the box office appeal of such screen icons as James Bond and, er, Peter Rabbit, then what chance do the stars of finance have?...
...Financial blogger Lynn James posts as @mrsmummypennyuk and shared her #debtfreejourney on Instagram as she spent two years paying down £16,000 worth of credit card debts....
...In the UK, new “challenger banks” such as Atom Bank and Starling Bank have had some success winning new customers....
...“Open banking has been a bit of a damp squib until now,” says James Daley, managing director of consumer group Fairer Finance....
...James Hickman, chief commercial officer at FairFX, the foreign exchange company, said UK holidaymakers could buy currency in advance to minimise the effect of the unfavourable exchange rate....
...There’s new thinking also from Anne Boden, founder of Starling digital-only bank, who meditates on her experiences in Good Bank, Bad Bank (Penguin Business, March)....
...For those travelling further afield, app-based banks Starling and Monzo are also worth checking out....
...James Meekings, a co-founder of peer-to-peer lending platform Funding Circle, said: “For the first time in 2010, small business owners could apply for a loan online....
...Some new banks such as Atom or Starling have no branches at all, operating digitally and piggybacking off existing retailers for their physical requirements....
...Photograph: James Arther Allen...
...Redwing starlings (a legacy of Rhodes’s ecological imperialism) twittered in through the windows above as the questions became ever more combative....
...“I have no sympathy for the airlines as the rules are quite clear,” says James Fremantle, industry affairs manager with the ATUC. “We are concerned these airlines are adjusting the rules....
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