Matthew Francis Newman

Starling Bank Ltd. is a fully licensed bank that offers a free, award-winning digital business account to UK businesses. The bank is based in London, UK, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The bank provides a range of services, including business overdrafts, depositing cheques via the app, and flexible integrations with smart products. Starling Bank also offers loans through the government-backed recovery loan scheme and an unsecured business loan. The British company was founded in 2014 by Anne Elizabeth Boden and Julian Sawyer, and the CEO is John Mountain.

Allied Irish Banks Plc operates as a holding company, which offers commercial banking, international banking, leasing, insurance and mortgage banking. It operates through the following segments: Retail & Commercial Banking (RCB), Wholesale, Institutional & Corporate Banking (WIB), AIB UK and Group. The RCB segment services the personal and SME customers, provides net loans and customer accounts, broad infrastructure facilitating various locations and ATMs and is digital enabled. The WIB segment comprises of corporate banking, a relationship driven model with sector specialisms; syndicated & international finance, a bank's interface to public loan markets, real estate finance, a centralized origination and management and specialized finance, which provides structured finance, mezzanine finance, and equity product offering. The AIB UK segment comprises retail and commercial banking operations in Great Britain operating under the trading name Allied Irish Bank and in Northern Ireland operating under the trading name First Trust Bank. The Group segment comprises group, treasury and support functions, which includes treasury activities, central control and support functions The company was founded on September 1, 1966 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.