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  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Atom Bank to tap private equity for final £50mn funding round next year

    Digital lender has been forced to delay IPO because of choppy markets

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Atom Bank valued at £435mn as it targets market listing next year

    App-based lender raises more than £75mn in round led by BBVA, Toscafund and Infinity

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    UK banks
    Atom Bank moves to four-day work week without cutting pay

    App-based lender becomes UK’s largest company to make the shift and expects Friday to be default day off

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    Atom Bank cuts losses despite collapse of backer Woodford

    App-based lender plans to re-enter mortgage market next week and £100m funding raise

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2019
    News in-depthDigital banking
    Race to become UK digital banking leader hots up

    Fintech scene ‘not winner takes all, but winner takes most’

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    UK banks
    Digital bank Atom starts to make money on loans

    Chief Mark Mullen says group defied closure and held nerve in face of mortgage price war

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    How much of a challenger bank can Metro still afford to be?

    Talk of a loan-book sale underlines how difficult it is to be a bank that takes on others

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    Atom Bank raises £50m from investors including Neil Woodford

    UK challenger bank says it plans to step up spending on technology and hiring

  • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
    Digital banking
    Atom Bank’s pricing promotions drive up losses

    UK digital lender more than triples its assets to £2bn in the last financial year

  • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
    Digital banking
    Metro Bank founder joins digital challengers in Australia 

    Anthony Thomson targets Big Four banks with focus on mobile offering

  • Wednesday, 7 March, 2018
    Digital banking
    Atom Bank in £149m capital raising

    Spanish lender BBVA lifts stake in UK challenger to almost 40%

  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2017
    Digital banking
    Atom Bank to offer retail savings in Germany
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
    UK banks
    FCA’s Bailey warns lenders over provision of current accounts
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2017
    Digital banking
    Atom bank postpones current-account launch

    UK digital lender concerned about extent of forthcoming regulation

  • Friday, 10 March, 2017
    UK banks
    New-generation UK banks challenge with technology

    Range of app-based lenders are latest competitors to large established rivals

  • Friday, 3 March, 2017
    Digital banking
    Atom Bank raises £83m from shareholders as it eyes expansion
  • Thursday, 23 February, 2017
    Digital banking
    New digital banks turn to celebrities to boost sales

    Singers Will.i.am and Tom Odell show interest in UK start-ups

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2016
    First-time buyers
    Atom Bank to offer residential mortgages

    Digital-only lender aims to enter UK buy-to-let market next year

  • Thursday, 6 October, 2016
    Digital banking
    UK’s first app-based digital bank launches across country
  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2016
    Digital banking
    Atom Bank attracts early interest from mobile customers

    Digital lender signs up 40,000 potential customers of which just 2,000 have opened accounts

  • Friday, 29 April, 2016
    UK banks
    Clydesdale and Yorkshire develops artificial intelligence app

    Bank to launch app as customers demand digital banking

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    Disrupters
    Atom Bank launches challenge to high-street lenders

    Mobile-based group’s arrival delayed until second quarter by investment regulations

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2016
    FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
    A brief look at Metro Bank’s offer document
  • Monday, 11 January, 2016
    European companies
    Starling raises $70m for UK banking market push

    New digital bank gets backing from investor and recruits former regulator to spearhead efforts

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
    UK banks
    Mobile bank chief mocks big high street rivals

    Traditional lenders’ efforts to go digital like ‘putting lipstick on a pig’

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