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Starling Bank reports first full year profit

21st July 2022

  • Swings to £30+ million pre-tax profit from a £30+ million loss

  • Deposit base up 55% to £9 billion

  • Lending up 45% to £3.3 billion

  • Revenue increases by 93% to £188 million

London, 21 July 2022 – Starling Bank today reports its first full year of profitability. The digital bank swung to a pre-tax profit of £32.1 million for the financial year ending 31 March 2022 from a pre-tax loss of £31.5 million for the period to 31 March 2021. Revenue for the same period to 31 March 2022 was £188 million.

Starling’s previous financial year, to 31 March 2021, covered a 16 month period to reflect a change in the timing of the bank’s financial reporting.

Trading update for June 2022

In the three months following its latest accounts, Starling has continued to grow at pace and in June 2022 reports an annualised revenue run rate of £331.2 million driven by year on year lending growth of 72% to £4 billion.

Starling continues to build on the mortgage capability it gained through the acquisition of Fleet Mortgages in July 2021, with more than £2 billion of mortgages now on the balance sheet as at June 2022. This growth in lending has been funded by Starling’s growing deposit base, which increased by a further £600 million in just three months.

The pre-tax ROTE(1) for June 2022 is already best-in-class for a UK bank at 17.5%, compared to c.11% for the large high street banks and 16% for other specialist and mid-tier lenders. This is despite Starling holding a significant capital surplus above its regulatory minimum as a result of its most recent funding round.

Key Financial Metrics (Source - Starling Group Management Accounts)As at Jun-22As at Mar-22As at Jun-21
Annualised Revenue Run Rate£331.2m£303.6m£176.8m
Annualised PBT Run Rate£92.0m£48.8m£30.3m
Total Customer Deposits£9,628m£9,028m£6,755m
Pre-Tax ROTE17.5%14.1%8.7%
Total Mortgage Lending£2,056m£1,216m£40m
Total Gross Lending£4,033m£3,266m£2,335m

Anne Boden, Founder and Chief Executive of Starling Bank, said: “With our first full year of profitability, we’ve placed ourselves firmly in a category of one. As an innovative digital bank with a sustainable business model and a strong balance sheet we are generating our own capital and we stand apart from both the old banks and other challengers.”


Notes to editors

(1) ROTE - return-on-tangible-equity

About Starling Bank

Starling Bank is an award-winning, fully-licensed and regulated bank built to give people a fairer, smarter and more human alternative to the banks of the past. It offers personal, business, joint, euro and dollar current accounts alongside a children’s card. Starling also offers a B2B Banking as a Service and Software as a Service proposition, based on the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power its own bank. The Starling Marketplace offers customers in-app access to a selection of third party financial services. Headquartered in London, the bank has offices in Southampton, Cardiff and Dublin.

Read Anne Boden’s Annual CEO Letter
Read Starling’s full 2021-2022 Annual Report and Accounts

Contact

Alexandra Frean, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Starling Bank
alexandra.frean@starlingbank.com
07973 668363

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