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Atom Bank

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Four-day week easier than hybrid working, Atom Bank chief says

    UK digital bank has experienced lower staff attrition and sickness since making change in 2021

    London commuters
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
    Atom takes valuation hit as it raises £100mn in new equity

    Digital bank valued at £362mn in latest funding round, down from £435mn last year

    Mark Mullen
  • 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

    Mark Mullen
  • 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

    Mark Mullen, Atom Bank CEO
  • 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

    Atom Bank’s chief executive Mark Mullen
  • 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’

    Co-founders Vlad Yatsenko and Nikolay Storonsky of financial technology company Revolut, smile in this undated handout obtained September 27. 2019. Courtesy of Revolut/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
  • 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

    Atom Bank Chief Executive Officer Mark Mullen and Chairman Anthony Thomson (R) pose for a photograph at their headquarters in Durham, Britain July 27, 2015. Atom Bank's mobile banking app is so commercially sensitive that its developers won't even allow it to be demonstrated. The bank, whose founder believes can transform consumer banking in Britain, is in the final stages of preparation before launching its first products later this year. REUTERS/Darren Staples - RTX1O2PA
  • 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

    File photo dated 14/02/15 of a Metro Bank sign, as bank reported its first annual statutory pre-tax profit at £18.7 million for the year to December 31. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday February 21, 2018. That is compared with a loss of £17.1 million a year earlier. See PA story CITY Metro. Photo credit should read: Laura Lean/PA Wire
  • 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

    British ten pound banknotes stand in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Strategists are revising their estimates for the currency after its best week since 2009 saw it gain almost 3 percent as the Bank of England signaled it would look to withdraw stimulus “over the coming months.” Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  • 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

    Atom Bank Chief Executive Officer Mark Mullen and Chairman Anthony Thomson (R) pose for a photograph at their headquarters in Durham, Britain July 27, 2015. Atom Bank's mobile banking app is so commercially sensitive that its developers won't even allow it to be demonstrated. The bank, whose founder believes can transform consumer banking in Britain, is in the final stages of preparation before launching its first products later this year. REUTERS/Darren Staples - RTX1O2PA
  • 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

    Atom Bank Chief Executive Officer Mark Mullen and Chairman Anthony Thomson (R) pose for a photograph at their headquarters in Durham, Britain July 27, 2015.   Atom Bank's mobile banking app is so commercially sensitive that its developers won't even allow it to be demonstrated. The bank, whose founder believes can transform consumer banking in Britain, is in the final stages of preparation before launching its first products later this year. REUTERS/Darren Staples - RTX1O2PA
  • 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

    Atom, Monzo and Starling banks on mobile
  • 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

    LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 11: Will.I.Am launches dial at Royal Albert Hall gig featuring special guests at Royal Albert Hall on May 11, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for i.am+)
  • 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

    Estate agents' boards advertising homes for sale stand near a block of flats in London, U.K., on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. London property prices are set to fall next year as uncertainty about Britain's exit from the European Union damps the U.K. housing market, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • 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

    Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank.
  • 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
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