Battle of the Challengers
Options Trading, French Mortgage Lending, Dee Hock
New Year’s Day, 2014, Anne Boden was on a cruise, skirting the coast of South Africa. She’d just left her job as chief operating officer of Allied Irish Banks and harboured a burning desire to create her own bank in the UK. “It’s going to be a new sort of bank,” she told a fellow passenger. “With a different approach. A digital bank.”
Boden’s idea was to…