![]() Back then the likes of Lloyds Bank were swiping computer science grads like her to bolster their tech ranks. Instead, Boden grew up in a modest family home and attended Swansea University, where she graduated in 1981 with a degree in computer science and technology. She’s not a college dropout, nor does she have a vast inheritance. I was 54 and confident enough not to care if somebody said I was stupid.” People did think I was crazy, that no one ‘starts a bank,’ especially people who looked like me, but I’d reached the stage where I was prepared to fail. ![]() “Fintech start-ups are all young white guys with goatees – usually with rich parents. Though even she admits that her background is unusual for someone in her position. Because, while there are plenty of big achievers in banking, few can say that they’ve actually started a bank of their own, let alone turned a profit, or, according to some, turned an industry upside down.īoden, now 63, turned her back on the corporate banking ladder 10 or so years ago to show that ‘banking types,’ and indeed banks themselves, were due an overhaul. Though perhaps this gives Boden an advantage. ![]() I’m from a very ordinary background and I’m the sort of person who’ll chat to somebody in the ladies!” she tells The Guardian. Case in point, Anne Boden, a fintech and neobank founder who shows students and Google algorithms are sorely mistaken. The first three pages of Google reckon a ‘fintech entrepreneur’ is a kind of ‘tech bro’ who stares blankly into a camera lens. ![]() Students in a York University study reckon your average banker is an unsmiling, healthy-looking man. ![]()
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