Starling Bank partners with Equipsme to offer health insurance

Health insurer added to Starling Marketplace

Adam Saville
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Health insurance proposition linked to open banking app alongside Slack and Bionic

SME-friendly health cover provider Equipsme has been chosen by digital bank to distribute its products via its app. The health insurer has been integrated into the Starling Marketplace, which offers 26 complementary services to its users, alongside channel-based messaging platform Slack and energy-switching service Bionic. Starling said the new additions will be available to its 177,000 small to medium enterprise (SME) customers from today. Anne Boden, founder and CEO of Starling Bank, said: "These new Marketplace integrations are bringing added value to our business customers, hel...

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