Varo Bank is breaking new ground as America’s first digital consumer bank. StoneTurn Partner Xavier Oustalniol sits down with Phillipa Girling, CRO of Varo Bank, to discuss the company's journey from fintech startup to a pioneering digital bank on the latest episode of StoneTurn’s podcast Leading the Way

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In 2020, Varo Bank became the first and only consumer fintech to receive its own national bank charter, making it America’s first digital consumer bank. In part one of a two-part series, StoneTurn Partner Xavier Oustalniol sits down with Philippa Girling, Chief Risk Officer at Varo Bank, to discuss the company’s journey from fintech startup to pioneering digital bank, working with financial regulators, and how the bank’s mission to address financial inequality drives its development.

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Xavier Oustalniol

Xavier Oustalniol

Xavier Oustalniol is a Partner with StoneTurn in San Francisco. He focuses on complex forensic accounting issues, fraud investigations and prevention, and anti-corruption matters, and provides consulting services regarding damages […]

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