A riveting read. I couldn't put it down! Boden's story powerfully demonstrates how creativity, bravery and determination can quite literally transform an industry. Wow, what a change-maker!

A thrilling account of entrepreneurship, ingenuity and innovation.

Welsh, 5ft, female and fiftysomething: when Anne Boden decided to launch a new "challenger" bank she seemed like neither the typical staid financier nor the archetypal fintech founder. Her creation was the successful startup Starling, but as this tell-all book outlines it was not an easy birth.

Sent shockwaves through the tight-knit world of UK tech and venture capital

A banking blockbuster

If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it.

Banking On It is the story of how Boden's dogged determination to change the way banks do things...it is a fascinating insight into how one woman's vision shaped the way fintech looks today.

A fascinating read that will appeal to everyone, not just those interested in fintech or the financial industry. Whether you take inspiration from a fifty-something woman dominating a field full young men or merely just enjoy the trials and tribulations that come from trying to create a financial institution, Banking On It should be top of your reading list.

I was left pondering who would bid for the film rights - and this isn't something you often think about a business book. It's a clear-eyed look at the state of banking and how slowly it has moved with the times. Finance is not everyone's favourite subject but Boden makes it accessible.

Boden is a true disruptor, and her big idea for disrupting the banking sector with her digital only bank is truly inspirational. For women entrepreneurs around the world who want to shake things up with their business ideas and innovations, Anne is a great role model and shows that big ideas combined with tenacity, persistence and hard work can become game changing realities. This is a must-read book for every woman entrepreneur who wants to disrupt things with their businesses.

Two of the finest investigative reporters in the business got behind the wall of secrecy erected by one the world's most influential companies. A revelatory - and disturbing - portrait of a powerful firm whose vaunted reputation is belied by its actions

After the publication of When McKinsey Comes to Town, the secretive consulting firm is going to need its own management consultant to address the damage. A tour de force of investigative reporting

Can you trust those clever folk at the consulting firm McKinsey? ... This book shows that McKinsey & Company has a darker side.

Timely

Excellent investigative work ... Every chapter of When McKinsey Comes to Town lays out another disturbing case in which McKinsey worked against the public interest

An investigative tour de force [that] strip[s] away the aura of respectability that has surrounded the profession for more than a century

[An] account...based on exhaustive research... [which] makes for compelling reading

A thriller . . . An engaging story of secret deals and embargo-evasion.

An entertaining history of the rise of the international trading houses and the charismatic, freewheeling risk-takers who headed them.

The story of how a few commodity-trading firms quietly reconfigured the world economy, making fortunes, juggling embargoes and swaying geopolitics.

An elegant defence of talent.