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b'There are a lot of very rare things about my guest today, Anne Boden.\\xa0

She is one of a very small group of people who have founded what the U.K. calls challenger banks \\u2013 banks that were chartered after the financial crisis as part of regulators\\u2019 newly minted mandate to foster competition in the financial sector.

She is one of the very small group of bank CEOs, worldwide, who are women \\u2013 which makes her a great guest for an episode that we recorded at the end of March \\u2013 which was Women\\u2019s History Month.

She is the CEO of a startup that turns a profit. Many don\\u2019t.

She is one of a very small group of bank CEOs whose roots are in technology, not banking. Her university degree was in chemistry and computer science.

And she is the very rare bank CEO who has written a New York Times bestseller. Titled, Banking on it: How I Disrupted the Way We Manage Our Money Forever, her book recounts the amazing story of how Anne \\u2013 then a senior executive at a global bank, in her mid-50\\u2019s \\u2013 decided to found, yes, a bank.