Starling Bank to Train Transactional AI Model on Civo UK Cloud

Oct 15, 2026
Starling Bank plans to train a transactional foundation model on Civo's UK sovereign cloud using more than 15 billion anonymized transactions and NVIDIA technology.

Starling Bank plans to train a transactional foundation model on the UK sovereign cloud operated by Civo, according to Data Center Dynamics. The model will use proprietary data from more than 15 billion anonymized transactions.

The bank will use NVIDIA hardware and its Transaction Foundation Model developer blueprint. The training process will also use CUDA-X libraries for GPU accelerated data processing and NeMo AutoModel.

Starling expects to deploy the model in early 2027, initially to improve fraud detection. It later plans to connect the model with Starling Assistant and use it as the basis for a shared intelligence layer supporting customer services.

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