By Charlie Conchie As recently as April last year, it was hard to imagine a Starling Bank without Anne Boden. The Swansea-born banker built a reputation as one of Britain’s most formidable entrepreneurs at the top of the fintech she founded in 2014. She went to war with Tory peers over Covid-19 fraud, battled her male peers in public and led Starling from a packed field of loss-making lenders to clear the hurdle of profitability – one of few to do so. Then in May, she dropped the unexpected bombshell that she was stepping down. Reports later emerged she was ousted in a conflict of interest spa…