Tangerine signs software deal with unit of U.K.’s Starling Group, becoming its first North American client

A Tangerine bank branch in Vancouver. The Scotiabank digital subsidiary will migrate its digital banking services to Starling’s Engine by Starling software services unit.

Starling Group has signed a 10-year agreement to upgrade core software at Tangerine, a Canadian digital bank owned by Bank of Nova Scotia BNS-T , as the British-based bank continues its global expansion, Starling said on Tuesday.

The deal is the biggest yet for the British digital bank’s Engine by Starling software services subsidiary, and will see Tangerine migrate its digital banking operations to Engine’s cloud-based software-as-a-service platform.

The partnership follows Engine’s expansion into North America earlier this year, with new offices in Toronto and New York, and marks Engine’s first North American clien