This article showcases our top picks for the best United Kingdom based Banking companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Banking industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top United Kingdom Banking Companies
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Curve
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Starling Bank
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Starling Bank is a mobile banking platform that offers personal, joint, and business accounts.
Monzo
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Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Railsbank
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Railsbank is an open banking API and platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global banking.
Modulr
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Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Fintern
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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
HSBC
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HSBC is a British banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Revolut
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Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Zilch
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Zilch is a buy now, pay later app that allows its customers to shop wherever Mastercard is accepted.
OakNorth
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OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Nexo
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The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Featurespace
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Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Atom Bank
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Atom Bank is a mobile banking application that offers a range of personal and business banking products.
ClearBank
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ClearBank is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years.
Monese
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The mobile app alternative to the banks, offering multi-currency accounts that are easy to open from anywhere in the European Economic Area
Moneybox
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Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Griffin
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Griffin is a Banking-as-a-Service provider that helps companies build and launch financial services products.
Soldo
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Soldo is a multi-user expense account that helps companies manage their spend.
Meniga
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Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data.
TrueLayer
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TrueLayer is a fintech platform utilized to build financial apps that connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions.
Ziglu
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Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Adhara
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Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Expend
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Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Yoello
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Yoello is a payments platform building infrastructure that connects banks and payment networks to merchants consumers.
Tide
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Tide is a business banking platform on a mission to save small businesses time (and money) on their banking and admin.
Glint
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Glint is a FinTech with an app and debit card that enables clients to save, exchange, spend and send multi-currencies & physical gold.
Funding Options
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.
Form3
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Cloud-native connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services to Financial Institutions and Fintechs globally.
Pockit
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Pockit is a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses.
Barclays
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Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Tandem
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Tandem is building a bank and financial management universe, focused on freeing users from financial stress by making money simple.
Chip
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Chip is building the best savings account in the world
Delta Capita
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Delta Capita is an International business & technology consultancy and managed services provider
10xbanking
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10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.
Omnio
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Omnio Group is a market leading provider of cloud-based banking and payment services.
Pollinate
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Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
TreeCard
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TreeCard offers a wooden payment card that funds reforestation via the interchange fees generated.
3S Money
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3S Money is a digital B2B merchant banking platform.
Lanistar
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Lanistar is a fintech company that provides customer-centric alternative to traditional banking.
Selina Finance
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Selina Finance provides loans to small and medium businesses in the form of flexible credit facilities.
Berenberg
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Berenberg is a company that provides asset management, corporate and investment banking services primarily to the European areas.
Countingup
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The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Standard Chartered Bank
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Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
VitraCash
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Tired of carrying all your debit and credit cards without even knowing which one to use for which kind of payment? Try VitraCard!
BABB
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BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Baanx Group
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BaaS (Banking as a Service), white label, mobile digital asset friendly: wallets, cards, payment gateways, IBANs, for communities
Coconut
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Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Knoma
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Transak
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Transak is a developer integration for a fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, connecting cryptocurrency with traditional banking.
Origin
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Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Thought Machine
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Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Chetwood Financial
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Chetwood uses technology to make people better off, through the design and manufacture of digital products across financial services.
ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
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Business Banking and Admin service
Secure Trust Bank
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Secure Trust Bank provides simple, transparent savings accounts, mortgages and Business and Commercial Finance.
Banked
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Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform.
Monolith
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Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
Fund Ourselves
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Affordable short-term credit marketplace for hard working families
Monitise
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Monitise is a technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks.
Flagstone
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Flagstone is a UK starup developing a cash deposit marketplace that gives users easy access to hundreds of cash deposit accounts.
Nucoro
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The platform to build all fintech money management propositions.
Trunomi
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Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
sync.
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We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Eddisons
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Eddisons provides specialist services to banks, insolvency practitioners, owners, and occupiers of commercial property.
Updraft
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Updraft is a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app for millennials. We turn borrowers into savers.
Delio
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Delio is a white label technology offering that enables wealth management firms, private banks and other financial institutions.
Ondato
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Complete KYC and AML management suite that helps businesses onboard clients, authenticate users, and safely conduct their remote processes.
Osper
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Osper is a prepaid debit card and mobile banking service empowering young people to manage their money responsibly.
Oxbury Bank
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Oxbury Bank provide farmers with the specialized lending they need to run their farms.
Dozens
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dozens is a trading name of Project Imagine Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (No. 11153882).
Sage Group
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Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Old Mutual
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Old Mutual Group is an international investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.
Freemarket
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Freemarket accelerate’s businesses growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimized for their needs.
DiPocket
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We are a new generation of mobile digital payments redefining the banking scene.
Squirrel
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Squirrel is an award-winning smart banking app that empowers people to take control of their money.
Aldermore Bank
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Aldermore Bank is a specialist lender and savings bank offering straightforward products to SMEs, homeowners, landlords and individuals.
Blackthorn
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Blackthorn provides global payment and FX solutions to SMEs via multi-currency IBANs account in 25 currencies.
Finance Unlocked
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The world’s first comprehensive, on-demand video-delivered learning platform built specifically for finance professionals.
Rizq
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Rizq is the UK’s first alternative Islamic digital banking app.
Loot Financial Services
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Loot Financial Services is a banking and money management app for students.
UniZest
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UniZest is a provider of a banking service intended to resolve international students’ banking problems in the United Kingdom.
Fluency
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Blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary marketplace platform revolutionising the existing financial system. Powering the Revolution of Money.
3i Group
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3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Folk2Folk
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Folk2Folk offers simple, straightforward, local lending and borrowing.
TreasurySpring
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TreasurySpring is a financial technology firm dedicated to democratising short-term funding markets
Upside
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Upside is an open banking based marketing platform, connecting retailers to consumers through frictionless ‘upsides’ (cashback)
AvantCredit
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Get up to £20,000 with a personal loan online from Avant UK. Applying is easy, quick and does not affect your credit score
Unity Trust Bank
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Unity Trust Bank provides specialist banking services for trade unions and charities in the United Kingdom.
Bank of England
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The Bank of England serves as the central bank of the United Kingdom.
Manigo
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Manigo is a full stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider
Monet Money
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The Finance and Business Platform for the Creator Economy
Incuto
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Banking technology platform, transforming Credit Unions into community-focused challenger banks.
Fortu Wealth
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Fortu – Digital Private Wealth with a Personal Touch
NatWest Group
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NatWest Group plc, is a majority state-owned British banking and insurance holding company.
Masthaven
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Masthaven have been providing a flexible and personalised approach to bridging loans and secured lending since 2004.
Virgin Money
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Virgin Money is a independent banking group.
Sainsbury’s
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Sainsbury’s operates supermarkets and convenience stores, an online grocery and general merchandise operation, as well as Sainsbury’s Bank.
DMALINK
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DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
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