Mark Anderson
This article showcases our top picks for the best English 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 English Banking Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Revolut
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Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Starling Bank
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Starling Bank is a mobile banking platform that offers personal, joint, and business accounts.
Zilch
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Zilch is a buy now, pay later app that allows its customers to shop wherever Mastercard is accepted.
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.
Soldo
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Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Tide
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Tide is a business banking platform with a mission to save small businesses time and money on their banking and admin.
Railsbank
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Railsbank is an open banking API and platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global banking.
Curve
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
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.
Barclays
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Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Modulr
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Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
HSBC
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HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Nexo
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The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
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
ClearBank
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ClearBank is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years.
OakNorth
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OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
10xbanking
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10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.
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.
Meniga
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Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data.
Funding Options
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.
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
Ziglu
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Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Form3
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Cloud-native connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services to Financial Institutions and Fintechs globally.
Pollinate
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Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
Fluency
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CBDC proprietary blockchain revolutionising the existing financial system. Powering the Revolution of Money.
Griffin
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Griffin is a Banking-as-a-Service provider that helps companies build and launch financial services products.
Transak
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Web2-to-web3 conversion funnels for the next generation of apps.
ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
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Business Banking and Admin service
Selina Finance
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Selina Finance provides loans to small and medium businesses in the form of flexible credit facilities.
Nucoro
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The platform to build all fintech money management propositions.
Pockit
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Pockit is a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses.
Treecard
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Treecard is a fullstack green finance platform, allowing consumers to spend, save and invest responsibly.
Omnio
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Omnio Group is a market leading provider of cloud-based banking and payment services.
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.
Origin
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Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Delta Capita
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Delta Capita is an International business & technology consultancy and managed services provider
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 and physical gold.
Coconut
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Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Baanx Group
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BaaS (Banking as a Service), white label, mobile digital asset friendly: wallets, cards, payment gateways, IBANs, for communities
Lanistar
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Lanistar is a fintech company that provides customer-centric alternative to traditional banking.
Standard Chartered Bank
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Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
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.
Adhara
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Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Knoma
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
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.
Berenberg
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Berenberg is a company that provides asset management, corporate and investment banking services primarily to the European areas.
Fintern
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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Osper
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Osper is a prepaid debit card and mobile banking service empowering young people to manage their money responsibly.
TreasurySpring
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TreasurySpring is a financial technology firm dedicated to democratising short-term funding markets
3S Money
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3S Money is a digital B2B merchant banking platform.
Upside Saving
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Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
Monolith
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Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
Banked
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Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform.
Ondato
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Complete KYC and AML management suite that helps businesses onboard clients, authenticate users, and safely conduct their remote processes.
Trunomi
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Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Monet
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The Business and Finance Platform for the Creator Economy. Solving the biggest problem for creators: getting paid quickly
Cushon
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Cushon is a fintech company that provides investment, pension, financial wellbeing and workplace savings.
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.
sync.
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We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Lloyds Banking Group
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Lloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Expend
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Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Bank of England
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The Bank of England serves as the central bank of the United Kingdom.
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.
Old Mutual
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Old Mutual Group is an international investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.
Loot Financial Services
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Loot Financial Services is a banking and money management app for students.
Dozens
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dozens is a trading name of Project Imagine Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (No. 11153882).
3i Group
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3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
DiPocket
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We are a new generation of mobile digital payments redefining the banking scene.
Finance Unlocked
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The world’s first comprehensive, on-demand video-delivered learning platform built specifically for finance professionals.
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.
Thought Machine
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Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Rizq
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Rizq is the UK’s first alternative Islamic digital banking app.
Blackthorn
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Blackthorn provides global payment and FX solutions to SMEs via multi-currency IBANs account in 25 currencies.
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!
Masthaven
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Masthaven have been providing a flexible and personalised approach to bridging loans and secured lending since 2004.
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.
Manigo
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Manigo is a full stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider
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
Fortu Wealth
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Fortu – Digital Private Wealth with a Personal Touch
Kudimoney
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Kudimoney is a full service digital only bank that enriches lives by helping people live healthier financial lives.
MPT PAY
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Fintech, connect EU/ Non EU business, SEPA, SWIFT, a built financial ecosystem for B2B, DEPP (Dynamic Escrow Payment Protocol)
Third Financial
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Third Financial is one of the fastest growing and most innovative software and platform service providers in the market today.
Albert
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Albert is an innovative, fast growing technology company disrupting financial management for freelancers and the solo self-employed.
DMALINK
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DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
ZEON Network
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ZEON Network: a decentralized platform for financial services. Crypto-backed loans, deposits, wallet, buy and sell digital assets.
CASHOFF
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Provides profit-generating open banking API solutions for banks and unique digital experience for their consumers
Equipment Connect
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Equipment Connect is the online marketplace for sourcing, financing and managing equipment.
The Baobab Network
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The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
TuningBill
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TuningBill is a digital banking and account management system for international traders.
Cashew
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Cashew allows banks to turn their mobile applications into a means of payment with Point-of-Sale financing functionality.
