London’s 101 Fastest Growing Banking Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 101 Banking companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Banking Companies & Startups (London)

Selina Finance

Selina Finance provides loans to small and medium businesses in the form of flexible credit facilities.

Soldo

Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.

Monese

Monese is a digital banking option that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in countries across the European Economic Area.

FlowBank

FlowBank is a multi-asset trading platform that offers a wide range of online banking & investment services to brokers & corporate clients.

Form3

Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.

DIEM

Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.

Fintern

Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.

Moneybox

Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.

Ziglu

Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.

3S Money

3S Money offers international business banking services in 190 countries.

ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin

Business Banking and Admin service

Repay Solutions

Over The Top payment platform connecting businesses to the latest real-time payments innovations without changing bank.

Nucoro

Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.

Ondato

Complete KYC and AML management suite that helps businesses onboard clients, authenticate users, and safely conduct their remote processes.

Flagstone

Flagstone is a UK starup developing a cash deposit marketplace that gives users easy access to hundreds of cash deposit accounts.

Cushon

Cushon is a fintech company that provides investment, pension, financial wellbeing and workplace savings.

Monolith

Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.

HSBC

HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.

Coconut

Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.

Funding Options

Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.

The Bank of London

The Bank of London is a global clearing, agency, and transaction bank advancing the economic infrastructure of the future.

Cashaa

Next Generation Banking Platform

Upside Saving

Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.

Baanx Group

BaaS (Banking as a Service), white label, mobile digital asset friendly: wallets, cards, payment gateways, IBANs, for communities

TreeCard

Treecard is a fullstack green finance platform, allowing consumers to spend, save and invest responsibly.

Countingup

The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.

Updraft

Updraft is a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app for millennials. We turn borrowers into savers.

Glint

Glint is a FinTech with an app and debit card that enables clients to save, exchange, spend and send multi-currencies and physical gold.

Omnio

Omnio Group is a market leading provider of cloud-based banking and payment services.

Monitise

Monitise is a technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks.

Old Mutual

Old Mutual Group is an international investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.

Adhara

Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks

Fund Ourselves

Short-term credit from the people to the people.

Thought Machine

Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.

Lendable

Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.

Fiat Republic

Fiat Republic provides banking API unlocking mainstream fiat services for crypto platforms.

Barclays

Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.

Nexo

The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets

Cashplus

Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005

Knoma

Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.

Trunomi

Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations

Growth Capital Ventures

Growth Capital Ventures is a technology led financial services business.

sync.

We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.

Rizq

Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.

Osper

Osper is a prepaid debit card and mobile banking service empowering young people to manage their money responsibly.

Blackthorn

Blackthorn provides global payment and FX solutions to SMEs via multi-currency IBANs account in 25 currencies.

TreasurySpring

TreasurySpring is a financial technology firm dedicated to democratising short-term funding markets

Qudini – Retail Choreography

Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.

Freemarket

Freemarket accelerate’s businesses growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimized for their needs.

Griffin

Griffin is a Banking-as-a-Service provider that helps companies build and launch financial services products.

10xbanking

10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.

ClearBank

ClearBank is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years.

BABB

BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.

Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.

Recognise Bank Ltd

Recognise Bank Ltd is a provider of Banking services to UK’s Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs).

Dozens

dozens is a trading name of Project Imagine Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (No. 11153882).

DiPocket

We are a new generation of mobile digital payments redefining the banking scene.

Squirrel

Squirrel is an award-winning smart banking app that empowers people to take control of their money.

KRM22

Provide financial market organisations .

TRASTRA

Easy and fast banking for cashing out crypto

Masthaven

Masthaven have been providing a flexible and personalised approach to bridging loans and secured lending since 2004.

Expend

Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.

Saurus

Saurus is a UK-based digital banking startup.

Loot Financial Services

Loot Financial Services is a banking and money management app for students.

MoneeMint

MoneeMint provides banking services.

Monzo

Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.

Chip

Chip is a savings and investments app that utilizes open banking technology to enable customers to deposit to investment funds.

Transak

Web2-to-web3 conversion funnels for the next generation of apps.

Berenberg

Berenberg is a company that provides asset management, corporate and investment banking services primarily to the European areas.

Bank of England

The Bank of England serves as the central bank of the United Kingdom.

TuningBill

TuningBill is a digital banking and account management system for international traders.

Manigo

Manigo is a full stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider

Finance Unlocked

The world’s first comprehensive, on-demand video-delivered learning platform built specifically for finance professionals.

fena

Democratising Open Banking access

Panmure Gordon

Panmure Gordon & Co has been connecting businesses with the capital to help them grow.

Kudimoney

Kudimoney is a full service digital only bank that enriches lives by helping people live healthier financial lives.

Pockit

Pockit is a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses.

Tandem

Tandem is building a bank and financial management universe, focused on freeing users from financial stress by making money simple.

Curve

Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.

Greengage

Building the future of finance: reinventing the merchant bank for the digital age

VitraCash

Tired of carrying all your debit and credit cards without even knowing which one to use for which kind of payment? Try VitraCard!

AvantCredit

Get up to £20,000 with a personal loan online from Avant UK. Applying is easy, quick and does not affect your credit score

3AI

Empowering Investors with Big Data Insights

UniZest

Global banking for international students

Axxeltrova Limited

Axxeltrova is a tech-focused investment bank.

Fortu Wealth

Fortu – Digital Private Wealth with a Personal Touch

CASHOFF

Provides profit-generating open banking API solutions for banks and unique digital experience for their consumers

Albert

Albert is an innovative, fast growing technology company disrupting financial management for freelancers and the solo self-employed.

ZEON Network

ZEON Network: a decentralized platform for financial services. Crypto-backed loans, deposits, wallet, buy and sell digital assets.

Pollinate

Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.

Acuity Knowledge Partners

Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.

Unlimint

Unlimint provides fast-growing innovative businesses with a constantly evolving business interface, made by innovators for innovators.

Third Financial

Third Financial is one of the fastest growing and most innovative software and platform service providers in the market today.

Lanistar

Lanistar is a fintech company that provides customer-centric alternative to traditional banking.

Globatalent

The Sport Neobank. An App that allows you to acces discounts on sport products, buy tickets and invest in young athletes.

Saveable

Automated Savings & Wealth Management Technology

Muniy

Muniy offers banking for everyone, extending the digital banking revolution to more aspects of people’s lives.

Scribe Labs

Scribe Labs is a platform for lending and investment decisions, using research-based AI.

Origin

Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.

Railsbank

Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.

Invocap

Invocap provides online tools that helps small and medium businesses with their financial growth.